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| As minors, all three suspects were allowed to wear masks to protect their identities.
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PHUKET CITY: Phuket City Police have arrested three youths for motorcycle theft.
Phuket Provincial Police Commander Apirak Hongtong presente... |
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Nai Yang Beach restaurant operators fight eviction
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| Thursday, Nov 20, 2008 |
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NAI YANG BEACH: The owners of 13 beach-side restaurants located inside Sirinath Marine National Park are refusing to relocate to new premises that were built for them at the park’s visitors center, saying that the new shops are too small and distant from the sea.
The latest dispute in the area is only the latest chapter in a decades-old dispute over the right to use the Nai Yang beach front, the southern half of which is administered by the Sakoo Tambon Administration Organization. The other half is located inside Sirinath National Park, whi...
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Phuket second highest HIV infection rate in Thailand
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PHUKET CITY: Phuket now ranks second among Thailand’s 76 provinces in terms of HIV infection, with the large number of nightlife entertainment venues and the sex industry seen as the cause.
Dr Wiwat Sitomnoch of the Phuket Public Health Office reported that the incidence of HIV infection amo...
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Emergency medical training course for scuba staff
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| Thursday, November 20, 2008 |
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PHUKET CITY: The Badalveda Diving Medicine Network, on behalf of the TDA Diving Association (Thailand) and Bangkok Phuket Hospital, has announced the presentation of an Emergency Medical Management Training Course to be offered to the general scuba diving community.
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All systems go for Coral Reef Squadron
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| Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
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PHUKET DEEP SEA PORT: Muslim clerics and Buddhist monks held religious services on the morning of November 15 to bless 10 aircraft that will be be sunk off Bang Tao Bay to create the “Coral Reef Squadron,” the first artificial reef project of its kind in Thailand.
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| Aussie stabbing: no worries, mate |
| PATONG: Officers at Patong Hospital have denied reports in a local Thai-language newspaper that an Australian serviceman on shore leave was in a coma after being stabbed repeatedly fo...
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| Curious cockroach gives traveler trauma |
| CHIANG MAI: At some point in their lives, most people are likely to have had some pretty unpleasant bus trips, whether on a crowded Greyhound Bus in the States or a steaming hot, jam-packed third-clas...
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| Cobra cocktails, roadside rat-ions |
| SUPHANBURI: The sight of roadside stalls selling seasonal fruit, diesel-flavored roast chicken or other comestibles is a common one on any road trip in Thailand. Along the roads of Suphanburi, however...
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| ‘Visas’ for dependents of retirees |
| My wife at present has a non-immigrant B visa. I hold a retirement visa. Can my wife change her visa to be dependent based on my retirement visa here in Phuket? Can our daughter also stay as dependent...
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| Balancing the ‘retirement visa’ bankbook |
| I have received contradicting replies about the requirements for showing funds when applying for a permit-to-stay based on retirement. I understand that the present requirement is to have 800,000 baht...
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| Disposing of oily bilge water |
| Where in Phuket can a ship owner properly dispose of oily bilge water? For example, I have a client who called me and wanted to know where he could dispose of about 700 liters of water that was mistak...
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| Batteries die quicker in Thailand |
Can you explain why “lead acid” car batteries last only a maximum of two years here in Thailand?
I know lead acid batteries. It was my job to look after them and even when I was sailing continu...
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| Registering a jointly-owned boat |
I am considering buying a new boat with three other people as equal-share owners, all foreigners. The vessel will be Thai registered from new.
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