Phuket Latest News

PHUKET: A heavy downpour caused minor flash floods in Patong this afternoon (May 30), with floodwaters reaching up to 50 centimetres in some areas.

PHUKET: Police this week arrested a man for a spate of bag-snatchings in Phuket Town, collaring him within hours of committing his sixth snatch-and-run this month.

Latest Phuket journalist Chutima Sidasathian is joining a timely panel on the Rohingya exodus at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand on June 3.

ZURICH: Sepp Blatter won the Fifa presidency for a fifth time Friday (May 29) after his challenger Prince Ali bin al Hussein withdrew just before a scheduled second round.

Latest The largest ship in the Royal Thai navy has joined six other vessels to make up a fleet that will mount a search and rescue operation for Rohingya and Bangladeshi boatpeople.

Police in Kanchanaburi have admitted that a 19-year-old female British tourist was raped in the province and said two suspects had been arrested.

Latest Dealing with rainwater has never been Phuket’s strongpoint. Not enough of it is stored for the dry season - and authorities in Patong have blocked canals so the tourist hub floods often.

PHUKET: A police raid on a hotel room in Phuket Town yesterday (May 29) snared a husband-and-wife couple wanted for robbery and attempted murder in Ratchaburi last weekend.

These days there’s a lot of talk in Phuket and tourism circles about going green and eating organic, but let’s face it, organic gardening and agriculture are hard to come by in Thailand, never mind Phuket, where most of the food cultivation and farming heavily relies on nasty chemicals produced in factories.