MORE boatpeople are reported to be sailing south as doubts are being cast on Thailand’s version of how 91 Rohingya who originally landed in Thailand ended up 700 kilometres away in Indian territory. The boatload of men and boys first landed on the Andaman coast, south of Phuket, before being trucked to Ranong, north of […]
AN URGENT plea has been issued by a Phuket family to prevent a young Thai boy from being taken out of the country by his stepmother in an international tug-of-love. The boy, Ricardo Chain Pol Choosaneh, is the nine-year-old son of a woman from a well-off Patong family and a Dutchman. The Dutchman won a […]
AT LEAST 17 expats have died on Phuket since the Phuket honorary consuls met the Phuket Governor and island leaders three months ago. Only 13 are named in an official police list that seeks to update all expat deaths. Phuketwan has reported on at least four more expat deaths that are not on the list. […]
DIVERS troubled by a selective ban on coral reef sites at Phuket’s Andaman marine parks and a massive graft investigation will have a chance to ask questions at a seminar this week. The seminar is being planned for a Phang Nga resort on Thursday, February 10, by the Tourism Authority of Thailand, with divers from […]
A GERMAN tourist recovering from a drug overdose is now out of danger but as yet unable to give an account of the incident at a Phuket resort that put him in intensive care and killed his companion, a doctor at Vachira Phuket Hospital said on Sunday. ONE TOURIST is dead and another is fighting […]
A second large group of Rohingya has been apprehended in Phuket’s Rawai region, bringing to about 68 the total of boatpeople caught on Phuket today. Thirty-three were in the first bunch, then two more were held. MORE THAN 60 Rohingya boatpeople have come ashore on Phuket and are now being held by police and Immigration […]
PATONG tuk-tuk drivers staged a mass protest today that is likely to succeed – and reverse the direction of the west coast fun-town’s much-debated and abused one-way system. With protest signs stuck to tuk-tuks along beach road, about 50 drivers and 30 tuk-tuks blocked traffic around Kathu police station – which oversees Patong – to […]
Thai AirAsia has launched its Chiang Mai hub with new daily direct flights from Singapore to the northern Thai city. The introduction of this new route is yet another important milestone for AirAsia as guests can now look forward to better connectivity to Northern Thailand. Chiang Mai is also linked to Bangkok, Hat Yai, Phuket […]
