TENNIS: A bombshell report alleging widespread match-fixing in tennis rocked the Australian Open as the season’s first Grand Slam tournament began under a cloud today (Jan 18).
PHUKET: Authorities are investigating what to do after learning that beachgoers were charged B20 for access to Laem Sing, a public beach.
PHUKET XTRA - January 18 Roads cracking up because of drought, four Mexicans dead north of Bangkok, crackdown on foreign corruption on Samui and Phangnan, clean up your act local tourism operators and Burmese motorctcle rider dies.
PHUKET: About 1,200 rai of land has been detached from the Sirinat National Park in Thalang by unscrupulous officials for use by investors, a member of the National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA) member Damrong Phidet said.
PHUKET: A light rail system worth more than 2 billion baht will be constructed between Phuket International Airport and Chalong intersection to boost the country’s tourism in the South.
SURAT THANI: Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon has instructed local authorities in Surat Thani to stamp out foreign mafia groups in Koh Phangan and Koh Samui, following a shooting attack at a bar last Tuesday (Jan 12) on Koh Phangan.
PHUKET: Thalang police are considering whether or not to charge a 41-year-old Thai man who ran over a 39 year old Myanmar last night in Thalang.
PHUKET: A 63-year-old Austrian national is being monitored closely at Bangkok Hospital Phukets Emergency and Trauma Center after she was rescued from drowning off Patong Beach today.
PHUKET: Police said they will not press charges against a man who smashed a van into an electric pole this afternoon on the north of the island, because the damages do not justify it.