PHUKET: Police have announced the arrests of seven drug suspects, including a 17-year-old found in possession of 10,000 ya bah (methamphetamine) pills, in raids over four days last week. A total of 21.79g of ya ice (crystal meth), 6kg of kratom leaves and a 9mm handgun were also seized in the raids. According to a […]
PHUKET: A woman was killed in Baan Lipon, Thalang, this morning (Sept 21) when a six-wheeled truck slammed into the motorbike she was riding on after the brakes on the truck failed. The force of the impact shunted the motorbike into the back of a pickup truck, spilling the woman and her male companion onto […]
PHUKET: Phuket police have arrested a man, his sister and his girlfriend for operating a car rental pool from which they sold or pawned an estimated 40 to 50 cars that people had provided for them to rent out to customers. Phuket Provincial Police Commander Maj Gen Wisan Panmanee announced the arrests at Phuket City […]
PHUKET: Phuket Immigration this week made it very clear that foreigners applying for any extension of stay will not be held liable for filing the TM30 form, made infamous in recent weeks by waves of confusion elsewhere in the country. “No, we don’t hold foreigners responsible for filing the TM30. Foreigners just need to make […]
PHUKET: Thalang Police today presented to the press a couple arrested for a spate of burglaries across central Phuket. The couple have been charged for nine break-ins, and stealing items with a reported value of B600,000 as well as 16 bank cheques to the value of B2 million. Chaiyo Liamsai, 22, from Ubon Ratchathani, and […]
PHUKET: Police have yet to determine the cause of a fire that broke out at a condominium under construction behind Central Phuket Floresta shopping mall earlier today (Aug 10), sending clouds of smoke billowing into the sky. Firefighters were alerted to the blaze at The Base Central Phuket condominium project on Muang Naka Rd in […]
PHUKET, July 19 (TNA) – Phuket International Airports fined the van operator, accused of ripping off Australian tourists. The Australian tourists filed a complaint to the Karon police station in Phuket on July 16 that they hired a van from the airport to a hotel in Kata. They were charged 3,000 baht for the distance […]
A fire swept through a plaza in Phuket’s Krathu district early Thursday, damaging many shops, police said. Pol Lt Col Patiwat Yodkwan, an inspector from Patong police station, said the fire broke out at the SB Plaza near the Jungceylon Shopping Centre on Rat-uthit road in Tambon Patong at 2 am. Full story: The Nation […]
