PHUKET: The Thai Meteorological Department and The National Disaster Warning Centre have issued a severe weather warning at 11am today (August 7) for the South of Thailand, including Phuket and the Andaman region. The forecast prompted the TMD to issue additional weather warnings extended to southern residents of Ranong, Phang Nga, Krabi, Satun and Phuket […]
PHUKET: A 33-year-old Swedish man and 26-year-old Thai woman are currently being treated at Patong Hospital after falling from a second floor balcony of the Phuket Paradise Hotel in Patong this morning (August 3). Patong police received a call at 7:01am this morning advising them that a tourist and Thai woman had been injured after […]
PHUKET: Police are reviewing CCTV footage in their hunt for the driver of an 18-wheeled truck-and-trailer that crushed a 12-year-old girl then dragged her body 150 metres before speeding off in northern Phuket this morning (July 31). Wassana Kaewkampa, 40, told police that she was driving her motorbike southbound and had just passed the Tha […]
BANGKOK, 28 July 2015 (NNT) – The Cabinet has given the green light to the improvement of Phuket Deep Seaport in order to enable the facility to accommodate bigger cruise ships while also considering the construction of a similar port either in Krabi or Samui. Following the Cabinet meeting, Deputy Government Spokesperson Maj Gen Sansern […]
PHUKET: A gang of drunken thugs threatening expat police volunteers on patrol has exposed the lack of police protection provided at the police box at the beach end of Bangla Rd in Patong. The gang turned up at the scene in a white pickup at 10:50pm on July 10 and started playing loud music from […]
A US citizen, wanted for allegedly duping others in the US to wire him two million US dollars in business investments was arrested on Sunday in Phuket’s Krathu district, Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) chief Pol Maj-General Thitirat Nonghanpitak said Monday. The arrest of Theodore Andrew Werner, 48, was according to the US authority’s request. Read […]
PHUKET: A Russian man was found dead in the living room of his home in Chalong yesterday night (July 16). Police are currently waiting for the autopsy results to confirm the cause of death. Chalong police were called to a house in Land and House in Chalong at 8pm last night and upon arrival were […]
PHUKET: The trial of Phuketwan journalists Alan Morison, 67, and Chutima Sidasathian, 34, began in Phuket today (July 14). The two face charges of defamation, which is a criminal charge in Thailand, and with offences under the Computer Crimes Act. Read more: thephuketnews.com
