PHUKET: While some media reports are erroneously claiming that the arrival of the monsoon season rains in the past few weeks has seen the number of dengue infections across the country double, the rate of infections in Phuket has in fact fallen. Further, the drop in the number of dengue infections in Phuket has seen […]
PHUKET: A man wanted for human trafficking in providing underage girls as prostitutes at a massage parlour near Phuket International Airport has been arrested in Krabi after more than a year on the run. Supachat Chirawattananukul, 47, originally from Lampang, was taken into custody in Tambon Pak Nam, in Krabi’s Mueang District, at 8pm on […]
PHUKET: An airport taxi driver has been charged for stabbing a fellow driver working for the same company after teasing each other escalated into a full-blown fistfight, which ended when one driver stabbed the other in the chest with a knife yesterday morning (May 26). Sakoo Police Chief Col Kittipong Kaikaew confirmed to The Phuket […]
PHUKET: British international School, Phuket (BISP) published a notice today (May 14) announcing the sad loss of British expat Iain Richardson, who was a teacher at the school. “It is with the deepest regret that the British international School, Phuket (BISP) announces the death, following a road accident, of Iain Richardson. Iain was a much […]
PHUKET: A British expat is in hospital with serious injuries after the motorbike he was riding struck a roadside power pole on Thepkrasattri Rd just south of the Heroines Monument early this morning (May 11). Lt Col Kitiphum Thinthalang of Thalang Police was notified of the accident at 3:10am. Full story: thephuketnews.com By Eakkapop Thongtub […]
BANGKOK, May 9 (TNA) – Phuket International Airport has tested the newly-introduced biometrics system, which will help identify people and detect fake passports. The biometrics system is being installed at 16 airports across the country and the installation is about 70 per cent completed. Full story: tna.mcot.net TNA
PHUKET: Australian-born British national D. M., 50, originally from Brisbane, Australia, after nearly four months barricaded in a Phuket Town condo has been safely removed from the apartment today (May 2), Phuket Tourist Police have confirmed. Mr Maclean was removed from the ninth-floor condo, at the “Supalai Park at Phuket City” complex on Nakorn Rd, […]
PHUKET: Police this afternoon (Apr 26) safely took into custody a man who had entered a bank near the Heroines Monument while holding a box cutter to his own neck, threatening to harm himself. Police were called to the Tha Reua branch of the Siam Commercial Bank at about 3pm. Full story: thephuketnews.com By Eakkapop […]
