Tourism News

Pressure Builds on Burma; Boatpeople Still Face Death; Nine Bikers Die in Shootout; Latest Sport

By Phuketwan Reporters

Phuket Updating Digest Burma urged to join talks quickly; Pressure builds for speedy solutions; Nine bikers killed in Twin Peaks shootout; Frenchman dies in Pattaya crash; Sports latest. More »

Asean Today: Burma Must Join Boatpeople Talks or Else; Vietnam Exodus Recalled; Saving SE Asia's Elephants

By Phuketwan Reporters

Around the region Burma denies it causes the problem; Malaysia seeks talks; Vietnam exodus saw the West help and resettle; How can SE Asia's wild elephants be saved? More »

Lifeguards Must Be Given Better Deal

By Prasit Tarnsirisin and Alan Morison

Latest Phuket's lifeguards will be back this week but it is really up to authorities to ensure there is never again an extended period when swimmers are on the holiday island's beaches without protection. More »

Phuket Expat in Coma After Patong Motorcycle Crash

Latest Australian Louise Warren is in a coma in Vachira Phuket Hospital after a motorcycle crash in Patong. The family of Ms Warren, a teacher, has been notified. More »

Struggle to Stay Alive Turns Stranded Boatpeople Into Killers

By Lindsay Murdoch, South East Asia Correspondent, Fairfax Media

Latest People have been thrown overboard in the grim struggle for survival aboard the vessels laden with men, women and children who have been denied refuge in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. More »

Tourists' Restaurant Rip-off; Brit Dead in Pool; Graveyard at Sea Fears; Phuket's Dirty Secret

By Phuketwan Reporters

Phuket Updating Digest Burma continues to deny its genocide; Why Scandinavians are quitting Krabi and Phuket; Judges killed in Egypt; Record hat-trick; Golf star fires 61. More »

Asean Today: Burma Continues Genocide; Malaysia Ignores Rohingya; Brit's Mysterious Fatal Illness

By Phuketwan Reporters

Around the Region A professor says that what Burma is doing is genocide; Indonesia rescues 200 boatpeople; Malaysia fails the honesty test; Philippines may ban toddlers on motorcycles. More »

UPDATE Young Finn Killed Crossing Road in Southern Phuket: Driver Had Been Drinking

By Sert Tongdee

Latest A young man from Finland was killed when struck by a vehicle on the holiday island of Phuket. The crash came in the early morning near Chalong Circle. More »

Woman Killed, Six Hurt Badly as Bus from Phuket Slides off Road and Flips in Krabi

By Prasit Tarnsirisin

Latest A nurse has been killed and six passengers admitted to hospital with serious injuries after a bus from Phuket slides off the road and flips in rain in Krabi. More »

Boy's Kidnap Cry Renews Concern for 106

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison

Latest A boy's claim that he was kidnapped from Burma has triggered concern that other boatpeople may have also suffered the same fate but Thai officials are so far rejecting the notion. More »