PHUKET: Neighbours of the Chokchai furniture shop where four people died in a blaze on Friday night called the fire brigade this morning (Aug 4) at 9:30 after they saw smoke once again coming out of the second floor of the building. Firefighters again entered the building on Srisuthat Rd where they found a small […]
PHUKET: Forensic police have learned more details on what happened inside the Chokchai Furniture shop when a fire killed four people, including a 10-year-old boy at 2am on Saturday (August 2). The 51-year-old furniture shop owner, Mrs Janhom Jakkaew, jumped out from the second floor and broke her arm and leg. She is currently in […]
PHUKET: Four people died and a fifth is injured after the Chokchai furniture shop on Srisutthat Rd in Phuket Town caught fire at 2am early this morning (August 2). Among the dead is a 9-year-old boy as firefighters took one and a half hours to put down the large blaze. The four people who died […]
PHUKET, Aug 1 – The Phuket Office of Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health has urged the public not to panic about rumours of the spread of the Ebola virus, stressing that the disease could not be easily contracted. Dr Kris Sakulpaet, Phuket Provincial Public Health Office deputy head advised the public not to be too […]
PHUKET: A police officer tried to kill himself by jumping out of a third floor window in police accommodation in Talad Yai, Phuket Town at about 3am today (July 29). On the way down, however, Sub Lt Rapiwat Kongchim, 42, crashed through a tree which slowed his fall, and then landed on a car. Read […]
PHUKET: Ten restaurants on Sai Kaew Beach, at the north end of Mai Khao Beach, which their owners claim have been there for over 40 years, were demolished this morning (July 24) by Sirinat Marine National Park and other officials, assisted by 150 army troops. The 10 restaurants occupied about 15 rai of land belonging […]
The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) is proceeding to re-organize commercial beachside areas in coastal provinces and to return public land to its people. In addition to launching a crackdown on illegal airport taxi operations and street vendors on crowded sidewalks, the NCPO has been making changes to Phuket’s beach landscape. Over 100 […]
PHUKET: Thai-American singer Amita “Tata” Young, was quietly married to Chat-adul “Mor” Sinapongpipit yesterday in Phuket, with a simple ceremony on the beach below the Sri Panwa hotel on Cape Panwa. The couple have been keeping very quiet about their relationship and the wedding, though her personal manager said today that they would hold a […]
