Phuket Latest News

PHUKET: Laguna Phuket welcomed more than 300 guests to “Cassia Unveilings”, the opening event of the resort complex’s seventh hotel “Cassia Phuket”, on Tuesday evening (Oct 20).

Aviation authorities are gearing up for a make-or-break re-audit by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scheduled to take place next week.

FOOTBALL: This year, from 6-7 November, British International School, Phuket (BISP), will hold the 14th annual edition of the BISP Soccer Sevens, the largest schools tournament of its type in Asia.

BANGKOK: Three suspects who allegedly violated the lese majeste law have been charged and detained at the Bangkok Military Court, following the government’s vow to crack down on offenders.

Latest The body of a British expat resident has been found dead at his house in Rawai, souther Phuket. His wife said he had complained of feeling ill.

PHOTO ALBUM One young man is shot dead and two wounded as a gang uses the cover of noisy firecrackers and smoke to fire fatal bullets amid the final rites of Phuket’s Vegetarian Festival.

Phuket Updating Digest Haze levels zoom back to danger levels; Phuket police stay arrests of rioters; Thailand urged to hunt prostitution fugitive; Patong snatcher flees then crashes.

Around the Region Two envoys shot dead by lunch guest in Cebu; Three Chinese thrown off plane; Cambodian beer engineers arrested; Haze ‘can’t be beaten by humans.’

PHUKET: Police will wait for the funerals to be held of the two young men whose deaths sparked the Thalang Police Station riot earlier this month before they unleash their manhunt for 47 suspects wanted for their roles in the historic unrest.