If you were in Phuket last week you may have witnessed the fire, which decimated the Touch Wood Furniture & Thai Advanced Solar Power Co Ltd shop. The shop, which is located opposite Kajonkietsuksa School on Chao Fa West Road, caught fire on the evening of June 28th. Phuket City Police received an emergency call […]
If you’ve recently touched down at Phuket airport you may have noticed airport workers scrubbing the building and singing while they work.
Staff at Phuket International Airport took part in a Big Clean Day recently, scrubbing down all areas that cou…
Anyone wandering through the Patong area of Phuket at 3am on Thursday morning would have noticed the fire, which was blazing on the beach road in Patong.
A total of five fire engines from Patong Municipality arrived on the scene to battle the blaze, …
A recent report by the Tourism Authority of Thailand shows that tourist figures are due to rise dramatically in 2010. Although figures have been declining recently, they predict that next year 14 million tourists will visit the Land of Smiles, generati…
If you plan on swimming in the sea off one of Phuket’s beautiful beaches, make sure you look out for the red flags and other signs, which have been put in place to warn swimmers about strong currents in certain parts of the water.
The currents can b…
Phuket’s tourist figures have just been released and as many would have predicted they show a dramatic reduce in figures compared to last year and other previous years. The figures were released by the Office of Tourism Development last week and show that tourist figures have dropped right across Thailand, from 5.5 million in 2008 […]
Sadly, as more and more people lose their jobs, the crime rates go up as people have to turn to burglary and other means of survival. This is especially true on the island of Phuket, where the amount of burglaries have shot up in the last few months.
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The mystery continues over the two tourists who were found dead in their guesthouse on the picturesque island of Phi Phi. USA citizen J. St O. and Norwegian J. B. died within hours of each other in Phi Phi Island Hospital near Phuket at the start of May. They had been staying in rooms next […]
