Phuket Latest News

SEA GAMES: The Thai men’s sprinters redeemed themselves by winning the 4x100 metres relay gold medal at the 29th SEA Games yesterday (Aug 25) and set a new record in the process.

MYANMAR: At least 89 people including a dozen security forces were killed as Rohingya militants besieged border posts in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar’s authorities said yesterday (Aug 25), triggering a fresh exodus of refugees towards Bangladesh.

PHUKET: A team at the renowned animal welfare charity Soi Dog Foundation, based in the northern half of Phuket, is pushing ahead with a project to transform unwanted – and often brutally mistreated – street dogs into a valuable “high tech” watchdogs to protect communities.

BANGKOK: Some state officials were complicit in Yingluck Shinawatra’s flight from justice this week and may have facilitated her escape to Cambodia, where she was assisted by people of influence en route to the Middle East, sources told the Bangkok Post yesterday (Aug 25).

BANGKOK: The Criminal Court has acquitted seven people and six companies of charges relating to “zero-dollar” tours organised for Chinese visitors, including tours to Phuket.

BANGKOK: Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha ordered security authorities to check border crossings and search for former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Friday (Aug 25), commenting “I thought she was brave enough to show up”, after she failed to appear for the ruling in her trial.

PHUKET: Pollution, drownings and tourists’ safety on Phuket’s roads topped the agenda at the first meeting of the honorary consuls and envoys with the Governor of Phuket to be held in more than a year at Phuket Provincial Hall this afternoon (Aug 25).

PHUKET: Soldiers from the Royal Thai Army began their campaign against tuk-tuk, taxi and van drivers occupying public parking spaces in Patong in earnest this week with more than 76 drivers fined since Monday (Aug 21).