Phuket News
A lot is happening on Thailand’s biggest island and
tourist attraction. Discover what news is breaking and find
out what Phuket is up to every month with us. Remember:
you read it here first.
This month's Samui News article:
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Super sexy ladies come to Samui, ferry fares go up and Koh Phangan celebrates its second film festival. Read all about it in Samui News... |
Past month's Phuket News articles:
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Following the success of the internationally renowned Full Moon Parties on Koh Pha-ngan in the Gulf of Thailand, Mali Waterfront Restaurant & Bar on Karon Beach has decided to stage a series of Full Moon Parties on Phuket.
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It's official: Swedish visitors to Krabi outnumber their
European neighbours. Find out who else favours this
lush, green coastal province in our Krabi News. Railay
and its surroundings are fast becoming world famous
for rock climbing. Enthusiasts come from all over the
world to scale the region's impressive limestone heights.
This has led to the first international rock climbing
competition. Read more inside… Will Krabi become
another Phuket – a haven for yachties and golfers?
There's a good chance; find out why, Read
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New golf course, sports results, golf courses awarded
and sinking airplanes, not to mention a new health club
and a hospital extension. Find out about all this and
more in our news section.
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It's all happening up in Khao Lak, it seems. There's
a new airport in the works, Hong Kong's richest man
has bought a large swathe of land for development and
the Tourism Authority of Thailand representing Khao
Lak recently returned from a fruitful visit to Europe,
promoting the area's loveliness. Read all about it in
our Khao Lak News section. Read
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In February, 5,000 cotton shopping bags were distributed
to 30 Patong hotels as part of a drive to reduce the
number of plastic bags used in Patong. The project,
known as “Be Clean Be Love for Patong Beach”,
is organised by the Patong Hotels Association (PHA)
and backed by the Tourism Authority of Thailand, the
Jungceylon shopping mall and others. Read
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Australia-based Wotif.com Holdings Limited (Wotif),
a leading online travel distribution company, has bought
Asia Web Direct (HK) Ltd (AWD), it was announced on
February 4.
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The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant
Conservation (DNP) has announced new entrance fees for
foreigners visiting Thailand’s national parks.
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In this month’s news we report on new direct air
services from Europe and plans to support tourism for
the elderly in Phuket.
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The fifth Phuket International Marine Expo (Pimex) will
take place from December 6 to 9, this time at the Royal
Phuket Marina in Koh Kaew. The show this year is being
organised by Andaman Marine Consultants, whose managing
director, Andy Dowden, was heavily involved in previous
Pimex shows. Read more... |
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Phuket is finally to get its first full-on water park,
with a wave pool, a “relax” pool and an adventure
pool and no fewer than 12 water slides and chutes, ranging
from small to enormous.
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In recent years Phuket has been promoting itself as
a “health destination”, the idea being that
people can come to the island for a holiday and medical
treatment for the same price (or less) than treatment
alone at home.
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This month, the news takes a green turn, with a lone
kayaker campaigning for the world environment by paddling
around Phuket Island, a warning on what global warming
could do to Phuket’s burgeoning tourist industry
and kids on a camping trip learning to live with Mother
Nature in Khao Pra Teaw Park.
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Phuket’s hotel scene is all abuzz at the moment.
Everyone is talking about the big names coming to town.
It seems that nothing – not even a tsunami –
can stop Phuket from forging ahead. With all this development
you’d be forgiven for thinking that the island
has lost its beauty but nothing could be further than
the truth. Phuket still has its beautiful white, sandy,
palm-lined beaches, its lush tropical hillsides and
its pristine sunny days. Read
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Mo was only six months old when he arrived at the Gibbon
Rehabilitation Project (or GRP) located in the old tropical
forest around Bang Pae waterfall, Phuket. Little Mo
was in bad shape, pining for his mom. Sadly, she was
dead, along with his brothers and sisters, all killed
by hunters. GRP staff and volunteers have been taking
care of Mo ever since and, with their help, he is getting
stronger. Read more... |
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A group of friends were walking through the forest in
the Nakkerd Hills between Chalong and Kata when they
stumbled upon a place with stunning vistas of both sides
of the island – Chalong Bay lay in one direction
while on the other they looked down over Kata and the
Andaman Sea. The place, they soon agreed, would be perfect
not just as a viewpoint, but as the site for something
much more ambitious and, to Buddhists at least, much
more significant: a giant image of the Lord Buddha.
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Here’s a dream for you: You’re on a sparkling
white yacht with a gleaming teak cabin, sitting in your
bathing suit with a gentle, warm breeze coming over
your shoulder and a cool drink at your elbow. Read
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Be Free and Be Happy is the theme for the 2007 Phuket
Gay Pride Festival opening March 29 culminating in Thailand’s
largest gay themed parade starting at 16 hrs, the afternoon
of Sunday, April 1. Read
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All over the world, closed-circuit TV (CCTV) cameras
are helping police to catch bad guys and to make life
more secure. Phuket is currently installing its first
48 CCTV cameras - 16 in Patong, 16 in Kata-Karon and
16 in Phuket City. Read
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Phuket's fight to get back on its feet after the tsunami
of 2004, has been quite a saga. This month last year
most of Phuket's hotels were struggling to get business
partly because many airlines - including the country's
flag carrier, Thai Airways International, had drastically
cut back their services following the tsunami. But that's
all changed now. Read
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Phuket will have reason to celebrate early in the New
Year when the island's largest shopping, restaurant
and entertainment centre, Jungceylon, finally opens
officially. Even better, the giant complex will hold
its soft opening just before Christmas. Read
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