BANGKOK, 15 February 2013 (NNT) – A recent poll has indicated that the southern province of Phuket is the most popular destination for Thai tourists; while 80% of the Thai travelers prefer travelling domestically to going abroad. The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce conducted a poll […]
A taxi driver has been arrested on rape charges after a Chinese tourist told Phuket police on Saturday January 19 he frightened her into performing sexual acts with him. PHUKET – January 23,2013; Pol Col Sermpan Sirikong, Superintendent of Phuket Police told The Phuket News that the Chinese woman had left her room at the […]
Phuket Police have arrested an Australian accused of shooting two German tourists by accident during a debt collection that went horribly wrong Reports from the island suggest that the Australian was actually aiming at a Danish man who is said to have owed money for a motorbike rental, but that the Australian missed and instead […]
A 28-year-old Frenchman wanted by his home country on charges of raping a handicapped woman was arrested in Phuket. He was also found to have an expired visa, and will be deported back to France. He reportedly has a Thai wife. Read more: pattayadailynews.com
The body of a Dutch tourist with injuries to torso was found at sea off Phuket’s Patong beach. The cause of death may be a swimming accident or murder. Read more: MCOT
Phuket resident Tom Travers says he and his Thai girlfriend Jen Khamsorn were subjected to an “unprovoked attack” by a group of Russians at Catch Beach Club, Surin, in the early hours of this morning. Read more: thephuketnews.com
PHUKET, Jan 1 – Thai authorities inspected a boat floating at Koh Bon in the southern province of Phuket and found 70 Rohingya migrants after being informed that a suspicious boat was at the location. Chalong Police Station Superintendent Pol Maj Kitipas Dejintrasorn, Rawai Mayor Aroon Sorot and other government officials hurried out to meet […]
A five-star hotel in Phuket caught fire yesterday morning, causing Bt10 million in losses, though nobody was injured. Police said the fire broke out at about 5am on the first floor of the three-storey wooden building, before spreading to the second and third floors of the Royal Phawadee Village Hotel on Patong Beach. Ten fire […]
