PHUKET: One Russian diver had his right leg slashed nearly right through by a speedboat propeller while another Russian diver suffered lesser, but serious, deep cuts during a dive tour trip at Phi Phi Lei Island this morning (Feb 3).
PHUKET XTRA - February 3 Another Thai Zika Virus patient, Animal traffickers arrested, a new Krabi archeological site, Old Phuket Town Festival kicks off and throwing out the Look Thep dolls.
PHUKET: The chief of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports (MoTS) Phuket office is to investigate a local tour company after a Chinese tourist died after he was pulled from the water unconscious during a day trip to Koh Racha Yai yesterday (Feb 2).
SWIMMING: This high season, Asia’s leading sports resort, and one of the finest aquatics facilities in the world, has been the training site for a number of international swimming teams.
BANGKOK: The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)’s red flag given to Thailand for its aviation safety deficiencies is unlikely to be lifted this year, says the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT).
PHUKET: The Rawai sea gypsy community have turned down an offer to move their scared site to 800 square metres of land donated by developer Baron World Trade Co Ltd so that the company may build a 33-rai villa project where the villagers once prayed.
BANGKOK: The family of contractor Chuwong Sae Tang, who supposedly died in a car crash in June last year, claimed yesterday (Feb 1) that an independent review of the autopsy report suggested the billionaire’s death was not an accident.
INDIA: A college picnic to the beach turned into a tragedy yesterday (Feb 1) when at least 13 students drowned off India’s west coast when they went swimming, police and officials said.
PHUKET XTRA - February 2 Light-fingers Brit gets an extended holiday, Koh Samui elephant goes beserk, Thai Governments solution to the Facebook/Line dilemma, some more crazy high-season weather and up close and personal with planes.