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PHUKET: A Chinese tourist is currently in hospital being treated for injuries she sustained when she she fell from a jet-ski she was riding off the beach of Koh Naka Yai.

Phuket hosted the worlds first mixed martial arts event on a cruise ship on Monday evening (June 1) as Mixed Martial Arr, a pirate themed fight show, took place on the waters off Cape Panwa

Latest In a shock move, Phuket Provincial Administrative Organisation President Paiboon Upatising has been ordered with seven other presidents to stand aside by the Prime Minister.

Transport Minister Prajin Juntong has insisted security checks at Suvarnabhumi airport did not find a gun and bullets in the luggage and carry-on bags of former Metropolitan Police chief Kamronwit Thoopkrachang on the day he left for Japan.

Latest A British woman has told a newspaper about her experience in quarantine during the Mers alert in Thailand. So far, only one person has the virus in Thailand.

Latest Human Rights Watch calls on Cambodia to release scores of people who have been detained without adequate reason and are being held in a ‘‘Social Affairs’’ centre.

Phuket Updating Digest Phuket youths arrested for stealing motorcycles; Drugs pair held after police stings; Gun carried through security; US and China talk oceans; Nok Air expands.

Around the Region Malaysia moves to become one big no smoking zone; Indonesia’s construction on the nose; Moves to make UN probe MH17 crash; Condoms fail Vietnam; Rights crisis in Cambodia.

PHUKET: After receiving repeated complaints of people encroaching on a public waterway and a mangrove forest in Thalang, Phuket Vice Governor Somkiet Sangkhaosutthirak travelled to the north of the island yesterday (June 23) to let residents know that their complaints have been heard.