Phuket Latest News

Latest The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists has welcomed the finding of not guilty by a Phuket judge in a criminal defamation case involving two Phuketwan journalists.

Latest The acquittal of the case against two Phuketwan journalists, Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian, was a welcome move for freedom of expression, Amnest International says.

Latest Journalists should not be at risk of long prison sentences for what they report, says the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand in a statement after the Phuketwan verdict.

Latest The International Commission of Jurists hails the decision to dismiss charges against two Phuket journalists and suggests the Thai Government now look closely at repealing the laws.

PHUKET: Two youths have been arrested for the fatal shooting of one man and injuring another at Chalong Pier, a major jump-off point for Phuket tourists visiting nearby islands, last Friday night (August 28).

PHUKET: Marine biology experts have yet to confirm what might have bitten an Australian woman’s foot while she was swimming at Karon Beach today (Sept 1).

BANGKOK: A foreign man taken into custody at the Cambodian border today strongly resembles the yellow-shirted suspect who set the bomb at Bangkok’s Erawan shrine that killed 20 people and injured 131 others, police said today (Sept 1).

PHUKET: Police have charged two men for the shooting murder of a 16-year-old at Suan Luang public park in Phuket Town yesterday afternoon (August 31).

PHUKET: A new public transport route from Phuket Town to Patong was launched by the Phuket Transportation Office today (Sept 1). The route will be serviced by mini-vans and overseen by the Transport Office.