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PHUKET: Officials at the Phuket Provincial Health Office are waiting for more information on reports of an Australian tourist who died from Japanese encephalitis which is believed he contracted while on holiday in Phuket.“The Department of Disease Control officials at the PPHO were notified just this morning that an Australian
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PHUKET: A chance incoming phone call saved a two-month pregnant woman from being raped yesterday afternoon in her rental room in Phuket. The loud ring panicked the rapist who then fled.“After receiving a report from the victim's boyfriend, we arrived at the scene at about 4pm. It was a rental
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PHUKET: Patong police yesterday arrested a ladyboy who stole an iPhone from a French tourist on Patong beach.“Mr Montree Srijantra, 24, was arrested near the Paris Star guesthouse in Patong following a complaint by the tourist,” said Capt Jarun Jaisuntud of Patong Police.Full story: Phuket GazetteKritsada Mueanhawong Phuket Gazette
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PHUKET: A fire broke out at a restaurant in Srisoonthorn today morning causing about B30,000 worth of damage. There were no injures reported as a result of the fire.At 9:30am today (June 21), Capt Krisorn Boonprasop of the Thalang Police received a report of a fire at the Khao Gang
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PHUKET: A special response team was called to quell a riot at the Phuket Juvenile Observation and Protection Centre in Phuket Town late yesterday afternoon (June 20) as more than a dozen youth inmates protested violently against four “leaders” being moved to Phuket Provincial Prison.Officers at the centre, located on
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PHUKET: Police are hoping to confirm the cause of death of a 35-year-old volunteer diver who fainted soon after resurfacing from assisting in a government project to install an artificial reef at Racha Yai Island, south of Phuket, yesterday (June 18).Lakkhana Sakunphong, from Krabi, was among 26 divers working together
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PHUKET -- Three people were killed and five injured in an accident involving a van carrying pilots and crew of China Airlines, a pick-up truck and a big bike in Thalang district early Sunday, police said.Pol Capt Kraisorn Boonprasop, deputy investigation chief of Thalang police station, said the accident occurred
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PHUKET: A Patong raid led to half a million baht's worth of pirated goods being seized from 19 shops this morning.“After learning from our source that there were many shops selling pirated goods in Patong, we took teams of officers to the area for inspection. The shop owners managed to
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