PHUKET: Officers at Phuket Immigration next week will publicly announce whether or not they will include children in the blacklist ban on re-entry on all “aliens” who overstay in the country, which comes into effect on Sunday (March 20). The news follows a notice – circulated via a Line group directly linked to Phuket Immigration. […]
PHUKET: A Bulgarian crewmember of 140-metre-long superyacht is in critical condition after he lost a significant amount of blood from deep gashes on both of his legs, which he sustained yesterday afternoon (March 13) in an anchor chain accident near Koh Tachai, a small island about 100km northwest of Phuket in the Andaman Sea. Read […]
PHUKET: Police are looking for a group of teens last seen talking to a 29-year-old man whose body was found under a municipal water tower in Phuket Town this morning (Mar 11). Suthorn Thamta, 59, of the Phuket City waterworks division at 9:10am reported finding the body under one of two water towers, each 25 […]
PHUKET: A foreign man died instantly after shooting himself in the head at the Patong Shooting range this afternoon (Mar 9). Police were called to the Patong Hill Shooting Range at 1:54pm. At the scene was the body of a 40-year-old Estonian man. Read more: thephuketnews.com
PHUKET: Chinese tourists who had only just landed on the island were welcomed to Phuket early this morning (Mar 7) by a 10-wheeled truck slamming into the back of their bus while they were heading from Phuket International Airport to their hotel in Patong. The accident occurred at the main intersection on Thepkrasattri Rd in […]
PHUKET: Following the tsunami scare triggered by the 7.9 Magnitude earthquake off Sumatra on Wednesday night, Phuket Governor Chamroen Tipayapongtada is calling on all beachfront hotels to voluntarily provide emergency evacuation safe zones for all people in danger areas along Phuket’s coast. Read more: thephuketnews.com
PHUKET: Doctors have confirmed that a British man who passed away whilst having a cup of coffee at a Patong Hotel this morning (Mar 4) had suffered a heart attack. The man had only arrived in the country on Wednesday (Mar 2). Read more: thephuketnews.com
PHUKET: A charter jet carrying 327 passengers and nine crew from Moscow to Phuket was forced to make an emergency in Uzbekistan due to engine failure just after midnight, last Friday night (Feb 26). The Boeing 767-300 aircraft, belonging to the AZUR Air fleet, made an emergency landing in thе Uzbek capital Tashkent. Read more: […]
