Phuket Latest News

PHUKET: Thalang police have yet to identify a man whose brains were splattered across the pavement after he was thrown off the bike he was riding when it was smashed into by a pickup truck last night just south of Phukets Heorines Monument

Latest Police have acted swiftly to arrest two men over the alleged knifepoint robbery of a Burmese in Kamala and a couple accused of attempted murder and robbery in another province.

Phuket Updating Digest Man accused of shooting Aussie; Chinese tourists to Thailand rise; Russia scrambles jets; Quake shakes Japan; Migrants saved; ‘Happiness’ on tv faces criticism.

Around the Region Trafficking bubbles through region; Malaysia mulls meeting; Fifa cans Indonesia; China should join peace patrols; Pink hot dogs for Philippines.

BONIN ISLANDS: A large deep earthquake struck the ocean off the Bonin island cluster south of Tokyo Japan this evening.

A US judge has granted an order to extradite to Thailand a Florida man accused of kidnapping and extortion in Phuket.

A Thai national who allegedly owned a boat that was recently discovered by the Myanmar navy crammed with more than 200 migrants has been arrested, Myanmar state media reported today (May 30).

A surge in the number of Chinese tourists in the first four months of 2015 has prompted the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) to raise its full-year forecast for Chinese arrivals from 5.4 to 6 million.

Police commandos seized weapons and ammunition from the home of ex-commerce minister Chaiya Sasomsap during a series of raids on 13 premises in Nakhon Pathom province on Friday (May 29).