PHUKET, Oct 17 – Phuket’s deputy governors have inspected the scene where a fire raged through a hypermarket, and reported that one department store staff is missing in the blaze. Phuket deputy governors Somkiat Sangkhaosutthirak, Chamroen Tipayapongtada and Sommai Prijasilpa visited the headquarters of the SuperCheap department store on Thepkasattri Road at Rassada subdistrict in […]
PHUKET: The main SuperCheap in Phuket burst into flames tonight, turning into an unstable inferno and sending a cloud of black smoke over a kilometer into the air. Every fire truck in Phuket was called to the scene on as well as trucks from nearby provinces. Read more: The Nation
PHUKET, 15th October 2013 (NNT) – The Minister of Tourism and Sports has led a team of officials to Phuket to launch an investigation into complaints of illegal taxis along Patong beach, Phuket. According to Tourism Minister Mr. Somsak Pureesrisak, the authorities received numerous complaints from the embassies of an EU country and China that […]
A Russian woman was badly hurt when she lost control of the car she was driving and smashed into a shop in Patong. PHUKET – October 8,2013; Kathu police named the injured woman as Elena Nikholas, 30, and said she was driving the white Toyota Vios that smashed into a souvenir shop on Phang Muang […]
Authorities on Monday said two men had been arrested on suspicion of possessing a protected primate after the pop star Rihanna posted a picture of herself online holding an endangered slow loris. The singer posed with the tiny, large-eyed slow loris on a night out in the tourist resort of Phuket on Friday, posting a […]
Four Chinese tourists and a Thai guide were injured in a speedboat crash around 2.30pm yesterday (September 22). PHUKET – September 22,2013; Police said the speedboat, Thanonsak 9030, was carrying 32 tourists and three guides from Phi Phi island on a tour. It was moving in to anchor at the popular Koh Kai Nok when […]
Wat Ban Ko Si-Li is a beautiful Buddhist temple located in Nai Harn Beach, Phuket island. This temple lies on the peak of a hill in Phuket and has a number of galleries of Buddha images donated by Buddhist devotees. Photos courtesy of ADwarf. -Thailand News (TN)
PHUKET – A Russian man found hanging from a tree in Phuket is believed to have committed suicide due to depression and joblessness, according to police. Police from Chalong station in Muang district worked with rescuers to cut the man’s body down from a tree near a viewpoint at Promthep Cape. Read more: Bangkok Post
