PHUKET: Unit sales for the Coco Sea Condominium at Nai Harn have gotten off to a blistering start, with 150 units – about 40% of the project – already sold since the off-plan sales launch on Jan 15.
PHUKET: InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), one of the world’s leading hotel companies, has signed a management agreement with Kebsup Group Co Ltd, headed by Patong Mayor Chalermluck Kebsup, to open the first Hotel Indigo in Phuket.
PHUKET XTRA - January 28 Special report about the Rawai Sea Gypsies, Thailand tourism surging, BKK transgender woman throws puppy out of window, Thailand ‘less corrupt’ than last year and man ‘jumps’ in front of bus on Patong Hill.
PHUKET: Thailand will pursue an ambitious target to grow tourism revenue to B2.41 trillion, extend travel connectivity to neighbouring countries and take its high-flying travel show, TTM+ 2016, to North Thailand for the first time.
PHUKET: Leading Asian online property portal PropertyGuru Group has announced its purchase of the real estate media businesses of Ensign Media, headquartered in Singapore. The purchase includes ‘Property Report’, a regional luxury property and lifestyle magazine and website that publishes news and insights on such investment destinations. It also includes Asia Property Awards, the region’s biggest, best-recognised and respected property industry awards, held in nine countries annually.
Railway police have been placed on high alert after two successful drug searches highlighted concern that trains have become popular again as a vehicle for traffickers to deliver narcotics to the southern region.
BANGKOK: A Bangkok transgender woman was arrested yesterday (Jan 27) and charged with animal cruelty for allegedly throwing a Chihuahua from her fifth-storey apartment in Bangkok’s Wang Thonglang district.
BANGKOK: Criticism has flared over the government’s plan to amend a law to allow foreign investors to lease state land for up to 99 years.
PHUKET: Vice Governor Chokdee Amornwat has ordered a security detail to maintain peace at the sea gypsy community in Rawai after several villagers were injured in clashes with private workers hired to clear the area for private development this morning (Jan 27).