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The Gazette is published in association with Ice storm: crystal INSIDE meth on the rise RYSTAL meth is rep- of the hotel, he was arrested. lacing ya bah as the drug Mr Lek’s girlfriend, Gingarn C of choice for Phuket’s ‘Yui’ Sungkha, 22, was picked up teenagers, according to the in the hotel room. Two more 22- island’s top police officer. year-olds, Sitthipong ‘Em’ Pradab Phuket Provincial Police and Surin ‘Tu’ Suwannoe, were Commander Pekad Tantipong’s arrested 15 minutes later when comments came after police they returned to the room. seized 100,000 baht’s worth of ya Searches of the suspects ice (crystal methamphetamine) in and the hotel room yielded 25 a sting operation on January 6. small bags of the drug weighing Skating Swedes Six were arrested on drug a total of 20.69 grams. Find out why two tourists are charges. A Nissan Cefiro registered skating almost 5,000 kilometers Maj Gen Pekad and Phuket in Bangkok was also seized as from Chiang Mai to Singapore. City Police Superintendent evidence in the case. Pages 4 - 5 Wanchai Ekpornpit announced Two more suspects were the arrests and seizures at a press arrested earlier in front of the Drug suspects Surin 'Tu' Suwannoe of Nakhon Sri Thammarat (left) and NEWS: Governor meets conference at Phuket City Police Twin Inn after buying ya ice from Station at 11am on January 8. Prasert 'Lek' Kaewsuwan of Ratchaburi (right) at last week's press the gang. honorary consuls; Ham- conference. mering out piracy; Tourist “Right now it seems ya ice Athit ‘Jack’ Pimsamut, 30, cop found dead in Rawai. is spreading in Phuket, and ya “Alien workers much prefer after police were tipped-off that and Rangsan ‘Joe’ Bunklieng, 32, bah (methamphetamine) is drinking to taking drugs,” he a gang of four drug dealers were were caught with 0.75g and Pages 2 - 3 looking out of date. We’re not added. staying at the hotel. 0.65g of the drug, respectively. AROUND THE REGION: sure why,” said Gen Pekad. The six suspects were An undercover officer A small bag of ya ice, Gearing up for the Koh It was mostly young Thais paraded in front of the press at arranged to buy drugs from typically weighing one gram or Phang Nga Film Festival. who were taking the drug, he said. the conference. All were arrested Prasert ‘Lek’ Kaewsuwan, 30. less, currently sells for around “They’re encouraged into on the evening of January 6 at After Mr Lek attempted to sell 3,000 baht, police say. Page 6 doing it by their friends. the Twin Inn in Phuket Town the officer some ya ice in front – Atchaa Khamlo GOOD LIVING: Marque Rome takes a trip to Cloud 9, a new eatery in Rawai. Graft allegations dog convention center Page 8 HE LATEST setback to (Strong Thailand) economic reportedly pulled out of the The probe would be AROUND THE NATION, QUEER Phuket’s decades-old stimulus package. bidding after refusing to pay the thorough and transparent, he NEWS 7; LIFESTYLE 10 & dream of building an The politicians, whose large sums demanded. added. 11; PEOPLE 12; EXPAT GAL- Tinternational-standard names were not mentioned, A team from King Mongkut Despite some media outlets LERY 13; HAPPENINGS 14; convention and exhibition center allegedly demanded kickbacks Institute of Technology in reporting that work on the project INSPIRATIONS 15; WHAT’S came last week, when several amounting to 41 percent from the Ladkrabang has now been selected had been halted, by February 10 ON 17; TAKE A B REAK 19 & media outlets reported allegations project’s 100-million-baht design to conduct the design work. the design board from the King 20; BOOKS, HOROSCOPES of corruption by local politicians budget. Finance Minister Korn Mongkut University had not been 21; EDITORIAL, LETTERS 22; with interests in the project. The Treasury Department, Chatikavanij has ordered his told to stop working. FIRST PERSON, ISSUES AND The center is to be built on which is developing the project, deputy, Pruektichai Damrongrut, They have already worked ANSWERS 23; BUSINESS & 150 rai of Treasury Department initially favored a team of to launch a probe into the alleged out the basic layout of the new MONEY 25; SPORT 26 & 27; land near Tah Chat Chai, at the Thammasat University engineers corruption. complex, which will feature a PROPERTY 28; CONSTRUCTION island’s northernmost point. bidding on the contract for the “In every Thai Khem convention hall and exhibition UPDATE 29 ; EARTH M ATTERS Funding will come from center’s design, according to the Khaeng project there must be center and have an ‘iconic’ 30; PROPERTY LEGAL 31 the government’s 1.43-trillion- reports. measures which ensure there is design. CLASSIFIED ADS 32-44. baht Thai Khem Khaeng The university team no waste,” said Mr Korn. – The Nation Group 2 PHUKET GAZETTE NEWS February 13 - 19, 2010 Tourist cop’s death puzzles detectives N INVESTIGATION is underway to attached to anything, leading them to wonder determine whether an Immigration whether the American asphyxiated himself Police Volunteer found dead in his by tying the cable round his neck and pulling ARawai home committed suicide or both ends. was murdered. While police believe suicide is the most likely American national Richard Johnson, 67, was scenario, they have yet to rule out murder. found slumped against his bedroom door with elec- Further investigation has revealed that Mr trical cord round his neck on February 5. Johnson had been doing business in Phuket for There were wounds to his neck and several years. forehead. He lived alone in the home, having separated Roxanne bar burns The body was discovered by an unidentified from a Thai wife who since remarried. OLICE are hunting a man Wanida and her Danish husband. friend of Mr Johnson, also a foreigner, who went Fellow Phuket Immigration Police Volunteer who burned down the After the bar closed Sat- to the home out of concern after the dead man Tim Gardener said, “Richard was a friendly chap Ppopular Roxanne Bar on urday night, one staff member called him to ‘say goodbye’. with a story to match all occasions. He will be Wichit Road in Rawai in the stayed on for security. Chalong Police and Phuket Ruamjai Kupai missed.” early hours of February 6. The staff member told po- Foundation rescue workers arrived at the scene “He would amaze listeners with stories of his Chalong Police were no- lice that a man wearing a hood around 7:45pm. varied careers – US Navy Seal, karate instructor tified of the blaze at 3:30am. suddenly appeared, dousing fur- They estimated Mr Johnson died about three to Hollywood stars, bodyguard to presidents, It took two Rawai Mu- niture at the front of the bar with hours earlier. working for Hawaii Police and Fire Departments nicipality fire engines about 30 gasoline and quickly setting it There were no signs of struggle in the house, and captaincy of various ships around the world minutes to put out the flames, alight before fleeing. located on Soi Khok Makham in Rawai. as a senior mariner.” but not before they destroyed Police are investigating a In the room police found Mr Johnson’s Mr Johnson’s body was sent to Vachira the bar and everything inside. business rivalry as a possible passport as well as a card identifying him as a Phuket Hospital for examination. Located near the motive, noting that patrons of the Tourist Police volunteer. Police are hoping the results of that work will Sapphaya Spa, the Roxanne Bar popular bar often parked their What is puzzling investigators are the show whether they can close the book on the case was run by a Nakhon Sri cars in front of rivals’ premises. mechanics of Mr Johnson’s death. – or begin the hunt for a murderer. Thammarat woman named – Gazette reporter The white cord around his neck was not – Gazette reporter Col Grissak: injustice, drunkenness, robbery spark violence By Atchaa Khamlo The comments came just punch-up with a tuk-tuk driver don’t know for no reason. Thai “The case in Chalong of the ATONG’s most senior cop after the announcement of his following an argument over fares. people are naturally nice.” German being stabbed to death says perceived injustice, transfer from the bright lights of More recently, a 32-year- Col Grissak said Thais was started when the German Pdrunkenness and robbery Patong to Phang Nga’s sleepy old Thai man confessed to stab- sometimes attack foreigners if didn’t notice the Thais’ bike and attempts lead Thais to assault Kuraburi district in the latest po- bing elderly German expat Wolf- they feel they have been cheated nearly crashed into them,” he said. foreigners. lice reshuffle. Dieter Kesselheim to death in an or feel under attack. “Then they chased him and Kathu Police Superinten- They also follow a number apparent case of road rage. “Lately there was the case honked at him, so the farang gave dent Grissak Songmoonnark said of attacks on tourists in Phuket Two weeks earlier, another of the tuk-tuk driver beating up them the middle finger. The case it was important to examine the and other parts of Thailand. German man was shot dead af- the foreign tourist because of the was down to neither side show- underlying causes of Thai-on- In early January Canadian ter ‘giving the finger’ to a Thai fare,” he said. ing kindness.” farang violence. tourist Ivan Anwar got into a motorist in Chiang Mai. Mr Anwar agreed to the A second common cause of “We should look at why fare before taking the tuk-tuk, but such incidents are drunken tour- Thai people are doing this,” said when he got to the destination he ists, Col Grissak said. A third was Col Grissak, who doesn’t believe thought it was too near to justify Thais trying to rob tourists who Thai people are predisposed to the fare, Col Grissak said. “The fight back, he said. random acts of violence. tuk-tuk driver was angry that he “Mostly the fighting is due “It’s impossible that they’re didn’t get the amount of money to the first and second causes,” stabbing or harming people they that had been agreed.” Col Grissak said. February 13 - 19, 2010 NEWS PHUKET GAZETTE 3 Honorary consuls spell out tourism woes to Governor HE Phuket Governor met skills on the part of drivers and with honorary consuls tourists’ unfamiliarity with the Tfrom 16 countries on geography of the island combine February 8 to discuss ways to to create confusion and frus- improve safety for foreign tour- tration that can sometimes lead ists on holiday in Phuket. to disputes, he said. Phuket Governor Wichai As for complaints about Phraisa-ngop chaired the mee- long lines to clear customs, ting, which was hosted by the immigration and security Royal Phuket City Hotel. Only requirements at Phuket Inter- the honorary consul from Spain national Airport, Gov Wichai was unable to attend. promised to rectify the situation Gov Wichai said that from by tripling the number of X-ray now on all criminal cases and machines there. accidents involving foreign A question-and-answer tourists would be reported by session followed the governor’s Deputy Commerce Minister Alongkorn Ponlaboot smashes knock-off goods with a hammer. police to both the Phuket two-hour talk. German Hon- Provincial Office and either the orary Consul Dirk Naumann consular official or embassy of pointed out that frustration with the party involved. the tuk-tuk services on the Police will now have to not island had reached a point Hammertime for only report arrests, but also keep where news about disputes had the diplomatic missions informed made headlines in media outlets of updates in investigations around the globe. involving their nationals. Taxi services on the island As for the controversial present far fewer problems than counterfeit goods issue of closing times at nightlife tuk-tuks, which grossly over- HE Intellectual Property Phuket Police Commander Pekad better enforcement of anti-piracy entertainment venues, Gov charge passengers, he said. Department and Phuket Tantipong and party list MP laws, Minister Alongkorn said. Wichai said he would like to in- Taxi and tuk-tuk drivers Provincial Police on Chalermlak Kebsup, whose “This year we expect a one troduce zones in popular tourist risk getting shot if they pick up February 8 destroyed business interests include real hundred percent increase in the areas that would allow foreigners passengers outside their own T over 200,000 counterfeit products estate holdings in Patong. arrest rate,” he said. to enjoy Las Vegas-style partying turf, he added. valued at 43 million baht. All enjoyed a laugh while “I believe with government throughout the night. Tossaporn Thepabutr, one The event, intended to show smashing counterfeit items with support we can improve the Soi Bangla and Rat U-Thit of Phuket’s three members of Thailand is serious about an oversize hammer. situation and protect producers’ Road in Patong and Thalang parliament, also serves as hon- enforcing intellectual property Mr Alongkorn also climbed intellectual property rights,” Road in Phuket Town were orary consul for South Korea. laws, was held at the solid waste into a front-end loader to destroy he said. mentioned as possible areas for He said he would like the incinerator at Saphan Hin. a large pile of confiscated More border control such zones, he said. governor to address the problem Taking part were the Phuket counterfeit goods, all of which operations to stop pirated goods “But the special zones of foreign tourists who are Provincial Police, Department of were then incinerated. from entering the country are also would only be for foreign arrested or fined for driving Intellectual Property, Phuket The goods included textiles, needed because the trade costs tourists, not Thais,” he said. without a Thai license, even Office of Commercial Affairs and bags, watches, sunglasses and Thailand a great deal in lost import The governor also spoke though they are in possession Phuket City Municipality. many other items popular with taxes from legitimate goods, frankly on the issue of public of licenses issued by their home Deputy Commerce Minister tourists which were seized in he said. transport options for tourists, countries. Such problems are Alongkorn Ponlaboot said the multi-agency operations from “Pirated products are a stain reiterating that he would like to compounded when tourists get ceremony should help increase January to October last year. on the beauty of Phuket. The introduce standardized pricing into accidents with rented awareness of the need to ‘just say During that period, the Pearl of the Andaman should be requiring all independent-hire vehicles, he said. no’ to counterfeit products among Department of Intellectual unblemished,” he said. transport vehicles on the island, Supporting this idea, Thai consumers and tourists. Property reported 6,731 cases of After the ceremony at including tuk-tuks, to be fitted British Honorary Consul Named the ‘Destruction of intellectual property rights Saphan Hin, Mr Alongkorn joined with meters. Martin Carpenter said that Confiscated Pirated Products infringement and seized 5.03 a ‘Say No to Piracy’ walking Gov Wichai said he intends outfits renting vehicles to Ceremony’ by its organizers, the million illegal items nationwide, campaign in Patong, which is to call all of the departments foreigners usually hold onto event was attended by local up 75 percent from the same infamous for the trade in involved to discuss the possibility their passports as surety. He dignitaries including Phuket period in 2008. counterfeit goods. of moving forward with such a suggested taking steps to Governor Wichai Phraisa-ngop, The increase was due to – Sitthipong Nongkaew plan, which he admitted is still change this, because people in the conceptual stages. caught driving without a Thai Many disputes between license face problems with passengers and drivers are the Traffic Police as well as result of misunderstandings, he Immigration if they are caught. said. Poor English language – Kitima Pornmongkhonwat 4 PHUKET GAZETTE NEWS February 13 - 19, 2010 Taxi tiff: no end in sight DISPUTE over increas- Final approval of the 30 ing the number of taxis at license applications would bring APhuket International Air- Phuket Mai Khao Sakoo’s vehicle port (PIA) appears to have no tally to 110 operating out of PIA. Thailand end in sight. Thanyarat Achariyachai, In a recent meeting, Airports who chairs the Senate Standing of Thailand (AoT) were slammed Committee on Tourism, said she for inadequate services and lack wanted AoT to think “more of consideration in their manage- carefully about Phuket and the ment of PIA taxi services. An tourism industry and not only their ongoing row between two rival own financial benefit”. taxi operators was also discussed. The PBC staged a strike in 2008 Addressing AoT represen- Representatives of the when rival service Phuket Mai Khao tatives, she said Phuket does not Phuket Mai Khao Sakoo Service Sakoo first went into operation. benefit economically from the and Phuket Airport Limousine and AoT’s decision infuriated transport concessions at the airport. Jim Petersson and his girlfriend Business Cooperative Ltd (PBC) staff of the PBC, which for years Governor Wichai agreed. Maria Larsson will skate from both presented their cases at the enjoyed a monopoly concession “Phuket doesn’t get any Chiang Mai to Satun, where they meeting, held on February 5 at the and was the only taxi service benefits from income you [AoT] will cross into Malaysia. airport. Over 50 participants, allowed to operate a kiosk inside receive. Your taxis drive on my including Phuket Governor Wichai the arrivals terminal roads for the whole trip, using your WO Swedes skating Petersson said he drew Phraisai-ngop, senior transport At the meeting, PBC own road only for the last 300 almost 5,000 kilo- inspiration from the distance officials and (AoT) representatives representative Chukiat Panyawai meters to the terminal,” he said. meters from Chiang skating Guinness World Record were present at the meeting. Top produced company invoices and From Bangkok to attend the T Mai to Singapore are holder New Zealander Rob of their agenda was a proposal said his company was being meeting were Supot Sublom, on course to roll into Phuket Thomson, who skateboarded from Phuket Mai Khao Sakoo forced by AoT to pay excessive Permanent Secretary of the next month for a quick 12,000km across the USA, Europe Service to register another 30 taxis monthly operating costs. Ministry of Transport, and Kecha respite – and maybe a foot and China in 462 days, ending in to operate out of PIA. “We have to pay 1.3 million Saksomboon, chairman of the massage or two. Shanghai in October, 2008. Last month about 100 baht a month to AoT while Senate Standing Committee on Education workers Jim With 8,180 fans following members of the PBC assembled Phuket Mai Khao Sakoo only Transport. Mr Kecha is due to Petersson, 25, and his girlfriend their progress on their Facebook at Phuket Provincial Hall to protest have to pay about 80,000 baht a have a meeting with AoT Maria Larsson, 29, have page and plenty of Swedish media Phuket Mai Khao Sakoo Service’s month,” he said. President Serirat Prasutanond in endured high speed spills, heat interest, Petersson welcomes the purchase of the new taxis. “With 30 extra taxis being Bangkok to address issues and exhaustion but say they’re positive response for their cause. On January 19, AoT appro- allowed to pick up passengers discussed at the Phuket meeting. relishing the long slog south. Thais have also shown ved Phuket Mai Khao Sakoo’s from the airport, it is now going It is hoped a decision on Skating from 30 to 90 support for the pair’s adventure request to operate 30 more limo- to be even more difficult for us to how to end the latest dispute will kilometers a day, Petersson is on this country’s highways. usines at the airport, but, licensing make enough money to pay these come within one month. riding a long board skateboard “People in the North have problems are halting their use. fees to AoT,” he said. – Kitima Pornmongkhonwat and Larsson is strapped into been stopping and asking what rollerblades. we’re doing. Most of them clap At the time of writing, the and cheer for us,” he said. pair had skated through 10 Thai One family invited the pair provinces and were 160 kilo- into their home for food, but as meters from Bangkok. They much as they enjoyed the local left Chiang Mai on January 16. fare, Petersson had to be mindful The pair plan to arrive in of what he eats due to his allergies Singapore in June. to curry, nuts, beans and peas. “No one has ever skated With no support vehicle and this route before. It has taken the daily slog of skating busy over a year of planning for us to highways, avoiding potholes and prepare,” Petersson said. living out of small backpacks, The couple are skating to Petersson said life on the road is raise funds for the Swedish tough, “but it’s the only way for us.” Childhood Cancer Foundation. Maria fell badly after hitting They have already am- a pothole on their skate between assed 18,000 Swedish krona the northern provinces of Kamp- (81,000 baht). Their target is haeng Phet and Nakhon Sawan, 50,000 krona (223,000 baht). sustaining cuts to her leg. February 13 - 19, 2010 NEWS PHUKET GAZETTE 5 Early morning

Malaysia blaze on boat WOODEN fishing boat that burst into flames during repair work on February 8 was deliberately sunk in the waters of AKlong Tha Cheen. After receiving a report of a boat fire at about 9:30am, Phuket City Police, Marine Police and four fire engines from Rassada Mu- Swedes’longSwedes’long nicipality and Phuket City Municipality rushed to the scene. Arriving at the Pichai Fish Pier along Klong Tha Cheen in Rassada, they found the 17-meter vessel Pichaithavorn 6 engulfed in flames. Strong winds and the location of the boat made it difficult for firefighters to put out the blaze, so after a two-hour battle and skateskate southsouth The pair will skate over to the east with the boat almost completely gutted the decision was made to coast of Malaysia bound for their scuttle the vessel. final destination, Singapore, and Initial investigation revealed that the fire began as mechanics the end to their epic skate. were performing maintenance on the vessel’s exhaust pipe. skate everywhere,” he said. in Singapore. If they make it, Ungkoon Buraphakhunakorn, Maintenance Manager of P Jim’s custom long board is the pair will fly to Bangkok Pichainawa Company that owned the vessel, said the fire started acci- specially designed for distance and then back to Sweden. dentally as mechanics were working near the boat’s 700-liter fuel tanks. skating: “Super-light carbon fiber, Petersson said plans are It was too early to estimate the cost of the damage, he said suspension and oversize wheels already in place for his next – Gazette reporters built to withstand small stones in international skate. the road,” he explained. “My brother and I will Maria’s inline roller blades skate from Germany to Italy Danish Prince en route are also designed for endurance this summer, but we’ll have HUKET is preparing for the arrival of Prince Henrik of and have 90mm wheels built for to wait and see how our Denmark in mid-February. speed and durability. Asian adventure works out PLouis Bronner, manager of Mom Tri’s Boathouse, recently met Traveling light for obvious first,” he said. with Phuket Governor Wichai Phraisa-ngop to discuss security The pair, a little tired, are currently reasons, the pair carry three For more information arrangements during the Danish royal’s stay on the island. 160 kilometers from Bangkok. changes of clothes, a towel, a see Petersson’s blog at Governor Wichai said he was notified by the Ministry of Petersson has a sprained camera, a laptop and Petersson’s mrjimonlongboard.blogspot.com Foreign Affairs that Prince Henrik, husband of the Queen of back and bruised foot and numerous allergy medications. or see W:mrjimonlongboard.com. Denmark, Margrethe II, would be arriving in Phuket for a elbow after he lost control of his Sleeping wherever they can – Fraser Morton personal visit. board on a steep descent in find guesthouses along the way, – Atchaa Khamlo Lampang Province. the pair said they are indebted But breaking his board, not to locals who have helped bones, is Petersson’s greatest fear. them bed down for the night. He said they trained hard in In Thailand on 60-day Sweden to prepare for the trip. tourist visas, the pair say they will Training involved 100 arrive in Phuket on March 10, kilometer skates from his home extend their visa 30 days and roll in Eringsboda to his girlfriend’s on down to Satun and enter hometown of Kristianstad in Malaysia. southern Sweden. They plan to coast down “At home I never use Malaysia in under two months my car. I skate to work, I before eventually arriving 6 PHUKET GAZETTE AROUND THE REGION February 13 - 19, 2010 Memorials and melodies

ACROSS THE BAY By Gus Californian musician Gary Gates accompanied by 14-year-old violinist Thornawin Khanantai during a tsunami memorial ceremony. n December 26, 2009 the world marked the fifth- comprises a medical clinic which established Tsunami Child Oanniversary of the Indian offers free weekly medical University Scholarship Program, Ocean tsunami, which killed exams, a public library stocked which provides financial aid for 230,000 people in 14 countries, of with books and magazines, and a Krabi province orphans. which 5,395 fatalities were computer learning center. Attending the SPF memorial Film Festival selections (clockwise): Fierce Light-When Spirit Meets confirmed in Thailand. Foundation Director Robert ceremony were over 200 tsunami Action from Canada. Addicted to Plastic-The Rise and Demise of a Throughout the southern Reynolds recently established the survivors and volunteers, along Modern Miracle and the Asian premier of No Impact Man from USA; region, coastal communities Foundation Community Bank, with many local dignitaries. participated in memorials to honor based on the microbanking SPF President Khun Chuan those who perished on that concepts of India’s Grameen Phukaoluan and former Mayor of morning. Bank and Nobel Prize winning Krabi opened the ceremony, Eco-spirit celebrated In Krabi, the Sriphong banker Muhammad Yunus. welcoming 84 tsunami children hangan’s third annual presented at this year’s festival Phukaoluan Foundation (SPF), Currently, the Foundation and their families, all of whom the Film Festival takes have environmentally sensitive part of the Krabi Relief Fund Community Bank has 31 projects Foundation continues to support P place from February 12 to topics and themes. charity, hosted a memorial service running, including a noodle shop, via donations and scholarships. 14 this year. On Saturday night, the at their Community Center in fish farm, laundry shops and a Memorial ceremony at- Featuring film selections festival continues with its green Krabi Town. vegetable farm.. tendees viewed the mini- from Myanmar, Iran, Iceland, theme by presenting American The SPF Community In addition to SPF’s other documentary Helping Hands. Canada, Japan, UK and USA, films, Food Fight and No Impact Center opened in 2008. It accomplishments, is the newly With graphic images of the organizers are committed to pro- Man, which address alternative destruction, the film illustrates how viding a diverse presentation of food source, organic farming, and post-tsunami Krabi residents have high-quality independent films lowering our carbon footprints. revitalized their community with from around the world. Finally, two of the four films thousands of helping hands. The opening night of the being offered on the Festival’s last The highlight was an original festival features the Asian evening are Addicted to Plastic: song titled Helping Hands by premier of Iceland’s entry: The Rise and Demise of a Californian musician Gary Gates. Huldufolk, which explores the Modern Miracle, from Canada, To honor the tsunami mysteries of elf folklore; and it illustrates the world’s current victims, Gary Gates made the trip USA’s Tapped looks at the overproduction of plastic and its from California to Krabi to business of bottled water. toxic legacy. How Green Was perform the song live at the First night presentations Our Valley, from Iran, highlights memorial. He was accompanied also include The Age of Stupid, the perspectives of a small desert by 14-year old Thornwarin “Gun” from the UK, and Polycultures: village being flooded out in the Khanantai, who soulfully played Food Where We Live from the name of modern progress by a her violin as he performed his tune. United States. hydroelectric project. For those of you interested Both of these selections For this year’s Festival in more information about the address the current issues of organizers wanted to offer films foundation’s activities and global warming and self- that encompass the themes of programs, visit the foundation’s sustained organic farming. nature and spirit. These are two website: www.krabirelief.com. Most of the films widely cherished and intimately related subjects which bear increasing relevance for both Phangan island and the planet. Their mission statement urges communities worldwide to ban the use of plastic bags and opt for more environmentally responsible cloth bags. Organizers hope their green theme initiative will profoundly touch festival goers and bring about appropriate changes in atitude and responsible action. They wish to open the doors to spiritual activism in the Phagnan community and ultimately contribute to the harmonious development of Koh Phangan for all of its inhabitants and visitors. Zoom teeth Tickets can be purchased at whitening the Phangan Film Festival box office and are priced at 300 baht is available here. Baht per evening or 700 baht for a only 9,000 three-night pass. Screenings start at 7pm W nightly. Friday and Saturday night screenings feature live musical entertainment before the films. (Patong Merlin Hotel) For more film festival 076 294 381-2 information or for tickets email [email protected]. February 13 - 19, 2010 AROUND THE NATION PHUKET GAZETTE 7 Laotian illegals Queer News Smoke without fire Smoke without fire NAKHON PHANOM: A Bang- kok police inspector was caught High on human ashes driving a minibus full of illegal im- migrants from the Laos border to NAKHON SRI THAMMARAT: In for Avatar – though he added that Bangkok on February 5. the latest drug craze to hit the he couldn’t understand how kids Lt Col Wichan Chaison has south, youths in Nakhon Sri dared drink the concoction. been transferred to an inactive Thammarat are reportedly drink- Most of the teenagers who post while he is investigated. ing a concoction that includes the were into the craze, both male and The arrest team were tipped ashes of recently cremated female, tended to look very un- off by a police officer who saw corpses and extracts from leaves healthy and he suspected they five young Lao women getting of the krathom tree. wouldn’t have long lives. into the minibus at a market. ‘Phon’, a 17-year-old from Truancy officer Somphong The women told police they Muang District, said he and his Yutao said he spoke to students were on the way to work in gang of about 10 friends had tried who were into Avatar to find out Amphibious vessels release smoke to cover themselves during the Bangkok. Only one had permis- every known concoction of what was behind the trend. recent Cobra Gold exercise at the Navy's Hat Yao training base in sion to stay in Thailand. krathom leaf available until they “The youths believe it gives Chonburi's Sattahip district. Photo by Tatchadon Panyaphanitkul Source: Kom Chad Luek stumbled upon the new formula. them special powers, especially The mixture is made by boil- when it comes to attracting the ing the leaves and then adding opposite sex. When they speak ashes taken from funeral pyres [to someone they like] they will after cremation ceremonies. have a special aura that makes Drinking it confers physical [their target] fall for them,” Mr ‘Cops killed mom’ strength as well as spiritual pro- Somphong said. tection from the ghost of the per- “This type of behavior is UDON THANI: An air hostess since since. Police found a trail Mrs Kulap. Police claimed that son whose ashes were drunk, Mr very worrying, but all we can do who claims her mother was mur- of blood at the scene. despite Mrs Yaowalak’s confes- Phon said. is keep track of it and inform the dered by police has called in the On January 8, police ar- sion, there was not enough evi- “The drink has an amaz- parents and schools,” he said. Department of Special Investiga- rested Yaowalak Khosit for or- dence to question the officers ing taste and anybody who tries Nakhon Sri Thammarat tions (DSI) to follow up the case. dering the killing of Mrs Kulap. as no body had been found, it becomes instantly addicted,” Governor Thira Minthrasak held Kusuma Insri, a 27-year- The suspect confessed that she she added. he added. a meeting on January 28 to dis- old air hostess for a foreign air- had given two police officers from Miss Kusuma said she is To satisfy their thirst for the cuss the problem and ordered a line, says police are stalling an Ban Thueam Police 60,000 baht worried local police will not push elixir, the youths drive around police crackdown. investigation into her mother’s to kill Mrs Kulap. forward with the case. She said looking for funerals. When the This is not the first unusual disappearance in order to protect Mrs Yaowaluck said she she is also concerned that her cremation is over, they sneak in drug trend to come out of the colleagues who carried out her ordered the killing in revenge af- mother’s body will be disposed of to steal the ashes, he said. South. For years authorities have murder. ter Mrs Kulap moved in with her so it can never be found. The mixture is known as been trying to stamp out ‘4x100’, Miss Kusuma told the DSI former boyfriend, another officer Mr Tharit said if the DSI ‘Avatar’ after the hit film. a mixture of krathom extract, that her mother disappeared from from Ban Thueam Police. discovers police are interfering Sumol Aksonphalee, chief of cola, cough medicine and ground a house near Ban Thueam Po- Miss Kusuma said that po- with the investigation, it will take tambon Bang Chak Village 5, said up mosquito repellent coils. lice Station in Udon Thani on lice have failed to question the on the case itself. he was aware of the new craze Source: Khao Sod November 17 and has not been two officers who allegedly killed Source: MCOT/Thai Rath 8 PHUKET GAZETTE G O O D L I V I N G February 13 - 19, 2010 Supping it up on Cloud 9 istence of a wealthy Parisian On the bourgeois, left the bosom of his family and set off on camel- menu back across the Sahara to the WITH Cote d’Ivoir. There, for a year, Marque Rome he lived “in the jungle, by the sea,” hunting, fishing and grow- igure it out: Our world is in ing greens to eat. crisis with the old order It was thus he came truly Fcrumbling and retirement to appreciate the finer things in funds in jeopardy; modern life is life. Some he has collected and a crap-shoot. It’s time to DO placed in Cloud 9: three towering something! But what? “Hara-kiri glass hookahs or ‘hubble- is too exotic for the average pot- bubbles’, for example. “Hookahs walloper,” you say. I agree. are actually Indian,” he explained, Besides, it spoils digestion. “but the shisha (or tobacco prepa- Fine dining, on the other ration) is not imported into Thai- hand, is the best revenge. Better land,” owing to legal restrictions. by far, isn’t it, to keep your head Thus he set about develop- DINING ON CLOUD 9: The new restaurant in Rawai is the product of Swami Nito Legrain and Wassana about you, your intestines intact, ing his own local mixture: “I found Fongngam (left). The restaurant offers gourmet varieties of both Thai and Western dishes, and sets it all and fly to less problematic climes? a source for organically grown against a unique atmosphere, complete with hookhas and a game room for kids. “Trouble is, we’re already tobacco from Payao which I mix in Phuket,” you rejoin. Ah! So we with crushed apple, a little teacher who cut his teeth at the list at 80 baht the shot. Most (200 baht) are well-proportioned are — and thus that much closer molasses, and glycerine – which great Indian and Nepali religious liqueurs – Benedictine, Sambuca, (the latter three-inches thick) and to Cloud 9. Those in Rawai are is how traditional shisha is centers — long ago turned prac- Kahlua, Amaretto, Bailey’s – are come with a side of vegetables QUITE close — to the Cloud 9 made anyway.” tical man of business: the Cloud 100 baht, as are such mixed con- (the former with baked potato, Lounge, that is, the new restau- With Special Relativity, 9 Lounge has something for coctions as Tequila Sunrise, Long too). The tenderloin’s kiwi sauce rant created just across from the Einstein demonstrated the impos- everyone, and should be espe- Island Iced Tea, Mai Tais, Screw- is superb. shell museum by Swami Nito sibility of pinpointing anything, cially popular among families. drivers, Black Russians, Bloody Outstanding are the Thai Legrain and his coolly clever dis- even motionless rocks; how Inside, the color scheme Maries and Daiquiries. Unique entrees: Roast Duck in Red taff half, Wassana Fongngam. much more troublesome, then, to relies on red: a wine-red floor, exotics from Cloud 9’s heavenly Curry (120 baht) and Prawns in The swami – in common with pinpoint what Phuket’s fickle cherry-red seat cushions and spa- mixologists – with cherries, Tamarind Sauce (90 baht). The most divines – knows how to get diners want! cious red divans. It is here on chunks of pineapple and tiny pa- duck is tender, its curry spicy and away from it all. As recounted in Perhaps hubble-bubbles, which weary revelers, sated af- per umbrellas – are 120 baht. rich with coconut cream – a fine his 2004 tome, “Naked and though well-prepared, are not ter consuming a raft of delicacies A sampling of dishes re- example that ranks with the best. Empty-Handed”, he abandoned your cup of tea. Hence Nito — – shrimp and seafood cocktails, vealed that the kitchen staff, who Cloud 9’s tamarind sauce is thick in early manhood the tailored ex- in truth a certified religious deep-fried spring rolls, tempura, together have three decades ex- almost as jam, and gives the sweet corn soup or lobster bisque, perience at top Phuket resorts, prawns special zest. steaks, burgers, fish, and tama- were not idly employed. Particu- For dessert we enjoyed a rind dishes – can sip Drambui larly memorable is the Prawn plate of eight ripe, delicately fried (100 baht per shot) and suck on Salad (150 baht): served in a banana fritters (30 baht) with a hubble-bubble while the kids ca- pineapple decorated to resemble honey. These are fat; a plate vort outside on the patio (or in- a bird, it is loaded with cashews, serves three or four persons. side in the separate games room, bell pepper, pineapple, grapes, Cloud 9’s wine list is short playing fussball or billiards). apple and prawns. but sufficient (850 - 1,300 baht Inside or out, chic informal- Chef Montientong Butgrim per bottle), and the house wine, a ity prevails; but the patio garden, will not reveal how he makes the Chilean Merlot from Amigo, is ruled over by a dancing Ganesh, sauce, but it is rich, savory and fine (bottles are 700 each, glasses god of prosperity, is especially healthful. Excellent. are a modest 120 baht). appealing. The Lobster Bisque (80 Take it all together and the Drinks, as one might hope baht) is thick, redolent of lob and upshot is, I suppose, that in these on Cloud 9, are a bargain: many littered with pieces thereof — a parlous economic times, Cloud 9 liquors – Baccardi, Captain Mor- difficult, time-consuming dish is no bad place to hang out. gan, Smirnoff, Gordon’s Gin, well-done. Cloud 9 Lounge: 30/11 Johnny Walker Red, Jameson, The European entrees, Aus- Vises Rd., Moo 2 Rawai. Open Regency brandy, even such tralian Tenderloin Steak (300 11am - Midnight; closed Mon- exotics as Malibu and Pernod – baht) and Chicken Cordon Bleu days. Tel.: 087 987-3701. February 13 - 19, 2010 PHUKET GAZETTE 9 10 PHUKET GAZETTE LIFESTYLE February 13 - 19, 2010

An excerpt from Laugh A clear alternative to braces Finding the with the Double Z: Larry King: What is the humor in difference between disaster and the end of the world?

hardships Zakoot: When I take By Nick Davies Zanooba to the hospital and hen Iraqi forces in- I see the doctor’s bill I call vaded Kuwait in 1990, this disaster, because WIbrahim “Brian” Khatib Zanooba do not deserve all and his family had to leave this money to be spent on ‘everything’ behind as they fled her health. to Jordan. Brian’s hopes of becoming Larry King: And what is a lawyer after finishing his stud- the end of the world? ies in international law at Iraq University were dashed. Instead, Zakoot: When the doctor Brian joined the Jordanian army. tell me that she will be OK. “This time of conflict has – Kathib left the biggest marks in my heart and mind. I certainly look at things WordWord ofof MouthMouth differently now.” “Our lives full of sadnesses... Full of problems... Full of With Dr Yupares Nimkarn DDS., MS. Despite being a talented difficult moments... Full of tax payments... And the question man with a passion for painting is: ‘What can we do?’” here were times when great smiles and straight teeth and writing, Brian had to settle could only be achieved by cutting teeth to fit dental pros for a low-paying job carrying theses, or for the die-hards, by removing the crooked teeth vegetables at a local market. even more determined than ever The stories are told in Tto fit dentures. Then braces came into the scene, offer- “I would set off early in the before, the highly motivated Brian Brian’s unique ‘Aranglish’ writ- ing a new, non-invasive alternative. morning for a five-kilometer walk went on to publish Laugh with ing style: English peppered with However, the prospect of wearing braces for a lengthy to work, dodging wild dogs and the Double Z, a collection of Arabisms, which makes for period is still off-putting for many, especially when considering the thieves.” humorous anecdotes involving highly entertaining reading and an initial difficulty of eating and brushing teeth while wearing braces. He later found work train- Zakoot, his wife Zanooba and insight into a cunning and deter- Times have changed, though, and patients can now have ing the Jordanian wrestling team their 13 boys and one daughter, mined Arab mind set. ‘invisible’ braces fitted, which can be easily removed for eating at a private health club, then as a all of whom find themselves in hi- Find out more about Kathib and teeth cleaning. painter and a life guard. larious situations which readers and his Arnglish musings at Invisalign treatment is a series of custom-made thin, trans- Then, Brian’s painting liter- will often find strangely familiar. www.khatibwriter.com. parent plastic appliances designed to simulate tooth movement. ally took off when he joined an They are made with computer aided design and manufacturing aircraft maintenance company (CAD-CAM) technology, which has become one of the best com- painting aircraft for international munication tools for orthodontists. carriers. Patients can see images of the end result even before treat- “One of the benefits of ment has begun, enabling the orthodontists to clearly communi- being an aircraft painter is being cate their treatment plans with Invisalign laboratory technicians, able to travel. So in 2002, I re- who are 14,000 kilometers away, in California. quested to come to Thailand to The Invisalign braces come in sets designed to keep the paint a private jet belonging to a patient’s teeth moving in the planned direction. The patient wears well known Thai VIP. This the first appliance for two weeks and then replaces it with the proved to be a huge turning point next one, and so forth. in my life; I met my wife and As well as being removable, Invisalign braces have a smooth became a father.” surface, so they are comfortable and don’t scratch the insides of With a more normal life in patients’ cheeks. It is one of the gentlest orthodontic appliances Phuket, Brian turned his attention currently available; most of my patients describe a little tightness to writing again. on their teeth just for the first day or two. He wrote three books in If you are considering having transparent braces fitted, be Arabic and one in English but sure to seek treatment from a trained professional, preferably an tragically lost them in the 2004 Invisalign-certified orthodontist, to ensure the best results. tsunami. Dr Yupares Nimkarn is an American trained orthodontist at Then at 32 years old, Kathib Dc one The Dental Clinic, Med Spa at Boat Lagoon. She is ‘tasted death’ yet again when he an expert in orthodontic treatment for children and adults had a heart attack - the result of and has been published in various international academic high stress. The incident left him dental journals. E: [email protected]. T: 076-239525. paralyzed for six days. Undeterred, and perhaps February 13 - 19, 2010 LIFESTYLE PHUKET GAZETTE 11 Tai Chi Timeout XIV – Breathing Challenge

elcome to the 14th article in the series of Tai Chi Timeouts. The WTai Chi-Chi Gung exercise illustrated here is the ‘Standing Pose’. It is the most mentally challenging ex- ercise due to lack of physical activity. Sim- ply stand in a relaxed position, hold your hands up and breathe in and out. The benefit is a lowering of the heart rate and blood pressure while strengthen- ing the legs and gathering Chi. To begin, stand in a comfortable up-right stance, knees slightly bent, with hands at chest level. Relax the neck and shoulders and let the elbows hang loosely down. Close your eyes and slowly, calmly and evenly inhale and exhale through the nose. In order to property gain the benefits of the exercise, you must initially stand for Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 ten minutes. Once comfortable with the sequence, extend the duration to fifteen STEP 2: Bring your hands to chest level. SEQUENCE Rick Attix has been practicing Tai minutes, and eventually to a full half hour. Relax the neck and shoulders while letting Chi for over 25 years with masters Tai Chi aims to develop the intrinsic the elbows hang loosely down. from China, Malaysia and the US energy (Chi) within the body through slow, STEP 1: Place your feet shoulder-width Close your eyes and slowly, calmly Rick holds regular Tai Chi classes rhythmic breathing exercises. apart, with knees slightly bent and your and evenly inhale and exhale through the at his Kamala garden residence. The ancient martial art naturally hips tucked gently underneath the spine. nose. Maintain the stance and continue to Classes are held three times as relieves tension from stress as well as It is important to keep the back focus on breathing in and out, slowly and week: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday aches and pains from stiff limbs. Perform straight at all times. calmly. The mind is relaxed by focusing from 8am. A six-day retreat is held them whenever you wish to unwind and Relax your shoulders and hold your on breathing. Continue breathing slowly the first week of every month. All loosen up. head up, but keep your neck relaxed. for ten minutes or more. levels and ages are welcome. Tai Chi-Chi Gung execises are Place your hands over your Tan Tien especially beneficial in the early morning (solar plexus), close the mouth and STEP 3: To complete the exercise, slowly www.taichiphuket.com. when the Chi is especially light and clean, breathe calmly through your nose. bring the hands to the center of the body E: [email protected] relaxing and energizing both the mind and This exercise is to focus breathing then back to the Tan Tien and gather the T: 081-728-9980 body for a new day. and calm the mind. Chi within. 12 PHUKET GAZETTE FEATURE February 13 - 19, 2010 Racers reap squalls of joy at Phang Nga Bay Regatta n the third morning, the wind had picked up Oslightly and the vessels were lined up along the start boat’s starboard end. At dawn, most sailors were on deck with the sun breaking on their backs and over the bay’s limestone karsts. Course number three would carry the racers 14 miles through Thailand’s most idyllic vistas from Koh Yao Noi to Krabi for the 13th annual Phang Nga Bay Regatta. The Phang Nga Bay Re- gatta is known for its relaxed and Rusalka’s racing crew is the per- family friendly vibe, although it haps the oldest and most seasoned still retains a competitive spirit for one to compete in the race. some sailors, but with no wind the “Seamanship is about expe- day before, many of the 40 rac- rience. Our ages range from 58 ing yachts retired their vessels to 75, so our average age is the from the competition to explore highest,” said Singapore resident the bay’s pristine coves. Glenys Taylor, another veteran “This is our fifth year rac- sailor on the Rusalka. ing with the Rusalka in Phang “Besides our ages, perhaps Nga,” said American expat it is more of a challenge for us on Henry Mellegers, one of the this boat, because we do every- Clockwise: Sunrise over Phang Nga Bay and the Regatta racers; The crew of Switchblade, the Regatta’s yacht’s six-person crew. thing manually. The other boats Racing class grand prize winner, readies the deck; Yachts cruise through the bay’s limestone cliffs; Capitan Kevan Perrins and Rusalka crew hustle to catch a breeze. Photos by Elizabeth Branca “We hope to catch some are pushing buttons but we do it wind and have a great day on the right; hauling the ropes and hoist- ‘Skipper’, have been sailing since been competing in the Regatta a weary dream.” water.” ing the sails… Anyone can press they were teenagers in the UK. for a decade, so the competitors Still in second place, the When the race began, rac- a button, but real sailing is feeling Their first date was a sail take on a familiar and festive Rusalka crew worked to keep ers jockeyed for position through the load, exerting your strength aboard Kevan’s family boat, and tone. Rusalka’s crew is a tight their positions, with Kevan and narrow waterways, and by 11am, with wind.” they have cultivated a love for group of friends who live aboard Sheila alternating as helmsman. the Oyster 435 Rusalka was in By noon, the boats had sailing throughout the course of the dual-cabin yacht for all five “Everything in life is a chal- second place – moving ahead of moved farther south, but slowed their marriage. days of the race. lenge,” said Jimmy Faure, who, Rascal, Smystery and the other between the course’s tallest cliffs. Splitting their residences They all met in Singapore in his seventies, is the oldest and nine yachts in cruising B Class. Kevan Perrins, the Rusalka’s between Scotland and Thailand, in the 1990s, crossing paths in most experienced sailor aboard Back-dropped by fecund owner and captain, explained that the Perrins have raced in many their small sailing community. the Rusalka. colors of jungle, sea and sky, cap- sailing in a light wind is a much regattas, including Phang Nga Between the three couples, there Jimmy and Shirley Faure tains barked commands over the more detailed sport. Perrins and and the King’s Cup, but Kevan are decades of sailing stories, have competed on the interna- bow while their crews rushed to his wife Sheila, nicknamed by their claimed they were not competi- over a dozen grandchildren and tional yacht racing circuit for half secure sails, lines and winches. friends as the ‘Admiral’ and the tive racers. volumes of travel memories from a century. They contribute to the “A good sailor knows what around the world. Rusalka’s racing adventures will work for you or against you “The tradition is to do this with their warm demeanor and on the sea…Around here there Regatta together. Now that the vast knowledge of sailing, travel, are high cliffs, katabatic winds bathroom schedule is fixed,” wildlife and the arts. and variable currents. You have Mellegars said with a smile, “we As an accomplished author to understand the down drafts.” are set. It works.” and watercolorist, Shirley recently The Phang Nga Bay Re- In the lull of afternoon wind, published a nautical-themed book gatta is divided into six racing some boat crews formed strate- titled Afloat on the Dutch Wa- classes: Racing; Cruising A and gies on how to string together a terways. B; Firefly 850 sport; Multi-hull few soft gusts, while others just While living in Singapore, racing and Multi-hull cruising. reclined along the deck, napping Jimmy was the equivalent of the This year a maverick two- or admiring the coastline. sailing community’s commodore. man crew manned a beach cat On the calm sea north of However, they have since retired named Weta. Through the Krabi, the sailors were reminis- from competitive international Regatta’s course, however, they cent of Tennyson’s lotus eaters racing and now enjoy exploring were not acknowledged by the and “came unto a land in which Europe’s waterways from the race committee as an official it seemed always afternoon. All deck of their steel motor yacht, a participant. around the coast the languid air Linssen Grand Sturdy 410. Many of the yachts have did swoon, breathing like one hath Jimmy said the appeal of the regatta was due to the beauty of the course. “We love sea life and anything in the natural world.” Approaching the final marker in Krabi, Rusalka’s crew celebrated their success; although they placed third in Course Three’s overall ranking, the crew made excellent time – in spite of the light wind – with a 4-hour, 13- minute finish. Overall, the Rusalka had a strong show in the Regatta’s Cruising Class B, placing fourth. For the crew of the Rusalka, the sailing adventure continues: “We are all set to sail to the Andaman Islands with Smystery and Rascal” explained Shirley Faure enthusiastically. “It’s moderately uncharted territory off the coast of India with a history of cannibalism... It will be quite an adventure.”

– Elizabeth Branca February 13 - 19, 2010 PEOPLE PHUKET GAZETTE 13

EXPAT GALLERY “I found the solitude and se- renity I needed in this beautiful little hamlet by the sea,” he says. Jim Newport In the past twenty years, he has written numerous screen- im (James) Newport has had “I was very fortunate to plays and has had five books pub- Ja home in Kamala since 1988 work in the early 1970s with Roger lished and distributed by the when he decided to find a place Corman who has made over 400 Bangkok-based Asia Books. to write screenplays and novels. films and who started the careers One screenplay, Seven Riv- He has worked as a production of actors such as Jack Nicholson ers, an ecological adventure designer on a number of impor- and directors like Martin Scorsese. about the plight of the gibbons on tant Hollywood films. “Later, I worked at Univer- Phuket, proved a difficult sale in Most recently, he designed sal Studios on film and television Hollywood. More than one dis- the film Bangkok Dangerous, projects so I could get into the tributor advised him to write about starring Nicolas Cage. union which would expand my something that would be easier “The production designer career. I soon became an art di- to sell to the publishers and the controls the look of a film. I bring rector, and then a member of the film studios. in the set designers, model mak- Art Directors Guild.” “I was told to write about ers, illustrators, etc, and run the Jim’s career has taken him vampires, that there was a tremen- art department. Im very proud of to many exotic film locations. He dous market for stories about vam- my work on Bangkok Danger- considers Over the Edge, Matt pires. So I returned to Phuket and ous as it was made entirely in Dillon’s first film, as a significant wrote the first in a series of vam-

Bangkok, using a totally Thai turning point for his work. AZETTE

pire novels, The Vampire of Siam, G crew in the art department. I Over the years, he worked in 2003. think it will be known as the de- on movies like Jonathan Kaplan’s HUKET “I’ve written a book a year P THE finitive movie that captures the Heart Like A Wheel, starring since then. I love the solitary act of FOR essence of the Thai capital city,” Bonnie Bedelia, and The Stepfa- writing, where I can feel like I con- he says. ther with Terry O’Quinn, the cur- trol the whole world.” HILD Jim was born on Long Is- rent star of Lost. (They had a His latest book, Tinsel Town – C ETER

land, New York. As a small child reunion in Hawaii recently when P Another Rotten Day In Paradise, Y he enjoyed drawing, especially Jim designed the 4th season of the which Jim describes as a factoid, B cartoons. He graduated from the popular TV series.) is a semi-autobiographical novel prestigious Pratt Institute in While working in the movie about his life in Hollywood. ABOUT EXPAT GALLERY Brooklyn in 1967 with a degree industry, Jim has always found He raised hundreds of thou- in Advertising Design and Visual time to write. sands of baht from his Hollywood he individuals profiled in the Gazette’s ‘Expat Gallery’ series Communication. In addition to Thailand, he contacts to aid in tsunami relief, Thave been chosen on the basis of their contributions to Phuket, He then went to Hollywood has written in the south of France, his way of giving back to the is- and, as foreigners, for having made those contributions in successful partnerships with Thais. For many, the contributions with the dream of designing Fiji, and even on Marlon Brando’s land that has given him so much. record album covers. After do- island, Tetiaroa, in Tahiti. But it have entailed significant investment, often at a time (mid-80s to When not penning new mid-90s) when the rules of business were, ahh, not entirely clear. ing some work for ad agencies, wasn’t until 1988 that a chance works, Jim can be seen singing the he decided he wanted to work in adventure driving a motorbike Some of our subjects are not business people at all, but have Blues as Jimmy Fame at the added real value to Phuket as English teachers, journalists, artists, movies. So he bought a van and over the dirt track from Patong Phuket International Blues Rock became a one man art depart- to Kamala led him to discover his engineers, fund raisers, etc. But all have one thing in common: if Festival, or at some of the island’s there were a Who’s Who in Phuket, they’d be in it. ment on low budget films. future home on Kamala Bay. better lounges. – Bruce Stanley 14 PHUKET GAZETTE HAPPENINGS February 13 - 19, 2010

WHO DAT? New Orleans native and owner of Big Duke’s Bar in Kata Karen Ellison celebrated with husband and co-owner Mark Ellison and fellow football fans as the New Orleans SULTRY SONGBIRD: Musician and violinist Chris Melchior, ‘Evolutions’, and vocalist Luisa Saints earned the rights to hoist the Vince Lombardi trophy at Super Bowl XLIV. In the Scarpa (center), played three hours of original music at the Watermark restaurant last early morning hours on February 8, dedicated fans were up for the 6:25am local-time Friday. Customers enjoyed two hours of free draft beer while evolutions improvised over kickoff to catch the biggest annual event in US sports. Photo by Scott Phillips soothing beats. Photo by Fraser Morton

SHARED SKIES: Bangkok Airways and EVA Air signed a code-share agreement on January BON APPETIT: Evason Phuket & Six Senses Spa’s crew of culinary creationists launched 28 to share services from Amsterdam, Vienna, London and Taipei to Koh Samui, Phuket a series of monthly dinners on the beach at the resort’s exclusive Bon Island last month. and Chiang Mai. From March onwards, EVA Air will operate international flights and Bangkok Executive Chef Thomas Jacobi (right) paired Billecart-Salmon Champagne with a special Airways will handle the domestic routes in the code-share agreement. Pictured with crew menu of organic delights. Also pictured are General Manager Frank Grassmann (black members are Bangkok Airways President Captain Puttipong Prasarttong-Osoth (left) and shirt), Evason Sommelier Monika Bielka-Vescovi (center), Bon Island Manager Harry Haan EVA Air President James Jeng. and Billecart-Salmon Champagne representative Sebastien Papin (2nd from right).

MANGROVE MANIA: Organized by Central Festival Phuket on February 6, over 100 volunteers from Save Phuket, Save Our Planet, Central Board and locals joined together in Thalang PAGLIACCI PLAYS: French clown ‘Zigotto’ led kids in fun and games at Holland House, a for a conservation effort planting 1,000 mangrove saplings. Staff from the Mangrove safe house for children run by Child Watch Phuket, on Tuesday. The clown, Alex Nogier, Resources Development Station 23 were on hand to provide information about the trees. performs for charities in disaster-hit areas around the world. His week-long Phuket visit Pictured center is Phuket Vice Governor Theerayut Eimtrakul. was organized by L’Alliance Français director Denis Rochel. Photo by Christian Mouchet February 13 - 19, 2010 FEATURE PHUKET GAZETTE 15 Safety soars for Asia Pacific aviation cabin technology up to date. Talking Planes Manufacturers such as Boeing and Airbus – the big two – need to ensure they are keeping up with the increased demands as far as innovations for passengers, such as in-flight email and other tele- communications. by In terms of their environmental Alastair Carthew bearings, airlines continue to maintain a low carbon footprint. Despite the deep recession that has hit aviation, the industry fficially 2009 was one of the safest continues to mitigate its environmental years in aviation history for Asia- impact and yet still cover the costs of OPacific flight routes. The only running an airline. major accident happened in April, which Aircraft comprise only 2% of carbon involved a six-crew freighter off the coast emissions, however the aviation industry of Indonesia. attracts a disproportionate amount of Globally, there were 12 major publicity and political attention when accidents involving large western-built compared to emissions from a coal-fired commercial jets, nine of which resulted in power station or an energy plant. a total of 414 fatalities, according to the Due to many factors, Southeast International Air Transport Association Asia’s aviation industry seems to be With a prominent codeshare agreement reached between Bangkok Airways and EVA Air, [IATA]. The number of major accidents growing in strength compared to the other Phuket International Airport expects an increase in flights. Photo: AFP/STR was 25 percent less than the average for major aviation regions of Europe, Latin to account for 41% of travel in 20 years’ therefore uping their market share. Under recent years. America and North America. time; up from around 32% today. the new agreement, EVA will operate all To put this in perspective, illustrating For example, airlines in Southeast This is expected to make Asia international flights, whereas Bangkok Air air travel safety, there were 25 million Asia are forecast to spend USD$330 billion Pacific become the largest air travel will deal with domestic. commercial flights in 2009 worldwide, to acquire more than 2100 new aircraft market in the world in less than 10 years. If 2009 is any indication, Phuket is reflecting an average loss rate of one major over the next two decades, according to This data illustrates obvious back on track to attract even more tourist accident for every two million flights. Boeing and Airbus. Boeing is predicting advantages for a tourist destination like with more direct flights from an increasing Worldwide, the accident rate was that the world will require 29,000 new Phuket. In recent weeks Bangkok number of airlines and their low costs divided between passenger and freighter aircraft from now through to 2028, costing Airways and Taipei long-haul carrier EVA tickets. flights, therefore the potential cost to a cool USD$3.2 trillion. air have signed a ‘code share’ agreement human life was much reduced when citing More importantly is that about 52% which will open up additional flights from Alastair Carthew is a Phuket-based freighter accident statistics. of these new aircraft will be single-aisle Amsterdam, Vienna and London into journalist, writer and public relations However, even with such a low rate units, 40% twin aisle, 7% large and 1% in Phuket. counselor and aviation expert. of aircraft accidents, more work needs to the small ‘regional’ category. The ‘code share’ enables the two E: [email protected]. be done to bring the aviation industry’s Boeing predicts that Asia Pacific is airlines to sell seats on the same flight, 16 PHUKET GAZETTE February 13 - 19, 2010 February 13 - 19, 2010 WHAT’ S ON PHUKET GAZETTE 17

EVENTS CALENDAR Upcoming events on the island amongst Thailand’s sizable ethnic Chinese community and Valentine’s Day Jazz in the Park legions of Chinese tourists from neighboring nations who choose to enjoy the holiday in Phuket. Valentine’s Day Dining February 14 I Feel Love February 14-20. We Love Yoga @ Abbysan, Phuket Plum Fine Dining offers an aphrodisiac-spiked menu Share Yoga with your beloved in one or more of these spe- on Valentine’s Day. Four courses for 2,200 baht, in- cial sessions with Dr Abhishek and Danny at Abbysan Yoga. clusive of two Love Potions at the Vanilla Skybar. Feb 14. Enjoy harmonizing fun with ‘Friends & Family Bonnie Anderson will also perform her funky, groovy Yoga’ from 10:30am to 2pm. Price: 1,500 baht for groups beats for your post-dining entertainment at Vanilla of three. Skybar. From 6pm - 12pm at Capesienna Phuket Ka- Feb 17. Improve your intimate touch of love and move- mala. For further information contact Riz. ment with ‘Couple Yoga’ from 5:30pm to 7pm. 1,200 baht T: 076-377300. E: [email protected]. per couple. Feb 20. Individual ‘I Do Yoga’ sessions any time be- A French Love Affair tween 8:30am and 7:30pm. 500 baht per person. Abbysan Crepes Village restaurants at Saiyuan in Nai Harn near Yoga Studio is near Central Festival. For more informa- Laguna are offering an evening of amorous ambiance tion contact Dr Abhishek. T: 076-304277. with a Valentine’s menu of fusion cuisine from 6:30pm E: [email protected]. W: abbysan.com. until 11:30pm for 1,200 baht net per person. For more information contact Khun Por. T: 087-282 1717. February 14. Celebrity Chef Sweetens Chinese E: [email protected]. New Year at Sala Phuket Sample exquisite pastries from world-renowned Le Cir- Valentine’s Dinner at Royal Phawadee Village que pastry chef Lillian Chou for a special Chinese New Valentine’s Day Dinner from 6pm until midnight at La Year and Valentine’s Day culinary adventure in the sen- Boucherie Grill & Steakhouse. Also, Mae Naam Res- sual setting of Sala Phuket Resort and Spa. 4,500++ baht taurant will also hold a special dinner, from 6:30pm to per couple. From 7pm to 11:30pm. For more info contact midnight. Dinner tickets for both restaurants are priced Food & Beverage Manager Tibor Baan. T: 076-338888. at 2,500 baht per person. For more information con- E: [email protected]. W: salaphuket.com tact Khun Bao. T: 084-849 2122, 076-344581. French big band sound the JCB Jazz Cool Band will E: [email protected]. bring in the smooth sounds of jazz favorites from the February 15-19. Mid-Term Brazilian Soccer Camp Amore Amore Romantic Dinner at Hilton Phuket likes of Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, at PIASAWC Enjoy a romantic dinner at Buon Appetito Italian Res- Glen Miller and Count Basie at Queen Sirikit Park Brazilian Soccer Schools (BSS) are putting on a five-day taurant. 2,400++ baht per couple. Includes a sparkling (opposite the Lemongrass restaurant) from 5pm until Brazilian Soccer Camp for boys and girls aged 6 to 12 Cupido cocktail and one glass of selected Valentine’s 9:30pm on February 14. Organized by The Rotary years from February 15 to 19 at the Phuket International wine per person. From 7pm to 11pm at Buon Appetito Club of Tongkah to raise funds for the Bang-neaw Academy Sports, Arts and Wellness Centre’s FIFA futsal Restaurant at Hilton Phuket. For further information School Library, the Big Band Jazz Concert will also field. 4,000 baht per child or 800 baht per day per child. contact Khun Jaruayporn. T: 076-396433. include a Classic & Super Cars show. For reserva- From 8:30am to 12:30pm. Email or call to register or for E: [email protected] W: phuketarcadia.hilton.com. tions contact Chaisak Koaysomboon. T: 076-304090. more info. T: 076-336000. E: activities@phuketinternational E: [email protected]. W: tongkah.org. academy.com or raewyn@phuketinternationalacademy. Love at Puccini com. W: phuketinternationalacademy.com. Celebrate Valentine’s Day Italian style with the one February 12-14. Valentine’s weekend at Les Anges you love at the Sheraton Grande Laguna’s Italian res- For Valentine’s weekend at Les Anges, special guest February 18-21. Redefining Art at Evason with taurant Puccini. Enjoy an extravagant five-course set musicians Jerry Byrd of Atlanta, Georgia, USA and singer Italian Winemaker Livio Felluga dinner under the stars at the poolside from 6:30pm Tony Ingraham will entertain guests in the evening with February 19: Lunch and cooking class at our Organic until 10pm. 3,600++ baht per couple. For more infor- their unique sounds and songs of love from 7pm to Herb and Vegetable Garden. 3,000++ baht. mation contact Adam Beasley. T: 076-324101. 10:30pm. On the menu is an eight-course Valentine’s din- February 20: Gala dinner at ‘Into the Med’ restaurant. E: [email protected]. ner. 1,750 per person or 2,500 baht per person with The wine maker will take you for a journey through his Valentine’s Day Surprises at Movenpick selected wines and a special gift served from midday to winery, an evening that promises to create unforgettable Surprise your loved one with a Valentine’s Day dinner 10pm. T: 081-968 0738 E: [email protected] memories. 4,500++ baht. on the Lagoon Lawn with a romantic six-course af- W: lesangesphuket.com. An exclusive Redefining Art package is offered for both fair. Dinner is served from 6:30pm until 10pm. 3,000++ lunch and dinner for 7,000++ baht. Seats are limited. baht per couple includes a glass of sparkling wine and February 13-15. Romantic Getaways Phi Phi From 12pm to 11:30pm at Evason Phuket & Six Senses a red rose for the lady. For more information contact Valentine Package Spa. For further information contact Monika Bielka-Vescovi. Patrick DeStaercke. T: 076-396139. Swimming, snorkeling and relaxing on the beach are per- T: 076-381010. E: [email protected] W: E: [email protected]. fect ways to spend a romantic day in Phi Phi. Laguna sixsenses.com. Tours has created the Phi Phi Valentine Package for lov- ers who want to celebrate their day with a little more style. February 20. RPM Fashion Session 6,500 baht/person includes the full-day trip to Phi Phi Is- “Phuket Professionals” present their 2010 col- land on a Laguna Tours Speedboat, Leisure Host, lunch on lections. Fashions and accessories by leading the beach, beer and wine during lunch and full snorkeling International brands: Calvin Klein, Mona, Rip equipment. From 8:30am - 5pm. For further information Curl, StarBlu and Grace of Art. At Skippers contact Saowanee Choochum. T: 076-362330. Bar on the Boardwalk, Royal Phuket Marina. E: [email protected] W: lagunaphukettours.com. DJ set by J.C. Free Entry and Free Canapes. From 7pm 9:30pm at Skippers Bar & Restau- February 14. Chinese New Year rant. For further information contact Murat Can Chinese New Year starts with the new moon on the first Sakarya. T: 081-797 3364. day of the lunar calendar and is the biggest social occa- E: [email protected] sion in the Chinese tradition. It is celebrated with gusto W: royalphuketmarina.com. 18 PHUKET GAZETTE February 13 - 19, 2010 February 13 - 19, 2010 TAKE A BREAK PHUKET GAZETTE 19

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Can you find the ten differences between the two cartoons below? And can you find them faster than the rest of the family?

Solutions on next page 20 PHUKET GAZETTE TAKE A BREAK February 13 - 19, 2010 Get your brain in gear with the

1. Joseph Lister carried 8. A skulk is a group of 15. Sienna law forbids © 2009 WHATZIT? is a trademark of Paul Sellers. out the first operation which animals? women of what name Distributed by Universal Press Syndicate. using antiseptic in 1867 from prostitution? on whom? 9. Who defended his world heavyweight title 16. What do the letters 2. What was the horse twice on the same night MG stand for (the ones Black Beauty’s original in 1906? on cars)? name? 10. What part of an air- 17. Who was the first 3. Who was the original craft is the empennage? actor to appear on the Peeping Tom looking front cover of Time at? 11. We know who wrote magazine? Little Women but who 4. What element is wrote Little Men? 18. Polyphemus was the present in all organic leader of which group compounds? 12. Who was the God- of mythical giants? dess of the rainbow? 5. What is the first name 19. What does a plu- of the fictional villain 13. In which European viomoter measure? Professor Moriarty ? city can someone be jailed for not killing furry 20. Which game was 6. Who was known as caterpillars? made illegal in England the Little Brown Saint? during Elizabeth I’s 14. Who was Olive reign? 7. Who rode a horse Oyl’s boyfriend before called Morengo? Popeye? Answers below

Hidato: How to play and this week’s puzzle solution. Monster Puzzle Quiz Solutions Answers 1. His sister WHATZIT? solutions 2. Darkie 1. Upwardly mobile 2. Bedside manner 3. Say it Solution to this week’s crossword with flowers. 3. Lady Godiva 4. Carbon 5. James Solution to this week’s 6. Ghandi Spot the Difference 7. Napoleon at Waterloo 8. Foxes 9. Tommy Burns – both 1st round knockouts 10. Tail Unit 11. Lousia May Alcott 12. Iris 13. Brussels 14. Ham Gravy 15. Maria 16. Morris Garages 17. Charlie Chaplin 18. Cyclops 19. Rainfall 20. Bowls February 13 - 19, 2010 FEATURES PHUKET GAZETTE 21 The spy’s search for identity

United States. In his thirties, re- proposition, and I did through the ing to be a blind beggar and eat- cently divorced, he has just come sheer power of Boyd’s prose, ing a hearty meal each night at a Off the out of an job interview at Impe- you’re on a roller coaster ride Christian soup kitchen. The killer rial College and heads off in with Adam Kindred. And why meanwhile is on his trail. SHELF search of an Italian restaurant for not? People go missing all the time: Swapping himself for yet lunch: “He crosses the road, “There was something another identity, Kindred be- By James Eckardt having no idea how his life is about London that he needed, he comes a hospital porter named about to change in the next few realized, something basic and fun- Primo Belem and begins to un- t 57, William Boyd is part hours – massively, irrevocably – damental: he needed its size, its ravel the mystery behind Philip of a triumvirate of British no idea at all.” great sprawling scale, its millions Wang’s death. His life becomes Anovelists of the same gen- At lunch, he happens to of denizens, the utter and protec- more complicated when he eration. The other two are Mar- meet an immunologist named tive anonymity it provided. strikes up a romance with a po- tin Amis and Ian McEwan, both Philip Wang, who is head of re- “He thought about the 600 licewoman who, by coincidence, of whom seem to be in a creative search for a large pharmaceuti- people a week that went missing had also been involved in the case decline. William Boyd, by con- cal firm. He takes Wang’s card, in this country, the boys and girls, of Philip Wang and his killer. trast, goes from strength to bids him goodbye, and then no- the men and women, who walked “It just proved to him what strength. He is not afraid of tack- tices a folder that Wang had left out of their front doors, closing he has always suspected: that the ling big themes in big novels, like behind. He phones Wang and them behind them, knowing they myriad connections between two The New Confessions and Any agrees to meet him at his apart- would never return, or who discrete lives – close, distant, Human Heart. ment nearby. He finds Wang in climbed out of back windows and overlapping, tangential – lie there His last novel, Restless, took bed with his throat slashed. Hear- wanted for murder poster. ran off into the night to join that almost entirely unknown, unob- over the spy genre and turned it ing someone coming in from the He flees again and sets him- vast population of living ghosts served, a great unseen network into a modern search for identity. balcony, he is suddenly frightened self up in a ramshackle shelter at that were The Missing. Two hun- of the nearly, the almost, the His latest and 14th novel, Ordi- and flees to the street. an overgrown beach at the foot dred thousand missing people... might-have-been. From time to nary Thunderstorms (Blooms- Now Boyd advances a of Chelsea Beach. He doesn’t living underground, undocu- time, in everybody’s life, the net- bury, London, 2009, 403pp) ap- proposition that is preposterous. want to lose his freedom or to mented, unnumbered, unknown.” work is glimpsed for a moment proaches the same question of Instead of going to the police, become a sitting target again for Bearded and shabby, Kin- or two and the occasion acknowl- personal identity through the form Kindred dawdles at a bar, returns the assassin who had nearly dred survives as a garbage scav- edged a gasp of happy astonish- of a crime thriller. to his hotel, fends off an attacker brought him down. Instead, he enger and beggar. Then he’s ment or a shiver of supernatural Adam Kindred is a British and finds another hotel. When he decides to find out who killed mugged, rescued by a hooker, discomfort.” climatologist who has returned to finally goes to the Chelsea police Philip Wang. taken in by her and her son, and The reader is left feeling London after a long sojourn in the station, he sees his photo on a Now if you accept that moves up in the world pretend- the same way.

for Arians this week. A more This is a time when dreams can from the daily grind would ben- of February. Pisces is ready to stable financial situation should come true, but you should be efit Librans who have been spend more time with you and be enough reason to bid farewell careful what you wish for. A ro- rushed off their feet since the Aquarius would like to be intro- to a job that was bringing more mantic dilemma becomes less start of this year. Those experi- duced. The number five can stress than satisfaction. Those important when you learn more encing problems in a romantic bring good fortune this weekend. who cannot afford to leave their about the person concerned. relationship may learn that their current position may learn of a Advice from a Sagittarian friend constant need for reassurance is CAPRICORN (December 22- way to make it more stimulat- is worth its weight in gold this becoming an issue. Wear a piece January 20): Playing your cards ing. An overdue answer to a weekend. The number eight can of light amethyst to encourage a right can lead to success in busi- romantic question gives you bring some good fortune less serious outlook on life. ness during the second half of hope for a happier relationship. on Tuesday. February. Capricorns’ cautious SCORPIO (October 24-No- approach should guarantee that TAURUS (April 21-May 21): LEO (July 24-August 22): Your vember 22): Your working life no mistakes are made when ne- An overflow of optimism allows luck with money matters follows continues to bring satisfaction, gotiating – Tuesday is an auspi- AQUARIUS (January 21-Feb- Taureans to make plenty of a positive trend until the end of with the possibility of a pay rise cious day for final agreements. ruary 19): Aquarians who re- progress during the last half of February. Many Leos will be by the end of this month strongly Where love is concerned, you dis- cently got the brush off from an February. The only downside considering a large purchase and highlighted. The offer of promo- cover that Aries is on the same earth sign should receive more could be others’ reluctance to the stars will back your efforts tion is also likely, but this may wavelength and this relationship encouraging news this week. jump on your bandwagon. Ex- to receive useful advice, particu- not be in an area that excites will be well-starred. Getting to Your ideas for a business pect useful cooperation from larly from those born under a you. A dream early next week know Libra proves trickier than scheme are well-starred during Gemini and Cancer, but don’t water sign. Family affairs are can shed light on a personal di- anticipated. The scent of sandal- the second half of February. rely on Capricorn to follow affected by stormy astral condi- lemma involving a close friend. wood can encourage a more Romance also benefits from an through. Romance takes a back tions this weekend – this is not Romance brings surprises, creative mood. auspicious astral atmosphere – seat this week and your reluc- an auspicious time to release particularly for those involved this Sunday is your lucky day for tance to become involved with your anger. Wear a piece of with an air sign. making contact with someone a water sign is justified. The green stone to help release who caught your eye recently. number three can bring good negative energy. SAGITTARIUS (November Those with a birthday in the luck on Monday. 23-December 21): Sagittarians coming days will be focusing on VIRGO (August 23-September should guard against reacting too a healthier lifestyle in the GEMINI (May 22-June 21): 23): Taking the initiative is some- quickly this week. Someone year ahead. Geminis find out that there is no times difficult for Virgoans, but born under an earth sign is fore- smoke without fire this week. this week you will be fired up cast to push you for answers – PISCES (February 20-March Recent rumors prove to be true, with enthusiasm. Tuesday and if this involves a property mat- 20): Change is just around the but this should give you enough Wednesday are the most auspi- ter, there are signs that not all is corner for many of those born information to invest more in an cious days to approach influen- above board. Your luck in love under the sign of Pisces. This ongoing business opportunity. In tial people with your ideas. An improves during the second half week, your motivation is strong the world of romance, your on-off romantic relationship with and the stars predict that events partner’s current leisure time in- a water sign could take a sur- will develop quickly, particularly terest could get in the way of prise turn. Love with Capricorn in the world of work. Where ro- domestic harmony. Lucky days is well-starred, although this mance is concerned, a fire sign for finances are Tuesday and person’s habit of forgetting ap- will be able to tell whether your Wednesday. Wearing a piece of pointments could start to get you words are heartfelt or not. Wear dark amethyst can promote a down. The number seven can be the color charcoal gray to calmer mood. lucky this weekend. encourage more realistic ideas to flow. CANCER (June 22-July 23): LIBRA (September 24-October Cancerians have chance to cre- 23): An earth sign friend is fore- ARIES (March 21-April 20): A ate their own good luck during cast to try and persuade you to change could be as good as a rest the final two weeks of February. take a trip with them. A break 22 PHUKET GAZETTE EDITORIAL & LETTERS February 13 - 19, 2010

367/2 Yaowarat Rd, Amphur Muang, Phuket 83000 Tel: 076-236555 - Since 1994 - Fax: 076-213971 Email: [email protected] Fixing Phuket’s transport There is widespread support in Phuket for Governor Wichai Phraisa-ngop’s idea to fit all taxis and tuk-tuks on the island with meters. It is impossible to quantify the economic damage Phuket’s tour- ism industry has suffered from the island’s notorious patchwork of transport syndicates that continue to operate in defiance of the law, colluding to keep passenger fares the highest in the country. This ORUM situation has unnecessarily held back a tourism industry that in most ’ F

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IN national Airport (PIA). ’ At a recent meeting at the airport, Gov Wichai and Senator EOFF

Thanyarat Achariyachai criticized the management of Airports of ‘G BY Thailand (AoT), which runs PIA, for the way it has dealt with taxi, limousine and minivan concessions there. The pair said the company’s NSPIRED profit margins seemed to be their only concern, not the Phuket tour- I ism industry or the hundreds of thousands of people who rely on it to make a living. Under the urging of the provincial government, AoT gradually broke Letters the monopoly held by the Phuket Airport Limousine and Business Coop- erative for years by allowing ‘taxi meters’, an airport bus and finally rival The Gazette is pleased to receive mail from read- your views for publication in our next issue. taxi operator Phuket Mai Khao Sakoo onto airport grounds. ers. Please write to us at 367/2 Yaowarat Rd, We reserve the right to edit all letters. Pseudonyms But the increased competition hasn’t translated into lower costs Amphur Muang, Phuket 83000, fax to 076-213971 are acceptable only if your full name and address for most passengers because AoT continues to charge excessive or send an email to [email protected] with are supplied. fees to all who operate there, or at least those that do so legally. That an estimated 200 ‘black plate’ taxis are also shuttling passengers to Clean up the beach Full disclosure liness, the wall also cuts off a and from the airport gives some indication of just how excessive the walkway to the offshore island of fees are. clean-ups Thailand is unique in that it Koh Nok, which could once be As mentioned in this space a few weeks ago, the Tourism Au- has a large number of transsexu- conveniently reached by foot at thority of Thailand is currently promoting the country as a value-for- I never understood the als, or ‘ladyboys’ as they are low tide. money tourist destination under the catchphrase ‘Amazing Thailand, thinking behind Phuket’s so- known. My concern is that many Asking the annoyed local resi- Amazing Value’. called ‘beach clean-ups’. Why are so feminine that many tour- dents about this ugly construction, Unfortunately, problems in Phuket’s public transport sector drive are school children required to ists who come to this beautiful we were told that the local gov- up prices across the board, making the province less competitive clean up after careless adults? country are seduced by them. ernment destroyed the public beach than it should be and driving tourists, both foreign and domestic, to Make the polluters pay in- They pretend to be women and without authorization and carried rival destinations. stead. I understand the tremen- only reveal their true nature once out this shameful destruction of Governor Wichai has reportedly asked the Ministry of Interior dous burden the Royal Thai Po- the hapless victim is in the hotel natural resources in order to con- (MoI) to allow him to work past the mandatory retirement age of 60, lice already shoulder. But there room, often having had a few too struct a football field. We heard which he will reach next month. We hope the MoI will seriously is an easy way to solve this prob- many drinks and feeling too ex- they also wasted more than one mil- consider the request, as Mr Wichai may be the island’s only hope for lem: a reward system whereby cited to back down. lion baht of taxpayers’ money on giving tourists the kind of safe reasonably priced transport options anyone with a camera who films Should there not be a policy the scheme. Even worse, the con- they deserve. someone littering the beach can of transparency requiring lady- struction site has been left unfin- – Stephen Michael Fein take their evidence to the police. boys to inform clients that they ished and now serves as a racing The police would then levy a very are not women at the first avail- track for local youths and their heavy fine on the polluter. The able opportunity? I am not sug- motorbikes at night. fine would be split 50:50 between gesting a chest sign like those the As visiting foreigners, we the police and the person who Nazis required of Jews during the were always taught that beach In association with The Nation Multimedia Group PCL brought in the evidence. 1930s. But surely in these days land is untouchable. It belongs to I am originally from Miami, of consumer protection, full the crown and is a place set Editor: Parichat Utintu USA. We have a number of large and honest disclosure should be aside for public recreation. If Koh Managing Editor: Nick Davies luxury cruise ships that sail out a priority. Yao Noi wants to maintain its of Miami every weekend. We I know of a least one case reputation as one of the last pearls also have this reward system. Editorial Team: of a father who took a young son in the Andaman Sea, then it Years ago, a passenger on board to Thailand to lose his virginity. should start with the demolition Passara Kaewbumroong, Thanasorn Chookate, a luxury cruise ship filmed the Atchaa Khamlo, Kitima Pornmongkhonwat, Pimwara The young lad did so, but not in of this disturbing, unfinished crew throwing large garbage the manner expected. construction. Chocksakulpan, Sitthipong Nongkaew, Fraser Morton, Stephen bags into the ocean. The cruise Fein, Marc Mulloy, Scott Phillips, Dan Waites, Elizabeth Branca ship company was eventually Luis Porto Name and address supplied fined $2 million. The lucky pas- Phuket Managing Director: Oranee Hildebrand senger received $1 million. Need- Fake concern General Managers: Natthira Susangrat - Advertising less to say, the cruise waiting list Koh Yao Noi annoyed I see the authorities are de- Nilada Thanakul - TV & Events became several months long, as We are tourists who visit stroying counterfeit goods (Ga- Production Manager: Suchart Changate so many people were hoping for Koh Yao Noi twice a year. This zette online, ‘Hammertime in Publisher: The Phuket Gazette Co Ltd the reward money. unspoiled island enchants all its Phuket: counterfeit goods de- Such a law here, if widely visitors with its exceptional stroyed’, February 10). Fakes Contact us publicized, could help reduce the beauty, peacefulness and the in- worth millions of baht were need for beach clean-ups. It comparable friendliness of its crushed, then burned, ‘to show Advertising Sales: [email protected] would also employ thousands of local residents. For years our Thailand is serious about enforc- Thais and tourists in ensuring favorite place was Thakhao ing intellectual property laws’. Classified Advertising: [email protected] Phuket’s greatest tourist attrac- District, a beautiful and silent bay Well if that’s the case, why Website Services: [email protected] tions, its sunny beaches, don’t dis- right behind the hills of the 5-star are the streets of Patong still full Gazette Guide inquiries: [email protected] appear. It would also add very Evason Resort & Spa. of stalls selling fakes? Or are Events Sponsorships: [email protected] little to the police’s workload, On a recent visit we were they too many phu yai who don’t while making a big contribution truly shocked to find that a sea- want anything done about this Telephone: 076-236555 (10 lines) Fax: 076-213971 to their budget. wall around 300 meters long has ‘problem’? The views expressed in the Phuket Gazette are those of the writers and Mark Kirk been built where there was once Bart Smythe contributors and do not necessarily reflect those of the publisher, the editor, the shareholders, or the directors of The Phuket Gazette Co Ltd. Rawai a beach. Incomparable in its ug- Kata Copyright © 1994-2010 The Phuket Gazette Co Ltd Letters conveying views and suggestions are published here. Those seeking comment from government officials and/or business owners are published in Issues & Answers at www.phuketgazette.net. February 13 - 19, 2010 PERSPECTIVES PHUKET GAZETTE 23 Talk about double standards... HE TERM ‘double good political connections, even if standards’ sounds inno- you are accused of corruption in cent enough, but in a an overseas country, nobody in- T society where inequali- vestigates, lays charges or takes ties are so steep and stark a steps to prevent you doing a bunk. simple call for equitable enforce- In any society, real power is ment of the law can become po- having the ability to write these litical dynamite. sorts of privileges into the law and The phrase was introduced constitution. In old Siam, the aris- into Thailand’s modern political tocracy once enjoyed many such history in 2001, when it attracted immunities and privileges, but over immediate attention, in part be- the past century almost all of them cause the use of a non-Thai phrase have been swept away. Then, was unusual and eye-catching. through a half-century of political The Thai version, ‘song dominance, the military high com- matrathan’, started to become mand established a new structure popular in 2008. Supporters of of legalized inequalities. Soldiers Thaksin are pro- used the tected from phrase to the normal highlight operation of what they the judicial saw as glar- system. ing bias in When gen- the judicial erals openly system. Ac- flout the law, cording to them, Thaksin was be- we are told they are immune to ing persecuted by the legal process, anything more serious than a rep- while the yellow shirts seemed to rimand. In case after case when SEEING RED: Red-shirted Thaksin Shinawatra supporters shout slogans at victory monument in Bangkok on be able to break any number of massive land encroachment April 9, 2009. The phrase ‘double standards’ has become a central part of red-shirt publicity. laws with total impunity. comes to light, the issue begins to been fine-tuned to ensure that But the political system as the landmark judgment against After the judicial overthrow fade once it emerges that senior money is practically the sole it currently operates only helps to Thaksin’s former wife Pojaman. of the Samak and Somchai gov- officials were involved. qualifying factor. Although ana- adjust the realities of wealth and The idea of equity under the ernments in late 2008, the phrase When the foundations of a lysts sometimes try to detect po- power within a very narrow law is now very prominent in pub- became a central part of red-shirt society shift in a big way, these litical conflicts between ‘new range. The big story of the past lic debate, yet the political struc- movement publicity. It no longer arrangements need to be adjusted money’ and ‘old money’, in real- generation has been the overall ture still in place is designed pre- refers to the rather narrow area to match the new social realities. ity money has no age. In current tripling of incomes, the accompa- cisely to preserve privileges by of judicial bias, but focuses criti- Over the last half-century in Thai- Thai politics, money is money. nying rise in ambition and aspira- the evasion or manipulation of the cism against the wider and land, a new corporate elite and Many political leaders are ready tion among the masses of the law. This creates a situation so deeper inequality in society. Re- much expanded upper middle to admit that money is now the population, and growing calls for fragile that new challenges can cently at Khao Yao Thiang and class have become wealthier and ‘blood’ that keeps Thai politics a more inclusive equity. It began come from anywhere. The red at the Soi Dao Golf Club, speak- more powerful. Although every alive and kicking. The source of with NGOs, the path-breaking shirts decide to pinpoint Khao Yai ers asked the crowd why certain now and then these new forces the money is of no interest, only campaigns of the Assembly of the Thiang. The Thai Airways union kinds of people seem to get away have challenged the privileges and the amount. Poor, and a demand for rights that raises the excess baggage scan- with almost anything. The phrase immunities of the old powers, gen- Under Thaksin, several applied equally to everyone. It dal. Community NGOs trip up has spun out of control. erally they have taken the Cabinet posts were reserved for changed Thaksin from being a Map Ta Phut. Nothing seems In Thailand, there is a close smoother route of buying their ‘party financiers’, people who businessman to a populist. sacred any more. Illustrious in- connection between power and way into the system. often appeared from out of no- The growing political signifi- stitutions. The power of a big sur- illegality, between social status The key institution for this where, often with no track cance of the judiciary over the name and an exalted position. The and defiance of the law. Often, process has been Parliament or record. The system only came last few years has given this trend importance of economic growth laws seem to exist precisely to the political system as a whole. slightly unstuck when a particu- a new twist. While the judicial over the health and well-being of allow certain people the very spe- This has been the arena where larly flagrant share ramper was system may not in fact perform ordinary people. cial privilege of being able to flout new money meets old power; given a Cabinet post. Recent va- in the service of equity, the justi- ‘Double standards’ is a them. If you have a big enough where the two parties sit down cancies in the Cabinet have in- fication for the importance of the rather clumsy expression. It car, you need not worry too much and make a deal. The Thai politi- cited fierce competition. Corpo- judiciary is that there really is a doesn’t have the poetic ring of about traffic regulations. If you cal system has been a failure in rate interests that are prepared rule of law that applies to all. ‘liberty, equality, fraternity’ or have the right background and many ways, but in this respect it to pay their political dues have Leading judges repeat this idea ‘workers of the world unite.’ But position, you can carry as much has functioned brilliantly. The sys- very rapidly acquired influence in in defending themselves against it is the catchphrase of the excess luggage as you like. With tems of political recruitment have the background. bias. The claim was written into moment. Where can I take old oil? Is my water bill too big? Issues& Lacking a way to dispose of oil at home, I recently I took my I was recently asked to look after my neighbors’ house across lawnmower to a local repair shop to have the oil changed. They the street while they were out of town. I couldn’t help but notice that ANSWERS took the mower out onto Chao Fa Road and in broad daylight their minimum water bill, with tax, is 98 baht per month. Mine is 246 poured the oil straight into the drain, like it was standard operating baht. When I asked a Thai national why there was such a large procedure. difference I was told that my neighbors are billed by Phuket City, Submit your queries or I was in shock and disbelief – so much for protecting the quality while my bill comes from Kathu. Why is Kathu water so much more suggestions to us and of the island’s water. Lesson learned: change the oil yourself. But expensive than water from Phuket City? Doesn’t everyone on the we’ll ask the where should I take the old oil? same soi get their water from the same place? appropriate people to Mike Williams Mike Williams respond to them. Chalong Chalong Write to: An officer at Phuket City Municipal Office replies: Ms Areerat, an officer at Phuket Provincial Waterworks Au- thority (PPWA), replies: We do not buy engine oil, but a private company, Chok Tawee, does. They pay four baht per liter. Contact Mr Tawee Jarupongsopon, The PPWA supplies water all over Phuket, except in the two 42/4 Moo 5, Soi Phanieng, T. Rassada, Muang, Phuket 83000. T: Phuket City tambons (Talaad Yai, Talaad Nuea), where Phuket City 076-261728 or 089-8732106. Muncipality supplies it. Our rates are not the same as theirs. You can However, we do buy used cooking oil and turn it into biodiesel. check our website to find our water rates in Phuket: www.pwa.co.th/ The Phuket Gazette You can bring the oil to our office in Phuket City. 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nvestors are looking at 2010 as a difficult year in which to Ichoose asset classes. Most are finding that cash in the bank either yields nothing or close to it. Government bonds have low yields and any future signs of inflation will lead to capital losses. In the bond category, the most attractive areas are in care- MUERTO EN MADRID: A man carries a coffin on which is written "IMF politics" next to an EU flag that indicates "20 million unemployed" during fully selected emerging markets’ a protest in Madrid to demand action to combat the economic crisis and rising unemployment. Spain has been one of the European Union debt and corporate bonds. members hardest hit by the global economic crisis. Photo: AFP/Philippe Desmazes Sovereign bonds in the Euro cial crisis, unemployment in Spain rency strategy for the Bank of complimented Ireland on its ing in an emerging markets fund. zone have to be approached with soared towards the end of last New York Mellon, described the clever strategy. This certainly gives the fund man- a level of caution. For example, year and officially reached 18.8% problems facing the Euro zone. Commercial rentals in Ire- ager a wide variety of choice, German bonds are extremely low – a truly worrying statistic. Should countries like land have fallen some 30 to 40 which is important, as economic, risk, whilst Greek and Spanish Among under 25s, the Greece, Portugal and Spain re- percent in the aftermath of the fi- political and market factors can bonds are probably best to be unemployment figure is much quire a ‘bailout’, then that will nancial crisis. A very welcome change rapidly in the emerging avoided. higher. mean that the German taxpayer development in Ireland is the in- world. Concerns about the Greek Spain is also facing an acute is effectively underwriting these crease in foreign investments. This is an area of greater economy continue, and for good real estate crisis. The boom has countries. Alternatively, if any or Investors have often noted than normal volatility, although reason. The current Greek gov- long turned into a nasty bust with all of these countries default, then that this crisis has resulted in a late 2008 and the first quarter of ernment is probably making all almost one million new properties either way it cannot be positive major shift in the global economic 2009 showed that nowhere is the right noises about finding the remaining empty. for the Euro. center of gravity; from North immune to large losses. right way out of their problems. During the current crisis, The global attitude to the America and Europe to the However, assuming that all It must be kept in mind though countries with their own currency Euro has certainly shifted to a Middle East, Asia and Latin emerging markets do not suddenly that they were elected just – the UK being a perfect example negative bias in a matter of America. join the ranks of submerging mar- after the previous government – were able to let their curren- weeks. Readers may wonder It is not likely that North kets en masse, then diversity is a tried to introduce an austerity cies devalue, and found this to be why Ireland has not been in- America and Europe will be able great advantage. program and became distinctly a useful escape route. Naturally, cluded in the list of Euro zone to change this much. That is not When investing, it is wise to unpopular. it does not make for a total eco- countries in trouble. The answer to say that North America and consider the options open to your The new Greek government nomic solution, but it does remove is simple: Ireland’s government Europe will not enjoy an economic selected fund manager, and you has already vowed to freeze the some of the pressure. adopted an austerity program recovery in the future, but with certainly want to give fund man- salaries of the public sector who, As a member of the Euro some months ago, which not only Asia & Co growing at faster agers the ability to avoid or in turn, have vowed to strike. zone, Spain does not have the froze public sector wages, but re- rates, the focus appears to favor escape serious problems. The economic contagion luxury of devaluation. Instead, it duced them by 10 percent. this part of the world. This is why single-country has also reached Spain, and the has to rely on a strict austerity The total program showed Investors are likely to find funds in emerging markets – Spanish government has been program. This would be difficult that Ireland was deadly serious emerging markets the most finan- whilst potentially very profitable outspoken about the differences enough to impose in normal times, about sorting out its economy and cially rewarding places to be, but in good times – can be a night- between Spain and Greece. but with unemployment heading has enhanced the country’s it is how to invest that is of prime mare in bad times. Most emerg- Certainly, the Spanish towards 20 percent, it is going to reputation. importance. ing markets do not have the government’s debt at 54% of be very difficult. Even Germany, the lynch- There are a number of al- liquidity of older, more established Gross Domestic Product (GDP) In fact, it is possible that pin of the Euro zone, publicly ternatives; one of which is invest- financial markets. compares very favorably to Spain could make the transition Greece’s debt of 113% of GDP. from deep recession to outright The International Monetary depression. Fund (IMF) recommends 60% of In a recent TV interview on GDP as the maximum. the CNBC business channel, However, due to the finan- Simon Derrick, the head of cur- 26 PHUKET GAZETTE SPORT February 13 - 19, 2010 England holds lead in Fair Play’s World Cup

good for this level of football, but Spain was in action again in Fair Play League it was decided that when their re- a top-of-the-table clash against standings spective teams met they would be England. Spain’s earlier win had allowed to play outfield. given them a two-point lead at Under 13s: There was clearly no love the top of the table, but England , England 13 points lost between the two brothers as with tournament top scorer Spain 12 points Spain surged to a 7-2 lead, with Sooksan Arsasook leading the Argentina 10 points striker Chris Thomson claiming line, claimed a 4-1 win to over- Holland 10 points four of the goals. take Spain for the top spot. Brazil 6 points Chris, one of the youngest In the other two matches Germany 1 point players in the competition at only Holland defeated Germany 2-0 and Top scorer: Sooksan Arsasook, nine years old, was delighted to Argentina defeated Brazil 6-2. England, 11 goals Nattawat ‘Fluke’ Onting of team Argentina blasts a free kick goalwards keep his team in the title hunt. “I The league will resume on Under 15s: at a February 7 game against team Spain. Spain won the match 7-2. was pleased to score a hat trick. February 28 at PIA. Anyone in- Germany 8 points lose to 100 boys took to end. I have made a lot of friends I really like being a striker be- terested in sponsorship can France 7 points the football field at the from the Youth Football Home and cause you don’t have to do too contact Hannu Tuukkanen. E: Brazil 4 points CYouth Football Home I think you can really connect much running and you get to [email protected]. Top Scorer: Piers Grasmann, (YFH) and Phuket International with people through playing foot- score most of the goals,” he said. – James Goyder France, 13 goals Academy in the final weekend ball with them,” he said. before the Fair Play League Attention then moved to takes a three-week break. PIA, which was the venue for the Ban Sapam heads jr cricketers The action got underway at under 13s section of the league. YFH with the under 15s. Three The opening match threw up an games were played, with the pick intriguing encounter between of the action coming in the final Spain and Argentina, notable be- match between Brazil and France, cause it was the first time that which saw France stage a dra- twin brothers Nonthawit ‘Film’ and matic late comeback to win 7-6. Nattawat ‘Fluke’ Onting, compet- France’s Piers Grasmann is ing against each other on teams currently the tournament’s top Spain and Argentina, respectively, scorer with an impressive 13 had been allowed to play outfield. goals. “I play for my school team A gentleman’s agreement had at BIS but we only have a game been in place that the twins would every few weeks so it is good to both play in goal during the com- get to play football every week- petition on account of being far too

Young athletes from BIA and Thai Hua School pose on week two of the Sawasdee Cricket League. he second Junior Sawas- Sawasdee Cricket League standings dee Cricket League is un- derway with the participa- School # of games # of wins # Losses Total T played (3 points) (1 point) Points tion of five schools throughout Phuket. Ban Sapam 5 5 – 15 The rules for matches in the Cherng Talay 5 4 1 13 Sawasdee league are adapted Thai Hua A 5 2 3 9 from those of conventional cricket in order to give youngsters BIS 4 2 2 8 more of a chance to hone their Kajonkiet 4 1 3 6 cricket skills in a competitive en- Thai Hua B 5 – 5 5 vironment. The teams consist of Cricket Club, which consists ex- Talay, outscoring them by 49 runs eight players, rather than the tra- clusively of Thai teenagers. All to 17. Since that meeting, neither ditional 11, and the balls are made the existing teams will be keep- team has lost a match, meaning of lightweight compressed rubber. ing a keen eye on the Sawasdee that this year’s final, scheduled to The Phuket Cricket Group League – for players aged 14 and take place on February 20 at BIS, are hoping that the Sawasdee under – with a view towards re- will be a repeat of last year’s be- League will introduce cricket to cruiting new players. tween the two teams. youngsters in Phuket, who will The top two teams from last The third- and fourth-placed eventually go on to compete in the year’s Sawasdee League, Baan teams will also meet with the win- senior competition, the Island Fur- Sapam and Cherng Talay, have ner being awarded the plate, and niture Cricket League. dominated the league again this the fifth and sixth placed teams There are currently six year. They met in the opening will do battle for the bowl. teams in the Senior league which game of the season, with last Michael Way is one of the has been expanded this year to year’s beaten finalists Ban Sapam organizers of the league and has include the Phuket Development getting their revenge on Cherng been instrumental in the develop- ment of youth cricket in Phuket. “The children really enjoy Sawasdee cricket. Events like the Sawasdee League give them an opportunity to meet their peers from different schools. “Kids also enjoy activities which are organized by adults who take a sincere interest in them and we are fortunate to have good teachers and coaches in- volved, like Tookta, Scarfy and Nifty, who is the main man when it comes to coaching kids. The Players are all gaining experi- ence, as are the coaches, and the standard is definitely improving,” he said. – James Goyder February 13 - 19, 2010 SPORT PHUKET GAZETTE 27 High sails in the bay of karsts

rom February 3 to 7, the Phang Nga Regatta – widely accepted as ‘the Ffun regatta’ and one of Southeast Asia’s most popular boating events – streamed the turquoise waters of Phang Nga with 39 boats in six racing classes. The four-day race took sailors and party- goers alike to a different venue each night throughout the scenic bay area. Though the reputation as the ‘fun regatta’ is certainly an appropriate one, the competitive edge of many sailors in the race is never far away. Somewhere in be- Photos: Scott Phillips tween the pleas for steady wind, the pre- cise mapping of the course routes, and the The 13th Phang Nga Regatta brought 39 competing boats to the bay for four days of racing. foredecks rushing to raise a spinnaker at LEFT: Foredecker Chris Thormann hoists the spinnaker aboard Da Vinci Nina. INSET: The just the right moment, one can realize that crew of Switchblade celebrates their overall win in the racing category. the drive to win is alive and well. signments. In Cruising A, Niels Degenkolw 6 seconds ahead of second place Katsu. ond place in another close call – this one Switchblade, a 26-year-old Farr 43 and Phoenix placed first, while Bill Crump Competition on day one was espe- delivered by Ruby Tuesday, who etched craft helmed by skipper and Olympic com- and Fistral came out on top in Cruising B. cially tight in the multihull racing class, with out the top spot by just 36 seconds. petitor Selim Kakis, was the overall win- Rounding out the top winners, Hans the top three boats – Thor, Sumersalt, and The win, however, was Ruby ner in the Racing class, followed by Ben Rahmann’s Voodoo placed first in Firefly Da Vinci Nina – all finishing within 30 Tuesday’s first. After points were calcu- Copley’s Katsu and John Vause’s Ruby 850 Sport, the only class without assigned seconds of each other. lated, Switchblade’s steady hold of one Tuesday in second and third, respectively. handicaps. Voodoo was the only craft in Things heated up in the racing class of the top two spots in each race was Switchblade owner Mike Downard the regatta to place first in all four days of on day three as sailors set course from enough to make it the overall winner. was quick to point out the root of boat’s racing. Henry Kaye’s Thor took home a Ko Yao Noi to Krabi. With light and vari- When asked about what made his success. “Selim is an Olympic sailor from win in Multihull Racing and Bill Phelps’ able winds, Katsu took on Switchblade, boat the leader, Switchblade captain Selim Turkey, and we also had another Olympic Maharani placed first in Multihull Cruis- beating the craft by 53 seconds and taking Kakis said, “We were 11 persons on the sailor on board, so we were blessed. ing, the smallest class with only two boats. away the potential for a clean sweep. boat all together, making it a multi-cultural Twice,” he said. “We also couldn’t have The first day of racing began just off Day four was the best day for rac- sailboat. We had people from eight or nine done the race as well without the two fore- the shores of Phuket’s east coast near Ao ing, with steady winds giving sailors the different countries, so we had the energy deckers, Thomas Taatjes and Teiki Ballian. Yang pier and took sailors up to Chong push they had all been hoping for as they to bring the team together. We combined They were fantastic.” Lat. It was there that Switchblade estab- set course from Krabi back down to all of our senses, strength and knowledge Cruising boats were divided into two lished itself as the racing force to be reck- Chalong. Competition remained tight in the together, and the result came by itself.” different classes based on handicap as- oned with, coming in a full 12 minutes and racing class, with Switchblade taking sec- – Scott Phillips 28 PHUKET GAZETTE PHUKET PROPERTY February 13 - 19, 2010 Cultivating conservation mong the mangrove swamps near the village Aof Koh Maphrao, in Thalang district, many local villagers, 46 students and four teachers from the Kathu Wittaya School gathered to plant 280 mangrove saplings. The school’s mangrove for- est conservation and regrowth project started several years ago, when awareness was raised as to the major decline in Thailand’s mangrove trees. Both the com- munity and school realized the need to collaborate on a volun- LEFT TO RIGHT: Students from teer planting project. Kathu Wittaya School pose The grassroots initiative together after spending the day focuses on protecting the planting mangrove saplings at Koh remaining mangrove tree Maphrao’s reforestation project; population while promoting the A local student plants a mangrove importance of these coastal sapling; Students tend to saplings forests as a natural resource planted several years ago for the through replanting projects. mangrove project. On the morning of January LEFT: The local community 20, the planting project was members and school staff who voluntary, however students were volunteer their time to help the encouraged by the school to give- environment. up their weekend, in order to participate in the planting project. commented on why they For example, the mangrove together and protect against Justice’ project (where students New saplings were planted, volunteered with the mangrove swamps provide a habitat for erosion and storms. They also participated and won a national as well as maintenance per- project. They believed by planting birds, plants, fish and other protect the soils important high school competition on how formed on the previously planted mangroves they are preserving an animals such as prawns and nutrients from erosion and have to improve the country’s justice growth forest. area that can continue to produce crabs. The young conserva- a cleaning effect on the water. system), and finally, ‘Democracy During a break underneath food for the community as well tionists understand that the roots Protecting Phuket’s man- in Schools’ political project. a stream-side sala, students as support a natural ecosystem. of the mangroves hold the earth grove forests has been a growing When asked why the school concern since it was discovered commits time to such activities, in 1985 that 56% of Thailand’s Ajarn Kanrat and Ajarn Nillarat mangrove forests have been elaborated that the school is trying destroyed. to connect student’s learning to Mangrove forests grow only Buddhist principals. in saline coastal habitats and have The teachers believe that suffered due to the booming the focus of learning should not shrimp farming business and only be conducted in the coastal hotel development. classroom, but in authentic Although shrimp exports, settings; utilizing the timely and particularly to Japan, have had a relevant materials available in the beneficial effect on the real world. Thailand’s economy, it has been “With increasing island costly to the environment. population and environmental The mangrove planting changes, there is a greater stress activity is just one of the many on Thailand’s natural resources. extra-curricular projects, organ- We need education to focus on ized by Kathu Wittaya School, securing what resources we have which give students the oppor- left,” says Ajarn Kanrat. tunity to get involved in helping “ With these extra-curricu- their community. lar projects, our school strives to Other projects undertaken give students the maturity, by the Kathu Wittaya School knowledge and understanding in students include the ‘Clean up this rapidly changing world.” Phuket’campaign, ‘Power of – Paul Redfern February 13 - 19, 2010 PROPERTY PHUKET GAZETTE 29

Construction Update Phuket Town Modern Light By Thanasorn Chookate

he Light Suan Luang garden, 16th-floor heliport, condominium project 24-hour security sur- Tis unique in many veillance with personal key aspects and embodies the card entry, and CCTV. modern Phuket lifestyle. The facility also With its sleek facade contains a convenience and progressive design, the store, a laundry service, plus development offers easy indoor/outdoor parking. access to Phuket Town’s Prices for the units best attractions. start at 1.3 million baht, and East West Architect all of them come fully Company designed the furnished with quality project, construction of modern appointments, which is set to start in July including central air con- and is expected to be com- ditioning. pleted in December 2011. The project has two The 12-story building entrances, one off Chaofa comprises 186 spacious Road, opposite King Rama condos ranging in size IX Park, and the other on from 24.4sqm to 103.9sqm, Sakdidej Road near Tha- including studio apartments klang junction. and one- and two-bedroom The Light Suan Luang units. presently has show units Each unit offers a available for viewing. commanding city view For more information facing either King Rama IX or for a personal showing, Park, Phuket City or visit The Light sales office Saphan Hin from the at 15/12 Chaofa Road, Tha bedrooms and living rooms. Klang Junction near the Standard facilities in market. the project include a large Tel: 076-223344, 076- swimming pool, a state-of- 224455. Email: info@the the-art fitness center, lightcondo.com. 30 PHUKET GAZETTE PROPERTY February 13 - 19, 2010 The rise and fall of Granny Smith’s Asian cousins

lowish or red when ripe. One of these, the cherimoya, is usually sold in Europe. Sadly, it does not appear to be widely grown here; you may have to go to a special- ist greengrocer to find it. More familiar is the star apple [Chrysophyllum cainito or aphoen]. It comes from another small tree that has glossy ever- green leaves which are felty Photo: Wie146 brown underneath, and bears clusters of small white, fragrant TROPICAL TEMPTATIONS: The apple comes in many shapes and colors. Phuket’s climate is perfect for many flowers. Seedlings will take about in the long list of these tropical delights, including the apple guava (above) - also known as farang to local pples are eaten the world seven years to fruit: if you can’t residents, and the star apple (insert). over. Wrapped in latticed wait that long, grafted stock will rainforest than the garden. will go purplish and then black, considering for your garden. Afoam, you can even get a produce the goods after four. Not so with the water or ending up like a prune or date, Though it produces a dense version of malus domestica in Once mature, the star apple rose apple [syzyguinia or chom- hence its alternative name of canopy almost to ground level, it your local supermarket, which is will crop all year round. And pu saraek]. It makes a highly Chinese date. Readily propagated will withstand plenty of pruning, probably of the ‘Golden Delicious’ being self-fertile, it will produce decorative small tree, and was from seed or root cuttings, it and in Asia is often deliberately or ‘Gala’ cultivars. Both can be its substantial dark green or one of the first to grace my new produces chains of small, star- shaped into a compact tree. The farmed outside the cool-temper- purple fruits – star-shaped in sec- garden. Although fresh from shaped flowers. Fragrant, of large leaves, deeply veined and ate climes required by more tion – without any outside assis- a container, it actually pro- course… Moreover, the jujuba light green in color, are an added traditional apple varieties. tance. Sweet to the taste, and duced a couple of pinkish fruits makes a fine shade tree and is attraction. While the highly aro- But the apples that grow in delectable as a fresh dessert, star in its first year. not fastidious about temperature matic fruits – the smell is remi- southern Thailand? No relation. fruits are much appreciated by Pear-shaped and waxy, changes. niscent of lemons – can be eaten A very different story. Thais, who often plant a speci- they are a common sight on mar- The last of today’s fruits also straight from the tree, they are Last week I visited a small men tree outside their front door. ket stalls; the crunchy, watery bears a passing resemblance to more often used for making jel- temple perched on a cliff-top in Instant food…. flesh seems to appeal to Thai an apple. It is better known to lies and jams. And the guava is a Nai Harn. In the grounds was a The elephant apple [Dill- tastes. Elsewhere in the tropics, farangs than any of the aforemen- so-called ‘superfruit’, rich in anti- custard apple tree [Annona reti- enia indica or mataa], as you varieties are grown for their tioned varieties, possibly because oxidants and with four times the culata], the first I had seen grow- would expect from the name, ornamental and its juice is sold vitamin C content of an orange. ing in Phuket. With attractive and makes a much more substantial sweet smelling worldwide in Here endeth the tale of the aromatic leaves, a neat habit, and tree. Unless you are a fan of flowers. cartons. Indeed, apple – Thai style. All rainforest tasty fruit which contain custard- powerfully acidic fruit, it is un- The jujuba its Thai name is trees, they crave some initial like, creamy pulp which can be likely to tickle your taste buds [Ziziphus jujuba literally farang cover and plenty of water, condi- made into a milky drink, it’s when eaten raw. or phut saa chin] – an epithet that tions they would encounter in not a bad choice for a long- As with so many Asian is yet another of may be ex- their native habitats. term garden. fruits and vegetables, that is ab- these so-called plained by the But given some TLC, they Since it hails from tropical solutely no hindrance: instead the apples on today’s fact that it is not will surely reciprocate; not America, the heat and humidity globose, green, apple-like fruit is dessert platter. It indigenous, but only will they provide you with of the island are no problem. In- put in curries, used to make pick- has been cultivated comes originally delectable fresh fruit, but will deed, this specimen was stand- les and chutneys, or used as a in China for four from tropical suffuse your garden with fra- ing up to the salt-laden sea winds, tangy additive to cooling drinks. thousand years, and America It can grance, and dispense oases of and had produced a number of But the tree requires moisture one variety is now Photo: Midori be pear-shaped, cooling shade. those deeply ridged fruits that – and shade. Moreover, with leaves grown commer- but more often Sadly, they are not readily bizarrely – remind me of a hand up to 25 inches in length and mas- cially in India. reminds one of a warty, green found as container plants in grenade. There are apparently at sive white, magnolia-like flowers, The smallish, oval drupe – apple.. Sometimes pinkish, one Phuket’s nurseries, but all of them least seven cultivars, some yel- it is more a specimen for the about four centimeters across variety, ‘Thai Maroon’, is deep will take from cuttings. And if you and green to pale yellow in color purple. Have you guessed? I can’t beg, borrow or steal a twig – has a crunchy, appley taste that speak of the guava [Psidium or two, you can surely be recalls a ‘Granny Smith’, hence guajava], also known as the tempted to buy the fruit and plant its local name of ‘Thai apple’. apple guava. the seeds. It is delectable in salads. The fruits are borne on a Only today, I put some Left to dry in the sun, the fruit relatively small tree, so it is worth jujube stones in a pot. February 13 - 19, 2010 PROPERTY LEGAL PHUKET GAZETTE 31

terest regarding things like lease renewal or the provision of pro- Ensuring long-term lease protection fessional project management. Therefore, anyone aquiring oreigners often buy prop- (indirect) interest in the Thai com- erty in Thailand under a pany controlling the development 30-year Land or Apart- is also leasing a specific property ment lease, which can be in same project, and vice versa. F This way, everybody is in extended for two additional 30- year periods. the same boat; they have the same This is an option widely interests from which each used by foreign property buyers individual leashold investor will because residential properties ultimately benefit. can only be registered with the Setting up a protected authorities for a maximum of 30 leasehold structure requires the years at a time. incorporation of well-thought- However, for each 30-year through corporate structure and lease extension, both the lessor a carefully drafted set of and lessee have to prepare a new agreements that comply with lease agreement and re-register applicable laws. the property in compliance with Once in place, a protected the laws and regulations appli- leasehold structure gives peace cable with the land department. of mind to prospective leasehold A property buyer may rec- buyers. ognize that the lease renewal op- Property buyers and their tions are based on a contractual advisors should diligently review agreement between the lessor the entire legal set up of such and lessee, so are therefore not projects, as well as checking all binding for any third party, such the legal documentation, to ensure as the parties’ beneficaries, or a the proposed structure fully com- plies with the applicable laws. new property owner if the lessor CHINA, HONG KONG : An estate agent gestures as he briefs a prospective foreign buyer (not pictured) into transfers or loses his or her title Thailand's lucrative housing market during the 2004 Phuket and Samui property exhibition in Hong Kong. to the property. According to the World Bank, the Thai economy is still performing robustly with estimated growth of 6.4 In such cases, the lessee percent this year, despite a marked slowdown since 2003. Photo: AFP / Laurent Fivet This article is written by could face serious difficulties International Law Office enforcing his right to renew the sees to acquire a contractual This protected leasehold development, including control of Patong Beach Co., Ltd., a lease when the initial lease terms lease right to a specific property, structure is particularly advanta- common properites and the Phuket-based law firm. For eventually expire. and to have an (indirect) interest geous to lease holders. renewal of the terms for en enquiries, please contact In order to provide addi- in the Thai company – from Lease holders of specific additional 30-year lease periods. Michael Greth, Consulant. tional protection, sophisticated which the leasehold investors properties, together with the other It is important that all the E: [email protected]. developers have implemented lease – that owns the project’s lessees in a project, are given a participants in a protected lease- T: 076-222 191-5). legal structures which allow les- land and structures. say in the management of the hold structure have the same in- 32 PHUKET GAZETTE CLASSIFIEDS February 13 - 19, 2010 Property Gazette

NAI YANG MODERN Properties VASSANA RESIDENCE CHEAP LAND VILLA For Sale 4.8 rai of land between the air- Top spec villa, 600m from beach. port and the Sarasin Bridge 210sqm, 2 bedrooms, 3 bath- near Mai Khao includes ac- rooms, pool, sala, big shade sail cess. Can be subdivided into 4 lookout, modern furniture. 10.2 KAMALA VILLAS plots. 6 million baht. Tel: 080- million baht. Tel: 084-653 5863. 521 5425 (English). Email: [email protected] PATONG HOUSES 5.9 million baht, seaview, 3 LAND ON COUNTRY story, 7 rooms, 3 bathrooms. CLUB New pool villa, 7.2 million baht. Near club house, 550sq wah. 13 6 rooms, 3 bathrooms, 3 million baht. Includes member- story. Tel: 087-053 6016. ship. Email: [email protected] for sale. A great investment opportunity, in quiet walled PRIME LAND FOR SALE WAS BT10.5M IN KATHU secure complex, all Euro- NOW BT8.5M pean standard. Excellent with in 2km of 3 golf Boat Lagoon Marina. Central is- courses, condition, in 1.3 rai, 20m land, house for sale, freehold title, pool. Live in paradise with a for sale. Rawai/Nai Harn, 5 rai, 50sq wah with Soi Kerny. 3 exclusive approx 200sqm. Built in German good income. 3 houses, 4 kitchen, jacuzzi, beautiful furniture Chanote title, beds, 1 bungalow, 2 beds and luxury apartments. Each GOLF VIEW LAND VERY NICE SEAVIEW apartment comprises 2 bed- (with or without). 50" flat, carport, near Central/Tesco 1 guardhouse, only 5 min- rare. Corner unit. From 31 Jan Lotus/Big C. FOR SALE LAND utes to beach. 25,000,000 rooms and 2 bathrooms, 2010. Tel: 085-258 3900. Emal: Perfect for private baht, from owner. Tel: 081- large Euro-style kitchen and [email protected] complex. 956 0527. living room, large balcony back and front with sweep- Only 5.5 million baht ing views over Rawai and per rai. 400SQM POOL HOUSE Andaman sea. Swimming LAND ON Tel: 081-854 0061 Rawai seaview, 12m x 4m pool pool and roof top whirlpool. COCONUT ISLAND (English), indoor area all as new for sale. 9.9 Price start at 8.5 million 087-395 7301 million baht. Tel: 084-843 3613. baht. Tel: 087-882 9604. same as Soi Villas Solitude, Email: [email protected] (English & Thai). 1,200 sqm with infrastruc- Na-Kok, Chalong. 8 rai land 4 RAI NAI HARN ture, overlooking golf course for sale, Chanote title. Can Chanote. 6 million baht by rai. in Kathu. 5,500,000 baht. buy separate. Price 7 million PATONG LUXURY baht per rai. Contact to see. No agents please. Tel: 089-594 SEAVIEW VILLA HOUSE FOR Tel: 089-724 7211 (English), 4017. Tel: 087-689 9679. Super sea view over Patong. SALE / RENT 080-522 4433 (Thai). Email: Ready to move in. 25 million [email protected] TWIN HOUSE WITH baht, freehold. Tel: 086-982 for sale. 120 rai, 420m BUSINESS 2888 (English & Thai). Fax: 02- beach front 670m along FREEHOLD PATONG 1.7 MILLION BAHT 2 houses with business. Area 960 7051. Email: prim_purdue island's main road. Ideal for Just finished, new apartments. CONDO totals 285 sqm. 5 years. @yahoo.com For further details, Marina resort. Tel: 081-825 Selling at good prices. Tel: 084- 4,950,000 baht. Tel: 076- please see our website at http:/ 9728, 081-370 6200. Email: 845 2170. 281196, 086-045 3139. Email: /awphuket.com [email protected] [email protected] PALM BREEZE RESORT Nai Harn penthouse for sale or APARTMENT, KARON HOUSE IN RAWAI for sale. Single-story house, rent 35,000 baht per month. 3-floor apartment in Karon Plaza NAI HARN LUXURY 155sqm living area, fully fur- Freehold. New, large, 2 bed- for sale. Fully furnished w/aircon. CONDO nished, 2 bedrooms with bath- rooms, 2 bathrooms, fully fur- 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms w/ hot room, 1 living room, kitchen, nished with 32 inch plasma water, kitchen, and large living Rawai beach. For sale, aricon, safe, bathroom with screen TV. Fitness center, spa, room. 2 balconies + terrace. The 54sqm, 150 meter from washing mashine, covered car gym, tennis court and putting apt also has a room for renting sea, financing 1 years. park and terrace, swimming green on site. Large swimming out. Pls contact at Tel: 076- Tel: 080-078 0931. Email: pool 4x8m, land area 640sqm. pool and slide. Only minutes 396693, 087-267 6830 (English), [email protected] Price for the house 5.2 million from some of the finest beaches 087-267 5957 (English & Thai). baht. Land lease for 96,000 and scenery to be found in Email: [email protected] baht per year. Long term lease 312sqm. 3 bedrooms, 2 bath- Phuket. 7.5 million baht. In- cludes one year's maintenance 17 RAI WITH PALM contract. Tel: 076-248100. rooms. Fully furnished, 24- TREES 30 RAI IN TOWN hour protection. 5 minutes to fee, sink fund, transfer fee, land Long lease. Near Dowrung At Kok Kien, Takuapa, 3 BEDROOMS HOUSE Chalong Bay, 10 minutes to office duty registration tax and School in Phuket Town. Tel: transfer costs. Ready to move Phang-Nga. 85,000 baht for sale. 62sq wah, 2 bath- Nai Harn Beach, 20 minutes 081-691 2526. in today. Tel: 087-882 9604. per rai. Contact Khun rooms, Villa Dawroong. 4.5 to Patong Beach and 15 min- utes to Phuket Town. Sale: Email: [email protected] Piek. Tel: 081-892 4094, million baht. Contact Khun Tar. 084-304 9339. GOOD FOR BED & Tel: 076-377052, 089-971 1268. 2-3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 6.5 million baht. Rent: BREAKFAST 111sqm. Start 4.5 million 45,000 baht per month. PRIVATE SALE OF baht. Must see. Tel: 084-993 Please contact Khun Sam. HALF A RAI ROYAL PLACE CONDO or big family. One project with NEW BRAND CONDO 7308. For further details, Tel: 085-110 6449 (English & in Ao Makham. Land is located 4 apartments, pool, fully deco- Mid Town, Royal Place Project. New 37sqm one bedroom please see our website at Thai). For further details, opposite Port of Phuket and condo for sale at Royal Place, rated, furnish incl. Thai com- Studio condo, fully furnished, rea- www.amphaiseabreeze.com please see our website at next to Bel Air Cape Panwa pany needs money now. 7.9 sonable price. Tel: 086-476- 9612. near the Tesco Lotus intersection http://ipdproperty.com/30- Resort. Price 4.2 million. Tel: on the Bypass Road. Comes million baht for 4 apartments. chalong-villa/30-chalong- 081-891 5932, 089-035 6702. Tel: 081-788 8280. fully furnished including all elec- villa.html trical appliances. Ready to move TOP SEAVIEW LOT in August. Complex has pool, HOUSE IN BANGJO 2 rai, Chanote, 6 million baht gym, restaurant etc. 1.85 million NEW HOUSE FOR per rai. Tel: 089-473 8338. baht. Tel: 083-982 3768. Email: SALE/RENT for sale. 2 bed, 2 bath, chanote, western kitchen, saloon, fully fur- Email: [email protected] [email protected] nished. Price 6 million baht. Con- tact Khun Lek. Tel: 089-5903665. LAYAN LAND SUPERB LOCATION SALE CHEAP CONDO IN NAI HARN PATONG Are you looking for the Modern studio apartment, fully perfect location in Nai furnished, beach 400m. 1.1 Harn? Excellent plot of million baht. Tel: 081-082 5707. Land - 1 rai - with house in In Srisuchart Grandville a safe soi. Only ten min- 3, not far from Tesco Lo- COMMERCIAL utes walking distance tus. 3 bedrooms 2 bath- BUILDINGS from Nai Harn Beach! Call rooms, 1 car park and for sale. Each building has 3 floors. for sale. 11 rai, flat land. 3 now. Tel: 081-892 1057(En- little garden. Very nice On big road at Kamala Beach, min from Layan beach, hill glish & Thai), 081-691 house contact to come near Krungsri Bank. Price 20 and lake view. Price 4.2 9679 (English & Thai). see at 087-277 0978 or million baht. Tel: 083-180 2143. million baht per rai. Tel: Email: service@phuket- [email protected] Email: [email protected] 089-813 1447. consult.com February 13 - 19, 2010 CLASSIFIEDS PHUKET GAZETTE 33 Property Gazette

CHEAP HOUSE BEACH LAND NEW DETACHED FOR SALE RAWAI VILLA LAND AND HOUSE IDEAL FAMILY HOME KHAO LAK 5 RAI HOUSE 1 story house on land. 1.5 rai, Beautiful 5 rai, Chanote title. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, fully Hard to find better than this, next furnished at T. Taimuang, to 5-star resort. 118m of beach Phang Nga 2.5 million baht. Tel: front, stunning property. Tel: 083-180 2143. Email: yaris. 081-649 3557 (English). Email: [email protected] [email protected] For further details, please see our PERFECT LAND website at http://www.phuket Nearly 2 rai at Bang Tao. Very Spacious in prime loca- Quick sale, 232sq wah, 25m. lifestyle.com for sale in Phanason 3, good location for business. 18 mil- tion. 3 ensuite bedrooms + attached to Chaofa West Thalang. 253.25sqm, 3 lion baht. No agents. Tel: 086-944 guesthouse, all AC, maid's Rd, near Wat Chalong, 3 QUICK SALE HOUSE IN bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2065, 087-689 9679. Email: room, private pool, in bedrooms, 3 toilets, 4 aircons, CHALONG double garage, furnished [email protected] 1,000sqm walled garden. 2 phones, ADSL, 1 temporary 94sq wah, 4 bedrooms, 3 bath- and landscaped garden. Part-furnished. Chanote. warehouse. Price 14 million rooms, 2 car park, big garden, 2.95 million baht. Con- LOVELY POOL VILLA 14.9 million baht. Tel: 087- baht (negotiable). Tel: 089- full furnished. Price 4.5 million tact Phing. Tel: 087-278- Big pool & garden. 3 bedrooms, 273 0141. Email: alangath 697 0928, 089-723 8209. Luxury 5+1 bedroom villa baht. Tel: 087-886 4208. 0067. Email: sweetpinky 4 baths, office. Quiet hillside @gmail.com conveniently located 800m @live.co.uk near beach. Freehold. Secure. HOUSE & FURNITURE from BIS and central to ma- QUICK SALE LAND Very nice. Tel: 076-388236, 089- FOR SALE rinas, shopping, golf, airport IN KAMALA 727 5407 (English). Email: HOUSE Single house, 60sqm. 2 floors, and beaches. 535sqm of Bang Wan Rd. 1.03 rai, 1,630 [email protected] CHALONG HOUSE RAWAI/NAI HARN 3 bedrooms and 3 toilets. In practical, contemporary liv- sqm. Contact. Tel: 082-420 For further details, please see Chaiyapruek Village at Land & ing with indoor or outdoor 6900, 084-304 5841. our website at http://www.villa- House, Chalong. Good location entertaining, excellent sale-phuket.com and entrance from By-Pass bathrooms (Jaccuzi) and road. Built 2 years ago. Tel: 084- spacious bedrooms. Func- HOT DEAL LAYAN CHEAP LAND FOR SALE 627 7001. tional kitchen with open- plan dining. Safe and se- Close to Phuket International LAND FOR SALE cure estate. Perfect for a Airport. 4 rai, Chanote title. 3.8 young family. Excellent million baht per rai. Tel: 081-868 near the main road to Baan Don - Cherng Talay. 68sq wah. rental return for investors. 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 7676. Email: phuketann@ for sale or rent 35,000 1.1 million baht. Tel: 089-472 Sale price 19.5 million baht. large room wall, gated, se- gmail.com. baht per month. 3-bed- 9118. Email: honda.1437@ Tel: 084-442 1580. Email: cluded, very nice. 5.5 million room house with 2 bath- yahoo.co.th [email protected] baht. Possible long-term rooms, 9x4m swimming rent 18,000 baht. Tel: 081- FOR SALE pool, 2 car parking spaces Land 3 plots, Chanote of 3/ and aircon. In Rawai/Nai 2 GOOD INVESTMENTS 4 of rai each, sale by lot or full 537 1173 (Thai), USA 503- HOUSE IN KAMALA 697 8528, 971-533-0654. Harn, just minutes from 2 houses, furnised. Panoramic plot, road, electric, water, the finest beaches and for sale. 2 houses on land. 2 Kata. Land at Banpara Pakhlok lake view. Start at 4,500 baht scenery to be found in ngan, 3 bedrooms, 2 bath- on main road, 2,532sqm. Call per sqm. BEST DEAL IN KATA Phuket. 10.5 million baht. rooms, fully furnished, Nor for more information at Tel: 081- Land 19 rai, Chanote, lake 1 bedrooms condo, sale/rent, Tel: 087-882 9604. Email: Sor Sam Kor title, good loca- 367 0991. view, road, electric. Under 100m. from beach. 2,500,000 [email protected] tion, 5km from the beach. priced at 5.5 million baht per baht or 20,000 baht per month. Price: 10 million baht. Direct rai. Tel: 081-787 4383. Email: Tel: 086-025 8276. Email: HOUSE FOR SALE - from owner.Tel: 083-180 [email protected] [email protected] LAND AT 2143. Email: yaris.vios@ KATHU Patong Towers – Rare CHERNG TALAY 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom, 2 opportunity; gmail.com 390sqw, nice flat land, quiet area, storeys. 10 mins fm Patong. SHOPHOUSE - Patong Towers - We chanote. In Pasak Soi 5 near 4,900,000 baht. Tel: 087-278 YANUI PARADISE CHALONG have several superb, 6439 (English & Thai). Email: Laguna Home. Price: 6 million LARGE FAMILY HOME BEACH 12 months old, 3 storey, 3 bed- upper-floor 2,3 and 4 baht. Tel: 089-472 9118, 086-709- [email protected] room, 2.5 bath, 1 km south of bedroom apartments 2933. Circle. Full kitchen, 1 air con, hot for sale with spectacu- water, all-glass front door, office lar ocean and moun- CONDO FOR SALE MANEKRAM 161SQ WAH Furnished, pool and spa. 750,000 furniture, beds, very clean. Rent tain views. Freehold Corner block to the rear of the baht. Tel: 089-966 0568. Email: 28,000 per month. Valued at 3.7 and Leasehold. estate. 19,000 baht per wah. [email protected] million, you pay 3.6 million baht in- Starting at just THB 12 Email: [email protected] cluding additions. Bargain! Tel: million. 086-476 2093. Tel:+66(0)76 279280 ; THE ROYAL PLACE +66(0)81 539 8118 or KATA BEACH Lovely, bright, fully furnished/ LAND AT PA KHLOK Email: 4th floor unit with 2 balco- nice, one bedroom apartment air conditioned house. 2m- nies. Approx area: 42sqm. 1 rai, 18sq wah, Nor Sor 3 martin.phillips@phillips- incl furnishing, air, pool. Spe- walled garden, electric gate, Kor, Tha-Rue - Pa Khlok - Fully furnished, ready to property.com cial price now 2.9 million baht, alarm system. Set on 1 rai move in. Please email: Muang Mai Road. Near Mis- www.phillips- financing available. Tel: 081- in sought-after area near La- sion Hill. Price 3.5 million baht. info@allaboutweband property.com 788 8280. guna. Just a few minutes design.com Tel: 089-472 9118. walk to beach and shops. Apartments for sale. Prices 320 sqm living area, 3 en- from 2.75 million baht. suite double bedrooms, FREEHOLD Close to Yanui beach and guest suite, very spacious APARTMENT CHALONG Rawai beach. Tel: 087-884 4663 (English), 089-292 lounges, large dining area, Mountain view apartment, 2 9416 (German). office/gym, all with solid bedrooms, living room, 3 air wood floors. Laundry/maid con. Big common pool. Se- room. New solid wood cured area. Tel: 076-226492, PATONG DELUXE kitchen with built-in appli- 084-541 5225 (English & Thai), CONDO ances. Private and safe for 081-481 1290 (Thai). Email: Beautiful, modern, quiet, 61sqm, children/animals. 5.5x12m [email protected] city/sea view, furnished, parking. pool, large sala, built in 4,275.000 baht. Tel.081-309 9154. stone barbecue, shower Email: [email protected] and store. 8 million baht NAI YANG cheaper than local equiva- MODERN VILLA lent houses to ensure quick Top spec villa, 600m from beach. SALE HOUSE KATHU sale. 19,500,000 baht. Tel: 210sqm, 2 bedrooms, 3 bath- 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 081-956 0527. Email: rooms, pool, sala, big shade sail swimming pool, 73sq wah. [email protected] lookout, modern furniture. 10.2 Please contact for more de- million baht. Tel: 084-653 5863. tails. Tel: 089-908 4873. Looking for land to buy? See more classified ads at www.phuketgazette.net 34 PHUKET GAZETTE CLASSIFIEDS February 13 - 19, 2010 Property Gazette

VILLA FOR SALE MUST SELL NOW 2-STOREY HOUSE 1.7 MILLION NEAR LAGUNA beautiful villa Kata Beverly Hills. IN PATONG TWIN HOUSE 3 bedroom/bath, big pool with jacuzzi, garden, includes fur- nishing. From 20 million baht, now 17 million baht. Tel: 081- 788 8280.

4/5-BDR HOUSE PATONG 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. 1-year-old, nice view over sea & for sale. Heroines' Monu- Open-plan kitchen, living town, 4/5 bedrooms, office, 3/4 ment. 2 bedrooms, 2 bath- room. The villa is fully bathrooms/ensuite + 1 toilet, 5 Air rooms. 4 bedrooms, 4 airconditioned and fur- con units & fans. Laundry, Euro- bathrooms at 3.3 million nished. Built on 360sqm, pean-timber kitchen, large bal- baht. Call Jane. Tel: 089- 176sqm living area, with a cony. Quiet area, 2 levels + flat 729 8009. beautiful garden. The loca- top (135sqm) for outdoor enter- tion is only 10 minutes to taining. Ready for Jacuzzi & gar- VILLA FOR SALE Bang Tao beach and 5 min- den. 1 car + motorbikes space 5 bedrooms, 5 bathroms, utes to Laguna. Price 5.5 underneath. Possible to sepa- fully furnished. Tel: 081-895 million baht. Tel: 089-813 rate into two living spaces with 7310. See at www.horizon 1447. Email: kwanphuket@ own entrance. 12,500,000 baht residenceandspa.com hotmail.com neg. Tel: 081-273 1326. Email: [email protected] sea view. Hasip Pee Road, NEW ON THE MARKET! MARINA VILLA, 14 MB! 49sqw. 4 bedrooms with bal- 3 lots, approx 1 rai each. Bang New Pool Villa in Boat Lagoon. SALE HOUSE KATHU conies, 2 bathroom, air-con, Pae waterfall area, east side. 14 million baht. Tel: 076-238948, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, fully furnished. Chanote. Beautiful views, privated road. 081-968 9046 (English & Thai), swimming pool, 73sq wah. Price 17 million baht ono. Must see to appreciate. 2.75 081-353 9730 (English & Thai). Please contact for more de- Tel: 087-270 9093. Email: million baht per lot. Finance Fax: 076-273466. Email: pen tails. Tel: 089-908 4873. [email protected] possible. Call Chris. Tel: 086- @phuketpropertytrip.com For 942 1930. further details, please see our website at http://www.phuket BEAUTIFUL PARICHART NAI YANG LAND 4-BEDROOM boatlagoon.com VILLAGE, CHALONG 3-BATHROOM HOUSE Rawai. 2 floors, aircons, hill 2 HOUSES IN PATONG 5-BEDROOM BEACH LAND views, cul-de-sac. Tel: 081-270 POOL VILLA KOH YAO YAI 6310. Email: jackiebeyers@ 8 rai beach land, public road & hotmail.com water 80m long white sand beach, no rocks, include shop house, Beautiful view Beautiful SURIN BEACH land. Tel: 081-649 3557. Email: Land on Soi Haad Surin 2 [email protected] For 9.5 rai, beachfront. 5 min- 35/20 Soi 1. 3 bedrooms, 2 for sale. 2.2 Rai, 5 min walk further details, please see our utes to Phuket airport. Ask- bathrooms, 2 aircons, to Surin Beach. Email: for sale. Live in 1 and rent the website at http://www.phuket ing price: 120 million baht. some furniture, 50sq wah, [email protected] other or sold separately. 5.1 Rawai beach. Land and lifestyle.com Chanote. Must see. No garden. For sale or for long- million baht each, fully fur- house for sale. 6.5 million agents. Please contact via term rent. Must see. Con- nished, well kept, 2 bed- baht. Credit lease 360,000 by email: allservices29@ tact Nina. Tel: 087-689- BEAUTIFUL HOUSE, rooms, 3 bathrooms, West- per year. Tel: 086-940 8914. NEW TOWN HOUSE gmail.com 9679. Email: tasuwan@ FULLY FURNISHED ern kitchen, phone line and Email: [email protected] hotmail.com ADSL. Center of Patong, 2 BEACHFRONT CONDO minutes to Jungceylon. SUPERIOR SHOPHOUSE Contact owner at Tel: 087- North Patong. 2 bedrooms, 4-story house for dwelling and LAND AND HOUSE, 279 3312. freehold, great seaview. 9.7 RAWAI business is for quick sale. Ex- million baht. For pics, please for sale. 1, 300sqm, 4 bedrooms, traordinary fixtures and fittings. contact Tel: 086-276 5117. 3 bathrooms, internet, tel, cable Sensational price. Tel: 087-518 Email: [email protected] NEW HOUSE IN 8837 (English & Thai). Email: TV, UBC, wastewater treatment, THE BANYAN VILLA no external gate remote, garden [email protected] in Phuket Inter villa project for PAKLOK HOUSE SALE springer, garden light. Price 12 Ready to move in, 254 sqm. sale. 2.3 million baht. 36.5sq Further reduced to sell semi- million baht includes furniture, us- 2 floors. Near Downrung KRABI, AO-NANG wah. 3 bedrooms, 2 bath- detatched, 2 bedrooms, 2 ing house more than 770sqm. Big school, Laemchan area, POOL VILLAS rooms, includes furniture, cur- bathrooms, carport, quiet, se- garden and house. Soi Kok close to Phuket Town, nice Land area 320 sqm., 2 bedrooms. tains, kitchen, 1 aircondioning cure soi. 1.9 million baht Yang, Rawai, Phuket, next to Two living room and garden, 4 6-7 million baht. Second home unit, common pool access. only!!! Tel: 086-905 1406. Villas. Tel: 082-275 1445. bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, fully with strong rental income. Tel: Tel: 089-873 1009 (English), Email: [email protected] furnished, 2 car parks, very 087-897 7380. Email: mraxelmay 081-893 8524. 2.4 MILLION BAHT HOME nice and quiet area. Price: @gmail.com POOLSIDE APARTMENT 6.8 million baht. Tel: 081-541 for sale. 3.4 million baht, Khok Kloy town, Phang Nga. 4 . Large 85 sqm. open plan, one- years old. 118sqm home on 2025. near Land and Houses PATONG CONDO HOUSE IN ANUPHAS bedroom furnished apartment with Park. 29.5sq wah, 2 bed- 1.9 million baht, new decor, GOLF VILLA 904sqm plot. 3 bedrooms, 1 bath- pool and secure undercover park- rooms, lounge, big kitchen, rooms, 3 bathrooms, hill pool, 3 min walk to Junceylon, for sale. Kathu, ing. Very quiet and natural location aircon, phone line, 2 car covered HEAVEN ON EARTH view, common pool, club 5 min to beach. Tel: 086-272 3 bedrooms, maid in the hills at the north end of parking. Chanote. Tel: 081-728 house. Tel: 089-873 1009 6755. room, aircon, small Patong Beach. 5 mins to beach. 4821. (English), 081-893 8524. swimming pool, Contact Andy at Tel: 081-891 Chanote title. 3466 (English). Fax: 076-296160. SHOPHOUSE OXYGEN SPECIAL 8 million baht. Email: [email protected] MASSAGE SHOP IN OFFER PATONG 12 mos old, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 Tel: 081-854 0061 Good location, cheap rent. 4 beds baths, kitchen, 1 aircon unit, (English), furniture. Rent: 24,000 baht per LAND AT PA KHLOK and 2 chairs for foot massage. 087-395 7301 Contact Khun Aoy. Tel: 082-288 month. 3.8 million baht, pay 3.6 million. A bargain! Tel: 080- (English & Thai). 2362 (English & Thai), 086-745 5 bedroom Thai style villa 522 3357 (English), 086-476 8876 (English & Thai). Email: in Phuket. Magnificant 2093 (English & Thai). Email: [email protected] Phang-Nga Bay sea view. [email protected] LAND PATONG 3 big bedrooms are en- HASSPI ROAD suite with seaview. Private for sale. Prime location over- PRIME PLOT 48 RAI KHAO LAK / READY TO BUILD swimming pool. Land plot 3 bedroom duplex condo, looking Patong bay with stun- BANG SAK 280 sqm, w/private pool. Bangtao plot of 900sqm within 730.8 sqm. construction ning sea view, located right 250m from the beach. Chanote, Only 12.9 million baht. 5 gated area. Ready to build on. area approx. 573 sqm. above Jungceylon. Nor Sor Nor Sor 3. Only 1.7 million baht. mins walk to the beach. Tel: 49 rai, nice flat land. Chanote, Water, electricity, concrete Full security service. Lo- Sam Kor, land title, 2880 sqm. Call or mail for further info. Tel: 080- 081-970 0742 (English & 2.5km from Heroines’ Monu- road. 4.5 million baht. Serious cated at Rommai Chailay or 1.8 rai. Asking price 22 mil- 522 4089 (English), 081-397 Thai). Email: oxygen_bt@ ment. 1.7 million baht per rai. inquiries please email: pg1kl Estate. 24.9 million baht. lion baht. Contact Stig. Tel: 084- Tel: 083-180 2143. Tel: 089-474 2234. 4957 (Thai). Email: kamala@ twovillas.com 847 4377. @hotmail.com phuket.ksc.co.th February 13 - 19, 2010 CLASSIFIEDS PHUKET GAZETTE 35 Property Gazette

PATONG NEW SHOP BEAUTIFUL LUXURY HOUSE IN CHALONG KAMALA BEACH Properties New Shop in Patong. High vis- VILLAS HOUSE IN KATHU near Palai beach. 3 bedroom, My family and I (wife and 2 For Rent ibility, traffic flow, good parking. with private pool, 3 to 4 bed- FOR RENT 2 bathroom, aircon, furnished, sons, 16 and 13) will move to No Key Money. Contact us, as rooms, fully furnished. For rent 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. cable TV, ADSL, long term. Tel: Kamala this year (2010) and above, for further info. Tel: 082- or sale. Tel: 087-893 8747. Fully furnished with parking 086-944 4885. are looking for a house to rent 814 0048 (English), 083-393 lot. Built in BBQ in the gar- for approx 10 months, from 35,000 BAHT PER 9533 (Thai). Email: blarkan@ den. Cable TV, UBC, internet. FURNISHED VILLA August to May 2011. We need MONTH live.co.uk PHUKET VILLA 23,000 baht per month. 1 bedroom, UBC, ADSL, bath- 3 bedrooms, ADSL, swimming DAORUNG Please contact for more in- room/ shower, kitchen. Near pool (private or community), FRONT BEACH HOUSE formation. Tel: 081-432 6587. Villa 3, 7/Eleven and Tesco and Western / European-style 2-story shophouse for rent in Lotus, aircons. 15,000 baht per kitchen. Must be fully fur- Kalim. Ideal place for any busi- month. Contact Sunny or Ke. nished. Please revert with pro- ness. Tel: 083-107 0151 (Thai). PATONG TOWER Tel: 081-416 9317. Email: posal, photos and approx Email: [email protected] Modern 1 bedroom condo for [email protected] price. Tel: +46-31-799 5902, (English). long-term rent on beach road. 082-211 6501 (English). Email: Tel: 084-8473 304. See www. PROPERTY IN SURIN [email protected] selectphuket.com Rawai beach. 5-bedroom PATONG LUXURY FOR RENT pool villa, long-term lease, APARTMENT Two apartments in Surin: a 50 House for rent, 55sq wah, 2 HOUSE RENT/SALE FULLY FURNISHED furnished, cable TV, WiFi. 2 bedrooms, ADSL, large bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, sqm with 1 bedroom and a 92 HOUSE Tel: 086-940 8914. Email: swimming pool 2 levels Pakhlok, 3 bedroom, 2 bath- sqm with 2 bedrooms. Tel: no phone line, unfurnished. room. 18,000 baht per month, 2 bedrooms, 2 aircon, hot [email protected] 200sqm. Long or short term. 15,000 baht per month. Tel: +46-8-4081 8820, +46-76-192 Tel: 086-279 0837. Email: brico furnished. Contact for more 8893 (English), +46-70-732 shower, free internet, cable 087-270 9093. details.Tel: 089-473 8338. TV. 12,000 baht per month. SHOPHOUSE [email protected] 7657 (English). Contact for Email: [email protected] more details. Email: mats Near Chalong Bay. Tel: 081- FOR RENT 892 4311. CHALONG NEW HOME PATONG: 3 BED [email protected] Long-term, located near Tesco THAI VILLA 2-bedroom home with tele- Lotus. 2 bedrooms, 2 bath- Hilside location, stunning bay THE HERITAGE phone, aircon and cable TV. HOUSE 2 BED, 2 BATH rooms, AC, kitchen. Contact views. Gated. Tropical Gar- HOUSE BEACHFRONT HOUSE Tel: 089-652 1473 (English). cable TV, internet, hot water, Bee. Tel: 081-895 1581. dens. 5 mins from Patong cen- FOR RENT For more details please con- furnished. On Chalong bay, tre to Karon. 3 beds, 4 baths, Small house located on beach tact email: anandaestates@ 1km from pier, security. Con- STUDIO W/ POOL, elevated open lounge, kitchen, of Siray Island, 10 minutes to yahoo.com tact Dave. Contact for more KAMALA TV/DVD, WiFi, large terraces, Phuket Town. 2 bedrooms, 3 details. Tel: 089-591 8510. 45 sqm, kitchen, swimming swimming pool, 4-seater baths, aircon, partly furnished, pool, available from 1 April. Tel: Jacuzzi. Tel: 086-267 2646. very good view. For further de- SEA-VIEW CONDO FOR RENT AND SALE tails, please see our website 085-158 7638. Email: pierre@ IN TOWN Email: [email protected] husiphuket.se Please see www.phuketpropertyrentals.com 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, at: Tel: 081-535 1269 (English www.husiphuket.se brand new house, fully fur- & Thai). Email: sutide@ sino for rent. 3 bedroom, 4 bath- nished in Patong. Rent 30,000 house phuket.com or www. NEW HOUSE W/ POOL room, 1 maid room, big PEACEFUL 3 B/R ACCESS baht per month. Sale 3.9 million phuketrentalhouse.com/ garden, fully furnished. Pri- baht. Contact for more details. hideawaybeachhouse.html HOUSE Newly furnished, 2 bedrooms, vate and nice, secure. Near Tel: 086-478 0201. Fully air conditioned, well looked A/C, cable TV, WiFi, pool. Tesco Lotus. 50,000 baht 3 BEDROOMS HOUSE after, Western kitchen, 4-5 km 15,000 baht per month. Call or per month. Tel: 081-737 from monument, quiet area and mail for details. Tel: 089-475 KATA SEAVIEW SINGLE Land&house, Chalong, fully 7743. Email: arampan HOUSE furnished, internet, Cable, 2 TV, mixed Western/Thai secured 1200 (English & Thai). Fax @rigira.net estate. Contact for photos, etc. for rent. 45sqm in The 076-286501. Email: info@ Two story, best seaview from washing machine, kitchen. bed. Fully-furnished, 2 bed- Short/long-term 17,000 baht Long term lease of 1 year for Holme Place Condo- welcome-inn.com For further rooms, 2 baths, living room, per month. For more details. 16,000 baht per month up front minium, Khao Lang. Fully details, please see our website 5 BED VILLA kitchen, internet and cable TV. Tel: 086-478 0201. (192,000 baht) plus 2 months' furnished, special price: at http://welcome-inn.com Large seaview villa just 2 minute Personal sun bathing area on security bond, plus extra for 14,000 baht per month. walk from Bang Tao/Layan top. 18,000 baht per month. Tel: garden/common area charges Tel: 081-569 9483. B.L. APARTMENT Beach. Large garden, pool and RAWAI TOWNHOUSE 085-245 1155. Email: nij017@ of 1,000 baht per month, so will New in Kathu. Big rooms, 1 fully furnished accommodation. for rent. 2 bedrooms, 2 bath- hotmail.com be 12,000 baht on top of the bedroom, 1 living room, aircon, In a secure gated estate. Avail- rooms, for rent, private street, PATONG -2 BED able 1/3/2010 for long term rent. only 40m. from beach, fully yearly rental rate. Tel: +61-4- APARTMENT cable TV, ADSL, hot shower, 144 7326 (English & Thai). garden, car park. 8,000 baht Tel: 089-871 1963. For further de- BEAUTIFUL LUXURY equipped, great decor, ADSL, Hillside location with stunning tails, please see our website at VILLAS Cable TV. etc. 15,000 baht per Email: micsta75@hotmail. bay views, Gated, Tropical Gar- per month. Tel: 081-6923 163. picasaweb.google.com/ with private pool, 3 to 4 bed- month, long-term. Tel: 089-731 com dens, 5 mins to Patong center. 2 tawanproperties/ rooms, fully furnished. For rent 7699. Email: nengrich@ gmail. Bedrooms, 3 Baths, a/c, KATA SEAVIEW MaanTawanVilla2Resales# or sale. Tel: 087-893 8747. com 5 BEDROOMS LUXURY Lounge, Kitchen, TV/DVD, WiFi, APARTMENT VILLA Pool. Available for short or long long term rent, 106sqm, 2 bed- Rawai with private garden, term rental at an excellent price. rooms, 2 bathrooms, fully fur- swimming pool, ADSL. Long or Tel: 086-267 2646 (English). nished 01/03/10, cable TV, Classified Advertisements short term rental. Tel: 086-279 Email: [email protected] aircon, quiet. 30,000 baht per 0837. Contact for more details For further details, please see month. Tel: 089-288 0931. Please use this form to write your classified advertisement. at email: bricothailand2@ our website at www.phuket Email: philippemuller@hot- hotmail.com holidayrentals.com mail.com Then hand it to any of our agents.

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PENTHOUSE KATHU RENTAL AVAILABLE ANDAMAN ESTIMATE Property Accommodation GOLF New apartments varying from 50 SERVICES Household Services Available 135 sqm, 1 bedroom, 2 baths, to 160 sqm available for rent with 1. Full building design Items big living room, western kitchen, 1 to 2 bedrooms and a big living 2.Estimate budget and terrace, quiet, nice view, partially area. Fully furnished with swim- BOQ. PHUKET REAL ESTATE APT PATONG 1 BR furnished. 25,000 baht per ming pool & gym. 700 meter walk 3. Make BOQ to secure bank BATH AND TAPS FOR DOT COM New, fully furnished, cableTV, month, long term only. Tel: 076- to Patong Beach. Tel: 076- loans SALE Tel: 083-201 4621. Email: A/C, hws, balcony. From 293149, 081-824 1385. 294393, 087-895 0555. Email: Cream colour quality bath tub - [email protected] 12,000 baht per month + Fax: 076-293149. Email: [email protected] 4. Draw building structure 180cm x 90cm. Good condi- Please go to visit our website: utilities long term. Tel: 082- [email protected] 5. Draw house renovations tion. Modena tap system. Good http://phuketrealestate.com 814 0048 (English), 083- 6. Fix home building service condition. Selling due to new 393 9533 (Thai). Email: PATONG BEACH 800 BAHT Tel: 089-651 3093. Email: bath purchase. Worth 30,000 [email protected] SEA VIEW CONDO PER DAY [email protected] baht new. Selling for 7,500. Tel: Property Corner, 125 sqm, 2 bed- 081-894 4582. Or send email: Wanted BANGKOK NEW rooms, 2 baths, living room, [email protected] GUESTHOUSE Western kitchen, terrace, KNOCK DOWN TEAK Upmarket. Promotion rate: 799 panoramic view from 11th floor, HOUSE SALE WASHING MACHINE APT: MAX 3M BAHT baht. For further information, pool, car park. Freehold. Tel: 3-week-old Samsung wash- Are there any apartments out please see website at the link 076-293149, 081-824 1385. ing machine. Hot wash, there for sale at a max of 3 mil- below. Tel: 02-2599 884. Email: Email: [email protected] 6.0kg. Worth 16,000 baht; lion baht? Should be in south- [email protected] will accept 7,000. Tel: 086- ern part of Phuket. Email: 280 1977 (English). Email: Please visit our website: http:/ KATHU GOLF APT Rawai beach, room+motobike. [email protected] suzanne_mcconnell@hotmail. /www.mhc-guesthouse.com 62 sqm, 1 bed, 1 bath, living Low rate for a month, fully com room, Western kitchen, bal- equipped, WiFi, safe, night life. LAND FOR HORSES cony, nice and quiet. Long Tel: 086-940 8914. Email: Seeking land with home and SUDIO W/ POOL, term only. 11,000 baht. Tel: [email protected] 29 & 21" TV REAR suitable for horses. Home KAMALA 076-293149, 081-824 1385 PROJECTION could be any size or style. (English). Fax: 076-293149. – Samsung 29" TV: 3,000 Need 2 rai or more. Could be Email: [email protected] NEW CONDO baht anywhere, but must be Kalama Trees residence. 1 bed- – Samsung 21" TV: 1,500 drained and must be QUIET. room, new furniture, sa tellite TV, KARON BEACH baht. Must be on Phuket and have internet access, swimming pool Both have remotes and work water and electricity. Will pay APARTMENT and other facilities. Short term 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, fur- perfectly. They are a little up to 35,000 baht per month rent at 10,000 baht per week. over 2 years old. Silver colour. on a 3-10 year lease. Tel: 084- nished, spectacular ocean, Long term at 22,000 per month. valley view. Only $150 per night. Tel: 084-653 5863. Email: 842 4581 (English). Email: Tel: +44-773-049 6090. Email: [email protected] [email protected] 45 sqm, kitchen, swimming Suits couples or families. Tel: [email protected] pool, available from 1 April. Tel: 087-881 7600. 085-158 7638 (English). HOUSEHOLD ITEM WANTED - KATA Email: [email protected] RAWAI LUXURY SALE GUESTHOUSE GUESTHOUSE AT CONDO For further details, please see CHALONG pool chair teak, comfort chair, set I'm looking to purchase an ex- our website at http://: bedroom, living room, kitchen, sofa bamboo, many items call for isting guesthouse in Kata with aircondition, hot water, Cable design furniture. Walking dis- www.husiphuket.se TV, free internet, ADSL, new details. Tel: 081-367 0991. lease and any other perks soon. tance to shop and sea, internet, 1-4 million baht of high quality, building. Price 5,000 per Ideal size would be 10-20 rooms cable, plasma TV, has every- plantation teak. Processed month or 400 baht per day. MOVING SALE with bar/restaurant. Email: thing. Rent 12,000 baht per from sawmill factory. Suitable EDEN RESORT IN Please contact for more in- Household & kitchen Items, [email protected] month. Tel: 083-642 8798. for small to medium size KARON formation. Tel: 085-888 5144. 2 big jars, big TV, big fridge Sale or Rent. 1 bedroom with project, or private villas and PATONG LUXURY APT for sale. Moving back home. VILLA / APT separate kitchen and dining spas. 90 days completion. Tel: 076-319058. Email: Center Patong, 1 and 2 bed- Looking to purchase a 2/3 bed room, fully furnished, ADSL PATONG BEACH Contact Ms Harris. Tel: 081- [email protected] apartment or villa in or close to and satellite TV. Stunning sea SEA VIEW CONDO rooms. Tel: 076-341827 or email 937- 7219. Laguna/Surin. Need to take views and large swimming Corner, 125 sqm, 2 bed- for info and photos. Email: ownership no later than mid- pool with access to gymna- rooms, 2 baths, living room, suites247@yahoo. com Household May. Would prefer Laguna re- sium. Sale 6.5 million baht or Western kitchen, terrace, Holiday sale but all others considered. rent for 30,000 baht per panoramic view from 11th floor, Services Budget 15.5 million baht. Tel: month. Small complex with pool, car park. Freehold. Tel: Building Homes & Villa +44-633-8542 0001. Email: big views. Tel: 087-882 9604. 076-293149, 081-824 1385. Products Rentals [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] & Services CONSTRUCTION SERVICE Construction, supervision + Classified Advertisements SUDIO W/ POOL, management, design and INTERIOR KAMALA build new villas or renovate Please use this form to write your classified advertisement. FINISHING WORK your existing villa. Contact 2 Then hand it to any of our agents. home. Tel: Tel: 081-255 7003. Email: [email protected]

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YACHT SUPPLY SELLING FISHING ONLINE BOAT Marine Equipment - reputable for supplying items mostly required by yachts nowadays, e.g., Solar Panels, Batteries, Dinghies, LED Bulbs, etc. For further details. Tel: +60-12-932 0592. Email: nadegeannaert - 8 years old 2003@ yahoo.fr Please see our web site at www. - 18m x 4.5m SELLING YOUR BOAT? HOBIE CAT 16 marinequipment.comm - Hino diesel engine ek100 FISHING SPEED SUNSEEKER The "No sale No fee" brothers. FOR SALE with 315hp BOAT MANHATTAN 58 Call Alan on Tel: 084-842 6146. Hobie Cat 16 in very good con- - All wood recently refin- Please see our web site at dition for sale. Only 139, 000 FORMOSA 51 1976 ished Classic ketch. Own this cruis- www.boatshedphuket.com baht. Tel: 089-932 5175. Email: - Ready to use [email protected] ing legend for only 99,995 pounds. Tel: 084-842 6146.For - 2.2 million baht KELSALL 55', 1983 further details, please see our Tel: 083-042 7537 (English Great charter catamaran re- 5.5M SPEED BOAT website at http://www.boat & Thai). Or email: jirawat@ duced to Euro 169,000. For FOR SALE shedphuket.com thesun-group.com further details. www.boatshed 7 seats speed boat with brand phuket.com new seats. 85hp Yamaha en- 28.5 feet, 2 out boat en- One-day tour 110,000+ gine. 550,000 THB (including VOYAGE 380, 2002 LANDFALL 39,1982 gines, 4 stroke Susuki 45 baht. Price include captain, JEANNEAU 35, 2003 trailor). Tel: 076-282782, 081- fully equipped sailing cat. 8 Sturdy cruising yacht Thai berths $199,950. See our web knots, 2x225hp, new cover, crew, cook, snorkeling & 3 double cabins. 27Hp Yamar 892 4778. Fax 076-282826. commercial registraion. Price site at www.boatshedphuket. 2 GPS, fishfinder out & fishing eqipment. Tel: 076- spinnaker. Only $79,950. For Email: nadeg eannaert2003@ $67,950. Tel: 084-8426146. com down rigger, radio, CD, all 238976, 02-814 4070 # 156. further details. www.boatshed yahoo.fr www.boatshedphuket.com completely for fishing Thai Email: [email protected] phuket.com registerd and good trailer (4 www.sunnav.com SEA KAYAK 2 SEATER TRADITIONAL “BEDAR” 55 FOOT CRUISING wheels). Contact Khun WINDSURFING BOARD Cost 28,000 baht new, asking Junk rigged schooner regis- CATAMARAN Lek. Tel: 080-040 8038 (En- price 12,000 baht for quick sale. tered for 15+3 offers over 1.5 6 double cabins, 105sqm, sail FORMOSA 51, 1976 WITH SAIL glish & Thai). Windsurfing board with sail for Contact Steve. For more de- million baht. www.boatshed area. 38,000 Euro. Tel: 087- Reduced to 85,000 pound. For tails, Tel: 084-845 1200. phuket.com 461 8089. further details www.boatshed sale. Only 15,000 Baht!! Tel: phuket.com 089-932 5175. Email: wojidkow NEW 9 RXT-IS 255HP [email protected] SPECIAL Brand new 2009 RXT-IS 255hp BOAT FOR SALE Classified Advertisements (last unit). 70 mph! Special 35 Feet, Thai reg. Fish or fun KAYAK FOR SALE price: only 565,000 baht. Tel: 115hp. Isuzu 4cyl, diesel twin, New feelfree atlantis 14 cockpit Please use this form to write your classified advertisement. 081-754 7599. Email: csutivas disk 2 : 1 marine trans. 450,000 cover. 25,000 baht. 9am.-5pm. Then hand it to any of our agents. @hotmail.com baht. Tel: 085-069 9800. Tel: 089-591 9804. |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| (heading)

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MAID / NANNY ASSISTANT MANAGER NATIVE ENGLISH SALE STAFF WANTED Live-in for family of 3 in Rawai. and Receptionist in Phuket. SPEAKER Full- or part-time. Thai national- Thai female, 7,500 baht plus - Thai female To live and work abroad as a ity with English speaking social security. Room, food, - 25-30 years old financial advisor. Attractive skills. Tel: 081-537 6866. motorbike provided. Must conditions, airfares paid, rent, speak Engish. For futher de- - Bachelor's degree plus bonuses, etc. Tel: 085- tails please send email to: - Good English skills 114 4762 (English). Email: WEDDING PLANNING [email protected] Please submit resume, photo [email protected] MANAGER AND STAFF and expected salary. 1. Wedding Planner/Manager OFFICE STAFF WANTED Tel: 076-249657-8. Email: 2. Dress Shop Staff English speaking and computer. [email protected] HOTEL RECEPTIONIST A Japanese wedding company For futher details please contact is seeking enthusiastic persons at tel: 076-345081, 087-888 4770. JOB AT INTERNATIONAL Hotel in Patong wants male aged 25-35 years old, Thai na- PRESCHOOL receptionist with good spoken tional. and written English and abil- NURSE NEEDED 1. Music Teacher. 1. Excellent written and verbal ity to use basic hotel booking Full time nurse required. Thai 2. Sales and Administrative Officer. English and good computer system. Tel: 076-296654. National only. Care for 89-year- skills. Previous experience in Please send your CV to: Email: [email protected] old English woman in Kamala. [email protected] wedding/hotel industry would Room available. Please call for be an advantage. more information. Tel: 080-699 Tel: 02-391 0107. Fax: 02-712 EARN 40,000 BAHT 2. Able to communicate in spo- 2436. Fax: 076-279605. 0565. For further details, please PER MONTH ken English, with some com- Email: [email protected] see our website at http:// www.brightstar-academy.com Are you young and outgoing, puter skills. Monthly salary English speaking? New com- 10,000 baht. FULL TIME ENGLISH pany, workpermit given and Please contact us by email. For TEACHER HOUSE MAID NEEDED visa assistance. Email: to look after 5 pool villas in- position (1) also send resume For Marriott Vacation Club. Re- [email protected] and salary requirements: quires administrative and com- side and out can teach. Must [email protected] puter skills. Native speaker speak English, live in www.sa-mer.com only. Tel: 076-338200. Fax: 076- accommadation is available. 303625. Email: orapim.k@ Tel: 083-641 9327. vacationclub.com SALES PERSON (THAI) ASSISTANT An advertising company needs ACCCOUNTANT MANAGER WANTED a sales person. Must speak Thai accountant required for English. Good salary and com- SCUBA diving Liveaboard Com- - Male/Female, good com- missions. Please contact K. pany in Phuket. Responsible for mand of written and spoken Warapon. Tel: 084-191 4618 bookkeeping, accounting pro- English (English & Thai). Email: cedures, salary admin, stock- - Computer literate [email protected] control, monthly and annual tax - Able to work independently forms, and Social Insurance. - Driving license. KINDERGARTEN Will also be responsible for sub- Please submit your CV with TEACHER mitting, applying for and renew- recent photo and expected Native female English speak- ing all kinds of documents, e.g., salary. Tel: 076-282425, 081- ing teacher with experience licenses, permits, etc. To ar- 845 4667, 086-470 8125. to teach ages 3-5. Work per- range an interview, please tele- Fax: 076-384018. Email: mit. Monday-Friday 8am- phone. Tel: 076-383819, 084- prapaipit@octopuswetsuit. 4pm. Tel: 080-624 7060. 923 4109 (English). Email: com Email: phuketkindergarten@ [email protected] yahoo.com

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ACCOUNTANT WANTED A++ Software produces dual lan- guage accounting software: Thai Revenue approved. Enthusiastic and experienced accountant re- quired for internal accounts and involvement in user training and support. – Thai National – Degree in Accounting or equiva- lent – Must be able to speak English – Ability to drive a car preferred Salary based on experience; can offer accommodation. Training JAPANESE BUTLER given. Tel: 076-512746, 087-417 - Male / Female Employment 8860 (English), 089-474 4637 (Thai). Fax: 076-512747. Send re- - At least 2-3 years experience in Wanted sume and salary requirements to related fields [email protected] - Good command of English and Japanese EXPERIENCED PROJECT MANAGER - Positive attitude, good team ELECTRONIC 5 years experience in Thai- spirit and service minded. ENGINEER WANTED land, now seeking contracts 1 position. Tel: 076-371900. Fax: 076- in Phuket for resorts, apart- - Male 20-30 years old 613831. Email: pom.vanaputi@ ment blocks, and single - Vocation certificate outrigger.co.th houses. Tel: 086-948 6368 - Bechelor degree in Electronics (Jurgen), 089-288 7294 CASHIER (Alan). - Completed military training Mini-mart requires part time and - Good health full time Cashier. Thai national, good English, computer skills. WORK WANTED - Trustworthy, motivated and Part time house keeper. self-reliant Forward CV by email. Email: [email protected] Smart, English-speaking - Experience preferred Thai girl, 29, seeks part-time All applicants must submit position in Bang Tao area. ENGLISH WRITER – NANNY / 2 SWEDISH SEO ENGLISH TEACHER full resume by email to: info RESTAURANTS Tel: 081-722 9828. HOUSEKEEPER @octopusasia.com only. We Write comments for websites WANTED Maid and Nanny wanted. 50-year- in Bang Tao Beach, open all will contact applicants by return. in blogs. Native English and PC for private lessons with a old man with 12-year-old son year. Two chefs wanted to cook GUIDE WANTS TO skills are mandatory! Send re- primary school child. 10-15 seeks Maid / Nanny. Flexible farang food and 4 waitresses. WORK sume. Tel: 076-613 0533, 085- hours per week, near working schedule to follow inter- SALES CENTER Good spoken English required Can speak good English and 473 7812 (English). Email: Phuket Airport. For futher national school calendar. 4 hours POSITION and good salary for experi- understand Swedish. I worked [email protected] details please send email a day, 4 day a week work and Rapidly growing company enced candidates. Contact for 4 years as a tourist guide in to: [email protected] weekends during school session. seeks sales center agents for Michael. Tel: 081-787 3167. Phuket. Tel: 080-535 5200 PROJECT On vacation time, every day full multiple products. Fluent En- (English & Thai). Or send CO-ORDINATOR time 8:00 – 5:00pm. Must be able glish speakers only – any na- NEED AN HONEST email:su_kongrit@hot Non profit organization. Right To COOK / WAITRESS to drive and I will supply the vehicle. tionality. Earnings of 50,000 COUPLE mail.com Play seeks Thai with fluent En- needed for a nice small restau- Pay is 15,000–20,000 baht a baht per month possible. To work at the house as a glish, computer literate, training rant/pub. Evening shift. Please month. Must be able to speak, Must be sales-oriented and maintenance guy and a maid. LOOKING FOR A JOB and experience to work on call or mail for details. Tel: 081- read and write English. Submit re- web proficient. Foreign na- Live in. Please contact for Experienced, self motivated, education program. Email: 891 4019 (English). Email: sume for review and consideration tionals must hold a Bachelor's more information. Tel: 081-926 creative (gastro/events). [email protected] [email protected] to [email protected] degree. Tel: 087-8858 622. 3286. German, sms 084-6307484. Gazette Online Classifieds – 10,000 readers every day! 40 PHUKET GAZETTE CLASSIFIEDS February 13 - 19, 2010 Tout, Trader & Trumpet

AIRCON FOR SALE MASSAGE PARLOUR PATONG GUESTHOUSE Articles as new, large capacity. GARMIN GPSMAP Bulletins for rent 6 months +. Aircon, for sale. 8 rooms, bar and small For Sale 25,000 baht o.b.o. Tel: 086- 60CX fans, 5 beds + foot chairs, etc. restaurant, 200m. from beach. 950 7788. Email: simonking Color map navigator, pre- 3 experienced ladies. I have to Well established customer [email protected] loaded with marine charts. work o/seas so need to rent it base. Takeover money 1.6 FRIDGE AND AIRCON One year young, never out ASAP. 12,000 baht per million baht, no rent for 1 year. 3 Sanyo fridges 5.2 cubic. 3 ARC WELDER WELPRO used. New Price 25,000 month, 15,000 baht deposit. Inquiries under info@holiday- LG aircons 12,000BTU. 2,000- Super invester, Wel ARC 160, baht, make an offer. Please Tel: 083-636 9213 (English), 4you.com Tel: 081-536 2954. 6,000 baht. Tel: 084-682 1066. cost over 12,000 baht new, contact for more informa- 084-628 4018 (Thai). Email: boxed. Asking 5,000 baht. Tel: tion. Tel: 081-077 3307. [email protected] JACUZZI (NEW) 084-845 1200. Email: [email protected] FASHION SHOP IN Sapphire Jacuzzi 'Palm Island' N A V E E N.....O N E - KATA (Diamond). 5 seats with total of MUSIC COLLECTION POOL PUMP VILLA CLASSIC 65 jets and 2-speed blower. Di- MP3 collection, over 30,000 1.5hp Pentair Whisperflow. Would you like to invest in our mensions: 1990 x 1990 x tracks tagged. Comes on Hardly used. 12,000 baht o.n.o. brand new project? The plan is 850mm. Dry weight: 225kg. 250GB, USB drive. 31,000 baht. Tel: 086-683 1964. Email: to build 5 modern luxurious pool Operating vapacity: 1,090 litres. Email: [email protected] [email protected] villas with emphasis on privacy. Price: 545,000 baht. SPECIAL Location: Beautiful Rawai area. PRICE: 345,000 baht. Tel: 076- INTERNET DOMAIN Amount for this investment For sale 300,000 baht and 273577, 081-978 5901 (En- HALF PRICE FISH TANK starts from 0.5 million baht up rent at 6,000 baht. Shop is NAMES FOR SALE Fish tank for sale cheap, half glish), 081-958 0743. Fax: 076- to 30 million. ROI up to 20%. 60sqm near bar zone. www.kamala.asia of new price. Comes with 273579. Email: moose@water Profit share up to 30%. Option Contact Kim. Tel: 080-148 steel stand. L: 153cm, W: workswarehouse.net www.karon.asia to join our European team. 3034. 45cm, H: 55cm. Located in www.nanaplaza.asia Very suitable for first time inves- Phuket Town, near Morning tors or investors with minor FRAMED CROSS- and more. Unique opportunity. Star School. Call Harry for ap- STITCH PICTURES experience in the development CHALONG CAFE pointment. Tel: 087-272 8128. in new shopping plaza. Large Three beautiful, large, framed, business. Tel: 089-971 0928. LLADRO FIGURINE Email: eric@insurance-in- patio, rent paid until August. hand-made cross-stitch pic- Email: dir@naveendevelop Tahitian Dancing Girls, #0100 thailand.com Price: 630,000 baht. Tel: 080- tures in matching frames. Two ment.eu For further details, 1498. It's 11.75 inches, retired 706 1350. @ 8,500 baht (Thai dancers) 1995, hand painted. DF file avail- please see our website at http:/ and one @ 10,500 baht (Na- E-CONCRETE /www.naveendevelop ment.eu able by email. Very slight dam- NICE GUESTHOUSE ture scene). Tel: 087-897 3497 age to 2 fingers on 1 hand. MIXER Rooms, pool, fitness, sauna. (English & Thai). Email: catch 40,000 baht ono. Please con- Makita Jackhammer. In- PHI PHI ISLAND Near Carrefour Kasemsap. 56/ [email protected] tact for more information. Tel: cludes 3 bits, all well kept. SPONSOR BAR 75. Tel: 081-084 3415. 081-895- 7727 (English). Email: Used on one job. Tel: 084- a needy child. The Fully equipped with all new MOVING SALE, NEW info@ axiominvestments.com 185 8536. Phuket International STUFF wooden furnishings and Women’s Club is a volun- stock. Interesting theme in a Must go before 1/31/10. IRISH PUB AND WEBER BBQ GRILL teer organization raising great central location. Sound RESTAURANT BAGLESS VACUUM funds for educational – Room fan: 36 cm, 390 baht 22.5 inch in diameter 57cm. system, LCD televisions, CLEANER scholarships. We rely on For sale, near Kata beach, when new. Now 200 baht "New", comes with cover. Tel: double chiller and draught Electrolux zac 6,707 war- the goodwill of donors and low rent. 1.2 million baht. – Hot water pot, aluminum, 081-776 1490. beers. New licences and ranty till 11/06/2010. New sponsors – small and Tel: 089-289 2297. 290 baht when new. Now 150 6,000 baht, now 2,500 good turnover. 2nd floor fitted baht. large. If you would like to catering kitchen, living area baht. Colour: red/white. Tel: put something back into Tel: 089-350 2592 (English). ERIC CLAPTON and 3 bedrooms - 1 with en- PREMIUM LOCATION 076-319560, 084-441 3871 the community in which Email: [email protected] signed and framed guitar, suite and private balcony. 3rd Business for Sale in Sheraton (English & Thai). Email: you live, contact us to find sawasdee-khrap@hot 1st pressing slowhand floor penthouse apartment Laguna Resort: High end retail LP and more. 150,000 out more about giving a with living room, en-suite bed- leather store with established MULTI STATION mail.com prize or being a sponsor. for sale, 6 station tower spartan, baht. Tel: 082-807 2988. room and large private ter- clients at the hotel for 15 years. Call K. Carol (Tel: 087-417 race. Low monthly rent and Very profitable business, owner universal gym. Email: chilligarden 8860) or K. Sue (Tel: @hotmail.com TWIN CORDLESS long lease. Price discussed wants to cash out and retire. 087-277 6948). Or Email: during site visit - no dreamers Tel: 089-927 8588, 081-747 PHONES CONTEMPORARY [email protected] TENNIS RACKET Reach cordless digital en- DINING please. Contact me, as 2383. Email: ampai@siaml above, for further details. Tel: eathergoods.com Yonex RQ IS. Used only 3 hanced telephone with caller ID table, glass and steel. 087-461 3121 (English). times. Price: 4,500 baht. function. CL-33501DM twin Size: 110cm x 190cm. Email: sgiandubh69@ Please contact for more infor- handsets. 1,500 baht. Tel: 083- Price: 25,000 baht. Tel: Business 150 MILLION BAHT hotmail.com mation. Tel: 087-265 8779. 550 2432 (English). Email: 089-500 8357. Opportunities PROJECT Email: weutschi [email protected] [email protected] in Nai Harn, seek 50% partner with 25 million baht. Tel: 085- 792 0908. RESTAURANT Classified Advertisements FOR RENT In front of Hotel on Nanai Rd, in RAWAI BEACH FRONT Please use this form to write your classified advertisement. Patong. Fully equipped, fully Restaurant with 2 bedrooms. furnished-new one. Tel: 076- House for lease key money. Then hand it to any of our agents. 344778. 350,000 baht. Tel: 089-646 7176.

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7-12% YEARLY NEW 5-STAR SHOP HOUSE IN DIVIDEND YIELD 800,000 BAHT RESTAURANT KATHU Website at http://www.thai YEARLY RENT for rent. 4 floors, 4 aircon. stocks.com Fully furnished apartment on third floor. Very good loca- UP MARKET tion only 26,000 baht per MASSAGE SHOP month. Tel: 081-432 6587. Up-market Massage Shop for Sale in Sasong Road, Hua Hin. New five-star seafood Good shop frontage, top decor, restaurant near the beach ENTRANCE TO LAGUNA STORE all products and fittings to be Rawai beach. Hotel, 9 for lease by owner. 250 sold. Asking 29,000,000 baht rooms, bar, pizzaria, seats (150 outdoor, 100 Located next to a Queen Air Tour Agency and 7-eleven (negotiable). Moving to Austra- 200sqm. 70m to the sea. indoor with air-condition). lia. Tel: 087-302 4352 or email: Tel: 086-940 8914. Email: Open kitchen and main (opening soon). Rent: 13,000 baht per month plus key [email protected] within [email protected] kitchen, open bars, wine Thailand. Or tel: 61-44-749 9639 room, staff accommoda- money. Email: kornkamonat [email protected] or email mudboots1@hotmail. tion building, office build- com for outside Thailand. ing, car transfer and park- OFFICE IN PATONG BAR FOR SALE ing etc. The restaurant is GUEST HOUSE for rent. 240 Rat-U-Thit 200 Big kitchen, 4 year lease, low Pee Rd. Furnished, in- fully equipped, decorated for rent. 20 rooms very close to monthly rent. Sai Nam Yen cludes telephone line and and ready to open. The the Christine massage. Long- Road. 2 million baht. Tel: 089- internet, 3-year lease, owner has no time to op- term contract. Tel: 087-883 591 0898. 25,000 baht per month. In erate. Interested persons 7678. can contact khun Beer. T-Son-Sine guesthouse. Tel: 087-593 6751. Email: GUEST HOUSE Tel: 083-173 6521. Email: [email protected] RENT/ SALE GUEST HOUSE [email protected] 4 rooms+1 staff room. 26 seat BEACH ROAD restaurant and bar. Located on Patong. Very rare lease. Have NO.1 CARWASH SALE beach road. Established 6 100% full year, long gross in- Business OR RENT years. fully furnished and come 2009, 6 million baht. 21 PATONG STEAK State of the art, automatic equipped, pizza oven, chargrill, rooms 7 years/term, rent 173,000 Products & GUESTHOUSE carwash. Email: carwash_ etc. walk in walk out. rent baht per month. Yours for Services Spacious grill restaurant/ [email protected] 350,000 per year + 100,000 4,950,000 baht. Call Real Pro Co bar, 65 seats, 6 rooms, returnable bond or sell 8 million. Ltd. Tel: 084-078 2753. Email: long lease, best equip- QUICK SALE SHOP/ Tel: 076-486134, 089-014 2104 [email protected] ment. Tel: 081-894 0570. OFFICE (English & Thai). Email: bridge FLOWER IN LOVE www.hermanns- Good Location at Nanai Road, [email protected] GUEST HOUSE Flower in Love is a phuket.com Patong. 4.50 x 9 meters. Call for KAMALA flower shop in Phuket. more details. Tel: 081-537 RESTAURANT/BAR staff apartment, 4 bedrooms, We have a fresh and 7137 (English & Thai). Email: Nanai Rd, close Banzan Rd. UBC, cable, safes, hot water artificial flower service 500,000 BAHT [email protected] showers, lease 3x3. Sale 1.8 for any occasion GUESTHOUSE Prcie 700,000 baht, cheaper is quick deal. Rent 10,000 baht. million baht ono. Tel: 089-971 (wedding, graduation, located on Patong Nanai Rd/ 6120. funeral, party) and Banzaan Rd, next to 7- ROOFTOP RESTAURANT 1 year lease. Option for exten- MEDIA & FOR RENT sion. Contact Mats or Tab. Tel: arrangement (bouquet, MARKETING Eleven. 3 rooms with fans, 3 vase, basket, wreath, on the top floor of Sinthavee 081-787 2573, 085-795 2101. DUBLI ARRIVES IN ASIA SERVICES a/c rooms, beauty salon at decor). Free delivery in Hotel, Phuket Town. Conve- The first reverse auction com- bottom, separate entrance to Phuket area. Special Phuket Creation nient for a restaurant or bar. BE QUICK pany in the world where every room. 90,000 deposit, no key service to those who Desigh for your identity Also, a discotheque on the 2nd Project in the livestock sector bid on high quality, new items money. Rent 34,500 baht, 3 order from us: a free - Logo floor (with license). Tel: 087- on 8 rai of land. For quick sale, reduces the price. Opportuni- years lease left. Contact Mats photo of the order via 270 9093. Email: a.pueng@ really cheap! Email: kbourlis ties for shoppers or associates - Brochure or Tab. Tel: 081-787 2573, MMS or e-mail. You gmail.com @hotmail.com http://www.dubliseasia.com - Business card 085-795 2101. can trust us in deliver- - Web design BAR SALE NEW TIGER ing the best flowers to boundary 3 floors, kitchen, 4 the one you love. To - Signage bedrooms. 750,000 baht. Con- place your order today, - Presentation tact Richy. Tel: 081-691 7376. please call Fern at 076- - Photo 221687 or 086-556 - Corperate identity 1033. Website:http:// SMALL SHOP Tel: 086-953 1706. for sale or rent. Located on www.flowerinlove- Email: Chaofa East Road. 6,500 baht pk.com phuketcreation@gmail. per month. Tel: 081-537 6866. com BAR FOR SALE SIGN/ MEDIA/ Contract 3+1 years, pay ADVERTISING 30% you can be owner at Please contact K.Pu WEB DESIGN Bangla Boxing. Tel: 084-661 086-698 6544. An interesting website 9902. Email: stockholmbar Email: iamtontan helps your business. @yahoo.com @hotmail.com Contact via by email: [email protected] SPORTS BAR Website: www.design FOR SALE BUDS NURSERY byconcept.net Great location, many passing KINDER GARTEN trade, six 42" LCD TVs, 1 large Phuket oldest bi-lingual in- projector screen, 2 pool tables, ternational child care facil- can seat 70 plus, excellent. ity. High quality time proven Long lease. Please contact schedule and curriculum. Andy. Tel: 087-890 5633. Email: Experienced native En- andyoldie @hotmail.com glish teachers to teach ages 1½ -6. Mon-Fri 8am INTERNET SHOP! - 5pm. Bus service avail- At Nanai Road, Patong. For able from Patong, Karon, sale at 350,000 baht with rent Kata, Phuket, Rawai and 9,000 baht per month. Tel: 081- Chalong. Tel: 076-282 232, 537 7137. Email: sunisadia@ 080-624 7060. Website: hotmail.com www.buds-phuket.com PRIME PATONG Beauty shop near McDonald 20M from the beach fully Need help finding a lawyer? equpped. 299,000 baht. Tel: 083- 646 9906 (English), 087-470 9426 (Thai). Email: tsabest Try PhuketGazette.Net @gmail.com 42 PHUKET GAZETTE CLASSIFIEDS February 13 - 19, 2010 Tout, Trader & Trumpet

SONY ERICSON Club Model W980. Perfect condition, Memberships black, Bluetooth, 3.2 megapixel camera, 8 GB internal memory, Available Walkman Handy (best audio experience, as demonstrated in CLUB ASIA FITNESS tests conducted by experts). CENTRE Was 17,900 baht; will sell for Offering Les Mills, aerobic, 7,900. Email: junkcoconut@ spin bike and yoga. Cardio, free yahoo.de weights, swimming pool, Spa, sauna and steam. Call or mail for details. Tel: 076-354027, Personal 087-275 3614. Email: info@ Services clubasiaphuket.com For fur- ther details, please see our website at http://www.clubasia SPANISH LESSONS phuket.com Do you want learn or improve your spanish? I will teach you. Private lesson, 400 baht per hour BLUE CANYON for all levels. Tel: 084-771 7969. FAMILY GOLF SHARE Email: Elmomentoloestodo 1.2 million baht. 2 years. @hotmail.com Subs and T/F included. Tel: 081-956 0527. LEARN TO SWIM Beginner to imtermediate. Indi- vidual or group classes. Con- Computers tact Martyn. Tel 084-308 0827 Email: [email protected] Website: www.ufit-thailand. ENGLISH com COMPUTERMAN Sales, Service, Repairs. WLAN & Internet specialty. Also web de- Personals sign. Tel: 076-384385, 084-625 7744. Email: computerman FUN, GOOD-LOOKING [email protected] GUY 43, seeks younger female friend for nice dinner and fun times. Fitness Email: sbluxurypromotions@ Equipment cox.net

EXERCYCLE BACKGAMMON WEAVING In good condition. Computerized Retired Businessman BY HAND programs and heart rate moni- looking for Backgammon 100% hand made (OTOP) tor. Purchased 12 months ago Players in Phuket. Tel: products made from for 40,000 baht. For sale at 081-577 8443. Krajood. Email: extra_sp 20,000 baht or make me an of- @hotmail.com Website at fer. Tel: 087-882 6184. Email: http://www.thaishop.in.th [email protected] VALENTINES DAY /extraboom Flowers, dinner date needed! In my cute, funny, 30 years, Golf Stuff this Hat Yai girl never had either! ARGENTINA STEAK Photo? You send me yours Sea view, steakhouse, sea- and I'll send you mine. Tel: food, wine, coctails. Table res- CALLAWAY GOLD 083-520 4466. Email: slipper ervation. Tel: 086-120 5454. For Callaway Diablo 9gr. New [email protected] further details, please see our Spoon Honma 3 wood. website at http://www.sky Callaway irons 3-9. Callaway steakhouse.net Gold pitcher + sw bag. Nike Pets putter. 20,000 baht. Tel: 087- SKY STEAKHOUSE 273 1280 (English). Email: DALMATIANS Steak and seafood, wine cellar, [email protected] 2 dalmatians, 10 months old, coctails, sea view. Table reser- require new home. We received vation. Tel: 086-120 5454. For them as abandoned but can no further details, please see our Mobile Phones longer take care of them. website at http://www.sky Profesionally trained, neutered, steakhouse.net and all jabs up to date. 10,000 SAMSUNG OMNIA baht for both (good homes only). LOSE WEIGHT AND SGH-I900 Tel: 076-621200, 085-789 5092 GET IN SHAPE Only used once & kept in a (English & Thai). Email: daves [email protected] Are you tired of being tired? box. Nearly 2 years old. Touch WEB DESIGN Exercise & detox pro- screen, internet. Excellent SERVICE gram. Tel: 0814774884. condition with all accesso- PUREBRED BEAGLES Get your business online at: ries.10,000 baht or make me Completed shots and papers, [email protected] an offer. Tel: 087-882 6184. 7 weeks old. 24,000 baht. Call Email: [email protected] Chuck. Tel: 087-209 5174. CHIROPRACTIC FAB-EVENT PLANNER CARE A full service and all-inclusive Dr. Richard Cracknell. Tel: wedding planning and event 076-388638. Website: consulting firm. Please con- www.wellnesshouse.asia tact K.Sivakon. Tel: 086-403 9076. Email: yai@fab-event .com IT'S DRAMA TIME! Classes for kids and TATTOO REMOVE teens. Start Jan 23 in We can remove your tattoos Davinci's Function Room easily. Tel: 087-135 7954. For Naiharn. Tel: 083-181 further details, please see our 9079. Website at http:// website at http://www.tattoo- www.denisebertrand.com delete.info February 13 - 19, 2010 CLASSIFIEDS PHUKET GAZETTE 43 Wheels & Motors

Saloon Cars HONDA ACCORD 2005 Pick Ups NICE JEEP HONDA SHADOW Rentals AND CBR 400 SALE MIRA MINT 2001 PICK-UP MAZDA BRAND NEW CAR Daihasu Mira Mint in show- 1400CC FOR RENT room condition. Blue, leather 2 seater, manual, aircon. Re- Honda City (just out from seats, CD player, new tyres, cently overhauled. 79,000 showroom) auto, first class in- new battery, low mileage, only baht. Tel: 081-811 7613. surance. Only 7,000 baht per two owners. Inside interior is week. Monthly rate available. still new, service record avail- CAR FOR SALE 750cc. Model 2008, as new, Tel: 081-343 0777. able, sun protection films and 2.4 i-VTEC. Top model with Nissan single cab. 2.5, extra low milage, green book. Tel: many more accesories. Tax full options, Honda service, springs and shocks in 2007. 076-486624, 086-281 9311. and insurance paid until Sept, 97,000km. One expat owner. Price 240,000 baht. Tel: 087- Price 295,000 baht. MINIBUS AND CAR 2010. Quick sale at 129,000 Price 890,000 baht. Tel: 089- 881 1775. New engine, gears, paint FOR RENT baht. Only one in Phuket from 996 2692. Email: sj.holmqvist job and roof. Only one in this year. Must have a look. @gmail.com MAZDA 2007 FOR SALE Patong. Jeep price: 200,000 Tel: 084-184 1856. Open cab, excellent condition. baht. CBR price: 50,000 GERMAN BMW CJ 750 SIDECAR TOYOTA YARIS Price 350,000 baht. Tel: 087- baht. Tel: 087-283 9208 2007 MAZDA 3 S LIMITED 881 1775. (English). Email: brazilboy HATCH 1.6L 2007, white. Down payment [email protected] Red, 5 -door hatch w/leather, 100,000 baht, finance 10,704 sound system and auto-every- baht x 43 month period. Please 4 x 4s thing! 34,000kms, with 11 call for more info. Tel: 087-501 Minibus, Vios, Jazz, City months insurance. 625,000 Motorbikes 5697 (owner). MERCEDES/MUSSO for rent. We’re offering low- baht, or 135,000 baht and season prices. Tel: 081- take-over of 46 payments of SUV Very reliable BMW R75 Rep. 1997 HYUNDAI Excellent cond 4WD Silver, YAMAHA FINO 5388 567. Email: suksavat 10,800 baht each. Call 081-787 CJ 750 Fr. 1960. Imported in @hotmail.com 3190. No agents please! Tel: TIBURON black leather, low kms 460,000 AND CAR parts (incl. papers). Com- 081-787 3190 (English). Email: Auto, leather, airbag, ABS, baht. Tel: 089-908 7133. Email: Fino 7 month, yellow and black pletely rebuilt with German [email protected] CD, top condition. Price [email protected] white. 36,500 baht. Car 1991 pistons, springs etc. No HONDA CIVIC 2002 239,000 baht o.n.o. Tel: 083- nissan engine. 59,000 baht. Greenbook. Price 180,000 FOR RENT 647 3509, 087-294 5737. DAIHATSU MIRA- SUZUKI CARIBBIAN Please contact. Tel: 076- baht obo. Into Honda Steed. Automatic, full insurance, 90000BAHT 4x4, 5-speed, ice cold aircon, 281196, 086-045 3139. Email: Tel: 085-471 1144 (English). airbag, ABS, 1700cc. 18, 000 well maintained, new: brakes, [email protected] Email: [email protected] baht per month. Please con- Automatic, 1998 model, genu- TOYOTA SOLUNA ine 63,000 km. Only 2 owners, aircon and clutch. Tel: 081- tact owner for more information. 1.5SLI 539 2298 (English). Email: HONDA AFRICA Tel: 089-472 9118. Email: an older lady and myself. Tel: 5 speed, manual, CD [email protected] TWIN750 YAMAHA NOUVO [email protected] 085-069 0938. Email: nnorthwo player, only 22,000km. 29,000km. Genuine green 3 years old, blue, mag wheels, @hotmail.com Was 269,000 baht. Now 4X4S book, new tyres. 160,000 baht. 11,000 km, farang owned, CHEVROLET CAPTIVA only 195,000 baht. Tel: HONDA CR-V, 2005 model. Tel: 081-719 6730. Email: green book. 27,000 baht o.n.o. FOR RENT OPEL FOR SALE 089-289 2297. 3 doors, white color. Price Prestige, white, special edi- nt@[email protected] Please call or mail. Tel: 081- Near new Red Captiva available 130,000 baht. Please contact. tion, low kms, 1 owner, full 080 1170 (English). Email: for long term rental (2 months Tel: 081-389 7015. Email: Honda service. Must be seen. HONDA SHADOW [email protected] or more). 18,000 baht per [email protected] NISSAN NV 690,000 baht. Tel: 076-521133, Honda Shadow, 400cc. Out- month. Please contact. Tel: AUTOMATIC 087-894 5643 (Thai). Email: standing condition. 36,000km, HARLEY DAVIDSON 081-837 5774, 089-667 1844 [email protected] HONDA JAZZ 2005 1995, new paint, taxed / in- near original, green Book. 2003 (English & Thai). Email: sured, CD/mp3, alarm, Price 145,000 baht. Tel: 084- 1.5 Vtec, auto, full insurance, Sportster 883cc, very clean [email protected] power steering, central 843 2712 (English). Email: silver, 5 door, excellent condi- bike, factory air brush tins. In- locking. Price 115,000 URGENT SALE [email protected] tion, 475, 000 baht ono. Part cludes book. 310,000 baht. ISUZU DMAX baht. Please contact. Tel: Toyota Fortuner Auto en- finance option. Tel: 080-529 Tel: 085-782 4959. FOR RENT 086-948 8139. Email: gine 2.7, bronze color, 8377 (English), 089-651 1727 HONDA WAVE FOR Space Cap, manual gear, air, [email protected] good condition and regular (Thai). SALE 14,000 BAHT 2 YAMAHA NOUVO CD, stereo, electric windows, service. 800,000 baht plus 100cc, 5 years old, disk brakes, SALE central locking, diesel, insur- car insurance. Contact electric start, green book, blue Good condition, new tires. ance included. Low rent. owner. Tel: 081-538 7050. VOLVO AND MIRA FORD FOCUS color. Please contact. Tel: 076- 29,000 baht. Mitsubishi Strada Please contact for more de- Fully restored 5-speeds. Finest, black, year 2006. 288542, 089-973 5081. Email: Space Cab, 4WD. 220,000 tails. Tel: 089-728 6242. Email: Both have new engines, Lady owner. 73,000 km, ISUZU CAB 4, YEAR [email protected] baht. Tel: 081-367 0991. [email protected] paint, tires, A/C systems. full service history. No 2000 Volvo Diesel price: 165,000 accidents. Quick sale at Power Dragon, 3.0 turbo, baht. Mira price: 120,000 450,000 baht (negotiable). 167,800 km. Price 250,000 o.n.o. For more info. Tel: Tel: 081-979 1966 (English baht, blue, good condition. Wheels & Motors 089-970 5795. Email: & Thai). Email: chaya Please contact for more info. [email protected] [email protected] Tel: 089-616 1995. Email: [email protected] Please use this form to write your classified advertisement.

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