150 Phuket men forwent a Sunday morning lie-in last month in hopes of becoming ordained at the Wichitsangkaram temple in Phuket Town, as part of a project to ordain 100,000 Thai monks by 08 March.

The 'Phuket Thai Chess Club' will host the first ever chess competition in Phuket at the On-On Hotel on Phang Nga road this weekend from 13-14 March.

The 50’s in Soviet occupied Hungary was far from a cheery place, not ideal for a happy childhood and definitely not a perfect breeding ground for Shaloin monks. As a lad growing up in the communist era in the Eastern bloc, Laszlo Demmel found that instead of being full of wonder and boundless limitations, his childhood years were rather closed and restricted.

After finishing a particularly hard day, I was riding my bike back home and happened to chance upon a nice little restaurant located on a shady road (as in there was lots of shade - not in the dodgy sense) close to the hill in Samkong; the downtown of Phuket Town.

Hello my name is Sid but some call me Seamy Sid and I’d like to tell you about my Phuket. The Phuket you don’t read about in the brochures, the Phuket that you see in the sois during the days, in the hotels at nights and the hospitals in the mornings.

I was cleaning the house last Sunday and I found photos in my farang boyfriend’s top draw. Naturally curious, I began to look through them, I was horrified to find about 50 pictures of different girls, bar girls.