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Phuket Gazette – Daily News
Phuket Gazette - online English newspaper for Phuket, Thailand, with daily news, classified ads, yellow pages, business listings, upcoming events, event calendar, phuket events
- Phuket police nab fugitive murder suspects
PHUKET CITY: Chalong Police on Sunday arrested two brothers wanted for armed robbery and murder in Ratchaburi province last year.
Police identified the pair as 28-year-old Aekapop Soonthorn and his brother Anurak Soonthorn, 25.
Both are Ratchaburi natives. ... Full story - 'Jet-ski jamboree' to restore Phuket’s image
PATONG, PHUKET: Phuket’s jet-ski operators are going all out to mend their industry’s grubby image on Thursday, when a ride on any of the island’s 200-plus jet-skis will be entirely free of charge.
The message they hope to send out: Phuket’s jet-skis are no longer a rip-off.
The Phuket jet-ski industry made headlines earlier in the year when foreign diplomats complained to the Thai government that Phuket jet-ski operators were extorting money out of tourists. ... Full story - Phuket Buddha image thief shot dead
PHUKET CITY: A suspected serial robber was shot dead in an intense shootout between police and alleged thieves earlier today in Rama IX Park.
The deceased, identified as 32-year-old Phuket City resident Amnard Rodpradit, was wanted by police in connection with a recent spate of robberies of Buddhist images from stores and homes around Phuket.
Police told the Gazette that Mr Amnard and two accomplices entered a store on Chao Fah East Road, opposite the Rama IX Park, just before 1pm. ... Full story - HRH Princess Bejaratana birthday celebrations in Phuket
PHUKET CITY: Religious ceremonies marking the 84th birthday of Her Royal Highness Princess Bejaratana Rajasuda Sirisobhabannavadi will tomorrow be held by Buddhist, Islamic, Christian and Sikh groups around the island.
The Muslim ceremony will be held at the Dubai Mosque in Koh Kaew where students at the Muslim Witthaya School, on the same grounds as the mosque, will hear about HRH Princess Bejaratana’s life and contributions to the Thai nation before the singing of the national anthem at 8 am. This will be followed by a prayer ceremony at 1pm. ... Full story - Phuket Rajabaht student stabbed to death
RASADA, PHUKET: A Phuket Rajabhat University student handed himself in to police after stabbing a fellow student to death early on Saturday morning,
Wutiphong Meemai, a first year student from Krabi, confessed to stabbing 20-year-old Kritsana Lao-orn in the chest outside the ‘Wihok’ bar on Rassada Anuson Road in Tambon Rasada earlier that night.
When police, including Lt Col Wijak ‘The Magnet’ Tarom, arrived at the scene at around 12.30am they found large quantities of blood on the street outside the bar. ... Full story - Phuket Spa Association to push for licensing
PHUKET: In a bid to improve health and safety standards, the Excise Department has canceled excise tax for spa treatments in licensed spas.
It is good news for licensed venues, but not the vast majority of Phuket spas that are unlicensed and will have to continue paying the tax after the new regulation takes effect on January 20.
Even worse for the unlicensed spas, the tax will be increased on that date and spas that continue to operate without permission will face fines. ... Full story - Melee in Chalong rice soup shop
CHALONG, PHUKET: A man smashed a stranger over the head with a bottle, sparking a brawl at a Phuket khao tom (rice soup) restaurant in the early morning hours on Saturday.
Worakrit Wisutthitham, 40, lost a lot of blood and needed eight stitches to his head at Vachira Phuket Hospital following the attack.
Mr Worakrit was eating with two friends at the Toh Roong khao tom shop at the entrance to Soi Thanoothep, off Chao Fah East Road in Chalong at the time of the attack. ... Full story - Phuket ladyboy found dead from gunshot wound
WICHIT, PHUKET: Phuket City Police are searching for the killer of a 35-year-old ladyboy found dead on Saturday morning with a single bullet wound to the head.
The body of Wanchai Tongwijit, a restaurant employee from Nakhon Sri Thammarat, was found in an abandoned workers’ camp off Sakdidet Road Soi 7 in Tambon Wichit at around 6.45am. ... Full story - Phuket Governor treks and checks road project land
PHUKET CITY: Phuket Governor Wichai Phraisa-ngop on Thursday set off on an extensive walking tour of the strip of land he would like to see become the island’s second north-south road artery.
The first day of the tour started off on the bypass road, opposite the newly-opened Premium Outlet Mall, and proceeded all the way past the British International School, a distance of about six kilometers.
If completed, the road would run a distance of 21 kilometers along the same path as high-tension wire pylons, parallel to Thepkrasattri Rd. ... Full story - Belgian beauties smash papaya in Phuket
PHUKET CITY: Twenty contestants in the Miss Belgium 2010 beauty pageant took part in a Thai cooking class on Wednesday night.
The class, conducted by celebrity chef Nooror Somany-Steppe, was held at the Chin Pracha Mansion in Phuket Town, where the Blue Elephant Phuket will soon open its doors as a royal Thai cusine restaurant and cooking school.
The dish they were taught to make was none other than the Isarn staple somtam, or spicy papaya salad. ... Full story - Handicraft bargains at Phuket OTOP fair
PHUKET CITY: Carved wooden ornaments, stylish cloth bags and Lanna-style garments are just some of the hundreds of hand-made products from northern Thailand currently on sale at an OTOP market fair at Saphan Hin until tomorrow.
Over 100 booths are selling the handicrafts from 10am to 9pm at the fair dubbed ‘OTOP: From Lanna to Andaman Sea’.
There’s also plenty to eat and drink at the fair, especially seafood, including Phuket specialties such as salty grilled fish. ... Full story - Patong floods: no end in sight
PATONG, PHUKET: In the latest developments on the Nanai Road flooding saga, the Patong municipality says a new pump is set to be installed under the road.
However, disgruntled local residents will have to wait until next year for the project to be completed.
Problems first began in April this year, when heavy rains caused floodwater three-feet deep to collect, wreaking havoc on the 50-meter stretch of road since nicknamed "the Nanai River" by locals. ... Full story - Phuket murder suspect collared in coffin shop
CHALONG, PHUKET: Police yesterday morning arrested two suspects for the November 4 shooting ... Full story - Tsunami warning critic to launch new system
PHUKET CITY: Former National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC) director and a critic of the current warning system's administration plans to launch an additional disaster warning system with the aim of better informing the public of impending disasters.
The man behind the new warning system, Dr Smith Dharmasaroja, is preparing to launch the ‘parallel’ national tsunami warning system on December 26, the fifth anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster.
Dr Smith said the foundation has the same objectives that the NDWC was founded upon. ... Full story - Phuket City seeks funding for stadium
PHUKET: Phuket City Municipality has applied for 154 million baht in funding to build an international-standard indoor spo