Phuket Latest News

Latest Police in Patong used a ‘Find My Phone’ app to recover a purse that an Australian tourist had lost in Soi Bangla. Two young Americans had handed it in at a resort.

Latest With the safety of Phuket being promoted, Patong police appear to be coy to reveal the truth about an alleged bashing inflicted on a tourist by a tuk-tuk driver over an extravagant 1000 baht fare.

Phuket Updating Digest Concerns are held for a young Brit missing on Phi Phi; Ladyboys may have had a hand in a man’s death plunge; Thailand farewells Supreme Patriarch; 88 in Phuket riot arrest list.

Around the Region US tells Laos to clarify case of missing activist; China moves into jade empire; Aussies challenge Chinese air space; Man dobs in own son for theft.

PHUKET: A Chinese tourist drowned while swimming with his girlfriend at Koh Lanta Yai, Krabi, yesterday afternoon (Dec 15).

PHUKET: Police have yet to press any charges for the accident that killed British woman 32-year-old Rebecca Leane on Patong Hill on Saturday (Dec 12).

PHUKET: Concerned by Cameroon man sleeping in the terminal at Phuket International Airport, officials stepped in to offer assistance this week, but only to be told that he was just waiting for his flight home.

CHONBURI: Four transvestites have been detained in Pattaya as police try to determine if they pushed a 28-year-old Briton from his fourth-floor window, killing him.

PHUEKT XTRA - December 16 Another Chinese tourist drowns, more Thai newspaper censorship, PM invites Parween back to Thailand, lower temperatures on the way and Thai fishing industry denies claims.