Phuket Latest News

Latest A newly released report describes what’s happening to minorities as the cities of South East Asia grow larger and the pull of jobs and prosperity challenges years of traditions and community.

Latest A top British singer and actor has joined the Soi Dog campaign to save pets and other animals from being eaten in several South East Asiuan nations.

Latest A group of writers in American with worldwide branches and support has called on the Thai government to cease its ‘‘brazen attempt to stifle investigative reporting’’ of the Rohingya boatpeople abuses.

Phuket updating digest Corruption still widespread, says Bloomberg; Reforms could take 20 years; Fishing, coal industries in conflict; Brits set to sweat; Paris Hilton to sue; Students to stay under arrest.

Latest Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian are facing court - and the possibility of seven years in jail - for republishing a single paragraph of a Reuters story disapproved of by the Royal Thai Navy.

Around the Region Scores killed in Indonesian air crash; British man gets 50 years for drugs in Thailand; Riddle of hiker’s death in Malaysia; First fast food reaches Burma; Vietnam opens for Europe.

PHUKET: Police are investigating the death of a German woman found hanged at Phi Phi Island on Friday (June 26).

All 113 on board an Indonesian air force transport plane that crashed earlier today (June 30) into a major city on Sumatra are believed to have been killed, the countrys air force chief said.

PHUKET: Skal International Phuket & Southern Thailand’s executive committee and the SKAL members have issued a statement in protest against the opening of a dolphinarium in Phuket and call upon all SKAL and non-Skal members from any industries in Phuket to join the protest against this project.