PHUKET: Police have yet to confirm the cause of death of a 60-year-old American expat whose body was found in his home in Rawai today (Feb 29).
PHUKET: News last week that officials have yet to come to grips with an influx of Chinese travellers arriving on the island in recreational vehicles (RVs) has sparked in tense online debate about whether or not Phuket should welcome such travellers.
PHUKET: The Governor of Phuket, Chamroen Tipayapongtada, has called for officials and organisers to make safety their top priority at the island’s first Phuket Thailand Balloon Music Festival, to be held from April 14-17.
TRAT: Five Cambodian fishermen accused of raping two French tourists and viciously assaulting their two male companions on Koh Kut were taken to the scene of the attack for a re-enactment today (Feb 29).
BELGIUM: For months Iranian Christian migrants have been sleeping in a makeshift shelter outside a church in the Belgian port town of Zeebrugge, from where they hope to smuggle themselves over to Britain.
FISHING: Hi once again my fellow fisheroos, and blistering barnacles, what a month February was, more wind than a fishing club committee meeting, but that said, between gusts the fishing continued to be the best in years with most of the boats reporting Sails in abundance.
PHUKET: An Iranian man died who was taken to hospital by family members yesterday (Feb 28) when he complained of severe chest pains, died whist in the hospitals care it has been announced. Doctors have confirmed the man died after suffering a heart attack.
PHUKET XTRA - February 29 Police find meth-pipe at bus crash, Phukets light rail project goes to Cabinet, mystery body discovered off Karon Beach, RPM gets luxury gong and a few big openings over the weekend.
BANGKOK: The Criminal Court today (Feb 29) sentenced well-known TV news anchor Sorayuth Suthassanachina to 13 years and four months in jail for bribing a former employee of MCOT Plc to fraudulently conceal a B138-million fee his firm owed the state-run media organisation.