AN AUSTRALIAN tourist is being held in Phuket Prison after being accused of stealing a pair of Rayban sunglasses from a duty-free store as he was about to board a flight at Phuket International Airport. The man, Martin Gilman Ferreira, 31, was arrested in the departure lounge at Phuket airport about 6am yesterday. Officers from […]
EFFORTS are being made to speed the processing of a young Russian tourist who found himself caught up in Phuket’s islandwide crackdown on weapons and drugs. Phuket’s Police Commander, Major General Pekad Tantipong, asked the Superintendent of Kamala Police Station, Colonel Nattaphakin Kawnchaiperk, to expedite the case, and to let the major general know the […]
A Canadian couple were killed when the pickup-truck-bus they were riding in from the airport to their hotel crashed in Thailand only 15 minutes into 2011, according to Thai news reports. The Phuket Gazette reported Monday that Aryporn Sunthorn, 50, and Kongseng Sunthorn, 61, were killed when the Mazda pickup truck, modified to serve as […]
Supermodel Kate Moss has opted to take a trip to Thailand to celebrate the New Year. The Daily Mail reports that that Ms Moss, her boyfriend and daughter took flights to Thailand from London Heathrow with the aim of staying in Phuket until the start of 2011. She was snapped at the airport looking relaxed […]
PHUKET, Dec 26 — Foreign and Thai relatives of those who perished in the devastating tsunami disaster that hit Thailand’s six Andaman coastal provinces on Boxing Day in 2004 held remembrance events for their beloved ones in the two southern resort provinces, officials said. Simple ceremonies including religious activities were part of the remembrance events […]
THE TSUNAMI of December 26, 2004, ripped through the coastal buildings of Phuket and the Andaman, depositing sand in the top pocket of a man’s suit found hanging days later, in a third-floor room closet. Like it or not, Phuket and the Andaman remain in a tsunami zone. And this year’s sixth anniversary has finally […]
Astrological predictions that a tsunami will hit southern Thailand this month have led to a wave of hotel room cancellations at beach resorts, news reports said. Hotels in Phuket, Phangnga, Ranong and Surin – beach resorts on the Andaman Sea coast – have reported the cancellation of 10 per cent of room bookings this month […]
THE SHOOTING of a security guard as he slumbered in his estate box in Phuket City has police probing a second gun murder mystery in the space of 72 hours. On Tuesday at 6.10am the body of a young female golf caddy was found crumpled by the roadside near the Mission Hills course in eastern […]
