PhuketWATCH Daily Media Wrap
PHUKET: A daily wrap of Thailand news, with a Phuket perspective, plus relevant reports from national and international media.
bangkokpost.com The Tourism Council of Thailand has urged the government to construct a state-owned airport on Samui. Thanongsak Somwong, a member of the council's committee on the Gulf of Thailand and president of Koh Samui Tourism Promotion Association, called on the government to develop a state-owned airport. The island currently has a private airport that has drawn complaints of a monopoly.
Phuket Update Phuket Governor Maitree Inthusud joins Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Samui today where Cabinet is meeting to discuss local issues, much as ministers did on Phuket in March. Since then, however, Phuket has lost its exhibition and convention centre project.
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Tourist Deaths Raise Poison Expert's Suspicions
POISONS expert Deborah Blum now thinks the deaths of Canada's Belanger sisters on Phi Phi may have been deliberate.
http://www.wbur.org/npr/163303716/tourist-deaths-raise-poison-experts-suspicions/
bangkokpost.com The Civil Aviation Department has come under fire by airline and travel professionals for its leniency towards PC Air, which left hundreds of passengers stranded last week in South Korea. They are in consensus that the privately owned Thai carrier, billed as the world's first to employ the third gender as cabin attendants, should have its licence suspended immediately.
thelocal.se A 49-year-old Swedish teacher and mother of three from Gavle in northern Sweden has died in a traffic accident on the holiday island of Koh Lanta in Thailand, according to a report in the Aftonbladet daily.
nationmultimedia.com Just days before the eighth anniversary of Narathiwat's Tak Bai massacre, the province erupted in violence over the weekend, with attacks continuing after five simultaneous incidents in Tak Bai district on Saturday. The violence claimed the lives of an insurgent and a soldier.
andrew-drummond.com Last night the Flying Sporran was a fly on the wall at the Not-Thai-Visa,Com 10th Anniversary Party in the Castle Howchow Beach Resort Hotel near Khon Kaen. It became the 'Not Thai-Visa' Party when the executives of Thai Visa pulled out at the last minute having been declined free rooms.
guardian.co.uk Microsoft has pulled out all the stops to convince the world that Surface is the small tablet to beat, with a no-expenses-spared New York event on Thursday. Apple, a notoriously secretive company, prefers a bafflingly minimal PR strategy for the iPad Mini that would utterly fail for any other organisation.
nytimes.com Windows, which has more than a billion users around the world, is getting a radical makeover, a rare move for a product with such vast reach. The new design is likely to cause some head-scratching for those who buy the latest machines when Windows 8 goes on sale this Friday.
AP A mob of about 30 men has turned ''crazy'' and groped and robbed a French television journalist near Tahrir Square in Cairo, in the latest case of violence against women at the epicentre of Egypt's protests.
straitstimes.com Religious devotees slash themselves with swords, pierce their cheeks with sharp objects and commit other painful acts to purify themselves in the annual vegetarian festival in Thailand.
Phuket World Sports Wrap
news.sky.com A 21-year-old man has been arrested in Cheltenham over an incident during the Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds match. Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Chris Kirkland was struck in the face by a man who got on to the pitch shortly after Leeds had scored an equaliser.
afp Thailand's Pungluang Sor Singyu stopped AJ ''Bazooka'' Banal of the Philippines in the ninth round to capture the vacant World Boxing Organisation bantamweight title
Phuket Vegetarian Festival, Day By Day
Parades and Places to Beat the Traffic
LEARN where the parades are each day to avoid Phuket traffic hassles.
http://www.phuketvegetarian.com/phuketvegetarian2012_en.pdf/
Phuket Coming Events 2012
Until October 24 Phuket Vegetarian Festival
October 21-24 Phuket International Sports Fishing titles
November 25 Laguna Phuket Triathlon
November 28 Loy Kratong Day
November 30 AustCham Phuket sundowners social and business networking
December 1 World AIDs Day
December 1-8 King's Cup Regatta
December 5 HM The King's Birthday
December 10 Constitution Day
December 15-20 Patong Carnival
December 25 Christmas Day
Phuket Coming Events 2014
November 14-21 Fourth Asia Beach Games, Phuket
