PHUKET: The Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) is preparing to seize 64 rai of Phuket land believed to be worth in the region of B4 billion after it was found to be part of a forest reserve.
DARTS: It was week eight of the Patong Darts League last Tuesday (Mar 3), and the Mouse Hole played a blinder against their arch rivals CrossRoads, but it was a 10-6 win for Mouse House and the only consolation for Crossroads was their lads winning the beer leg this time around.
PHUKET: A man and a woman were arrested in Thalang yesterday evening (Mar 8) when they were found to have in their possession 861 methamphetamine pills (ya bah) and nearly 40 grams of crystal meth (ya ice).
PHUKET: A foreign man died instantly after shooting himself in the head at the Patong Shooting range this afternoon (Mar 9).
PHUKET: A Phuket man has been taken to hospital after he launched into a violent tirade in Phuket Town this morning (Mar 9) because a roadside lottery ticket vendor would not sell him any lottery tickets – which the man claimed the “solar eclipse god” had told him would be lucky.
PHUKET: The arrest of a Chinese national in Phuket last Saturday for providing a Thai SIM card to a suspect in a botched gun heist in Bangkok has left the Phuket Police chief floundering about what to do with tour operators handing out Thai SIM cards to tourists.
THAILAND: People from Chiang Mai to Yala awoke early today (Mar 9) to catch a glimpse of a rare solar eclipse viewable across the nation, albeit through heavy clouds in some areas.
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TENNIS: Maria Sharapova’s multi-million dollar business empire was in turmoil yesterday (Mar 8) as sponsors distanced themselves from the Russian tennis star a day after she admitted failing a drug test.