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Phuket Opinion: So where the bloody hell are you?
Phuket Opinion: So where the bloody hell are you?
PHUKET: The defence mounted by Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) Phuket Office Director Kanokkittika Kritwutikon against claims online that Phuket is suffering an incredibly low number of visitors during the current tourism ‘high season’ raises many grave questions about Phuket’s tourism industry.
Champions League is coming: Cruzeiro Soccer Schools tourney to highlight development
Champions League is coming: Cruzeiro Soccer Schools tourney to highlight development
FOOTBALL: After a successful Futsal League, Cruzeiro Soccer Schools is organising a Champions League starting on Jan 12. It will run for a period of six Saturdays between January and March 2019.
TURNING POINTS: Beating gambling addiction
TURNING POINTS: Beating gambling addiction
Psychologist and addiction counsellors are often asked “How do I know if I am gambling too much. If I cannot cut down, is it just lack of will power?”
Khiri Travel at 25: Founder Willem Niemeijer shares 5 x 5 Truths and Predictions on tourism
Khiri Travel at 25: Founder Willem Niemeijer shares 5 x 5 Truths and Predictions on tourism
Khiri Travel celebrated 25 years in business in 2018. Looking back on a quarter century in travel in Asia, Khiri Travel founder, Willem Niemeijer, shares 5 x 5 insights that inform his travel industry decision making in 2018 and plans for 2019 and beyond:
Laguna Phuket Triathlon 2019 dates announced
Laguna Phuket Triathlon 2019 dates announced
PHUKET: Hot on the heels of the success of the 25th Laguna Phuket Triathlon (LPT) held last month, Laguna Phuket has announced the award-winning race’s 26th annual edition is to take place on Sunday November 24, 2019.
Year-long activities planned for 2019 to celebrate ‘Khon’
Year-long activities planned for 2019 to celebrate ‘Khon’
Thailand’s Ministry of Culture’s Department of Cultural Promotion has declared a year of activities in 2019 to celebrate ‘Khon’, Thailand’s masked dance drama, which has been inscribed on Unesco’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Police investigate ramping up charge against Chinese husband for killing wife to murder
Police investigate ramping up charge against Chinese husband for killing wife to murder
PHUKET: Kamala Police today confirmed that they are looking into ramping up the charge against Chinese national Zhang Yifan, 31, to murder, for the death of his wife 29-year-old Zhang Jia, who died after he held her head underwater in a resort pool allegedly amid a heated argument.
Passenger handed B5k reward for reporting ‘multitasking’ bus driver
Passenger handed B5k reward for reporting ‘multitasking’ bus driver
PHUKET: The Phuket Land Transport Office (PLTO) has handed over the B5,000 fine levied on the driving caught on video letting his 7-year-old son handle the steering wheel of an interprovincial bus in Phuket last Friday night (Dec 14) to the woman who posted the incident online.
Phuket TAT chief strikes back at low tourism numbers claims
Phuket TAT chief strikes back at low tourism numbers claims
PHUKET: Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) Phuket Office Director Kanokkittika Kritwutikon has struck out at claims online that Phuket is suffering an incredibly low number of visitors during the current tourism ‘high season’.
Rawai Pool League: Black Sheep eats Pita for breakfast while Roses are crowned Division B champions
Rawai Pool League: Black Sheep eats Pita for breakfast while Roses are crowned Division B champions
POOL: Two weeks remain after Monday night’s action (Dec 17), of the Rawai Pool League’s 14th season going into the holiday break.
Patong, Karon to be hit by water-supply outage throughout Christmas
Patong, Karon to be hit by water-supply outage throughout Christmas
PHUKET: The Phuket Provincial Waterworks Authority (PWA) has announced that the mains water supply will be shut-off in “the whole of Patong and Karon” from tomorrow (Dec 18) through to Boxing Day, next Wednesday (Dec 26).
Patong Pool League: Tussle at the top of the table as ‘The Shack’ fires on all cylinders
Patong Pool League: Tussle at the top of the table as ‘The Shack’ fires on all cylinders
POOL: The fourth round of the PPL sponsored by Thailand Pool Tables and Genius 2 Garden & Restaurant took place last Thursday (Dec 13) with all teams once again focused on catching last season’s champions, Caddy Shack.
Hunt for Phuket oil spill perpetrator underway
Hunt for Phuket oil spill perpetrator underway
PHUKET: Phuket Vice Governor Thanyawat Chanpinit has called on the Phuket Marine Office to identify where the oil spill that washed ashore and coated that waterline black at Tungken Beach at Cape Panwa yesterday (Dec 16) and process the ‘highest legal case’ against them.
Phuket ‘multitasking’ bus driver suspended, fined B5k – quits job
Phuket ‘multitasking’ bus driver suspended, fined B5k – quits job
PHUKET: A bus driver exposed online for driving dangerously by allowing his young son to ‘take the wheel’ and taking a video call while driving a public interprovincial bus from Phuket to Phattalung has had his license suspended and been fined B5,000.
Thailand Yacht Show & RendezVous 2019
Thailand Yacht Show & RendezVous 2019
Resulting from a fusion of Thailand’s three successful maritime events, Thailand Yacht Show & RendezVous will take place at the award-winning Royal Phuket Marina from 10-13th January 2019 and is set to become the biggest luxury event in the region.
Phuket Opinion: A gun for all seasons
Phuket Opinion: A gun for all seasons
PHUKET: The arrest of a lone rubber plantation caretaker this week delivered a surprise for police. Not in that he was in possession of an illegal firearm. That they already knew from a tip-off. It was that he had hidden behind his hut in Srisoonthorn, central Phuket, a home-made musket. Yes, a musket – just like one from the late Middle Ages, but this one home-made using more modern equipment.
Community clean-up at Bridge of Pak Bang canal, Patong
Community clean-up at Bridge of Pak Bang canal, Patong
Yesterday (Dec 14), Patong Municipality, Muslim for Peace Foundation Branch Phuket, held a BIG CLEANING DAY at the base of Bridge of Pak Bang canal, Kathu, Phuket. Attaubah club, Patong Development Foundation, Pak Bang canal local fishermen, Kok Makam community and more than 50 people joined this activity.
Heavy weather warning for Phuket
Heavy weather warning for Phuket
PHUKET: Wiwat Chitchertwong, the Acting Chief of the Phuket Marine Office, has issued a weather warning for all vessels in Phuket and operating in Phang Nga Bay and other nearby areas along the Andaman Coast.
Phuket Police parade in show of New Year readiness
Phuket Police parade in show of New Year readiness
PHUKET: More than 250 police, military officers and volunteers assembled at Phuket City Police Station at 5pm on Wednesday evening (Nov 12) to receive their orders from Phuket Provincial Police Commander Maj Gen Wisan Panmanee to ramp up their efforts during the upcoming New Year holidays.
US Embassy reminder: Income affidavits for visas to cease Jan 1
US Embassy reminder: Income affidavits for visas to cease Jan 1
PHUKET: The US Embassy in Bangkok is reminding US citizens that the US Mission in Thailand will cease providing income affidavits and will not notarise previous versions of the income affidavit from Jan 1.