Phuket Latest News

Songkran comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes, depending where you live. We headed out to the Phuket suburbs.

Latest Two Chinese tourists were killed travelling to Hua Hin after a Phuket holiday in a shocking hit-run. The driver kept going for more than a kilometre with a body underneath the car.

Latest Motorcyclists are banned from Phuket’s new underpass, which is credited with shaving time off the north south journey - and a second underpass should be open quite soon.

Latest Anger and frustration are mounting over continuing crushes and overcrowding at Phuket Immigration and other visa centres around Thailand amid a crackdown on unwanted expats.

Phuket Updating Digest The family of an American missing off Phuket is flying to help search; Samui fears a car park bomb setback; Road toll rises; Four women jailed over flight catfight; Latest sport.

Around the Region Maid executed in Saudi Arabia; Bali stores stop selling alcohol; Is Malaysia imploding?; Vietnam banks merge; Cambodia to gain first volunteer refugees; OIC backs Rohingya.

The Treasury Department has set up a multi-agency panel to reclaim Crown Property land on Koh Tao off the coast of Surat Thani province from resort operators and other encroachers.

Phuket Bike Week 2015 And so they came. 20,000 of them! And it all heads to Saphan Hin this Friday, April 17.

The Department of Land Transport said 2,046 public vehicles have been caught speeding over the past six days during the Thai New Year festival.