INSIDE - Phuket News

Thai superstar Tata Young will be back in Phuket this weekend to perform for the island's hipsters and pop aficionados at the Amazing Phuket Benefit Concert Series at the Hard Rock Cafe, Phuket in aid of Thailand's flood victims.

Another week on the island has passed where its roads and drivers have claimed another young life and caused the serious accidents of numerous others.

?Tourists like clean beaches, clean toilets and coconut trees,? said Somsak Bunyapatipha, the owner of beachfront restaurant Pla Seafood, in Surin. Khun Somsak is unlikely to receive an argument there.

The stray cats of Phuket finally have a place to rival their homeless canine cousins.

The Honorary Consul Meeting in essence is a platform for the diplomats to raise and make suggestions as to how to solve their particular complaint and for Phuket authorities to listen, but it is at least hoped that something, as a direct result of the meeting will change, advice will be heeded and solutions will be implemented. Jody Houton attended the very heated and controversial tri-monthly meeting to see if this hope was founded.

Drug offenders make up more than 80% of the inmates in Phuket prisons and on a typical month, narcotics-related crime tops the monthly Phuket crime statistics.

A victim of its own success; the Kata-Karon authorities have lost out to Patong beach to host this year?s Quiksilver Thailand Surf Competition on September 21-24.

Ralf Benko and his team have been travelling around the world and ?saving holidays? since the German TV show ?Wir retten ihren urlaub? (We Save Your Holiday) first aired in 2004.

The Chiang Mai Student Union is a force to be reckoned with and has been since its inception back in 1978.

The Rawai Nai Harn Business Association is proud to announce that it was able to raise 100,000 baht for the Japanese Tsunami Relief Fund at it's ?Party for Japan? event on 27 April at the DaVinci Restaurant in Nai Harn.