Phuket, Thailand News

ALL PATONG bars and clubs throughout Phuket are expected to close for 48 hours from tonight to respect two significant Buddhist holidays.

NORTH KOREA, due to join representatives from 26 other nations for regional security talks on Phuket later this month, test-fired seven more missiles today.

There's a reason why Phuket beaches are so popular. It's because they are some of the most beautiful in the entire region.

So noodle #1 worked super-hard to find rooms in Phuket and what does noodle #3 do??? She upgrades the room at Mom Tris Boathouse to the suite.

Thai Airways is trying to lure passengers from outside Asia with free domestic flights.

Leading design firm Woods Bagot Thailand has now become The Beaumont Partnership, as a result of severing ties with the global design firm.

Thailand's Airport Authority has approved a THB 5.79 billion expansion program for Phuket International Airport slated to start by the end of 2010.Works will include a new international passenger terminal, improvements to the existing passenger handling terminal and improved infrastructure including additional taxiways.

A MEETING of Phuket's elite community and business leaders has rejected the concept of the island becoming a special economic zone for now.

One Phuket tuk tuk chief has his heart set on speedy forward movement, at the right price. Changes have been introduced in Karon to make the tuk tuk more user friendly.

Phuket airport expansion plans continue but the wreckage of a plane destroyed in a crash landing almost two years ago still lies within sight of passengers.

THAI premier Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Tuesday he would invoke a harsh internal security act to prevent protests at a regional summit in Phuket which US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is due to attend.

SECURITY for the big July Asia Regional Forum on Phuket will be tailored to suit the island's tourism industry, the Defence Minister, General Prawit Wongsuwan said today.

HALFWAY through 2009, the future six months for Phuket look every bit as bleak as the past six months have already proven to be.

The 211 key Radisson Plaza Resort Phuket Panwa Beach is set to soft open this Thursday July 2nd.

After the success of the Summer in Phuket island wide beach clean up on May 28, a second initiative has been scheduled for Thursday July 2nd.

According to the US based National Travel Monitor 66% of domestic US leisure travelers now use the internet to plan some part of their trips.

UNION and non-union staffers were among those retrenched at the Evason, a meeting of officials of the Phuket Island Labor Union heard on Saturday.

NORWEGIAN police are reported to be keen to pursue the case of the two young tourists who died mysteriously on the holiday island of Phi Phi almost two months ago.

The Noodles arrived in Phuket this afternoon for some R & R. Vacations are rough:) The hotel is f@!&ing huge with daily activities for the older noodles.

PHUKET CITY: Sing 'Happy Birthday' to combat swine flu. Bizarre as it may sound, this was one of many pieces of advice given by public health officials during Phuket International Airport's 'Big Clean Day' [sic] yesterday.