The leading online English-language newspaper for Phuket, Thailand, with daily news. The current top 10 breaking news stories in Phuket are:

• Chinese arrested for illegally selling souvenirs at Phuket temple
  PHUKET: Nine Chinese were arrested on Tuesday for illegally selling amulets and souvenirs at Wat Kathu, one of the oldest temples on the island.Phuket Immigration Office Superintendent Pol Col Sanchai Chokhayaikij led officers to the revered site at about 4:30pm, where they found the Chinese nationals actively selling amulets and souvenirs to visitors at the […]
• Phuket Governor faces taxi doubleheader at Phuket International airport
  PHUKET: Phuket Governor Maitri Inthusut was met en masse late yesterday by the drivers of a second taxi company after having already been dragged to Phuket International Airport due to an all-night vigil held by the illegal taxi drivers of Mook Andaman co-operative outside his official residence Tuesday night (story
• Phuket drowning victim identified as British national
  PHUKET: Police have identified the man whose body washed ashore on Patong Beach early yesterday morning (story
• Phuket illegal taxi drivers stalk Governor, demand resolution
  PHUKET: A sortie of about 30 illegal taxi drivers from the Mook Andaman co-operative staged an all-night vigil in front of the Governor’s Residence last night, finally causing the governor to agree to meet with them today to seek a resolution to their demand to serve passengers at Phuket International Airport. Police were called in to ensure the drivers kept […]
• Phuket monsoon weather hits tourism, seafood prices
  PHUKET: The rough seas brought on by the onset of the annual southwest monsoon have taken their toll on the Phuket tourist day-trip trade, with companies reporting only half the usual number of passengers.Meanwhile, fishing boats have been unable to put to sea, with the resulting fall in supply causing an upsurge in seafood prices.“The monsoon weather has ar […]
• Power returns to Phuket
  PHUKET: Electricity supply was restored to the south of the island after 9:30pm tonight following what was reported as Thailand’s biggest blackout on record.Phuket, along with all 13 other provinces that comprise Southern Thailand, was plunged into darkness just before 7pm.Power was restored to key areas on the island after just one hour, but residents outsi […]
• Phuket hit by major blackout
  PHUKET: A major power outage struck across Phuket just before 7pm tonight.Phuket Town, Chalong, Koh Kaew and Thalang are three heavily populated areas suffering from the outage, the Phuket Gazette confirmed.The local electricty authority has confirmed the entire south of the island is also affected.
• Convicts claim to steal gold for milk money north of Phuket
  PHUKET: A pair of snatch-thief convicts were snapped up by police shortly after they ripped two gold necklaces from the neck of a woman taking her child to school in Phang Nga this morning.After her necklaces – worth about 30,000 baht – were stolen, Waroon Chaisang called the police, who notified officers at a checkpoint down the road in the direction the me […]
• Unidentified male foreigner found dead on Phuket beach
  PHUKET: A bearded male foreigner was found dead on Phuket’s premier party beach of Patong early this morning.The body was found at about 6am across from Loma Park (map
• Joyriding Phuket King Cobra nabbed in truck
  PHUKET: A three-meter King Cobra was captured in Phuket’s Khao Phra Thaeo Wildlife Sanctuary last night after it went along for a ride in one of the park trucks.The driver of the truck, park employee Wad Promya, 59, had taken the truck to run an errand at a friend’s house. He felt something moving under his seat, but it stopped after a while, so he kept driv […]
• Phuket alcohol ban for Visakha Bucha on Friday
  PHUKET: Bars, restaurants and other retailers across Phuket are required to refrain from selling alcohol from midnight Thursday night to sunrise Saturday morning as a total ban on alcohol sales comes into effect nationwide for the Buddhist holy day Visakha Bucha on Friday.“Visakha Bucha Day is one of the four annual religious days on which the sale of alcoho […]
• Phuket Police scour Patong for motorbike ransom gang
  PHUKET: Phuket Police are on the lookout for three men who evaded arrest last night when officers raided an address given as that of the ringleader of a teenage motorbike extortion gang.The raid originated from a complaint filed by Sasiprapha Sukhang, 18, from Buri Ram, who told police she lent her motorbike – which she had rented – to a friend about a week […]
• Phuket tourist hits pedestrian on Thepkrasattri Road
  PHUKET: A tourist arriving on Phuket from Bangkok in his pick-up truck last night struck an unidentified man who allegedly had stepped out into one of Phuket’s busiest roads.Thalang Police received a report at 11:45pm that a man had been hit in the southbound lanes of Thepkrasattri Road about 150 meters north of the Heroines’ Monument (map
• Thalang defense volunteer charged for illegal possession of a firearm
  PHUKET: A Thalang defense volunteer was charged with illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition after being pulled over at a checkpoint in Phuket.Krit Meesit, 52, wearing military trousers and a black shirt with “Royal Thai Marine Corps” written across it, was stopped at a checkpoint on Nanai Road in Patong at about 2am yesterday.“The man presented us wi […]
• Phuket taxi driver to face abduction, drug charges
  PHUKET: The Phuket taxi driver accused of holding a 19-year-old Chinese tourist captive for hours and threatening her with sexually intimidating gestures on Friday will face deprivation of liberty and drug charges.Phuket City Police today named the driver as Paitoon Kruain, 32, from Sakoo, a small village on Phuket’s west coast near Phuket International Airp […]

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