Deputy Government of Phuket, Teerayut Eamtrakul, announced yesterday that Phuket Bike Week 2010 which will be held along with celebration of Thai water festival of Songkran will get at least 3,000 participants coming not only from Phuket and all across Thailand but also some neighboring countries. Read the rest of this entry …
Culinary adventurers visiting Phuket will be pampered by the Phuket Delicious Food Festival being held at Saphan Hin Park of Phuket Town. Local recipes, fresh sea food, and authentic dishes from across Thailand are waiting to be tasted. Read the rest of this entry …
To minimize violent crimes at Saphan Hin Park, the government then mobilize volunteers dressed in orange uniform to patrol by riding on bicycles. Those Orange Guards will patrolling Saphan Hin park in a new drive to make people feel safe at night.
More on this at Orange Bike Guard in Phuket
The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources is building a coral reef by sinking concrete block into the Andaman Sea, 3,000 meters off Phuket shoreline. The artificial coral reef is intended to protect marine biodiversity in Sirinath National Park which is severely destroyed by trawl fishing.
More about this news on Phuket Coral Reef Protection Project.
A new era begins on Phuket this year with the opening of the first resort theme park, the Splash Jungle Waterpark at West Sands Resort. Race you to the waterslides. While pricing is still being determined, the 500 million baht waterpark will be open to the public and is capable of holding, we are told, 2500 people. Read the rest of this entry …
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State-owned Airports of Thailand PCL is planning a massive investment program to increase annual passenger capacity at Suvarnabhumi airport here to 80 million by 2016 from 45 million at present. Read the rest of this entry …
The second anniversary of the crash of One-Two-Go holiday flight CG269 today marks a suitable time to reflect on some of the outcomes of life and death moments on Phuket. How long should we remember the island’s disasters? Is two years enough, as in the case of a plane crash that claimed 90 lives? Read the rest of this entry …
Those hoping to spend this weekend basking in sunshine on Phuket beaches will be disappointed, if the predictions are anything to go by. The weekend is expected to be a washout. Chokchai Patarayongphaisarn, a Phuket Meteorological Department forecaster, predicted the heavy rain pouring down over Phuket would continue until Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry …
Keep Phuket lean, the grass roots community clean-up project, created by the Summer in Phuket campaign, is gaining momentum after the successful Clean Phuket Day on 28 May, which resulted in the island’s top resorts and businesses leading over 3,000 local people in the cleanup of 20 locations around the island. Read the rest of this entry …
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