Phuket Latest News

PHUKET: Police are looking for a thief who opened the cooler at a Supercheap mini-mart yesterday and stole the caps off 36 bottles of Ichitan soft drinks.

PHUKET: A man was arrested on Monday when officials carrying out a sweep near Tonsai Waterfall, Thalang, when he was found to be in possession of methamphetamine pills, a gun and ammunition.

PHUKET: Haze in the skies over Phuket yesterday and today (March 18) is not caused by smog, as in the north of Thailand, nor from Indonesia, the Thailand Southern Meteorological Centre Phuket (TSMC), says.

PHUKET: Phuket Bike Week 2015, the 21st in the series and the biggest gathering of big bike riders in Asean, will once again coincide with the Songkran Festival this year.

Latest Hundreds of monkeys are descending fromm the hills in Phuket City to avoid thirst. Authorities say there is plenty of water - but if that is true, why are the monkeys behaving this way?

PHUKET: Part of Chao Fa West Rd will be closed tonight (March 18) from 10pm to 5am tomorrow while the span of a pedestrian bridge is erected next to Wichit Songkram school, just south of Central Festival.

PHUKET: A fire broke out at the Municipality landfill site yesterday evening (March 17). It took firemen more than two hours to put it out, and officials are still concerned about air pollution which was possibly caused from the smoke.

PHUKET: Governor Nisit Jansomwong chaired a meeting of officials on Monday (March 16) to check and approve applications by antique shops to sell replicas of antiques for export.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered authorities to work with neighbouring countries to tackle haze pollution in the northern provinces caused by slash-and-burn farming.