Phuket Latest News

PHUKET: Phuket’s Blood Bank will be collecting donations this month at a variety of places around the island. The venues, dates and times areas follows;

Phuket: A Swiss woman was found dead in her hotel room in Patong earlier today (April 7), police say she died from a heart attack.

PHUKET: Taxi drivers ordered out of the Phuket Bus Terminal on Thepkrasattri Rd by the Mayor of Rassada went to the Provincial Hall this morning (April 7) to complain about what they saw as a move to deprive them of their livelihood.

RUGBY 7S: Singapore has clinched a four-year deal to host a leg of the Sevens World Series at its state-of-the-art National Stadium starting next year, World Rugby said Tuesday (April 7).

PHUKET: A man from Naratiwat for whom an arrest warrant was issued on Friday (April 3) for allegedly assaulting a one-year-old baby boy, resulting in his death, handed himself in to police yesterday (April 6).

MARATHON: With less than three months to go until the 10th edition of the Laguna Phuket International Marathon (LPIM) on June 7, the family friendly event is set to be sold out with growing numbers of runners.

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American blues legend B.B. King has been hospitalised, The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday (April 6), citing representatives for the singer but giving no details about his condition.

BANGKOK: The crowds were there, but the buyers weren’t at this year’s Bangkok International Motor Show, which missed its target of 40,000 vehicle bookings.