Phuket Latest News

The tourist figures for the first quarter of 2015 show impovement over the same quarter of last year, with international passenger traffic at Phuket International Airport up by 2.82 per cent.

PHUKET: A feasibility study carried out nine years ago into a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system for Phuket has been dusted off after Deputy PM Pridiyathorn Devakula’s suggestion two weeks ago that a second phase of the Phuket Light Rail System (LRS) be created to link Phuket Town with Patong.

PHUKET: Cherng Talay OrBorTor (Tambon Administration Organisation) will use part of a B300-million budget it has received to tackle wastewater at Surin Beach.

Humans take mother nature for granted and while it’s convenient to turn a blind eye to our environment, these problems don’t simply go away. Here are some examples of what can happen.

If you tell your mum she’s fleek, she probably won’t get the compliment – social media is driving a rapid evolution of the English language that is leaving parents baffled, a study suggested Friday (May 1).

Latest A fourth earthquake that was barely felt came on the third day of earthquakes on Phuket. Recent history shows they are not likely to do great damage.

PHUKET: A new futsal arena, complete with roof, is now open for public use at the Wat Thepkasattri School in Thalang. The building of the arena was funded by Phuket OrBorJor (Provincial Administration Organisation).

PHUKET: Ten Burmese nationals who were intending to work in Thailand illegally and a man who had transported them after they arrived were arrested yesterday (May 6).

As dozens more Rohingya, including children, were found abandoned by trafficking gangs in Songkhla and Satun provinces yesterday (May 7), authorities have launched an investigation into the 50 police officers transferred following the discovery of Rohingya detention camps and graves.