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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.
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According to Noppadol Ployudee from the Phuket Labour Office, one out of every three 'foreigners' in Phuket is an illegal immigrant.
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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.
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An exhibition promoting Malaysian food, hotels, airlines and even its Hard Rock Café began on 5 March on the first floor of Central Festival.
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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.
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The area of Kathu, ideally located in the centre of Phuket has grown in popularity over the last few years.
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The answer to how Thai magician Amorn Nueangkanya got the stage name Stoneman is a simple one; it was given to him by Batman; his trainer at Batman Magic school in Bangkok.
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MUSIC and Chang flowed in equal abundance for the Rhythm on the Beach music festival on Saturday night at Patong beach. As the sun went down on the peaceful bay, a wealth of Bangkok superstars were setting up decks, checking microphones and preparing to bring a little Hip Hop flava to us simple island folk.
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There’s one thing that you need to do business in Asia. It’s not business connections, inventory, partners, customers, nor even an idea. What you need to be taken seriously here is a business card. Woe to the businessman who enters a meeting and doesn’t have a
business card to exchange.
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Late last year, Tassapon Bijleveld, CEO of Thai AirAsia said that the introduction of new flights operating to and from Phuket would give Phuket International Airport the potential to be a serious travel hub for South East Asia.
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The Phuket Blues festival 2010 came to a rockin' end on Saturday night and it may be a long, long year till we are treated to such music again.
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The JW Marriot Phuket has raised an impressive 330,000 baht in funds to support the Baan Home Hug foundation orphanage, smashing its expected total of 120,000 baht.
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Phuket Governor, Wichai Praisa-Ngob, has approved plans to shut down the Phuket Port Control Centre (PPCC) in Chalong as it could “no longer accommodate the 1200 yachts arriving in Phuket each year.”
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Yesterday, one farang client asked me why the financial statement I provided for him showed a lot of ‘non-deductible expenses.’
I therefore went through one month of his outgoing expenses and explained one by one which
one was deductible and which was ‘non-deductable.’
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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.
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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.
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The Post team looks into the burning question that perplexes Phuket residents year after year; just what is Phuket style?
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