Phuket Latest News

LOS ANGELES: Veteran actor Leonard Nimoy, who delighted sci-fi fans worldwide with his iconic turn as the pointy-eared half-human, half-Vulcan Mr Spock in the Star Trek television series and films, died Friday (February 27) aged 83.

BANGKOK: After taking high-speed trains in China and Japan, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-Ocha is considering bringing faster rail service to Thailand.

LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron has defended Britains security services after Islamic State executioner Jihadi John was unmasked as London graduate Mohammed Emwazi, a man previously monitored by spy agency MI5.

Phuket Updating Digest How human trafficking works in Burma; Phuket property disturbed by court lease ruling; Dusit says 10,000 resort staff needed on Phuket; Spock dead at 83; Phuket events.

Around the Region Hong Kong woman gets six years for mistreating maid; Vietnam’s promising Asean forecast; Cambodia’s problem with undressed tourists; Smugglers winning timber war.

PHUKET: Officials from the governments Land Readjustment Bureau arrived back in Phuket last week to lay the groundwork for Phuket’s part in a massive nationwide efforts to tweak the boundaries of just about every piece of land so that roads and infrastructure can be improved.

Four Thai fishermen held hostage by Somali pirates for nearly five years have been released, local officials said today (February 27).

The National Blood Centre has called for urgent, regular blood donations from the public as its stock is inadequate to meet daily demand.

Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) and King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Latkrabang (KMITL) has reached an agreement to settle the embezzlement scandal in which around B1.5 billion of the institution’s money disappeared from its SCB accounts.