PHUKET: Governor Nisit Jansomwong visited Rassada Pier this morning (April 11) to check on the safety of tourist ferries, in the wake of the fire and sinking of the Ao Nang Princess 5 on Wednesday (April 8), in which an Israeli child lost her life.
KOH SAMUI: Authorities have tightened security measures across the country after a car bombing rocked a Koh Samui shopping mall at the start of the busy Songkran holiday.
Latest A 36-year-old American IT operative who worked with the US military in Kuwait has vanished in the sea off Phuket while on a liveaboard diving adventure to the Similan islands.
PANAMA CITY: US President Barack Obama and Cuba’s Raul Castro shook hands and sat near each other yesterday (April 10) at a historic Summit of the Americas, a new milestone in efforts to end decades of animosity.
Latest Officials on Phuket are checking and checking again in the wake of the burning and sinking of a ferry and a bomb blast in a shopping mall at the holiday island of Samui.
BANGKOK: The Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission has submitted to Prime Minister Gen Prayuth Chan-Ocha the names of more than 100 government officials it claims are corrupt.
KOH SAMUI: Seven people, including an Italian girl, were injured when a car exploded in a shopping mall car park on Koh Samui, police and officials said late yesterday (April 10).
I recently returned to the island’s main recycling depot to talk and sell plastic.
Latest A Phuket expat claims a liveaboard dive vessel ran into his yacht at sea in darkness, sending one Danish crewman into the sea and forcing another to jump onto the liveaboard.