PHUKET: The second half of 2014 post-coup was action-packed on Phuket, with plenty to keep journalists and their readers busy.
ATM scams rivalled jet-ski scams, with bag-snatchings and needless deaths of tourists at sea perhaps the key items.
The beach clearances rivetted attention but it will be 2015 that determines whether the jet-skis go and the sunbeds return or some other form of compromise is made.
If you've forgotten how remarkable the second half of the year has been, the stories below provide some reminders.
Meanwhile, we'll be off celebrating Phuketwan's seventh birthday.
ATM scams rivalled jet-ski scams, with bag-snatchings and needless deaths of tourists at sea perhaps the key items.
The beach clearances rivetted attention but it will be 2015 that determines whether the jet-skis go and the sunbeds return or some other form of compromise is made.
If you've forgotten how remarkable the second half of the year has been, the stories below provide some reminders.
Meanwhile, we'll be off celebrating Phuketwan's seventh birthday.
Best of all: "The secret campaign that should have done something but everyone forgot already, was pulled off or tripped over, and nobody remembers, for real."
And there should be a thought left for Khun Pian.
Posted by Lena on January 3, 2015 02:28