‘An Enchanted Evening’ for Phuket and for the Home & Life Orphanage

PHUKET: Just months ahead of the 10-year anniversary of the devastating tsunami that left hundreds of orphans in its wake, the Rotary Club of Patong Beach is raising funds for capital improvements for the Home & Life orphanage. ‘An Enchanted Evening’, to take place at the five-star Centara Grand Beach Resort on November 1, will […]

Nobel Prize for medicine goes to discoverers of brain’s internal GPS

PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Nobel Prize for medicine goes to discoverers of brain’s internal GPS Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Anglo-American John O’Keefe and Norwegian couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser won the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday for discovering the brain’s internal positioning […]

Phuket officials call meeting to halt island’s growing elephant population

PHUKET: Provincial officials will meet with relevant authorities tomorrow to discuss ways to curb the large number of legal and illegal elephants that continue to arrive on Phuket. “Officials, led by the Phuket Livestock Office, will come together to look at ways to manage the island’s burgeoning elephant population, which has already surpassed the maximum […]