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PHUKET: About 60% of respondents to a Phuket Gazette poll believe that tourism businesses on the island are doing poorly in the current low season.
In total, well over half of respondents (58.7%) had a negative view: 33.
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Phuket NEWS Hound– A daily digest of news about Thailand from around the world, compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community.
Phuket oil spill alert endsPHUKET: A Phuket provincial marine official says no more oil is leaking from the sunken tanker.
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PHUKET: A large plume of diesel fuel emanating from the wreck of the Choke Thavorn 6 fuel tanker that sunk in heavy seas off Phuket yesterday is heading in the general direction of the Phi Phi Islands in Phuket’s neighboring province Krabi.
Crew aboard Royal Thai Navy helicopters monitoring the situation told a reporter from the state-run MCOT news agency this morning that the slick is now moving eastward.
An earlier report had the plume of pollution moving in a more southerly direction, toward international waters.
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PHUKET: As feared 40,000 liters of diesel fuel is leaking from the wreck of Choke Thavorn 6, a small tanker that sunk about 10 kilometers south of Phuket yesterday morning.
The state-run Thai News Agency reported at 1am today that Navy helicopters confirmed a large and growing contamination plume above the site of the wreck, which now sits about 30 meters below the surface.
Prevailing currents appear to be taking the fuel slick out into international waters, it was reported.
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Phuket NEWS Hound– A daily digest of news about Thailand from around the world, compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community.
Phuket set for Indian Travel CongressPhuket: The Travel Agents’ Association of India (TAAI) is expecting 800 to 1,000 delegates, including spouses, to attend their 59th annual convention – the Indian Travel Congress – in Phuket.
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PHUKET: Plans to introduce an “experimental” U-turn channel for the big inter-provincial buses slated to depart Phuket’s new bus terminal on Thepkrasattri Rd exhibit a novel approach to a vexing problem. But the enterprise is likely to confuse motorists who are unfamiliar with the somewhat unique, if not tragic, behavior we witness daily on the roads of Phuket.
Let us quickly summarize the proposed solution, as described on the front page of the current issue of the Phuket Gazette.
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PHUKET: Plans to introduce an “experimental” U-turn channel for the big inter-provincial buses slated to depart Phuket’s new bus terminal on Thepkrasattri Rd exhibit a novel approach to a vexing problem. But the enterprise is likely to confuse motorists who are unfamiliar with the somewhat unique, if not tragic, behavior we witness daily on the roads of Phuket.
Let us quickly summarize the proposed solution, as described on the front page of the current issue of the Phuket Gazette.
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Skewered and entranced, ‘maa song’ will again embody the gods for next month’s Vegetarian Festival
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Skewered and entranced, ‘maa song’ will again embody the gods for next month’s Vegetarian Festival
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Phuket – A provincial marine official confirmed yesterday that an oil slick from a boat that sank off Phuket on Saturday appears to have dispersed and no traces remain.
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