Phuket Latest News

BANGKOK: A 30-year-old passenger on board a Lion Air flight from Don Mueang airport to Hat Yai was apprehended by three police officers as he tried to open an emergency exit of the plane while it was airborne in a bud to commit suicide.

PHUKET: Despite reports of the tourism industry taking hit after hit, it appears that commerce in Phuket is thriving, as indicated by the influx of capital pouring onto the island from both the private and public sectors.

PHUKET: Plans to urgently boost Phuket’s electricity supply have set villagers in the north of the island abuzz with fears of radiation from high-voltage cables affecting their health, and huge power towers sending land prices plunging.

PHUKET: Two patients, including a 7-month-old Korean baby, quarantined for suspected Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) this week have tested negative for the killer virus, the Phuket health chief has confirmed.

PHUKET: The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has launched a probe into a claim for a Chanote title deed to be issued for 200 rai of Phuket beachfront property with an estimated value of B14 billion.

PHUKET: Minister of Tourism and Sports Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul arrived in Phuket yesterday (June 26) to hear complaints about the illegal antics in the island’s tourism industry.

TUNISIA: The Islamic State group on Saturday (June 27) claimed responsibility for a massacre in a Tunisian seaside resort that killed nearly 40 people, most of them British tourists, in the worst attack in the country’s recent history.

PHUKET: A Phuket man arrested on drug charges was taken to hospital with a broken leg last night (June 26) after he was hit by a tour bus while attempting to flee Thalang police.

BANGKOK: Thai-English actress Anna Reese turned herself in to Prawet police at 1:30pm yesterday (June 26) to hear charges of reckless driving causing death and fleeing the scene of an accident, following a crash early on yesterday morning.