PHUKET: Representatives from the southwestern Chinese province of Xiamen paid a visit to Phuket Governor Chamroen Tipayapongtada yesterday (Dec3) to reaffirm they still want Xiamen and Phuket to become “sister cities”.
PHUKET: Officials were ordered to ramp up efforts to prevent residents and local businesses from dumping untreated wastewater into sections of Klong Bang Yai in Rassada and Wichit, and to push ahead with wastwater treatment plants in those areas.
Antonio Bagnato, the prime suspect in the kidnapping and murder of a former Australian Hells Angels leader in Pattaya, has been arrested in Cambodia.
SURFING: Hold in those tears folks, I understand it’s worth pulling out the Kleenex and having a big old cry, but I want to give you some good news. Phuket’s high season weather has well and truly kicked in with the wind turning off shore and pushing the swell away from our beaches.
LONDON: British police stepped in this week after a woman on London’s underground system was handed a card calling her a “fat, ugly human”.
HONDURAS: For Honduran soldiers fanning out in the pine forest, their chainsaws roaring, the enemy is like no other: numbering in the thousands, invading a sizeable chunk of their country and causing incalculable environmental damage.
MONGOLIA: For thousands of years Mongolia’s Dukha ethnic minority have depended on their reindeer herds to survive the bitter winters, but now their nomadic way of life is threatened by new government restrictions introduced on environmental grounds, they say.
FOOTBALL: Phuket FC held an opening ceremony for the Republic Phuket Youth League 2015 seven-a-side football tournament currently being held at Republic Phuket, an event aimed at raising awareness of how important Phuket youths are to the local community, and at bringing youths together to build a passion and inspiration for the game.
FOOTBALL: Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy made history last Saturday (Nov 28) by scoring for the 11th Premier League match running in his side’s 1-1 draw at home to Manchester United.