Phuket Latest News

FOOTBALL: FIFA’s ethics watchdog yesterday (Oct 8) suspended the two most powerful men in football, Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, for 90 days in a sensational new blow to the sport’s scandal-tainted governing body.

BANGKOK: Suspected Erawan shrine bomber Bilal Mohammad, also known as Adem Karadag and Bilal Turk, says he planted the deadly bomb at the behest of another suspect, Abdullah Abdulrahman, who promised him passage to Turkey, according to his lawyer. 

Latest Australia’s Consulate-General is likely to open on Phuket early in 2016. Some key jobs that indicate the facility will soon be open are now being advertised.

Latest Crimes occur frequently in the gun-crazy Philippines, where Australian is now reportedly attempting to look to send more of its unwanted refugees.

Latest In a letter to the President of Indonesia, the ‘‘people of Phuket’’ urge restoration of clear blue skies to restore the health of the elderly and the island’s children.

latest The five-star Regent on Phuket’s east coast is rebranding and adopting a new persona as it becomes the newly named Amatara Resort & Wellness.

Latest The haze over Phuket reduces substantially as latest airport passenger figures continue to show the smoke is unlikely to affect Phuket’s long term outlook for tourism.

Phuket Updating Digest The brutal violence of a Patong nightclub has gone viral; Phuket’s haze gains global coverage; Rupert Murdoch apologises; Norwegian robbed in Pattaya.

Around the region The US is reportedly considering sailing warships through the disputed South China Sea; Australia is looking to settle refugees in the Philippines; Haze fighters grow.