Phuket Latest News

LOS ANGELES: Singer Justin Timberlake and his actress wife Jessica Biel welcomed their first child into the world on yesterday, a boy named Silas Randall.

SURAT THANI: Firefighters yesterday morning (April 11) put out a major blaze at the Surat Thani Cooperative, founded by politician-turned-monk Suthep Thaugsuban. No one was injured in the blaze, which caused damage estimated at B50 million.

PHUKET: Governor Nisit Jansomwong has ordered fire safety checks on all Super Cheap stores after a second store in the chain in two days went up in flames.

Latest Strong winds and stormy weather bring danger on roads and at sea with motorists unaccustomed to wet conditions losing control all over Phuket.

Phuket Updating Digest Pesticide abuse leaves kids in comas; Phangan Ibogain case resolved; Philippines lifts Thailand alert; WHO rep cleared of slavery; Nun burns for Dalai Lama.

Around the Region China says, ‘‘who ya calling a bully?’’; Migrating Viets caught in crosshairs; Bleak futures in Cambodia’s sweatshops; Designing the Sultan’s palatial autos; Volcano No 1.

BANGKOK: Police have arrested four executives of Ufun Store Co Ltd, which operates an alleged pyramid scheme of the same name that involves 14,700 people and may have caused total losses to victims of at least B10 billion.

PHUKET: More than 2,000 methamphetamine pills (ya bah) were seized from nine dealers yesterday (April 10) as part of an ongoing police drive aagainst drugs during Songkran.

PHUKET: The island’s motorists managed to get through a second day yesterday (April 10) without a death on the roads, this morning’s meeting on the Seven Days of Danger heard.