Phuket Latest News

Lawyers for a woman who says an American billionaire forced her into sexual relations with Britains Prince Andrew when she was 17 want the royal to respond under oath to the allegations.

Disabled rejoice over BTS ruling

Latest The access by jet-skis to Phuket’s Patong beach is to be reduced to improve the appeal of the beach and the safety of swimmers there.

Phuket Updating Digest AirAsia alarms ‘screaming’ before crash; Warning to Yingluck supporters; Disabled win station elevators; Hitler Facebook post cost man his job.

Around the Region AirAsia details may be withheld; NZ man joins death row queue in Indonesia; Women activists seek freedom; “Allah’’ not for Christians.

PHUKET: Police swooped on Patong Beach last night (January 20) and seized 178 sunbeds, 37 chairs, and 53 umbrellas piled along the edge of the beach. They announced that owners must come and retrieve them from the police station – if they dare.

PHUKET: Some of the staff of the Holiday Inn Resort in Patong went on strike briefly last night, walking out of the hotel to protest at what they saw as underpayment of annual bonuses.

Warning alarms in AirAsia flight QZ8501 were screaming as the pilots desperately tried to stabilise the plane just before it plunged into the Java Sea last month, a crash investigator said Wednesday.

The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) is ready to distribute additional digital TV coupons to 63 thousand households in five more provinces, including Phuket, and has urged the public to use the coupon before it expires on 31 May 2015.