Heavy downpours happened has caused traffic tailbacks and minor flooding across Phuket roads this morning. Thai Meteorological Department (TMD) has issued a “Heave Weather Warning” will cover Phuket and other provinces along the Andaman Coast. [Read more →]
Bad Weather Warned at Andaman coast
May 16th, 2012 · Local Updates
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Phuket Helps Poor People at Chinese Festival
May 10th, 2012 · Local Updates
Some 1,000 poor people in Phuket collected in the headquarter of Kusoldharm Foundation in Phuket Town yesterday to get food donation. This charity event was being the part of Te Krajard merit-making ceremony. This event led by the president of this foundation Benjawan Tamphanuwat while Kusoldham workers started to deliver 4,800 packs of rice and foodstuffs at 2:30 PM. [Read more →]
Patong Hill Landslide Waiting for Approval
May 2nd, 2012 · Development and Infrastructure
Highways Department planned to begin the project of landslide prone section on Patong Hill on June but another section of this road should wait until next year at least. Deputy director of Highway Department, Sathaporn Sornchana told if the plan of Phra Barami Road on Patong hill still awaiting final approval from Highways Department in Bangkok. [Read more →]
Illegal Diesel Smuggling Caught
April 25th, 2012 · Local Updates
Phuket Custom officers caught 47,000 liters of illegal diesel on two Taiwanese boats in the eastern coastal of Phuket Sunday. The smuggled diesel was worth 21 million baht. Both boats are entitled ChingChunFa 168 and the Chi Tsai 16 were caught around two miles in the northern side of Taphao Yai Island on Sunday said the Royal Thai Customs Investigations and Suppression Bureau director, Rakop Srisupa-at. [Read more →]
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Songkran Drawing Phuket by Water
April 11th, 2012 · Events, Travel and Tourism
Patong Municipality and Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) hosts Songkran on the Beach 2012 that displaying parades, shows and usual water wars at Loma Public Park and Junceylon Shopping Mall on April 12 and 13. The festival will hold on three days that will begin on Friday. [Read more →]
Fire Burnt Phuket Store
March 28th, 2012 · Local Updates
Fire has hit a construction equipment store in Cherng Talay this morning as it brought about 10 million baht loss, said Phuket Police. At 6 AM Cherng Talay Police informed the fire accident at Cherng Talay Ruam Wassadu store nearby police station on Srisoonthorn Road. Soon 10 fire trucks and 40 officers coming from Cherng Talay Municipality, Patong Municipality, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Phuket (DDPM-Phuket), and the Phuket Provincial Administrative Organization (OrBorJor). [Read more →]
Cabinet Approves Funding for Phuket Flyover
March 21st, 2012 · Development and Infrastructure
Today cabinet approved 200 million baht funds to begin the flyover project on the outskirt of Phuket Town. The project called Klong Koh Pee as it has been delayed for 15 years. The approval announced by Deputy Government Spokesman Anusorn Iamsa-ard in the middle of the day after a morning session with the Prince of Songkla University (PSU) Phuket Campus. [Read more →]
Krabi Mayor Proposed International School for Krabi
March 14th, 2012 · Development and Infrastructure
Waiting for ministers’ meeting in Phuket on March 19-20, Krabi Provincial Office of Tourism and Sports is proposing ‘Andaman International School’ project. The department planned to move 30 million baht fund to build an international school in Krabi. [Read more →]
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No Alcohol on Makha Bucha Day in Phuket
March 7th, 2012 · Events
Today’s Makha Bucha Day and Phuket police have warned people since yesterday that there will be no consent to sell alcohol to pay respect on this Buddhist holiday. [Read more →]
The Newborn ‘Pang Saifon’ Attracted Tourists
March 1st, 2012 · Local Updates
Today (28/2) the owner of the Kinnari Elephant Camp in Rawai noticed the birth of a baby elephant in this camp. The name is Pang Saifon who was born at 1:49 AM. Jirayu Nirunwiroj, a veterinarian of Phuket Livestock Office from Animal Health Development division said the baby weighs 75 kilograms and she is health. “We will raise the baby at the moment as her mother, Pang Gaewta, isn’t raising her. We will give Pang Saifon bottle milk from her mother,” said him. [Read more →]
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