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Volume 13 Issue 35 News Desk - Tel: 076-236555September 2 - 8, 2006 Daily news at www.phuketgazette.net 25 Baht The Gazette is published in association with Beer bottles bombard cop shop IN THIS ISSUE By Natcha Yuttaworawit EWS Confusion over Ao N : PHUKET CITY: A gang of Phuket project; OrBorJor teenagers, possibly angry with takes over seventh school. the police for setting up road- Pages 2 & 3 blocks to crack down on motor- INSIDE STORY: Watch out for cycle gangs, launched an attack CCTV. Pages 4 & 5 on Phuket City Police Station in AROUND THE ISLAND: Gelatin’s the early hours of August 22, lob- not just for kids. Page 7 bing beer bottles at the building. AROUND THE REGION: Samui Pol Lt Theeradet Jiraksa resources run low. Page 8 told the Gazette, “A teenager stopped his motorcycle on the GOOD LIVING: Southern fried road in front of the police station Viking fare. Page 13 and threw a beer bottle at the PEOPLE: Really ‘going native’ front of our building. It didn’t do Bill O’Leary. Pages 14 & 15 any damage, though. LIFESTYLE: Jig’s health tips; “I couldn’t get a clear view Power of olive oil; Keeping ro- Much of the most spectacular scenery in Phang Nga Bay is within national parks, leading tour operators of him as he was a long way mance alive. Pages 18 & 19 to worry that higher entry fees would hit their businesses hard. – Photo: Tourism Authority of Thailand. away, and the motorcycle he was SPA MAGIC: Plumeria at driving had no registration plate,” Thiwa Ratri Resort. Page 20 he added. Later, more youths arrived BETWEEN THE LINES: Quest for and began throwing empty beer exclusivity. Page 27 bottles at the station, but still from FEATURES: Doven; Top Dog; Park fees hike too far away to hit the building Phuket Diary.Pages 28 & 29 or any vehicles in the parking lot BUSINESS & MONEY: in front of it, Lt Theeradej said. Sotheby’s is here, but not to “I think they may have auction; Money Talks: Baby been angry with police for set- Boomers retiring. Page 32 put back a year ting up checkpoints to arrest motorcycle gang members. But SPORT: FIVB Women’s Tour they may just have been drunk. event moved to Karon; Road Earlier this month, some whereby visitors to Thailand pay “There have been many races; Darts. Pages 34 & 35 By Suganya Semacote & Sompratch Saowakhon 500 tour operators rallied at the 10 times the fee for Thais, has incidents of teenagers fighting on PROPERTY: Home of the Tourism Authority of Thailand itself long been an embarrass- [Chumphon Rd] outside the po- Week: Rawai; Decor: Grand- PHUKET: The Ministry of Natu- Office in Phuket to demand that ment for tour operators and oth- lice station, but they don’t usual- father clocks; Construction: ral Resources and Environment the fee hike be scrapped alto- ers in the hospitality industry. ly target us. That is why I think Phuket Modern Life home of- will postpone its planned doubling gether, or that at least their con- K. Sarayuth said he saw that this time they may have been fice and townhouse project; of national park entry fees by cerns be taken into account be- the postponement of the fee hikes particularly angry with us.” Gardening. more than a year, Phuket Tourist fore any price increases went into as a partial victory only, as tour Phuket City Police Super- Pages 36-39 Association (PTA) Deputy effect. operators consider that even small intendent, Pol Col Nos Svettale- Chairman Sarayuth Mallam told Citing the effects of simi- increases are threatening to tour- kha said, “Following this incident PLUS the Gazette on August 24. lar entry fee hikes imposed in the ism. I have told my officers to be more Speaking by telephone from past, the tour operators said that Thanapong Apaiso, Chief vigilant around the police station. QUEER N EWS, TRASH 6; AROUND Bangkok, K. Sarayuth explained doubling entry fees would dam- of the Sirinath Marine National Incidents like this must not be THE N ATION 9; AROUND THE SOUTH that Natural Resources and En- age their livelihoods by causing Park in Thalang, confirmed that allowed to recur. If we catch the 10; HAPPENINGS 16; MOTORING vironment Minister Yongyuth a decline in the number of tour- the entry fee hikes would be post- offenders they will be severely 17; TRAVEL 21; TAKE A B REAK Tiyapairat has agreed to postpone ists visiting the parks, especially poned until November 30, 2007. punished. 23-24; HOROSCOPES, BOOKS 25; the fee hike, from 200 baht to 400 foreigners. He said that although he “Teenagers currently cause EDITORIAL, LETTERS, ISSUES & baht for foreigners. Entry fees for Thais were had yet to receive official con- a lot of problems for police, but ANSWERS 26 & 27; TECHNOLOGY It will now come into effect also set to double from Septem- firmation, he had been made we still have the same number 30; CLASSIFIEDS 40-51. on November 30 next year, he ber 15, from 20 baht to 40 baht. aware of the postponement by of officers, so we have to work said. The two-tier pricing system, ministry officials in Bangkok. much harder than before.” 2 PHUKET GAZETTE NEWS September 2 - 8, 2006 Mystery over Police still Chinese looking for firm’s role in abductor Ao Phuket CHALONG: Police are still searching for the second man al- PHUKET CITY: It is some two legedly involved in the abduction weeks after it was reported that of Jitra Soonsud, 35, who was Thai Longstay Management Corp found handcuffed and drugged in Ltd (TLM), a private company a house in the Phuket Country 30% owned by the Tourism Au- Home estate, on Chao Fa East thority of Thailand (TAT), signed Rd, on May 29. a 40-million-baht “primary con- “We know who he is and we tract” with a Chinese state- have a warrant for his arrest, but owned enterprise to help develop I don’t want to reveal any more part of a long-stay project at details at this moment,” Pol Lt Col Saphan Hin. Jessada Sangsuree of Chalong But locally, information is Police Station told the Gazette. hard to come by. Phuket Vice- The man is believed to be Governor Niran Kanlayanamitr, from Nakhon Sri Thammarat. K. head of the provincial committee Jitra, an independent real estate for the Ao Phuket project, said broker, alleges that on May 29 he knew nothing about it. she went to the home of Sassiri The developer, China No 17 Klinhom, a government official Metallurgical Construction Corp, from Surat Thani Province with was reported to have inked a deal, whom she was involved in a prop- along with five other local and erty deal that had turned sour. international marketing agencies, K. Jitra told police that Sas- to build and sell a project called siri and another man dragged her inside the house and then forced “Phuket Bay International City”. Phuket Governor Udomsak Usawarangkura (right) hands over ownership of Bussabong, a monkey trained However, V/Gov Niran to pick coconuts, to Mardnai Kongtup from Cherng Talay (blue shirt). The Governor was helping officials her to swallow several pills and could not confirm whether the from the Community Development Department hand out essentials worth more than 300,000 baht to sign a document. project the Chinese developer 103 poor families from around the island. The essentials included sarongs, pots and pans and even a They also took 105,000 baht was involved in is the same Ao couple of samlor equipped as mobile kitchens. from her, along with her car, Phuket project as has been on the which was later found abandoned provincial government’s drawing but undamaged. board for the past two decades, Sassiri, Assistant Registrar despite the descriptions of the at the Kian Sa District Office in two projects being remarkably Surat Thani, presented himself on similar. Lucky Complex to be June 1 to Chalong Police Station The original Ao Phuket to deny charges of extortion and project, would be built on reclaim- causing bodily harm. He was re- ed land off Saphan Hin and leased on bail of 150,000 baht. would include hotels, meeting and science learning center Col Jessada said, “K. Sas- conference facilities, shopping siri has told us nothing. He wants areas, a marina and an “IT city” to talk about it only in court.” that planners hope will lure high- By Jenjira Ruengjarus about 500,000 baht a month,” K. vided into three parts: a retail tech businesses from around the Anchalee said. “They signed the store area; an export goods area US consular world. PHUKET CITY: The Phuket contract before the tsunami, and run by the One Tambon, One According to a report in The Provincial Administration Orga- many investors and business own- Product (OTOP) group; and a services in Phuket Nation, TLM’s “Phuket Bay In- nization (OrBorJor) has failed to ers were interested in joining the duty-free zone. KARON: Officials from the Con- ternational City” is to be a long- secure funding for its grand plan project. Royal Sawasdee had al- “The new plan is to convert sular Section of the American stay resort located within Saphan to redevelop the area around the ready restored some parts [of the the first and second floors into an Embassy in Bangkok will visit Hin, designed as a complex that Lucky Complex at Saphan Hin complex] and they had a plan to IT section or an area for private Phuket on September 15 to pro- would include a conference cen- and will instead convert the va- create a duty-free plaza on the businesses,” she said.