Krabi has been chosen for the first elephant hospital in the country’s South to treat animals which have been injured while working in plantations and in the tourism industry. More than 800 elephants work in rubber plantations and at tourist sites in the southern provinces, but there are limited veterinary services in the area to […]
Bahrainian Embassy officials expect the drowned man’s mother and father to arrive on Phuket today. The man was a lifeguard in Bahrain, Phuketwan has been told. THE BODY of a Phuket tourist who went missing at Karon beach on Sunday was found at 7am today, about 1.5 kilometres from where he disappeared, at the northern […]
ONE has drowned and another tourist is missing in a day of tragedy at two of Phuket’s most popular but treacherous beaches. The tourist from Korea or China, pulled from the water at Kata, died at Patong Hospital this afternoon with his wife at his bedside. Hope is fading that the other tourist, from Bahrain, […]
AN AUSTRALIAN man died in a motorcycle crash on Phuket’s notorious Patong Hill about 3.30am yesterday. He was named today as Adam John Sutcliffe, 32. Some questions about the crash remain to be answered. Phuketwan understands Mr Sutcliffe was travelling across the hill alone on a rented motorcycle, with his helmet hanging off the pillion […]
On July 20th 2010, 30 final candidates of Miss Thailand World 2010 contest arrived in Phuket. They are staying at Cape Panwa Hotel during their Phuket visit from July 20th-23rd. After reaching the hotel, all 30 candidates attended a press conference led by Bhumipat Nawanukroa, the Director of Cape Hotel Collection Group and Nawat Itsarakraisin, […]
A former US Navy serviceman who settled down in Phuket, Thailand three years ago has been taken into custody by Thai Police on murder charge for killing a Thai bar hostess last month. The murder suspect was identified as Ronald John Fanelli, 37, who served the US Navy before relocating in Thailand three years ago, […]
A 31-year-old man from Norfolk who had gone missing in Thailand has contacted his family. Police were becoming increasingly concerned about David Wood, formerly from Swaffham, who was reported as missing in the Krabi area. BBC News
PHUKET, July 19 – An American man was arrested in Thailand’s southern seaside resort island of Phuket on charges of murdering a Thai woman working in nightclub, a senior police officer told a press briefing Monday. Ronald John Fanelli, a 37-year-old suspect with an outstanding arrest warrant, was apprehended for murder Sunday at his home […]
