PHUKET XTRA - March 10 Solar Eclipse God lottery ticket, Southern Thailand roadside bomb, shooting range suicide, child in carry-on bag, new Patong hotel, and questions over monk’s Mercedes-Benz
PHUKET: The Phuket office of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) yesterday (Mar 9) held a sea rescue exercise at the deep sea port in Ao Makham.
PHUKET: Police believe that Estonian national Andres Podra, 38, dramatically took his own life at a Phuket gun range yesterday (Mar 9) due to stress over his lack of finances.
ATHLETICS: British International School Phuket (BISP) teacher Michele Hossack recently competed in the 21st Thailand Masters Athletic Championships held from the March 4 to 6 in the Northern province of Sakon Nakon.
PHUKET: Police on the island are currently looking for a group of teenage street racers who are alleged to have crashed into a German tourist leaving him with minor injuries, smashed up his pickup truck and assaulted one of his friends in Rawai in the early hours of this morning (Mar 10).
PHUKET: Chinese hospitality group Plateno has inked their first hotel deal in Phuket for a 110-room property in Patong, reports Bill Barnett, CEO and founder of the Phuket-based hospitality consultancy C9Hotelworks.
FISHING: Now in its sixth year, the Phuket Game Fishing Club’s annual tournament was once again held offshore from the Similan Islands. This year, bearing the title “PGFC Thailand 2016 Classic”, the event ran continuously over three days with non-stop fishing from 8am on March 1 to 4pm on March 3, with teams battling for an impressive array of prizes.
BANGKOK: The government plans to submit a new report on its progress in stamping out human trafficking to the US by the end of this month, says Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon.
BANGKOK: Army commander Gen Theerachai Nakvanich has given authorities six months to intensify the crackdown on “influential criminal figures”.