Tourism News

Phuketwan's Person of the Year 2014

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian

Best of Phuket 2014 The Phuketwan Person of the Year 2014 realised that treating people as illegal migrants without checking whether they were human trafficking victims was wrong for Thailand. More »

Stampede in Shanghai Kills 35; Thailand Tackles Drunk Drivers; Beyonce Does Burma; Australia Falls Off Map

By Phuketwan Reporters

Phuket Updating News Thailand clamps down on drunk drivers with new law; NY kills scores in Shanghai; Road toll rises in Thailand; AirAsia plane recovery continues today; Phuket events. More »

Asean Today: Borders Flood Toll Rises; Military Presence Boosted; Burma Future Unclear

By Phuketwan Reporters

Asean in Spotlight More drown in Philippines, Malaysia Thailand; Singapore boost aircraft search and rescue; Australia joins Burma's border protection; Malaysia ponders plane's loss. More »

ATM Scammers Reap 700,000 Baht in Fees

By Sert Tongdee

Latest Two Chinese and a Thai shop proprietor scammed banks using fake ATM transactions to tot up 700,000 baht in fraudulent bank fees, say Phuket City police. More »

Phuket's Santi Clause Shuts Dive Company Using Starfish Enterprise, Burmese Instructors, Chinese Tourists

By Chutima Sidasathian

Latest ''Santi Clause'' came calling at an island off Phuket to shut down a Chinese dive company using Burmese laborers as instructors to train Chinese package tourists. More »

Mercedes Driver Faces Serious Charges After First Phuket Death in Seven Days of Danger

By Chutima Sidasathian

Latest The driver of a Mercedes was allegedly drunk when he crashed into a motorcycle and killed the female rider on the spot, the first death in Phuket's Seven days of danger. More »

Phuket Tsunami Day Twins Fight to Survive at Gibbon Sanctuary

Latest Twins born to a gibbon at Phuket's remarkable Gibbon Rehabilitation Project centre face a battle to survive because in the wild, one twin would probably perish quickly. More »

PhuketWATCH Body in AirAsia Crash Wore Life Jacket; Beyonce Snapped; BBC Holds Diana Expose; Phuket Murder Prob

By Phuketwan Reporters

Phuket Updating Digest Hunt on for crashed flight's black box; Phuket police treat teen shooting as murder; Andaman Heritage recognition considered unlikely; Man ate three tigers; Phuket events. More »

Dolphin Protesters Win Best of Phuket Award

Best of Phuket 2014 The protesters who are battling to prevent dolphins being held captive for popular pleasure and profit at a dolphinarium win a Best of Phuket 2014 award. More »

Israeli Brothers Crash Jet-Skis Off Phuket's Patong Beach: One is Injured, Taken to Hospital

Latest Two brothers from Israel crashed jet-skis off Patong beach and one has been taken to hospital. The crash comes amid Phuket's Seven Days of Danger New Year safety campaign. More »