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September 17-11 Pp01 ANDAMAN Edition PHUKET’S LEADING NEWSPAPER... SINCE 1993 Now NATIONWIDE Holding out hope Friends and family pray for Russian teenagers in devastating motorbike crash INSIDE TODAY April 6 - 12, 2013 PhuketGazette.Net In partnership with The Nation 25 Baht ‘WE DO NOT WANT VIOLENCE. WE WILL TRY TO FIND A WAY TO COMPROMISE’ Booze ban on Bangla to rein in Songkran PHUKET officials may have just thrown a wet Kata tuk-tuks blanket on party plans for residents and locals alike with the announcement that the sale, purchase and con- sumption of alcohol will be banned on Patong’s famous Soi Bangla on April 12 as part of a slew of new pre- cautions to make Thai New to stand alone Year festivities safer. Full story on Page 2 Tuk-tuk and taxi drivers Plans laid in Kata-Karon vow to to stave off protest new bus service drought TOP water officials unveil By Orawin Narabal plans to ensure water sup- plies keep flowing as the PRESSURE is mounting on the Kata-Karon taxi and tuk- island suffers longest dry tuk drivers who have declared outright they will protest spell for 10 years. if Phuket’s new bus line, providing a hop-on, hop-off service between Phuket International Airport and Kata Full story on Page 5 Beach, goes ahead. Key figures representing about 90 per cent of tuk-tuk Marine chief and taxi drivers in Patong confirmed this week they will stand aside if the provincial authorities support and ap- proposes new prove the new bus service, and Karon Police, while sympathetic, urged drivers to consider the bigger picture. sea taxi Long known for using fear and intimidation as nego- Growing traffic conges- tiation tactics, the drivers at the southern resort beaches tion prompts of Kata and Karon on January 3 staged a blockade of the Phuket Karon beach road to protest Russian tour operators not Marine chief to using local drivers to transport tourists. Among the com- propose a cun- plaints were claims that the Russian tour operators were ning plan to undercutting local tuk-tuk and taxi fares. launch a “sea Their reputation this week remained intact after a pro- taxi” to ferry tourists by motional journey for the new bus service – from Provincial boat from Phuket Airport Hall in Phuket Town to the site of the proposed bus stop.… down to Patong. Continued on Page 2 Tuk-tuk and taxi drivers in Patong will not protest the new bus service. Photo: Gazette file Full story on Page 4 2 PHUKET GAZETTE PHUKET NEWS April 6 - 12, 2013 Booze-free water play Business Modernizing Thai money zones set for Songkran with the new 20 baht By Chutharat Plerin banknote. Page 11 THE sale, purchase and consump- tion of alcohol will be banned on History Patong’s famous Soi Bangla for The story of Thailand’s Songkran on April 12 as part of a prison paradise on Koh slew of new measures being introduced to make Thai New Year Tarutao. Page 36 festivities safer. Phuket officials on Wednesday Gardening established six main “water play zones” – the only places where Spice up your life with a water play will be legal – and out- few tips from Patrick lawed alcohol in those zones. Alcohol may not be conveyed Campbell. Page 38 into the areas, sold in the areas, or consumed there. Arts The zones are as follows: Students from BIS wow - Saphan Hin Park - Kata-Karon beachfront audiences with The Lion - Soi Bangla and Patong beach road King. Page 41 - Kamala Park Engaging in water battles from the back of pickup trucks will be illegal, as - Surin Beach will be drinking alcohol within the play zones. Photo: Gazette file - Sirinath National Park Phuket Provincial Police Deputy Interior Minister Chat Kuldilok on Health Revelers caught drinking and Commander Sakchai Limcharoen. March 29. Baz Daniels writes driving will be charged, as will In addition, police will be man- Water play from the back of about what it’s like to those found drinking alongside ning 15 checkpoints throughout pickup trucks has also been forbid- public roads. Phuket during the Seven Days of den at the national level. really be 64. Page 42 Police will also charge people Danger, April 11-17. “The number of road accidents for throwing water “impolitely”, Water play areas are being set during Songkran is much more than Sport for using colored water, and for up on a national level, with zones normal, so this year we have touching women inappropriately set at the provincial governor’s launched new road-safety plans,” Down and dirty with when applying powder, said discretion, announced Deputy Mr Chat said. Phuket United’s ‘Action Jackson’. Page 50 Kata-Karon drivers alone in bus protest From page 1 son of Patong Mayor Pian Keesin and head of the Patong Taxi Police on lookout for three …at Karon – was called off at the Federation said, “I do not think last minute on Wednesday after the our drivers will protest the airport drivers in two hit-and-runs organizers realized that Phuket bus service. Governor Maitri Inthusut would I believe our 500 members will CHALONG Police are looking for “Neither the van nor the pickup not be on board for the trip. surely understand if the Phuket the drivers of three vehicles in- truck driver stopped,” he added. Governor Maitri was busy Transportation Office explains to volved in two separate hit-and- Hours earlier, a 14-year-old boy attending a meeting to outline the them clearly why the bus was runs during the night of March 28. was knocked off his motorbike and alcohol-free water-play zones for approved and how it will be ben- Late that night, police received run over by a 10-wheeled truck near Songkran, and to announce the eficial to the tourism of the island. a report that a man had died in a the Taweesaman Market in Rawai. dates of the annual Seven Days “We, Patong people, we are road accident near the entrance to “The accident happened at of Danger road-safety campaign Prab Keesin and his crew will not understanding. We live in a tour- Soi Pratana on Chao Fa West Road. 7:30pm,” said Lt Wuttiwat. “We for the upcoming holiday period. protest the new bus service. ism destination. What we want is Chalong Police investigator arrived to find the body of a Bur- Calling off the promotional going to run the airport bus to develop our area to make it Wuttiwat Liangboonjinda identified mese boy named Tui lying on the journey may have been prudent, service, we will surely stage a attractive to tourists and support the victim as 30-year-old Somsak road. Witnesses told police the as only days earlier Sommart protest. The airport bus service the tourism economics of Phuket. Faipim. truck driver fled the scene. Homwan, president of the Kata- will definitely affect us. They are We do not want to do anything “Witnesses said Mr Somsak “We are now seeking the driv- Karon Taxi and Tuk-tuk Driver’s going to steal our jobs,” he said. that will tarnish Phuket’s reputa- was riding his motorbike and was ers in both hit-and-runs,” he Co-operative, told the Gazette The top representatives of the tion,” Mr Prab said. hit by a van. He fell off his bike added. bluntly: “You run, we protest.” two largest tuk-tuk and taxi Setthasak Buason, president of and was run over by a pickup Anyone with any information is Mr Sommart said the bus ser- co-operatives in Patong this week the Patong Taxi and Tuk-tuk truck that was following the van asked to contact Chalong Police vices would directly affect local told the Gazette they feel differently. Driver’s Co-operative, admitted at high speed,” Lt Wuttiwat said. Station at 076-381930. drivers’ livelihoods. “If they are Preechavude “Prab” Keesin, the bus service would greatly affect his members, but also said his drivers were willing to make the sacrifice for the greater good. “I am sure our 300 members will not protest. If the provincial government approves it, that means it would be beneficial to Phuket as a whole. If the bus service is approved, that means our superiors believe it will bring more advantages than disadvan- tages to our community, so it will be a good thing,” he explained. However, Mr Setthasak said there were about 100 independent tuk-tuk and taxi drivers operating in Patong not accounted for by the main two co-operatives. “I do not know how they will react,” he said. April 6 - 12, 2013 PHUKET NEWS PHUKET GAZETTE 3 Teens survive high-speed crash By Saran Mitrarat the u-turn leading into Soi Bang Yai,” Lt Somboon explained. RUSSIAN student Vladislan “As she was turning right, a big Abrashko, 15, is out of the ICU at bike was heading north from Big Phuket International hospital after C and the two collided. The im- the horrific motorcycle accident pact sent the motorcycle 30 last Saturday that left him with a meters into a nearby Sino-Portu- broken leg and Sevastan guese building, where it burst into Lukashov, 16, with serious head flames, destroying the bike and injuries. damaging the building,” he said. A cast covering his leg, Mr Police found the boys 50 Abrashko was resting in his hos- meters from the crash site, uncon- pital room on Wednesday morning, scious. Mr Abrashko’s right leg accompanied by his father and was broken and he had a wound Simon Meredith, Principal of the on his right knee.
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