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INSIDE TODAY August 24 - 30, 2013 PhuketGazette.Net In partnership with The Nation 25 Baht Patong leader RAW SEWAGE BLOOMS LAP PATONG BEACH faces election fraud ruling THE Phuket Election Commission (PEC) Direc- tor signed the order for the deposition of influential Patong Mayor Pian Keesin. However, the director was vague on the details of the election fraud complaint filed against Mayor Pian and other Patong Adminis- trative officials. Full story on Page 3 Jungle-trek raids target 7 jumbo camps OFFICIALS raided seven elephant camps on the island to take DNA samples of seven elephants sus- pected of having been smuggled into Thailand from Myanmar. Officers believe the animals were brought over the border to be used in the trekking tourism industry. Full story on Page 6 swimming in polluted water. levels of untreated wastewater being released into Officials take decisive The tests will monitor levels of a variety of the sea,” Dr Pornsri explained. pollutants, but primarily focus on how much “The level of hydrocarbons will indicate how Family pleads action against foul tides wastewater is discharged into the waters at much oil [cooking oil, engine oil and other forms Phuket’s main tourist beaches, confirmed Dr of oil] is being released,” she added. for arrest of washing over tourists Pornsri Suthanaruk, director of the Phuket-based The results of each round of water-quality Regional Environmental Office 15. tests will be publicly available, Dr Pornsri as- Jintana killer “We will conduct instant tests on water tem- sured. THE husband of executed By Saran Mitrarat perature, salinity, alkalinity and clarity. We will “At this stage, we’re not sure if the results hotel human resources also conduct our own tests on dissolved oxygen will be posted online. We’re looking into that and director Jintana Mahattana- [DO] readings,” she explained. we will talk with the PMBC about how the data pak asked Phuket’s top cop IN THE wake of a tidal wave of complaints over Samples of beach water will be given to the is to be published,” she told the Gazette. to re-invigorate his offic- the seawater quality at the key west-coast beach Phuket Marine Biological Center (PMBC) to test “It should take no longer than two weeks from ers’ hunt for the killer, of Patong, the Phuket Environmental Office will for plankton, phosphorous, chloroform bacteria when the samples are taken,” she added. months after the case begin conducting water-quality tests at the and hydrocarbons. Although as of Wednesday the PEC… appeared to have gone cold famous beach on Friday, August 23, as part of a “The tests for plankton, phosphorous and new campaign to ensure tourists are no longer chloroform bacteria will help us monitor elevated Continued on Page 4 Full story on Page 4 2 PHUKET GAZETTE PHUKET NEWS August 24 - 30, 2013 Assailant ‘Rocky’ Property The ins and outs of transferring your condo’s beats down tailor title deed. Page 15 By Chutharat Plerin Tech A NEPALESE tailor was beaten bloody by alleged business ac- Some of the cool tech quaintance “Rocky” on the Patong gadget releases of beach road on August 14, Phuket 2013. Pages 34 Police have reported. Responding to a call at 12:30am, police arrived at the southern end People of Thaweewong Road to find Nepali ‘Popera’ tenor Yves Aung Aung Latt bleeding profusely from several head wounds. Baron set to croon in “The man was covered in Phuket soon. Page 37 blood,” said Lt Col Pratuang Polmana of the Patong Police. “He had made an appointment History with some associates in Chalong Digging up the bones of to talk about business. But about Phuket’s sometimes 10 minutes after they arrived, a fight broke out and they started grisly past. Page 41 to attack him with brass knuckles and pieces of wood, then ran Explore away,” Col Pratuang explained. “Rescue workers took him to All aboard the world’s Patong Hospital,” he said. largest floating book Later Mr Aung was transferred Patong tailor Aung Aung Latt is recovering. Photo: Thawit Bilabdullar fair. Page 44 to Vachira Phuket Hospital, where, on August 21, a hospital staffer said, him [Mr Aung],” the relative said. attacking ‘Rocky’, and they “Mr Aung is in our care and still re- The bloody duel between the two agreed for a compensation pay- Sport ceiving treatment. We have yet to tailors started about three months ment of 50,000 baht to be made,” After a short break, the set a date for him to be discharged.” ago over a business conflict derived the relative said. The Gazette was contacted by from competing for customers, Thai-Nepal Foundation President F1 action is set to kick a family member of Mr Latt after explained Mr Aung’s relative. Phanuphong Limbuprasertkul con- off again. Page 47 the incident. “Mr Aung was the one who at- firmed to the Gazette on August 17 “Rocky and his group attacked tacked first. He was arrested after that ‘Rocky’ had been arrested. Russian national found hanged British teen dies after eating single close to south coast landmark A RUSSIAN man was found dead cashew nut at family meal at mall on August 17, hanged from a tree A BRITISH boy on holiday with near Promthep Cape. his family went into shock and Chalong Police received a died after consuming a single report of the dead foreigner at cashew nut on the night of Au- about 8:30am. gust 19 in Patong. “We found the body of Vladimir Ethan Williams, 14, was taken Slobodenyuk, 29, hanging by a to Patong hospital, but died en length of nylon rope from a large route, Patong Hospital Director Dr Vista of Promthep Cape. Photo: Edwin acacia tree near the soccer field Sirichai Silapa-acha said. The 14-year-old was with visiting Phuket with family. Photo: Rajkumar Jonnala [close to the large wind turbines],” around the Nai Harn lagoon early Doctors believe that Ethan died said Thada Sodarak of the Saturday morning. either from an acute allergic reac- explained they had come to enjoy a side-dish, and that Ethan had Chalong Police. The body of Mr Slobodenyuk tion to the cashew nut or bronchial a holiday in Phuket. They went to only eaten a single one before he “It appears he died about three was first spotted by Rawai Mu- spasms brought about by bron- Karon Beach and then headed to went into shock,” Capt Patapee hours before we arrived,” Capt nicipality garbage-collectors, who chostenosis, a sudden narrowing Jungceylon in Patong for some said. Thada said. immediately called the police. of the bronchial tubes. shopping and dinner,” Patapee The family declined to have an Local residents told police that “We do not suspect foul play At about 8:30pm on August 19, Srichai of the Patong Police said. autopsy to determine the exact Mr Slobodenyuk appeared gloomy at this stage,” Capt Thada said. police were notified of the tragedy. “The family explained that they cause of death, Dr Sirichai said. as he conducted his usual walk – Kritsada Mueanhawong “We questioned the family, who had ordered some cashew nuts as – Thawit Bilabdullar August 24 - 30, 2013 PHUKET NEWS PHUKET GAZETTE 3 In brief… Patong election fraud Reward offered for burglar of Party town’s biggest player, Pian Keesin, to face the music Democrat office By Chutharat Plerin removed from office and that A REWARD of 5,000 baht was another election be held. offered on August 21 for any THE Phuket Election Commission However, the order did not information leading to the arrest (PEC) Director, Kittipong stipulate a date for the election of a thief who is believed to have Thiengkunakrit, signed an order to be held. It also failed to clarify broken into the Democrat Party on July 29 to remove Patong whether or not Mayor Pian Phuket office not once, but twice Mayor Pian Keesin from office for would be allowed to run for re- this month. vote fraud. election. However, in talking with the Mr Kittipong explained that the Gazette, he was vague about the order from the OECT came well Provincial Hall details of the complaint filed that after the election, though election led him to dismiss one of Phuket’s law dictates that any complaint adds more CCTV, most powerful politicians. against electoral candidates be “Mayor Pian and other Patong filed within 30 days of the elec- tightens security Administrative officials are still in tion, because the provincial EC their positions because the order office has a full year to investi- A TOTAL of four high-definition we received from the Office of gate any claim. CCTV cameras have been added the Election Commission of Thai- The election law regarding the to the entrance and exit of the Pro- land (OECT) in Bangkok has yet complaints applies only to local vincial Hall complex following the to be finalized,” Mr Kittipong con- and provincial politicians through- bomb blast on the grounds on firmed. out Thailand, and does not apply August 1. “The complaint was filed to national politicians, he As an additional safety measure, all other entrances, including those against Mayor Pian and other The order did not clarify if Mr Pian could run again. Photo: Gazette file explained. Patong Administrative officials on Mr Kittipong reviewed, vetted designed for pedestrians only, September 11 last year, just nine Municipality council members Region 8, in Phuket Town. and endorsed the election results have been closed. days after the election,” Mr from office has been appealed, Mr The OECT order, posted pub- and recommended to Bangkok to Anyone entering the complex Kittipong stated. Kittipong said. licly online by Kathu District Chief declare Mr Pian the winner outside of working hours, 6pm to The order to remove Mayor The decision now rests in the Veera Kerdsirimongkol on August of the election, despite the 6am, is required to show some Pian and two other Patong hands of the Court of Appeals 10, mandates that Mayor Pian be complaint filed. form of identification when pass- ing by the cameras, Chief of Phuket Provincial Office Prajied Aksornthammakul said. Bullet from road rage gunfire hits Russian man Teen dies in crash A RUSSIAN man is recovering in hospital af- After renting the car that night and going ter being shot in the back during a drive-by in out for pizza, Mr Klocskov’s group of friends avoiding wide arc Rawai on August 17. were driving along the Rawai beachfront road. Maksim Klocskov, 32, was shot after a Mr Klocskov was sitting alone in the of u-turning car bullet penetrated the trunk and then the backseat. backseat of the car he was riding in. “Two youths rode by on a motorbike and A TEENAGER speeding south on Mr Klocskov was rushed to Phuket Inter- then swung around and started to follow the Thepkrasattri Road on August 20 national Hospital and immediately went into car, we were told,” said Col Jumroon. died after he swerved to avoid a surgery, Chalong Police Deputy Superinten- “Mr Klocskov’s friends believe the cause car making a wide u-turn. dent Jumroon Plaiduang said. of the shooting might have been due to the Witnesses said that Sakarat “We found the Toyota Vios at the hospital Vios cutting the motorbike off,” he added. Muaenparn, 16, was riding his mo- with a bullet hole through the trunk. There After the dramatic event, Mr Klocskov’s torbike at high speed in the motorbike was also a bullet exit hole in the backseat of friends could not recall the license plate num- lane when the car made a u-turn. Mr the vehicle, as well as blood stains,” Lt Col ber or color of the motorbike. The bullet, shot by a youth on a motorbike, Sakarat received a serious head in- Jumroon said. – Kritsada Mueanhawong entered the trunk, then struck Mr Klocskov. jury, which proved fatal. American slashes own throat AN AMERICAN man slashed his that his permit to stay had expired. own throat with a broken tile at “He looked mentally unstable, Chalong Police Station on so we detained him at the police August 14 night after allegedly station to allow him to calm down. causing a ruckus at a local “While in our custody, the man Phuket school. broke a tile in his cell and used it “We brought him to the to make three deep gashes across police station,” Chalong Police his throat,” Lt Col Jumroon said. Deputy Superintendent Jumroon The man was rushed to Vachira Plaiduang said. Phuket Hospital. Though deep, the Police asked the 33-year-old wounds were not fatal. man for his passport and found – Saran Mitrarat 4 PHUKET GAZETTE PHUKET NEWS August 24 - 30, 2013 Jintana’s husband pleads for justice DEPARTMENT of Special Investigation (DSI) officers arrived in Ph

By Saran Mitrarat their jobs. Concerning the theft, she had to fire some employees THE husband of slain hotel human because they were found cheat- resources director Jintana Ma- ing their employer. This probably hattanapak who was shot dead caused her murder,” Phuket Pro- while waiting at a stoplight on her vincial Police Deputy Commander way home from work in January, Col Arun Kleawwatee said back has demanded that police reinvigo- in January. rate their investigation into his The other lead Mr Winyoo wife’s death. asked police to follow up on was The call for action comes after a “suspicious man” who had the case appears to have gone cold, viewed Mrs Jintana’s body at with no progress almost seven Vachira Phuket Hospital. months after the murder. “The man who viewed my Winyoo Mahattanapak asked police Winyoo Mahattanapak, Mrs to follow-up on old leads. wife’s body at the hospital and Jintana’s widower, and other rela- then rushed away with a nervous tives arrived at Phuket Provincial Arcadia Phuket Resort & Spa in face needs to be found,” Mr Police headquarters on August 16 Karon, to find the killer. Winyoo said. “I have already sent to provide additional information Police initially believed the mo- the license plate number of the car Maj Gen Choti assured the family that progress was being made. to kick-start the investigation into tive for the slaying of Mrs Jintana, he was in to police, and it might still take some time for re- said. “We will present what infor- the mystery homicide. the Human Resources Director at shouldn’t be too hard to capture sults to start emerging. mation we have to Mrs Jintana’s “There were two places that the Hilton Arcadia, involved the an image of his face from hospi- “We are continuing to investi- family and find the suspect as Jintana devoted her life: her work dealings she had with employees tal CCTV cameras.” gate the case. However, it may take soon as possible.” and the church,” Mr Winyoo said. caught stealing from the hotel. Phuket Provincial Police Com- a long time for our efforts to yield The press was then asked to He asked that police continue “She was a strict person at mander Choti Chavalviwat assured results because we have to go leave the room, as family mem- to work with closely those at work. She was straight, and so the family that the case was mov- through what evidence we have bers were briefed on what Jintana’s work place, Hilton some employees at the hotel lost ing along, but cautioned that it very carefully,” Maj Gen Choti progress had been made. Troubled water

Klong water flows across the beach into the ocean. Photos: Irfarn Jamdukor

From page 1 ment of Patong Municipality, explained that the municipality …had yet to confirm which would not only conduct a thor- Phuket beaches will be regularly ough investigation, but also seek tested for water pollution, the the cooperation of – and feedback officers conducting the tests will from – beach guards. use GPS to mark the exact loca- The authorities will also warn tion the samples were collected, tourists not to swim in areas iden- Dr Pornsri said. tified as being affected, for their The news follows Phuket Gov- own safety, she added. ernor Maitri Inthusut informing a “We expect that the source of gathering of 11 honorary consuls on the polluted water is one or more Tuesday that regular beach water- hotels releasing wastewater into quality tests, to be conducted every the bay. If this is the case, we will two months, were forthcoming. send warning letters to the hotel, The two-hour meeting, held or hotels,” Ms Panida said. behind closed doors, was also However, one source of waste- attended by Dr Pornsri. water being released into the bay “The honorary consuls for Ger- is not under suspicion. many [Dirk Naumann] and for the “We can confirm the polluted Netherlands [Seven Smulders] water is not coming from the voiced the strongest opinions municipality’s wastewater treat- about this issue,” Dr Pornsri said. ment plant,” Ms Panida said. The issue of beach-water qual- “We treat all our wastewater ity hit Patong hard earlier this thoroughly before harmlessly week when the water along the releasing it into the sea,” she said. southern end of the beach turned “Our task now is to find a familiar brown, prompting local exactly where the polluted water officials to track down the source is coming from,” she said. of the contamination. Panida Klinbbusa, an officer of Additional reporting by Irfarn the Maintenance Services depart- Jamdukor August 24 - 30, 2013 PHUKET NEWS PHUKET GAZETTE 5 Playing ‘pity card’ for media Deputy Interior Minister: Rohingya play up despair, harm Thailand’s image By Kritsada Mueanhawong Inspector Neti Khanboon said. Lt Col Neti was unable to confirm or deny if the visi- DEPUTY Interior Minister Wisarn tors who allegedly incited the unrest were Techathirawat says the presence of the part of human-trafficking gangs believed media encourages Rohingya refugees to to be targeting the refugees. “act-up in front of the camera” in order to A visit to the Phang Nga facility in July get sympathy. caused Minister of Social Development and Mr Wisarn was at the Phang Nga Immi- Human Security Paveena Hongsakula to gration center on Monday to inspect the declare the Rohingya’s detainment there a facility, following a Rohingya riot there ear- matter of national importance. lier this month. “It’s a clear human rights issue and na- “The media often knows that the tional security threat,” said , Minister of Rohingya are arriving even before the po- Social Development and Human Security. lice do,” he said. “The refugees here are suffering from “And when the media are present, the overcrowding here. They are crammed into Rohingya cry and put on a performance only one space, and therefore we need to designed to get sympathy. When the media provide a new shelter for them,” are not present, they act normally, and even Ms Paveena said. seem to enjoy their interaction with the of- “Officials must keep a close eye on the ficers,” he said. situation, so to ensure that none of these The “feigned pitifulness” of the Rohingya refugees slip into the hands of human-traf- reported by the press is giving Thailand a ficking gangs,” she said. “The refugees bad name, Mr Wisarn said. must be well taken care of while they are He called for special measures to be taken displaced in Thailand.” to find the Rohingya places to live, and said From January 14 until now, Phang Nga that government parties and officials must Immigration has processed 953 Rohingya do more to respond to the needs of refugees, said Lt Col Neti during Mr Rohingya refugees. Wisarn’s inspection of the facilities. The rebellion at the Phang Nga Immi- “There is simply not enough space here gration center on August 8 occurred at the Mr Wisarn expressed concern over the damage Rohingya had done to Thailand’s image. for all of them, we can accommodate only end of the Muslim fasting month, when 250,” he said. refugees asked to be able to pray together The rioting was contained, and subse- have been a pre-planned attempt to escape It has been necessary to transfer hun- and were refused. The men, detained in quently, 261 men were transferred to police the facilities and leave Thailand. dreds of Rohingya to other holding facilities, cramped conditions for months, became stations in Phang Nga; 24 remained at the “The refugees were convinced by visi- he said. These facilities are located in sev- enraged and damaged their detention cells Phang Nga Immigration center. tors to protest and attempt to escape to eral locations across Phang Nga province, as they tried to break out. It later surfaced that the rebellion might another country,” Phang Nga Immigration north of, and adjoining, Phuket province. Copper thief copped Rescue workers doubling up with snake eyes at island checkpoint POLICE arrested a man carrying 100,000 baht worth of stolen cop- per wire concealed in fertilizer sacks at a routine checkpoint in Thalang on Monday. Eakkapan Pinthong, 22, a con- struction worker at the Karn Keha public housing estate in Srisoonthorn, appeared nervous as he approached the checkpoint on Baan Don Road, police said. “He was riding a motorbike Eakkapan Pinthong (center) without license plates, and carry- the sacks,” Lt Col Amnuay said. ing fertilizer sacks,” said Thalang Mr Eakkapan confessed to po- Police Deputy Superintendent lice that he had stolen the wire Amnuay Kraiwutthianun. from the Karn Keha housing es- “We searched him and found 30 tate and planned to sell it. bundles of copper wire hidden in – Thawit Bilabdullar Two pythons were wrangled into the jungle, one from Patong and another in Mai Khao. Photo: Thawit Bilabdullar 6 PHUKET GAZETTE PHUKET NEWS August 24 - 30, 2013 Search for phantom elephants By Orawin Narabal vincial Chief Administrative Of- ficer, who has since retired,” Gen THE Phuket jungle-trekking Norrasak added. tourism industry came under No arrest warrant has been is- scrutiny again this week when sued for the former-high-ranking The firecracker dealer (center) and officers from the Natural official, and he has not been two of his customers in custody. Resources and Environmental charged for forging official Crime Suppression Division documents. (NREC) raided seven elephant “We still have to collect more Dealer signals camps in Phuket to try to deter- evidence,” Gen Norrasak said. mine whether or not seven Regardless, more evidence was new stock with elephants in particular were traf- not required to have the Chaiyaphum ficked onto the island. Provincial Court issue an arrest firecrackers The camps raided were: Sai warrant for Surat Termsak and A PYROTECHNIC meth-dealer Yuan Elephant Camp, Sea View Prasong Bootchaiyaphum. who announced full stocks of ya Elephant Camp and Kinnaree “Mr Surat is the chief of an el- bah (methamphetamine) pills with Elephant Camp, all in Rawai; an ephant camp association in firecrackers had his bubble burst unregistered house on Soi Chaiyaphum,” said Gen Norrasak. by Krabi police on August 15. Yodsanae in Chalong (in the hills After being brought in for ques- Following a tip-off, Krabi City on the way to the Big Buddha); tioning, Mr Surat and Mr Prasong Police raided a shack in the middle Kalim Elephant Camp in Patong; allegedly confessed to conspiring of a rubber plantation and found JW Marriott Phuket Resort & Spa with the now-retired official by Songpol Nakbutr, 34, selling ya in Mai Khao; and Eco Elephant filing the registration documents bah pills to two customers. Riding in Cherng Talay. for the phantom elephants for ap- Mr Songpol got the pills from a The raids followed reports that proval, Gen Norrasak explained. many elephants had been smuggled The seven elephants under in- prisoner in Nakhon Sri Thammarat, Blood drawn from the elephants during the raids will be used as evidence. Tuksin Phochakorn, Superinten- across the Myanmar border into vestigation in Phuket were sold dent of Krabi City Police, said. Thailand to work in the elephant- cials continue their investigation. the Phuket raids followed his of- using some of the fake registra- “Mr Songpol said the prisoner trekking tourism industry, said “We came to Phuket to collect ficers discovering several months tion papers, he said. called his phone and told him NREC Commander Norrasak blood samples and DNA swabs, ago that 69 elephant registration Gen Norrasak did not blame the where the drugs would be Hemnithi. and check the elephants’ micro- documents issued in Chaiyaphum elephant camp owners in Phuket dropped off. He didn’t know the No arrests were made in the chip implants,” Gen Norrasak said. Province were not issued for for any wrongdoing. prisoner’s name, and the phone raids in Phuket on Wednesday. The The raids were carried out with actual elephants. “This is not the fault of the number used to contact him didn’t officers are still questioning the el- assistance from Department of “This meant people could use camp owners. They did not know show up on his mobile,” Col ephant camp owners, explained National Parks, Wildlife and Plant the documents for any elephants, the registration documents they Tuksin said. Pol Maj Gen Norrasak. Conservation (DNP) officers, the including those illegally obtained were given were fake, and the “Mr Songpol said that he picked The elephants were technically Phuket Marine Police and Phuket from the wild,” he said. process of how those registration up about 2,000 pills per time, and “seized”, but are still staying at Tourist Police. “The registration documents papers were issued was not trans- sold them for 250 to 300 baht a their respective camps while offi- Gen Norrasak explained that were issued by a Chaiyaphum Pro- parent,” he said. pill,” he said. “Once he picked up a fresh batch of drugs, Mr Songpol would set off firecrack- ers to let his customers know that Facebook photo helps nab Canadian he had drugs to sell.” Mr Songpol was able to carry POLICE arrested a Canadian man issued a warrant for Mr on his business in this fashion for wanted for allegedly stealing Sundstrom’s arrest on June 5. The about two months without the 100,000 baht in Chiang Rai after warrant was issued in relation to police finding out. photos he posted on his Facebook a complaint that Mr Sundstorm “We found 2,178 ya bah pills page were recognized as having stole 100,000 baht from Mr An- in the shack, and five pills on his been taken in Patong. thony about a year ago,” said Lt customers, Sopon Kerdsook, 27, Police arrested David Peter Col Somsak. and Somsak Petcharak, 47. Sundstorm, 39, on August 18 af- “Mr Anthony figured out that Mr “We charged Mr Songpol with ter they spotted him walking out Sundstorm was hiding in Patong, possession of a Category 1 Drug of a restaurant on Nanai Road at so he reported the case to us. We with intent to sell, and his two cus- about 8pm, explained Patong Po- checked Mr Sundstorm’s tomers with possession of a lice Deputy Superintendent Facebook page and saw he had Category 1 Drug. All three sus- Somsak Thongkliang. posted several pictures of places pects accepted the charges,” Col Officers tracked down Mr in Patong,” he said. Mr Sundstrom was found after he posted photos of Patong on Facebook. Tuksin said. Sundstrom after a 58-year-old Police believe Mr Sundstrom Phuket Police encountered a British man named by police only had been staying in Patong for Somsak said. that he stole any money,” Lt Col similar case two weeks ago, as “Mr Anthony” presented an about three months before being Officers moved in and arrested Somsak said. when they arrested a drug dealer arrest warrant for the Canadian discovered. Mr Sundstorm after they saw him “Regardless, we placed him who said he bought drugs via a along with proof that he had been “We established that he was exit the restaurant and mount a under arrest and sent him to man also incarcerated in Nakhon staying in Phuket’s top party staying at a restaurant-guesthouse motorbike. Chiang Rai City Police to face Sri Thammarat prison. town. near Soi Nanai 2, so we went there “The man confirmed that he legal action there,” he said. – Kritsada Mueanhawong “Chiang Rai Provincial Court and waited for him,” Lt Col was Mr Sundstorm, but denied – Thawit Bilabdullar Sibling dealers in hotel face early check out TWO drug-dealing brothers who “We found 18.3 grams of mari- used a hotel room in Cherng Talay juana packed in two small plastic to store and sell their wares were bags on a bed,” he explained. arrested on August 16. “The brothers confessed that “We received a report from an they were storing ya bah [meth- undercover agent about the broth- amphetamine] and ya ice [crystal ers renting a hotel room to store methamphetamine] in a room at drugs, and we obtained a warrant the Kanita Hotel to sell to guests,” to search their house in Baan Bang Lt Col Saad said. Tao,” Cherng Talay Police Deputy “Police officers took them to The brothers after their arrest. Superintendent Saad Wongwiangjan the hotel and searched room num- explained. ber 201. We found ya bah packed paraphernalia,” he explained. “We found Natthawut Srisamut, in three plastic bags, totaling 30 “Both brothers were charged 25, and his brother Weerawat pills. We also found seven plastic with possession of a Category 1 Sruisamut, 27, in the house when bags packed with ya ice, contain- drug with intent to sell,” said Lt we searched it,” Lt Col Saad said. ing 3.08 grams in total, and drug Col Saad. – Thawit Bilabdullar August 24 - 30, 2013 PHUKET NEWS PHUKET GAZETTE 7 Illegal loggers ravage over 100 rai of forest

Cuts in trees still fresh and sappy, but no lumberjacks found ‘Mahout Marc’ was much loved. By Thawit Bilabdullar Fundraiser for A RAID into the protected area of Bang Khanoon forest reserve un- British expat covered the results of illegal logging FRIENDS of long-term Phuket in over 100r ai of Phuket forest. expat Marc Harrington, who died “We found about 50 large on August 11, will hold a fundraiser Eaglewood trees cut down and a on August 23 to help cover hospi- lot of pieces of the cut wood on tal and funeral expenses. the ground,” Thalang Police Mr Harrington, from London, Deputy Superintendent Amnuay was admitted to Vachira Phuket Kraiwutthianun told the Gazette. Hospital on June 22 with head in- “The illegal lumberjacks cut juries from a motorbike accident. down trees in an area we estimate He never fully recovered and to be more than 100 rai,” Lt Col succumbed to his injuries. He was Amnuay said. 66 years old. The raid was halted on the “He was well known and much evening of August 15 when it be- loved by many people,” one came too dark to continue. mourner told the Gazette. However, Forestry officials were Mr Harrington is remembered able to confirm that the area the for his tireless efforts on behalf trees were harvested from was well of tsunami survivors in Khao Lak, within the protected forest area. where he was nicknamed “Ma- “Some of the tress were re- hout Marc”, as well as his work cently cut down; we know this Officers point to fresh-hewn wood discovered in Bang Khanoon forest reserve in Thalang after a tip-off. with Burmese refugees. because the cuts were still fresh sending a report to Phuket Pro- staffer working at Bang Khanoon been ordered stationed in the area The fundraiser on August 23 and sappy,” Col Amnuay said. vincial Police Commander Choti forest reserve at the time was un- for the next couple of days. will be held at The Islander bar in The tip-off this time came Chavalviwat. able to provide any useful “We seized the wood as evi- Rawai. The gathering of friends from the very top, with Phuket No lumbermen were found at information, Col Amnuay said. dence and will continue the and memories will begin at 7pm. Democrat MP Raywat Areerob the site, and the only Forestry More forestry officers have investigation,” Col Amnuay said. – Phuket Gazette 8 PHUKET GAZETTE PHUKET NEWS August 24 - 30, 2013 Krabi Airport to operate Rawai’s blanket killer 24 hours a day

KRABI International Airport will become a 24-hour facility, its di- rector announced this week. wrapped up by police The move is to serve increas- ing numbers of visitors to Krabi By Kritsada Mueanhawong and to provide some welcome relief for the overburdened Phuket THE killer of a man whose body International Airport. was found dumped by the side of “The number of tourists visit- a road in Rawai last month was ing our province has been going collared when his wife was seen up in recent years, and the using the victim’s mobile phone. demand for flights and airport ser- The body of Anuwat Kathong, vices is increasing,” Airport 25, was found wrapped in a blan- Director Sunyaluk Kraiboot said. ket by the side of a road in Rawai The total number of high- just after midnight on July 4. season passengers for the 2010- “The victim had the mobile with 2011 high season was 563,464. In him when he disappeared,” Phuket the 2012-2013 season, it surpassed Provincial Police Deputy 857,600. Both domestic and inter- Commander Arun Kaewvatee told national numbers are going up, he a press conference on August 14. explained. As they questioned Anuwat’s “The decision to keep the air- friends, police settled on Isara port open 24 hours was made by “Dol” Phantip, 25, as a prime sus- the Minister of Transport, and it’s pect because witnesses said his only been announced unofficially. wife was using Mr Anuwat’s tele- We don’t have a start date yet,” phone, Col Arun explained. he said. “He also moved from Rawai to “Our current hours of opera- Rassada during the investigation, tion are 6:30am to 9:30pm but we and we believed he was trying to still get arrivals after that, such as hide from us,” Col Arun added. charter flights, so you could say “We found his new address, got we’re open 24 hours a day already. an arrest warrant and picked him “The new policy aims to make Murder suspect Isara Phantip was arrested after witnesses saw his wife using the victim’s mobile phone. up this morning while he was us more active and ready to serve walking near his soi in Rassada. rowed a sidecar from his neigh- private jets as well as charter flights “Mr Isara confessed that he bor to dump the body in Soi at night,” Director Sunyaluk said. murdered Mr Anuwat over a drug Saiyuan 17, about two kilometers – Orawin Narabal deal gone bad. He said they met in from his room, where it was dis- Mr Anuwat’s room in Rawai on covered a few hours later. July 2 to settle their conflict. “Mr Isara also confessed that “They couldn’t make up, their he gave Mr Anuwat’s phone to his fight escalated, and Mr Isara hit wife and sold his gold necklace, Mr Anuwat on the head with a worth about 5,000 baht, to a gold glass bottle, then used a piece of shop,” Col Arun said. iron wire to strangle him,” Col “We’ve charged him with pre- Arun reported. meditated murder and theft,” “When Mr Anuwat was dead, stated Col Arun. Tourist arrival figures continue to he wrapped his body in a blanket “Because the crime involved rise at Krabi International Airport. and hid it behind his house. The drugs, we are now investigating Photo: Sergey Zhatchenko next night at about 10pm, he bor- the drug network,” he added. Mr Anuwat’s body was found beside a Rawai road wrapped in a blanket. Fish deaths baffle officials MARINE biologists at the Phuket the Phuket office of the Depart- Marine Biological Center (PMBC) ment of Marine and Coastal are struggling to determine what Resources [DMCR] about the in- caused mass death of dozens of cident,” Dr Ukkrit said. reef fish found at the popular dive DMCR Phuket office chief destination of Koh Racha Yai. Thanet Munnoy confirmed that he Several specimens of the dead had received the report about the fish were collected from the dive death of the fish from the PMBC. site and brought to the PMBC ear- “We have notified villagers, who lier this month after local are our network of volunteers for fishermen, villagers and divers keeping an eye on the island, to voiced concern that they may have report to us if they see anyone been poisoned, perhaps by cya- illegally fishing in the area, espe- nide. cially if they are using any “In the last week to 10 days, chemicals to kill the fish and there have been many dead fish coral,” Mr Thanet said. found at the dive sites, including “However, we have yet to tropical reef fish and some of the receive any reports,” he said. more ‘hardy’ fish like parrot fish, Officials are baffled over reports of “If we catch anyone fishing eels, lion fish and so on,” reported dozens of reef fish found dead at a illegally, we have the necessary Phuket diver Jana McGeachy on popular dive site off Koh Racha Yai authority to take immediate action island. Photo: Jana McGeachy July 31. ourselves,” Mr Thanet warned. PMBC staff conducted an au- possible they died from natural Reports of dead fish being topsy of the sample fish brought causes or the amount of cyanide found at Koh Racha Yai have since to them. was not enough for us to detect,” fallen off considerably, with some “The autopsy results showed PMBC director Ukkrit Satapoomin speculating that the dead fish had normal coloration of the gills and told the Gazette. been dumped as unwanted catch. intestines of the fish, so it is “Nonetheless, I have notified – Orawin Narabal August 24 - 30, 2013 PHUKET NEWS PHUKET GAZETTE 9 Unveiling the past

The tour speedboat was left high HM The King’s historic visit may bolster sea gypsy land rights and dry. Photo: Supplied By Chutharat Plerin “If we find human bone frag- ments at these sites, we will match Eco-tourism DEPARTMENT of Special that DNA with the DNA database Investigation (DSI) officers look- we are currently collecting,” Col ing to establish how long Phuket Prawuth said. goes full tilt sea gypsies have been living at “If we confirm any human A GROUP of tourists out to enjoy Rawai Beach revealed this week bones found at the site are of sea a scenic tour of Phuket’s east that they have discovered movie gypsy origin, we will question the coast received a surprise last week footage of HM King Bhumibol private investors as to why they when the captain of the speedboat Adulyadej visiting the community are claiming the land is theirs, and, they were riding on decided to in 1959. if so, why did they allow the sea take the eco-tourism slogan The footage may prove critical gypsies to bury their dead on the “bringing you close to nature” to to the sea gypsies’ fight against land?” heart. court-ordered evictions based on Col Prawuth explained that hu- The speedboat Panisa ended up land claims by private investors, man bones found at the village in high and dry among the man- said DSI’s Consumer and Envi- March this year could not be used groves at the entrance to the canal ronment Protection Office chief as evidence. to Royal Phuket Marina, in Koh Prawuth Wongsinil. “They were reportedly discov- Kaew, in an unexplained boating “The footage shows many ered by sea gypsies in the village incident on August 16. houses in the traditional sea-gypsy who stand to benefit if the bones Two passing speedboats, one style built under coconut trees, prove to be of sea gypsy origin, named Peppermint, soon rendered but one of the investors claims his Footage of HM King Bhumibol Adulyadej visiting Rawai in 1959 may prove and the bones were removed from assistance and took the party of title deed was issued in 1965, so critical in the sea gypsy community’s fight against eviction. their original location… As evi- tourists on board so they could we will ask any villagers who ap- considering they claim to have from the Fine Arts Department dence, they are tainted,” he noted. continue their holiday. peared in the footage, or their been living here since long before Phuket office, who are excavating Other evidence collected by of- No injuries were reported. parents, if they knew about this 1965?” he asked. two sites where villagers believe ficers includes aerial photographs One Gazette reader who wit- title deed being issued,” Lt Col Col Prawuth and fellow DSI their ancestors were buried. of the area from decades ago and nessed the aftermath of the Prawuth said. officers arrived in Phuket on Tues- To make the all-important con- a register of students from Wat incident pointed out that the speed “By law, in order for a title deed day to begin excavations at the nection to strengthen the sea Sawang Arom school in Rawai. limit for all vessels approaching to be issued, officers must come village and to collect DNA gypsies’ claim, forensic science “About 30 sea gypsy students’ port is five knots. to the site and measure the land. samples. Joining the DSI team officers are collecting DNA names appear on the school list Staff at the Royal Phuket If any such officers had come to were officers from the Central samples from every family in the before 1957, and some of those Marina and the Phuket Marine the site to do this, then why did Institute of Forensic Science. village. This will result in more than individuals are still alive today,” Police said they were unaware of none of the villagers protest it, Assisting them are specialists 60 samples in total. Col Prawuth said. the incident. – Phuket Gazette 10 PHUKET GAZETTE NATIONAL NEWS August 24 - 30, 2013 Royal couple’s health satisfactory, says HRH Princess Chulabhorn HRH Princess Chulabhorn Valayalaksana “One week after the stroke, she had re- Majesty had long wished to go to said the health of Their Majesties the King covered quickly. Now, she can walk Klai Kangwon Palace.” and Queen was “satisfactory” during a rare around,” she said. Asked to comment on the country’s situ- television interview last week. On August 1, Their Majesties left Siriraj ation, the Princess said: “Some things “Their health condition is good. They Hospital after extended stays and headed to prove depressing. I offer help where I can. are safe,” said HRH Princess Chulabhorn Klai Kangwon Palace in Hua Hin, where My parents have taught me that royals in an interview with Vuthithorn doctors had prepared the necessary medi- must serve the people. We will do what- Militachinda in a telecast on Modernine TV. cal equipment. ever we can to ease the suffering of Thais.” The Princess confirmed that HM the The Princess firmly dismissed a rumor She added that some changes had hap- Queen had suffered a stroke last year, the that the royal couple decided to leave Siriraj pened in the country because some people first time there has been official confir- Hospital as political turmoil looked set to had changed. mation of the widespread rumor, The break out in Bangkok. “It’s sad that some people are so self- Nation reported. “It’s not true,” the Princess said. “His interested,” she said. HRH Princess Chulabhorn Photo: The Nation Storm gathers against charter amendments THE nation appears to be heading nepotism,” Mr Ongart said. Object of warning. Photo: Frank into a new period of political tur- The Democrat MP said the bulence as the government moves amendments would allow govern- to push controversial constitu- ment-aligned senators to appoint Gunmen paint tional amendments through or remove members of indepen- Parliament and the opposition dent agencies and leave them editor’s house vows to resist by taking to the merely serving those in power, he streets. said. Just two weeks ago an amnesty Another proposed amendment with bullets bill that would pardon people will remove a ban on parents, GUNMEN opened fire on the charged in relation to political pro- spouses and children of MPs, house of the executive editor of tests sailed through its first reading former MPs and political office Post Today newspaper on August in Parliament despite protests from holders, former party members, 17. There were no casualties. the Democrat Party. and former local politicians who Pattara Khampitak said that he Last week, constitutional have been out of their posts for believed the assault stemmed from amendments that are opposed just less than five years, from apply- discontent among some groups as fiercely reached their second ing as senatorial candidates. over his work as a journalist, reading. Last week, Democrat leader reported The Nation. Some of the amendments will Abhisit Vejjajiva gave the green Officers at the scene of the affect the make-up of Thailand’s light for senior party MPs to join crime, a 300-square wah property Senate. Under the plans, the Sen- street rallies aimed at overthrow- containing three houses, found the ate would become fully elected. Democrat MP Ongart Klampaiboon voiced his concern. Photo: The Nation ing the “Thaksin regime”, garage door of the first house The current Constitution allows so-named because Prime Minister riddled with bullet holes. A dud one province to have one elected acquire a parliamentary mandate Yingluck Shinawatra’s exiled grenade was left hanging on the senator, with the rest being through a majority. brother Thaksin is believed to be gate. appointed. “They have worked out this the real power behind the govern- Thai Journalists Association The opposition Democrat Party plan – it’s a case of ‘you scratch ment. (TJA) president Pradit Ruangdit, says the move is aimed at giving my back and I’ll scratch yours’. Mr Abhisit said the People’s who visited Mr Pattara after the the ruling Pheu Thai Party “total All Pheu Thai MPs have endorsed Army rally against the government incident, said that he believed the control” of Parliament, The Nation the bill with their signatures, along was being held lawfully as they attack was a threat against the reported. Having all senators with some senators, to make it wanted to make social changes. Thai media. He said the TJA would elected could give the ruling Pheu Ongart Klampaiboon said the look like this was the intention of “So, it’s good if we can sup- issue a statement condemning the Thai Party full control of both move would greatly affect the all parliamentarians. From the port them,” he said, referring to attack and call for police to find houses. country’s political structure, since beginning, this legislation has been Democrat leaders who took to the the perpetrators. Democrat Party Bangkok MP the ruling party would easily an exercise in favoritism and People’s Army stage last week. Anti-cheat hats get axed Help homeless foreigners, begs NGO THAILAND should change its down in Thailand, often having mindset and help the growing being duped or robbed by Thai in face of heavy criticism number of homeless foreigners former wives or partners, Mr KASETSART University’s Faculty living in the country, a non- Natee explained. of Agro-Industry has promised governmental organization work- They receive meager amounts not to use the much-criticized anti- ing for homeless people has said. of money from sympathetic for- cheating hats in its exam room Natee Saravari, secretary- eigners who are aware of their again, but officials insisted that the general of the Issarachon Foun- plight, but there is no Thai govern- paper hats were introduced with dation, said there were up to 30 ment agency or even a policy in the intent of promoting honesty, homeless foreigners in Chiang Mai place to help them. When arrested The Nation reported. alone, with more seen in tourist or found by the police, they are “Since people have criticized us, destinations like Phuket and mostly deported, Mr Natee said. The cost can be high for foreigners saying the hat is not appropriate, we Pattaya, The Nation reported. Mr Natee said the law and poli- lost in paradise. Photo: The Nation will not use it again,” faculty dean A photo of the anti-cheat hats “They walk or sit in shopping cies should be changed to cope Tanaboon Sajja-anantakul said. surfaced online. Photo: The Nation malls during the daytime, and with such cases. An ad-hoc Economic Community in 2015, The hat was constructed with scavenge through garbage for mechanism to help such people he added. sheets of A4 paper to cover both after the students and their lec- food at night,” he said. should be established in the mean- A senior official from the Minis- sides of the student’s face, in an turer Nattadol Rungruangkitkrai In some cases, these foreign- time, he said. try of Social Development and attempt to prevent him or her from had mutually agreed to try and ers – mostly male Westerners – The need for such measures Human Security, Panya Kangphorn, looking at a neighbor’s test. prevent cheating, and hence arrived as tourists or retirees and is especially pressing given the said a bill on assisting foreigners was The hats were used just once, invented the hat. fell into poverty after settling rapidly approaching Asesan awaiting parliamentary scrutiny. August 24 - 30, 2013 REGIONAL NEWS PHUKET GAZETTE 11 In brief… Ferry tragedy kills 52 Indonesian energy regulator arrested Typhoon mars rescue efforts, oil slick spreads over pristine waters for taking payoffs INDONESIA’S anti-graft agency By Rolando Ng has arrested the head of the country’s energy regulator to THE central Philippine province of probe allegations he took more Cebu, famous among divers than US$500,000 from an oil firm. around the world for its clear The arrest is a new blow to waters and coral reefs, declared a Indonesia’s attempts to attract state of calamity on Monday as more investment from energy an oil slick from a ferry that sank companies, several of which have late last week spread to about 20 threatened to scale back operations per cent of the coast. due to uncertainty about the in- The 40-year-old ferry MV St vestment environment. Thomas Aquinas was approach- – Reuters ing Cebu late in the evening on August 16 when it was struck by a departing cargo vessel, the Shan tribes appeal Sulpicio Express 7, leaving two huge holes in the latter’s bow. for basic rights The ferry sank in minutes, THE Shan Tribes Association of about a kilometer off Cebu. Kachin State in Myanmar has sent At least 52 people were killed a letter to UN special rapporteur and as of Tuesday at least 68 were Tomas Ojea Quintana to look into still missing, officials said. the plight of the ethnic people, as Small planes and helicopters well the prospect of peace, in the immediately scoured the waters war-affected state. and coastal areas of Cebu island Shan people, who make up for survivors, officials said. two-thirds of Kachin’s population, Divers found four bodies out- had to move to more secure towns side the sunken ferry just hours The force of the impact left gaping holes in the cargo ship’s bow. The ferry sank in minutes. Photo: Reuters and villages after war broke out before the search was halted the between the military and the next day due to foul weather ferry. That vessel collided with a 20,000 liters of lube oil and 20,000 Kachin Independence Army in brought on by the arrival of Ty- tanker in the Sibuyan Sea in De- liters of diesel fuel when it sank. June 2011, the association said. phoon Maring. cember 1987, killing 4,375 on the The 2GO Group said it believes – Eleven Media “During the dive, they saw ferry and 11 of the tanker’s 13- only the lube oil and diesel fuel bodies through the windows,” said man crew. were leaking. naval operations officer Cdr Noel The owners of the ferry in- The oil slick had reached Singapore church Escalana. volved in last Friday’s accident Cordova municipality and Lapu- The divers did not attempt to said it was carrying 723 passen- Lapu City, both on Mactan island, to pay adulteress retrieve them. Cebu City, said Imelda Sabillano, gers, a crew of 118, and 104 which is home to five-star beach ONE of Singapore’s biggest inde- “It’s dangerous to enter the another local official. 20-foot containers. It had an front resorts. pendent churches, the Faith ship… they need special equipment “We don’t know where these authorized capacity of some 1,010 Lantao town in Cordova, Community Baptist Church, has and extra oxygen tanks,” Cdr bodies came from, but we already passengers and crew and 160 known for its seafood restaurants, been ordered to compensate a Escalana said. have brought to a local morgue 31 containers. was surrounded by oil, said its church worker fired because of Rescuers had no idea how many bodies for identification,” she said. The captains of the two ships mayor Adelino Sitoy. her alleged adulterous relationship. people were trapped inside the ship, The Sulpicio Express 7 is owned are alive but have yet to be ques- The slick also covers at least The woman was sacked last lying on a seabed around 150 feet by unlisted firm Philippine Span tioned, said coast guard operations 10 to 20 hectares of vulnerable September when the church found (46 meters) below sea level. Asia Carrier Corp, formerly chief R/Adm Luis Tuason. mangrove plantations in Cordova, out she was pregnant with the Fourteen bodies had been found known as Sulpicio Lines Inc, The ferry was also carrying a member of a local marine watch child of another church employee. in the town of Talisay, south of which owned the MV Dona Paz 120,000 liters of bunker fuel, group said. – Reuters – The Straits Times 12 PHUKET GAZETTE INTERNATIONAL NEWS August 24 - 30, 2013 In brief… Egypt unrest rumbles on United States says Zimbabwe vote By Asma Alsharif EGYPTIAN lawyers called on flawed, won’t lift Monday for an international in- vestigation into the deaths in po- sanctions lice custody of 37 supporters of THE United States believes Islamist ex-President Mohamed Zimbabwe’s recent election was Mursi. flawed and it doesn’t plan to A coroner’s report said the loosen sanctions against President men died from suffocation after Robert Mugabe’s government un- police used teargas to stop a til there are signs of change in the mass escape on Sunday while a country, the State Department said group of more than 600 suspects on Monday, despite an endorse- were being transported to the Abu ment of the vote by Southern Zabal prison on the outskirts of African leaders. Cairo. President Mugabe, who has Photos provided by the law- ruled Zimbabwe since indepen- yers representing the detainees dence from Britain in 1980, is set show dead bodies with charred to be sworn in as president as faces and limbs and others cov- early as this week, extending his ered in bruises which the lawyers 33-year rule of the country after said were signs of torture. De- winning the July 31 election. tails of the incident remain unclear, they said. “Neutral investigation commit- tees must be formed, not Norwegian jailed Egyptian ones… The real crisis for Congo murder is that the judiciary body is pro- viding a veil to cover those who Police and pro-Mursi supporters struggle outside al-Fath mosque in Cairo. Photo: Reuters found dead in cell violate the law and sanction bloodshed,” said Ahmed Abu weeks of protests. The detainees submit more…We will address the ONE of two Norwegian men jailed Baraka, one of the lawyers rep- who were killed on Sunday were United Nations and all the entities in the Democratic Republic of resenting the 600 detainees. among those held after security that Egypt is a member of,” he said. Congo on charges of murder, es- Security officials denied accu- forces stormed two pro-Mursi “We have a huge problem in the pionage and conspiracy was sations of foul play during camps in Cairo on August 14. loss of neutrality among state in- found dead in his cell on Sunday, Sunday’s incident. Mustafa Azab, the spokesman stitutions,” said Mr Azab. Norwegian and Congolese authori- At least 850 people have died for a committee of lawyers formed “They have the forensics, the ties said. since August 14 in clashes be- to defend the detainees, said they police, the army, the informants Tjostolv Moland had been de- tween security forces and had complained to the Interna- and the intelligence so all the re- tained along with Joshua French supporters of Mr Mursi, who Muslim Brotherhood movement of tional Criminal Court in the Hague ports that the judiciary needs are since the 2009 murder of their was overthrown by the army on seeking to destabilize Egypt. about the killings. in their hands,” he said, adding that driver in Congo’s jungle. The pair July 3 following mass protests. Hundreds of Brotherhood sup- “We have submitted to the In- the lawyers had been denied any denied the charges. Norway has Egypt’s army-backed govern- porters have been arrested in ternational Criminal Court reports communication with the detainees. maintained that the men, both ment has accused Mr Mursi’s recent days in an effort to end of all the massacres and we will – Reuters former military servicemen, were not spies. Afghanistan’s circus gives children fun with a future Guardian: Britain FLINGING sparkling clubs into bad things, becoming suicide the air, the girls showed off their bombers or street thugs,” said made us destroy juggling skills as the boys executed Murtaza Nowrozi, an 18-year-old dazzling acrobatics and climbed juggler from the western province Snowden material into a four-storey human pyramid. of Herat. “It’s better for them to THE British authorities forced the Afghanistan’s Mobile Mini Cir- go to school and join programmes Guardian newspaper to destroy cus (MMC) for Children would like this.” material leaked by Edward have been heretical under the Mr Nowrozi found out about Snowden, its editor has revealed, Taliban, when music was banned the circus at school, but many of calling it a “pointless” move that by the Islamic fundamentalist the members are orphans or from would not prevent further report- movement and girls were forbid- refugee camps. The most talented ing on US and British surveillance den from performing in public and children have been on tour to Den- programmes. going to school. mark, Germany, Italy and Japan, In a column on Tuesday, Alan But today the circus, founded and some have stayed on with the Rusbridger said he had received a by Danish dance instructor David project to become teachers. call from a government official a Mason to teach cooperation and Mr Mason started the circus Afghan girls watch a Mobile Mini Circus performance. Photo: Reuters month ago who told him: “You’ve creativity to children scarred by with his own money and got the Despite the dangers, the project workshops to raise money, the had your fun. Now we want the years of war, is one of few first donation of US$1,000 in has grown so popular that it now budget is close to US$500,000 and stuff back.” The paper had been projects expanding despite a drop 2002, the year after US-led forces runs centers in seven provinces its tours of 25 of the country’s 34 threatened with legal action if it in international aid to Afghanistan. invaded Afghanistan to oust the and has about 300 regular stu- provinces have reached nearly 3 did not comply. “Left on the street, kids turn to Taliban. dents. With dozens of donors and million people. – Reuters Al Qaeda chatter on attacking high-speed trains in Europe sparks concern AL QAEDA is planning attacks on high- crease overall security. Government snooping is a sensitive sub- The newspaper report cited unnamed speed trains in Europe and the authorities “It is known that Germany, along with ject in Germany due to the heavy security experts as saying the attacks could in Germany have stepped up security on other Western states, is a target for jihadist surveillance of citizens in the former com- include acts of sabotage on rail infrastruc- the country’s rail system, a German news- terrorists so we always assess warnings munist East and under Hitler’s Nazis. ture or bombings on board trains. paper reported on Monday. on a case-by-case basis but we already have Mr Bild said German authorities had A spokeswoman for German rail opera- The information about the planned at- a high level of protective measures and we tightened security on high-speed Intercity- tor Deutsche Bahn would not comment on tacks came from the United States’ National do not plan to step these up at the moment,” Express routes and at stations with the Mr Bild report, but said the company Security Agency (NSA), which apparently spokesman Jens Teschke said at a routine “invisible measures”. was always in regular contact with the se- intercepted a call between senior al Qaeda government news conference. A spokesman for the German federal curity authorities over possible threats. members several weeks ago, the daily said. The scandal surrounding the NSA’s glo- police said efforts were already commen- Germany narrowly avoided an attack in But the German Interior Ministry said bal electronic spying operation has become surate with the “highly dangerous situation 2006 when two suitcase bombs left on com- it regularly received information about a major headache for Chancellor Angela both at home and abroad” but said it had muter trains in Cologne failed to explode. such threats and was not planning to in- Merkel ahead of the September 22 election. alerted its forces. – Reuters August 24 - 30, 2013 PROPERTY PHUKET GAZETTE 13

HI-END LIVING, LOW BUY-IN: The Height condominium will offer 301 units on 14 floors. Phanason has broken ground on its next ‘city-living’ project – The Height Condominium. The Height: City-living condo PHUKET developer Phanason has broken prime selling point; infinity edge swim- which, will be available on the ground, ground on its next ‘city-living’ project – the 40-meter-high ming pool, promising covered parking on the ground floor of the Height Condominium, an eye-catching condo will claim a to afford 360 degree the building, as well as two floors of under- medium-rise development in Phuket Town. noticeable spec on views of the city and ground parking integrated into the plans. The 15-storey project is sure to attract the city’s rapidly a picturesque sea- Clearing of the plot, right next to the wide interest among buyers and speculators changing skyline, to view to the east. Sikh Temple, has already commenced, in the city’s ever-fluid, yet lucrative be erected on a prime To be developed on with the project scheduled to be completed residential real estate market. block in what many a plot spanning 2,920 within three years. Elaborating on the project’s concept, Phuket urbanites square meters, just To lure early birds, the developer is Phanason marketing manager, Cheurchan would agree is the “true heart” of Phuket under two rai, The Height condominium will offering some considerable sign-on Panvikarn told the Gazette that The Height Town – just at the foot of Tor Sae Hill, off offer 301 units on 14 floors (the full-func- incentives: Only 5,000 baht is needed to will be a “modern tropical condo... the Suthat Road (Montri Road). tion rooftop counted as the 15th storey). reserve a unit and monthly installments tower in town designed to meet the needs Just a hop and skip from Seng Ho Units will range in size from 27 to 48 square start at only 5,000 baht, with tenants to of people who love the city-living lifestyle.” Bookstore and Satree Phuket School, the meters, and come in three types – one-bed- get free air-conditioning, wallpaper and “With a low buy-in price, all classes project is just 1.4 kilometers away from room, two-bedroom and studio units. The furniture. Early bookings will also receive of customers can afford to be a co-owner Ocean Plaza and Robinson Department majority of rooms will be 27sqm, starting a discount of 100,000 baht, valid until the in this project – students, employees, and Store, and likewise, a stone’s throw to from a million baht, while the largest rooms end of this month. The project is even tourists... We are offering high-end most of the island’s main government – 15 in all – will be a spacious 48sqm, priced supported by Kiatnakin Bank. design, facilities and rooms with sea-views offices, markets and public parks. from 2.2 million baht. – Phuket Gazette and city-views, modern-living starting at just When looking at the project plans, the Amenities and security will be standard a million baht.” first thing that pops out is an aesthetic for the market, with a manned / CCTV For more information , please contact The As the saying goes, location is layout of the building’s rooftop – security system, as well as a fitness Height sales office from 9am-6pm, daily on everything, and this looks to be the project’s highlighted by a helicopter pad and center, swimming pool and car parking 076 612-648. 14 PHUKET GAZETTE PROPERTY August 24 - 30, 2013 Still fond of Phuket: Poll Seven Phuket properties make the ‘smart travellers’ Asia awards list

PHUKET fell one spot to 3rd in the Top 10 Holiday Destinations in Asia list of this year’s “Smart Travel Asia Awards”, which was based on an internet travellers’ choice poll that ran from May to July. Although Bali narrowly edged Phuket, just like last year, the Indonesian leisure hub didn’t have highest honors this time, as there was a new category topper – Bangkok, the Thai capital surging to the top this year from 5th last year. Commenting on the poll results and methodology, editor of SmartTravelAsia.com, Vijay Verghese, said: “Once we cleared Amanpuri Phuket: 2nd in Leisure, 5th for Asian spa resorts. Photo:Silus Grok LEISURE LOVING: Kids enjoying Phuket’s Lyan beach. Photo: Maciek Klimowicz the air of enthusiasts who simply th love voting for their country, those from its 4 spot last year; the Pangkor Laut Resort and The Raffles Hotel Le Royal Phnom wide list, although Bangkok’s following ‘team orders’ and luxury Phuket property was Farm At San Benito, Philippines. Penh and Sheraton Sanya Resort. Suvarnabhumi was joint fifth with a great many more tinkering followed by Bulgari Hotels & Dubai International Airport’s incessantly – but unproductively Resorts, Bali; Ayana Resort And LEISURE PROPERTIES CONFERENCE HOTELS Emirate’s Terminal Three, while th – with proxy servers and robot Spa, Bali; and Conrad Maldives Amanpuri, Phuket triumphed to Moreover, two Phuket Hotels Samui Airport was 10 on the list, nd voting programs, we arrived at Rangali Island (last year’s 2 in the Top 25 Leisure Hotels & made the list for the Top 25 just like last year. category topper). Resorts list, up two spots from Conference Hotels: Angsana Topping the list was Singa- other truths, no less important... th Unlike many polls, ours is not paid Retaining its 5 spot in this last year. Taking the number one Laguna Phuket and JW Marriott pore’s Changi Airport, Hong for and there is no alarming category was Amanpuri, Phuket, spot in this category is The Nam Phuket Resort & Spa Kong International Airport, th nomination fee or arm-twisting for who shared the honors with Four Hai, Hoi An, Vietnam – second last Angsana, which was 17 in the South Korea’s Incheon interna- that gala dinner. This is about Seasons Resort Bali at Jimbaran year, when The Peninsula Hong category last year climbed tional Airport, Kuala Lumpur nd th research, not razzamatazz. (2 last year). Kong was on top, though this year up two spots to joint-15 this year International, Malaysia and Likewise, JW Marriott Phuket falling to joint-3rd along with – level with Amsterdam Nonethless, seven Phuket th properties were shown “top Resort & Spa retained its 11 The Opposite House, Beijing. Raffles Hotel Airport preference” by the website’s place standing on the list, equal Banyan Tree Phuket, jumped Singapore, The Sohiphol, traveller user-base, in several with Mandarin Oriental Dhara seven spots up from its 12th spot Peninsula Netherlands. categories as follows: Dhevi, Chiang Mai. last year, up to joint-fifth this year, Shanghai and AirAsia and Falling two spots from last along with Amandari, Bali, Raffles The Regent Jetstar Asia SPA PROPERTIES year, the fourth Phuket property Grand Hotel d’Angkor, Siem Taipei. retained their Banyan Tree Phuket got the to make this list was Angsana Reap, Cambodia. Meanwhile, number one Laguna Phuket, this year joint Up a spot from last year, JW Marriott and two spots, number one rating in the Top 25 rd Spa Hotels & Resorts list, up 23 , sharing the honors with the Twinpalms Phuket Resort improved four respectfully in was rated joint-6th with Grand spots from 25th the Top 10 Hyatt Bali and Sofitel Legend last year to 21st Budget Airlines Metropole Hanoi. this year, on the in Asia list. Dropping a spot from last same tier with Indigo year, the SALA Phuket Resort Grand Hyatt jumped up and Spa made this year’s list Kuala Lumpur, to 3rd from joint-14th with the Centara Grand Renaissance 6th previously, Beach Resort Samui and The Harbour View while Cebu Upper House Patong. Hong Kong Ho- Pacific and Improving four spots from last tel and Wynn Spice Jet were year, JW Marriot this year Macau. TRANQUILITY: Banyan Tree Phuket’s joint-4th, fol- achieved joint-15th, side-by-side Topping the Spa Pool Villa. Photo: ThailandAsiaTrip lowed by Tiger with Samode Palace, The Chedi category was The Fullerton Airways, Thai Smile, Scoot Jet Club at Tanah Gajah, Ubud and Hotel Singapore, swapping Konnect, Jin Air and VietJet Air. The royal Pita Maha Bali. places with the reining number Sharing the number one spot Making its debut on the list, 1 Conference Hotel – the Four for Top 10 Airlines Worldwide the 6th Phuket hotel on the list is Seasons Hotel Hong Kong. were Emirates and Singapore the Aleenta Resort & Spa, Phuket Airlines, followed by Cathay – Phang Nga, in 20th alongside IN THE AIR Pacific Airways; Qatar Airways; the Intercontinental Bali Resort, Phuket International Airport did not Thai Airways International; One&Only Royal Mirage, Dubai, make the Top 10 Airports World- Korean Air; Malaysia Airlines; British Airways; Virgin Atlantic; Air France, Air New Zealand, Jet Airways and Lufthansa; ANA, Etihad Airways and Qantas.

BIG BRANDING As for hotel branding, Shangri- La was perceived by poll partici- pants as number one on the Top 10 Hotel Brands list, followed by Four Seasons; Grand Hyatt; Man- darin Oriental; Peninsula; Conrad, Raffles Hotels & Resorts and Ritz- Carlton; Aman Resorts, JW Marriott, Park Hyatt and W Hotels; Hilton and Sheraton; Sofitel, Taj Hotels and Westin; and Hard Rock and InterContinental Hotels. SALA: A good mix of oriental and modern at Mai Khao beach. Photo: Sunctu – Phuket Gazette August 24 - 30, 2013 PROPERTY PHUKET GAZETTE 15

Passing on one prescribed under Section 19, which has acquired a condo- minium unit through inheritance as legitimate heir or legatee of a will or through any other means, as the case may be, shall give written notice to the competent your condo official within 60 days from the date of ownership of the condo- minium unit and [if he does Issues with transferring your condominium’s not qualify to own] he shall dispose of that unit within a title to children, your foreign wife or legal hires period of not more than one year from the date of acquiring PURSUANT to the current Condominium Act for the specific purpose of acquiring the possession of the unit. If it is not of Thailand, and per the common practices condominium unit, or he must present disposed of within such period of used at the Thai land offices, the transfer of evidence of withdrawal from a deposit time, the provisions of Section 19 ownership of your freehold condominium unit account in a Thai Bank and which account is (5), paragraph four, shall apply to your spouse or children, in whole or in held in the name of person having residence mutatis mutandis. part, can pose a problem to those who wish abroad; or he may present evidence of Simply put: The provision of to make such a transfer. withdrawal from a deposit account of Section 19 (5) paragraph four Section 19 of the Condominium Act of foreign currency in the amount of not less means that the Director General of NOT SO FAST: Passing on your foreign owned freehold Thailand states: condo in Thailand to your foreign wife or children is not than the price of the unit to be purchased. the land Department shall have the as simple as handing over the keys. Photo: Victor1558 A foreigner can acquire ownership of In the situation where a deceased owner authority to dispose of the condo- a condominium unit through one of five of a condominium unit bequeaths by will minium unit, and the provisions relating to legal hires without any problem. ways, able to show sufficient proof that the freehold ownership of the unit to a enforcement of the disposal of land under A simple solution to these problems, he/she qualifies. The five ways are: foreigner, or if the foreigner inherits Chapter of the Land Code and Ministerial that may be used in appropriate cases, is (1) He/she shows evidence of a permit such unit through inheritance laws, the Regulations issued under the code shall apply to initially register ownership of the to hold residency in the Kingdom under inheritor must meet one of the five criteria mutatis mutandis to the disposal of the condominium unit in mutual names the laws on immigration; or, indicated above to hold permanent condominium unit. (wife, children), or to use an offshore (2) He/she shows evidence of a permit ownership of the unit. If the inheritor fails So, you can pass on your condominium corporate identity for such purchase in to enter the kingdom under the laws on to meet any one of the five criteria, then unit to your hires, but if they cannot place of registered ownership in a buyer’s promotion of investment; or, they must dispose of the inherited keep ownership themselves, they would personal name. (3) He/she shows evidence of having a condominium unit within one year. have to sell the unit within one year or registered company under Thai laws; or, In addition, any person who inherits a show evidence of funding to re-purchase This article was written by International Law Office (4) He/she shows evidence of being a condominium unit through a will or the unit as mentioned above. Patong Beach Co, Ltd., since 1995 a Phuket holder of a promotion certificate under the otherwise must report the inheritance. Upon sale to a third party, past based law firm. case of enquiries, please contact laws on promotion of investment; or, Section 19 (7) of the Condominium Act experiences has shown us that the Friedrich ‘Sam’ Fauma, Senior Partner and (5) He/she shows evidence of having proscribes that an alien or a juristic per- transfer of funds generated from such Consultant, by email: [email protected] or imported foreign currency into the Kingdom son which the law treats as an alien, except sales can be sent out of Thailand to the phone +66-(0) 76-222 191-5. 16 PHUKET GAZETTE PROPERTY August 24 - 30, 2013 Samui’s tender trap Jumping into the numbers’ bed with Phuket’s ‘mini-me’ in Thailand’s other sea talk of new things, Germany and Thailand are the top two providers of visitors to para- dise. Despite all the talk of cost-conscious Thais not wanting to shell out hard-earned baht on what is deemed to be an expensive airline route, nearly 100,000 domestic travel- EVERYWHERE you turn these days, tour- lers came in the first half of this year. ism talk inevitably winds up on the subject of What’s most impressive in the stats the mass market. It’s not unlike barreling though, has been the ability of island hotels to down a dead-end street on a supercharged, drive up room rates in the upscale and luxury high-speed bulldozer. There is no such thing tiers. Despite all the chitchat about quality as a damage control button to push. Yes, there tourists throughout the Kingdom, clearly there will be collateral damage. are folks out there that are willing to pay more Meanwhile back on the broader Thailand LIFEBLOOD: Although Bangkok Airways continues to drive tourism to Samui, new direct for more boutique offerings. In this case, less train of thought, and particularly in regards to international flights to/from Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia are proving a boon. Photo: qsimple might be better. the other island on the opposite side of the Yet looming on the horizon, there remains isthmus, Samui comes into the picture. We’ve the specter of larger mega trends as the ratio just finished our annual midyear research re- between individual travellers and groups is view of the island’s hotel sector and the results tilting to the latter. Likewise a 12% pick up in frankly well exceeding our own expectations. occupancy for the budget and economy tiers Using market-wide hotel occupancy as a indicate that demand at the lower end is a gauge of good health, through the end of June force to be contended with. island properties hit 75% occupancy, which In the great quality versus quantity debate, is up 7% compared to the same six-month perhaps the most profound indicator that period in 2012. If you look towards the full- Samui can sustain its current trajectory is the year trading figures, the high period that peaks development pipeline of new properties. This in August is still to come so there is every currently stands at only four new hotels and reason to assume the positive vibes will be a total of 319 new rooms opening over the sustained. next two years. Anyone driving around Naturally the question for those who Bangkok or Phuket is likely to spot new ho- understand the airlift issues is how are visi- tels popping up as far as the eye can see. So tors getting to the destination. Unlike Phuket, in terms of supply and demand fundamen- where low-cost airline carriers and charter tals, Samui certainly gets a high five from us. flights clog the air bridges, over in “mini-me While it’s not fair to compare apples to land”, Bangkok Airways is tourism’s lifeblood. oranges or bananas to mangoes, the tempta- As in our own skyrocketing storyline here, tion to comment on Phuket versus Samui is a international direct flights have elevated tender trap. These are, and will always be Samui’s numbers with added services to Hong Despite Samui’s reputation as an expensive destination, domestic tourists dominate arrivals. very different places. Kong and Singapore. The introduction of crawling between the sheets and getting up decline. Did anyone say Euro-crisis? Yes the latter has its own demons in terms flights from Silk Air was a serious boost to close and personal is always a telling exer- Moving over to the new players as can be of limited road infrastructure, a cap on airlift the party and new routes from Kuala Lumpur cise. The global shifting sands of travel are expected both China and Russia are and increasing infrastructure issues. Yet talk and Penang has been like a kick in the pants, impacting virtually every corner of the globe. picking up the pace, as is India. Spillover from to a growing number of voices overseas in gaining forward momentum. Two of the island’s legacy tourism markets, Malaysia is also rising up due to the direct the luxury travel world, and there is a de- Getting inside the numbers, or shall we say namely the UK and Italy are continuing to flight mentioned previously. Yet with all the cided twitter about the little island in the gulf. Lobby for a better cause: luxury living CAPE Panwa Hotel, Phuket’s first in time for another successful drop to ensure an unrivalled luxury hotel, recently unveiled its hosting of Cape Panwa Hotel guest experience focused on newly completed lobby, featuring Phuket Raceweek. comfort and style. As guests bold colors, playful textures and The newly renovated hotel is enter the Cape Panwa Hotel, they a thoughtful design that nods to a beautiful showcase of how are greeted by pops of color, the building’s rich history. globally inspired design can whimsical patterns and rich Awarded with a number of elegantly marry Thai sensibility. textures. accolades, the Cape Panwa Hotel Raising the bar for Phuket The vibrant ocean-themed art at now boasts a luxurious presidential hospitality, Kasemkij Hotel’s the front desk features a display of suite, a glamorous new lobby interior designers created a over one hundred fishes wrapped and 205 refreshed guest rooms, just warm and graceful new back- in natural rope, a reflection of the building’s origins and the Cape Ho- tel Collection’s two-fish emblem. Beyond the beautiful display above the front desk, guests are treated to a harmonizing aesthetic of different shades of blue, while earth tones mixed with exotic woods and comfortable seating combine to EARTHLY ELEGANCE: Cape Panwa Hotel’s new lobby features bold colors, create a vibrant experience for playful textures and a design that nods to the building’s rich history. lounging or casual meetings. ing and a seamless guest experience swimming pools, a fitness center, “The renovation first began with from check-in to check-out.” water sports and meeting facilities. a guest room refresh and we’re Having hosted various celebrities Guests can choose from ten dining thrilled that the full makeover is and dignitaries, this legendary hotel and bar options including Thai, now complete,” said Poomiphat offers one of Phuket’s most beauti- Italian, continental and seafood. Navanukroh, Travel Industry Group ful private beaches perfect for year – Phuket Gazette Director, Kasemkij Hotels. “The new round swimming, a world-class spa look creates a fresh ambiance that with internationally trained thera- For more information and reservations combines comfort and style, and pists, an elegant selection of please contact reservations at Cape allows us to introduce great new sea-facing suites and pool villas Panwa Hotel, Phuket at Tel. 0-7639- features like communal lobby seat- equipped with luxury amenities, two 1123 or capepanwa.com. August 24 - 30, 2013 BUSINESS PHUKET GAZETTE 17 Own your own kitchen biz FAMOUS Danish kitchen brand, Kvik is customers the best experience with our expanding throughout Thailand and thus products and services.” looking for serious Phuket partners – Kvik is part of the Swedish Ballingsl v ideally someone who dreams to own their Int AB Group, a leading kitchen and bath- own successful kitchen business. room specialist in Scandinavia and the United Associate, Thomas E Sorensen explained Kingdom. Kvik currently has 137 stores that as part of Kvik’s current expansion, the worldwide and has just celebrated its 11th company is prepared to offer a full- store opening in Thailand. package business module including business “Kvik’s popularity in Thailand is based academy (training), sales support, IT on its European success, along with our systems, marketing promotion and campaign. great Danish design history. Thai’s connect “This is to ensure the best possible with Kvik products as they are contempo- platform for our new rary, smart, fashionable, partners. Currently we imported kitchens offered have gone from two to at a surprisingly low 11 stores in the last 12 price,” notes Thomas. months and another four “The charm of Danish are under construction. design is innovative, It is still possible to contemporary design, become part of the where form closely fol- success, since we are lows function. Kvik pays looking for potential great interest to human partners all over Thai- lifestyle and behaviors and land,” he said. has designed kitchens to A Danish Kitchen compliment this. Take brand, for almost 30 our ‘Sociable Kitchen’; years, Kvik has been a major player in the with its large multifunctional work island European market for kitchens and is about placed in the center of the room, it becomes to become an option in the Asian market. the beating heart of the home. Where fam- Thailand is the first country outside Den- ily and friends can gather for food mark, Scandinavia and Europe that the preparation, a good laugh or deeper company will provide its “utmost to ser- conversation,” he added. vice and help our customers to make their As for what makes Kvik outstanding dreams come true.” from other brands, Thomas explained: Thomas continues. “For almost 30 “Kvik’s Danish design kitchens are designed years, Kvik has been a major player in the to serve the purpose of making its custom- European market for kitchens and we are ers have a greater, more enjoyable about to become an option in the Asian experience. Our products are of high qual- market. Kvik’s business is based on strong ity and affordable for the majority, allowing KEEN FOR KITCHENS: Thomas E Sorensen of the Kvik Family, said that the ideal partner in relationships with our partners. Where we everyone to own their own cool kitchen,” Phuket is someone who has always dreamed of owning their own business. train, supply and support each of our part- he continues. ners with our experience and expertise that “We consider Thailand as the home mar- and warehouse facilities in Thailand to live If you are interested and would like to be a part has brought us huge success across the ket in Asia and we are planning to expand up and deliver the dream kitchen to the cus- of Kvik Family, please feel free to contact European markets. Maintaining our core our business across Asia. This is the tomers faster, as our name ‘Kvik’ means Thomas via Email: [email protected] or mobile: values that are targeted towards giving our reason why we are setting up production ‘fast and smart’ in Danish,” he concludes. 084-926 0318 Absolute return funds By David Mayes market conditions. ditionally been one of the steadiest There are very many strategies of the absolute return strategies. THIS short article will take a look that are employed in the attempt Many of these funds traded through at whether absolute return funds to generate these returns. They the 80s, 90s, and most the first will begin delivering again? are called absolute because they decade of this century without An absolute return fund or are not relative, as many in the having any losing years at all. When strategy is one which attempts industry like to report their the stock markets of the world – attempts being a very key word performance in comparison with collapsed in 2008, many trend here – to deliver positive year- some benchmark. following funds had their best on-year returns regardless of Trend following funds have tra- years ever. Since then however, it has been a tough time and many very famous funds have not gotten back above the high water marks they made that year. Many have lost three out of the last four years. It is interesting to note that Bill Gross, the famed bond guru, has recently publicly announced that he intends to focus his firm’s strate- gic direction on moving away from bonds and trying to attempt to become the number one alternative investment fund house.

David Mayes MBA resides in Phuket and provides wealth management services to expats around the globe, focusing on UK pension transfers. He can be reached by email: [email protected] or phone on 085-335-8573. Faramond TAKING CHANCES: An absolute return fund strategy is not a sure bet in UK is regulated by the FCA and terms of always yielding a positive year-on-year return. Photo: John D Macdonald advises on pensions and taxation. 18 PHUKET GAZETTE OPINION August 24 - 30, 2013 A long fall from grace A RECENT report about the problem of “homeless foreigners” from the West becoming a burden on the Thai state (see page 10) set off an unprecedented flurry of comments on popular online blogs. Like so many dimensions of modern life, the problem of “homelessness” has reached global proportions, as cases like the diaspora of the stateless Rohingya from Myanmar show. Although misery is relative, the subsequent online debate about what should be done about “down and out” Westerners in Thailand clearly touched a nerve among many expatriate residents. The reactions ranged across a broad spectrum, as one might imagine, given the wide diversity of backgrounds of those who engaged in the debate. At one end, some were quick to dismiss those who “fell through the cracks” as hopeless drunks, junk- ies, sex addicts – or any combination of these. Such commentators saw the plight of the homeless as a direct result of their own lack of self-control, maturity or other behavioral shortcomings. Hence, they should be forced to lie in the bed they made for themselves with no assistance whatsoever: end of debate. At the other end of the spectrum, some people showed a great deal of sympathy, recounting inspiring tales of their own suc- cessful struggles to pull themselves up after bad times, many pointing out the pivotal roles that Good Samaritans – both Thai Old Town should be pedestrian only and foreign – had played in helping them rebuild their lives. Re: Gazette online, Phuket Opin- nobody cares. While there was a great disparity of opinion about what the ion: Phuket Town, worthy of I have witnessed the speedboat Thai government, as well as diplomatic missions in Thailand, should Unesco World Heritage status, cowboys (I refuse to call them do to address such cases, there was little debate that Thailand con- August 18 captains) countless times speed- tinues to be a powerful magnet for a great many people who, failing I like to send European tourists ing through that channel at almost Do you have an opinion to voice? to find happiness in their home countries, seek it here. to visit the Sino-Portuguese streets 20 knots. This harms the man- Email [email protected] This influx should come as little surprise given the way the and Chinese temples in downtown groves and it is obviously very country promotes itself as an “Amazing” tourist destination and Phuket, but most complain about dangerous. makes entry easy for western visitors through lax immigration their inability to take nice pictures No more wild cards Mike laws – visas on arrival, no mandatory travel insurance and so on. of the old houses because the cars Gazette forum We live in an extraordinary age of technological advance, yet parked along the sidewalks are Re: Gazette online, Tiger Disco: hobos, bums and the homeless remain a stubborn presence. spoiling the pictures. date set for trial over lethal Phuket Prab’s got it right One fact has become increasingly self-evident: social stability May I suggest that the Phuket fire, August 17 depends primarily upon family and small-scale community sup- City Mayor make all downtown If anyone responsible for the Re: Gazette online, Mafia rule: port systems of the type that have never been adequately streets pedestrian-only streets, as fire gets more than a 20,000 baht Patong Kingpin points finger at recreated by any economic systems, from communist to capital- is done in old cities in Europe? fine and a one year suspended sen- officials, August 17 ist and everything in between. Asterix tence, I will be very surprised. Prab, whatever you have Any foreigner considering a move to Thailand is warned: it is Gazette forum If there is no real punishment, done, your response is spot on. possible to find happiness and prosperity here, but the safety net it means anyone can play “get out You are telling the world how that will support you during times of trouble will be the one you More SUDS facts of jail free” cards to run clubs corrupt Thailand is. If I could vote have set up by yourself. which break the law, flout safety for you, you would be PM. and cut any corner required to Re: Gazette online, Special Re- I agree with you; the DSI is maximize profits. not going to stop the payment sys- port: Sudden Death comes knock- Ban these people from ever ing at Phuket’s door, August 18 tem as long as there is no owning clubs again and jail the punishment of the officials. In the early ’90s there was a persons responsible for the deaths. TerryJC spate of Sudden Unexplained Skip Gazette forum Death Syndrome (SUDS) occur- Gazette forum ring in Isaan construction workers in Singapore; autopsies performed No fines for the rich at National University Hospital and Bad guys aren’t cons Singapore General Hospital were Re: Gazette online, Mayor Pian, all non-specific. Re: Gazette online, Pyrotechnic other Patong officials snared in It was thought at the time that meth-dealer caught red handed in vote fraud probe, August 16 overwork coupled with alcohol and Krabi, August 16 If found guilty, I hope they are energy drinks was a possible cause, How are these prisoners getting not only removed from office but then Brugada’s syndrome was rec- access to phones and organizing also given a jail term, and never ognized in 1992. drug deals if they’re not bribing the again allowed to run for any SUDS continues to be a phe- guards? political position. nomenon, primarily in men, in It is about time the officials who Forget imposing fines, as for northeast Thailand and Laos. are not corrupt, if there are any to the rich and powerful they are no Kamala Resident MD be found in the prison system, go deterrent to committing crimes. Gazette forum through Nakhon Sri Thammarat Skip prison with a big broom and sweep Gazette forum Find Jintana’s killers out the obvious corruption that ap- pears to occur there on a Punish the foresters regular basis! Re: Gazette online, Family of ex- Ozmisty ecuted Phuket human resources Gazette forum Re: Gazette online, Logging raid director demand results, August 16 finds over 100 rai of damage, no Let’s go already. The family lumberjacks, August 16 deserves better than this. Another Slow down at sea Investigate and fire the forestry unsolved murder. This was a good staffer and other authorities for person and some scumbag needs Re: Gazette online, Phuket speed- starters. How exactly does some- to be held accountable for boat brings tourists closer to one clear 100-200 rai without Volume 20 Issue 34 her death. nature, August 16 forestry officials knowing it? Khun D Yes, there is a speed limit of five Dave Williams Gazette forum knots, but, as on the roads, Gazette forum August 24 - 30, 2013 OPINION PHUKET GAZETTE 19 Battling corruption

Surin Bamrungphol, 53, is a founder and President of the Phuket Anti-Corruption PHUKET is growing at a tremen- Network. He is a Phuket native dous rate. New businesses are opening all the time, there is a great with a PhD in Development deal of money coming in, and a Strategies from Phuket We need more parks, not more gray, in Thalang. Image: Baltic Media lot of people are moving here to Rajabhat University. Mr Surin take advantage of the economic is the CEO of SureMed growth. But one consequence of all this is increased corruption. Corporation, vice-president of Greenery for the soul The purpose of my anti-corrup- the Federation of Thai WHEN I lived on Racha Island, I tion network is to free Phuket from Industries, Phuket Chapter, could never really figure out where this serious problem. This is to ben- Thalang was. and serves on the board of a variety of companies. By Leslie Porterfield efit Phuket society, but it’s also The only time I encountered it Here, he talks about why Phuket needs an anti-corruption important because we’ll be joining was taking a taxi to the airport. Do you have an opinion to voice? the Asean Economic Community network and what motivated him to start it. Around Koh Kaew I’d ask the Email [email protected] soon and we need to show outsid- driver, “Is this Thalang?”, then ers that our business practices are and young people. We try to help have organizations that do this. I again at the Heroines’ Monument. First because – until a dedicated transparent and above board. them understand that corruption think that having our own anti- Finally, as we whizzed through the airport highway is built – this road The way to do this is first to raise is something close to them, part corruption network here on Phuket Ton Sai Waterfall intersection, is one of the first sights most tour- awareness, then to take action. of their daily lives. would be more effective; it would he’d say, “This is it.” ists will have of the magical I started doing some research last One example I give is this: Of- involve locals checking up on lo- All three areas seemed inter- tropical island of their dreams. May, when I handed out question- ficials receive 100 million baht for cal activities and people. changeable – nondescript strips of But most importantly, because the naires about corruption to all kinds a new road, but they only spend Right now, Phuket is the only slightly grubby shops. Who would people of Thalang, inhabitants of this of people of all ages, including stu- 80 million baht on the project, province in Thailand that has this want to live there? semi-industrial landscape, need to dents, government employees and putting the other 20 million baht kind of network. We started it in Now I do. My original impres- see something beautiful every day. local business associations. in their pockets, with the result February this year and we have 800 sion remains, but I’ve learned that Phuket Government, please buy We named 25 government de- that we all drive on a substandard members so far. We are aiming for between those shops – the sand lot land along Thepkrasattri Road to partments on the survey and asked road. Examples like this help 3,000 by the end of the year. and the cinder-block seller, the ven- preserve green spaces, so that as questions such as “When you did people see how corruption is part All of us who live in Phuket use dors of used cars and blue-and-red we race down the road on our official business with this depart- of their lives. its natural resources every day. metal barrels – are slivers of green, daily commutes, we can rest our ment, did you have to pay money In the future, when we are How many of us give something an occasional overgrown lot, and eyes on them for a brief second under the table?” stronger and more established, we back? This is the only thing I could glimpses of hills. and feel uplifted. We haven't finished processing can start taking more direct ac- think of doing to give back to There’s space here. When I Please make parks where we the data yet, but as of today the top tion. For example, if the Phuket Phuket, my hometown. come back to Thalang from Phuket can take walks, play football and five categories of officials accused government has a big construc- I hope that with our network, Town or Chalong or Rawai, I feel badminton, and exercise in the of being corrupt by the 500 people tion project, we would send Phuket can become a model of anti- myself breathing easier. early morning. who answered our questionnaire are: someone to join the planning com- corruption, a model that other But that space is rapidly being The buffalo field at Heroines’ the Police; the Land Department; mittee, to make sure the bidding provinces can follow. I don’t ex- filled in. Where there was a grassy Monument and the jungly patch local administration organizations; is conducted in a fair and trans- pect this to happen overnight; it will field across from the cashew fac- across from the green mosque in the Land Transport Office; and the parent way. Ideally, we’d also take a long time, probably 10 or 20 tory, a gigantic building is going Baan Lipon are prime locations. Immigration Police, in that order. follow the construction as it years. That’s okay. Even if it up; the field next to Tesco Lotus And why not buy strips of land A lot of people think that cor- progresses. doesn’t happen in my lifetime, it’s is soon to be a car dealership, and all along Thepkrasattri Road – ruption doesn’t concern them – This is the power and respon- okay. I will feel satisfied knowing a long swathe of rubber trees along sections of rubber trees and pine- they think it’s other people’s prob- sibility of a civil society, and it that I started Phuket moving in the the road after Wat Phra Thong has apple fields – and hold them as lem But actually, it’s all around us, should not be seen as something right direction. I want to help cre- been cut down to make way for green spaces? Businesses can go affecting us whether we can see extraordinary. Government offi- ate a corruption-free Phuket for my some business or other. in behind these. it or not. We can’t just ignore it. cials are spending our money – children and grandchildren. I be- At this pace, Thepkrasattri Road Do this now before the land Because people tend to think it our tax money – and we should lieve you do too. from the airport turnoff to the by- prices in Thalang go up too much, doesn’t involve them, the first be able to check to see that it’s More information is available by pass road will soon be a solid before any more huge housing thing we have to do is raise aware- being spent properly. calling 081-8912333 or emailing: corridor of commercial enterprises. estates or big box stores arrive. ness, especially among children At a national level we already [email protected] But it shouldn’t be. It’s not too late, but it soon will be.

Why do we need the There is a lot of traffic in the area because of the houses and Koh Kaew Lights? schools of the Koh Kaew com- What’s the M.O. at Thalang P.O.? munity, and especially during rush tral point and have them distrib- I don’t understand why there are hours the lights help to manage I have lived in the Thalang area address. Is this true? traffic lights at the Koh Kaew for five years now and in that time Swerv ute it futher, but they haven’t all types of traffic. For example, agreed to do this. intersection. Their sole purpose the lights allow pedestrians to I have become very frustrated by Thalang seems to be to allow people how long it takes to receive my If you are expecting urgent mail, cross the road safely, and vehicles you can walk in and pick it up. coming out of a small soi on the to make safe u-turns there. mail. Prachoom Kaothan of the east side of Thepkrasattri Road to Each month I usually receive Thalang Post Office replied: Our office is opposite Tesco For more information contact Thalang. We are open Monday turn right and head north. the Phuket Highways Office on my True TV magazine around the Yes, you are correct. We do not th th to Friday from 8:30am to Traffic headed north on 076-212179 or 076-210192. 15 or 16 , but sometimes as late have enough staff to deliver mail Thepkrasattri Road constantly as the 26th or as early as the 2nd. daily to every address. We are 4:30pm, and Saturday from slows down and gets backed up True has assured me that their aware of the problem and apolo- 8:30am to noon. all the way to the bypass road magazines are sent out in the last gize for the delay. We will keep looking for ways because of these lights. Is there week of the month. Thalang Post Office is respon- to speed up our service. another reason why they are there? My TOT bill is issued around sible for delivering mail in a large Ant Phuket the 15th of the month, yet I area, from Koh Kaew to Sarasin Phuket usually don’t receive it until the Bridge. Not only is the area big, due date – around the 6th or 7th of but the number of houses is con- Samak Luedwonghad, Phuket the following month. stantly increasing, so the volume Highways Office Director, As I never receive just one of mail is increasing too. replies: piece of mail but always at least In a big housing estate, it takes The lights are there to increase two to three pieces, I suspect a long time to deliver the mail. We the safety of the area, not just to that mail is held at Thalang Post have tried to negotiate with the help motorists trying to exit the Office until there is more than administrations of these estates to small soi. Seeing red. Photo: Horia Varlan one piece to deliver to a specific allow us to deliver mail to a cen- 20 PHUKET GAZETTE August 24 - 30, 2013

Leading Thai real estate developer Sansiri PLC, recently “DECKED-OUT held the “DECKED-OUT IN DENIM” party at THE DECK condominium development sales gallery in IN DENIM” Patong, Phuket. With live DJ, BBQ and lucky draw, the exclusive event was attended by many Phuket PARTY fashionistas and real estate agents.

CAPE PANWA HOTEL DRAGO ANDAMAN WELCOMES THE CAMPAIGN AT CENTRAL QUEEN OF DANCE FESTIVAL PHUKET

Thailand’s Queen of Dance Christina Aguilar (2nd right) and family were warmly welcomed by Cape Panwa Hotel Phuket General Manager Philipp S Frickhinger (2nd left), PR Manager Kulaseth After a successful campaign with much interest from customers, the team at Drago Hovongratana (far right) and Cape Panwa Hotel Senior Sales Coordinator Krittiya Butlakorn (far Andaman recently held annother special promotional event to showcase Vespa and left), during their recent stay at the hotel. Piaggio motorscooters from Italy.

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HOUSE & FURNITURE Properties SINGLE HOUSE Single house, 60sqm. 2 HABITIA KOH KAEW For Sale FOR SALE/ RENT floors, 3 bedrooms and 3 toilets. In Chaiyapruek Vil- lage at Land & Houses Park, Chalong. Good location and URGENT SALE/ entrance from bypass road. RENT Built 2 years ago. Tel: 084- 627 7001.

LAND AT Modern style, Shino-Por- In Thanapa Park View vil- CHERNG TALAY tuguese, area: 36.50sq lage in Koh Kaew. 57sq 1 ngan, nice flat land, quiet wah with 118sqm living wah, with 2 bedrooms, 2 area, Chanote. In Pasak Soi 5. space approx. 3 bed- bathrooms, a kitchen, a Price: 2 million baht. Tel: 089- rooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 carpark and a garden. 472 9118. car park. Sale down pay- Sale: 2.25 million baht. ment 500,000 baht. Tel: Rent: 11,000 baht per 087-270 9093. month. Contact owner. HOUSE FOR SALE IN Tel: 089-615 9719. Email: BAAN PROMPHAN [email protected] 2.5 floors, 5 mins to town, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. Good House in Patong. Newly HOT DEAL - CONDO for stay! 2.85 million baht. Tel: built 40sq wah, near Sea AT THE POINT PRIVATE SALE OF 083-506 9155. Email: sumitra. Pearl project, Patong. 2 HALF A RAI [email protected] storeys, 3 bedrooms, 3 bath- At Ao Makham. Land is located rooms, fully furnished, 2 opposite Port of Phuket and aircons, kitchen with hood, next to Bel Air Cape Panwa LAND NEAR KATA refrigerator, dining room, liv- Resort. Price 4.2 million. For CENTER ing room, hot water, cable more information please call: Great location, road access, STUNNING KARON TV and internet. Tel: 086- 081-891 5932, 089-035 6702. 5 mins to Kata Beach and VILLA main road, 1,450sqm with title 476 9612. Beautiful Karon Villa at Prima deed. Contact Lychee. Tel: Villas. Safe, secure estate HOUSE IN 081-891 3048 (English & Ger- close to beach, 3 bedrooms, 3-BED SEAVIEW VILLA VILLA DOWROONG man). Private estate, Cape Yamu, Phuket Town. 3 bedrooms, 3 crystal clear salt water pool, 992sqm land plot, pool. Price bathrooms, 47sq wah. Tel: 089- open modern living, fully fur- 909 2771. nished, true gem, can have free- reduced 12-7 million baht. Tel: PHUKET VILLA 5 086-279 6283. Email: kdes hold, a must-see at 13.9 million VILLAGE Opposite Big C, one bed- [email protected] NEW COTTAGE ON baht. Everything done and COCONUT ISLAND room with nice view, in- ready to enjoy the lifestyle. Tel: 50sqm cottage, beachfront, cludes furniture. 55sqm. +61-8171 9468. Email: elbej@ CHARMING 4-BED Price: 3.5 million baht. HOUSE 319sqm land, solar heater, hotmail.com ready to move in. Tel: 076- Negotiable. Tel: 082-276 Quiet and private. Great for fami- 1817, 081-614 5372. lies. Photos available. 5km east 273399, 089-873 6533 (English 2 PLOTS REAL from Heroines Monument. 15 & Thai). Email: suwatchana@ 180 SEAVIEW mins to schools/shopping. icloud.com D CONDO 1, KATHU 2 plots, real full panoramic Within small housing estate -29.94sqm, mountain view, seaview. +/-1 rai/each freehold, (Ploenchan 2) with security price 1,278,000 baht. at Yamu Hills. 5,500,000 baht gate. 4.5 million baht. Tel: 081- CONDO IN SUPALAI PARK -29.70sqm, mountain view, per rai. Tel: 084-625 5090. 892 2419 (English & Thai). price 1,280,000 baht. Email: phuket.turquoise@ Email: [email protected] -29.79sqm, pool view, price gmail.com NEW COTTAGE ON 1,330,000 baht. COCONUT ISLAND 1 RAI KATHU LAND -29.70sqm, pool view, price 50sqm cottage, beachfront, Beautiful valley land, lakeside 1,365,000 baht. NEW CONDO: URGENT 319sqm land, solar heater, views forever. Chanote. 8.4 For sale. Price 4.5 million SALE/RENT ready to move in. Tel: 076- million baht. Tel: 087-900 8445. baht. No agents, no fur- Contact Vutdy on 081-892 3709. 273399, 089-873 6533 (English nished, with 4 aircons, 3 & Thai). Email: suwatchana@ bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, icloud.com BOAT LAGOON For sale. Near Sengho kitchen and car park. Be- NEW APARTMENTS LAND Bookstore in Phuket hind Kajonkiet International 612,000 BAHT Town. Studio, 30sqm, School on Chao Fa West Bayshore do it again. Be first! HOUSE FOR SALE Land in Boat Lagoon Park Koh Kaew near BIS, 6 bed- Residence, 664sqm, 7.5 floor 15, sea view, aircon, Road, 5 minutes to Central Get the best unit, starts at furnished. Price: 1.55 mil- Festival. For short or long- 612,000 baht. Building 98% rooms, swimming pool, large million baht. Chanote. garden, maid rooms. US$ Negotiable. Tel: 088-826 lion baht. Ready to move term rent, 16,000 baht per completed. Contact Paul. Tel: in. For more info call 089- month. Call to see 087- 083-643 7127 (English). Special price, modern 550,000. For more information, 5766, 087-621 1299 (En- please call 084-185 4746 or glish). 472 9118. 270 9093. style, 30sqm, 1 bedroom, 1 living room, 1 pantry. In email to [email protected] 30 RAI IN TOWN Kathu, 3km to Patong. Flat land near Dowroong Full set of built-in furniture. 2 RAI MAI KHAO School in Phuket Town. Tel: Ready to move in! Contact BEACH LAND 081-691 2526. Ya. Tel: 081-797 5138. 200m to beach, flat coconut tree land. Fully developed, Chanote title. 6.8 million baht per rai. Tel: 083-103 6660 (English & Thai). Email: [email protected]

HOUSE IN PHUKET VILLA 5 FOR SALE

46sq wah, furnished, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3 aircons, carpark. Only 3.5 million baht. Tel: 081- 787 7675. August 24 - 30, 2013 PHUKET GAZETTE 23

HOUSE FOR SALE 2 RAI MAI KHAO IN KATA CONDO AT BEACH LAND 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, fully ROYAL PLACE 200m to beach, flat coconut furnished, 500m from the tree land. Fully developed, beach. 5 million baht. Contact Chanote title. 6.8 million baht Amorn. Tel: 081-569 6030. per rai. Tel: 083-103 6660 (English & Thai). Email: [email protected] CHALONG LAND/ HOUSE SALE 2 rai hill land with seaview, 3-bed BEACHFRONT LAND house + guesthouse. Close to At Naka Yai Island. 600sqm with golf course. 10 minutes to Cen- house. Price: 8,xxx baht/sqm. tral & Villa Park. 18 million baht. Tel: 081-691 2446 (English). Tel: 081-676 5444. Email: alexan Email: [email protected] [email protected] BARGAIN RAWAI LAND High walled, square plot, views. LAND AT BRITISH Condo at Royal Place SCHOOL Chanote 640sqm. Price nego- Project, bypass road, oppo- tiable. Tel: 076-613227, 085-782 544sqm at the entrance to the site Tesco Lotus. 37sqm, 2fl, 7551. British International School. 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, Price: 7,xxx baht/sqm. Tel: 081- kitchen, fully furnished (2 691 2446 (English). Email: aircons, washing machine, [email protected] LAND NEAR refrigerator, TV, microwave, MISSION HILLS cable TV, 24 security with WONDERFUL HOUSE key card etc). Pls contact 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, for more details. Tel: 086-476 Pa Klok House. 112sq wah/ 9612. Email: annanoi1@ 400sqm. Must see! 3.99 mil- hotmail.com PATONG SEAVIEW lion baht. Tel: 083-131 2002. LAND & HOUSES BUILDING LAND 2 POOL VILLAS PARK, CHALONG A large (1,048sqm) building NEXT TO PIA KATHU GOLF VIEW plot on the Andaman Moun- Large house with 7 bedrooms tain, overlooking Patong THIDA HOUSE and swimming pool, nice golf Pa Khlok. 2 rai 32sq wah, Beach. Concrete road, elec- SALE 27 MILLION view at the back yard. 10 mins 60m wide. Chanote. Located tricity and water. Only 8 million to all shopping malls, and 10- on Tha Ruea-Pa Khlok- baht. Contact Ron Crane at 15 mins to all international Muang Mai Rd. 11 km from +44-788-948 8091. Email: schools. Please email info@ Heroines' Monument. Price: [email protected] procarpentering.com for more 7.8 million baht. Tel: 089-472 info and price. No agents, 9118. Email: honda.1437@ Villa for sale. 4 bedrooms, please. Tel: 081-271 3228. hotmail.com 3 bathrooms, fully fur- OCEANFRONT nished and equipped, gar- VILLA 5 BEDROOMS, den, 240sqm. Price: 6.8 Thai-style modern town- PHUKET TOWN 6.5MB 2 BEDROOMS, million baht. Tel: 083-394 house with land. Size: 70sq wah, 2-storey single 2 BATHROOMS 4536 (English), 084-443 10.50m x 10.85m. 2 bed- house, quiet. Tel: 089-780 5389 (English & Thai). rooms, 2 bathrooms with 1888. Email: klang888@ living room, dining room, hotmail.com For further de- kitchen and car park. Single tails, please see our website INVESTMENT PATONG house on land size: 15m by at http://phuketcityhome. CONDO 10.85m. 2 bedrooms, 2 bath- igetweb.com/ Bangla Suites condo, 60sqm. Luxury brand-new villa, fully rooms with living room, din- For sale: 6 million baht. 2.5 mil- furnished and ready to move ing area/kitchen, terrace and lion baht discount. Share transfer 5 RAI (8,400SQM) in, 3 bedrooms 4 bath- car park. Soi Mountain View costs. Tel: 081-894 8446. With Chanote, between Chalong rooms with infinity 10m long Kathu Waterfall. Tel: 081- Freehold, Patong, fully Email: [email protected] and Rawai. Idea for resort. 53 swimming pool and truly 535 7585, 084-119 4262, furnished, 100sqm. Tel: www.southernfriedrice.com Ready to move in. Villa 1: 081-356 9754. Email: pee million baht. Tel: 082-420 7052. 081-612 4187. Email: beautiful sea view. Located on 1,100sqm land, 16.9 [email protected] Email: stayonphuket@yahoo. [email protected] in a small developement, million baht. Villa 2: on com only 50m from the sea and 2,200sqm land, 21.9 mil- CHEAP LAND 3 minutes from Ao Por FOR SALE lion baht. Brand-new, each Grand Marina. For sale: with 3 bedrooms, 4 bath- Classified Advertisements Close to Phuket Interna- 19.9 million baht or long- rooms, 12m swimming tional Airport. 4 rai, Chanote term rent: 150,000 baht per pool. Guest bungalow with Please use this form to write your classified advertisement. title. 3.8 million baht per rai. month. Tel: 081-343 0777. 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom. Tel: 081-868 7676. Email: Email: montha_phuket@ Perfectly located in a devel- Then hand it to any of our agents. [email protected] yahoo.com opment with underground electricity and security, |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| (heading) only 800m from Mission Hills Golf Course, less than 10 minutes to airport, |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| Phuket International Acad- emy and Ao Por Grand Marina. Tel: 081-343 0777. |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| Email: montha_phuket@ yahoo.com |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| FULLY FURNISHED CHALONG HOUSE Two-floor townhouse in Phuket |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| Country Homes near Land & Houses Park. 2 beds + 2 baths + fitted kitchen and 3 aircons. Contact Whan for more details. |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| Tel: 089-474 3433 (English & Thai). Email: wpapimpan@ Classified ads are charged per line. Each line is 140 baht, hotmail.com with a minimum of 4 lines (heading included) per ad. HOUSE FOR SALE All advertising must be paid for in advance. Koh Kaew, Ideal Home, 4 bed- Deadline for Property Gazette page: Friday 3 pm. rooms, study, playroom and maid’s room, large garden, Deadline for all other ads: Saturday 12 noon. pool. US$550,000 ono. Email: [email protected] 24 PHUKET GAZETTE August 24 - 30, 2013

Properties HOUSE AT PRIME PHUKET VILLA 5 SINGLE HOUSE PRIVATE POOL VILLA 120SQM 2-STOREY For Rent PLACE VILLAGE VILLAGE FOR RENT/ SALE AVAILABLE NOW HOUSE

3-BEDROOMS SEAVIEW RAWAI House 200sqm on 3 levels. 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, spa- cious living/dining area, fully equipped. American kitchen with all appliances, new and Near Heroines’ Monument. In Thanapa Park View vil- 3 bedrooms, fully fur- top quality; aircon throughout Furnished, aircon, 3 bed- lage in Koh Kaew. 57sq nished, located in secu- and WiFi. Common swim- rooms, cable TV, kitchen. wah, with 2 bedrooms, 2 rity area. Special price ming pool with panoramic 25,000 baht per month bathrooms, a kitchen, a now. Tel: 089-472 9870, seaview. Long-term rental at with 30,000 baht deposit. carpark and a garden. 086-471 5226. Email: 40,000 baht per month. Con- Tel: 086-607 7493. Rent: 11,000 baht per [email protected] Soi Laem Hin, Sapam, 2 tact Jackie: 085-786 6303. month. Sale: 2.25 million bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, Email: [email protected] For sale. Price: 4.2 million baht. Contact owner. Tel: unfurnished. 12,000 baht KAMALA 3 BEDROOM 089-615 9719. Email: GOLF VIEW VILLA ON per month. Tel: 086-689 CONDO baht. No agents! Not fur- nished, with 4 aircons, 3 [email protected] PRIVATE HILL 3289. KATA OCEAN VIEW Convenient and quiet, 5 min- bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, For rent. Kathu. 3 and 1 bed- CONDO utes walk to beach. Well kept kitchen and car park. Be- rooms, big pool, overlooking Fully furnished, seaview and and clean, fully furnished and KATA BEACH FURNISHED hind Kajonkiet International lake and valley on Loch Palm FROM 7,500/9,500 non-seaview apartments, avail- good facilities. Long-term APARTMENTS School on Chao Fa West Golf Course, 4km to BIS, fur- BAHT MONTHLY able for long-term rental. From rental. Tel: 089-780 4568. Kitchen, WiFi, TV, aircon & fan. Road, 5 minutes to Central nished VIP, WiFi. Long-term: 19,000 to 40,000 baht per Email: [email protected] 6,000-15,000 baht monthly. month. Located on Kata Hill. Festival. For short or long- Long term ok. Tel: 086-595 65,000-32,000 baht per month. term rent, 16,000 baht per Tel: 087-269 8492. Tel: 076-330641. For further de- CONDOS IN PATONG 8512, 081-970 4638. Email: tails, please see our website at month. Call to see 087- [email protected] Both at Phuket Palace and www.oceanic-global.com 270 9093. Patong Tower. Long term only, 600,000 BAHT YEARLY newly renovated and well fur- HOUSE FOR RENT - RENT-RAWAI nished. Tel: 081-892 1621. THAI VILLA AND POOL RAWAI Rawai Beach. Siam BB Re- Nai Harn, 2 bedrooms, luxury Long term, private pool, new, in sort. 9 rooms, bar+shop, reser- vation online with Agoda, Rawai Beach. Furnished CHEAP RENT villa. Long term: 37,000 baht per development with security. Tel: 087-893 8747. Booking.com, Asiarooms. room, aircon, WiFi, LED 32' Live in a luxury pool villa resort month. Tel: 082-421 1020. Email: [email protected] com. 60m to beach. Tel: 084- TV, desk, fridge, kitchen, laun- near Laguna. Weekly/monthly. dry, pool, 100m to Rawai PATONG 2-BEDROOM 242 8914. Email: rawai4@ Tel: 089-594 4067. yahoo.com Beach Pier. Tel: 084-242 MAIKHAO DREAM APARTMENTS 8914. Email: thaidream PROPERTY Large pool, car parking, [email protected] NEW CONDO FOR For rent or sale. 20 rai of land maid, cable, WiFi, laundry, RENT with Chanote title. Located on security and more. Be quick. COZY HOUSE NEAR Thepkrasattri Road (main Tel: 088-413 8122. Email: NAI HARN LUXURY 1 BEDROOM road). 12km from airport. Tel: [email protected] Ground floor, condo 65sqm, fully 081-738 7099. furnished, 1 month minimun rental, located in very heart of SEAVIEW CONDO IN Patong. Please call 087-887 9070 TOWN FOR RENT or send email for details to Fully furnished, 1-bed suite, [email protected] guard, pool, fitness. 15,500 baht monthly. Tel: 094-319 5-BEDROOM Short or long-term rent at 5176. POOL VILLA Kathu, fully furnished, swim- A high-grade built house, fur- nished and conveniently lo- Views, cabanas, WiFi, UBC, ming pool, fitness, quiet and pool, jacuzzi, maid, sundecks, secure. Tel: 081-607 8567. LONG-TERM RENT cated minutes from Rawai NEAR BIS and Nai Harn Beaches. 2 furnished. 45,000 baht for long Email: suksavat@hotmail. term. Tel: 092-323 7087. com For further details, 4-bed villa plus maid, unfur- spacious bedrooms with en nished. 75,000 baht per month. suite bathrooms. 1 guest toi- Email: tucsonhouseforrent@ please see our website at yahoo.com www.phuket-condo.net Tel: 087-465 8883. Email: let. Aircons. Large living-din- [email protected] ing room. Telephone line with ADSL. Free water supply PATONG 2 BEDROOMS and garbage removal ser- OWNER DIRECT vice. 22,000 baht per month. 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, Tel: 087-383 0936 (Khun Nui). 100sqm, quiet location, free Email: hunt17@hotmail. wifi, maid, cable TV. Tel: 080- com 052 8082 (English & Thai). Email: [email protected] August 24 - 30, 2013 PHUKET GAZETTE 25

Property Property Accommodation ROOMS FOR RENT Accommodation NAI HARN 2-BED Services Services Available IN KARON Wanted BEACH CONDOS Nice, clean rooms in Spacious, kitchen, ter- Wanted Karon, fully furnished, daily, race, large shared pool, 5-BEDROOM POOL weekly, monthly. Tel: 076- gardens, beach 3-minute INVITE TO LIST VILLA 396075, 082-270 6385. VILLA WITH walk. Email: resortgm VACATION RENTAL Kamala 5 Bed 4 Bath, Pool/ Email: tkoschig2000@ PRIVATE POOL @gmail.com ELECTRICIAN List on PandaBed.com No Jacuzzi Decks Large Garden hotmail.com We are looking for a 2-bed- Electrician needed to listing fee, only 3% commis- Bargain 45,000 baht L/term room villa with private pool check and determine prop- sion. Free photography. Tel: 081-397 4222. Email: from 12 December to 12 erty power, need to install Contact by Email: melanie tucsonhouseforrent@yahoo. January 2014 on Phuket Household generator and hook up. BANG TAO BEACH @pandabed.com com Island. SouthWest pre- Items Tel: 087-884 8972. APARTMENT ferred. +41-79-651 3602 SINGLE HOUSE 12,000 Baan Puri 2 bed, pool, (English). Email: orca_67 SAMSUNG FRIDGE PROFESSIONAL VILLA BAHT/MONTH internet, fitness center. @hispeed.ch MANAGEMENT 3rooms, aircon, 1 toilet, kitchen, phuketapart ment bang Two doors, as-new condition. Sales. Rentals. Farang-run Property ADSL. Fully furnished. Close to [email protected] For fur- 8,500 baht. Tel: 084-443 5050 company and mentality. Sales Wanted Friendship Beach/Tesco Lotus ther details, please see our (English), 087-026 9914 staff also required - best com- Chalong. Tel: 086-683 7162, 88- website at http://phuket POOL VILLA (Thai). missions in Phuket. Tel: 081-787 768 9819. Email: yosompetch apartment.webs.com WANTED 9767. www.f arang-living.com / LAND: CHALONG OR @hotmail.com RAWAI Wanted in Rawai/Nai Harn HITACHI FRIDGE www.fa rang-handyman.com area: 3 bedrooms, fully fur- About 400sqm for house in POOL VILLA NAI HARN BUNGALOW nished, secure villa with west- R-W691FMSX. existing development or built- FOR RENT Nice bungalow for long-term rent, ern kitchen and pool. Must 180x80x75cm. Jan 2012,4 RENOVATIONS & up area. Tel: 087-237 4799. 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, gar- quiet location, fully furnished, 2 be in a quiet area. 40,000- doors, external water dis- REPAIRS Email: [email protected]. den, swimming pool, in a very beds, 2 baths, aircon/fans, cable 50,000 baht per month, 1 penser, internal ice maker, English-operated company au that delivers quality work with peaceful and secure compound. TV, WiFi internet. 15,000 baht month bond, 2 year contract. perfect condition. Sale: reliability. Any size job with Long-tern rental only. 45,000 baht per month. Tel: 087-891 7408, Tel: 088-760 5003 (English). 25,000 baht (new: 39,900 FREE quotations, and all WANTED VILLA FOR per month. This price includes 087-292 5309 (English & Thai). Email: collettegaleano@ baht). Tel: 081-720 4334. completed quickly and hassle LONG-TERM Internet, maid once a week, pool Email: gillies18567@hotmail. gmail.com free. Tel: 088-768 4690 (En- Looking for a villa for long-term service every 2 weeks, and gar- com glish). Email: renovationsn lease ~ 50k pm. Preferences dening once a month. Email: Household [email protected] are: Hillside location, Security, [email protected] KATHU, 3 BED Kamala to Bang Tao, Pool, UNFURNISHED HOUSE Holiday Services Single story. Tel: 080-319 9255 Three-bedroom unfurnished 5 PROPERTY (English). Email: 425zeds@ SEA VIEW HOUSE + Homes & MANAGEMENT APARTMENT house to rent on popular estate gmail.com near Soi Namtok. Many more Villa Rentals PHUKET HOME Professional hoteliers manage MAINTENANCE villas & apartments (with or with- available. Tel: 076-615905, 090- out rental management). We OFFICE/RETAIL SPACE 875 3683 (English). Email: Renovations, hous repairs, also manage estates and con- WANTED [email protected] For BEAUTIFUL painters, tilers, electricians, dominiums, provide project Office/Retail space wanted further details, please see our SWIMMING POOL plumbers, carpenters, built-in, marketing for real estate and asap. Approx 20 Sqm. In Ka- website at www.wmalexan VILLA construction. Fluent English- speaking boss. Free quotes resort/condo pre-opening and mala/Surin area. Tel: 082-521 der.com Rawai. High season 7745 (English). Email: mr given. Tel: 084-193 5124. management. Email: resortgm For long-term rent. Beau- price: 3,500 baht per day. @gmail.com [email protected] PATONG SEA VIEW Email: phukethomemainte tiful new sea view Patong Tel: 085-787 3046. Email: [email protected] house & separate apart- HOUSE / APT [email protected] APARTMENT / HOUSE Stunning new furnished Patong NEEDED ment. Newly furnished. 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DRIVER WANTED ACCOUNT Speak some English. Full MANAGER - Thai driving licence. Good sal- URGENT! ary + bonusThai national only. – experience as account Tel: 085-783 0141. Email: manager/chief of over 5 [email protected] years – can speak, read, write HEALTHY FOOD COOK CLEANER WANTED SHOP MANAGER English; good account- Manage healthy food kitchen. Located on Surin Beach. Flu- Urgent need shop man- ing knowledge and skills; Speak English. Good salary. Thai ent spoken English, cleaning ager for boutique shop in can close financial state- national only. Tel: 085-783 0141. and helping in the villa. Con- Surin, fluent in English. ments, AR, AP, etc Email: info@phuket fit.com tact Jariya. Tel: 081-367 7965 Send CV to bliss@ – good team leader (English & Thai). Email: online.com.kh PERSONAL ASSISTANT – can start soonest/im- [email protected] Thai male/female, 25-40 years mediately. Tel: 081-979 old, fluent in English, good 9911 (English & Thai). EXECUTIVE FOR ASSISTANT MANAGER PROPERTY computer & communication What we are looking for is a We are looking for new sales and skills, self motivated, back- great all-rounder as this job has marketing executives, Thai na- ground in marketing/real es- TEACHERS WANTED multiple roles. You will need ex- tional only, to help us at our sales tate/travel agency is plus. Tel: We currently have the follow- cellent computer skills to man- and showroom offices. You 087-267 3747 (English). CV to ing job positions available: 1 x age operations and you will be RUSSIAN SALES should have experience with [email protected] full - time English teacher, fe- assisting with the sales and CONSULTANT working in a property environ- male under 35 years old, marketing activities of the com- Experienced Russian Sales ment and taking care of local real Degree + TEFL or CELTA. pany. Thai nationality 30 years Representative needed for Real COFFEE & ICE estate agencies visiting our Must be from an N.E.S coun- old with an excellent command Estate. Good command of En- CREAM showrooms. Great conditions try: UK, USA, AUS, CD or of English. University degree or glish and Russian required. Tel: are promised. Tel: 076-341045, NZ. 1 x part time English proven experience. People 081-968 5963 (English). Send 081-459 0152. Please send your teacher, N.E.S. + SA, TEFL, management skills. Outgoing, CV to c@bayshoreprojects. CV to info@phuket-condos- male/female under 40 years committed and energetic. Pre- com homes.com old. 1 x part-time Russian pared to work in Patong & travel FITNESS INSTRUCTOR teacher. English teacher ap- across the island. Email: DESIGN STUDIO plicants must be good with info@newspaper direct- / SALES young students. Tel: 091-647 phuket.com Find out about us Club Asia Fitness requires 2 Looking for an ambitious and 5465. Email: [email protected] on www.newspaperdirect. com Fitness Instructors and 1 organised person to join our Sales Consultant. Thai Na- team.Successful applicant will tional who must be able to help with general office admin- communicate in English. Tel: istration and the planning of 080-698 5021, 087-275 3614 photography shoot. Applicant Vacancies: coffee shop as- (English), 089-126 5671 must have an excellent com- sistant manager, baristas, (Thai). Email: coco_ivy@ mand of English. Contact man- waiters, bar assistants, hotmail.com For further de- ager. Tel: 083-035 9632.Email: experience and English. tails, please see our website photomorphicimages@ Tel: 086-276 4914. at www.clubasia phuket.com gmail.com

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ADMIN ASSISTANT BARMAN - THAI COOK WANTED - WAITRESS English speaking & writing. Will Barman, Thai cook and waitress be trained in Detox. Thai Na- wanted. Thai national only. Tel: tional. Good Salary. Email: 081-895 5852. Please call or [email protected] email to phuket8757@gmail. com THAI CASHIER WANTED Thai cashier wanted! At Kata. FRONT DESK STAFF Tel: 089-401 8506. Email: SAMUI [email protected] Plus Wellness Manager re- quired by Detox resort. Tel: CUSTOMER 077-602096. Send CV and RELATIONS REP. photo to fasthealing@ya Must speak and write English. hoo.com Thai National. Good Salary. Email: [email protected] DRIVER 16,000+, COOK 15,000+ Private villa. Thailand area. Thai NEED LADY national only. Basic English. DRIVERS Contact Todd. Tel: 089-005 Three experienced motor- 0700. Email: toddplay@hot bike and car drivers, mail.com based in Patong, go all around Phuket. Tel: 093- HEALTH FOOD COOK 768 4939. Organize and control Health Food Kitchen.Thai national REAL ESTATE EARN Only. Good English language 100,000+ BAHT skills required. Email: info@ 2 WAITRESSES Thai and English speaking phuketfit.com GYM ATTENDANT WANTED real estate broker required WANTED Good salary. Speak English. with experience in sales in DANISH STAFF Good salary. 1pm - 10pm. Thai national only. Tel: 085- Phuket (real estate is a bonus) Danish-speaking, 20-30 Thai national only. Tel: 085- 783 0141. Email: liam@phu must be very hungry and look- years old staff wanted. Send 783 0141. Email: liam@ ketfit.com ing to make serious amounts CV and photo to naturejob13 phuket fit.com of commission 100,000+ baht @gmail.com ENGLISH SPEAKING GUEST RELATIONS DETOX / CLEANSE a month. Tel: 092-474 6157. SALES GIRL Thai national only. Must have car CONSULTANT T Please send CVs to Paul@ DESIGN STUDIO MAID / Needed to manage a small driver’s license. Must have ex- Experience working in Detox, livephuket.com Looking for Image Key- HOUSEKEEPER souvenir shop in Phuket Town. cellent English written and spo- Cleanse or Spa. Must speak worders. You will be creating Expat (American) re- Good salary and commission. ken skills. Email: liam@phuket English. Thai national only. Good SECONDARY EP the content of images, in- quires an experienced Start immediately, 6 days per fit.com Please email for details. Salary! Email: liam@phuketfit. VACANCY cluding titles, descriptions housekeeper/maid with week. Tel: 086-509 7510. com ELT Phuket is looking to appoint and keywords. Also, upload- good English and Thai Email: simon@colonial-con ACCOUNTANT a qualified, enthusiastic and ing images to agency’s web speaking ability. Cooking nection.com Thai or Foreigner, start imme- experienced teacher of English page. Applicant must have experience a plus and can diately. 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Thai & English COOK 15,000+ WANTED speaker. Computer skills. Tel: Private villa. Thailand area. Thai national only. Basic English. Must live permanently in 076-612843, 083-737 7878. Contact Todd. Tel: 089-005 Thailand and organise own Email: md@expertmedia. 0700. Email:toddplay@hot residency status. Must asia mail.com speak fluent Thai and En- glish. Must have experience ENGLISH-SPEAKING selling food/alchohol to ex- THAI GIRL KINDERGARDEN IN ecutive chefs and purchas- Looking for a Thai woman with ing managers. Experienced CHALONG good written and spoken En- Thai teacher and Thai in food service. Must have glish for office work. Computer own car. Only people meet- cleaner needed. Tel: 084- literacy is a must. Tel: 084-060 442 3671 (English). ing all above criteria need 7050. Email: info@molokophu apply. Please send resume Email: millingtonjackie ket.com Please see our website @hotmail.com to george_d@jagota .com at http://moloko phuket.com

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CHALONG HOTEL WITH RENT BEACH FRONT UNIQUE 3-storey shophouse, restau- RESTAURANT INVESTOR NEEDED: RESTAURANT GASTRONOMY HOTEL rant or bar and living quarters, FOR SALE MOBILE APP Excellent location on Surin BUSINESS BEACHFRONT near pier. Sale: 3.5 million Chanote title, central position, Zom Ammara, a famous Beach. Fully operational with Best location at Kata Center, PATONG - RENT baht. Rent: 20,000 baht per new building, 4 years old, 20 Thai celebrity, is raising outdoor beach furniture, full with operating concept. Inter- month.Tel: 081-892 0299. rooms, reception and res- 6 million baht from inves- service kitchen; seating ca- ested parties need a proven Email: [email protected] taurant fully furnished, lift. 32 tors to promote and mon- pacity of 120+, 3-year lease record and a professional million baht negotiable. Con- etize on lady safety mo- for 2.4 million baht + rent background. Email: yong RESTAURANT tact Stefano. Tel: 086-279 bile app project called 70,000 baht monthly. Please [email protected] Urgent sale. Indoor-outdoor, 8175 (English/Italian). Con- “GuardMe”. We will gain call 091-034 1200 (English). in Chalong area, equipped. tact Ning. Tel: 084-840 1566 US$4 million profit within Email: issam.tawil@gmail. SPA / SAUNA LEASE 14 months on lease. Rent: (Thai). 3 years with celebrity com FOR SALE 5,000 baht per month. Con- marketing strategy. Con- Busy established Spa and tact Eye. Tel: 082-807 9312. SPA/MASSAGE tact Zom Ammara. For BANGLA BAR CHEAP! Sauna business for sale. FOR RENT details, please call 02- Absolute stunner! Cheap. Great location. Junction of BAR FOR SALE In a large estate at Bangtao 673 9280, 081-381 5111, Aircon, 2 floors, 160sqm, Nanai Road and Nanai 2. OTOP MARKET between Laguna and Surin. 086-784 7488. contact for photos. Only 1.8 Renewable lease. Price 2.5 Good location, low rent, 3 rooms, fully equipped for million baht, full fitout. Good million baht. Tel: 087-078 owner is going home. 1.4 immediate operation. Opera- rent option. Bargain! Tel: 087- 6379, 082-286 5171 (English million baht. Tel: 087-893 tor must speak good En- HOTEL 881 7600. Email: cocodi & Thai), 080-718 1226 (En- 1753. glish. Contact by email: bp BEACHFRONT [email protected] glish). Email:nanaisauna [email protected] @yahoo.com The best location in PATONG - RENT Patong Beach, seaview, LAUNDRY KATHU HOTEL WITH fully furnished, 16 rooms, Bulletins RENT GUESTHOUSE 975,000 BAHT very good occupancy PATONG High capacity machines only 24HR RESTAURANT Top location at Kata Center, rates. Opportunities. Nanai, cheap rent, 8 years on two years old. Wash, dry, Contact Mark. Tel: 080- lease + strong starting. 12 iron, roll iron. Automatic inside entertainment zone, SPONSOR A CHILD 141 6040. rooms. 1.3 million baht. Tel: soap dosing. Reason for sell- for rent. 19 air-conditioned The Phuket International 089-728 4005. Email: thamad ing is expansion. Shophouse rooms. Email: yongyut. Women’s Club is a volun- [email protected] with 4 bedrooms. Rent: [email protected] teer organization raising 22,000 baht per month. Pos- RESORT funds for educational RAWAI INVESTMENT sible cooperation for the right NO-NONSENSE FOR LEASE scholarships. We rely We run a business in Cha- buyer. Ready to take over. OPPORTUNITY on the goodwill of donors long that has paid back 50% Tel: 089-882 0894 (English), 30 rifle laser tag system, and sponsors – small of its cash investment in the 089-652 0975 (Thai). Email: complete. Low overheads, and large. If you would first year of operation. An op- [email protected] high potential income. Team like to put something portunity for a similar busi- Building, tourist attraction back into the community ness exists in Rawai. This is 21 ROOMS + REST + and local business. Cash in which you live, contact not a hotel, guesthouse, res- BEACH ROAD purchase 300,000 baht. Tel: us to find out more about For rent or sale. 20m taurant, dive shop, car rental Located central on the Beach 089-071 0169 (English). giving a prize or being a from the beach, well-fur- or real estate, This business Road. 3.7 million baht key Email: nigelburt51@gmail. sponsor. Contact Carol. nished, 38 rooms, swim- benefits Thai society as a money, 8 year lease, mod- com For further details, In the heart of Patong. 20 Please call 087-417 ming pool, restaurant, whole and is neutral on the ern rooms. Call today. Con- please see our website at rooms well furnished, 8860 or contact Sue. Tel: parking, fully operational environment. We are looking tact Frank. Tel: 076-346875, www.youtube.com/watch? fully operational with very 087-277 6948. For more with very good occupacy for 1-3 equity investors to 084-078 2753 (English). v=08xcTTGHYU0 good occupancy rates. information please email rates. Opportunity. Long- make a total 20 million baht Email: info.realpro@gmail. 6-year lease for 6 million us at info@phuketiwc. term contract. Contact investment. Email: tayana55 com baht + rental fee 150,000 com Mark.Tel: 080-141 6040. KARON [email protected] GUESTHOUSE baht per month. Tel: 088- STEAKHOUSE 765 0165. NEAR BEACH For sale. Estimate 14 Texas Steakhouse for sale. years old, Chanote title, Lease on 4.5 years. Rent: 5 storeys, 12 rooms, 40,000 baht per month. Staff laundry, sala, bar, net HOUSE&BUSINESS and equipment, Thai com- profit 2 million baht. ON 24 RAI pany included. Turnkey. Ask- Sale: 12 million baht. ing 2.5 million baht for quick Owner retiring. No offers. sale. Please call 085-215 Tel: 081-728 1862 (En- 8660. Email: fstailslide@hot glish), 081-370 8733 mail.com (Thai).

GOGO BAR / NIGHTCLUB FITNESS CENTER For sale in Bang Tao. Needs FOR SALE slight alterations. Comes A well established fit- complete with kitchen and ness center with a large all furniture, website and mar- membership base, situ- keting package. 1 million ated in Phuket Town, for baht or nearest offer. No busi- sale. Price reduced to 8 For sale. Tried of the traf- ness like this within 20km. million baht. Tel: 087-275 fic and high prices of Fantastic business opportu- 3614 (English & Thai), Phuket? Or just want a nity. Contact Lee. Tel: 081- 080-698 5021 (Thai). weekend getaway? I 787 9767. Email: coco_ivy@hot have built in Farang spec mail.com and style, a beautiful re- SPORTS BAR KARON treat, a main house with Newly renovated, trendy 2 big garages, a guest- sports bar in Karon, Phuket. HOTEL - 24 ROOMS house with garage, a This bar comes fully equip- OCEAN VIEW bungalow and a 900sqm ped with three large plasma Nice location, 1km from exercise gym. It all rests TVs, pool table, two bed- Patong Beach, 10 apart- on 24 rai and is currently rooms and website. Please ments, 14 rooms. 49 million a working shrimp farm, call +44-20-8688 4544. baht. Please send email for but could be used for Email: nm.windowcleaning more information to nc.resi many purposes, located @hotmail.co.uk [email protected] 2 hours north of the is- land. Price: 12 million baht, this price will not last long, the houses are HOTELS IN PHUKET FOR SALE worth more than 12 mil- lion baht. Please call 081- Contact: realestate.luxuryphuketholidays.com 728 8269 or email to jrp @loxinfo.co.th August 24 - 30, 2013 PHUKET GAZETTE 29

Business Products & Services Bar & Club Memberships Available Restaurant BUDS INTERNATIONAL Equipment BLUE CANYON FREE ITALIAN KINDERGARTEN MEMBERSHIP PHUKET ESPRESSO Phuket's oldest interna- Blue Canyon life member- COUNTRY CLUB MACHINE tional child care facility. High- SNOOKER & ship available. Offers to Pete Price: 550,000 baht, full Coffee capsules ma- quality, time-proven sched- BABY FOOT on 084-349 2325 (English). family membership, in- chine on loan, good or- ule and curriculum. Now in Snooker: like new 45,000 Email: peter@lifecartoons. cluding transfer and 2013 ganic Italian coffee, fair brand-new purpose-built baht. Baby foot: 2,500 baht. com fees. Tel: 085-299 9437 prices, 6 blends avail- school. Experienced native Located at Patong. For more Email: pumonholiday@ able, direct import into English teachers to teach information, please send PHUKET gmail.com Phuket. For more infor- ages 1.5-8. Monday-Friday email to nc.residence@ COUNTRY CLUB mation, please call 076- 8am-5pm. Bus service avail- gmail.com Family lifetime member- 374760, 088-768 1260 able from Patong, Karon, BLUE CANYON AND ship, transfer fee and this LOCH PALM (English & Thai). Fax: Kata, Phuket, Rawai and GAS GRILL FOR SALE year's subscription. 570,000 076-374760. Email: fepi Chalong. Tel: 076-384638, Commercial large S/S grill. Blue Canyon corporate: baht. Please call 076-283 500,000 baht and Loch [email protected] 080-624 7060. www.buds- Purchased from Lucky 288, 081-273 7326. Fax: phuket.com Kitchen for 38,000 baht. Sale Palm, full membership: 076-283288. Email: keith 525,000 baht plus transfer. now: 28,000 baht. Please call [email protected] HOTEL BOOKING LIST FOREX TRADING 080-316 8435. Tel: 086-277 2691. Email: SERVICE [email protected] Make money from home. Hotel registration and moni- Join our online room and get BALI KUTA GOLF toring on AGODA, Sawadee RESTAURANT free one hour session. Book MEMBERSHIP PHUKET and Booking.com Tel: 083- EQUIPMENT now. Please call 090-071 1 share ACC x 3 golf COUNTRY CLUB 394 5863. Email: tperke@ We are selling the com- 7163. courses. Life swap / Full membership includes googlemail.com plete contents of a cof- Phuket golf course. transfer and 2013 fees. fee, gelato shop, includ- WHEATGRASS Phuket Country / Laguna 585,000 baht. Best price. No ing 2 freezer showca- JUICE TRICK ROPING TATTOO REMOVAL / Blue Canyon. For more offers. Contact Pum. Tel: LESSONS ses, 1 dessert show- 085-299 9437 (English), 081- Lumpoons Coffee House. We remove your tattoo. information, please call case, 2 group espresso 493 9617 (English). Email: At Chalong. Please call Showing and teaching the Please call 083-362 085-994 0364. machines, bottle cooler, [email protected] 081-476 5808. art of western cowboy rope 4144. tricks. Tel: 084-447 5257. upright freezer, gelato makers and pasteuriser, together with all furniture Dive Gear Pets and other light equip- ment. All stock only 12 months old. For more in- DIVE GEAR LIKE NEW 2 KITTENS formation, please call FOR SALE FREE TO GOOD HOME 087-894 1384 (English & 15,000 baht o.b.o. BCD, 2 kittens (1 male, 1 female) Thai), 089-065 5514 (En- regulators and fins size 46. All found abandoned. Free to a glish & Thai). Email:info near perfect. For more infor- good home. About 10 weeks @conciergeinphuket. mation, please call 080-381 old. Email: plongmore@hot com 1108. Email: matthewreisz@ mail.com gmail.com Fitness Pool Tables Equipment

PILATES REFORMER BEST DEALS MACHINES Phuket Pool Tables of- Four years old but still in very fers you the best deals good condition. Ropes have on 2 models of our pool recently been replaced. tables, 4'x8', slate bed, Price: 70,000 baht each. Ne- full accessories included. gotiable with purchase of two Limited stock. Don't miss or more. Includes: box, pole, out. For more informa- mat, straps, cushions, fit- tion, please call 076- ness circle and platform ex- 263687, 081-823 4627, tender. Tel: 076-304277, 083- 085-797 0202. Email: 107 0277 (English & Thai). ying@phuketpooltables. Fax: 076-304276. Email: dra com, www.facebook. bhishekbnys936@gmail. com/thailandpooltables com 30 PHUKET GAZETTE August 24 - 30, 2013

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HONDA CIVIC TOYOTA WHITE FORTUNER HONDA CITY 1.8 WHITE NEW ATV GREAT BIKE FORTUNER FOR SALE Model 2010, only 34,000km, 5 years old. Black color. all service by Honda Center, 90,000km. 3.0L. Full ser- full equipment, GPS, auto- vice history. Excellent matic, very good condition. condition. 850,000 baht. Sale: 660,000 baht. Tel: 087- Please call 087-461 40 466 8640 (English & Thai). 84. Email: christophe.fischer71 @wanadoo.fr For sale. Model 2004, 150cc. Running only 800cc, perfectly main- 1996 COROLLA 3.0V AT 4WD, Septem- 1.5cc, excellent condi- 70km. Best price 35,000 tained, 125,000 baht. Excellent condition, auto- ber 2006, diesel, auto- tion. Price: 345,000 baht. SALE FORD baht. Tel: 089-588 4550. Great ride! For more in- matic, power steering, CD/ matic, leather. 700,000 Call for viewing. Tel: 087- ESCAPE 495,000 formation, please call MP3 player, new tyres, new baht. Tel: 086-478 0201. 270 9093. 086-945 2626. battery. 140,000 baht o.n.o. Tel: 082-416 0335. SCOOTERS 125CC FORTUNER TOYOTA AVANZA Rentals HYUNDAI TIBURON

NEW CARS Ford Escape 3.0 XLT. FOR RENT Year 2004. 140,000km. Price: 495,000 baht. Tel: 089-589 5453. Email: Toyota Fortuner, year Automatic. Many to sopasalon@hotmail. choose. Green books, Imported white coupe. 2008, 3.0V, A/T, dark For sale. Model 2008, 7 com price from 16,000 baht. Year 2007, type S, ex- gray, 109,xxxkm. Price: seats, 1.5 cc, excellent Patong. For more infor- cellent condition. Con- 850,000 baht. Tel: 087- condition. Price: 485,000 mation, please call 087- tact Nee. Tel: 081-892 275 8772. Email: cps@ baht. Call for viewing. Tel: HONDA CIVIC 893 1753. 4311. online.com.kh 087-270 9093. FOR SALE Great tuned car! 1.5L, auto- Short or long term with matic. Year 1994 but many first class insurance and parts are new. Looks good, Pick-ups delivery service. Tel: 081- runs good. Sale: 170,000 607 8567. Email: suksa baht. Please call 089-730 [email protected] For 7172 (English). Email: no.an further details, please [email protected] ISUZU D-MAX see our website at www. LS GT 3.0 phuketcarsrent.com MERCEDES ML 300 CDI 4 MATIC Others

USED GOLF CART Good condition, "easy go". Sale: 49,000 baht. 4x4, 2008, 4 door, only Needs new batteries: 103,000km, 6 cylinders, 78,000km, one owner, 18,000 baht. New Club diesel, efficient. Brand- all service by Isuzu Ser- Car: 300,000 baht. Tel: new tires. Bought new vice Center, full equip- 087-279 3577. for 6,850,000 baht. Sell- ment (leather, monitor, ing now for 4,250,000 automatic, GT equip- baht. Tel: 089-812 4070 ment, trailer hitch), first- BRIDGESTONE TIRES (English & Thai). Email: class insurance until Four tires for sale, 175/65 - Wheels & Motors [email protected] January 2014, good con- 15,300km. Two years old, www.facebook. com/ dition. Sale: 580,000 good condition. 2,500 baht VillaRentalPhuket baht. Please call 086-205 for the full set. Tel: 080-890 Thailand?ref=hl 6700, 087-850 0722. 4484 (English). Email: noe [email protected] Please use this form to write your classified advertisement.

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SELLING YOUR BOAT? With high season just around the corner, now is the right time to get her listed, Boatshedphuket.com are always looking for new list- ings, big or small, power or sail, to meet the demand for quality boats. Contact Alan Giles. Tel: 084-842 6146. Email: alan [email protected]

SPEEDBOAT FOR SALE 18ft Bayliner fiberglass body, 200hp (EFI) Mercury engine with blue book includes trailer, anchor, cover. Price 260,000 baht. Tel: 086-948 0095 (En- glish). Email: reza.shahverdy@ gmail.com

ONAN 12KVA MARINE OUTBOARDER GENERATOR FOR SALE Yamaha 20hp, 4 stroke, tran- Fully operational generator with som height L (22.2 inch), full sound shield and wet muffler brand-new (app 300 hours). exhaust. Model number 12 90,000 baht. Served as replace- MDL3P, 1996 model, only ment on a transfer from Borneo, 4,000 running hours. Tel: 081- perfect condition. Tel: 082-415 375 2590 (English). Email: 1918. Email: pilotsparadise@ [email protected] gmx.net

MOODY 376 (1988) NEW 2013 In great shape. Thornycroft T98 BAYLINER 175 SPE 47hp diesel. For details contact New 2013 Bayliner Spe- Alan Giles. Tel: 084-842 6146. cial Package by Bayliner Email: alangiles@boatshed Thailand. Gavanized trailer, phuket.com www.boatshed bimini, top stereo system. phuket.com Special price for this last unit: only 790,000 baht. RIVA HULL Tel: 081-754 7599. Email: 10 meters long, marine ply- csutivas@gmail. com wood hull (not completed) for sale. Tel: 081-968 3118 (En- glish & Thai). Email: info@pro PRINCESS 42 carpentering.com YACHT FOR SALE JET-SKI: YAMAHA SUPERJET 2012 Stand-up PWC, used 1 sea- son. Sold at Watchara Marine Phuket (275,000 baht). Will sell for 195,000 (fixed price). Tel: 093-760 2730 (English). Email: [email protected]

SEAHORSE MARINE Perfect size for cruises to 36’TRAWLER 2007 the surrounding islands. Cummins 270hp diesel, Sleeps 4. Can be viewed at aircon, generator. Great little Boat Lagoon. US$485,000. boat! US$99,950. For details Tel: 083-612 6730 (English contact Alan Giles. Tel: 084- & Thai). Email: oscar.ver 842 6146. Email: alangiles@ [email protected] boatshedphuket.com www.boatshedphuket.com

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MASON 43 CUTTER PRINCESS 36 FEET THAI WOODEN BOAT Cryptic Crossword MOONSOON FOR (1982) “RIVIERA” 36ft, Isuzu 110hp, Radio SALE Perkins 4108 diesel. Reduced 2 Volvo Penta 306hp, diesel, Furuno Fish Finder. 300,000 to AU$79,000. For details fully equipped includes trailer. baht. Tel: 083-102 7801. contact Alan Giles. Tel: 084- Sale: 2.9 million baht. Call for 842 6146. Email: alangiles@ appointment. Tel: 089-871 SR MARINE NEW SR-21 boatshedphuket.com 2940. Email: [email protected] SR-21 center console, only www.boatshedphuket.com 375,000 baht, excluding only the BOAT FOR SALE engine. Comes with trailer and all 63FT PINISI KETCH Semi-rigid 150hp, 2 stroke, accessories. We produce 18- 28ft, registered for 15 pas- FOR SALE trailer, aluminium tank 100 liter, 36ft boats. For more info, please sengers. 200hp V6 Mercury Well equipped, looks great, GPS, Sonar. Price: 650,000 call 081-782 0921 (English & motor, only 240 hours, re- good condition. Must sell, only baht. Tel: 089-289 8628 Thai). Email: samranmarine@ cently totally restored. Per- 2.5 million baht. Tel: 086-690 (English), 080-144 6022 (Thai). live.com fect for snorkeling, diving 0444 (English & Thai). Email: trips, island hopping or water [email protected] taxi. Navigation system + fishfinder. 5hp spare motor. Boat and motor in very good BOAT YARD OPENING Looking for a boat? condition. Located at Boat Hard stand, 250 baht per Lagoon. Priced for quick sale foot per month. Repairs See more classified ads at 330,000 baht. Tel: 086- done, fiberglassing, paint- 747 9292. Email: claud ing, and stainless steel. at www.phuketgazette.net [email protected] Tel: 082-839 7701. 32 PHUKET GAZETTE August 24 - 30, 2013

Aircraft AIRPLAY ALTIS HAVE A PASSION TECNAM P-92 For Sale MICROLIGHT FOR AVIATION? - Price: 1.5 million baht Superb trike with Konig ra- If you have an aircraft for - Registration: U-B08 dial engine. Great economi- sale or an interest in avia- - Year of Manufacture: cal fun. Little used. Please tion and wish to learn 2002 YOUR HELICOPTER contact for more informa- how to fly or buy an air- Flying and owning your own heli- tion. Tel: 089-111 6457 (En- craft or arrange a private - Equipment: Full stan- copter has just become possible. glish & Thai), 081-397 7598 flight, etc. Website: dard equipment Free complete flight instruction (English & Thai). Email: www.aeropromgr.com/ - Engine: Rotax 912- course with your purchase. [email protected] newsletter 80HP 350hrs. Email: [email protected] Please contact for more in- formation. Aircraft is based at Klong 15. Tel: 081-840 8418.

1999 ROBIN 2160i I would like to sell my Robin aircraft or trade it for a 4-seat Cessna or Piper (based in Hua Hin). The Robin: TTAF 300hrs. SMOH 60hrs. This is a well-equipped, two-seat aerobatic aircraft. Has the Christen inverted oil system. Excellent inside and outside. King KMA24 audio panel, KX155 nav/com, KI203 vor, KY197A comm, KN64A dme, KR87 adf, KT76A tran- sponder, CSPA400 i-com, FP5 fuel computer, CHT, OAT, Pitot heat. Price: 4 million baht. Please contact Thom. Email: thos_w@ hotmail.com

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TOURISM MALAYSIA ANNOUNCES THE COOKING & FUN WITH KARON CLOSURE OF ITS PHUKET OFFICE SEASANDS RESORT & SPA

Deputy Director General of Tourism Malaysia Chong Yoke Har (center), announced the closure of the organization’s Phuket office.

PHUKET YOUTH JUDO CHAMPS

The Phuket Martial Arts and Buerki Judo Club recently competed in the Mahachai Championship 2013. The 23 Phuket kids competing earned eight gold, 10 silver and five bronze medals. Come and learn what ingredients to use and how to prepare some of Thailand’s best Their coach Sensei Chone also took home the Best Coach Trophy. loved and well known dishes. The course is inclusive of lunch, recipes and a certificate. 34 PHUKET GAZETTE August 24 - 30, 2013 Go gadget go: 2013 list

Photo: google.com/glass/start Google glass: One of the most Photo: apple.com Photo: kickstarter.com talked about gadgets of the New Macbook Air: An improved version of the ever popular Photo: laptopspirit.fr season. This spy’s dream-come- lightweight Macbook Air comes with all day battery which keeps Iblazr flash: Don’t be afraid HP Envy 14 Spectre: High true let’s you capture photos and the computer going for up to nine hours with the 11 inch model and of the dark ever again! The first videos of whatever you look at. as long as 12 hours with the 13 inch model. New flash memory performance laptop with a 14 mini LED flash for smartphones inch high density screen made It’s voice controlled, let’s you should make it up to 45% faster than the previous model. Prices and tablets will help you reach a make voice calls and utilizes start at 31,900 baht. of extra durable glass. The new level of popularity on battery will keep it going for up Google Translate service to Instagram. Works with both help you get around foreign to nine hours and the included Android and iOS. Prices start at SSD will keep it fast. All this at environments. The information is 1,220 baht. To pre-order visit: presented via built-in screen. The the price of 42,000 baht. For kickstarter.com more info see hp.com camera has 5 megapixels and the 16 GB memory should be enough to save all the important stuff that catches your eye. If not, it can sync with Google cloud storage too. About 48,000 baht. For more information visit google.com/ Photo: logitech.com glass/start Logitech Bluetooth Easy- Switch Keyboard K811: Nicely Photo: Zen Soo designed bluetooth makes switching between numerous Photo: techmixy.com Dell VOSTRO 5460: A 14 inch devices easy. Work with your screen in a body that’s only iMac, iPad, iPhone or even HTC One Mini: A small brother Photo: Sony.co.th 18.3mm thick and weighs just Photo: lenovo.com Apple TV and lets you switch of the popular HTC One smart 1.54 kg. That’s on the outside. from one to the other in a flash. phone. The Mini features a 4.3 Sony CP-F5 and CP-F10L: The Inside you’ll find Intel CoreTM Lenovo K91 Smart TV: The new line of chargers comes in The keystrokes are sharp, an inch, 720p screen, a dual-core i3 processor making sure you use auto-adjusting illumination first TV from Lenovo with 1.4GHz Snapdragon processor two sizes (CP-F5 - 5,000 mAh, the full power of the Windows 8 Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sand- CP-F10L - 10,000 mAh) and in makes it easy to read when and 16 GB of memory. HTC operating system. The price using in low light. The price wich system and 55 inch UltraPixel 4 Megapixel camera five different colors. It will charge starts at 16,590 Baht. For more screen. The set is smart enough your phone fast and in style. is about 3,170 baht. For more shoots 1080p video at 30 frames information visit dell.co.th information visit logitech.com to turn itself on at the sight of per second. The phone comes in You’ll pay 1,790 baht for the your face. And it comes with a two colors: black and grey, CP-F5 model and 2,990 baht for joystick for game players. another runs on Android 4.2.2 the bigger CP-F10L. For more Priced at 74,000 baht. For more (Jelly Bean) system. HTC One information visit sony.co.th information visit: lenovo.com mini expected price is 18,300 baht.

Photo: Razor.com Razer Hammerhead Pro: High quality ear phones built with aluminum elements. A great choice both for for pocket gaming A new app from Google play store “Lost Droid Finder”. Photo: Google fans and music lovers. Powerful, clear sound guaranteed on all mobile devices. Price: 2,390 Baht. Keep an eye on your phone A NEW app from Google will help you find your Android powered smart phone when it’s lost or stolen. The app works in three modes: Panic, Predator and SIM guardian. Photo: ubergizmo.com Panic mode will make the phone ring at maximum volume Panasonic Lumix ZS20: 20x for full three minutes. The app will also inform you when music optical zoom will make sure you starts or stops or when someone picks up your phone. don’t miss any photo opportunity Predator mode will point to the location and address of your and the CMOS sensor will take mobile phone in Google maps in case you misplace it. The SIM care of the noise and improve guardian mode will inform you when your SIM card has been photos quality. It has Leica lens that removed or replaced and will also show you the new SIM card’s can focus from 24 mm. And a built phone number so you can keep tracking your device. Dodge those in GPS. It costs 10,090 baht. phone thieves! – Phuket Gazette August 24 - 30, 2013 PHUKET GAZETTE 35

Birthday. Having reigned since June 9, 1946, he is the world's Phuket longest-serving current head of state and the longest-reigning Vegetarian monarch in Thai history. The day is also marked as Father’s Day Festival in Thailand. August 30, 7pm-11pm, Indian Curry Buffet, at Navrang Mahal October 5-13 December 16-18, 6pm-11:30pm, in Karon Sea Sands Resort. Asia Superyacht Rendezvous. All you can eat, authentic Indian The Asia Superyacht Rendezvous Curry Buffet at 449 baht net per is a prestigious invitation-only event person. Come enjoy our cold for superyacht owners, captains and Mango and Strawberry Lassi with their VIP guests. This year's event our delicious Mutton Vindaloo, Dal takes place at Kata Rocks. Makhani, Bombay Aloo, Mutter The annual Rendezvous is Paneer, Butter Chicken and proudly sponsored by the Phuket mouthwatering Chicken Tikka, Gazette, our partners PGTV and Samosas, freshly baked Naans and the nationally televised 'Phuket more information contact Jaspal Today' show, broadcast daily Singh 076-286464 on True Visions television service (channels 99 and 58). Contact the Asia Superyacht September 7-8, from 9pm-1am, Rendezvous organizers on Phuket 80s Night 0-817-974100 or by email: XANA beach club will be holding a pr-comm@asia-superyacht- Phuket 80s Night, bringing the best rendezvous.com See the website: music from one of the most iconic asia-superyacht-rendezvous.com decades. On the night there will be ments with wine lists. The online Another new and fascinating A Krathong is a banana-leaf cup 80s themed cocktails, canapes and registration opens in May 2013 and location for our October lunch: the containing flowers, a candle and February 14, 2014 Makha entertainment. And of course a dress culminates in the announcement of historic Panwa House at the Cape incense sticks which will be Bucha Day code... so glam it up with 80s Thailand’s best wine list at the Panwa Hotel. As usual, booking is floated away in a canal or river. Makha Bucha Day, which falls on clothes and accessories! More Awards ceremony in October. Con- required but all are welcome. The idea is to worship the river’s the full moon of the third information contact Annabel Fox on tact Jon Hyams on 080-4718713 Members: 500 baht; non members Goddess and at the same time to lunar month, commemorate the 076-324101 or visit website and guests: 650 baht. Register at float away any bad luck. Buddha’s ordaining of 1,250 xanabeachclub.com October 5-13, Phuket Vegetarian info@phuketiw iwc.com or contact Loy Krathong is not a public monks who had arrived unan- Festival. Carole Dux on 076-316711. holiday in the Kingdom. nounced from afar only seven September 19, 11:30am-2pm, This festival is an annual event months after the Buddha began Phuket International Women’s held during the ninth lunar Nov 13-16, 5am-6pm, Phuket December 5, His Majesty the his teachings. It is also the date Club monthly lunch. month of the Chinese calendar. International Sport Fishing King's Birthday. the Buddha delivered his Funda- September’s lunch will be Though the origins of the Tournament 2013. Each year this days mark's HM mental Teachings – just months at The Holiday Inn, Patong. festival are unclear, it celebrates Registration will be held on the King Bhumibol Adulyadej's before his death. Always a popular venue. All the Chinese community’s belief November 13 from 5pm onwards. are welcome but registration that a strict diet of “vegetables Fishing days are 13-16 November. is essential. Members B500 only” will purify mind and body Prize giving party on the 16th. For and guests B650. Contact: and constitute merit-making. more info, please see our website: [email protected] or Carole Sacred rituals are performed at phuket-international-sportfishing- Dux 076-316711 or visit website: all Chinese temples in Phuket. tourament.com or contact Khun phuketiwc.com The processions from each Uwe Schittek on 076-282036 or temple show strict vegetarians, email [email protected] Oct 8, 2013, 6 pm-10:30 pm, known asdevotees, ostensibly This event is sponsored by the Wine List of the Year Thailand possessed by gods, piercing Phuket Gazette, PGTV and the Awards 2013. their tongues, cheeks and other nationally televised ‘Phuket The Wine List of the Year parts of the anatomy with sharp Today’ show. Thailand Awards is a National com- implements. The devotees petition recognizing the efforts and apparently feel no pain and Nov 17, Loy Krathong Festival expertise amongst the hotels, res- show no sign of real injury. One of the most beautiful taurants, cafes and wine bars in the festivals in Thailand. It is tradition- development of wine culture in Oct 17, 11:30am-2pm, Phuket ally performed on the full moon Thailand. The competition is open International Women’s Club at night of the twelfth lunar month, to all food and beverage establish- Cape Panwa Hotel. which usually falls in November.

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Computer problems? Internet problems? Software problems? Hardware problems? Questions about phones or tablets or phablets, social software, antisocial software, or where to get the best deal on internet packages, TV channels, or phones? A solution may exist!

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Sponsored by the Phuket Gazette and Khun Woody’s Sandwich Shoppes. 36 PHUKET GAZETTE JuneAugust 29 -24 July - 30, 5, 2013 Yet more dark despair motley collection of bemedaled gen- decades of Mobutu’s epic misrule. erals and sticky-fingered grabbers French is on the plane with Bill dominated by relatives who had Richardson, the American special been rendered fat and plodding by envoy to the Congo, as he years of unbridled greed”. recounts his final meeting with AFTER aspiring journalist Howard This is in contrast to the lush Mobutu, telling him: “You are out. W French graduated college in 1980 beauty of the country itself. By air, Do you want to leave with he joined his parents, American French reports: dignity or as a carcass?” Mobutu medical doctors, in Ivory Coast. “We went from forests as thick complains of disloyalty. “I said the His romance with Africa begins as heads of broccoli bundled tightly mess you are in is not our mess,” with a girl from Mali whom he together to golden savannahs Richardson said. “You didn’t meets in a nightclub. Intrigued by resembling the American Great govern your country.” her tales of Mali’s history, he sets Plains, and finally, as the earth Not that French has anything off on an epic overland trip to Mali but scorn for American diplomacy. to see for himself. This journey He asks: “Why were Western comprises the first chapter of his powers still placing most of their A Continent for the Taking money on corrupt, authoritarian (Vintage Books, New York, regimes in the iron grip of 2005, 280pp). Subtitled The charismatic dictators?” Tragedy and Hope of Africa, it’s A prime example was Charles mainly the story of his four years Taylor of Liberia and his militias as African correspondent for the of drug-addled child soldiers. New York Times, a stint of far too French’s horrifying escapades in much tragedy and nearly no hope. the capital of Monrovia serve to He does revisit Mali and has highlight “one of Africa’s most praise for its resurgent democracy horrifying civil wars. No fewer (one that was crushed a few years than 150,000 out of 2.6 million ago, leading to an Islamic insur- Liberians had died during seven gency and French intervention). years of mayhem. A comparable But he would spend most of his toll for the United States would time as a fireman, rushing from be the loss of nearly 21 million crisis to crisis in godforsaken citizens.” Meanwhile, the coun- places like Liberia and the Congo. tryside had been devastated by One flaw does run through this looting, the surviving population INNOCENCE LOST: Child Soldiers have been used in brutal wars all over generally vigorous account of dispersed by terrifying atrocities. Africa in recent decades, leaving a terrible legacy. Photo: Hdptcar bloody unrest. As a black American, And how many Hutu refugees French tends to fall into puerile were massacred in Rwanda’s pontificating toward his presumed invasion of the Congo will never white audience – ignorant and be known. French doggedly indifferent of Africa. This leads him follows their 1,000 mile flight into overblown rhetoric and through the jungle from the outright historical errors. He Rwandan border. Time and time accuses the explorer Henry Morton again, the rebels kill them, Stanley of being a sadist, loading TOP: Author Howard W French scatter them in flight, catch up down his native bearers with heavy BOTTOM: The cover of French’s Book with them again and kill more. chains. If he did, they never would Except for French, this story have been able to walk so far. began to rise and fold upon itself, remained largely unreported. But his reporting is faultless. In to extraordinary mesas. Green In the end, French wearies of the last days of the Congo’s and flat, rising sharply from the his burden. He opts for a new despot Sese Seko Mobutu’s reign, surrounding plains and neatly assignment in Japan and is stricken with cancer and faced covered with grass, they looked as dreaming of that peaceful society with an invasion force organized if Norse giants had conceived them as he fights his way out of from Rwanda, French brilliantly for putting practice. A trancelike state Central African airports, assailed describes the chaos that over- of relaxation settled over me...” on all sides by greedy officials and whelms the crumbling capital of The whole country is reverting pseudo-officials. French is utterly Kinshasa amid “the frenetic jostling to jungle, roads and railways fed up and the reader sympathizes BEAUTY: The author’s love afair with Africa began when he met a woman for power of Mobutu’s elite, a disappearing during the three with him. from Mali. Photo: Hdptcar

STRUGGLE: A Congolese refugee boy stands in the classroom of an emergency school run by the UN. Photo: Hdptcar GROWING UP FAST: A young girl carries her baby brother. Photo: Hdptcar August 24 - 30, 2013 PHUKET GAZETTE 37 Yves Baron ‘Popera’ gig PHUKET’S pop and classical YB: My music is a blend of Where does the artist name music fans are set for an unusual pop and classical influences to and your album name ‘Le yet refreshing treat as the create a genre we call ‘Popera’. Tenor’ come from? island welcomes Bangkok-based While learning classical opera I YB: ‘Le tenor’ is a bit of a tenor, Yves Baron. always listened to many of other connection to my French origin The French-Thai vocalist types of music such as pop, as ‘Le’ means ‘The’ in French. specializes in the “Popera” style, rock and hip hop which all The word ‘Tenor’ is simply my a blend of pop and classical opera nourished my mind and soul with voice range, it’s a fantastic gift music. He has performed at new ideas for my own music. to hit the highest notes with full numerous media events, festivals I do think that the music I power. The ‘Le Tenor’ nickname and concerts in Africa, Asia, the choose to perform is a reflection was suggested here in Thailand Americas and Europe and is of my personality, and I would by my good friend Sanya currently a master vocal coach say of my own blood. I always Souvannaphouma, a creative for the prestigious Superstar love to mix styles and genres; that director of many upscale places Academy and college in Bangkok. is how I am happiest. in Bangkok. As we both met in Yves Baron will be performing at Paris, it is a tribute to that city TALENTED TENOR: The acclaimed Yves Baron will be performing his the Centara Beach Resort on Where have you performed so through my stage name. signature ‘popera’ songs in Phuket soon. Photo: Supplied Saturday, August 31. far? The Gazette had a chance to YB: I have travelled over four What will you be performing at interview the musician, who goes continents so far and I hope it your concert here in Phuket? Concert details by the stage name, “Le Tenor”. is only the beginning! There YB: I will sing a full ‘popera’ have been many festivals and repertoire on August 31 with pop Saturday August 31, 8pm onwards at Luna Bar, Centara Shela Riva: Tell us a bit about beautiful nights performing for and classical tunes, as well Beach resort, Karon. your background? amazing people. as musical theater, movie 300 baht inclusive of beverage* and choice of Cocotte Tapas Yves Baron: I was born in To my personal pride, I have soundtracks – all with a full Europe, but My mother is Thai been lucky enough to sing in tenor voice. Sunday September 1, 7pm onwards at Donnafugatta and my father French; so I am front of HM Queen Sirikit On Sunday, September 1, Winery, the Beachcomber, Centara Beach Resort, Karon a mixture of the Western and during a Paris trip, and I have I will also perform for the 1,600+ baht inclusive of five of beverages and five live Asian worlds. also performed at plenty of Donnafugata wine launch at cooking stations. important media events with the Beachcomber. I am grateful How would you describe the many talented musicians and to Centara Beach Resort, Karon *For full details, go to letenor.pro style of your music? wonderful celebrities. for welcoming me. 38 PHUKET GAZETTE August 24 - 30, 2013 A worthy initiative ANY initiative which includes the Another small fruit tree is planting of new trees is to be imocarpus longan. The second welcomed. There is a plan afoot, part of the name gives it away, initiated by Mr Songjit Suppakit for this is the fruit – widely prized of Phisut Technology and by Thais – that resembles a supported by Governor Maitri your garden, but the prospect of a yellow-brown, smooth-skinned Inthusut , to connect Sirirat Road sylvan lane stretching through a version of the lychee. If you are (near Le Meridian Beach Resort) green landscape of hills is inviting. keen to try fruit trees in your to remote and spectacular Tri This initiative conveniently garden, then this is a front- Trang and Freedom beaches. takes us to the letter “D”. While runner, a small tree with The most ecologically sensitive there is nothing else around quite attractive large, pinnate foliage proposal is to replace the existing as majestic or as universally known which makes it a useful shade footpath with a narrow road and as Dalbergia, there are other plants tree. It produces racemes of walkway lined with pradu (rose- worthy of mention. Dillenia is yellow flowers and large wood) trees. These splendid trees, another Asian species which makes bunches of sweet, juicy fruit. almost non-existent in the forests a broadly spreading tree, albeit not Other garden plants, for example of Phuket because their valuable as tall as the rosewood. It has dracaena and dieffenbachia, will timber has long since been stolen papery bark and thick, glossy, egg- already be well known to for furniture, would light up the shaped, deeply ribbed leaves up to readers of these columns. Suffice route with their masses of beauti- a foot long. Alata has large, showy to say that dieffenbachia, with its ful yellow flowers. Such an avenue yellow flowers followed by red succulent stems, and distinctive could be called “The Botanic Road”. fruit: D.indica, which likes a shady mottled green and white leaves, There are three or four main position, has impressive white, remains one of the most widely varieties of rosewood in South- magnolia-like flowers, with apple- available plants. Among the very east Asia: Dalbergia nigra, now like green fruit (hence the name best for deep shade, provided classified as an endangered species, elephant apple) about four inches you can deliver a regular supply of D. latifolia, and D. sissoo which in diameter, while the smaller moisture, it will also do well in a produces a wood even harder than D.ovata has golden blooms, and container placed in a dark corner. teak. Another variety, oliveri, native can tolerate full sun. The flesh of Again, dracaenas are part of to Thailand, has clusters of pink D. indica is used in India to make most gardening landscapes. The flowers –presumably not what Mr a kind of chutney called chulta. I plant’s ubiquity is illustrated Songjit has in mind. As forest trees have seen saplings for sale at the by the fact that a Chalong with a canopy up to 20 meters high, July Suphan Hin plant market, but development calls itself by the they are unlikely to be suitable for it deserves wider recognition. plant’s name. D. fragrans is the most common form. It is often cut back to a bare trunk or two to encourage leaf growth from the node immediately beneath, and this form is sometimes used in interior settings. Left to its own devices, it will grow to twenty feet, wreathed in arching, strap-like, often variegated leaves all the way down its columnar form. There are now interesting cultivars, including victoriae with a silver central stripe and lindenii, a favorite for group plantings, which has bright yellow leaves. The low-maintenance D. reflexa has a bushy habit and smaller, vividly Limocarpus Longan is a small fruit tree that produces abundant smooth striped leaves. It is one of the most MAJESTIC: This species of Rosewood tree, Dalbergia Latifolia might be lychee like fruit which are very popular in Thailand. Photo: Hoa Trai Viet Nam robust plants I know. used to line a new road in Phuket. Photo: Vinayara Tip of the week Dog of the week Look out for larval pests from her ordeal. She is still a little afraid of humans, but is THIS time of year sees lots of becoming more relaxed and pests on your plants. Not just trusting every day. ants, which are always around She loves to be held close and and harm your treasures by pro- thinks going for a run on the tecting sap-sucking aphids, or beach every morning is a real the larval leaf miners which treat. She would love to find a tunnel away inside tender leaves. new home with a family who One miner I recently discov- are gentle and will allow her to ered, a minuscule brown form, regain trust in humans and have has been responsible for boring a normal life. If you can find a along the undersides of yellow place in your home for Foxy, palm fronds, cutting off the sap contact Doggie Heaven. flow and turning the tissue gray FOXY was lucky enough to be and lifeless. Difficult to spot. rescued from the Northeast of Doggie Heaven helps place My solitary lotus has some Thailand close to the Cambodian homeless dogs with loving telltale skeletal leaves, thanks to Aphids produce a sweet nectar as a reward for the protection from border, where she was about to families and is based in Thalang. an infestation of China mark predators provided by ants. Photo: Viamoi be sold to the dog meat industry If you would like to adopt an moth caterpillars. Small and moth caterpillars: they started on adenium. There are also mon- and smuggled across the border. animal or want to make an hairy, they conceal themselves the oleanders, but prefer to munch arch butterfly larvae on the Thankfully, Foxy was appointment, please contact: underneath the foliage. There are other shrubs in the apocynaceae Indian milkweed (calatropis), rescued by the folks at Doggie [email protected] or visit emerald green oleander Hawk family – tabernaemontana and but this sturdy plant can cope. Heaven and has recovered doggieheaven.net August 24 - 30, 2013 PHUKET GAZETTE 39

Solar modules Off-the-grid Healthy plants aquaponics Grow bed / Bio filter TRY saying the title of this article quite impressive and even downright five times fast – you might get past inspiring. Across the globe, though the first round or two, but chances mostly in North America, there are are you’ll eventually have tripped up folks who continue to construct on the second word “aquaponics”. simple aquaponics systems to grow Oxygen pump For many, particularly here in message, aquaponics would be like everything from strawberries, car- Phuket, this vaguely familiar, yet the latest scoop delivered on a su- rots and mint to lettuce, basil and Clean water, Happy fish alien word sounds quite similar to per high-speed internet-powered even cannabis; while the emphasis the more commonly known system 4-D TV with surround sound... is usually on the plants, some have for growing plants, that has only Okay, maybe the step-up is not even upgraded their systems to take recently become a buzzword on the quite that extreme...Instead of advantage of the best of both island – hydroponics. buying and manually adding nec- worlds, for example, to cultivate I’ll go ahead and save you the essary chemical nutrients to the edible fish such as carp and catfish. headache of delving deep into water cycle in a hydroponics sys- As an amateur aquaponics enthu- Solids pump confusing etymology and try to out- tem, an aquaponics system utilizes siast, I too aspire to one day be able line some simple definitions. natural nutrients found in fish to cultivate an entire four-course MICRO ECOSYTEM: The author’s aquaponics prototype on a Phuket balcony. poop, which is supplied by an in- meal, all within the confines of a Hydroponics vs Aquaponics tegral part of the system, the small space.I’m on the right track on, and for those who think they’re The keys to my crude-albeit-prom- aquarium full of fish. It’s genius now, having developed two work- mostly unaffected, I say think again ising prototype designs are the low Hydroponics generally refers to in concept if you think about it. ing prototypes in my Phuket – all that plastic wrapping and voltage LED lighting, oxygen and the process of growing plants in a Plants need food in the form of shoe-box condo’s micro-sized packaging of your favorite foods solids pumps – all powered by DC soil-less medium, be it igneous ammonia, fish need their ammo- kitchen balcony. Considering the and products, and all that fuel solar-charged batteries. stones, clay pellets, coconut space limitations, I’ve decided burned to power cars, TVs, cell Admittedly, maintaining a reliable fiber (coir) or just water. against trying to cultivate ed- phones, ipads, computers and air energy supply, and particularly the Whatever the medium – if any ible fish for now and just try conditioners – that’s all courtesy process of keeping batteries – water is the key element in to make sure I can keep the of oil, if not coal, too. sufficiently charged has been a all set-ups; vital nutrients several guppies, suckerfish Bringing it back to aquaponics, I major obstacle thus far. My condo (plant food) are sucked up and baby turtles alive in my decided that I wasn’t going to just balcony might get three hours of from the constantly circulat- 20-inch aquarium. As for copy the next guy, by going to the direct sunlight on a clear day, but ing stream of water by a plants, I’m experimenting aquarium store to buy some quick- on a cloudy day, forget about it – plant’s root systems, and the with Chia plants, as they start, plug-in pumps. Anybody can the balcony’s design to minimize water – sucked clean of all proved an easy, instant ger- do that. Rather, I wanted to design midday sun renders any solar charg- its nutrients – then cycles mination, but I have some a system that doesn’t depend on ing station unpractical. back out into some sort of other challenges ahead of me. grid energy: Direct Current (DC) So, what I do is bring a small, reservoir or sump, where electricity channeled through solar 10-kilogram 12-volt battery pack to more nutrients are added, and Taking advantage of uncovered parking at work. Off the Urban Grid modules was to be the key, if not work everyday, so I can passively the process can start all over for showing that this kind of thing charge it using small solar panels again. With water constantly pump- nia (the poop) removed from the To say that I resent society’s could be done without needing to placed on top of my car roof, and ing through the system using aquarium regularly or they will die. unchecked dependency on the burn fossil fuels (plugging into the thus taking advantage of a full day’s electricity, there is no need to water Put the two needs together – add almighty industries of coal and wall socket), then for ensuring that range of sunlight – anywhere from the plants like when growing in soil. some basic hyrdroponics, plumb- petrochemicals is an understate- my fish and turtles would not be 6-10 hours depending on the Aquaponics is based on the same ing and aquarium-maintenance, ment. It seems impossible these left to die when the power goes out weather. Now who said uncovered concept of creating an artificial en- and you’ve got aquaponics days to even acquire food, whether as is quite common in Phuket. parking is the end of the world? vironment that emulates the natural buying or producing it, without I’m proud to say that the power water, light and thus conversion- Best of Both Worlds consequently supporting and has gone out twice in the last few Stay tuned for more aquaponics trials feeding cycles needed for a plant to perpetuating the present age’s months, and both times my and exploitations. Meanwhile, for thrive – only slightly more advanced. A quick search on YouTube will dominant energy industries – coal aquaponic prototypes were 100% videos, blogs and pictures of my For the sake of comparison, if hy- uncover hoards of amateur back- and oil. The poor fall further into unaffected; the fish oblivious as the ongoing aquaponics experimentation, droponics was likened to a telegraph yard aquaponics projects – some debt while wars continue to rage rest of Phuket froze in darkness. log on to siamerican.com 40 PHUKET GAZETTE August 24 - 30, 2013

This week in history

Ukraine Independance Day AUGUST 24 79AD Mount Vesuvius erupted burying the city of Pompeii. WITH all the Russian writing on Phuket signs and in beachside 1891 Thomas Edison patented the motion picture camera. restaurants’ menus, you might think that there are many Russians in 1912 Alaska became a United States territory. Phuket...and you wouldn’t be wrong. But keep in mind that not all of 1991 Ukraine declared Independence from Soviet Union. them are actually Russians. With some 30,532 Ukrainians having 2006 Pluto demoted from planet status to dwarf planet. visited Thailand since the beginning of this year, chances are that the Russian family you see sunbathing on your favorite beach is actually a AUGUST 25 Ukrainian family. They might be easier to spot on Saturday when Ukraine celebrates it’s Independence Day. So if you lacked an excuse to raise 1609 Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first telescope. a glass on that very day, there you go!And to make it a bit more 1825 Uruguay declared its independence from Brazil. meaningful, here’s a profile of the third largest country in Europe. 1830 The Belgian Revolution began. Ukraine is located in Eastern Europe and share its border with 1944 World War II: Paris liberated by the Allies. seven countries – Russia, Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, 1991 The Airbus A340 aircraft made its first flight. Romania and Moldova and the Black Sea in the south. Approxi- 1991 Belarus gained independence from the Soviet Union DEATH OF A CITY 79 AD Photo: coolingsights mately 45 million people live in Ukraine, 77.8 per cent Ukrainians, 17.3 per cent Russian and 4.9 per cent make up other nationalities. AUGUST 26

Ukraine Independence Day 1768 Captain James Cook set sail from England on board HMS Endeavour, on his first voyage. Ukrainians celebrate their national day on August 24 to 1791 John Fitch granted a United States patent for the steamboat. commemorate the county’s independence from the USSR. The 1920 Women in the US got the right to vote with the 19th amendment to United States Constitution. Ukrainian Declaration of Independance was adopted by the 1942 Holocaust atrocities commenced in Ukraine. Ukrainian parliament on August 24 1991, three months before the official dissolution of the Soviet Union. Today the celebrations consist of fireworks and concerts that are mostly concentrated in the capital – Kiev. AUGUST 27

Flag 1828 Uruguay formally proclaimed independence. The Ukrainian flag consists of two horizontal stripes, blue over yel- 1939 Fight of the the world’s first jet aircraft. low, representing fire and water, golden domes of churches over the th 1991 Independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Dnieper river (for a short period in the 20 century the colors on the 1991 Moldovian independence from the USSR. flag were placed in the opposite order), or blue skies over fields of 2003 Mars closest to Earth in nearly 60,000 years. wheat (above). Since 2004 August 23 is celebrated in Ukraine as the day of the national flag.

Language CLOSE COUZINS 2003 Photo: NASA/JPL/MSSS The official language of Ukraine is Ukrainian, named the native AUGUST 28 language by approximately 65 per cent of the population with Russian coming second at roughly 30 per cent. Many Ukrainians 1789 William Herschel discovered a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus. use both Ukrainian and Russian in equal measure. State-controlled 1916 World War I: Germany declared war on Romania. media use exclusively Ukrainian but private media, mostly printed 1916 World War I: Italy declared war on Germany. press and radio, is still dominated by Russian. 1990 Iraq declared Kuwait to be its newest province. 1996 Charles and Diana divorced. Food Ukraine is famous for its borsch, a soup made from beetroot and 20 AUGUST 29 other ingredients. Other popular dishes are: Varenyky, dumpings similar to Polish pierogi with stuffing such as mashed potatoes with 1758 The first American Indian Reservation established mushroom and fried onions, cabbage, minced meat or even cherries. 1825 Portugal recognized the independence of Brazil. Uzvar, a drink made from dried apples, pears and apricots. 1831 Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction. 1833 Abolition of slavery in United Kingdom’s empire. 1885 The world’s first internal combustion motorcycle patented 1898 The Goodyear tire company founded. 1916 The United States passed the Philippine Autonomy Act. 2005 Hurricane Katrina devastated much of the US Gulf Coast

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1835 Melbourne founded. 1836 The city of Houston founded 1963 Start of the hotline between the U.S.A. and USSR 1984 The Space Shuttle Discovery maiden voyage. 1999 East Timor independence from Indonesia

MOTORIZED 1885 Photo: Joachim Kohler August 24 - 30, 2013 PHUKET GAZETTE 41

In the past ships could dock on a canal near Wat Chalong. Photo:craigcullum Skeletons from the past By Anand Singh transportation to other parts of the England and Holland. island and used its freshwater to Such evidence has led IN 1992, a peculiar discovery irrigate their rice fields. It was a local historians to believe was made in a village on time when large canals connected that the mass grave may Phuket Island. Baan Khok- the different districts of Phuket have been dug to bury Tanod, situated in Chalong together, making it possible for European traders who died sub-district in the south of people to travel from one part of on the island almost a Phuket, was the site of the the island to another. century ago. According strange discovery when a Bang Yai canal flows into Chalong to Prasit Chinakarn, a local company that owned a Bay, which used to be a natural renowned Phuket historian, piece of land in the village harbor for merchant ships that these merchants may decided to dig up the area in sailed between trading towns like have come to Phuket to order to build a wall around Malacca, Penang, Phuket, Ranong trade in the early 20th the land. Not long after, and Takua Pa. Ships on their way century. In the year construction had started, to these ports often had to sail past 1912, however, a terrible however, the crew had to Chalong Bay and often, during the smallpox epidemic spread stop abruptly after a chilling monsoon season, merchant ships throughout the Kingdom of discovery was made. The would anchor within Chalong Bay Thailand. It took the lives heavy digging had begun to and wait for favorable conditions of countless people, unearth several human before continuing on their journey. Thais and foreigners skeletons and bones from the The district of Chalong also had a indiscriminately. Prasit ground. It seemed like the sizeable population living by the suspected that the mass construction workers had coast, which meant seafarers grave might have been dug stumbled upon a mass grave could buy their supplies from to bury the dead European and nobody really knew how local villagers before setting merchants who died dur- Mass grave in Chalong tells a story of Phuket’s struggle with smallpox. Photo:gerlos long it had been there. sail again. ing the smallpox outbreak. The site of the grave is The skeletons found at Baan He speculated that these merchants hastily-dug mass graves such soldiers were stationed in Phuket. located very close to Chalong Khok Tanod were numerous, yet might have been travelling from as this one found in Baan Each time the epidemic struck, it Temple near Bang Yai canal. In all buried together in one mass Takua-Pa to Phuket when some of Khok Tanod. killed masses of people in the most the old days, Bang Yai was a grave. They were buried along the crew members got sick and died Smallpox was a highly infectious frightful manner. Thankfully, the large and very deep canal. In with several household items on their ship on the way to Phuket. airborne disease with a high awful disease has been eradicated fact, it was wide enough to ac- made of bronze, such as betel nut As a result, the rest of the mortality rate. Outbreaks of from the island for over 50 years. commodate triple-mast ships, crushers and coins minted during surviving crew may have taken a smallpox used to be common which could sail up the canal the reign of King Rama V. Also detour and sailed up Bang Yai throughout the history of the Anand Singh is an avid Phuket from the open sea, as far inland found in the mass grave were canal to Baan Khok Tanod in order island. Another major outbreak historian. If you have any comments as Chalong Temple and the several pieces of porcelain, to bury their dead shipmates of smallpox was documented or questions about the history market nearby. For hundreds of kitchenware and glass bottles before setting sail elsewhere. again in 1943 during the Second of Phuket send an email to years, the people of Chalong with European labels indicating The betel sets and tobacco World War, when many Japanese [email protected] used Bang Yai canal for that the wares were made in found in the grave suggests that there may have been some Thais buried in there as well. The fact that local Thais were also bur- ied within the mass grave alongside Europeans seems to support the theory that these people may have been victims of a smallpox epidemic. Thais usually cremate their dead. However, during the smallpox epidemic of 1912, people were succumbing to the plague so fast that it was becoming difficult to cremate all of the dead bodies. In fact, the plague was so frightful that few would voluntarily go near dead bodies that had died from smallpox. The Last case of smallpox in Thailand was reported in 1962. Photo:WHO Hence they were buried in 42 PHUKET GAZETTE August 24 - 30, 2013 Superyachts meet again Invites now out for Asia’s most prestigious yacht event THE Asia Superyacht Rendezvous, two days of sailing and cruising now going into its 13th year, has begun around the stunning Phuket accepting registrations for December’s coastline and Andaman Sea, the annual event in Phuket. infamous FEADSHIP Challenge The event attracts the largest gathering of Cocktail Party and the family superyachts in all of Asia. Phuket, known as favorite; The Rendezvous Booty Asia’s premier sailing destination, is the pirate treasure hunt. perfect home for the Rendezvous, which will Gordon Fernandes, GM of take place just before the Christmas and New Asia Pacfic Superyachts, the Year holiday period, on December 16-18. With largest super-yacht agency in exclusive sponsors such as FEADSHIP, Boat Asia and organizer/sponsor of International Media, Asia Pacific Superyachts the Rendezvous, added: “We and Kata Rocks on board, it’s an event that always have a good time, but the offers luxury, style, culture, prestige and model boat race, The Feadship above all, fun! Challenge, seems to get the best Imagine: white sand beaches, turquoise out of the crew and the banter is waters, sky villas that look like superyachts great. This is not only the and world class fine dining, and you have biggest superyacht event in Asia; the multi-award winning Kata Rocks in it’s also the most fun!” your mind. As the Host Sponsor for the The renowned Dutch luxury Rendezvous, Kata Rocks is the latest yacht builder Feadship has been edition to the Rendezvous family. supporting the Rendezvous since “The restaurant, bar and clubhouse its birth 13 years ago. Attending will be employed to an exciting effect, with last year’s 12th Anniversary and Superyachts randevous – luxury, style, culture, prestige and above all, fun! activities and programs that reflect the luxury one of the stars of the event was superyacht and glamor of the numerous superyachts that Helix, a Feadship F45 Vantage motor yacht. will be moored between Kata Point and Koh Helix delighted onlookers with her perfectly Phu on the fully-moonlit nights,” says Bryan crafted exterior and award winning design Hoare Marketing and Communication and has since been be sold to a new proud Director for Kata Rocks. owner. The evening of most importance is no The Asia Superyacht Rendezvous doubt the exclusive Gala Dinner, reserved is no doubt Asia’s best and most for owners, captains and VIPs and held on fun Superyacht event. Encompassing the final day at Kata Rocks. Attendees will everything from beautifully crafted, be treated to a mouth-watering cuisine sophisticated accommodation and experience, Thai cultural entertainment and venues, exquisite fine dining, a a chance to dust off the disco shoes. networking and social schedule with all The crew does not need to miss out on ages and interests catered for, and on a any festivities this year, as a special Crew tropical island location to boot. This is Party is being organized at the luxurious, one event not to be missed. yet trendy RE KA TA Beach Club on Kata – Phuket Gazette Beach. The party, set to be one of the parties of the season, is sponsored by Sevenstar Yacht Transport, who is offering The 2013 Superyachts Randevous is transportation from the Mediterranean and proudly sponsored by the PhuketGazette Americas regions to superyachts who wish and PGTV. To receive an invitation for this to attend the event. exclusive event contact pr-comm@asia- Apart from the final evening parties, the superyacht-rendezvous.com. Full details Rendezvous boasts various fun and of the event including sponsor information, activities during the three days. Starting with can be found on the official event website; a cocktail party on the opening night on www.asia-superyacht-rendezvous.com board one of the participating superyachts, This is not only the biggest superyacht event in Asia; it’s also the most fun . Sailing around Phuket in style NEED an idea for a interesting provided by the Hardstand Cafe makes it one of the biggest boats weekend? How about taking two and of course stunning vistas available for daily charter in Phuket. superyachts, punting managers from the fly-bridge. A half day trip to Phang Nga for 10 of some of the finest 5-star The Bilgin 98 is designed to make people costs 182,000 baht. resorts in Phuket aboard, and 10 passengers comfortable which – Phuket Gazette setting them sail around the stunning Phang Nga Bay. That’s exactly what Limestone Adven- tures did last Saturday to show off the newest addition to their fleet – the Bilgin 98 speed boat. The passengers, among them Chantal Fernandes (GM Kata Rocks), Marie-Helene Moreira (GM The Surin), Scot Toon (GM Paresa Resort) and Gordon Fernandes (GM Asia Pacific Superyachts) could enjoy the boat’s luxurious de- sign, a jacuzzi, some great food The Bilgin 98, 30m of speed sailing delight. Photos: Limestone Adventures Up to 10 people can comfortably cruise on the Bilgin 98 August 24 - 30, 2013 PHUKET GAZETTE 43 Pamper yourself with a spa

By Anthika Muangrod and a plastic wrap, which is tightly wrapped Kanyawarat Premprasert around the body and left on for about 20-30 minutes. This kind of treatment BEAUTY and relaxation therapies such helps rid the body of toxins and helps as massage, facials, and body wraps to soften the skin. remain popular spa treatments for those who Massage is another vital component want to relax their mind and body and melt of a relaxing spa treatment and there is away the stress of a busy work schedule. nothing quite like a foot massage to help Spa treatments have a huge range of you shed your stress. Foot massage is to benefits, which include: increased relaxation, Thailand like eating sushi to Japan – part of reduced stress, relief from headaches, people regular routine and an integral relief from muscle tension (including element of the country’s culture. facial muscles), improved skin quality, Massage techniques in the Land of anti-aging effects and ridding the body Smiles are influenced by the traditional of toxic chemicals from cosmetics. medicine systems from all over Asia, but Most spas consist of a massage with a particularly strong influence coming component, often including a body, foot or from India and China. face massage, and a beauty component, The goal of massage is to stimulate your which is all about muscles, improve facial and body treat- circulation, lessen ments such as body stiffness and strain wraps, salt scrubs and eliminate pain. A and so on. basic foot massage FACIAL TREATMENT: ingredients in most facials spa can help improve the elasticity in your Body scrubs are a consists of 21 steps face, soothe your face, firm and hydrate your skin and more. Photo: EuphoraSalonMediSpa great way to keep and focuses on put- your skin healthy ting pressure on and beautiful through specific points of exfoliation. Most your feet. Some of it scrub treatments you can do at home. have three main Start with putting ingredients – an massage oil or foot Salt is excellent for exfoliation, which helps exfoliant, an oil and rub away dead skin cells. Photo: Nomadic Lass cream on your feet a fragrant. and legs. Next, hold Exfoliation materials can include salt, the bottom of the foot with both hands. sugar, rice bran, jojoba beads, apricot Start rubbing the top of the foot, slowly kernels or coffee grounds – in short, just working your way down to the sole of the about anything that can rub away dead skin foot. Apply more pressure as you get closer cells and expose a fresh layer of smooth skin. to the sole. Reverse slowly towards the Ideally, high quality essential oils are top, reducing pressure as you go. In the used to generate a pleasant fragrance. There next step, rub the heel of the foot, use are an enormous number of synthetic your thumbs to make small circles with oils on the market, but true aromatherapy medium to heavy pressure. Massage uses only the best pure plant extracts. around the entire heel. Do it again on the If you are going to use a spa service, make ball of the foot. sure the they use a pure therapeutic Next, use your thumbs to push up and grade essential oil. down the heel. Finally, use both of your FOOT MASSAGE: There's no better way to treat a friend or loved one than to give their sore A body wrap is another common hands to rub in circular motion around the feet a wonderful foot massage. Photo: Body Kneads Day Spa. treatments undertaken when you go to a heel bone on both sides, and softly rub your to massage the skin gently. relieve diarrhea, headache, asthma and spa. During the process, people are fingers over the top of the bone. After that Or just grab 200-300 baht and let the stress. It’s surely worth the price and the slathered with algae, seaweed, mud, clay, make fists and use your knuckles to push nearby foot massage parlor do it for you! perfect way to treat yourself after a long lotion or cream before being covered in to the arch. Roll your hand back and forth Properly performed, a foot massage can week at work. Meditation 101: 10 minutes best WHEN you have your mind placed on a single In here (the realm of mind training) you should object, then you have your mind retaining the memory pace yourself and meditate for no more than 10 of what it is doing. Whenever you minutes at a time at first. are engaging the mind in that Sure, you might be able to action of single-pointed concentra- sit and meditate for longer tion, it is from that moment on that than 10 minutes, but the meditation starts. quality of mediation will fall For beginners, the length of as the mind gets tired, and the session that is best to get invariably mind performance quick improvements in terms of will drop, and you basically mind performance, should be no don’t want the mind to more than 10 minutes. remember and retain low Training the mind can be performance from low qual- likened to physical training – the ity meditation. basic principles are similar. Suppose you want to train Andrea Capellari is Thanyapura’s yourself to run. At first, the coach Mind Trainer and leads meditation would tell you not to overexert sessions for members, Mon-Thu, yourself, telling you to do paced 10.30-11.30am and 3-4pm, and sessions on the treadmill for say MIND MASTER: Andrea Capellari advises 9.30-11.30am on Fridays. Check 15 or 20 minutes per hour. beginners to pace their meditation sessions. updates: [email protected] 44 PHUKET GAZETTE August 24 - 30, 2013 Logos Hope visits Phuket World’s largest floating book fair brings knowledge, help, and hope

By Anthika Muangrod

Logos Hope which docked in Phuket recently, is operated by the German charity GBA Ships, and has made over 1,400 port visits in over 150 countries and territories. During these port calls, since 1970, it has welcomed over 42 million visitors on board – bringing knowledge, help and hope to people around the world. The book fair is on “deck four” of the ship. There are nine decks in total, and the ship is roughly half the size of the Titanic. There are more than five thousand books on topics ranging from science and technology, sports, hobbies and cookery to philosophy and children’s books, all of which are available for purchase at affordable prices. “The place is nice, with air condition- ing and [lots of] interesting books. The book I’m reading is about diving and it KNOWLEDGE IS POWER: The Logos Hope’s book fair has more than 5,000 book titles in various categories. tells all about the diving sites and big fish. There is some really nice pictures of the knowledge, help and hope to people operating the ship and 25 per cent comes fish and cool diving sites all around the around the world. Each year, another 200 from individuals and partners from other world, including Phuket, the Similan volunteers join the crew, replacing those organizations or companies that wants Islands, and Koh Lanta,” young Phuket who have served their handed two year stint. to sponsor us.” residents Brandon and Lolo Edouard, Dawid Jankowski, a young Polish In many ports, the Logos Hope sets who were visiting Logos Hope, told the volunteer who was on the ship when it up libraries, donates books and holds Gazette. docked in Phuket, told the Gazette: workshops on how to run a library. There’s The head of Logos Hope’s literature “I want to do something for others. It’s also trainings on topics such as HIV and department, based in Germany, is respon- in human nature to always expect that AIDS, first aid, hygiene and healthcare. sible for selecting and cataloging the someone will do something for us, but I “We offer all sorts of education and the books on the ship. Over the years, they want to do something for others, not only training to those who come on board. The have refined the list of books to contain [have] people doing something for me. I school for children on board follows the many popular and enjoyable titles. found this organization and I decided to English education system. Training is “It’s in human nature to As many as 400 unpaid volunteers join them and to travel around the world. provided according to what job category from more than 45 different nations So far, I have visited 26 countries and 48 the person works in on the ship. For always expect that some- work shoulder-to-shoulder aboard the ports in almost three years... I want others example, someone working in the kitchen one will do something for us, ship, with their shared mission to bring to have hope in life,” will learn how to cook 1,500 meals per day,” but I want to do something Cat Tse, a GBA Ships said Ms Tse. for others, not only [have] media relation officer, In many countries, Logos Hope people doing something for spoke about how the provides significant humanitarian relief in me” ship’s mission is funded: situations of need, namely: hospitals, – Dawid Jankowski, “We are a non profit schools, prisons, elderly and children a polish volunteer. government organiza- homes and orphanages. The help includes tion. Half of our dona- supplying material aid, building and School to paint the whole school and help tions come from family renovating houses, installing water out with gardening. Other teams went to and friends who want purifiers or providing general help in nearby small islands to provide healthcare to support the volunteers communities. and to teach English to children in on board. All the volun- In less developed countries, the organi- partnership with World Vision. teers, including the zation offers free dental treatment, eye “Everywhere we go, we want to help director and captain do testing, eye-glasses, and health check people in a practical way. Perhaps the not have a salary. About ups. In Cambodia the crew gave out greatest need we discover is not 25 per cent of the small 10,000 dress to underprivileged girls. education or practical help, but just profit from the book In Phuket, 30 crew members of the Logos hope,” Lloyd Nicholas, Managing Direc- YOUNG READERS: Edouard brothers, Brandon and Lolo. fair covers the cost for Hope crew visited the Good Shepherd tor, Logos Hope concluded. August 24 - 30, 2013 PHUKET GAZETTE 45 46 PHUKET GAZETTE August 24 - 30, 2013

Across: 8. Surroundings of a mount (7) 9. Down to earth in the mysterious Arctic, pal! (9) 13. Worry about the kids (5) 14. Extra page in collection (5) 15. Was disappointed to have agent dine out (7) 16. Carefully define, covering French-Turkish official title (7) 17. Clean broken spear (5) 18. Turn cur, he is in the fold (5) 20. Tenor requests assignments (5) 22. Solution wears badly, out North (6) 23. B.C. site could be split down the middle (6) 25. Toffee in the car meal perhaps (7) 27. Fasten unusually neat leaves opposite one another (7) 30. Or ails badly as man at sea (6) 31. Sound, level book (6) 32. Wildly run miles to the female quarters (5) 35. Teller maybe left out rent again (5) 36. Fires back at end of a stroke (5) 37. Husky, try a hot concoction (7) 39. Put forward in favor of raise (7) 5. Racer is out of control, more 28. Curry favor, almost as 41. Collectors’ item? Curious? terrifying! (7) Eastern legal proceedings (5,4) Not us! (5) 6. Is person I’d upset breaking 29. Organize fab ruse for 42. Reset, move to the point (5) up? (10) payment of coach (3,4) 43. Procedure first for 7. Ran a new shop in Thailand (4) 30. Phase out, outright, high evangelist (9) 10. Very nearly object, being ranking spiritual creature (6) 44. Long thin, a one in a Phuket wretched (6) 32. Ancestry different, I gather offshore island (7) 11. Utilize fewer, futile! (7) Eastern (8) 12. Nowadays give free expression 33. One month, border havoc! (6) Down: for arrival (6) 34. Dances about, son, and 1. Start to explode (3,3) 19. Or trace out as the designer (7) takes to the air (7) 2. Singular stunted unruly 21. A split, a disruption, happening 38. A note air rises left, above scholars (8) in space (7) the ground (6) 3. Intimated I would shortly be 24. Straight, a lion moved, 40. Honest peon corrupted (4) found inside, frightened (11) indicating the way to go (11) 4. Aspirant to render pet 26. A position hoper disturbed by Cryptic crossword compiled by confused (9) sign of omission (10) Patong Bill. Solution on page 31.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sept 23): The sting in your tail can be easily ARIES (March 21-April 20): that a platonic relationship with Virgoans can be caught in activated early next week, so An investment opportunity another air sign could become the cross-fire of an caution is advisable. This is a can seem too promising to something more romantic are argument between friends beneficial time to embark on a new turn down, but this is not likely to be disappointed. or colleagues as this month draws exercise routine as long as you set an auspicious time to take risks However, the stars advise that this to a close. The last week of reasonable goals. where money is concerned. There friendship is too special to spoil. August is a touchy time for are hints that Arians’ impatience to Best days for finances are relationships and it would be wise SAGITTARIUS (Nov 23-Dec 21): change their financial situations can Wednesday and Thursday. to keep a low profile. If your The stars advise AQUARIUS (Jan 21-Feb 19): get in the way of sensible decisions birthday is due in the coming Sagittarians to catch up Aquarians are forecast to being made. A friend’s recent CANCER (June 22-July 23): week, expect to be more inclined with overdue correspon- find a healthier balance experience can help you see what Satisfaction should be to travel during the year ahead. dence and tasks during the last between work and play not to do. Romance becomes more guaranteed for Cancerians Finances look promising on week of August. There are hints during the last month of August. relaxing when you focus less on who have put a lot of Tuesday and Wednesday. that you may have overlooked The cosmic climate encourages impressing that special someone. effort into a work-related project something that can have financial listening to concerned family and recently. The stars are ready to LIBRA (Sept 24-Oct 23): implications. Romance is well- friends who want you to have more TAURUS (April 21-May 21): support your path to success, Librans are advised to starred; those who recently fun. In the realm of romance, A fire sign colleague’s with emphasis on more doors spend some quality time became involved with a water jealousy can affect a relationship personal problems are opening in the last quarter of this in a natural environment sign should feel confident enough with another air sign. If you have highlighted to interfere year. Romance is a little shaky as this weekend. There are hints that to let their guard down. If you been guilty of game-playing, now with the flow of work this week. there are signs that living in the pressure in the world of work next are single and seeking, another is the time to stop. Money matters Tactful Taureans should be able to past is causing a rift in your week will be hard to ignore and fire sign is forecast to return your are best starred midweek. give some down to earth advice on present relationship. Lucky days for starting out on Monday in a more interest this weekend. Monday or Tuesday. Your powers finances are Sunday and Monday. relaxed mood will be to your PISCES (Feb 20-March 20): of communication can also have advantage. The stars suggest that CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 20): Another water sign is positive results where potential LEO (July 24-Aug 22): sharing is caring where romance Your practical outlook ready to take the credit romance is concerned. A water sign You may be envious of a is concerned. There are hints that comes in useful towards for your achievements in has been waiting to hear how friend’s spontaneity and a partner has been feeling left out the end of August. The the world of work. The stars interested you are and this weekend want to tag along, but of some areas of your life. stars advise that it should be suggest that Pisceans make could be the time to let them know. travel undertaken on the spur of possible to wrap up a personal matters clear this week – Wednesday the moment is not well-starred this SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 22): issue that has been dragging on for and Thursday are the most GEMINI (May 22-June 21): week. The stars advise forward You need to stay on the too long. In the world of work, auspicious days for honest talking. There are hints that you planning to avoid unforeseen right side of those who teamwork is the way forward to Finances are advantageous could be affected by mishaps. Many of those born have influence in the success; another earth sign can towards the end of August, with information overload under the sign of Leo will be world of work. The stars indicate relate to your way of doing good fortune forecast to come during the last week of August. happiest at home, particularly if that Scorpios who fall out of business, but a water sign’s skills your way. Those confused by a Figuring out what is really important this means getting closer to a new favor could be left out of important don’t match up. Hot days for love romantically related issue can receive to know is forecast to test your romantic air sign partner. Money developments in the near future. are Thursday and Friday. direction from an earth sign friend. patience. Geminis who were hoping matters are lucky this weekend. August 24 - 30, 2013 PHUKET GAZETTE 47 Spa speed splashes spills and spunk WELL, F1 is back after weekend and Monza (6- the mid-season break. 8 September) are fast Before Hungary I asked tracks that demand if Lewis Hamilton could extreme courage as well continue the trend of as great speed. I have British global sporting dominance to win in written before about the track in some Hungary. He could. I said Red Bull was detail so I won’t repeat it here. Spa should looking very powerful, but Sebastian Vettel favour the Red Bull cars, particularly with was not my favourite to win Hungary. As I easy going tyres. But the entire breakaway predicted, Mercedes out-qualified him and group is drivers with those characteristics. Lotus outperformed him. But he still pulled Spa is expecting rain and that could reward further ahead in the Drivers’ Championship. the followers more than Vettel. Mercedes What now? There has been a month’s is likely to qualify on pole, but Red Bull may break which gave all teams a grand well tuck-in near the top of the order. I opportunity to prepare upgrades. And we suspect Lotus will struggle to qualify well, must hope that there have been some but both drivers could finish well if the team breakthroughs to spice-up a season allows them to do so. Ferrari has a dominated by Red Bull. All teams have been problem – Alonso might be in contention, predictably tight-lipped on that subject, so but on form, Massa is going to finish near we have no clues. the bottom of the points, if he finishes at all. As the Driver Progression Chart on this But such predictions all assume that page shows, Vettel has dominated and how nothing has happened since July and that Kimi Raikkonen, Fernando Alonso and is a bad assumption. Red Bull may have Lewis Hamilton have just scrapped amongst pulled further ahead, or others may have themselves for second place. Alonso and closed the gap. Hamilton were the most consistent, while The Hungaroring is a hot twisty low- the Iceman sometimes struggled – particu- speed track with a dirty surface and very larly on cool tracks. few overtaking opportunities. Spa is the Extrapolating the Driver Progression exact opposite, an exciting cold high speed Chart, the season is doomed to a dreary circuit; one of the most challenging in the Vettel supremacy, while the next three world, with long flowing curves, twisty drivers could finish in any order. We could chicanes and hairpins, steep gradients, an be back in the dreadful predictable average speed of 230 kilometers per hour Schumacher era when fans left in their and, at 7 km, the longest lap of the year. droves. Pirelli has selected the medium and hard But it does not have to be. Mercedes compounds. The tyres will be very stressed looks as if it may have learned how to by high-energy loads vertically with the big manage tyres; Lotus may have developed compressions such as Eau Rouge and ways to drive in cold weather; and Ferrari laterally at fast corners like Blanchimont. may have managed those upgrades it missed. Tyre strategy will be important, because Mark Webber has outperformed the other parts of the circuit will be much wetter than “second drivers”. Nico Rosberg has had others. I have a feeling that the intermedi- flashes of greatness, but Felipe Massa has ate tyres will be best. There could be been disappointing throughout, and Romain significant differences in tyre degradation Grosjean has been erratic. That is why between strategies and overtaking into the start and finish line. Looking after am looking forward to it enormously! the Red Bull phenomenon is even more opportunities are many. the tyres is very important, particularly as The race is on Sunday at 7 pm and obvious looking at the Constructors Set-up is critical because the high-speed it’s such a long lap. qualifying is on Saturday at the same time. Progression Chart on this page. corners demand down force, but the cars There are always accidents at Spa, and Join me at The Green Man to watch it on The next two GPs are amongst the need to lose the drag on the long straights, the safety car could work against Red Bull the Big Screen, where we are hoping for a greatest races of the season. Spa this especially through Eau Rouge, and coming in favour of Lotus Ferrari and Mercedes. I “Big Surprise”. Grimes brothers take on tough international field The Grimes brothers have had a fairly busy of 3rd at the checkered flag while Sam summer with their racing schedules, finished a credible 7th place. having took part in the Rotax Invitational The next day saw two additional entries Thailand race, which was held in conjunc- in the junior class, increasing the grid to 15 tion with the fourth round of the Thailand drivers. Ben qualified a lowly 9th after his Rotax Max Challenge at Bira International Kart engine problems worsened and returned to Circuit, just south of the Thai capital. haunt him; Sam put his kart on row 6 after The Rotax Invitation race was held for the qualifying 11th. first part of the weekend. Ben was left very Ben finished the first heat in 8th while disappointed after qualifying; only setting the Sam finished 9th right behind Ben. 8th fastest time out of a small but strong field Both boys drove sensible races in the of 13 drivers from Australia to Hong Kong – second heat/pre-final, Ben finishing 6th his lack of pace primarily due to engine overall and Sam finishing 8th overall. problems while Sam qualified in 10th place. This time, however, the final took place A 7th and 5th in the heats by Ben put on a dry track. Ben got a rocket start and WET ACTION: Sam Grimes battles competitiors on a wet track. Photo: Supplied him 6th on the grid for the pre-final round; was up to 3rd by turn one and right behind Sam, however, suffered mixed results in the two leaders; but lost ground to the lead place, only behind a top Australian driver complete less than 30 laps, Ben finished 11th the heats; a 9th and a DNF in the heats saw duo due to the usual nudging and bumping and he was also the winner of the Thailand out of 25, even after Ben and Sam had started him slot in 11th place for the final. in the aggressive junior class – Ben was 3rd classification, while Sam moved up to 6th all the heats at the back of the grid due to it Ben finished the pre-final in 6th place until the final lap but an incident and an place. As a result, Ben took the lead of the being their first race in the UK. Ben could of after his engine’s performance dropped engine performance drop-off saw Ben drop overall standings with a round to go before finished even higher as he missed the first off towards the end, and he was unable to to 5th at the penultimate corner, where he the championship leader (after round 5) gets heat which compromised his starting prevent others from blasting past on the ultimately finished. Sam suffered bad luck a seat to the Rotax Grand Finals in New position in the final; although he set very quick straight; Sam progressed to 9th. and was unable to avoid the incident, which Orleans this November, and two rounds lap times; just three-tenths off the fastest The heavens opened up an hour before took place at the first corner – the rest of until the end of this year’s championship. laps in the races. Sam’s best finish came in the finals and the race took place on a very the race was about recovering for Sam, and The brothers also participated in a very heat 1; a 15th place. Sam pushed a bit too wet track. Ben put on an impressive recover he did, finishing 9th. high-standard club race back in the UK at hard in the final and found himself in a ditch, display and wasted no time getting past a However, post-race disqualifications Whilton Mill. After getting very limited which left him no chance of recovering a few drivers to take 4th and on the bumper against three drivers promoted Ben to 2nd running for practice which saw both boys few places. – Phuket Gazette 48 PHUKET GAZETTE August 24 - 30, 2013 Prelude to the final Test By Patrick Campbell nature…one of the great spells in below his Test career strike rate Ashes history.” Victory was sealed of 47. Both Cook and youthful THE Fourth Ashes Test was yet and with it the series 3-1. partner Joe Root should be more another roller-coaster of a game. The Australian press has been assertive now the urn is in the Late on the afternoon of the fourth predictably savage in its bag. Bairstow, Trott and Prior, day, Australia, having been set an response. “No one does shame- intelligently targeted by the improbable target of 299 for ful collapses quite like Australia,” visitor’s bowlers, all need runs victory, had reached 168 for two wrote Wayne Smith in The before the sterner battles in Oz. in their second innings. Warner, Australian, while legend Shane As for the attack, unlike with a swashbuckling 71 in 131 Warne reflected, in an odd mixed Australia’s unit – for whom balls, had made batting look easy. metaphor, that the players “did Ryan Harris has been the star Michael Clarke, one of the two not have the bottle under performer with twenty wickets – leading run-scorers in the series, pressure to handle the furnace England’s is too “samey”. There was at the wicket. Anderson was out in the middle”. Coach Darren is a crying need for two left arm looking jaded, a pale shadow of Lehmann was equally direct, bowlers, both a paceman and a the stalwart who had spearheaded saying: “That really hurts, that spinner, to give variety. In any England’s pace attack at Trent one,” adding ominously that, of case, Bresnan’s stress fracture Bridge. On a wearing track, the batsmen, only Clarke and means he is unlikely to tour, and Swann was having one of those Rogers were “guaranteed” their Panesar has, well, blotted his days. Many cricket devotees had place in the team. Captain copybook. In the event, the switched off the commentary, Michael Clarke, taking a more selectors have already bitten the convinced it was only a matter of measured view , observed: “Our bullet and chosen two 24 year time before the visitors won the bowlers are doing a fantastic olds in their squad of thirteen: match and gave themselves an job, but I don’t think our batters Woakes, a fast-bowling all outside chance of leveling the are making enough runs – it’s as rounder is the likely replacement series at The Oval. simple as that.” for Bresnan, but Kerrigan, a left Enter Stuart Broad. In an Not that England can afford to arm spinner from Lancashire will amazing spell of fast, accurate be complacent. There are areas in only play if England decide to go bowling, he tore through the which England must improve. One with two slow bowlers. Australian middle order, taking six is the top order batting. Cook has The confrontation at The Oval wickets for twenty runs in 45 made three painstaking fifties, but will doubtless help concentrate the mesmerizing deliveries. Jonathan his strike rate of 35 runs per minds of both sets of selectors. HOWZAT: England's Tim Bresnan celebrates taking the wicket of Australia's Agnew called it “a force of hundred balls, has been well Bring it on… Shane Watson during their fourth Ashes test cricket match. Photo: Reuters Manchester City shuts out Newcastle Utd 4-0 MANCHESTER City started their when defender Taylor was sent off Premier League campaign in after swinging an arm at Aguero scintillating fashion on Monday and they made the man advantage with a stylish 4-0 win at home to count five minutes after the break a 10-man Newcastle United, a with Toure’s sizzling free kick. result that will ring alarm bells for The hosts made it four on 75 the rest of their title rivals. minutes when substitute Samir With City spending around 90 Nasri slotted home and could have million pounds ($141.03 million) had many more if it had not been on attacking talent for new man- for some excellent saves by ager Manuel Pellegrini, it was Newcastle keeper Tim Krul as notable all the goals came from they sent a clear message of players in last season’s squad – intent to their title rivals. David Silva, Sergio Aguero, Yaya The main victim of Krul’s dives Toure and Samir Nasri. and parries was the outstanding GOAL: Manchester City's David Silva (C) heads to score against Newcastle United during their English Premier Any sense of dressing room Dzeko, who seemed to have been League football match at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester. Photo: Reuters unrest last season under Roberto given a new lease of life after Mancini had evaporated as some below-par showings under Pellegrini’s charges, assisted by Mancini and the Bosnian was new boys Fernandinho and Jesus unlucky not to score from a host Navas, showed they had listened of chances he conjured. to his call for an attractive, “The new manager has come attacking style of football. in and given us something “The most pleasing aspect is different and given me more con- way the team played for 90 fidence,” Dzeko, a towering minutes,” the Chilean told a news figure in front of the slight and conference. pacy trio of Aguero, Silva and “We had from the beginning the Jesus Navas, told Sky Sports. attitude to play as an aggressive team, Pellegrini reckoned this would be offensive team. First, always the just the start of things for the striker. most important thing is to win but “I am sure we are going to see after is the way we did it today.” this season the Edin Dzeko that Last season’s runners-up took Manchester City bought two just six minutes to open the seasons ago, I think this is a very scoring with Silva heading in after important player,” he said. Steven Taylor failed to deal with The only blot on the day for Edin Dzeko’s shot across the goal. City was the sight of captain They doubled their lead on 22 Vincent Kompany limping off minutes when a low shot from with what looked like a groin Aguero, set up by a neat flick from problem and Pellegrini said it Dzeko, went in off the far post. was too soon to tell how long he City’s job was made even easier could be sidelined. just before the stroke of halftime – Reuters August 24 - 30, 2013 PHUKET GAZETTE 49 Champions in Thailand THE 2011 Masters Champion Charl with 16 professional wins to his name, Schwartzel will defend his Thailand Golf Schwartzel dominated a world class Championship crown alongside colorful field to win the 2012 Thailand Golf PGA Tour star Rickie Fowler at this year’s Championship by an extraordinary 11 edition of Asia’s flagship tournament shots, carding just a solitary bogey over scheduled for December 12-15 at the 72 holes of golf. picturesque Amata Spring Country Club The South African has a tremendous in Chonburi, just outside Bangkok. track record at Amata Spring, as prior to The Thailand Golf Championship his 2012 win he was runner-up behind Lee will once again see some of the world’s Westwood in the first ever Thailand Golf top golfers competing alongside the Championship in 2011 and he’s hoping to Asian Tour’s best with significant continue his run of results at this year’s world ranking points on offer. tournament. “I am very much looking for- Charl Schwartzel is aiming to defend his Thailand Golf Championship trophy. Photo: Fast Track Inaugurated in 2011, the tournament ward to coming back to Thailand, which and the Country Club has something He was crowned PGA Tour Rookie of the has already firmly established itself is one of my favorite places anywhere in about it that seems to bring out the best Year in 2010, representing USA in the Ryder asThailand’s leading sports event and one the world to visit and it’s no coincidence in me. I hope I can bring my ‘A’ game Cup in his debut professional season. Fowler of the biggest golf events in the that I tend to do well here. I love the to the tournament again this year and has two professional wins to his name, the region, attracting worldwide attention people, the food, the culture, the climate, defend my title. The Thai public are very most recent being the 2012 Wells Fargo from media and spectators. and of course, the golf. knowledgeable about their golf and I look Championship where he beat former world Currently ranked 15th in the world “Amata Spring is a magnificent course forward to seeing them out on the course number one, Rory McIlroy, into second place. in December.” An edgy and larger-than-life character Ranked number 35 in the world, 24 year with a Japanese grandfather, the 2013 old Fowler is one of the most exciting young Thailand Golf Championship will be Fowl- Golf and more for less players in the game today. After a stellar ers first appearance in a full-field Asian amateur career, the precocious American Tour event. IN THE golf champions coming to designed Missions Hills Phuket golf course Thailand to compete for the ultimate turned professional in 2009. The likeable Californian is a crowd (inclusive of green, caddie and golf cart favourite through his flamboy- trophy inspires you to play golf yourself, fees and round trip transfer from the September is the time to do it. A special ant dress sense and aggressive resort), 15 per cent discount on food and approach on the course, and he golfing package at JW Marriott Phuket beverage (excluding minibar) and 25 per Resort & Spa will let you try world class is eagerly anticipating his first cent discount on A la carte menu at visit to the Kingdom of Thailand. golf at a discounted price. The Golf Mandara Spa. Booking for minimum two Green September 2013 package for “I am really excited about my nights and advance reservations are first trip to Thailand as I’ve heard 2 persons starts at 6,750 baht and required. includes accommodation in a Deluxe Sala so many great things about the Garden View room , daily international country. I love to travel and guys Foor more information about the package on the Tour who have played in breakfast, one round of 18-hole golf per log on to jwmarriottphuketresort.com or stay for one golfer at the Jack Nicklaus- Thailand like Bubba Watson and email [email protected] Hunter Mahan have told me how much they love it so I thought it was about time I came to see for XXXXXXXXX myself. I’m looking forward to the food and the famous Thai hos- pitality and of course the wonderful golf.” “Thailand seems to have loads of big sports events and the Thai- land Golf Championship is a huge event both in Asia and across the world,” continued Fowler. “It’s supported by many of the world’s best golfers as well as the top guys from Asia so it will be fantastic for me to be part of such an ex- citing and high-quality event.” World class golf, in a world class destination, with a world class view. Photo: JW Mariott Prodigious rookie Rickie Fowler. Photo: Keith Allison – Phuket Gazette Tip: increase impact, range HAVE you ever thought about to make this happen. "close" the face of your club nicely, what your hands and forearms are If you put a wrist watch on you that will both reduce your slice, and actually doing at the moment will be able to visualize the correct add distance. This is the correct of im pact? moves to make. As your leading move to be completing through im- Try to get into the impact arm approaches impact the watch pact. position, like you are about to make face should be getting close to Your forearms ought to be solid contact with the ball. Now pointing exactly down the target working together as well. Try to flip your trailing wrist like you line, or to the flag. Now simply keep your forearms as close to were casting a fishing pole. This rotate the watch face so it's pointed each other as possible through the is referred to as a wrist break, and at the ground. With a club in your impact zone. If you can master this it's not a move that you want to hands, you'll see that this move move, you'll find increased distance make in golf. So if you are trying makes your trailing wrist and and it will do wonders for your slice. to "flip" your hands through the forearm "flip" on top of your ball at impact, this tip may help leading wrist and forearm. Tip courtesy of David Nevogt , you understand the correct way You also see that this will help to the author of “The Simple Golf Swing” 50 PHUKET GAZETTE August 24 - 30, 2013 Young masters of the court THANYAPURA Superkidz Tennis Cup #1 ended on Sunday August 18 with lots of Boys Under 8 joy and happiness among 30 young Champion - Tinnapat Tientawach tennis players aged from eight to 18. Runner-Up - Chanut Nookong Players gained lots of match experience before participating in the next week’s key Boys Under 10 tournament hosted by Chang LTAT Junior Champion - Lerdchai Ronnarong Champion Southern Zone and the Master Runner-Up - Alexander Pierron Championship which takes place at the end of the year in Bangkok which will see the Boys Under 12 top 16 Thai National ranking players com- Champion - Thapat Paevaronbul peting for the trophy. Runner-Up - Phoom Piyapanan The Superkidz Tennis Cup #1’s three top spots go to Tinnapat Tientawach (7 points), Girls Under 10 Lerdchai Ronnarong (6 points) and Jade Champion - Natasha Blumn Sharp (6 points). Check box for full re- Runner-Up - JomkwanVettayawaikoon sults. The announcement for the final three top scored Superkidz Tennis Cup Series Girls Under 12 players will be made in THANYAPURA Champion - Nathacha Soonthareyganon superkidz Tennis Cup #1 October. There Runner-Up - Thanrada Totarat will be 5 more tennis tournaments in this series. Open Under 18 Champion - Jade Sharp Check out your latest score in SUPERKIDZ Runner-Up - Severin Spiess Tennis Cup Series at Thanyapura Facebook. Thanyapura superkidz Tennis Cup #1 is a chance for young players to gain experience Ensuring good balance

TENNIS, like a lot of things in life, is are better for getting you there and about balance. There is the balance staying balanced. between how much power and how When you are actually hitting the much control you try to hit. We have ball, it does not matter so much if your to balance how much we train and front foot is closer to the net or in line how much we rest our body, as with your back foot, what matters is you well as the balance of offense and are stable. This will allow you to be defense. The most important balance strong through the hitting zone and however is the balance of your body maintain a long contact area. This is on court. true for forehands, backhands and Pushing Keeping our body balanced means especially the serve. keeping our weight distributed evenly When you serve there is no reason you overtop of our feet. Generally if your should not be balanced. You control when feet are about as wide apart as your you serve, where you serve and how you the limit shoulders, and your knees a little bit serve. Make sure you are set before your bent (lowering your center of gravity) serve and that you feel stable. Do not OUR bodies are great at adapting to you will be fairly balanced. chase a bad ball toss and you will serve stress. It forces our muscles to work When you are moving to the ball much better! in new ways and makes us stronger. you want make every step more However, as our bodies adapt, our efficient so instead of taking big steps Tip by Thanyapura’s Tennis Head Coach Roger muscles learn how to work through the which are hard to adjust, little steps Cochrane: [email protected] stress more efficiently. Sadly, our minds don’t always work in quite the same way. We resist change. For an athlete, this can be their worst enemy. Dead lift vs hip hinge Good athletes have habits that help them do well but great athletes look at where HOW many of you have been to a holding the weight (a dumb bell, they are weak and find ways to develop gym and had a trainer tell you to do medicine ball, or kettlebell) close new habits to improve. a dead lift? A dead lift is a very com- toyour chest as you go through Once we are good at something, we mon exercise that has many varia- the movement. After you have tend to stick with it, even after it stops tions, but it can allow our body to mastered that you can begin to working for us. In that way, for an be placed in a compromising posi- let the weight hang between your athlete being good at something be- tion if we do not know how to bend legs or slowly start to incorpo- comes the enemy of being great. Initial properly from the hip and maintain rate a barbell. success will reinforce good habits, but correct posture throughout the Remember the farther away can shift focus away from what we need range of motion. from the mid-line of your body to do to sustain or build on that suc- Unfortunately at some point in our you hold a weight or resistance, cess. Look at the best athletes in any lifetime, most humans will have lower the harder it becomes and the sport, and you’ll see they are good at back pain which often can be traced more stress that is placed on the many different aspects of their game, back to improper bending or lifting body, in this case the lower lum- not just one portion of it. Good ath- techniques. bar spine. letes can rely too much on what has Before starting with a dead lift it Don’t get me wrong, I think worked for them in the past. Great ath- is important to be taught a simple dead lifts are one of the best ex- letes work on their weaknesses and hip-hinge movement which teaches ercises that anyone can do and develop their skills. In time they you how to bend properly from the highly recommend people start become great at everything. hip and how to correctly use your adding it to their training pro- So do you want to be good or do core and the stabilizer muscles grams, but only after mastering you want to be great? around your spine. Once the hip- the hip hinge movement first! hinge movement has been mastered Tip by Thanyapura’s Aquatics Head Coach, then you can slowly start to add Tip by Fitness Manager, Brian Finniss Randy Simon: [email protected] weight or resistance. Start by [email protected] The right technique can save you a lot of pain. August 24 - 30, 2013 PHUKET GAZETTE 51 Uphill battle TPL promotion still possible, but is it probable? By Steven Layne

A DISAPOINTING road trip last week that yielded Phuket FC only a single point from two “coulda- shoulda-woulda won” matches, has set the stage for yet another uncertain season conclusion. Under the fresh Brazilian lead- ership of recently appointed head coach, Stefana “Teco” Rodrigues, 7th-placed Phuket FC last Wednes- day travelled to Thailand’s Eastern Seaboard to take on lowly Royal Thai Navy FC, in what few would have predicted to be a difficult match for Phuket. But as proven time and again in IN THE AIR: Following Phuket’s loss to Khon Kaen, Coach Teco (inset) has the beautiful game that is football – a challenging month of matches ahead of him. Photos: Phuket FC one should never underestimate Phuket continued to dominate Watchara Kriaram picked up his Phuket, whose passing game At the time of going to press, their opponents, no matter what their possession and with all the attack- second yellow of the match, and seemed to be off the mark. Phuket hosted 2nd placed Airforce table standings (in this case, 16th of ing play, pushed for the equalizer. despite five minutes of injury time It would be Khon Kaen’s tower- United (check the Gazette sports 18 Yamaha League One teams) and The Islanders were denied at least given, both sides would have to be ing Argentine striker, Recio “Mattias” section online for results), before especially when playing on their home two scoring opportunities by the content with a single point. Eduardo to answer the prayers of immediately flying back to the capi- ground in front of thousands of their lineman’s flag, however, a fine That point was enough to bump the home crowd when on 41 min- tal to play a Sunday night showdown energized fans. header by Ludovick Takam in the Phuket up to 6th place ahead of their utes, he headed his side in front, on August 25 against the deadly Eyes on the prize, Phuket played 68th minute injected instant following match in Isaan, against scoring his 13th of the season. Singtharua FC “Port Lions”. attacking football, and looked sure of adrenaline into the dozens of visit- the 14th placed Khon Kaen FC last Effectively slowing down the The Islanders will return home victory, but it would be Navy to draw ing fans who’d made the long trip. Saturday. pace and burning the clock, Khon for their final fixture of the month, first blood early in the second half Phuket’s drive for a winner was Some 3,000 bumble-bee- Kaen held on to ensure that the next Saturday, August 31 against through a goal by their Malian hindered 10 minutes later after the colored “T-Rex” fans put the scoreline remained in their favor another struggling yet unpredictable forward, Souleymane Coulibaly. side was reduced to 10 men after extra pressure on a travel-weary through to the final whistle. side, Ayuthaya FC. 52 PHUKET GAZETTE August 24 - 30, 2013