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Phuket remembers Loren Hollingsworth

Monday 22 April 2024 02:15 PM

Loren B Hollingsworth, beloved husband, father, friend, and missionary went home to be with the Lord April 7, 2024 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, surrounded by his loved ones.

A day for remembrance

Phuket Life / Community

Sunday 21 April 2024 11:00 AM

Phuket Veterans (PV), formally known as the International Veterans Association (IVA) will hold a Dawn Service on Kamala Beach for Anzac Day this Thursday (Apr 25).

Phuket SwapShop gets set for Easter

Phuket Life / Community

Friday 29 March 2024 10:24 AM

The Phuket SWAPSHSwapShop is gearing up for an Easter celebration filled with family-friendly activities and the spirit of giving, set to take place at the Seeds of Change Vocational Learning Centre from 11am to 3pm.tomorrow (Mar 30).

A Meal With... Sid Carter: Memories of a ‘Happy Hooker’

Phuket Life / Community

Sunday 17 March 2024 02:00 PM

I recently heard the sad news that an old friend and enthusiastic Phuket visitor named Sid Carter had passed away in his English hometown of Southampton. Sid visited Phuket several times and was a great lover of the Andaman region’s many charms. His passing made me reflect on the more contemplative and immersive style of tourism which Sid loved, compared with the hedonistic excess which seems to be today’s norm.

Celebrating the life of Thomas Moore

Phuket Life / Community

Wednesday 21 February 2024 02:05 PM

(The following is from several close friends of Thomas Moore, who very sadly passed away recently).

Blazing Saddles: A Thai girl in Monet’s garden

Phuket Life / Community

Sunday 18 February 2024 02:00 PM

My diminutive Thai partner Pattie and I had travelled to Paris to take in the dramatic tourist attractions of that most contradictory of cities. Historically and artistically stunning, yes, but equally frustrating and downright annoying in many of its present guises.

Soi Dog gets a Happy Doggo boost

Phuket Life / Community

Sunday 18 February 2024 11:00 AM

In a unified effort to transform the lives of Thailand’s street dogs, Niall Harbison and his organisation Happy Doggo have joined forces with the renowned Soi Dog Foundation on a large-scale spay/neuter project which will see 2,000 dogs sterilised and vaccinated every single month.

Lovable Phuket expat Harold Schwarz of Tatonka passes away

Phuket Life / Community

Monday 15 January 2024 05:12 PM

PHUKET: Harold Schwarz, founder and chef of Phuket’s renowned restaurant Tatonka, in Cherng Talay, has passed away. He was just 55 years old.

Christina Aguilar charity concert to support Thalang Hospital

Phuket Life / Community

Wednesday 10 January 2024 01:35 PM

PHUKET: Thai artist Christina Aguilar is to perform a charity concert at Bang Tao Beach on Jan 27 to raise money for Thalang Hospital to buy essential medical equipment.

The art of ‘Slow Cycling’

Phuket Life / Community

Sunday 7 January 2024 02:00 PM

Fighting my way through a forest of jostling ‘selfie sticks’, I hopped off my bike atop Promthep Cape at sunset in order to take in the iconic moment when our great scarlet solar power station dipped below the horizon. The selfie sticks clashed and bristled like febrile insect antennae and a collective explosion of ‘influencer’ verbal ejaculations ran through the assembled ranks of ‘content generators’ as the sun finally disappeared for another night.

A Meal with… Thomas Brack

Phuket Life / Community

Sunday 10 December 2023 02:00 PM

Thomas Brack is one of Phuket’s most respected restaurant managers and for many years ran, with exceptional grace and efficiency, the famous 9th Floor restaurant off Rat-U-Thit 200 Pi Rd in Patong. So, to meet him, as I recently did, beaming happily in a school playground surrounded by a legion of boisterous, energetic youngsters was something of an enigma.

Lotus’s join Soi Dog food donations campaign

Phuket Life / Community

Saturday 2 December 2023 11:00 AM

Phuket branches of the national shopping store chain Lotus’s along with Pet Us store are supporting Soi Dog Foundation through their ‘Feed us at Lotus’s’ campaign in an effort to help street dogs and cats.

The Pavilions Phuket has partnered with Siamese Dreams

Phuket Life / Community

Friday 24 November 2023 11:21 AM

Siamese Dreams, a Phuket-based luxury loungewear brand, to create an exclusive capsule collection called Bamboo Siamensis.

Floating charity for animal welfare

Phuket Life / Community

Sunday 12 November 2023 03:00 PM

This Loy Krathong this year will see the annual fundraising event and doggie fashion show hosted by CHOW Pet Foods moved to Blue Tree Phuket, where guests will enjoy an evening meal designed by an executive chef and the stars of the show, the doggies, will enjoy a five-course feast.

A day of Remembrance

Phuket Life / Community

Sunday 5 November 2023 11:00 AM

The Phuket Veterans are hosting Phuket’s first Remembrance (Armistice) service on Saturday, November 11, this year. Everyone is welcome to come along to pay their respects and give thanks to those who made the ultimate self-sacrifice for the freedom that we enjoy today. It is important that, as we remember those who lost their lives or were injured in conflict, their story is passed on to future generations, so children are very much welcome too. Here, The Phuket News speaks with Steve Pearce, founder of the Phuket Veterans (International Veterans Association), about the event.

Vietnam practitioners denounce use of dog and cat meat in traditional medicine

Phuket Life / Community

Sunday 15 October 2023 02:00 PM

Leaders of the traditional medicine community in Vietnam have denounced the use of dog and cat meat for medicinal purposes, marking a turning point for animal welfare in the country.

Blazing Saddles: Have a Nice day!

Phuket Life / Community

Sunday 15 October 2023 11:00 AM

I awoke to the seductive aroma of freshly baked croissants and brewing coffee and realised that despite the dream I’d just been having about a gang of bikini-clad ladyboys fighting a pitched battle against a rabble of unregistered taxi mafiosi in Soi Bangla, I was in fact a long way from Phuket!

SOS: Feed the people

Phuket Life / Community

Sunday 1 October 2023 02:00 PM

The Phuket branch of the Scholars of Sustenance Foundation (SOS) Thailand is moving ahead with its goal of handing out 20,000 meals to people in need across the island on Oct 9, as part of its efforts to mark World Food Day on Oct 16.

Veteran or not: calling for volunteers

Phuket Life / Community

Sunday 1 October 2023 11:00 AM

Have you ever wondered what your contribution would be if Phuket were hit by another disaster? During the aftermath of the tsunami disaster in 2004, many expats joined with locals to offer whatever assistance they could. The hundreds of stories of selfless actions by so many kind-hearted and determined volunteers was enough to regain faith in humanity.

Hope, health and happiness in Kalim

Phuket Life / Community

Sunday 17 September 2023 02:00 PM

Phuket’s Kalim region sits over a small hill to the immediate north of Patong, the world-famous epicentre of hedonism and decadence on the island. Although it is so close to the immense cash flow of Patong’s buzzing cash registers, Kalim is a rather down-at-heel suburb populated by many impoverished families…. fisherfolk, odd-jobbers and the unemployed.

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