Phuket Latest News

PHUKET: Two men were arrested last night (August 21) after police raided their rented room and found them in possession of an unregistered gun, bullets and cooked kratom leaves.

MANILA: Six people were killed while thousands fled to higher ground as powerful typhoon Goni brought torrential rains to the northern Philippines, triggering landslides and floods, officials said today (August 22).

PHUKET: A tour bus caught on fire in Koh Kaew last night (August 21) while it was on the way to the airport. No injuries have been reported.

THAILAND: Qatar Airways is to boost its Airbus A380 services to Bangkok in a move seen as matching Emirates plan to upgrade its superjumbo flights to the capital.

SWIMMING: The future Olympians, who are on a year-long FINA swimming scholarship at Thanyapura while they prepare for the Rio Olympics, stormed to victory in the pool in Kazan, Russia breaking a total of eight National Records from four different countries.

PYONGYANG: North Korea on Friday (August 21) declared its frontline troops in a “a quasi-state of war” and warned of military operations a day after the rival Koreas exchanged fire across the worlds most heavily armed border.

BANGKOK: Swedish national Marcus Westberg was typing on his laptop when Thai police came knocking. He soon became one of a handful of foreigners questioned because of their similar looks to the primary Bangkok bomb suspect.

Latest A team from the US Department of Homeland Security is spending most of August exchanging ideas on human trafficking with Thai law enforcement officials.

PHUKET: Earlier this week the government announced plans to request B60 million to develop bike lanes in three different locations in Phuket.