Phuket: Chinese businessmen have been using Thais as fronts to open tourism businesses in Phuket to cater increasing number of Chinese tourists, Post Today reported. The Chinese firms have collaborated with tourism companies from their country to provide Chinese customers to their shops, and preventing Thai firms from receiving benefits from the huge number of […]
PHUKET: The security guard from Hollywood Discotheque in Patong who was allegedly attacked by a Phuket police officer filed a report at Kathu police station yesterday afternoon (June 12) after being released from hospital for treatment he received as a result of the attack. Read more: thephuketnews.com
PHUKET: An 11-year-old boy died after the motorbike driven by his mother collided with a cement truck in front of Makro on Vichit Songkram Rd, in Vichit, yesterday evening (June 11). Officers led by Maj Narong Muangduong of the Vichit police arrived at the scene with Kusoldharm rescue workers at 6:20pm. Read more: thephuketnews.com
PHUKET: Video footage of the attack in which Australian expat Mark Pendlebury fatally stabbed a Patong nightclub staffer in March has convinced Phuket police to drop the murder charge against the 59-year-old from Western Australia. “After reviewing the CCTV footage recently provided, we have decided to not pursue the murder charge against Mr Pendlebury,” Lt […]
PHUKET: Police and forensic experts are searching for clues to help them identify skeletal remains discovered in thick grass on a remote hillside outside of Patong this afternoon. The corpse belonged to a male between 170 and 175cm tall and who had perished no less than one month ago. Read more: thephuketnews.com
The owner of World Bungee Jump, where 25-year-old Abdullah Adel Kadhbahman died last Wednesday (May 27), and the person who attached the safety harnesses to his ankles, are likely to be charged with negligence in causing another person̕s death according to Patong police. Speaking to The Phuket News, Pol Maj Theerasak Boonsaeng of Patong said […]
PHUKET: Eight Koreans have been arrested in Phuket for running an online gambling operation that police estimate would have had an annual turnover of more than B100 million. Wichit Police arrested the eight men in raids on four different condo units at an apartment block near Dowroong Wittaya School yesterday (June 3). Read more: thephuketnews.com […]
PHUKET: A Kuwaiti man died yesterday (May 27) when the ankle straps he was wearing when he jumped from the World Bungee Jump in Patong came off. Police are currently investigating to find whether this incident was was due to faulty equipment or was just a tragic accident. Read more: thephuketnews.com
