PHUKET: With 27 years of experience serving the marine industry in and around Phuket, Damian Barrett and his expert team at Electrical Marine Co Ltd knows all the boating and yachting products and services that are locally on offer – and more importantly, what is not.
PHUKET: Tourism brochures are misleading. Southeast Asia is more than just the few tropical paradises or hot spots described by mainstream tour operators. The region today is the largest and most exotic cruising ground in the world and the fastest developing market for the yachting industry.
Phuketians will be able to celebrate Thailand Children’s Day (January 9) in style by attending the many events planned for the island.
MYANMAR: Opium production in Myanmar has “stabilised” at stubbornly high levels, the United Nations said recently, adding the government must address poverty and end the conflicts which drive farmers to grow illicit poppies.
PHUKET: Visitors to the island received a tremendous surprise today (Jan 8), the sighting of a Killer Whale just of the coast of Freedom Beach. Freedom Beach is a 300m-long strip of white sand at the southern end of Patong Beach next to Tri Tang Beach.
CRICKET: A Mumbai schoolboy made history this week when he became the first batsman in any class of cricket to score 1,000 runs in a single innings, with Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar leading the plaudits.
HONG KONG: As Hong Kong seeks to expand its international airport and with a major new bridge project under way, campaigners warn that the dwindling number of much-loved pink dolphins in surrounding waters may disappear altogether.
PHUKET: Three men wanted in connection with a gang attack on two men on Tuesday morning (Jan 5) have been arrested and their cases passed to Phuket Provincial Court.
PHUKET: The Royal Thai Navy Third Area Command carried out a successful Search and Rescue Exercise (SAREX) off Patong beach on Wednesday (Jan 6) simulating the recovery of people involved in various marine various accidents.