Phuket Latest News

PHUKET: More than 30 vendors gathered at Provincial Hall this morning (Dec 3) to protest a plan to auction leases for buildings at Nai Harn lake, Klong Pakbang and Karon View Point.

PHUKET: Navy security personnel will be at the ready to handle any resistance in the mass demolition of beachfront buildings slated to be carried out at Phuket’s Surin Beach before New Year’s Day.

PHUKET: Dive operators in Phuket will be required to ensure that every tourist diver has a medical certificate approving them to dive as part of new safety measures to be rolled out after the death of Chinese tourist Zhang Lin north of Phuket last Saturday (Nov 28).

SOUTH AFRICA: Oscar Pistorius will learn today (Dec 3) if he will be sent back to jail, when South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal announces its verdict on a bid by prosecutors to have him convicted of murder for killing his girlfriend.

FOOTBALL: On Tuesday (Dec 1), the BISP Cruzeiro Football Academy under 13 boys squad left Phuket for a 10 day training trip in Madrid, Spain.

PHUKET: Tourist police in Phuket yesterday (Dec 2) arrested a Russian woman for working illegally when she attempted to sell a condo unit to an undercover officer.

UNITES STATES: Up to three gunmen opened fire at a centre for the disabled in California on yesterday (Dec 2), killing at least 14 people and triggering a dramatic shoot-out as police hunted down the suspects.

PHUKET: Over recent months there have been several incidents in which divers have mysteriously gone missing or died while out on a tour, resurrecting doubt about safety in the local marine industry.

latest A motorcycle rider accused of causing a crash in which two other people were injured is flying home, a policeman says, because ‘‘she can’t remember anything about it.’‘