A GERMAN tourist recovering from a drug overdose is now out of danger but as yet unable to give an account of the incident at a Phuket resort that put him in intensive care and killed his companion, a doctor at Vachira Phuket Hospital said on Sunday. ONE TOURIST is dead and another is fighting […]
A second large group of Rohingya has been apprehended in Phuket’s Rawai region, bringing to about 68 the total of boatpeople caught on Phuket today. Thirty-three were in the first bunch, then two more were held. MORE THAN 60 Rohingya boatpeople have come ashore on Phuket and are now being held by police and Immigration […]
PATONG tuk-tuk drivers staged a mass protest today that is likely to succeed – and reverse the direction of the west coast fun-town’s much-debated and abused one-way system. With protest signs stuck to tuk-tuks along beach road, about 50 drivers and 30 tuk-tuks blocked traffic around Kathu police station – which oversees Patong – to […]
SIX RUSSIAN tour firms have been banned from operating on Phuket for five years because they were “zero baht” agencies, a new committee overseeing tourism on the island heard today. The Supporting Phuket Tourism Committee listened as Phuket Tourism Business and Guide Registration Office Chief, Piyasuda Sukcharoen, explained that she had already prevented some of […]
A 42-year-old Hungarian doctor was found dead in a resort pool on Phuket’s west coast in Thailand, the local media reported on Sunday. The man was in the party of 30 doctors who arrived at the Kamala Beach Resort hotel on Saturday night, the local daily Phuketwan reported in its online edition. A group of […]
A FAMILY group of Australians holidaying on Phuket was forced to pay 56,500 baht today for ”damage” to four jet-skis that they say they did not cause. The group from Melbourne argued for two hours before giving in and paying the money, having been told by the jet-ski operators that the Patong Tourist Police ”do […]
BANGKOK, 17 January 2011 (NNT) – As the Chinese New Year is approaching, Chinese tourists are flocking into Thailand. Over 130 flights have been chartered to fly Chinese holidaymakers to Thailand during the Chinese New Year. be flown to Thailand as travel agencies are changing their strategies by aiming at high-end tourists and tourists who […]
AN AUSTRALIAN tourist is being held in Phuket Prison after being accused of stealing a pair of Rayban sunglasses from a duty-free store as he was about to board a flight at Phuket International Airport. The man, Martin Gilman Ferreira, 31, was arrested in the departure lounge at Phuket airport about 6am yesterday. Officers from […]
