Stockholm Jazz Orchestra is making a special Phuket appearance for two nights in the last two weeks of March. The performances are scheduled for March 20 at the Adamas Resort and Spa on Nai Yang Beach and March 27 at the Metropole Hotel in Phuket Town. This popular big band orchestra is led by their founder and veteran trumpet player, Fredrik Noren. Read the rest of this entry …

Four residents of a Sea Gypsy community in Rawai were arrested yesterday for smuggling protected marine species. They are 34-year-old Pichit Bangjak and three minors. Those suspects were arrested at 11am in a pickup truck parked along Thepkrasattri Road in Rassada, near the Phuket Highways Department Office. Read the rest of this entry …

More than 20 police from the Economic and Cyber-Crimes Division (ECOTEC) have raided the offices of Thai state-owned telecommunications company CAT Telecom and confiscated chat-room conversation records and a server. Read the rest of this entry …

Around 900 Indian Navy midshipmen are shipping out from Phuket this afternoon after participated in training exercise aboard visiting Indian warship the INS TIR, the INS Krishna and the ICGS Varuna. Read the rest of this entry …

Multiple fires happened along the bypass road in recent days make Phuket firefighters keep battling it. The first broke out in a field opposite Tesco-Lotus in Rassada at about noon on Sunday. There were four car-fires and 20 firefighters tried to extinguish the fires that gradually became big due to the forest’ dense and dried state. Read the rest of this entry …

Those who want to ride for the downtown should take note that there are several major traffic lines that is closed for the Old Phuket Town Festival in which it take place starting from February 19th. Read the rest of this entry …

Money raised in Phuket to help earthquake-stricken Haiti may surpass the 3-million-baht mark, as the Rotary Club of Patong has revealed it has sent more than 400,000 baht to its Canadian-based Shelter Box relief project. Read the rest of this entry …

The Phuket Chapter of the Thai Red Cross Society is holding a large fundraiser for victims of the Haitian earthquake in Patong tonight. Read the rest of this entry …

A car crushed a cobra that was trying to cross Thepkrasattri Road in Thalang traffic late yesterday afternoon. Read the rest of this entry …

Today, is the day when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bangkok confirmed levitation that visa fees will be levied for all visa classes from March 5, 2010 after long free of charge issued since June 25, 2009 in an effort to revive the Thai travel and tourism industry. Tourist visas are valid for a 60 day-stay and may be extended at local Thai Immigration offices. Read the rest of this entry …