Phuket Latest News

Latest A tourist from Singapore has died after collapsing on a speedboat bringing him back to Phuket from a day-trip outing with his wife and daughter to a popular nearby island.

Phuket Updating Digest A bullet and a body: too many guns in Thailand; Nine killed in pickup crash; UN objects to lese majeste sentences; Yuan shakeout surprises markets; Barcelona wins.

Around the region A wave of military officers in Burma resigns to contest the election; Clue to MH17 missile found; Suharto family pinged over embezzled funds; Yuan move sends shock waves.

PHUKET: Residents at Nai Yang are stacking sandbags around their homes amid fears that floodwaters that have yet to subside from torrential downpours over the weekend will rise even further with more rain forecast for Phuket in the coming days.

PHUKET: Four companies operating in Phuket’s lucrative tourism industry and under investigation for allegedly using nominee shareholders to form registered companies will face the wrath of Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation (DSI), The Phuket News has been told.

PHUKET: The coastal road that winds past the Khao Kad View Point, overlooking Ao Yon bay on Phuket’s east coast, has been closed following a landslide bringing down live power cables.

Celebrating Mother’s Day in Thailand

BANGKOK: Rungrat Rungsuwan was manning her small shop selling trinkets on a main tourist drag on the Thai resort island of Koh Samui when she heard a series of loud bangs.

Phuket diners are invited to experience an unforgettable evening at Trisara created in collaboration with Bangkok’s premier Thai restaurant Bo.Lan.