PHUKET AIRPORT: Police have persuaded protesters to leave the runway at Phuket International Airport, the Gazette has learned. Protesters left the landing strip on the agreement from airport officials that flights would not resume until their demands had been met.

Source:PAD PROTEST: Airport runway clear, but still no flights

THALANG: Four people were injured when a bus with bald tires overturned on Thepkrasattri Rd this morning, leaving commuters stuck in a traffic tailback stretching well over five kilometers long. Seksan Konsakorn of Thalang District Police told the Gazette the six-wheel bus lost control in wet conditions on a curve near Tha Reua Shine,

Source:Bus crash causes injury, commuter misery

PHUKET CITY: Phuket Provincial Police Commander Apirak Hongthong has assured the public that investigators are working hard to bring to justice those responsible for a slew of unsolved murders that have shocked the island in recent months.br>br>Speaking after a press conference on August 20, Gen Apirak said provincial police investigators and sp

Source:Gen Apirak asks for patience in murder investigations

PHUKET CITY: Phuket Provincial Police Commander Apirak Hongthong has assured the public that investigators are working hard to bring to justice to those responsible for a slew of unsolved murders that have shocked the island in recent months.br>br>Speaking after a press conference on August 20, Gen Apirak said provincial police investigators and

Source:Apirak defends poor progress in catching killers

PHUKET: Two South African conservationists who hope to open a Monkey Island primate sanctuary off Phuket paid a visit to Phuket Governor Niran Kalayanamit, but their goal to open the center as a new tourist attraction by the end of next year still has a lot of red tape to clear before becoming a reality. Zambian-born Tony Blignaut, CEO of Pr

Source:South Africans confident of 'Monkey Island' Plan

BANGKOK (The Nation): The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is preparing& to double its rewards for people who report illegal software use at the corporate level, from 250,000 baht& to 500,000 baht. From today to September 30, 2008, concerned software users who call the BSA hotline to provide information that leads to& successful

Source:Software anti-piracy agency doubles reward

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Phuket City Police yesterday morning announced the arrest of a man who confessed to the murder of his former boss at Supercheap on the bypass road on Tuesday night. Most of the details of the arrest were read out to the press in a statement by Phuket Governor Niran Kalayanamit.

Source:Police nab Supercheap employee killer

PHUKET CITY: Scores of municipal workers have been working since Saturday morning to remove thousands of rotting fish from the main pond at Suan Luang Park, after a group of fishermen were caught using poison to kill and capture them on Friday night. An officer from Phuket City Municipality, who asked not to be named, told the Gazette

Source:Suan Luang Park pond poisoners caught

PHUKET CITY: Police are investigating the& murder of a man killed by two shotgun blasts near his shack in Samkong early yesterday morning. Pol Maj Pitakpol Sompong of the Phuket City Police told the Gazette that the wife of 40-year-old Rungroj Saekui reported finding her husband dead outside their unnumbered shack off Soi Samkong

Source:Man killed in Samkong shooting

PHUKET: British tourist Dominic Chadwick who suffered neck injuries after a nasty fall when returning to the Phuket resort he was staying at is recovering nicely and is in good spirits.br>br>According to his Malaysian traveling companion, Dominic fell about eight feet when he was walking up a ramp towards an entrance to the Hilton Phuket Arcadia

Source:British tourist recovering after fall at Phuket resort