Tuk-Tuk Turmoil May Be At an End TRIALS of fare meters in tuk-tuks could begin this year in Karon and Kata, Phuket’s Governor Wichai Praisa-ngob said yesterday. The move would represent a major breakthrough in attempting to solve Phuket’s chronic transport problems, mostly caused by corruption and rip-offs that are turning off tourists. The governor […]
Phuket – An Australian tourist on honeymoon in Phuket with his wife was killed in a road accident here at noon Friday. Ten others, eight of them foreign tourists, were injured in the accident. The killed tourist was identified as Michael Moloazo, 26. Police said Moloaazo and the other foreign tourists were being driven in […]
A new Danish tour company whose employees have been arrested for working illegally is asking for help from authorities, claiming it pumps vast sums of money into the Phuket economy. Scanway Tyrkiet Eksperten says it will bring 8,000 Scandinavians on Aurela Airlines charter flights to the island this high season. Assuming each tourist spends 40,000 […]
Kate Moss and Jamie Hince were all loved up as they frolicked on the beach and in the waves of Thailand yesterday. Kate recently revealed her down-to-earth beauty tips along with some of the secrets to her career success — this annual trip is another way she stays refreshed and ready to conquer the year. […]
Phuket’s Governor Vichai Praisa-ngob in the first press conference of the year 2010 which was held yesterday (4 Jan), further than report the conclusion of the sea and road safety accident reduction and prevention campaign during the long holiday, talked about his accomplishment thought 8 months in duty and expressed his thanks for everyone’s support […]
Bangkok – Thousands of Thais made Buddhist merit Saturday at Takuapah in Phang-Nga province for the estimated 8,000 people killed by the December 26, 2004 tsunami. Some 1,000 Buddhist monks accepted food and gifts in their begging bowls from thousands of Thais and scores of foreign tourists who had lined up along the main road […]
The Indian Ocean tsunami killed about 5,400 people in Thailand, half of whom were foreign tourists. Five years on, the BBC’s South East Asia correspondent Rachel Harvey went back to the worst-hit areas to see how people were coping. Martin Carpenter looks out from a second floor balcony towards the sea. Below him a group […]
BAN NAM KHEM, Thailand (Reuters) – Suvadee Sukkasem is still searching for her son who vanished when the Indian Ocean tsunami turned this tropical paradise into a mass grave for thousands of Thais and foreign vacationers nearly five years ago. Although the sea now frightens her, she refuses to leave her beachside village in southern […]
