Phuket Latest News

Latest The deal under which Australia pays Cambodia millions to take its unwanted would-be refugees, now kept offshore on Nauru, has been revived. So far there have been four applicants.

Phuket Updating Digest Hunt for bomber brain moves overseas; Screws go on in hunt for honest Thai cops; Hero pilot saved 170 lives; Tennis star attacked by police; No crisis, says China.

Around the Region Indonesia to lay claim to Singapore air space; Cambodia ‘ready to accept more refugees’; Malaysian embroiled in report on unexplained wealth; India ends Angkor Wat plan.

PHUKET: The Royal Thai Embassy in Kuala Lumpur and the Royal Thai Consulate-General in Penang, both in Malaysia, have boosted their fees for visas by as much as 25%.

PHUKET: A territorial defense volunteer from Kathu was arrested early this morning (Sept 9) in Patong with a gun and bullets after he allegedly slapped the face of a tourist with the pistol breaking his nose.

PHUKET: Royal Thai Navy personnel accompanied by district and provincial officials raided vendors on Patong Beach yesterday (Sept 8) to reinforce the beach management rules laid down earlier this year.

PHUKET XTRA - September 9 Tiger Disco boss gets soft sentence, farewell Governor Nisit, Ace Condo fiasco continues and more bungy jumps gone wrong. #PhuketNewsTV #PhuketTV

PHUKET: Chamroen Tipayapongthada, who was one of the key figures in the dismantling of the Phuket taxi mafia last year, will return to the island as Governor of the Province.

PHUKET: The management of the popular Nikki Beach Phuket have yet to reveal the reasons behind the sudden closure of the local outlet of the international beach club franchise at Bangtao, on Phuket’s west coast.