PHUKET: Firefighters at Thai Mueang in Phang Nga province, north of Phuket, are on alert after a wildfire raged for two days before being brought under control as it came within 800 metres of a village. Disaster officials became aware of the fire on Saturday, Orathai Giasakul, Chief Executive of the Thai Mueang Municipality, told […]
PHUKET: — Police are looking for three youths who are alleged to have attacked four tourists on Patong Beach in the early hours of this morning (Apr 1). Lt Col Anukul Nookaid of Kathu Police was alerted of an incident at 4:30am where it was reported that three youths had had attacked four tourists on […]
RUSSIA: A popular Phuket-based Russian DJ has been arrested along with one other man for attempting to smuggle nearly 90 grams of cocaine into their native Russia. Novosibirsk Police announced the arrest of the two men, who they said were taken into custody by police officers and Federal Security Service agents at Tolmachevo Airport, last […]
PHUKET: A 19-year-old Finnish woman fell to her death at a hotel in Patong this afternoon (Mar 28). Police have yet to determine how the woman came to fall. Read more: thephuketnews.com The Phuket News
PHUKET: The two men responsible for the death of the French tourist during an altercation in Soi Sansabai on Wednesday morning (Mar 23) have both been were charged with murder police announced at the press conference held this morning (Mar 25). Somporn Kakkaew, 33, and Somkit Lemut, 30, were presented to the media at the […]
PHUKET: A Frenchman was killed and one of his friends injured when they were involved in a fight with a Thai motorist who crashed his motorbike into them in the heart of Patong early this morning (Mar 23). Lt Sineenart Cherdchootrakulthong from Kathu Police was called to investigate an incident in Soi Sansabai at 4:12am. […]
A flight from Phuket to Moscow was evacuated after a passenger said he felt threatened. Monrudee Gettuphan, director of Phuket International Airport, denied rumours yesterday that a plane had been hijacked at the airport. Read more: The Nation
PHUKET: A foreign man died and a Thai man was injured when the motorbikes they were riding collided, sending the foreign man into an oncoming Phuket tour bus near Chalong Circle last night (Mar 17). The accident occurred in front of the Accident and Emergency Department of the yet-to-be-built Chalong Hospital on Chao Fa West […]
