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The Gazette is published in association with Huge heroin bust nets INSIDE 104 kilos in Rassada RASSADA (Kom Chad Luek): bers: Thais Sarayuth Ketsari- Police arrested a Thai man and niras, Sathit Paiboon-Issarakul, a Taiwanese national in posses- Manas Chaidee, Sumit Thana- sion of 104 kilos of heroin at a piromkul and Taiwanese national house in the Phuket City Home Chern Wan Ke. residential estate on the afternoon A warrant for the arrest of November 9, deputy national po- another Taiwanese, An Lung, al- lice chief Priewphan Damapong leged to be the leader of the announced at a press conference smuggling ring, has also been re- in Bangkok the following day. quested. Speaking at the Royal Thai The two suspects had hid- Police Drug Suppression Division den the drugs in a double-lined headquarters on Viphawadee- concrete structure beneath the Rangsit Rd, Gen Priewpan iden- home’s concrete kitchen floor. Looking Back tified the two suspects as 29- The high-tech hiding place in- Read about King Chulalon- year-old Pongthat Pong- cluded a hydraulic lift device that korn's nine-month European thirasakul, a resident of Chalong would mechanically lift the stash tour aboard Royal Steamer Village 1, and his Taiwanese ac- Thai police and DEA agent Andre Kellum show the 261 bricks of from its hiding place at the push Maha-Chakri. See page 29. complice Kuo Tak Tsai, 42. heroin confiscated from the Southern Dragon gang at a home in of a button. . Armed with a search war- Rassada on November 9. Photo by Supachai Petchtewee. The gang used the home to News: Phuket to export rant, police arrested the pair store bricks of heroin until they snakehead fish; Patong without incident and seized 261 known as the “Southern Drag- Chief Lt Gen Wutti Liptapanlop could be concealed inside gas cyl- carnival update; Brit ar- bricks of the drug on Sunday from ons”, led by Taiwanese national said the three-month investigation inders. These were then placed rested on drug charges. house number 74/267 in the Lan An Lung, would bring heroin into the gang’s activities included on small fishing boats that made Phuket City Home housing es- from the Golden Triangle through assistance from Police Region 5, their way out to sea. Pages 2 & 3 tate in Tambon Rassada. Thailand for distribution to Tai- the Third Area Naval Command, These, in turn, were met by Inside Story: Software Also seized as evidence in wan, Hong Kong, China and the DEA, federal authorities in larger vessels that would trans- update. The latest on the the case were three suitcases other countries in the region. Taiwan, and the Phuket Provin- port the contraband to ports new software park. used to carry the drugs, three The gang was the largest cial Police. abroad. mobile phones and 25 keys. known Taiwanese heroin smug- Representing the DEA at The bust came in the sec- Pages 4 & 5 The arrest followed a tip- gling ring operating in the Far the press conference was one of ond week of the government’s lat- Lifestyle: Take a look at off early in August by the US East, the DEA agents told their its officers, Andre W. Kellum. est “war on drugs,” a 90-day the Phuket faces at the Drug Enforcement Administra- Thai counterparts. Lt Gen Wutti said arrest crackdown that authorities say new Mom Tri's Oasis. tion (DEA) to Thai police that Royal Thai Police Narcot- warrants have already been is- will run through the end of Janu- members of a drug-dealing gang ics Suppression Bureau Police sued for five more gang mem- ary 2009. Pages 16 & 17

AROUND THE SOUTH 6; AROUND THE NATION 7; Emergency helicopter service launched AROUND THE REGION 8; PHUKET: Bangkok Hospital bolster the government’s ongo- come cheap. It costs 2,000 baht AROUND THE ISLAND 10; Phuket has introduced a new ing initiative to make Phuket a per minute, which works out to RARE VINTAGE 11; PHUKET emergency Sky ICU and Flying medical hub. 120,000 baht for a one-hour PEOPLE 12 & 13; HAPPEN- Limousine service, dubbed Heli- The single-blade Euro- flight. INGS 14; HOROSCOPES 15; copter EC145 will be kept at the The lofty price tag is partly MOTORING 18; WHAT’S ON copter Emergency Medical Ser- Phuket Police Aviation Helibase due to the chopper itself, which 19; MONEY TALKS, ON T HE vices or HEMS. MOVE 20; TAKE A BREAK Hospital Director Dr Kong- in Phuket City, and will be on cost around 240 million baht. 23 & 24; OFF THE SHELF, kiat Kespecharaof stated that standby 24-hours a day. The new helicopter, which EDITORIAL & LETTERS 26; Bangkok Hospital Phuket’s prompt The service will extend to seats up to eight people, will also FIRST PERSON 27; TALKING and extensive helicopter service places such as Koh Phi Phi, Koh be available for charter through- PLANES 28; PROPERTY 33-38 over the Andaman coast will serve Lanta, Khaolak and Koh Racha. out the region for ‘high-end’ fam- to reinforce tourist confidence and Such a service does not ily groups. 2 PHUKET GAZETTE NEWS November 15 - 21, 2008 British man arrested on multiple drug charges

KATHU: The government’s 90- Tung Tong Police drug suppres- paraphernalia. day “war on drugs” that started sion unit raided a room on Soi After her arrest, Mrs Tan- on November 3 claimed its first Pailin, off Nanai Rd in Patong. chanok identified her supplier as foreign casualty in Phuket in the Acting on a tip-off from in- Mr Neville. early morning hours of Novem- formants, they arrested six Thai She placed a call to him, Phuket Islamic Council chairman Bamroong Samphaorat (with ber 8, when a middle-aged Brit- people caught smoking ya Ice in asking for more narcotics and po- goatee) and Phuket Governor Preecha Ruangjan (right) hand out gifts ish man was caught in possession the room. lice arrested Mr Neville when he to Muslim children as part of the Hajj farewell activities at the airport of Ice (crystal methamphet- The group identified their came to deliver 38.8 grams of Ice on the morning of November 9. amine) and other narcotics with supplier as a woman nicknamed and 10.6 grams of cocaine. intent to sell. “Saeng” and led police to her A subsequent search of Mr Kathu Police Superinten- room in the Tulip Apartments, Neville’s home on Chao Fah East Local Muslims begin sacred journey dent Col Grissak Songmoonnark also on Nanai Rd. Rd in Chalong uncovered larger MAI KHAO: Phuket Governor the Phuket Provincial Culture identified the suspect as UK na- In the room, police found stashes of Ice (200 grams) and Preecha Ruangjan and other top Office. The pilgrims will make tional Peter Neville, aged 45. 34-year-old Tanchanok “Saeng” cocaine (50.89 gram), along with officials attended a ceremony at their way on four consecutive Mr Neville was arrested at Holm and 32-year-old Somjit an undisclosed amount of hash- Phuket International Airport on flights, the first two by Thai Air- 2:45 am after he was caught de- Noophad, who was armed with ish. Sunday, November 9 to send off ways and the others by Iran Air. livering 38.8 grams of Ice and a Thai-style shot gun. They also Mr Neville faces multiple some 250 local Muslims leaving Gov Preecha earlier stopped 10.6 grams of cocaine to a Thai recovered two 12-gauge shell charges of illegal possession of to attend the annual Hajj pilgrim- by Mifada Hulmumeeneen Mosque woman in a sting operation. casings. narcotics with intent to sell. age to Saudi Arabia, local Thai- in Tambon Pa Khlock, where he The sequence of events Police recovered from the “Peter is not a big drug traf- language news sources have re- met with the local imam and elected that led to Mr Neville’s arrest room, without incident, 6.06 ficker. The police will continue to ported. officials. began at 8:10 pm the day before, grams of Ice, 3 ya bah (meth- investigate this network and make Also attending the farewell Such visits are a good way to when a combined Kathu and amphetamine) pills, and drug more arrests,” Col Grissak said. were Phuket Senator Thanyarat get to know the local people and un- Atchariyachai, Phuket Provincial derstand their problems, said Gov Administration Organization Preecha, adding that he was still (OrBorJor) President Paiboon learning his way around the island. Night of revelry turns to Upatising, Phuket Islamic Council Gov Preecha said he intends chairman Bamroong Samphaorat, to visit mosques, temples and and other community representa- churches across the island to bet- tives and officials. ter familiarize himself with Phuket. tragedy for young Brits Phuket Culture Office chief The Governor started his Thaweechart Intarrarit said the Sunday at 6 am with a one-hour 250 pilgrims who left for Mecca radio broadcast. Then, after the yesterday were the first of more morning event at the airport, he at- Tourist dies in mystery fall than 1,000 Muslims from Phuket, tended the finals of the Phuket PATONG: A young English Rat-U-Thit 200 Pee Road at ap- no reports that anybody was Phang Nga, Krabi and Ranong Open Volleyball in Karon. tourist mysteriously fell from a proximately 2 am. chasing him at the time. who will make the pilgrimage He finished up his day in building in Patong in the early He was rushed to Patong He climbed into the der- departing from Phuket Airport. Rawai, where at 7:30 pm he pre- hours of November 3 and died Hospital, but died on the way. elict building and lost his foot- Muslims make up about sided over the official opening of en route to hospital. Mr Nason’s friend was ing on the first or second floor, 27% of Phuket’s predominantly Loy Kratong activities at Nai Kathu Police Superinten- shocked when he learned of his falling to the ground and hitting Buddhist population, according to Harn Lake. dent Colonel Grissak Songmoon- friend’s death. his head on a metal support bar. nark identified the deceased from He said they had gone out Col Grissak refused to spec- his passport as Brithish national on the town that night and split up ulate on any aspect of the case Joseph John Nason, age 22. at about midnight. until more evidence becomes Mr Nason and a friend, aged He said he had no idea how available, and he declined to put 19, had just arrived in Phuket on a Mr Nason ended up in the area an estimate on when such evi- flight from Bangkok. They were where the tragedy occurred, dence might emerge. staying at the Deevana Patong which is a densely populated A special team has been Resort & Spa on Rat-U-Thit neighborhood not far from the assigned to investigate, he said. 200 Pi Road, he said. landmark Montana Grand Phuket The British Embassy was The critically-injured Mr hotel. notified of the tragedy and Mr Nason was discovered lying un- Police say Mr Nason was Nason’s family have repatriated conscious in front of a derelict seen running though the area his remains to their home in the three-story shophouse on a soi off before his fall, though there were south of England. An Apple a Day...?

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KOH KAEW: On November 7, ene (HDPE) pipe as part of its in Thai, are also noted for their rapid Phuket Governor Preecha post-tsunami assistance program growth. Even when farmed at high Ruangjan accompanied the head for the region. density, they can reach up to three of the Department of Fisheries on The HDPE pipe supports to four kilograms in just seven an inspection of a snakehead fish three large floating baskets, each months. Governor Preecha said farm at Leam Hin. containing around 10,000 snakehead he would like to see the fish be- The project received assis- murrel, which are highly prized in come a major Phuket export, ri- tance from the Norwegian gov- Japan, Taiwan and the EU for their valing Scandinavian salmon. Last ernment, which provided the fish tasty white meat. year, snakehead fish exports to- farm with high-density polyethyl- Snakehead fish, or plaa chon taled 82 tonnes. Patong Carnival delayed PIMEX 2008 to be biggest ever Organizers put off parade for six weeks KOH KAEW: Despite current Yacht Group, who recently ac- 2008 is the emergence of new economic worries, interest in the quired the rights to the event, an- brands from mainland China, This year’s Phuket Carnival will money on an event that could be PIMEX 2008 marine and lifestyle nounced that 90 exhibiting com- some of which are exhibiting this take place from December 15 to ruined by rain,” he said. exhibition remains strong. panies and close to 50 yachts are year. 20 at Patong Beach, some six “And we are still getting a Bookings are still being ac- expected in 2008. Of course, all the elec- weeks after the traditional start- lot of rain even this far into No- cepted for the December event, Informa Yacht Group has tronics and engines, plus other ing date of November 1. vember,” he observed. which looks set to be the biggest also hosted other maritime exhi- accessories and equipment that Phuket Deputy Mayor However, he added that the show to date. bitions including the Monaco go with the marine lifestyle, will Chairat Sukban said this year’s new municipal council executive PIMEX 2008 will be held at Yacht Show. also be on show. events will differ slightly from officers had only recently taken the Royal Phuket Marina Exhibi- Luxury motor yachts afloat Several property and resi- carnivals in past years, which up their new positions following tion and Conference center, with in 2008 will include Sunseeker, dential marina projects will also have featured top rock acts in- local government elections on 2,500 square meters of air-con- Gulf Craft, Chris Craft, Princess, be exhibiting at the show. cluding Modern Dog and even a July 27. ditioned display space adjacent to Riviera, Pershing, Ferretti, A full roster of confirmed performance once by the full They therefore needed the marina, which houses about Maritimo, Crowneline, Cranchi, exhibitors is displayed in the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra. more time to plan the carnival as 40 yachts. Sunnav, Horizon, and Mustang, “exhibitors” section of the Instead, this year’s enter- well as many other upcoming Going in to its sixth year, the Three of the yachts are over show’s official website, which tainment will mostly feature dis- events. show is the largest on-water boat 70-feet long. can be found at: www. phuketboat plays of traditional Thai culture These include the three- show in the region and serves as For sailing enthusiasts, show.com performed by university students day national mourning period for the premier showcase for the Jeanneau, Bavaria Yachts, and There are just two remain- brought in from various regions Her Royal Highness the late boating and marine leisure indus- Hanse will all be represented as ing marina berths for exhibitor use, across the country. Princess Galyani Vadhana, that tries. well as a number of catamarans. and limited space is still availabe These will take place on the begins next Friday; the Loy Event organizers Informa A new development in in the air-conditioned hall. main stage at Loma Park as well Kratong Festival on November as on two smaller stages: one 24; and celebrations for HM The near the police box on the beach King’s Birthday on December 5, at the foot of Soi Bangla and the he explained. other on the beach near the Holi- Apart from staged perfor- day Inn Resort. mances nightly from 7 am to 11 This year’s carnival will be pm, other highlights this year will organized into a number of zones. include: These will include zones for One December 15: Fireworks perfor- Tambon One Product (OTOP) mance after dusk sales, arts and culture displays, December16: Beach cleanup spa and massage services, and and a longtail boat competition off food an beverage services. Loma Park, 9 am; Deputy Mayor Chairat ad- December 17: Adventure Com- mitted that the heavy rains petition, Loma Park, 9 am; throughout last year’s carnival December 20: Fancy Parade were the main reason for post- along the beach road at 5 pm, fin- poning the event until mid-De- ishing at Loma Park. cember, when the chance of a Mr Chairat said that the rain-out is statistically remote. beach road would only be closed Now in its 23rd year, this to traffic during the parade but year’s event will be funded with would remain open during the 7 million baht from Patong Mu- rest of the event. nicipality, Mr Chairat said. Most of the activities will “It would be a shame to take place along the beach-side waste that much taxpayers’ promenade, he said. 4 PHUKET GAZETTE INSIDE STORY November 15 - 21, 2008

appearance that will blend in fter a long wait, the dream of nicely with the Nakkerd Hillsides turning Phuket into a paradise for in the background. The roof, supported by Asoftware developers from around metal poles, is completely sepa- Phuket to the world will come one step closer to rated by air from the main struc- reality early next year, with the opening ture; serving more as a sort of permanent canopy than as a con- of the first phase of Software Park Phuket. ventional roof. Asina Pornwasin of The Nation and the The project will be devel- Gazette’s Atchaa Khamlo report. oped in phases. When completed, it will have three main features: rental space, an “incubation cen- oftware Park Phuket’s The park will occupy 10 rai ter,” and a research and devel- dual aim is to enable located off the northbound lane of opment center. Phuket’s tourism and Chao Fa East Rd, about one kilo- In its initial phase, following Shospitality industries to im- meter north of Kajonkietsuksa investment of about 25 million prove their services with the use School. baht, the park will have 1,250 of software and technology, as well Mr Kongkiat is confident square meters of floor space in a as to attract foreign software de- that Phuket has the human re- three-story building, structural velopers to set up operations in source potential for the project to work on which has already been Phuket, Software Park Phuket di- be a success. completed by project contractor rector Kongkiat Kespechara ex- “Phuket is ready for this Muang Eak Built Up Co Ltd. An artist’s conception of the completed project, as viewed from above. plains. software park and is aiming high The first-phase building will The park is owned and op- to become a software develop- have room for ten companies, erated by Blue Lagoon (Thai- ment center hosting many global with half of the units expected to Phuket currently has about tions of the incubation center land), a new subsidiary of Phuket firms. Phuket has two main at- be ready for business when it 30 software firms. After Soft- would be partially supported by property company Anuphas tributes to support the park: a opens in mid-January. Currently, ware Park Phuket opens its doors Science Park Thailand. As well, Group. Run by the family of high-speed telecommunications three software companies – and is fully contracted, that num- support in setting up and operat- Phuket Senator Phummisak network around the island and Phuket Software Factory, Open ber is expected to rise by at least ing the Phuket incubation center Hongyok, the group’s business three educational institutions pro- Source Technology, and Interna- 10, he said. would come from Software Park interests include three Shell ser- ducing 200 tech graduates a tional Medical Software – are The main features of the Thailand, with the same set of vice stations on the island, six car year,” he said. contracted tenants, Mr Kongkiat park’s incubation center will be services as those offered in the and motorcycle dealerships in the Project architect Suttipong said. facilities and services to foster Bangkok park, including training region, and large tracts of largely- “Puen” Rattadilok said the dis- The main building should be promising new enterprises. These curricula and lecturers. undeveloped land known as tinctive design behind the first completely finished around the will include business consultancy, In its research and develop- Chao-Fah City in Tambon Wichit, building, with its gently sloping first week of December, after marketing services and business ment center, Software Park where Software Park Phuket is roof, is aimed both at saving en- which tenants can begin working matching. Phuket will provide a software- being developed. ergy and at giving it an attractive on fittings and interiors. The center will aim mainly testing lab for local open-source to incubate ventures based on developers as well as those from service-oriented architecture around the world. (SOA), with the hope of encour- “We will provide tools and aging local software firms to de- facilities, such as a server and velop “plug-in” software applica- network, to attract open-source tions for tourism and hospitality software developers from around services. the globe to come here. We hope “We will try to lead software to build a community of develop- development for the tourism and ers by leading them to set up de- hospitality industry. We will guide velopment centers in Phuket,” he and incubate ventures utilizing said. SOA technology to develop soft- Software Park Phuket’s ware that can be plugged into R&D center will also provide fa- existing applications – for ex- cilities for software firms devel- ample, the development of a oping disaster-management solu- face-recognition application, by tions. In this service, the park will using SOA, to help improve tour- join with the Asian Institute of ism services,” Mr Kongkiat said. Technology’s (AIT) Inter Lab. In its first phase, the opera- The park is currently seek- November 15 - 21, 2008 INSIDE STORY PHUKET GAZETTE 5 get a software park at last ing a joint venture partner for its they think the project “looks real” slowed Phuket’s Internet to snail nificant” plans for the park to backup generators to smooth out second phase, in which its rental and could be a real boon to the speed for 5 months. Even under provide tools and facilities such the daily electrical spikes, dips, space will be expanded to more island’s nascent IT industry. ideal circumstances, Phuket’s as a shared server and network brownouts and blackouts in than 6,000 square meters in a “My five-year-old son has Internet speeds and reliability lag to attract software developers Phuket’s power grid,” he said. seven-story structure with of- a real aptitude for math and sci- behind those of neighboring coun- from around the world. Mr Bareiss said he was also fices, 40 apartments and facilities ence. I would love for him to have tries, and way behind those of “A LAN server and ca- concerned about a host of cur- including coffee shops, restau- as an opportunity to work in IT in Asian IT powerhouses like bling are cheap and easy to set rent economic downturns and rants and a grocery store. Phuket when he grows up,” he Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, up, and a smart business devel- political turmoil that might over- Work on the second phase said. and Japan. I hear Internet speed oping proprietary software whelm any advantages that the is scheduled to begin in the first IT writer and consultant and reliability complaints daily would never risk a security software park offers to businesses quarter of next year, for comple- Seth Bareiss was less optimistic. here, the likes of which I did not breach by putting that data on a considering moving to Phuket. tion before an official launch in Commenting on the original hear during the entirety of my LAN that’s not exclusively On a more positive note, he October 2009. report about the project that eight years in Japan. Also, prom- owned, made, and run by that mentioned that the Thai govern- “We need investment of ment has taken two important about 100 million baht for the sec- steps forward to attract ICT busi- ond phase, so we need partners nesses: who have know-how and skills in “SIPA’s streamlining of gov- management and marketing. We ernment red tape such as visa and are happy to consider both local and work permit processing will help. foreign partners,” Mr Kongkiat “Also, government efforts said. to educate Thailand’s IT and Since Software Park Phuket clerical staff in open-source soft- is a member of the Asia Oceania ware, and to modify open-source Software Park Alliance, and will be software so that it can handle the one of the hosts of the International Thai language, is also a positive Software Park Forum 2009, the development. The potential cost park plans to kick off its second savings are significant. Thailand phase at that event. should be loudly applauded for Other government agencies facilitating use of the many free, interested in running projects out 90% compatible open-source al- of the park include the Mass ternatives,” he said. Rapid Transit Authority of Thai- He also thinks Thailand has land, which is considering using potential as a hub for computer the park to organize an eco- animation businesses, and won- friendly “green car” technology ders why this hasn’t been men- center in the future. tioned more prominently in dis- If all goes according to plan, cussions of Phuket’s development the park will also allow technol- as an ICT community. ogy students from local universi- “I have heard that Thailand’s ties, like Prince of Songkla Uni- computer schools are filled with versity Phuket Campus and animation experts, the rare sort of Phuket Rajabhat University, to people who are talented in both art get their on-the-job training on the and IT. This is a big resource that island, without having to travel to should be mentioned in any dis- Bangkok. Already six students This striking first-phase building at Software Park Phuket is scheduled to open in mid-January 2009. cussion about developing an ICT have been chosen to begin train- paradise in Thailand. ing at the park in January, Mr touted “a high-speed telecommu- ises of FTTx local fiber optic lines company. If, instead, they are “Animation, even com- Kongkiat said. nications network around the is- in Phuket are past due, with no referring to Internet webspace puter-based animation, is ex- The Software Park Phuket land,” he said, “The reporter has signs of coming anytime soon.” host servers, note that Thailand’s tremely labor intensive, and it project, and its likelihood of suc- spent too much time sampling “Even Cambodia and Viet- broadband access to the world- needn’t suffer from the same cess, has been the topic of some Patong’s beverages, and zero time nam have faster and more reli- wide web outside Thailand is mis- level of language problems as discussion among the island’s reading about the crippling ‘Great able Internet than Phuket. In erably slow. Putting one’s web other ICT businesses... so this small community of expat IT spe- Internet Meltdown’ that almost some hotels and apartment build- server in Thailand would be field is truly a place for Thailand’s cialists. completely shut down e-business ings in Hong Kong, just two floors worthwhile only if the website’s developing ICT industry to stand Freelance computer sys- here during the first half of 2007,” have more Internet bandwidth visitors are also in Thailand,” he out, even to compete favorably tems security analyst Ignacio he said. than all of Thailand,” he com- said. “I would much rather hear with worldwide leaders in anima- Evans said most of the island’s “We don’t know whether it mented. whether the project has grounded tion such as Korea and Japan,” IT specialists he talked to say will happen again, or why it He also described as “insig- wiring, massive UPSes, and he concluded. 6 PHUKET GAZETTE AROUND THE SOUTH November 15 - 21, 2008 Nakhon Sri crackdown on influencial figures continues Deputy president arrested on extortion and firearm charges

he Deputy President of the Tha Chana District of that prov- At least 12 of the victims Nakhon Sri Thammarat ince. He is also thought to be be- were in critical condition. A TProvincial Administration hind a protection racket in Trang’s woman had been reported as dy- Organization (OrBorJor) has Rassada District. Described by ing from the explosion, but au- been arrested on charges of ex- the Thai media as “The Wicked thorities said she was still fight- tortion and firearms offenses in Tiger of Phattalung”, he is report- ing for her life at the local Sukhirin the latest move in the ongoing edly suspected of involvement in Hospital. crackdown on “influential fig- a total of 32 murders since 1976. The homemade explosive ures” in the province following The arrest of Mr Anand was packed inside a 50-kilogram the high-profile murder of a jour- comes just over two weeks after fire extinguisher placed inside a nalist in August. the arrest of Nakhon Sri sedan that was parked alongside On November 5, Anand Thammarat OrBorJor President the private vehicles of officials Klagchan, 43, gave himself up to Withun Dechadacho on firearms attending the meeting. Cha-uat Police Deputy Superin- charges. Police believe local poli- Minutes later, a second tendent Montri Jaiklaew. Mr ticians to be behind the killing of bomb tied to a motorbike was Anand, the younger brother of Matichon journalist Athiwat detonated near a teashop. former Cha-uat Police Superin- Chainurat, who was shot dead on The following day, arsonists tendent of Pol Col Phithak August 1. However, police have set fire to a public school in Pattani Klangchan, faces charges of car- not yet released the names of any and Narathiwat, while gunmen rying a firearm in public and ex- suspects. shot dead four local residents in tortion. The charges were made Lt Gen Santhan said that the separate incidents in Yala as vio- following allegations that Mr A policeman shows the identity card of Kalaya Nuklai, 47, who ongoing operations against “influ- lence flared up again in the in- Anand, 43, was linked to 57-year- was gunned down by insurgents on a road in Yala’s Raman district ential people” in Nakhon Sri surgent Deep South. old Jerm Seng-iat. on November 6. Thammarat was the fiercest op- Also known as “Jorm Jon eration of its kind in the history Woeful wedding: A Civilian Kai Muk”, which translates as pistols and shotguns. All the Mr Anand’s arrest follows of the province. Defence Corps volunteer was Bandit Chief Kai Muk, Mr Jerm seized weapons will be kept while an allegation from rubber planta- In the past, police had been shot dead at a wedding in Nakhon is suspected of running protection checks are done to determine if tion-owner Kachakon Saengrung too cowed by the power of such Sri Thammarat’s Bang Khan Dis- rackets in the area. they have correct permits or have that last year Mr Anand called figures to enforce the law, which trict in the early hours of Novem- In the early hours of No- been used in any crimes, police him for a meeting with Mr Jerm had allowed frequent killings to ber 3. vember 4, police led by Region 8 said. to discuss a demand for protec- go unpunished. Police have to be Volunteer Sayan Wansanit, Police Commissioner Lt Gen In the houses of two sus- tion money of 200,000 baht. The considered partly to blame for the 34, was sitting drinking tea at a Santhan Chayanon and Nakhon pects, Khlong Wongjui and Somjit demand was originally made in province’s crime problems, he ad- friend’s wedding in Village 1, Sri Thammarat Provincial Police Noosai, police did not find any 2004 when Mr Jerm was still in mitted. Tambon Bang Khan, at 12:10 in Commander Maj Gen Sarawuth weapons. prison, it is alleged. At the meet- “The weapons seized in the the morning when a man walked Phiranon raided eight houses be- Police took all the suspects ing, Mr Anand said that Mr searches, especially the M16, will through the crowd of celebrants longing to Mr Anand and seven to Cha-uat Police Station for Kachakon should now pay Mr have to be carefully examined. and shot him several times in the of his associates. Mr Anand was questioning. While the suspects Jerm two million baht in protec- We suspect they may have been head and body. Mr Sayan, from not in at the time so police did not were being interrogated, Pleuang tion money, Mr Kachakon al- used in crimes in Songkhla’s Chang Klang District, died at the enter his home. Police said they Noosai, a former member of the leged. Haad Yai District as well as in scene. suspect he was warned of the raids OrBorJor Nakhon Sri Thammarat, Mr Kachakon said he re- neighboring provinces, including After the shooting, the gun- in advance. came to follow the proceedings. fused to pay, but did not bring the Nakhon Sri Thammarat,” Lt Gen man ran back through the crowd At 11am that day, police After noticing that Mr Pleuang matter to police attention until Santhan said. and escaped in a pickup truck, announced the results of the was wearing a .45 pistol, Maj Gen after October 12 this year. The Any police officers found to witnesses reported. searches. In the house of Sompong Sarawuth ordered that the weapon report followed an attack on his be associated with these influen- Investigating Officer Phichai Kimsaeng they found an M16 be confiscated and checked to property by unknown assailants, tial figures would be immediately Phuphrommin from Bang Khan assault rifle with two magazines see if Mr Pleuang had a permit who shot at a house on his rub- transferred out of the province, Police said that witnesses had and 109 rounds of ammunition. In for it. ber plantation in Tambon Khao he said. identified the gunman as Somphon the houses of Sanit “Kamnan After finding that Mr Pleuang Phraong, Cha-uat District with an Ratsadon, 34, a long-time enemy Wer” Eua-bamrungkiat, Surasak did not have a permit for the assault rifle and hacked down Bloody week: Suspected insur- of the victim. Riankham, Somkit Tutkeua and weapon, Maj Gen Sarawuth or- about 70 trees. Two notes de- gents, blending in with some 300 Police are now preparing Amnat Chuwichai police seized dered him arrested and charged manding two million baht, alleg- village headmen and officials, set evidence to request a warrant for a total of six firearms, including immediately. edly from Mr Jerm, were left at off a car bomb near the venue of Mr Somphon’s arrest, Lt Col the scene. a monthly meeting in Sukhirin Phichai added. Mr Jerm, who has spent a District, Narathiwat, on Novem- total of 27 years in prison, already ber 4. Seventy people were hurt Around the South news round- has an arrest warrant out for him in the attack, which police said up is sourced from the pages of from Surat Thani Provincial was meant to inflict maximum The Nation, Daily Xpress and Court for an extortion case in damage. Kom Chad Luek newspapers. November 15 - 21, 2008 AROUND THE NATION PHUKET GAZETTE 7

hree provinces in the Northeast have been identified as the major Tentry points of illegal Drug busts rise, and danger too drugs in Thailand. According to a report by the Office of Narcot- have sought medical treatment tion Commission, public prosecu- more people expected to be ics Control Board (ONCB), ille- for malaria infection in recent tors filed charges against Lt Col thrown out of work. gal drugs are being smuggled into months, health records reveal. Sorasak in May 2007. Citing an official study, she Thailand mostly through Nong Department of Disease He was charged with de- said more than 70,000 people who Khai, Nakhon Phanom and Control chief Dr Somchai manding money from Mr were expected to lose their jobs Mukdahan provinces. Chakkrabhand said this year the Chalerm three times for 2,000 next year would return to their Drug smugglers are now number of Thai people infected baht each after Mr Chalerm filed home provinces to help their armed, making ONCB suppres- with malaria in the first nine a dud check complaint against families with farm work. sion more difficult since each ar- months was 20,506, while the another person. The budget request is part rest or raid could erupt into gun- number of migrant workers was Mr Chalerm, who gave him of a 100-billion-baht economic fights, said ONCB Secretary 20,803. Tak province is the worst the money in 2001, later decided stimulus package recently ap- General Krissana Pholanant. hit area with 4,471 cases; while to lodge a complaint against Lt proved by Cabinet. Labor Minis- The ONCB reported 1,230 Yala recorded 3,971 and Col Sorasak with his superiors, ter Uraiwan Thienthong has al- arrests in June, which is 11% Narathiwat 1,284 cases. leading to an NCCC investigation. ready made the request, but ap- higher than in May. A total of The number of migrant The court convicted Lt Col proval is pending. 63,382 amphetamine tablets were workers with malaria in increas- Sorasak for abusing his authority seized during the arrests, made ing in Chantaburi, Tak and Kan- to demand money from another Stress tabs: Heads of families also in Loei and Udon Thani. chanaburi provinces, said Dr person, which violated Article 201 or breadwinners in urban areas Each tablet is smuggled into Somchai. of the Criminal Code. in Bangkok and 18 other prov- Thailand at 75 baht to 250 baht. The overall number of ma- inces are suffering from stress They are then sold at prices rang- laria cases will probably be even Cereal killers: A new regula- due to political turmoil and eco- ing from 250 baht to 500 baht in higher next year, he added. tion now subjects food producers nomic woes, an Abac poll re- inner provinces away from the to a maximum fine of 20,000 baht vealed earlier this month. border. Poll positions: Almost half of and/or a prison term of between Of 3,293 respondents sur- Apart from routine police Bangkok residents say the gov- six months to two years if they veyed from October 10 to No- and anti-drug agents’ work, more ernment is paying too little atten- include toys and other inedible vember 1, 59% said they were patrols in the Mekong River and tion to forge national reconcilia- material in the same package as stressed out by the political insta- along borders are needed to bet- tion, the Abac Poll Research Cen- their products. bility, while 56% said they were ter tackle the problem. Public ter of Assumption University said Deputy Food and Drugs affected more by economic hard- participation and community as- in its survey released on Novem- Administration secretary general ship. sistance would also be useful in ber 7. Narangsan Pheerakij said on Respondents with bach- the ONCB operation against drug The opinion poll was con- November 5 that the new regu- elors’ degrees suffer more from trade and trafficking, Pol Lt Gen ducted on 2,487 respondents in lation does not apply to bags of politics compared to those with Krissana said. the capital and surrounding areas. dry ingredients or plastic eating lower education (74% to 56%). On the full mark of 10, the gov- utensils, such as those often found Those with lower education Depressing figures: The ernment receives a failing score in instant cup noodles or measur- suffered more from economic Mental Health Department will card of 4.4 points for its efforts ing spoons in powdered milk, all woes compared to those with seek a budget of at least 500 mil- to reconcile with the opposition of which are usually packaged bachelors’ degrees (62% to lion baht to fund a 10-year battle movement led by the People’s separately. 55%). against depression in Thai soci- Alliance for Democracy (PAD). Asked how they would re- ety. However, popular support Labor pains: The Labor Min- lax, 82% of them said they would About 3% of the Thai popu- for PAD was also found to be istry is seeking a 1.53-billion-baht travel with families while 17% Miss Ummarapas Jullakasian, lation is currently suffering from waning in the capital, down to budget to prepare for anticipated said they had no plans. The prov- depression. a 23-year-old beauty from about 28% from about 45% the massive layoffs next year. inces most chosen for their va- Bangkok, will be represent- Mental Health Department month before, the poll found. Of the request, 322 million cations were Chiang Mai (49%), ing Thailand in the Miss Deputy Director General Dr baht will be for the Labor Pro- Phuket (32%) and Chonburi World 2008 beauty pageant, Wachira Pengjuntr said on No- Rare victory: A policeman was tection and Welfare Department, (15%). which will be held November vember 5 that depression can lead jailed for five years for demand- 491 million for the Skills Devel- 16 through December 15 in to homicides as well as suicides. ing money from a man, claiming opment Department and 67.5 Johannesburg, South Africa. A study conducted from it was cost for “processing” a million baht for the Employment Around the Nation news round- Here she shows off one of 2006 to this year found that more case involving a bounced check. Department. The rest is for the up is sourced from the pages of the many garments she will than 800,000 Thais between the The Criminal Court found Lt Social Security Office and the The Nation, Daily Xpress and be wearing in the worldwide ages of 15 to 59 had occasional Col Sorasak Butsuwan of Lak permanent secretary’s office. Kom Chad Luek newspapers. competition. bouts with depression. Song District Police in Bangkok Amphorn Nitisiri, director The symptoms of depres- guilty of demanding money from general of the Labor Protection sion are chronic among 300,000 Chalerm Tanthinthong and sen- and Welfare Department, said her other Thais. tenced him to five years in jail. allocation would be spent on four Following an investigation major projects, including unem- Malaria outbreak: Over by the National Counter Corrup- ployment insurance for more and 40,000 people across the country 8 PHUKET GAZETTE AROUND THE REGION November 15 - 21, 2008 Box jelly fish found off Koh Phangan, experts called in

The jellyfish pictured on the left – thought to be a box jellyfish – was seen off Koh Phangan. In Phuket, the Phuket Marine Biological Center (PMBC) has issued an official warning following the collection of almost 40 box jellyfish in a trap in FROM THE shallow waters, off Ao Nambor, on Phuket's east coast. GULF OF Some 38 of the jellyfish, which favor shallow brackish THAILAND water, were recovered from a By Max Rogers fish trap in a mangrove area on July 30. Eighteen more were ollowing reports that box found in the same area over a jellyfish – one of the two-day collection period starting world’s most dangerous on October 20. The search for the deadly jellyfish creatures – have been F followed the reported death of a found off Phuket and Phi Phi is- Swedish tourist off Koh Lanta, lands, there have also been re- where another person was ported sightings of the venomous reported stung on April 3 this floater off the waters of Koh year. Phangan. Those reports are now A search off Koh Lanta being investigated. on August 22 recovered 13 The box jellyfish is one of specimens. the most poisonous creatures in the sea, with a sting that can be A box jellyfish – known as one of the most poisonous species in the world – seen off Koh Phangan. fatal. However, the box jellyfish is not indigenous to the warm Hotels and other facilities Patients in need of more in- Some of the young ladies Direct flights to KL begin waters in the Gulf of Thailand. are being advised to stock vinegar tensive care will be transferred that were accompanying the men Experts from Australia and as a part of their standard first to the Koh Samui branch and will were said to have been receiving Malaysian based airline Firefly Japan, where the jellyfish is more aid equipment. Furthermore, any further have access to air trans- unwelcome solicitations from the has begun a direct flight service common, have been asked to person reporting a jelly sting fer to Bangkok branches of the teenage group. from Koh Samui to Kuala come and assist with the unusual should seek immediate medical hospital if necessary. After the men asked for the Lumpur, Malaysia. Firefly is add- marine phenomenon. Although attention. The hospital also works in behaviour to stop, the gang of ing the route to their existing reports of box jellyfish in the re- conjunction with the Koh Tao In- youths waited outside the club for flights, which currently fly four gion are certainly rare, they are New international hospital ter Clinic, making services and the group to appear. times a week from Koh Samui not altogether new. for Koh Phangnan transfers to their other facilities After a short exchange, wit- to Penang. Divers reportedly saw the easily available. nesses report that two of the teen- The flights are welcomed by Cubozoa more than six years ago One of the most popular and trust- agers pulled out guns and began Koh Samui residents who com- in the waters near Koh Tao and worthy International hospitals on Fatal Attraction shooting. plained of the monopoly that one swimmer’s death was attrib- Koh Samui has recently opened Kitti Janthet, 25, was fatally Bangkok Airways has maintained uted to the animal in 2002. a branch on the neighbouring is- One man was killed and several wounded in the attack while four since the opening of their private The decision to further study land of Koh Phangan. others injured in a dispute outside others were seriously injured. airport about 20 years ago. the creature came after the son Bangkok Hospital has ex- one of Koh Samui’s most popu- The four, Uthen Phrom- The airline, which is owned of an Australian journalist was panded its services to the island lar nightspots. thatip, 27; Suwatpat, 32; Vatchara by Malaysia Airlines, will be fly- stung while swimming near Koh to cater directly to the needs of Police report that a group of Kandee, 28; and Chakree Chairat, ing from Subang, Kuala Lumpur Mak in Trat Province earlier this the islands’ residents and tourists seven men from Bangkok were 32, were all rushed to hospital to Koh Samui four times a year. without the hassle and sometimes caught up in the altercation that where they were treated for gun- week. He made the decision to life-threatening, lengthy transfer resulted in a fatality. shot wounds to their torsos and The maiden flight took alert the authorities in the Public times to its Koh Samui branch. A group of Samui teenag- legs. place on October 26, with many Health and Safety sector, includ- The new site is located on ers is being investigated after Police are investigating of the airline’s executives and ing the Tourism boards, and found the Ban Tai Road and will allow witnesses and closed circuit tele- rumours that the young perpetra- officials from the Tourism Au- that they were totally unaware patients immediate access to a full vision have identified them as tors are members of a group thority of Thailand on board. The that the creature poses such a range of professional medical being involved in the shooting. known as the “Red Dragon touch down was marked with great risk to those who come into care. The facilities will be open The seven young Thai men Gang” who have been known to celebration. contact with it. 24 hours a day and will offer were visiting the island, and were cause trouble around the island. However, authorities have emergency equipment including out for an evening of dancing at Pol Col Saharat Sang- stressed that there is no immedi- ambulance services, home and one of the clubs in Soi Green sinchai told reporters the attack Looking for a job? ate threat to public safety due to hotel calls, X-rays and labora- Mango, a friend of one of the vic- was “ruthless” and pledged to See PhuketGazette.Net the rarity of such sightings. tory services. tims told police. capture all of those responsible. November 15 - 21, 2008 PHUKET GAZETTE 9

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Producing such sugary effect of reducing the yield and flected sunlight and warmth back Rare wines in the northern part of Italy, advancing the concentration of onto the grapes. where the climate was less tem- the grapes. When harvesting, Given this very peculiar mi- vintage perate than in the south, presented great attention is paid to select cro-climate, Allegrini decided in by Dale Nottingham something of a challenge. The only the healthiest grapes, which 1979 to attempt to make a wine relatively early onset of the rainy means that the cluster should be without employing the traditional he sleepy serenity of season meant that the grapes wide open so that the air can cir- drying process that is used to lake Garda and the foot- were not able to fully ripen out in culate through it, keeping the make Amarone. They found they hills of the Italian Alps the vineyards. Therefore, to make grapes healthy and dry. were able to keep the grapes on Tmight seem a million the kind of sweet wine they were To improve the consistency the vines a lot longer, about three miles from the sun-kissed shores looking for, the Romans devel- of its wines, Allegrini introduced weeks more than they would nor- of Rawai. One balmy evening oped a special technique of dry- a system in 1988 of forced venti- mally do in the other vineyards. last week, however, these two ing the grapes. They would har- lation and air-conditioning to fur- This extra ripening process al- distant worlds collided, when vest the grapes just as the rainy ther enhance the drying and de- lowed Allegrini to make a very Alessandro Vallecchi dropped in season was about to start, and in hydration process of the grapes. powerful and concentrated wine at the Evason Phuket Resort & order to prolong the process of con- This has helped to eradicate prob- from fresh grapes. Six Senses Spa to share with the centration of sugar into the grapes, lems associated with excess hu- To many of his peers, assembled guests, a selection of they would place the grapes in midity, such as the formation of Giovanni Allegrini was considered wines from the famous house of vast rooms with huge open win- moulds. The essential character something of a lunatic, as he was “Allegrini”, a wine-making fam- dows and allow the natural air of a wine, the colours, the going against every piece of ily which has been living in the flowing through the room to con- flavours, its longevity and sub- conventional wisdom in the area area of Valpolicella, in northeast tinue the dehydration process. stance, comes from the skins of at that time. He was making a Italy, since the middle of the 15th This process allowed them the grapes. Therefore, the pres- single-vineyard wine; he was not century. to produce very bold, sugary ence of unwanted mould in the making a blend; and he was not us- Valpolicella is one of Italy’s wines. This is the heritage that production process of a wine can ing the drying process. However, oldest wine-making areas and is remains with Allegrini to this day. have dramatic and even cata- he was in fact a visionary. currently the second largest wine Although most of the wines Recioto is widely regarded as the strophic consequences. In a good year, only around producing region in the country, produced by Allegrini today are forefather of the wines of “La Poja” is undoubtedly 15,000 to 18,000 bottles of La after Sicily. In Valpolicella, the quite different from the kind of Valpolicella. the jewel in the Allegrini crown. Poja are made, compared with tradition of wine-making dates wines first developed by the Ro- Born out of Giovanni Allegrini’s 130,000 to 140,000 bottles of back thousands of years. mans, there is still one that re- tion process. With Recioto, the genius as an iconoclastic and vi- Amarone, making it something of The style of wine found in mains similar in character to those fermentation was interrupted to sionary wine-maker, La Poja has a collectors’ item and restricting Valpolicella today was greatly in- early wines. This wine, named retain more sugar in the wine. garnered accolades the world it to the most distinguished wine fluenced by the Romans, who “Retico” by the Romans, and With Amarone, they would con- over as a truly great wine. lists. founded the city of Verona, known today as “Recioto”, is the tinue to ferment the wine until At the Wine Spectators With Recioto, Amarone and nearby. When building the city sweetest of the wines made by almost all the sugar had turned “Wine Experience” in New York, La Poja respectively, Signor and fortifying the neighbourhood, Allegrini and is served as a des- into alcohol. La Poja was selected by the Vallecchi treated us to to the first, they discovered many farmers sert wine. Recioto is widely re- When they began serving American press as being one of the biggest and the best that who were producing grapes and garded as the forefather of the this new wine alongside the old- 12 wines that have “changed the Allegrini has to offer. And mag- making wines in their own cel- wines of Valpolicella. style Recioto, it quickly took on landscape of Italian wine-mak- nificent it was, too. Grazie mille. lars. The Romans duly named In the second half of the the name “Recioto Amare”, or ing”. La Poja is rightly credited Thanks too, to the Evason’s this area “Valpolicella”, meaning eighteenth century, another wine “Bitter Recioto”. This new wine as being the finest wine that resident sommelier, Monica the “Valley of Many Cellars”. was to emerge out of the shadow would later become known as Allegrini produces. Bielka-Vescovi, for orchestrating Although a small wine re- of Recioto. This wine was Amarone, and has now become This exceptional wine comes an excellent evening, and to Into gion, Valpolicella is very strategi- Amarone and is today probably the most important wine of from a tiny four-acre vineyard the Med’s Chef de Cuisine cally located from the point of even more important than Valpolicella. perched on a hillside some 450 Frederik Larsson for serving up view of climate. Nestling in the Recioto. Amarone owes its name Allegrini owns about 100 meters above sea level; the high- an array of dishes rich enough to foothills of the Alps, it is also very to the fact that it was an evolu- hectares (22 acres) of vineyards est of all the Allegrini plots. Situ- buy Manchester City. close to the country’s largest lake, tion of Recioto. As people’s tastes in the Valpolicella region, making ated close to lake Garda, the vine- As the members of the Lake Garda. The area itself was evolved, the wine-makers of the it one of the largest wine-making yard benefits from ample sunlight, “People’s Front of Judea” were once at the bottom of the sea, day began looking to produce a concerns in the area. Most of which is reflected off the water at pains to ask in Monty Python’s making the soil rich in shells and wine that was less sweet, less Allegrini’s wines are based on onto the vines, and which mitigates classic film The Life of Brian... calcium. Having arrived in the structured and less concentrated two varietals, with “Corvina” be- against the generally cooler tem- “Apart from the sanitation, area, the Romans set about mak- than Recioto. To achieve this they ing the most prominent variety; peratures that are normal at such the medicine, education, public ing wine for their own consump- reduced the drying period of the the other being “Rondinella”. an altitude. order, irrigation, roads, the fresh tion, which at the time was par- grapes from five months to The best Corvina grapes are Furthermore, this plot of water system, aqueducts and pub- ticularly sweet, to complement a around three-and-a-half to four to be found on the hillside vine- land is also very rich in limestone, lic health...what have the Ro- very spicy cuisine which was months. They also allowed the yards, where the soil is shallower making the soil as white as a mans ever done for us?” popular at the time. wine to complete the fermenta- and fertility lower. This has the sheet, shedding still more re- “How about the wine?” 12 PHUKET GAZETTE PHUKET PEOPLE November 15 - 21, 2008

Happily Ever After Meet Jon Fitch By James Goyder Recent weddings in Phuket ltimate Fighting Cham- pionships (UFC) super- Ms Saiporn Rak- star Jon Fitch recently sapon and Mr spent a month in Thongdee U Phuket. Jon, the number two Sricharoen were ranked fighter in the 170lbs divi- married at the Royal Phuket City Hotel sion of the UFC, the world’s pre- ballroom on October mier mixed martial arts (MMA) 31. competition, came to Thailand to spend a month training at Tiger Muay Thai, following a disap- pointing defeat in his last UFC outing. Jon had been on an incred- ible run of fifteen straight victo- ries which saw him given a shot at the UFC welterweight title, held by arguably one of the best pound-for-pound MMA fighters Ms Benjamart on the planet, Canadian George Jon Fitch has a huge international following and is a “big deal” in the Korranee and Mr St. Pierre. US and remains one of the world’s top MMA fighters. Tanatorn Tan- The fight took place in Au- combines elements of judo, jiu Muay Thai fighters will normally tisahasrangsi were gust and was the headline event jitsu and wrestling as well as have their first fight under full married at the in a UFC show witnessed by over Royal Phuket City Muay Thai. Jon comes from a Muay Thai rules at the age of five 20,000 people at the Target Cen- primarily wrestling background or six, and will often have fought Hotel ballroom on ter in Minneapolis, Minnesota and November 5. and has been working hard to more than 200 times by the age many more on pay per view improve his striking skills follow- of 25, at which point they are throughout the world. ing the loss to St. Pierre. generally accepted as being past The two men were both “My last fight exposed a lot their prime. standing after five rounds of in- of flaws in my game. I threw one Jon has clearly been struck tensive action but St. Pierre was low kick, which was technically by the cultural differences. awarded a judges decision to re- very bad and he made me pay “These guys fight all the tain his title. for it,” he said. time because they need the pay. Despite this disappointing By his own admission, Jon There’s one guy here who has defeat, the first of his UFC ca- was deeply affected by the loss fought twice in the month that reer, Jon is a very big deal in the to St. Pierre, his first since 2002. I’ve been here and he’s been cut US and remains one of the top “Losing sucks. I was in a both times. fighters in the world. So why did deep depression for a few weeks “In the US, if you get cut he decide to come to Phuket? and I needed to get away and re- you don’t train for three weeks “I’ve always wanted to invent myself. I think my Muay and that’s why we’re trying to in- come to Thailand to study Muay Thai has improved a great deal troduce them into MMA, be- Thai. I looked around and found since I have been here, as has cause they can make more Tiger Muay Thai and it seemed my flexibility. For the first time in money for fighting less. I only like a good camp. my life I can almost do the splits.” fight about three or four times a “A couple of my team Sitting comfortably at the year.’ mates had already trained here, top of the MMA ladder, Jon is Despite training twice a day and Alan Belcher trained here for rumoured to have received with the trainers at Tiger Muay a UFC fight, which he won im- around US$90,000 for the St. Thai Jon has still found time to pressively,” said Jon. Pierre fight. This type of money explore a little of Phuket. Mixed martial arts or MMA is unheard of in Thailand where “We’ve driven around the November 15 - 21, 2008 PHUKET PEOPLE PHUKET GAZETTE 13

Jon came to Phuket to refine his Muay Thai skills in preparation for another shot at the Jon gets in some grappling practice at Tiger Muay Thai. UFC title for his division next year. island, seen the beaches, seen the athletes. Plus, I haven’t seen a said Will. title shot but I don’t think I will more relaxed. We’ve been train- elephants and I even saw a gib- girl over 5ft 5 who isn’t a ladyboy Jon himself is equally effu- get the opportunity again until late ing twice a day, which is hard, bon climb into a taxi and start for three weeks!” sive. “The standard of training is 2009 or early 2010 and I am go- because your body takes time to drinking someone’s drink. For Will McNamara, the excellent here. Because they ing to have to win two, maybe adjust to the heat and humidity.” “I’ve been to Patong and owner of Tiger Muay Thai, it is a have so many people training three more fights to get back into Jon will showcase his new had a couple of beers but I’m 30 great privilege to have such a re- here, they can offer to pay the contention.” found Muay Thai skills in a UFC now and can’t drink the way I nowned fighter as Jon Fitch train- trainers more than those at other It seems likely that Jon’s show early next year. used to. ing at his camp. gyms, so I think they have the best first trip to Thailand will not be “I went to Karon yesterday “He’s one of the best MMA trainers.” his last. For more information on Jon to watch the volleyball. I have fighters in the world but he came So what does the future “I think I’ll come back again. Fitch, see www.fitchfighter.com always enjoyed watching women’s here to learn Muay Thai because hold for Jon? I’d like to and I’d like to bring my For more information about Ti- volleyball because volleyball girls he appreciates the trainers and “I will probably fight again girlfriend with me and stay for ger Muay Thai, visit the site at are usually the most attractive the program that we have here,” in January. I would like another two months and maybe be a bit www.tigermuaythai.com

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EDUCATION PRESENTATION: Secretary of the Basic Education Commission MR Kasama Warrawan Na Ayuthaya (2nd left) takes part in a handover ceremony ALL ABOARD: Phuket Governor Preecha Ruangjan (left) and Supreme Command in which five new buildings were presented for the Hongyok Anusorn Education Headquaters Affairs Specialist Songpol Prainupong (right) stand with Commander Center at Charermprakiat Somdej Phra Srinakarin School. Also present were Brian Shipman, who hosted an inspection tour of the USS Decatur while it was Phuket Mayor Paiboon Upatising (pink jacket) and members of the board from the anchored off Makham Bay last month. The US Navy warship had stopped off in the construction company that built the center. The total cost of the buildings Phuket waters to allow the crew a few days of R&R on the island before heading was put at 16.4 million baht. to her home port in California.

TALKING HOSPITALITY: The Hilton Phuket Arcadia Resort & Spa hosted SKAL International Phuket’s monthly dinner at the resort’s newly-opened Italian restau- rant Buon Appetito on October 16. Pictured here (from left to right) are; General IRISH EYES ARE SMILING: (From left to right) Democrat MP for Phuket Rewat Manager of Phuket Receptif Dave Chang; Blue Blanc Boat Captain Julien; Shafar Areerob and Irish Honorary Consul for Southern Thailand Hélène Fallon-Wood and Jamaludin; District Manager-Malaysia Airlines Zuraidi Saisi; Senior Vice President, her husband property developer Peter Wood celebrated the launch of the Irish-Thai Executive Search International, Norbert Hofmeister; and Executive Chef, Moeven- Chamber of Commerce in Phuket on October 10. pick Resort & Spa, Ameer Ibrahim Al-Ali.

SILK SCENE: Silk-screen artist Cindy Shaw (centre) at the opening of her exhibi- tion “East West Exchange” at the Boathouse gallery with husband Brian (right), son Tristan (2nd right) and visitors to the exhibition Sabine Lotz with son Max KEEPING UP COMMUNICATIONS: Public Relations Agencies Worldwide representa- (left), Maria-Teresa Schoubben (2nd left), and Hubert Schoubben (2nd right). On tives, led by President and Managing Director Ed Fuller, held their annual Marriott show until November 26 are silk-screened wall hangings, framed pieces, hand- International Public Relations Meeting to enhance their public relations network bound books and other gift items. at JW Marriott Phuket Resort & Spa, October 27–30. November 15 - 21, 2008 HOROSCOPES PHUKET GAZETTE 15

In The Stars by Isla Star Scorpios will have more spending power in the year ahead SCORPIO (October 24-Novem- chance encounter with Aries. who are single. The number three relate to personal matters, but one bargain is not all that it seems. ber 22): Those born under the sign Romance picks up pace when can bring some good luck next decision concerning work needs Communication with relations of Scorpio who are keen to see your invitation is accepted – Sun- Monday. urgent attention this week. overseas is well-starred and an the their bank balance move into day is the best day for impress- Wednesday is the best day for ongoing disagreement is forecast the black should experience re- ing that special someone. Fi- ARIES (March 21-April 20): coming up with a plan of action. to be resolved. lief this week. A glimpse of the nances require astute handling, Libra’s words need to be taken Close relationships can be kept pot of gold at the end of the rain- but your creativity should ensure with a grain of salt this weekend. on an even keel by not raking up VIRGO (August 23-September bow gives you a head start on that this doesn’t develop into a Many Arians will be in a vulner- the past. The future with Capri- 23): Your week ahead brings others. If your birthday is due this credit crisis. able state until the end of Novem- corn looks sunny, but clouds con- more satisfaction than the previ- week, the year ahead promises ber and could be blown away by tinue to affect a liaison with Ar- ous one. Those born under the to bring less drain on your fi- AQUARIUS (January 21-Febru- promises of quick gains. Jump- ies. sign of Virgo, who have recently nances and more opportunities to ary 19): Your talents for taking the ing to the wrong conclusion over embarked on a voyage of ro- succeed in business. rough with the smooth come in a romantic issue is also high- CANCER (June 22-July 23): mance, are forecast to learn more useful during the second half of lighted this week. Don’t assume Another water sign should make that pleases them. If you’re al- SAGITTARIUS (November 23- November. Unforeseen circum- that you know what is really go- your week one to remember. The ready in a committed relationship, December 21): Sagittarians suf- stances relating to romance could ing on without listening to your astral atmosphere for Cancerians expect your partner to surprise fering from lack of confidence cause Aquarians to make a rash partner. Wear the color copper to continues to improve and there you this weekend. An ongoing fi- are forecast to see improvement decision, but it would be best to encourage deeper wisdom. should be cause for celebration nancial dispute becomes less during the second half of Novem- tread water for a while before before the end of this month. If stressful when an agreement is ber. A Taurean’s words of praise doing so. A Leo friend asks you TAURUS (April 21-May 21): you are finding it difficult to un- reached early next week. Wear lighten your mood this weekend to accompany them on a magical Many Taureans could be suffer- derstand a partner’s mood the color hibiscus red to encour- and the stars offer support to mystery tour this weekend. If ing from boredom this week. Af- swings, stop trying to join them age a warmer attitude. employment applications. How- you’re thirsty for adventure, ter the busy month of October, on the roundabout. Personal ever, you should guard against there’s no need to think twice you have probably had enough space should be your focus dur- LIBRA (September 24-October making sudden job changes be- before accepting. time to recover during the first ing this unsettled period. The num- 23): In the world of work, there cause of temporary dissatisfac- half of November. However, the ber seven can bring some good are sudden changes forecast. tion. Tuesday is the most auspi- PISCES (February 20-March stars suggest that your search for fortune on Monday. These will affect those Librans cious day to investigate new in- 20): The shortest route is not al- new activities could cause a born towards the end of Sep- vestment possibilities. The num- ways the fastest. Pisceans who wrong move to be made during LEO (July 24-August 22): Em- tember most and should be re- ber eight can bring good fortune are tempted to cut corners could the coming days. An idea from ployment remains a source of dis- garded in a positive light. An- this weekend. end up losing out to more cun- Aquarius has the value of pea- content for many Leos, but there other air sign holds the key to a ning opposition. In the world of nuts, but Scorpio’s inspired sug- is light at the end of the tunnel. personal problem, but this per- CAPRICORN (December 22- romance, you appear to be gestion is worth its weight in gold. Pisces has an intriguing proposi- son needs to be approached January 20): Capricorns who blinded by love and this is guar- tion mid-week which could be a tactfully. Thursday is the best can’t find a way to get out of a anteed to result in disappointment. GEMINI (May 22-June 21): good focus for your creative tal- day for instigating a heart to bad habit are inspired this week. A meeting with Taurus before this From now until the end of No- ents. Where cash is concerned, heart discussion. The number The motivation to turn over a new year ends is forecast to lead to a vember, Geminis will be faced beware of being taken for a ride five can bring some good for- leaf comes when you have a meaningful relationship for those with many choices. Most of these this weekend, when an apparent tune this weekend. 16 PHUKET GAZETTE LIFESTYLE November 15 - 21, 2008 Phuket faces at the Oasis

Mom Tri’s Boathouse Chef Tummanoon Punchun, Mom Luang Thepin Devakul, Khun Suchada Sudhisanronakorn, and Khun Phimphan Tantipiriyakij.

om Luang Tri Devakul (above) and guests celebrated the opening of Mom Tri’s Oasis – the latest addition to the range of Mom Tri’s fine dining establishments – last Mweekend, with a cocktail party and dinner at the new beach-front dining establishment in Kata. Guest of honor at the opening event was Mr William Warren, a close friend of Mom Luang Tri Devakul and a prolific writer of books about Thailand, including the book Jim Thompson. Mom Tri, once a Phuket senator, is hailed as being one of the island’s first developers and a key leader in making Phuket a popular tourist destination. In February, Mom Tri’s Boathouse will celebrate 20 years of luxury hospitality since its opening in 1989. Mom Tri’s Boathouse PR Manager Lisa Sol, Caroline Laleta Ballini and her daughter, and Sylvie Yaffe, - All photos courtesy of Dan Miles PR manager for Mom Tri’s Oasis and Villa Royale. November 15 - 21, 2008 LIFESTYLE PHUKET GAZETTE 17

Fashion designer Paul Ropp and Melinda. Yael Weber and granddaughter Annabel. Frank Visakay, Khun Jenny and Micheal Cusack.

Mom Tri’s Oasis Chef Darren Wiper, wine sommelier Georges Ciret, Mr & Mrs Gulu Lalvani, Mom Tri’s Boathouse Mom Tri Devakul, William Warren, Hataitip Devakul and Maitre Blue Wave Radio FM 90.5 DJs Jason Winder and General Manager Louis Bronner, and Mom Tri. Cuisinier de France Jean Noel Lumineau. Oscar Chitamitre. 18 PHUKET GAZETTE MOTORING November 15 - 21, 2008 New breed of Bentley becomes best seller in Asia BEHIND quently become the most suc- power than the standard Flying THE cessful 12-cylinder luxury saloon Spur, while engine efficiency is in the world and is the best-sell- optimized by the use of lower fric- WHEEL ing Bentley in Asia. tion, lightweight components and By Jeff Heselwood The new Flying Spur can a new engine management sys- now be specified with a sophisti- tem. Torque output is constant cated follow-to-stop, radar-based from the low engine speed of he new Bentley Conti- adaptive cruise control system, 1,750 rpm. nental Flying Spur is set which monitors traffic ahead and The four-door Bentley Fly- to deliver even greater manages the throttle and brakes ing Spur Speed blends under- Tlevels of refinement, to maintain a pre-set time gap, up stated design cues to distinguish comfort and opportunities for cus- to a pre-set speed. it from the Flying Spur. tomer personalization, says the A further option is the new Its front grille and lower air manufacturer. Although now Naim for the Bentley’s audio sys- intakes are dark-tinted chrome, owned by Volkswagen, Bentleys tem, which provides the world’s while at the rear, wider rifled are still manufactured in Britain best in-car entertainment. De- sports exhaust tailpipes demon- to the same high standards set by signed exclusively for Bentley by strate the potential of the Speed the luxury car’s founder, W.O. Naim, the renowned British hi-fi model. Bentley, in the 1920s. manufacturer, the system fea- New 20-inch multi-spoke The latest 12-cylinder tures a 1,100 Watt amplifier – yes, wheels, available in both bright luxury saloon will now also be 1,100 Watts – the most powerful silver or darkened tungsten, carry joined by the 600 bhp (442 kW) unit offered in a production car, specially produced Pirelli PZero Continental Flying Spur Speed – and 15 custom-built Naim speak- performance tires introduced on the most powerful four-door car ers, including dual sub-woofers. the Continental GT Speed model, ever produced by Bentley. Inspired by Bentley’s leg- which provide the car with superb The Continental Flying Spur endary Speed models that first grip and more than adequate feed- has been extremely successful for appeared in 1923, the Flying Spur back. Bentley since its launch in 2005. Speed offers performance fig- The Speed’s sporting per- Its combination of performance, ures in the range of a 0-100 km/h formance is complemented by a luxury, craftsmanship, and four- sprint time of 4.8 seconds and a highly capable chassis. Tauter On the Prowl: The new Flying Spur can virtually drive itself with a door practicality has broadened top speed of 320 km/h. handling and greater steering re- sophisticated radar-enhanced cruise control system. the appeal of the Continental The twin turbo W12 Speed sponse with sharper turn-in and range. engine develops 15 percent more improved driver feedback is Servotronic steering system, di- a new generation of Bentley own- The Flying Spur has subse- torque and nine percent more achieved through a retuned rect-mounted front subframe and ers. Responding to their feedback, stiffer bushings. we have refined an already re- The interior of both cars is markable car, and with the debut of course faultless, incorporating of the Flying Spur Speed we are the latest acoustic suppression extending its appeal.” technology. The complex double- glazed windows, a standard fea- ture since launch, now feature a sophisticated acoustic laminate inner layer for all side and rear windows. In addition, new tri-laminate acoustic under-body trays and wheel arch liners absorb road noise. There are two new interior hide colors: Linen and Imperial Blue, while additions to the exte- rior range of colors are Havana, White Sand and Onyx. Duo-tone color schemes are also offered. Seat piping is now available in 16 colors to allow customers to match secondary hide or single- tone interiors. Bentley Chairman and Ad- Child Watch Chief Executive Dr Franz-Josef 3x8 Paefgen explains the rationale behind the new range of cars, K. Jib colors and technical advances: “The global success of the Con- Jeff Hesselwood can be con- tinental Flying Spur has created tacted at [email protected] November 15 - 21, 2008 WHAT’ S ON PHUKET GAZETTE 19

EVENTS CALENDAR Upcoming events on the island

November 16. PC Group British Business Association of November 23. PC Group Therapy. Phuket. Shot Gun Start at 12 Therapy. From 10 am - 12 pm at Sandwich noon. Dinner and Prize Presen- From 10:00 am-12:00 pm at Shoppe Laguna. Is your Internet tations at 7 pm. BCCC Members: Sandwich Shoppe Chalong. Con- connection driving you NUTS? 2,900 baht + Caddy Fee. Non- tact Woody Leonhard. Tel: 089- Ready to throw your PC out the, Members: 4,700 baht + Caddy 119 0940. Email: uh, window? Need advice on Fee. [email protected] where to buy a computer, or get For registration forms and one repaired? to enter contact Martin Carpen- November 27. Silk, The Art Join “For Dummies” author ter. Tel: 076-318188. Email: of Life” Opening Cocktail Woody Leonhard for his weekly [email protected] reception. PC Group Therapy sessions. From 7:00 pm-8:30 pm at Mom They’re absolutely FREE. Nov- November 22. Super BBQ Tri’s Boathouse. Artist Lea ices most welcome - no experi- Buffet Dinner including Laarakker-Dingjan is internation- ence necessary. Cheese & Cold Cuts. ally renowned for her freehand Bring your questions, bring From 6:30 pm-11 pm at Wine designs on silk and original solar- your computer, bring your Connection Bangtao. Live band. dyeing techniques. mother-in-law and your worry 650+ baht. She will show abstract and beads, and let’s see if we can sort For more info contact Pas- figurative silk paintings, wall things out. cal. Tel: 087-8896074. Email: hangings, banners and unique For directions to the Sand- [email protected] woven silk items - perfect Christ- wich Shoppe Chalong (1km north 3rd Andaman mas gifts for friends and family. of Chalong Circle), see the web November 22-23. 1st SKAL For more info contact Lisa Sol. site. Sponsored by the Phuket International Soccer 7s Christmas Charity Dinner. Telephone: 076-330015. Email: Gazette and Khun Woody’s Sand- From 7 pm-2:30 am at Moeven- [email protected] Website: wich Shoppes. Tel: 089-119 0940. pick Resort & Spa Karon www.boathousephuket.com Email: [email protected] November 22-23 Phuket. Website: www.KhunWoody.com From 8:30 am-5:30 pm at FIFA Phuket Tsunami Football Center. SKAL Phuket is organizing November 29. QSI Interna- Combining sport and leisure for anyone from any country through its first annual Charity Gala Din- tional School - 7th Annual November 19-21. Asia Pa- a friendly seven-a-side tournament. ner. All profits will be donated Fun Run. cific Property Exhibition. This invitation tournament provides a socially competitive to the SKAL Phuket Children’s From 12 am-7 pm at Bang Wad Organized by MIPIMASIA, In- environment for players who approach the game with the right Fund, which supports the educa- Dam, Kathu. This year’s event side Siam Property will present attitude and in the right spirit. With no prize money at stake, tional costs for Tsunami-af- includes 1km and 6.5km races. investors, property retailers and teams take part for one reason only: their love of soccer. This fected and underprivileged chil- All ages are welcome to compete. visitors in Wanchai, Hongkong, year, 20 teams will compete in the Open Category and 12 teams dren in Phuket and Phang Nga. There will be an awards cer- from 9 am - 6:30 pm each day. in the Masters Category. 7-a-side grass pitch (70mx45m), 7 minute Schedule includes poolside emony, raffle drawings, and a si- For more information contact halves, full size goal, no offside, rolling substitution. For more info aperitif , dinner in the Grand lent auction. Anna. Tel: 076-280801. Email: contact Alain & Tim. Tel: 02-990 6881. Email: [email protected] Ballroom, Magic show, Santa Registration is between 2 [email protected] Website: www.Thai7s.com Claus visit, charity raffle and pm and 3.15 pm. 1 km race Website: www.inside-property.com dancing. starts at 3:30 pm and the 6.5km For more info contact race starts at 4 pm. For more November 19-22 Phuket In- Grandivini wines proudly present “Miss Caro” from Paris mixing Jorge De La Torre. Phone: 089- info contact Brad Kenny. Tel: ternational Sportfishing Executive Chef Robert’s modern Deep and Sexy House music, 725 6994. Or Email: jdelatorre 081-6334279. Or email: esppkt Tournament. Italian cuisine, perfectly matched with “Oye” on percussion. The @helmsBriscoe.com Website: @ksc.th.com. See also the Web: Registration at Captain Hook on with Italian wines presented by party starts at 8 pm and goes till www.skal phuket.org/upcoming- www.qsi.org/pkt_home/ 19 November 2008 from 6pm to Giovanni Oliva in association with late. Free Buffet. No entrance events.htm pkt_home.htm 12 pm. Fishing days are 20, 21 Independent Wine & Spirit (Thai- fee. Standard drinks at only 90 and 22 November, starting at 8 land) Co Ltd. baht nett (including taxes & ser- am. Free food and beer for all Price: 2,600 baht ++ per vice). anglers. For more information, person. For reservations and fur- For more info contact Chart please contact Uwe at Tel: 081- ther information, please call the or Pim. Tel: 076-289327. Email: 719 5766 or visit www.phuket- hotel directly. Tel: 076-324101. hrm@allseasons-naiharn- international-sportfishing- Email: fbreservation@sheraton phuket.com Website: www.all tournament.com phuket.com Website: seasons-naiharn-phuket.com www.luxurycollection.com/phuket November 21. Experience a November 22. Childwatch Taste of Luxury at Puccini November 21. “The Night” Charity Golf Tournament. Restaurant. Shake Your Booty. From 11 am-10 pm a 4-Ball Team From 7 pm-12 am Sheraton A live disco at All Seasons Scramble at Blue Canyon Coun- Grande Laguna Phuket and Naiharn Phuket featuring DJ try Club and presented by The 20 PHUKET GAZETTE BUSINESS & MONEY November 15 - 21, 2008 ON THE MOVE AT THE PHUKET GAZETTE Nick Davies has Atchaa ‘Joy’ Dale Tipwarintron been promoted to Khamlo, Nottingham ‘Riz’ Tanaakar- Managing Editor who comes from has joined the arachod is an- of the Phuket Ga- the North of Thai- editorial team at other recent addi- zette. A British land and com- the Gazette as a tion to the Gazette national with a pleted her train- Desk Editor. A news team, having background in ing in Bangkok, British national, joined the com- PR and media, in- has joined the he has an exten- pany as a roving cluding print and Phuket Gazette sive background Reporter for both television, he has as a Reporter. in journalism, in- its newspaper and worked in Thai- She is now fo- cluding years at PGTV, the daily land for more than cused primarily the Daily Mail English-language fifteen years. on ‘hard news’. and Capitol Radio. television channel.

he global financial crisis, as it is now commonly known, Tstarted life as a US and UK mortgage problem. When it Shelter from the storm grew into a credit crisis, many hoped it would be limited to just a ever-darkening mood has seen There were concerns that handful of countries and that the confidence levels continue to One of the current problems IQS was simply becoming too big problem would soon be contained. plummet. People continue to buy being faced is that although huge a fund to retain agility in the mar- There was hope that emerg- cars because they need a means amounts of government funds kets that it covers. ing giants Brazil, Russia, India and of transport, but does anybody and private capital have rescued The new fund was intro- China (the BRIC countries) would really need a luxury model? and recapitalized the banks, the duced, after a long trial period, to continue to grow at near break- Nowadays, people are re- ever-darkening mood has seen broaden the investment scope. neck speed and that this, together luctant to splash out on expensive confidence levels continue to Categories introduced include with other emerging markets, items and are showing a tendency plummet. bonds, currencies, energy, grain, could act as a counterweight to to postpone non-essential pur- People continue to buy cars lumber, livestock, metals, short the difficulties being experienced chases. This translates into fall- because they need a means of currencies (3-month Euro/Yen), elsewhere. Maybe the world ing sales and leads to what is transport, but does anybody softs (coffee, sugar, cotton) and would somehow “get lucky” and termed “demand destruction”. really need a luxury model? stock indices (Nikkei 225, S&P find that the euro currency bloc However, all is not doom 500). would hold its own amidst the and gloom. The Libor (London In- All these areas can be in- ongoing turmoil. terbank Offer Rate) spreads The US has issued credit An exception to this was vested in on either a long or short Predictions have since had have continued to fall. swaps of US$30 billion apiece the recession in 2001, which basis. to be revised. In early Novem- By early November, these with a number of countries, in- lasted for the first three quarters Since its inception in 1996, ber, the European Union an- rates were below where they had cluding South Korea. This, in of that year. Most stock markets, the IQS Fund has returned nounced that its projected growth been prior to the Lehman Broth- combination with government ini- however, did not bottom out until around 3,000% to investors. target for 2009 had ers collapse. It is tiatives, has markedly improved March 2003. There is very little in the invest- been negatively ad- paramount that this that country’s economic outlook. So where can investors ment world that can claim even justed in GDP (Gross seemingly unimpor- Most analysts are expect- hide and make a profit in 2008? a tenth of these returns. Domestic Product) tant Libor number ing a relatively deep and sustained The list is not long, but does in- The third fund from AMT, terms for the Euro continues to fall. recession. However, when ques- clude funds that have been the SAV Fund, which contains Currency Zone, from Lower Libor rates tioned, the vast majority are pre- brought to the attention of read- both IQS and CFL Funds, ended 1.3% to 0.1%. They indicate that banks dicting only three or perhaps four ers of this column through the October up 16.28% on the month. are now projecting a are starting to lend quarters of negative economic years. The other funds which have recession. to each other once growth. The first three funds are been regularly featured in this In the hour of ONEY more. A recession is generally from London-based AMT Fu- column, the Brandeaux Ground need, Euro Zone M The “patient” characterized by two consecutive tures. All three endured a horrible Rent Income Fund and the Br- governments acted is recovering, but quarters of negative economic start to 2008, but by the end of andeaux Student Accommoda- both promptly and TALKS there are no miracle growth. October had moved strongly into tion Fund, have continued to per- decisively in respect cures. Should that consensus prove profit. form strongly, offering stable of perceived and By Richard G. Watson The current to be correct, the best time for October 2008 was one of growth with zero volatility. real threats to the consensus is that stock market investors to buy the worst months in decades for Returns vary from 9% to banking and financial sectors. most western economies will en- may be in early 2009. This is be- equities and other asset classes. 10%+ year-on-year. One of the current problems ter recession, while a number of cause the stock market is a dis- This was not true for the AMT being faced is that although huge countries outside the region are counting mechanism, typically sig- Funds, however. amounts of government funds going to require outside financial naling what is going to happen The multi-manager CFL Richard G Watson runs Global and private capital have rescued assistance to ward off serious some six to nine months in the fu- Fund, which is made up of seven Portfolios Co Ltd, a Phuket- and recapitalized the banks, the problems. ture. different funds, rose 10.53% in based personal financial-plan- October alone. ning service. The AMT Futures IQS Per- He can be reached at Tel: 076- formance Fund rose 31.19% in 381997, Fax: 076-383185, Mo- October. This fund now consists bile: 081-081 4611. Email: imm of two funds referred to by AMT @loxinfo.co.th Website: www. as “IQS” and “IQ-A”. global-portfolios.com November 15 - 21, 2008 PHUKET GAZETTE 21

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Solution below Puzzle Solutions Hidden Words SOLUTION Solution to + + + + F + B S + + + + + + + this week’s + + + + + R L + E + + + + + + Quick + + + + + + E + + V + + + + + + + + Y + P N E + + I + + + + Crossword + + + R + L D + Z + + N + + + + + + E + A E + + E + + K + + + + + K + T R + + H R + + + + + + S C + E + S + + T + + L + Monster Quiz Answers + + B O R E T S A O T O W + + + + R R + O + + + + + O L + + 1. 5 years. Old; 2. Armageddon; S + E C V K N I S B B + + C + Solution to this week’s BIG Crossword 3. Mayonnaise; 4. Rosetta Stone; N + H E + + + + + + O + + + + O + + + P + + S + + + H + + + 5. Naples; 6. South Dakota; 7. O + + + + A R + E + + + + + + Treasure Island; 8. White; 9. The P + + + + O N G + + + + + + + S E + + S + D S + F O V E N P Flying Doctors; 10. Hooch; 11. + + V S + I + K + + O + + + O Solution to this New York; 12. Stephen King; 13. + + I A R L E W O T + R + + T week’s Sudoku + C + F W T + + + + + + K + S puzzle Natalie Imbruglia; 14. Stockport S + O + C O C U T L E R Y S + County; 15. Helsinki; 16. The + O + H + + R + + + + + + + + D + U + + + + C + + + + + + + liver; 17. Lie detector test; 18. ‘The + P + + + + + + I + + + + + + Graduate‘; 19. Boxer Rebellion; K E T T L E + + + M + + + + + 20. David Brent. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + November 15 - 21, 2008 f e a t u r e s p h u k e t g a z e t t e 25 The Hands-on Commander in Chief mander in Chief’, as the subtitle to defend the territory that lay to Virginia rather than finish the to found the Republic, Lincoln’s reads, one realizes the huge ob- behind its frontiers, Southern Confederacy on the spot. was to preserve it. Behind his stacles, both internal and exter- armies had the advantage of inte- In Ulysses S. Grant he back were all manner of political nal, that Lincoln faced and how, rior lines. That advantage enabled found his man. Applying the dissidents, and his debilitating in time, he overcame them. them to shift reinforcements from dogged tactics that had stood him struggle against these myriad From the first, the new inactive to active fronts, as they so well at Shiloh and Vicksburg, enemies may account for his president immersed himself in had done in Manassas in July Grant invaded Virginia with the premature aging as much as the Off the books on military strategy, and 1861. intention to stay. pressures on the battlefield. while, in the initial days of the “This con- Despite bit- In the end, his strategy of war, he deferred to the mili- c e n t r a t i o n i n ter setbacks, he concentration in time – with s h e l f tary judgment of professionals, space could be announced that “I Sheridan in the Shenandoah Val- By James Eckardt he eventually cleared out the overcome only propose to fight it ley, Thomas in the mid-South, deadwood of timid generals if the Union em- out on this line if Sherman in Georgia and South he criminal ineptitude of like George G. McClellan to ployed its greater it takes all sum- Carolina, and Grant at the gates President George W. promote the hard-charging lead- numbers to attack mer. of Richmond – sent the war Bush, who left the war ers – Grant, Sherman, Thomas, on two or more L i n c o l n ’s into a galloping close just as his in Iraq in charge of a Sheridan – who took the fight to fronts at once – response to his enemies were closing in for the Tsmall clique of blinkered neo- the enemy and won. concentration in aides was: “The political kill. But his great suc- cons – Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and After his first cram course time.” great thing about cess, McPherson notes, deprived Cheney – prompted me to buy a on military strategy, President Lincoln’s Grant . . . is his him of a long life. new book about Abraham Lin- Lincoln evolved the insights that second major perfect coolness Lincoln did take draco- coln: Tried by War (The Penguin would ultimately carry the Union concept was that and persistency nian measures to maintain Press, New York, 2008, 329pp). to victory. the war would of purpose . .. He his authority, including sus- This is the 13th book about “The president recognized not be won by has the grit of a pension of habeas corpus, but the Civil War by Princeton histo- that by the geography of the case, the conquest of bull-dog! Once Mc-Pherson concludes: “Yet rian James M. McPherson who Union forces had to operate from the Confederate you let him get his compared with the internment of won the Pulitzer Prize for his ep- exterior lines around the perim- capital of Richmond – as advo- ‘teeth’ in, nothing can shake him more than one hundred thousand ochal Battle Cry for Freedom. eter of the Confederacy. cated by his early generals – but off… It is the dogged pertinacity Japanese Americans in the 1940s, So much has been written Lincoln grasped sooner by the destruction of Robert E. of Grant that wins.” McCarthyism in the 1950s, or the about the American Civil War than many of his generals the Lee’s Army of Virginia. The same might be said National Security State of our that even McPherson admits that strategic concept of ‘concen- Thus, Lincoln was bitterly of General George Washington own time, the infringement of no one can read all of it. tration in time’”, McPherson disappointed by the “victories” who, though he lost more battles civil liberties from 1861 to 1865 But by narrowing his focus writes. of McClellan at Antietam and than he won, was unswerving in seems mild indeed.” on “Abraham Lincoln as Com- “Because the Confed-era- Meade at Gettysburg. Both al- his tenacity to final victory. cy’s basic military strategy was lowed Lee’s army to slip back If Washington’s goal was Vocabulary acquisition: take the long way home

searching for the right word. a big (aw) (which is Thai for You could ask the word the word. You get the idea. Or, One meaning of (thii) อ๋อ ที่ “now I know what you’re talking for “bicycle” by describing it as if you were trying to tell a Thai is, roughly, “a thing used to...”, about, you nutty farang”) before รถที่ใช้เท้าถีบ (rot thii chai thaao friend what a Nissan Tiida looks in such expressions as (thii ที่นั่ง fetching you a (yaang lop), thiip) “vehicle that you use your like, try saying it’s คล้ายๆ (khlaai nang) “seat” (literally, thing for ยางลบ a rubber eraser. Mission accom- feet to propel”. This will lead khlaai) Honda Jazz. sitting) and (thii nawn) ที่นอน plished. you to the proper word, ö¨Ñ¡ÃÂÒ¹ If you don’t find yourself “mattress, bed” (literally, thing Practise using basic words (rot jakrayaan), or just จักรยาน in need of a little circumlocution used for sleeping), (thii ที่ปัดน้ำฝน like these in order to get your (jakrayaan). Incidentally, รถถีบ every day, then you’re probably pat nam fon) “windshield wip- meaning across; there are plenty (rot thiip) is the old Isarn word not learning much. er” (literally, rainwater wiper), more where (thii) came from. for bicycle. Now go and strike up a con- (thii yep kradaat), ที่ ที่เย็บกระดาษ (khrueang) is a com- And one final useful word: versation with someone about, “stapler” (literally “a thing to เครื่อง mon word for machines and คล้าย (khlaai) or คล้ายๆ (khlaai I dunno, a hydroelectric power ne skill that will always sew paper”). gadgets: (khrueang bin) khlaai) “similar to”. You could plant or the gearing mechanism come in handy when In many other expressions, เครื่องบิน “airplane”, (khrueang describe a pen as คล้ายๆดินสอ on your old Suzuki Caribbean. I learning a second lan- (thii) is sometimes used in place เครื่องซักผ้า ที่ sak phaa) “washing machine”, (khlaai khlaai linsaw) “similar guage is being able to of a more specific word. ไม้ตียุง เครื่องคิดเลข (khrueang kit to a pencil”. Rikker Dockum writes regularly Osay what you want without know- (maai tii yung) refers to those You might also mimic the at thai101.blogspot.com and laek)“calculator” and so forth. ing how to say it. ever-popular racquet-shaped For example, you might use action of writing, or better yet, can be contacted at: rdockum@ Yes, you read correctly. It’s electric mosquito zappers, but (khrueang) if you forgot just pull out a pen and ask them gmail.com the fine art of circumlocution: you’ll also hear (thii tii เครื่อง ที่ตียุง what a refrigerator is called. literally, talking a circle around yung) “mosquito swatter”. what you mean. And it’s some- To make a long story short, เครื่องที่ทำให้อาหารเย็น (khrueang thii tham hai aahaan thing you’ll find you need to do (thii) is a handy word to use at ที่ yen) “machine that makes food in virtually every conversation. times when you want to refer to cold” will sound funny to the The value of circumlocution is something, but you don’t know Thai ear, but they’ll probably be twofold: what it’s called. able to figure out what you mean. First, it gets your point Sometimes you may even Then they will tell you it’s called across. stumble upon the correct name. a (tuu yen) “fridge”. Second, and probably more If you ask for “a thing that ตู้เย็น (rot) is used with all importantly, the person you’re opens bottles”, (thii รถ ที่เปิดขวด things wheeled: (rot yon) talking with is bound to tell you bert khuat), then you’ve hit on รถยนตร์ “automobile”, (rot may) the correct word after he figures the exact phrase Thais use for รถเมล์ “bus”, (rot fai) “train”. out what on earth you have been “bottle opener”. Lucky eh? Even รถไฟ trying to say. if you don’t get it exactly right, Venturing forth to talk about this short word goes a long way things you haven’t learned yet is in helping find what you need. a great way to expand your vo- Say you were at the store cabulary, so be fearless. and you needed to buy a rubber First off, consider the word eraser, but you didn’t know what ที่ (thii). It’s an extremely versa- it was called. So you try asking tile word, and you may recall for ที่ลบดินสอ (thii lop dinsaw), from an earlier column that it’s literally “a thing for erasing the second most commonly used pencils”. word in Thai, after การ (kaan). You aren’t going to win It turns out that ที่ (thii) is really any elocution prizes, but the useful when you find yourself shopkeeper would probably give 26 PHUKET GAZETTE EDITORIAL & LETTERS November 15 - 21, 2008

367/2 Yaowarat Rd, Amphur Muang, Phuket 83000 Tel: 076-236555 - Since 1994 - Fax: 076-213971 Email: [email protected] Phuket Software Park Silicon Valley or Panthip Plaza? After years of talk about developing Phuket into a world-class information technology (IT) and software development hub, a private-sector scheme to develop Phuket Software Park on 10 rai of land off Chao Fa West Rd in Tambon Wicht comes as a positive and tangible development [see Inside Story, pages 4-5]. With structural work on the first building of the multi-phase project now complete, it is intriguing to speculate what the Software Park might look like and what role it might play in Phuket’s economy in five or 10 years’ time. Will it develop, as hoped, into a cluster of Thailand’s brightest and most innovative IT companies – a growth pole that will spur further investment and establish Phuket as a miniature Southeast Asian version of Silicon Valley? At the other end of the spectrum is the ugly possibility that free-market forces and lack of planning will once again prevail, steer- ing the development, like so many other uninspired real estate projects on the island, into a concrete labyrinth of video gaming rooms, day spas, beauty parlors, pet grooming salons, tour agencies and the like. The Gazette hopes the reality will be a real software park wor- thy of the name, with a real emphasis on IT research and software Letters development – and not a Phuket version of Bangkok’s Pantip Plaza, famed for the sale of counterfeit software and DVDs. The Gazette is pleased to receive mail from read- with your views for publication in our next issue. Fortunately, the Anupas Group of Companies that is developing ers. Please write to us at 367/2 Yaowarat Rd, We reserve the right to edit all letters. Pseud- the project under its subsidiary firm Blue Lagoon (Thailand) has a Amphur Muang, Phuket 83000, fax to 076-213971 onyms are acceptable only if your full name and strong track record of maintaining quality businesses in Phuket and or send an email to [email protected] address are supplied. the region. While Phuket is a natural place to develop software specifi- A tip for Heather Then again, my fellow Aus- Poison predators cally for use by the hospitality industry, the Gazette notes that some tralian, your last paragraph sums of the initially-stated goals of the project seem a bit far-fetched – Heather Shortridge [Letters, it up perfectly when you write: back in Kamala especially that of developing face recognition software for the tour- Gazette of October 1-7, Tips for “Rest assured that we are not ism industry. Tourists], referring to herself as being more stingy to Thais than I know you get many complaints Such technology has proven benefits for applications like air- an “Aussie in Patong”, is on an- we are to Australians. We’re just about it, but I cannot help myself. port security, but we can foresee little practical value for it in a beach other planet. How anybody like behaving the same way we do at Year by year, with the coming of resort setting. Ms Shortbridge can manage to home.” I guess that says it all. the high season, the “dog poison- But aside from that, the Gazette believes that by working to- ing game” starts to take the stage make enough money and find the Graham Doven gether with government agencies to provide all the necessary infra- and play out with full success. right airplane to get as far as Phuket resident structure – including faster and more reliable Internet connection Thailand from Australia is beyond They [unspecified] are kill- speeds – Phuket Software Park could attract a wide variety of IT my comprehension, limited ing all the dogs around the beach start up companies, both from around Thailand and across the globe. though that may be. One world for all in Kamala to make it “safe” and After all, for all of Phuket’s problems it still seems as if every- “As far as I can tell,” she clean, but as an animal lover and one wants to live here – computer geeks included.. says, “the majority of visitors to It’s taken a long time, but finally a human being I am seeing the – The Editor Phuket are Australians….” But the US is showing the world that poor dogs fighting to survive and Do you have an opinion you want to share? as far as I can recall from a sur- no matter what color your skin suffering pain that I would never Email [email protected] vey by the Hotel Association last might be, you can gain accept- wish on any living thing. They call year, Australians account for less ability and even widespread glo- this the “Land of Smiles”, but I than 5% of the visitors to Phuket. bal support. This is a good oppor- am only crying because I know I So it may be a good idea, madam, tunity for Thailand to show it’s cannot change people. So I ask for you to venture outside the tolerance toward others and let you, the Phuket Gazette, to help In association with The Nation Multimedia Group PCL confines of the Aussie Bar and people of any color find accep- me let everyone know what is your guesthouse and sally forth tance here, particularly teachers going on here. to, say Diver’s bar at Surin of foreign languages in schools. Please do not use my real Editor: Parichat Utintu Beach. There, among lots of Radio, TV and the so-called name as I have two dogs in my Managing Editor: Nick Davies other Aussies, you could learn “fashion” magazines here might garden and I know the poisoners Editorial Team: about the real world. also consider the idea. After all, would really love to kill them. Your assumptions that a) there’s no finer example of a su- Atchaa Khamlo, Passara Kaewbumroong Marcella “we [Australians] don’t tip in per-model than Naomi Campbell. Kamala Tipwarintron Tannakarachod, Daniel Waites Australia either”, and b) that that So how about clearing out Stephen Fein, Marc Mulloy, Dale Nottingham practice, if true, would apply any- those supermarket shelves that where else in world where Aus- are so full of skin whitening prod- And at Nai Harn? Managing Director: Oranee Hildebrand tralians hang out, are, to say the ucts (there’s even whitening de- General Managers: Niladaa Mastanawattanakul, least, irrational. odorant!)? It would be a great If it had not been for the letter Natthira Susangrat However, you are right start toward joining the here-and- from Ron Action in the Phuket about your reference book, the now one world for all. Gazette of October 25-31, we Production Manager: Suchart Changate would never have known that Publisher: The Phuket Gazette Co Ltd Lonely Planet guide. I checked and it does say that, “Tipping is Dave Arroyo there was a “dog ban” in effect not generally expected in Thai- Manila and Phuket at Nai Harn Beach. Contact us land.” Perhaps the writer never A few years ago, people left his guesthouse in Thailand. I around here always had to walk Advertising Sales: [email protected] Drug war a holiday? have lived here for 20 years and, their dogs on leads because some- Classified Advertising: [email protected] like most countries in the world, Is it really smart of the police to one was putting poisoned meat on Website Services: [email protected] it is completely normal to leave a announce that the “drug war” will the beach. But that was far bet- Gazette Guide inquiries: [email protected] tip for good service. Even in En- end on January 30? Is this so the ter than the current outright ban. What about fines for illegal Events Sponsorships: [email protected] gland, Australia and China, where dealers can go on vacation and tipping may not be “the norm”, it safely re-open for business on topless bathing at that beach? Telephone: 076-236555 (10 lines) Fax: 076-213971 is often practiced and is clearly February 1? Might make more sense. The views expressed in the Phuket Gazette are those of the writers and contributors “good manners” after good ser- Don Aleman Dog lover and do not necessarily reflect those of the publisher, the editor, the shareholders, or the vice in a restaurant. Pattaya Nai Harn directors of The Phuket Gazette Co Ltd. Letters conveying views and suggestions are published here. Those seeking comment from government Copyright © 1994-2008 The Phuket Gazette Co Ltd officials and/or business owners are published in Issues & Answers on the facing page. November 15 - 21, 2008 PERSPECTIVES PHUKET GAZETTE 27 Fighting the floods

ith the torrential rain we have had over the last couple of Wweeks, practically orn 68 years ago in Surat Thani, Chanin “Ko Aun” everywhere in Phuket is suffer- Nutissayanuwat moved to Phuket with his wife and ing from flooding at the moment. These floods have caused so Btwo children 48 years ago. much damage to people’s posses- For the past 29 years, he has been liv- sions, including their furniture and cars. FIRST ing on Yaowarat Road in Phuket City. In November 2004, the Over the years, Ko Aun has seen many flooding was a lot more serious PERSON because of all the construction a rainy season come and go and has going on at the time and the lack of adequate drainage. borne witness to the ever-increasing de- In my village in Soi Prayoon struction caused by the floods that have accompanied them. 3, more than sixty families are affected by flooding every year Here, Ko Aun sits down with the Gazette’s Atchaa Khamlo and and it is getting worse every time. recounts some of the battles he has fought on behalf of the Sometimes, the water-level can rise a foot after just two hours of people in his neighborhood to arrest the havoc wrought each rain. In the old days, there never year by the annual flooding. used to be flooding in the village. That all changed when the mu- nicipality built a drainage chan- nel the wrong way around the village. We have had flooding ever since then. I told Phuket City Mayor Somjai Suwannasuppana that what we need to do is make the channel much wider and change the direction of the wa- ter that runs off the hill, which would cost about four million baht to do. At the moment, whenever it rains, the water channels over- flow and the excess water flows straight into the houses. The problem has also been Construction on the hill above the village has exacerbated the Every rainy season municipality workers are called on to pump water made worse by a big condo- problem, adding mud to the flood water. from flooded homes. minium project being built up on the hill. This has meant that the denied my request and went sional way. But instead of listen- Phuket City Municipality wasted by Mayor Somjai when she was flood water carries lots of mud ahead and built another channel ing to me, people high up in the 10 million baht building a pump running for a second term. She with it. which made everything worse government went ahead and station near the Samkong bridge just wanted to be seen to be do- I asked the municipality for than before. spent 550,000 baht on the wrong that can’t solve the area’s flood- ing something for the city, but 300,000 baht in funding from I may only have a fourth- channel, which doesn’t work at ing problems. pumping the water out is not the three of the local villages to build grade education, but I know how all. The building of the pump solution because it doesn’t ad- a new drainage channel, but they to fix this problem in a profes- The main problem is that the station was just an election stunt dress the cause of the problem.

does not fall, in any way whatso- ever, under our jurisdiction. Beach sanitation going too far? This matter is the responsi- bility of the local tambon admin- “farang” clients who would be abandoned and decaying Crown istration organization and The affected, but local Thai people Naiyang Hotel nearby, which National Park itself. Issues& and their families, together with certainly is an eyesore. It would be very interest- the& occasional “farang”, who Given the present global ing to learn more on why these ANSWERS know that they can enjoy some economic woes and with Phuket local farangs are so agitated of the best food available in rapidly pricing itself out of the about the environment here in Want to know how to get something done? Can’t understand some Phuket at Thai prices and in an exotic holiday market, it’s not in- Nai Yang, as I do not under- of the dafter things that seem to go on in Phuket? Want to pitch an informal picnic-style setting. conceivable that the latest devel- stand their approach and where idea to Phuket’s authorities or institutions? If this were to go ahead, opment will end up the same they got their information from. Submit your queries or suggestions to us and we’ll ask the appropri- Thai people would be denied yet way. We, Dewa Phuket, have ate people to respond to them. another beach area. Come on picnic lovers: let’s not been involved with any ne- Sure, some of the restau- protest against this latest assault gotiations with regards to local Write to: The Phuket Gazette, 367/2 Yaowarat Rd, Muang, rants could relocate to the small on the Thai way of life! restaurants. Phuket 83000. Fax 076-213971, or submit your issue at area designated for them on the Two angry “locals” However, having lived in www.phuketgazette.net inland side of the road – inside Thalang Phuket for over 15 years, we the National Park, where cars have seen some cleanups car- e are almost as dis- Beach restaurants have are charged for access and Khemika Sorn-Ngay, Director ried out on Surin Beach and now mayed as Thais been there for over twenty years parking – but that is not an ac- of Dewa Phuket landowning lately also on Kamala beach, must be at the at- and as such, are a well-estab- ceptable substitute to either the company R&B Partners Ltd, which has improved the environ- tempt by the Dewa lished part of the local beach cul- restaurant operators we have replies: ment there considerably. W ture and atmosphere, unlike the A clean Phuket is of ben- condominium project, through the spoken to or to their customers. offices of the National Park, to Dewa developers who obviously As far as being an “eye- It may sometimes be difficult to efit to us all. “sanitize” the beach area by re- knew of their existence and, pre- sore” is concerned, this is still understand local conditions, espe- If these local farangs moving the restaurants in front of sumably, planned their removal Thailand. The restaurants have cially for “local farangs”. would like to contact me directly, their expensive new develop- from the outset. a typically rustic charm which fit The Sirinath National Park, I would happy to see and talk to ment. It is not the well-heeled their surroundings, unlike the located in front of Dewa Phuket, them. 28 PHUKET GAZETTE FEATURE November 15 - 21, 2008 Charters to Phuket keep on coming

huket International Airport is a magnet for charter op- Perators from around the world, and this high season is proving to be no exception, albeit with some trepidation about the impact of the world’s financial crisis. General Manager Wing Commander Wicha Nurnlop con- firmed that 14 charter operators are scheduled to touch down this season, overall only one less than last year. While the airport has lost seven charters, Wing Com- mander Wicha presumes that because of the world financial situation, another six new opera- tors have joined. They are from Italy, Denmark, Switzerland, TUIfly Nordic, formerly known as Britannia Nordic, is a charter airline based in Sweden. It operates holiday charter flights from airports in France and Belgium. Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland for tour operators Fritidsresor, Finnmatkat and Star Tour. They have destinations in the Canary But Wing Commander Wicha Islands, Egypt, the Mediterranean and Thailand. admits to “keeping my fingers crossed that the passenger fig- to tourist destinations like Phuket. many of the charters come from lines refuse to give passengers German travel giant TUI AG, ures are the same as last year. I Put simply, with charter the Scandinavian countries of holding frequent flyer miles/ TUIfly Nordic was due to return don’t think they will be down too flights you fly where you want, Sweden, Norway and Denmark, points permission to use their ben- to the island this month. The far, but if the world situation does when you want, in the plane you but also, increasingly, from places efits, instead charging passengers TUIfly Nordic travel agency not get any better it will slow want and with extra amenities you like Russia. fares at times of peak activity. Fritidsresor, Sweden’s largest down the tourists. I have my fin- choose yourself. Of course char- The Italians are also very Charter fares tend to vary tour operator, scheduled the first gers crossed about this also.” ters do not only fly tourists to strong on charter flights. Hote- depending on supply and demand. flight, from Gothenburg, Sweden He said the total number of places like Phuket. They can also liers generally like charters be- To keep costs to a minimum, tour flying a Boeing 747-400 Jumbo airlines, charter and scheduled, be used for hospital flights; to get cause they guarantee a set num- operators will try to fill their flights aircraft with 582 seats. this year is 36, and the airport is a large specific group, such as a ber of customers for a set amount 100 percent. Fares on charter flights There are some other things handling a total of 116 flights [air- film crew, from A to B; or even of time, com- are worked out to look out for when considering craft movements] a day. to fly whole families, if they can pared to what depending on a charter flight. For example, Charter business is very afford it. are called FIT the cost to the some airlines do not include the important to Phuket hoteliers as Another advantage is that [free indepen- Talking Planes operator of a cost of any luggage put into the well as the airport. Clearly Phuket charters fly directly to their des- dent travelers] scheduled ticket hold [non-carry-on items], but this is increasingly attracting charter tination – not through airport hubs, who usually ar- over the course should be displayed at the time business, if the statistics of the with all the hassles that such facili- rive by sched- of a year. They of booking. It is still worth check- last couple of years are any indi- ties can offer passengers. uled aircraft be- take into ac- ing, though. Infants are not en- cation [2008 not yet available]. This contrasts with sched- cause they pre- count factors titled to a luggage allowance, and For example, between 2006 uled flights which operate regu- fer a more flex- by such as time of adults and children are given the and 2007 there was an 84 per- lar, published schedules. This is ible itinerary. year and esti- same allowance. cent increase in charter passen- the way most tourists travel but, To illus- Alastair Carthew mated demand. When booking and paying, gers, from 270,000 to 500,551. with the aviation world being trate how char- Scheduled it would appear that the best way The number of commercial air- rocked by high fuel prices and the ters can be an airlines do not is through a credit card because craft movements was up 70.86 credit crunch, scheduled airlines advantage, consider that in Eu- discount at the last minute and if the company should go belly up percent over the same period. have been badly hit and have been rope there are over 2000 airports, fares tend to be more restricted. it is easier to get your money Overall, in 2007 Phuket Interna- forced to cut back on flights to but only around 10 percent are They also supply a proportion of back than with cash or a debit tional Airport handled more than many destinations, which, again, reached by scheduled airlines. their seats to “consolidators” who card, which will take a lot longer. 50 international non-scheduled means places like Phuket. Private charter companies can take on the administration from Also, you cannot buy a round-trip airline operations, including char- In this context, the Thai do- reach all of them. The types of the airlines and impose heavy re- ticket and use it only one way. tered flights from Mytravel, mestic low cost carriers, One- aircraft used can vary from a strictions in exchange for fares If the outbound flight, for Finnair, Transaero Airlines, Nova Two-Go and Nok Air, both oper- Beechjet 400A or a Gulfstream below those the airlines publish. example, is not used, the return Airlines, Pulkovo Airlines and ating regular point to point sched- G111 executive jet, through to an Unfortunately, charter air- portion of the ticket is automati- China Southern Airlines. ules from Bangkok to Phuket, ATR-42 or Embraer 120 Brasilia lines have also acquired a repu- cally canceled. Charter airlines are often have been grounded, the first by propjet to a Boeing 747-400 tation for financial instability. In called “air taxis” because they authorities and the second be- Jumbo jet and even helicopters, Europe, in particular, several operate outside of normal airline cause of costs, thus robbing twin-piston and cargo planes. have gone bust leaving thousands Footnote: Phuket International schedules and are for hire with a Phuket of valuable scheduled ser- Most of the planes that ser- of holidaymakers stranded. Airport is to hold a large cer- particular customer, just like a taxi. vices for several months. vice Phuket tend to be mid-to- One reason for this is that emony at the airport on 26 De- In specific terms, charters are In Phuket, most hotels have large jets, such as Boeing 767s the economics of charter flights cember, 2008 to mark its six mil- seen as flights whose sole func- relationships with tour operators and Airbus A330s. It really de- demand that they operate at near lionth visitor for the year. One tion is to transport holidaymakers in the target markets. In this case, pends on the bookings the tour 100 percent capacity, whereas lucky passenger will receive a operators receive. scheduled flights, with their yet-to-be-announced prize in the In addition, charters are greater flexibility, often only need presence of several local digni- generally sold on a weekly rota- to make around 80 percent of taries. tion and for one or two week du- capacity or less, depending on the General Manager Wing rations. The downside, and this route and the fare structure, to Commander Wicha Nurlop said is where some people have been make a profit. the airport is working to improve caught to their cost, is that the In Europe, a number of its image and that many local seats sold cannot be changed, compulsory insurance and bond businesses have generously sup- amended or canceled without a arrangements have been installed ported it. Since October, the air- charge or cancellation fee of up to try to minimize the financial port has been running lucky to 100 percent. Also, prices can risk to the public from charter draws for arriving passengers soar at certain times of the year operators failing to fly and leav- over a four-day period each when many people want to travel, ing passengers both stranded and month. This will run until the end e.g., school holidays, bank holi- out of pocket. of the year. days and Christmas. This is when Phuket is a popular destina- prices can go up. tion for Scandinavian charter op- Ironically, on scheduled air- erators such as TUIfly Nordic, Looking for a job? lines what are called frequent one of the world’s largest tour- PhuketGazette.Net flyer “blackouts” occur when air- ism operators. A subsidiary of November 15 - 21, 2008 ISLAND HISTORY PHUKET GAZETTE 29 King Chulalongkorn Visits Phuket huket Island, bountiful in its The king writes of two ‘mail natural resources, has al- boats’ he saw anchored in Phuket Pways throughout history Bay when the royal yacht arrived. been an important source of rev- He uses the word ‘rua-mail’ to de- enue for the Kingdom of Siam. scribe these mail boats that he During the Ayutthaya period and says frequently voyaged between the Bangkok period that followed, Phuket and Penang. the importance of Thalang Island A very interesting feature to the kingdom became evident that is common and almost in several historical letters and unique to King Chulalongkorn’s documents. writings starts to appear in his ac- But throughout its time as a counts at this stage. Although the Siamese dominion, no sovereign accounts were written in Thai, of Siam had ever visited this re- they often contained English source-rich island on the western words, typically nouns, which are coast before, until late in the 19th phonetically spelled in Thai.The Century. This was for good rea- hybrid word ‘rua-mail’ (rua is the son. The capital of Siam, whether Thai word for boat) is a classic it was Ayutthaya or Bangkok example. This tells us a lot about from which the kings reigned, King Chulalongkorn, who by this was far off from this island in the time in his life was one of the south. These days, a journey from most educated men in Siam and Bangkok to Phuket might take was also one of the few in the only an hour on jet propelled Kingdom who spoke English. wings, but a few centuries ago, the This is apparent from his trip could have taken weeks. writings. These ‘rua-mail’, ac- Distance was not the only Royal Steamer Maha-Chakri (white ship, double funnel) on which King Chulalongkorn journeyed for nine cording to the king, would visit concern for royal visitors; travel- months to Europe. Here it is seen at port in Stockholm in 1897 during the king’s first tour of Europe. Phuket once every 5 days. Op- ing south into the Malay Penin- erated by Chinese merchants, sula, during much of its history, virtually unheard of for an Asian of the people of Phuket during the typical conditions in the Andaman they loaded themselves with tin meant passing through dangerous monarch to do. In fact, his pre- late 19th Century. Sea during this time of the year. on their way out of Phuket and territories. The land routes would decessors never traveled beyond According to his personal The king jokingly mentions many returned with a cargo of rice and have been plagued by opportunis- Siam or its tributary states during memoirs, the king arrived in seasick victims on board. other goods from Penang. tic thieves, whereas pirates and their lifetimes, as traveling usu- Phuket on April 30th, 1890 on However when the yacht If there was no cargo to Saliteers infested the sea. Ac- ally incurred much hardship. turned its bearing and came into take back, they would just carry cording to accounts written by However by traveling to Phuket Bay, the sea inside the bay the mail, hence the name used to merchants and sailors, the jour- Europe, the knowledge that King The first Siamese king was noticeably much calmer. The describe them. ney to Phuket was Chulalongkorn gained who visited Phuket king also mentions a lighthouse Although the royal yacht ar- to be taken with of western culture perched on Tapao-Noi Island, rived in Phuket by noon of April great risk; hence it LOOKING and administration, was also one of the which would have been notice- 30th, none of its passengers dis- is not surprising coupled with his dip- greatest to have ever able from the yacht as it sailed embarked immediately. that no monarch of lomatic achievements into the bay. According to King According to the memoirs, Siam would ever BACK abroad, would help to reigned over the Chulalongkorn, it was built by it rained for the whole day till By Anand Singh visit this island until secure Siam’s au- kingdom. Luang Anurak, a high-ranking nightfall. The two lighthouses he relatively recently. tonomy through dan- government official of Phuket. mentioned earlier had been lit in The first Siamese king who gerous times, at the height of HM Although it did beautify the scen- the distance and were clearly vis- visited Phuket was also one of the western colonialism in the region. King Chulalongkorn ery, the king doubts its practical- ible amidst the darkness. Being greatest to have ever reigned King Chulalongkorn visited ity. The royal yacht dropped an- that it was late in the evening al- over the Kingdom. HM King Phuket twice during his lifetime. (Rama V) chor in Phuket Bay at around ready, the king spent the night on Chulalongkorn (Rama V) stopped His second visit in the year 1890 stopped by and visited noon. the yacht and disembarked for the by and visited Phuket for the first has been well documented in the From what we read in his island the next morning instead. time in the year 1871. The king king’s very own words. Phuket for the first time travel diaries, King Chulalongkorn stopped to visit the island whilst During his later journeys, in the year 1871. greatly acclaims the island’s natu- Anand Singh is an avid Phuket on a tour of southern Siam, Brit- King Chulalongkorn wrote diaries ral harbors, stating that amongst historian. He lived on Phuket ish Malaya, Dutch Indonesia and describing his travels and experi- all the cities on the western coast, from the age of three to 21. He India. During this time, King Chula- ences in foreign lands. During this board his royal yacht which sailed Phuket provided the best natural is fluent in Thai and is currently longkorn was still quite young and trip to Phuket, he wrote several from Takua-Pa, their previous harbors for ships, characterized completing his degree in eco- his regent named Chao-Phraya pages about the island in his travel destination. The party encoun- by the many sheltered bays that nomics at the University of Bir- Sri-suriya-wongse saw fit to send diary. It gives us vivid descriptions tered light rain and high winds can be found along the island’s mingham. Anand may be con- the young king on a tour of the and valuable insight into the lives which made the sea rather rough, eastern coast. tacted at [email protected] European colonies so that he could learn about western meth- ods of governance and adminis- tration. King Chulalongkorn was a diplomat and a well-read man who had a passion for traveling and learning. During his lifetime, he traveled to and toured Europe on more than one occasion, a journey that took up to nine months by steamship, something 30 PHUKET GAZETTE SPORTS November 15 - 21, 2008 Phuket Football Club fields Americans Ross and Boss prevail players from 15 nations KARON: In Sunday’s final of the PTT Phuket Thailand Open vol- leyball tournament, Jennifer Boss and April Ross overcame fellow Americans Nicole Branagh and Tyra Turner. The tournament, held at Karon Beach, was the lat- est stop on the Swatch FIVB Beach Volley World Tour. After two sets, the teams couldn’t be separated, with Branagh and Turner winning the first set 21-18 and Ross and Boss the second 21-14. The final went into a nail- By James Goyder South Africa contacted the biting third-set decider, in which Phuket Football Club with a view Boss and Ross eventually pre- PHUKET: The average team to playing a match. vailed 15-12. sheet of the newly-named Phuket While they do play the oc- Earlier in the day, Tamsin Football Club contains more na- casional eleven-a-side match – Barnett and Becchara Plamer tionalities than an Olympic Open- beating the British International from Australia were defeated by ing Ceremony. With players hail- school 4-0 last time out – the the German pairing of Geeske ing from all over the world, the Phuket Football Club has a busy Banck and Anja Gunther in the Phuket Football Club can truly lay seven-a-side schedule in upcom- third-place play off. claim to represent the “World ing weeks. On the weekend of After their victory, Jennifer Game”. November 22-23, the team will Boss said, “We lost the first set “We are an international be participating in the Andaman and had to come back, so we are crowd”, said the club’s founder International 7s. The following really happy with how we played Billy Chima. “We have players weekend, they will compete in the today.” from Sweden, France, Germany, the Phuket International 7s. The Swatch FIVB Beach Italy, Hong Kong, Ireland, the This year, the venue for both Volleyball world tour will return UK, the US, Canada, Turkey, tournaments has been moved to to Thailand in 2009. Italy Norway, Australia and Is- Ao Kham near Phuket City, fol- rael, as well as Thailand,” he lowing concerns over the state of added. the pitch at Karon stadium. Phuket Cricket Union Under 15’s Tour returns The team was originally While there is no shortage dia, pitted the boys against an out- called Khana O’Malley’s but it of friendly matches and the oc- fit that was two years younger was recently decided that a more casional tournament in Phuket, and despite some disciplined neutral name was in order, so the there remains a lack of structured bowling, Thailand’s attack failed Phuket Football Club was born. football. To address this, Billy is to exert pressure on the Indian The name change, together with planning to launch a weekend batsmen, who eventually cruised the launch of its new website seven-a-side league and has re- to a comfortable victory. (www.phuketfootball.com) has quested that any interested teams The final game came against indeed proved propitious for the or players should contact him at KL Combined Schools and the club, sparking widespread inter- 081-894 0794. Thais suffered an immediate set- national interest. For more information on the back with the loss for a second- As a direct result of the Phuket Football Club visit their ball duck of Kritsana Haituk. club’s website, a team from website: www.phuketfootball.com. However, Chayathit Kaewpithak, together with Phutanet Suriya, laid a foundation for a shot at vic- tory. A total of 73 runs was a re- PHUKET: Ten boys, selected from lent teamwork, emerging with spectable target to defend, but local schools in Sapam and Cherng three defeats and one victory. after a disasterous opening two Talay and products of Phuket First up was the Singapore overs, which yielded 32 runs, all Cricket Union’s Youth Develop- Under-15 national team who hope seemed lost. ment Program, have just returned notched up an impressive 97 runs However, with tight bowl- from the second International KAF from their allotted 7 overs, with ing from Chayathit and Sompob Under-15 eight-a-side Cricket the loss of just four wickets. the following two overs surren- Tournament, held in Royal Selangor The second game against dered 13 runs. Club grounds in Kuala Lumpur the Perak Colts saw improved With everything still to play from October 23-26. The Thai bowling with Nattapat Somnam for, the nerve-wracking final team played against teams from narrowly missing out on a hat trick. over, bowled by Chokanan Jittrong, Malaysia, Singapore, India, Indo- Perak posted a lofty target signalled the coming of age of the nesia and Australia. of 73 for the loss of five wickets. Thai boys, with a wicket maiden The Thai boys put up a The third game, against SK and a sweet victory. spirited performance with excel- Cricket Academy Blue from In- Richard Brown November 15 - 21, 2008 PHUKET GAZETTE 31 32 PHUKET GAZETTE November 15 - 21, 2008 November 15 - 21, 2008 PHUKET PROPERTY PHUKET GAZETTE 33

Decor Tipwarintron Tanaakarachod

he subject of Asian art is, as you would imagine, pretty vast and would Imagineering Oriental art decor Tcertainly make for too rich a dish for us to devour in a single sitting. So, for the purpose of manageability, we shall focus in today’s column mainly on art coming from the south of Asia, plus a little from the south of China. Let us explore beyond the ubiq- uitous and popularized Buddha reproductions that adorn so many homes in this part of the world, and consider just one or two of the thousands of fascinating arti- facts and ideas that can go to make your home beautiful. First off, ponder, if you will, the iconic Chinese incense burner. No doubt you will have seen nu- merous examples of these in and around Chinese temples. A staple prop in many a Chinese movie, the incense burner has become so woven into the daily fabric of life that you could be forgiven for missing it. In your home, the incense burner could sit simply and promi- nently in the middle of the hall. It can happily stand alone, or, as I have done, since my home is a bit on the cavernous side, you can create a lotus pond around it, which adds to the serenity of the whole thing. The lotus pond needn’t be enormous; about 80cms wide should do it. Even in a modest sized home, an elegant, well placed incense burner can become a stand-out decorative attraction. Placed on a coffee table or filled with sand, illustrated with symbols or covered with glass, the incense burner’s ver- art without, sooner or later bump- King of Nagas, noticing Buddha’s warning: do not place any deco- satility and mobility makes it an ing into a Buddha. When they say diligence and dedication to his rative Buddha image anywhere excellent piece on Asian art for “Buddha is everywhere”, they’re task, transformed himself into a too low or near to the ground, as the home. not kidding! Given the omnipres- giant Naga and crawled under the this would be considered The second piece I would ence of Buddha images in Asian Buddha and lifted him up above disrepectful to Bhuddists. beg you to consider is a “Hinge” art, you might feel that you know the rising floods. The Naga’s head Other eye-catching items, or blind. You often find them in all there is to know about the sub- then divided in to seven separate items including moving dolls that Chinese or Vietnamese houses, ject. However, as your friendly heads above the Buddha to pro- sing, dance and play a regional where they are used to partition neiborhood Buddhist, perhaps I tect him from the rain. musical instrument, can be found a room into smaller areas or as a might offer one or two helpful The story goes on, but the on display at Fine Orient on Vichit dressing screen for ladies of im- pointers. point I want to make is that of all Road. Now, that would be inter- peccable virtue. When not in use, In Thailand, every day of the different Buddha images to esting! But let us save that for these unwieldy and rather cum- the week is symbolized by a dif- choose from when you are deco- another time. bersome objects can be a bit of ferent Buddha image For ex- rating your home, this “Buddha an eyesore, so why not consider ample, I was born on a Saturday, for every day” might not be a bad If you have any comments or using them in the doorway? If you which is represented by an im- idea. You can arrange then along suggestions for for this column, can find one tall enough, with age of Buddha meditating, while a wall in a classic style, with gold or if you would like to share a hand-carved ornate hinges, the being sheltered by seven Nagas. foil and a black background. This great idea for home decora- effect can be quite stunning. The story goes that, as the will create quite a striking visual tion, please do drop me a line It is difficult to delve for long Buddha was meditating, a threat- impression in any part of the at [email protected] or into the wonderful world of Asian ening storm approached. The house. However, one word of give me a call at 076-236555. 34 PHUKET GAZETTE November 15 - 21, 2008

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Home of the Week Rawai

n the block this week comes a picturesque Balinese pool villa, Onestling in tranquil sur- Rawai Room with a View roundings down in Rawai. room and western kitchen. In the Inside the high-security, lounge, a large eight-seat wicker paparazzi-proof perimeter wall, sofa and robust wooden coffee an expansive driveway leads up table offer you the chance to put to a covered carport, where you your feet up and appreciate all will find more than enough space that breeze coming through the to garage your three favorite patio doors. Reclining on the set- Bentleys. Further inspection of tee, you can enjoy views of the the walled-in area reveals a gar- pool and garden. den and terrace dominated by a The western kitchen is private swimming pool, complete tastefully fitted out with wooden with an aesthetically crafted wa- cabinets and granite work tops, terfall feature. and comes equipped with enough Inside the villa, you will find state-of-the-art appliances to im- three bedrooms, two of which press a TV chef. have en suite bathrooms. This house, in tranquil coun- In traditional Balinese style, tryside surroundings, is available the villa feels very airy, with huge for purchase with Chanote title floor-to-ceiling patio windows, deed at 11.5 million baht. It may which, when opened fully, allow be acquired on either Freehold or for more fresh air than you could Leasehold terms. shake a stick at. The patio win- Rawai is currently the fast- dows open out on to the poolside est growing tourist region in Phuket. terrace, affording “Kodak mo- Residents are seldom more than ment” type views from the living five minutes away from an array room. of international and seafood res- The living area is presented taurants. in a U-shape and traces the con- tours of the pool outside. The wooden floors and vaulted ceil- For more info contact Patrick ings engender a naturalistic am- Lusted at Siam Real Estate, quote bience, with fresh breezes flow- reference number: HSIL2326. ing in through those humongous Telephone 076-288908. E-mail patio windows. The living space [email protected] is made up of a lounge, dining Visit www.siamrealestate.com 36 PHUKET GAZETTE PHUKET PROPERTY November 15 - 21, 2008

forcing owners to dig into their own pockets to subsidize their property. Longer-term refurbish- Paradise for rent ment of the units, capital repairs and the need to upgrade and re- Traditional hotel supply market takes heat from place the required furnishing package are often neglected in developers’ sales collateral. PROPERTY independent villa and condo rental sector However, there is light at the end of the tunnel for many of these types of properties. WATCH Capital appreciation and By Bill Barnett real estate allows investors to skin a cat two ways: rental yields or sale of the property at a profit. s the wheels of the tour- In Thailand, condo hotels ist high season crank open and villa rentals remain a gray Athe floodgates on our area of much taxation and statu- paradise island, it is the season to tory licensing legislation, includ- be renting. Never before have ing application of hotel licenses. there been so many options for The recent update of the condo- renters, with a range of daily, minium juristic act makes the ap- weekly, monthly and long-term pointment of a long-term man- stays on offer. agement agreement with a hotel Phuket’s vacation rental operator challenging, to say the market arguably remains under least, and casts a certain specter serviced and under promoted, of associated risk on this segment. unlike Bali and more mature mar- Logically, the relevant gov- kets such as the Gold Coast in ernment authorities should be Australia or Hawaii, where pro-active in embracing the tax condo hotels make up the lion’s potential of these enterprises. share of the accommodation sup- With the positive cash income ply. flow though accommodation, the Given the increasing num- funds going to provincial and mu- ber of villas, condos and apart- nicipal tax coffers could be ments now nearing completion, well spent on improving local in- this, along with the continuing glo- frastructure. bal financial crises – forcing prop- Internet sites such as www.vrbo.com allow individual property owners to attract international guests For visitors to Phuket, the erty investors to reduce capital to their property – leveling the playing field for small business. continued diversity of products is appreciation growth risk vis á vis a welcome improvement. There ongoing rental yield management ists making holiday arrangements cess story is the popular Two Vil- international hotel management is much to be said for the value- – has set the stage for market mo- to put DIY plans together by re- las brand, which has developed a companies, such as Outrigger for-money equation between mentum in this sector. searching and booking their op- number of pool-villa projects on from Hawaii, have used these renting a suite in a condo hotel at There will come a day in the tions on the Internet. A number the island and spun off a new types of properties to enter an ex- a similar price to a hotel room or not too distant future when the of large-scale Internet sites which service: Twovillasholiday.com, tremely competitive market, with renting a four-bedroom pool villa villa- and condo-rental market is specialize in these types of rent- which is aimed at providing rental Outrigger Serenity Terraces Re- with family and friends at a simi- going to become a key competi- als already exist, such as vrbo.com management for villa owners, sort and West Sands Outrigger lar cost to that of a villa at an tor to traditional hotel supply. Fu- (Vacation Rentals By Owners), enabling them to enhance returns brandings now in place. upscale luxury resort. eling this trend are significant Perfectplaces.com and Homeaway and focus on the surging leisure As in any business model, As the Internet gives small advances in Internet technology .com. Surprisingly, some of the dom market. it’s not all fresh air and sunshine business the ability to customize allowing small businesses or in- inant booking engines for hotels With a continued downturn for owners of these types of units. and attract niche business, it dividual owners to access inter- in Asia (Zuji, Asiarooms and in residential property following Traditionally, investors who buy should be a wake-up call for ho- national markets. Wotif) have yet to embrace these “Black October”, there seems to on the basis of aggressive rental tels to view this growing segment It’s a day of reckoning for product offerings. be a growing trend in conversions yield projections come away as direct competition. ‘brand equity’ arguments. In a Many of Phuket’s property of villa and condo projects into sorely disappointed when year on nutshell, the Internet is a great management companies offer hotel managed projects, which tap year figures show only a small leveler of the playing field. rental services. The one with the into the island’s predominate food percentage against the antici- Bill Barnett is the Managing Looking at the success of highest profile at the moment is chain – tourism. pated returns. Director of C9 Hotelworks e-commerce engines, such as Phuket Island Property Services Mixed-use projects, such as Looking at leisure markets, (c9hotelworks.com), a Phuket- Phuket.com, along with the (www.phuketvillarentals.com). Phuket Pavilions, were early such as Australia’s Gold Coast or based hotel and residential emergence of the low-cost air- Others in the same league include starters in selling units under ho- Queenstown in New Zealand, it’s property consulting firm. With line carriers (LCCs), such as Knight Frank, Lynx and Phuket tel management, and have estab- common to see ongoing minimal more than 20 years’ experience AirAsia, Jetstar and Tiger Air- Marbella. At the upper end are lished room rates and occupancy returns or even negative yields in the region, he has played an ways, which rely on Internet Shibumi and Phuket Villas & levels which are the envy of many (rental revenue minus expenses, active role in some of the bookings, it’s now normal for tour- Homes. One locally grown suc- upper-tier hotel properties. Some fees and management charges) island’s biggest developments. November 15 - 21, 2008 PHUKET GAZETTE 37

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Construction Update Building with Scandinavians in mind

Kamala Regent condominium units come with fitted kitchens. One of the four 5-story condominium blocks is nearing completion. amala Regent Resort minium units and a secluded is scheduled for completion by separate pool villas in an adjacent covering 223 square meters in is a mixed residential pool villa compound aimed pre- the end of May 2009. The project gated community. total, which has a living room, en- development currently dominantly at Scandinavian is being developed by G-1 Land There are four types of con- tertainment room, family room, K under construction home buyers. Co Ltd and comprises four 5- dominium unit. Floors one to four dining room, kitchen, and terrace. near Kamala Beach. The project Construction of Kamala story condominium blocks con- will comprise two- and three-bed- The project’s single-story features a variety of condo- Regent began in March 2007 and taining a total of 79 units and six room units with two bathrooms pool villa compound comprises six covering between 100 and 106 plots with unit prices starting at square meters in total. just over 9 million baht. These units include dining The villas each have three and living areas and each has a bedrooms and three bathrooms, terrace area. They are priced at plus a living room, dining area and about 4.5 million baht, with varia- a loft. They each have parking tions in cost depending on the spaces for two cars. view: sea view, hill view or pool According to the developer, view. The fifth floor will have 16 the Kamala area is popular with three-bedroom, three-bathroom Scandinavians as it is relatively units covering 212 square meters quiet yet close to the beach and each. entertainment areas, such as Each of these larger top- Patong, which is approximately floor penthouse units has a roof a 15-minute drive from the de- deck with a Jacuzzi area and an velopment. outdoor shower. Prices for these Furniture is included in the units are set at about 10 million cost of the villas, which com- baht. prises built-in wardrobes, fitted There is also a single extra- kitchens and a range of modern large 2-bedroom, 3-bathroom unit chairs, tables and beds. November 15 - 21, 2008 CLASSIFIEDS PHUKET GAZETTE 39 Property Gazette

Properties LUXURY NEW KATHU RAWAI BEACH BEAUTIFUL PHUKET COUNTRY For Sale DEVELOPMENT LAND POOL VILLA POOL VILLA NAI YANG LAND CLUB

RAWAIYA SUITES CONDOMINIUMS

near Loch Palm for sale. 3 Sale, lease. 1, 2, 3 or 4 bed- 9.5 rai, beachfront. 5 min- bedrooms, 3 baths, fully rooms, furnished, ADSL, utes to Phuket airport. Ask- furnished. Great hill & golf- 1.9 million baht ono. Tel: ing price: 120 million baht. green views. Land area: 086-940 8914. Email: Chanote. Must see. No 200 sqm. Indoor area: 140 [email protected] agents. Contact by email: Rawai Beach, 1 and 2 bed- sqm. Pool: 7x3m. Price: 6.9 [email protected] rooms, ensuite bathroom, million baht. Phone: 089- fully furnished, 65 to 130 724 1140. Email: nong. GARDEN VILLA Duplex renovation project sqm, total 27 units. Ready Ao Po, Phuket, Thailand. [email protected] AT BAAN SAKOO LAND AT PA KHLOK directly on 15th fairway for to move into in December, 23.5 rai seafront/view. sale. Reduced price. See rent out in high season. Full Ideal for development or www.fairway15.com Tel: facilities, freehold available. subdivision. Neighbors in- KARON SEA VIEW 081-894 1994. Prices: 3.7 to 3.9 million clude The Estate luxury de- baht. Sales:+66 (0)76 velopment, the new Ao Po 245964 or email to: sales@ Marina and Jumeirah Pri- tharadonestate.com. Tel: TOWNHOUSE IN THE vate Island. Quick sale. Call 076-245964, 085-784- PROJECT ‘THE INDY’ 081-970 4765. Visit www. 2004. Fax: 076-245962. 49 rai, nice flat land. Cha- phuketluxuryland.com For further details, please note, 2.5km from Heroines’ see our website at www. Monument. 1.7 million baht tharadonestate.com Located between Centara per rai. Tel: 083-1802143. 13 RAI NEXT TO Karon Resort and Secret MANGOSTEEN Cliff Resort. 10.5 rai with HOUSE FOR SALE 13-1-78 rai of beautiful hill- Chanote. Very good loca- 2 RAI (3,200 SQM) 5.5 million baht. Fully fur- side land for sale. Land plot tion for business (hotel & on 1 rai with 3 big bunga- Sea view land plots available nished. No agents. Tel: 081- is right next to The Man- resort). Asking price: 250 lows and 1 big house. 7 at the prestigious Yamu Hills 894 2009. gosteen Resort, ideal for million baht. No agents. bedrooms & bathrooms, near Cape Yamu. Full infra- mixed residential develop- Tel: 087-270 9093. Email swimming pool, fully fur- structure from only 5 million GOLF VIEWS CONDO ment! Price: 99 million baht. [email protected] nished, 2km to Nai Yang baht per rai. Financing avail- at the entrance to BIS. Condo on the Phuket Country Tel: 076-289399, 081-536 Beach and 5 minutes to able. Tel: 086-6865998 or Townhouse is at the corner Club golf course for sale. 5846. Fax: 076-289389. Phuket International Air- 081-7871108. Email: info@ and adjacent to the project’s 66sqm, 1 bedroom with living Email: hajo@mangosteen- PARICHART port. Only 9 million baht. tropical-homes.net public garden. 2 floors, 6.5 room and large balcony. 1.29 phuket.com VILLAGE, CHALONG Tel: 087-270 9093, 087- meters wide, 3 bedrooms, million baht. Tel: 086-547 689 9679. Email: png. 2 BEDROOM 3 bathrooms. Land: 32sq 1188. [email protected] FREEHOLD CONDO wah. Tel: 089-472 9118. KARON LAND - This is a luxury, low-rise two- URGENT bedroom condominium unit at 28 RAI NEAR 68 RAI OF KRABI LAND BYPASS RD 1 minute to the beach, great Royal Phuket Marina, SURIN BEACH business location for home, Super-prime hilltop, 280 de- Chanote land with 200m of Phuket’s largest marina de- Land on Soi Haad Surin 2 for guesthouse, apartments. 6.7 gree bay view above Shera- frontage along road 3001 velopment on the island’s east sale. 2.2 Rai, 5 min walk to million baht. Must sell ur- ton. Chanote and Norsor 3. opposite the new outlet mall. coast. Owners within each of Surin Beach. Tel: 082-411 gently. Call Moon. Tel: 086- B6.5m per rai. Email: thunder the three-building cluster of Tel: 081-893 6630. Email: 35/20 Soi 1. 3 bedrooms, 2 [email protected] 2138. [email protected] 948 0885. condominiums will enjoy the bathrooms, 2 aircons, shared 20m long swimming SUPERB SEA VIEW some furniture, 50sq wah, LUXURY HOUSE pool. Lift access to the upper STUNNING PATONG garden. For sale at 4 million for sale or rent. Mission PERFECT LAND STUDIO APT 1 rai, Yamu Hills. Fully ser- floors, private underground baht or for long-term rent. Heights community, 5 mins parking and 24-hour hour se- FOR SALE Large studio in Phuket Palace viced, underground power/ Must see. Contact Nina. from Mission Hills Golf Club. curity is also provided. Foreign on the main road to Cherng condo near Simon Cabaret. water, gated security, ready Tel: 087-689 9679. Email: 4 bedrooms, en-suite bath- freehold ownership is avail- Talay and Surin. 43 rai, All modern conveniences, to build on. Tel: 081-088 [email protected] rooms with bath and shower, able for this apartment. The 1ngan, 85sq wah. For sale large balcony, bath, aircon, 8271. Email: capt@loxinfo large Western kitchen, 90- marina includes bars, restau- by owner. 5.5 million baht kitchen, cable TV, on the top .co.th sqm pool, garden, service in- rants, shops, a professional per rai. Tel: 081-9562406. floor. Spectacular views of ON THE BEACH cluded. Fully furnished. Con- spa, gymnasium, and tennis Email: phatsarar@gmail. the ocean and Patong Bay. BRAND-NEW HOUSE 2-bedroom apartment in north tact So. Tel: 081-862 2962, courts. Tel: 076-360943, com Huge swimming pool & ten- For sale in Baan Suan Loch Patong. Foreign freehold, top 081-344 4473. 084-8519795. Email: phuket nis courts. 3.7 million baht or Palm. 2 stories, 3 bedrooms, floor, swimming pools. 9.7 4 bathrooms. Price: 10.5 mil- million baht. Tel: 086-276- [email protected] PATONG LAND near offer. Tel: 076-296738, NICE PLOT 087-031 2154. Email: info@ lion baht. Urgent sale! Tel: 5117. Email for photos. Email: Prime land, 5.5 rai, central lo- kellyshotelphuket.com 087-2799500. [email protected] near Layan Hills Estate and RAWAI, 2-STOREY cation in Patong. Mail or call af- pool villas project. Chanote HOUSE ter 11am. Tel: 081-4095175. BOAT LAGOON title and road access on 4 160sqm, 2 bedrooms, 2 bath- Email: [email protected] Twin house for sale or rent, 2 sides of the plot. 4.5 million rooms, 400m from beach. baht. Tel: 081-5399269. and 3 bedrooms, fully fur- Price: 1.8 million. Tel: 086- BEAUTIFUL VILLA nished. Tel: 081-344 4473, 9408914. Email: rawai1@ VILLA IN NAI HARN 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms in 081-862 2962. yahoo.com small secure development. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, Sala, overflow swimming Western kitchen, aircon. 3.9 FOREIGN FREEHOLD LAND AT NATAI pool, secluded garden, large million baht. Tel: 076-288- condo in Rawai, 250 meters near Khao Pilai Beach. 20 rai car port, quality kitchen, fully 047, 081-894 1660. Email: from the pier. 54sqm. w/ Chanote title, only 1.7 mil- furnished. 10 million baht. Tel: [email protected] 1,300,000 baht. Tel: 086- lion baht per rai. 300m from 085-7840569. 9408914. Email: rawai1@ the beach. Road, electricity yahoo.com 2-STOREY HOUSE access. Urgent sale. No 11 RAI - agents. Tel: 081-539 9269. 5.5 million baht. 4 bed- WAT CHALONG CONDO: 63SQM, rooms, 2 bathrooms, 72sq Flat land with road and water PATONG wah with some furniture at PERFECT LAND frontage. Next to Land & 100% renovated, freehold. 2 Villa Samkong. Call Khun Nearly 2 rai at Bang Tao. Very House Park and Wat Chalong. rooms, terrace & nice view, Nan. Tel: 081-6779837. good location for business. 18 Chanote: 11-3-60 rai. 4.5 mil- pool, security. Beach: 200m, Email: knahniez@hotmail. million baht. No agents. Tel: lion baht per rai. Tel: 081-893 furnished, TV, Hi-Fi, 2 aircons. com or okika_j@hotmail. 086-9442065, 087-6899679. 6630. Fax: 076-241408. 4.9 million baht. Telephone: com Email: tasuwan@hotmail. Email: baansorada@hotmail. 086-9760809. com com 40 PHUKET GAZETTE CLASSIFIEDS November 15 - 21, 2008 Property Gazette

TRANG LAND COCONUT HOUSE WITH BIG COLONIAL HOUSE BUNGALOW IN KHAO LAK BEAUTIFUL ISLAND LAND AMAZING SEA VIEW CHALONG

Anuphas Golf View, built beach land for sale, 25-40 rai, for sale. 4.5 rai. Chanote, 2005, 600 sqm, living space, Newly refurbished 3 bed- all title deeds, 150m-wide hillside panoramic sea view, 2 floors with 3 bedrooms, 4 room, bungalow on 65sq beach front. 10 mins drive close to beach. 14 million bathrooms, dream kitchen, wah. Brand new modern from Le Meridien KhaoLak. baht. Please call K. Bouddha large foyer, large dining and kitchen and bathroom. Cov- 1km down Soi Baan Nam for more information. Tel: sitting area, separate enter- ered parking and landscaped Khem. Ideal for resort devel- 089-2900484. tainment room and snooker garden. Price: 4.2 million opment. Contact Maneerat. for sale. 3 rai in Baan Po, room, maid's room, on a baht. Tel: 089-922 2800. Tel: 081-812 0388. Email: Muang, Trang. Very good 1,700sqm tropical garden. Pls email: meen443_40@ [email protected] 40 million baht. Tel: 089-587 hotmail.com location for business, suit- AO POR LAND in Rawai. Super-modern, 8173. able for house projects. Elec- FOR SALE furnished, 3-storey house, tricity access, road. Sale by PANORAMIC 2 bedrooms and 2½ bath- SEA VIEW owner. With Chanote. rooms. All rooms are air- MAI KHAO LAND Price: 7 million baht ono. NEW BUILDING conditioned. Alarm system, FOR SALE No agents please. Tel: 075- water-filter system, large 210646, 087-270 9093. private pool and safe car- Email: [email protected] parking space. 320sqm block of land with Chanote SALE/RENT, KAMALA title. The price is only 11.5 Single house near beach, 2 150 rai. Nor Sor 3 Gor, sea million baht. Email: png. bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living view. Priced from 2.5 million [email protected] for sale. 11 rai, Nor Sor 3, room, kitchen. 4.2 million baht per rai. No agents. 500 meters to the beach. Karon land for sale. 15 rai. baht. Tel: 086-277 3381. Please contact by email: Contact Tor. Tel: 084- Chanote title. Hillside, pan- PRANGTHONG VILLA oramic sea view, quiet [email protected] SALE/RENT 5071834. Email: mrpantor @hotmail.com area. Very good location for LAND IN KATHU 2-story villa in secure estate business. 15 million baht per 444-sqm plot near waterfall. FREEHOLD IN PATONG between Phuket Town and rai. No agents. Please con- 2.5 million baht. Phone: 089- for sale. New studio with pool Chalong. 3 bedrooms and sepa- LAND VILLA CONDO tact by email: allservices29 724 1140. in Patong, 45sqm. 3.2 million rate maid's room. 64 sq wah, Oceanfront estate, 160 mil- @gmail.com baht. Quick sale. Tel: 089-728 chanote title. For sale at 5.9 lion baht. Patong seaview plot, 3-BEDROOM VILLA 4005. Email: antoniocpala@ million baht. For rent at 25,000 pool, villa, 16 million baht. La- yahoo.it baht per month (long term only). guna, 1 rai, lake view, 15 mil- SEA, HILL & WITH POOL GARDEN VIEWS For sale or rent, in Rawai, 3 big Tel: 081-893 6630. Email: lion baht. 19 rai, Phuket cen- [email protected] tral, 25 million baht. Condo 2 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, bedrooms, big garden, private STUDIO APARTMENT 160sqm, beautifully appointed in busy area, Soi Sai Nam Patong central 4.7 million pool, aircon. Full kitchen, great for sale in Kata. New building designer apartment in peace- location, secure. Tel: 087-893 incl elevator, pool, restaurant, BARGAIN. KATA BEACH Yen, Patong Beach. baht. 40+ rai beachfront, 1,800 million baht. Tel: 087- ful Kata Noi. 150 metres to 8747. gym and parking. Walking dis- 3-level house, only 1 min to * 4-storey 2849541. For further details, the beach. Well-established, tance to beach, shopping and beach. Owner moving. 3.3 8 apartments on floors 2, * please see our website at meticulously maintained and NICE 5 BED HOUSE nightlife. Tel: 087-893 8747. million baht. Tel: 084-840- 3 and 4 secluded development with Perfect house for a family, 5834. www.phuket-no1.com * Chanote title 24-hour security. Handicap ac- ready to move in. Five bed- NAI HARN LAND cessible. Many extras in- * Electricity, water rooms and bathrooms, close for sale. High-end walled plot KOH YAO YAI CORNER BUILDING cluded. 14.7 million baht. Of- 2 minutes to the beach to Central Festival and Rawai 720 or 360 sqm. Chanote, 3.8 rai, 1 million baht. Cha- * OFF BYPASS fers invited. Tel: 087-265- Beach. Tel: 081-8915296. cable TV, mains, tel line, good note, electricity, near pier. Asking price: 2 units, 24 + 33 sq wah, 4 8801. Email: ruckzuck98@ Email: hkthomesale18@ views. Price: 4.4 million baht Thai owner needs money. Call 52 million baht. stories. Located opposite hotmail.com For further de- yahoo.com Visit our website or 2.25 million baht. Tel: 076- for more details. Tel: 081-892 Tel: 087-2709093, Kejmukda restaurant, 300m tails, please see our websites at www.jikkycar.com 613227, 085-782 7551. 8208. 081-8687676. from the Bypass road. 7- at www. katanoicondo.com or Eleven is on the ground floor. www.photoshow.com/ Price for the building is 15 mil- watch/aT6bx5cx VILLA + 2 HOUSES lion baht. Tel: 081-893 6630. IN PATONG Fax: 076-241408. Email: BANGTAO HOUSE Villa + 2 houses with 8 small [email protected] apartments. The owner is us- for sale. 3 bedrooms, 5mx9m ing the villa + pool and 2 pool, auto gate, fully furnished, apartments. Six apartments KRABI AREA ADSL, sat TV, 5 aircons, 2 lev- are for rent. 700 sqm freehold SEAVIEW LAND els. Tel: 087-268 8752 or 084- land. For sale by owner direct 19 rai of hillside land overlook- 851 6121. Or send email to at 40 million baht. No agents. ing mountains and Phang-nga [email protected], or Tel: 089-290 9567. Email: Bay. 1.2 million baht per rai. visit our website at www. [email protected] Tel: 086-9410410. Email: phuket home.ws For further details, please see [email protected] For further our website at www.bromma details, please see our web- HILL LAND thaihouse.com site at http://krabi.land.here. SOUTH OF AIRPORT fastmail.fm/ 18 Rai of Nor Sor Sam Gor MINI GOLF FOR SALE land for sale by owner. Six km Mini golf course with all the SPACIOUS HOME south of airport. Prepared for possible equipment. Ready to IN LOCH PLAM development with roads and run business. For RENT OR Secure estate, 4 bedrooms, 3 drainage. Partial sea view to- SALE. On 1 rai in Khao Lak. bathrooms, 6 aircons, 1 year wards NaiYang. 36 million Tel: 081-8912273. Fax: 076- old, 327sqm on 560sqm. baht. Tel: 081-8936630. Fax: 340182. Email: rkfashon@ Asking 20.9 million baht ono. 076-241408. Email: baan phuket.ksc.co.th Owner.Tel: 083-967 5777. [email protected] Looking for land to buy? See many more classified ads at www.phuketgazette.net November 15 - 21, 2008 CLASSIFIEDS PHUKET GAZETTE 41 Property Gazette

POOL VILLA, THE WHITE HOUSE KAMALA TOWNHOUSE NAI HARN VILLA

near Phuket FantaSea, 2 Best location in Nai Harn. for sale (27.5 million baht) bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, Excellent investment. or for rent. The White car park. 3.2 million baht. Rental income of 75,000 House Villa is one of the fin- Email: png.phuket@gmail. baht per month for 8 est tropical pool villas in com months in low season. For Patong. Best location for RAWAI 3 BEDROOMS 4 BEDROOM HOME, NEW CONDOS high season, US$550 per nightlife and touring Phuket. SAIYUAN IN PATONG night is possible. Cedar Located high on the hill RENOVATED roof, 2 bedrooms. Jacuzzi, above the Amari Coral DELUXE TOWNHOUSE waterfall, zeroscape. Only Beach Resort at the south A beautiful 2-bedroom home 12.5 million baht. Tel: 085- end of Patong. No agents! of more than120sqm located 111 1155. Email: alexander Email: png.phuket@gmail. in Chalong. The home has been [email protected] com renovated over the last year and has granite and wooden floors, full granite bathrooms, House for sale, 3 bedrooms, FREEHOLD CONDO TOP SEAVIEW LOT 3 bathrooms, fully furnished, 672sqm. 4 bedrooms, 5 2 rai, Yamu hills. Chanote, and 2 full western kitchens for sale. Top floor, 1 corner with oven and breakfast bar. with pool, sea view. 160sq bathrooms, modern kitchen, unit, sea view. 1 million baht. gated, good road, 11.5 million wah. 12.9 million baht. Tel: working room, maid's room, baht. Tel: 080-5358767, Tel The home is fully furnished (if Tel: 086-076 0141. Email: desired) with quality furniture, 086-475 2424. and a big garden. Mountain [email protected] (US): 0011-760-7808584. view. For rent at 35,000 baht Email: [email protected] including huge sofa, large TVs Best location, deluxe con- and teak furniture. Within the AGRICULTURAL LAND per month. For sale at 8.8 million baht. Tel: 081-787 dos, fully furnished, ready to COMMERCIAL complex is a swimming pool for sale. 120 rai of agricult- SPACIOUS HOME 2201. Email: phuket8@ move in. Top Western qual- BUILDING and mini mart. And, as the ural land for sale, 20km from IN LOCH PLAM hotmail.com ity. 2 rooms: living room In Rawai. 3 stories, great loca- Secure estate, 4 bedrooms, 3 home is located on a dead-end resort area of Khao Lak. Total with pantry kitchen, bed- tion by main road. 6.5 million bathrooms, 6 aircons, 1 year road, it is whisper quiet every price 3.84 million baht. Please room, big bath. 67-sqm, baht. Tel: 086-475 2424. old, 327sqm on 560sqm. night. A great place to live. Pri- telephone 087-020 0191 for pool, garden, car park, 24- Asking 20.9 million baht ono. vate sale at 3,350,000 baht. further information. THE BEST VIEW hour security, TV. Internet, RPM MARINA CONDO Owner.Tel: 083-967 5777. Tel: 087-8881921. Email: ON THE ISLAND safety box. 3.6 million baht 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, [email protected] (70,000 euro). Lotus Resi- 150sqm + 50-sqm terrace. LAND IN RAWAI RAWAI HOUSE dence. Please contact Pe- Freehold, corner view, pool, fit- and Nai Harn. Many small and VILLAS, CONDOS ter for more info. Tel: 081- ness, tennis. B27m. Tel: 081- big plots. Special: 1,773sqm Great properties for sale in 892 8526. Email: info@ 4772189. Email: thunderor w/ sea view, 5.9 million baht. Phuket at www.janeproperty phuket-besthomes.com [email protected] Tel: 085-795 5383. phuket.com Website: www.phuket- besthomes.com New, 80-sqm contempo- rary apartment overlooking Chalong Bay. 180° unre- CONDO @ THE 3-4 bedrooms, 3 bath- PALMS, KAMALA rooms at Rawai Beach. stricted sea view. Private Brand-new luxury 2-bedroom, High-end building materials Jacuzzi, frameless-glass 2-bathroom apartment, 20 and furniture. Asking price: rain shower, European-style metres from Kamala Beach. 220,000 euro. Email: png. kitchen w/ built-in stainless Highest quality furnishings, [email protected] oven, sky air-con. Common swimming pool, sundeck, plasma TV. Every facility. A massage, reception. Best lo- beautiful residence or invest- SEAVIEW NORTH cation of the units in the ment with very high rental re- OF AIRPORT project. Only 4-4.4 million turns. Please contact for 4 lots of Nor Sor Sam Gor baht. Tel: 085-111 1155. more details. Tel: 084-630- land for sale by owner. 4.5 rai Email: alexanderkbh@ 2416. Email: jonhassall@ in total, 3 neighboring lots: 3- gmail.com aol.com 1-17 Rai, and 1 separate: 1-0- 83 Rai. 5.5 million baht per rai. HOUSE IN CHALONG Tel: 081-8936630. Fax: 076- PATONG TOWER 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 241408. Email: baansorada CONDO maid’s room, big kitchen, air @hotmail.com Freehold, 5 million baht, fur- con, swimmimg pool. Can nished, 1 bedroom, lease / op- park 2 cars. Price: 8.5 million NEW POOL VILLA tion to buy.Tel: 084-6301770. baht. Tel: 083-1036578. near Kata. 3 bedrooms, 3 bath- rooms, fully furnished. www. FULLY-FURNISHED PLANTATION SALE landandhouseforsale.phuket HOUSE 26 rai, Bangpae waterfall, .net 6.8 million baht. Tel: 086- 5 mins to Cape Panwa, best for residential. 2.2 million 2809416. Phuket City. 3 bedrooms, 2 baht per rai, whole plot or di- bathrooms. 2.5 million baht. vide. Nick. Email: stoptong LAND NEAR LAGUNA Tel: 084-852 8096. @yahoo.com Soi Pasak, 2 rai with Chanote. 6.5 million baht per rai. Call 3 BED HOUSE 1/2 RAI LAND Khun Noi. Tel: 087-281 8006, Detached 3 bed, 2 bath with NEAR LAGUNA 081-737 3711. phone line and own water. 24 Land plot 1/2 rai (800 sqm) in hour security. Approx 70 sq/ Baan Don near Laguna. HOUSE IN BANGTAO wah. Kathu. 3.3 million baht Chanote title, filled and ready 2, 3, 4 bedrooms from 3.6 ono. Interest free installments to build a villa on. For sale at million baht to 13 million baht. considered. Tel: +66-85-789 2 million baht. Tel: 086-943- Tel: 087-2688752. Website: 5092. Email: davestacey16 4824. Email: orchids_hkt www.phukethome.ws @hotmail.com @yahoo.com 42 PHUKET GAZETTE CLASSIFIEDS November 15 - 21, 2008 Property Gazette

Properties NICE AND COZY RAWAI POOL For Rent HOUSE FOR RENT GUESTHOUSE

PATONG

Furnished and excellent lo- Private aircon room, fridge. cation, 5 mins from Rawai Cable TV, Wi Fi. 10,000 and Nai Harn beaches. baht per month. Contact for 162sqm. 2 bedrooms with more info. Tel: 086-940- private bathrooms. 1 guest 8914. Email: rawai1@ toilet. 3 aircons. Large living- yahoo.com dining room. Telephone line with ADSL. Free water sup- ply and garbage collection HOUSE FOR RENT service. Please contact K. OR SALE Nui. Tel: 087-383 0936. For more information email [email protected] NEW HOUSE, PA KHLOK BEAUTIFUL VILLA THE WHITE HOUSE NEW HOUSE IN NEW HOUSE 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, in VILLA NAI HARN-RAWAI (BANDON) small secure development. Sala, overflow swimming pool Phanason Kathu, furnished. in secluded garden, large car Single house, 2 bedrooms. port, quality kitchen, beauti- Ready to move in. Tel: 089- fully furnished. 60,000 baht/ 662 8733. month. Tel: 085-784 0569. for rent. In Pa Khlok, just 1 NEW HOUSE HOUSES FROM km from Heroines' Monu- for rent. Fully furnished. Villa WELLTA ment. 3 bedrooms, 2 bath- 3, Soi 8/1, 70/76. Good price, Rent or buy a house on my rooms, fully furnished, private area, 65sq wah. Tel: island? Maybe I can help small garden. 16,000 baht 081-537 6045. you. My name is Wellta. Tel: per month. Tel: 086-690- 081-9680309. Email: info@ 0626. Email: suksavat@ CHALONG BEACHFRONT houseinphuket.com Please hotmail.com townhouse. Fully furnished, 2 for sale/rent near Laguna. see my website at: www. bedrooms, swimming pool, houseinphuket.com/ for rent or sale (27.5 million 2 bedrooms, fully furnished, KAMALA FOR RENT ADSL, garage. 10,500 baht/ baht). The White House just bring your bag. Price month. Tel: 089-470 6104. negotiable, 1-year contract. TOWNHOUSE, TAINA 4-bedroom detached house Villa is one of the finest For further details, please see tropical pool villas in Tel: 089-874 2960. Email: ROAD, KATA in select quiet compound. our website at www.phuket 20-meter pool, sat TV. Wifi, Patong. Best location for [email protected] for rent. Taina Road, Kata vacationhouses.com For further details, please Center. 2 units, long-term rent 24-hr security. Tel: 081- nightlife and touring Phuket. Located high on the hill see: www.phuket-on-tour. for five years up. Ideal for bar 9560527. RENTALS above the Amari Coral for rent. 3-story villa, sea blogspot.com or restaurant. Contact Khun Centralized property search Beach Resort at the south view, hill view, garden, pool, Charoon. Tel: 086-9538692. POOL VILLA covering all of Phuket. Holi- end of Patong. No agents. 4 bedrooms with 2 en-suite IN NAI HARN day long term. Tel: 089-908- THAI VILLA AND POOL Email: png.phuket@gmail. bathrooms, 6 bathrooms, LUXURY POOL VILLA 3 bed, 2 bath, aircon. 25,000 7597. Email: info@seekers- in Nai Harn, 1km to beach, com ADSL. Jacuzzi. Big living 3 bedrooms, 5 min to Boat baht per month, long term. property-services.com very quiet location, stunning room, kitchen/dining, laundry Lagoon & BIS. 75,000 baht Contact. Tel: 076-288047, view, 2 bedrooms, en-suite room. 5 aircons. 8m x 3.5m per month. Email: simon@ 081-894 1660. Email: cottrell SALES AND RENTALS Jacuzzi, open-plan lounge, HOUSE IN THE PARK private pool. 2 parking worrall.info @tttmaxnet.com in Rawai, Nai Harn and diner, European kitchen, pri- Fully furnished house in the spaces. Tel: 081-677 9837, Chalong. All prices. Big, beau- vate garden with parking. park for pet lovers only. 089-646 4786. Email: HOUSE IN CHALONG HOUSES FOR RENT tiful house and pool, 50,000 Rent long term for 45,000 Clubhouse with swimming [email protected] for rent near Palai Beach. 3 OR SALE baht/month. Tel: 085-795 baht per month. Tel: 081-270 pool, gym, restaurant. The bedrooms, aircon, fully fur- Covering all of Phuket - spe- 5383. For further details, 5126. house comes with 3 cats, nished, kitchen, ADSL, car cialize in Rawai, Nai Harn, please see our website at VILLA WITH POOL 1 dog, a housekeeper and a park. Tel: 089-728 8311. Chalong. Tel: 086-475 2424. www.warmwaterland.com Start Dec 1. Two months. 2 3-BEDROOM HOUSE car. Tel: 076-345787, 081- bedrooms, pool. 70,000 con- for rent. Brand new, fully fur- 895 0680. Fax: 076-290- tract. Tel: 087-284 4425. nished, fully air-conditioned 407. Email: vikingresidence with communal swimming @gmail.com B.L. APARTMENT pool. Near Boat Lagoon and British International School. New in Kathu. Big rooms, 1 Please contact: Eng: 086-940 HOUSE AT bedroom, 1 living room, aircon, 5187, Thai: 086-952 2070. CAPE PANWA cable TV, ADSL, hot shower, for rent. 1 bedroom + 2 bed- garden, car park. 8,000 baht rooms on beach at Cape per month. Tel: 081-692 2 BEDROOM HOUSE Panwa. 10,000 baht/month. 3163. Bypass Rd, behind Soi Soho Available now. Pls call 087- Roast Duck. Fully furnished, 264 3628 for more details. HOUSE FOR RENT cable TV, 2 bedrooms, kitchen, living room, fully furnished, House for rent in Boat Lagoon. NEW HOUSE warm water, 2 aircons, ADSL, Tel: 076-273466, 081-968 for rent at Topland Phuket parking and garden. 14,000 9046. Fax: 076-238948. Email: project. 2 bedrooms, bath- baht per month. 1.5km to webmaster@phuketpropertytrip room, kitchen, near Tesco Tesco Lotus. Tel: 084-848- .com For further details, please Lotus. Price 13,000 baht per 7474. Email: kasina_navama see our website at www. month. Tel: 086-270 0895. [email protected] www.phu phuketpropertytrip.com ket-land-paradise.blogspot. NICE VILLA FOR RENT com 4 bedrooms, fully furnished. CHALONG NEW HOME Email for photos, then call or 2 bedroom, furnished home NEW HOUSE mail for further details. Tel: for rent with telephone, for rent/sale. Fully furnished. 076-273 466, 081-968 9046. UBC, and aircon. Tel: 089- Villa 3, Soi 8/1, 70/76. Good Fax: 076-238948. Email: pen 652 1473. price, private area, 65sq wah. @phuketpropertytrip.com Tel: 081-537 6045. November 15 - 21, 2008 CLASSIFIEDS PHUKET GAZETTE 43 Property Gazette

Property Property Accommodation LUXURY 3 BED Accommodation Building Wanted Services Available VILLA & POOL Wanted Products Luxury, brand new villa on small estate close to La- & Services LOOKING FOR 3 WWW.MAPHRAO. APARTMENT & guna, available for short 2-BEDROOM HOUSE BEDROOMS COM ROOM IN PATONG term let. 3 bedrooms, 3 or apartment wanted from House with pool, 5 million Dream sea view, east of the Apartment for long term: bathrooms, modern, well- end of November till end of baht, in Rawai or Nai Harn. island, approximately 400sqm 12,000-20,000 baht per equipped kitchen and living March. Quiet, clean place in QUALITY BUILDING Please contact for more addi- from 1,990 baht per sqm, month. Room for rent: 800- room. 2 large screen TVs Chalong to Nai Harn area. If SERVICES tional details Tel: 086-244 796,000 baht for 30-year 1,500 baht per day. Contact and Satellite. Free WiFi, possible, telephone or ADSL. Renovations, construc- 9625. Email: yote@phuket- lease, longer lease available. for details. Tel: 076-512- pool, BBQ, and small garden Max 25,000 baht/month. tion, electrical, plumb- landandhomes.com 12 houses have been built so 151, 089-290 9567. Email: area. Fully equipped with Please contact for more ing, carpentry, real far. We speak German and [email protected] high quality furnishings and info. Tel: 080-698 9219. wood, parquet, WANTED FOR RENT English. Tel: 081-891 8930, Please visit our website at daily maid service. Rates Email: enquiry@thai-info gardening,painting, House for rent in Kamala. 087-060 8400. www.brommathaihouse. from US$240 to US$600 a center.com tiling. Contact K. Pueng Should be fully furnished and com night, depending on time of for additional informa- have 2 bedrooms, 2 bath- year. Discount for bookings 16-22 DEC 08 tion at Tel: 087- rooms, and TV. Needed from PHUKET ANDAMAN BANGTAO / SURIN of 7 nights or more. Calls We are 2 families with 4 2709093 or K. Ne at beginning of November for 3 REAL ESTATE APARTMENT after 4 pm please. Tel: 081- adults and 3 children requir- Tel: 087-6899679 months, with option to renew 2 bedrooms, Club Lersuang. 788 6639. Fax: 076-238- ing 3 rooms in an apartment/ (English/Thai). Email: until March 2009. Quiet and Fantastic facilities, close to 721. Email: scubamatt72 villa from 16-22 Dec. Please [email protected] secured area preferred. Email: the beach. Telephone: 087- @gmail.com give details of your location. [email protected] 079 0650. Email: mlcberg@ Email: [email protected] netvigator.com Household SINGLE STOREY AFFORDABLE HOUSE WANTED IN Items WITH GARDEN KARON CONDO VACATION RAWAI home villa. Private, full ser- We are looking for a single- 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom over- Looking for 3 bedroom house 100% ownership invest- vice with garden, pool, free FURNITURE storey property with garden, looking Karon Beach. Long term for rent in Rawai or Nai Harn. ment property from 1.7 Internet, cable TV, many ex- for sale. Very good price, good preferably in or around Laguna preferred, short term consid- MUST have 3 bedrooms, and million baht. Easy payment tras, gourmet breakfast + condition. Tel: 076-284257, area. Don’t mind some refur- ered. Large with great views. preferably with aircon. Price terms. Tel: 076-245966, car rental. Mail for photos, 081-891 3972. bishment. Budget: approxi- Email: [email protected] must not be higher than 081-737 0552. Or email: then contact for more info. mately 2 million baht. Visiting 15,000 baht a month. Tel: info@phuketandamanreal Tel: 089-723 5444. Or email WANTED: JVC EX- October 3 for 2 weeks. Tel: estate.com Website: KATA STUDIO 080-039 6456. Email: psong A10 +003-57-99791857. Fax: islandmountaintropics@hot www.phuketandamanrea APARTMENT [email protected] If you have or know of a JVC +003-57-26930780. Email: mail.com lestat e.com For rent. 28,000 baht per micro system model ex-a10 helen@cyprusresalesdirect. month. Building includes pool, STUDIO ROOM IN for DVD/Audio, please let me com restaurant, elevator and gym. HOUSE IN KATHU KAMALA for sale with furnishings. 3 know. Tel: 081-386 9648. Walking distance to beach, Need studio room or apart- Email: rudymyers@excite. PHUKET ANDAMAN shopping and nightlife. Tel: bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. 35 LOOKING FOR LAND REAL ESTATE ment in Kamala for 2 -4 com I'm looking for a piece of 087-893 8747. million baht. In Kathu. Tel: months. Price range about land to build a house on in 086-274 535. 12,000 baht per month. CEILING FAN Phuket: 1/2-1 rai maximum. LUXURY APT MUST have internet. Email: Compass East Cyclone R- Price should not be over 2 PATONG [email protected] 102 4-blade, 56-inch bronze million baht for 1 rai. Kathu 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, NICE ACCOM colored fan. Just out of the IS HERE district preferable, but any swimming pool, aircon, sea ROOM NEEDED box. Never used. Unable to other residential area would view, ADSL, quiet location. - High-end villas Finnish couple looking for a return to store as have dis- not be ruled out. Email: kerr Competitive price. Tel: 086- - House for rent carded packing. For quick We have buyers for land resort room or bungalow with 17@hotmail. com 271 0837. sale. Cost 2,400 baht; will and property. Tel: 076- - Guesthouse abf in Khao Lak or elsewhere accept 1,500 baht. Tel: 245966, 081-737 0552. - Apartment or condo in that area for 3 months, 081-537 4130. Email: hut GOLF-VIEW Email:info@phuketandama BUNGALOW RAWAI from December 2008. Must - Hotel in town, other ar- [email protected] CONDOMINIUM nrealestate.com Website: 1 bedroom, aircon, ADSL, eas have pool. Tel:+358-2-538 Kathu area only. Want to buy TV, washing machine, quiet 7794, +358-400-805728. www.phuketandamanreal Includes backpacker lodg- or rent long term. Email: location. 8,000 baht. Tel: Email: seppo.euren@gmail. TEAK DOUBLE BED estate.com ings. [email protected] 086-279 0837. com Lovely Queen-size bed with Check your booking period main base and slat supports. at Email: allservices29 Blank wall mount headboard @gmail.com LONG-TERM so that you can fit your own Classified Advertisements RENTAL design fabric into it. Barely Looking for a long-term used. Email for pictures. Price Please use this form to write your classified advertisement. 20,000 baht. Tel: 084-626- LUXURY VILLA rental (one year). Seeking a Then hand it to any of our agents. stylish condo, apartment or 7730. Email: john867332 RENTALS AT @yahoo.co.au www.luxuryphuket house with 2 bedrooms. Lo- |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| (heading) holidays.com cation: Thalang, Bang Tao DISHWASHER or Surin. Renting from No- Whirlpool dishwasher. New Book your villa now! vember 1. Budget: 25,000 price: 35,000 baht. Asking - 30,000 baht maximum |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| 15,000. Tel: 084-8458671. per month. Email: Gordon Email: [email protected] SHORT-TERM LET [email protected] |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| Large, furnished 2-bedroom house with big garden in Nai Household Harn. Cable TV and A/C. RENTAL HOUSE/APT |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| 28,000 baht per month Looking for yearly rental: 3 Services (negotiable). Tel: 085-476 beds, 2 baths, modern, A/C, 5223. Email: fordplatypus furnished, good kitchen. Re- @hotmail.com quire cable TV, internet, tele- RELOCATABLE |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| phone. Pool preferred. Should UNITS ROOMS FOR RENT be In Patong area, in hills over- Modular, pre-fab buildings, Clean and quiet, 3MB Wi-Fi, looking beaches, sea. Budget: secure self storage. |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| safe, aircon, fridge, cable TV. US$500 monthly. Need Jan/ Website at: www.safeway Tel: 083-106 1099. Website: Feb 09. 075-622993. Email: phuket.com www.villapatong.com Gbetten20@hotmail. com Classified ads are charged per line. Each line is 120 baht, with a minimum of 4 lines (heading included) per ad. All advertising must be paid for in advance. Looking for land to buy? Deadline for Property Gazette page: Friday 3 pm. Deadline for all other ads: Saturday 12 noon. See more classified ads at www.phuketgazette.net 44 PHUKET GAZETTE CLASSIFIEDS November 15 - 21, 2008 Boats & Marine

CEASER 35-FOOT POWER THUNDERCAT CATAMARN TOUR CRUISER Inflatable racing cat, 40hp New fiberglass catamaran FOR SALE outboard, amazing fun, con- for sale. Ideal for diving and 38-ft tour cruiser for sale. All trol, speed, and stability. hotel transfers. Email: tony fiberglass. Excellent fuel Trailer included but needs @steppaboats.com economy. Mercruiser inboard work. 195,000 baht. Please diesel engine, cruises com- contact. Tel: 086-941 0639. 14-FOOT SEA DOO fortably at 27 knots. Very Email: andrew@damask JET BOAT low hours on the engine. Toi- design.net For further de- Twin 85hp engines. Rebuilt, let & freshwater shower, tails, please see website at fast, cover, canopy, trailer, large sun roof, s/s ladder at www.ceasarmarine.com/ GPS. Price: 395,000 baht. bow and stern for beach ac- images/ceasar_thundercat_ Tel: 085-785 1597. Email: cess. Commercial Thai regis- flyer_small.pdf [email protected] tration. 1.65 million baht. Tel: 081-9790525. Email: bosch. 20M CATAMARAN NEW POWER michael @gmail.com Live-aboard, wood-epoxy CATAMARAN composite, not finished. Make Brand-new fiberglass catama- WOODWORK, an offer. Tel: 087-461 8089. ran for sale. Perfect dive boat REPAINT & REPAIR or hotel transfer vessel. Email: Specialized in woodwork for 37FT YACHT [email protected] boat and house. New office For sale. Pristine condition, and workshop in Boat La- 2002, 5.5 million baht. 6 beds, DEEP-SEA goon now open. Our services full options. For more info call FISHING BOAT include: boat maintenance, 085-783 1890. 40ft-long,12ft-wide, 18-ton full hull repairs, internal fishing boat for sale. Will be at works, teak woodwork, DINGHY the ship yard during week 40- teak accessories, fiberglass 4m Cholamark built, 1 year old, 41 for service. Fully equipped repairs, spray painting, boat 40hp Yamaha, optional center for fishing, snorkeling. Diving no building, home furniture, console, 8-person life raft problem. Capt and deck crew kitchens, built-in or move- (needs inspection), kayaks, available. 1.8 million baht. able bars, counters, work BCDs, regs, etc. Contact for Owner moving to Philippines. desks and much more. Con- more details. Tel: 086-952 Tel: 087-282 5008. Email: tact. Tel: 076-243089, 081- 0772. [email protected] 9683118. Fax: 076-242- 742. Email: info@procar HOBIE 14 FOR SALE DINGHY FOR SALE pentering.com For more in- with launching trolley. View 3.1m, 15hp Yamaha. Please formation, please visit our near Tesco. 65,000 baht. Tel: contact for more info at Tel: website at www.procar 076-224596. 081-787 4690. pentering.com November 15 - 21, 2008 CLASSIFIEDS PHUKET GAZETTE 45 Island Job Mart

WANTED URGENTLY Native English speaker for part time/full time work in an international child care cen- ter in the Rawai area. Please call for more information. Tel: 076-289784.

SALES - ENGLISH NATIVE SPEAKER Telesales consultant required for 7-week contract, starting ASAP. Target orientated, hard working, strong work ethic needed. We are a UK com- pany based in Rawai. Email: [email protected]

PART-TIME ENGLISH Teachers for adult educa- tion wanted. Please send your CV and recent photo to: [email protected]

HOTEL RECEPTIONIST We are seeking a male receptionist, 22-35 years old. Good spoken and written English. Internet and email skills. Smart appearance. Minotel ho- tel, Sawadirak Road, UNLIMITED SELL LUXURY Patong Beach. Pls contact EARNINGS TECHNOLOGY us for more details: Tel: 076-296654. Or email: Thai nationals required for for our special luxury [email protected] marketing office in Patong. products. We need a 5-day working week, 9am- marketing/sales person 4pm. Will be working out- to expand our team. Ex- POOLMAN WANTED side. Please contact Annie perience in sales an as- for maintenance. Full-time. WAITER & BAR RESTAURANT CASA ADMIN: ASSISTANT for more details. Tel: 080- set. Salary + commis- Experience with saltwater STAFF WANTED D’ORASA ACCOUNTANT 529 0087. sion over 60,000 baht/ system pool. Flexible. Tel: Spice Island, a new and excit- We need one professional Female, Thai national, English month. Send CV to: 081-537 6866. ing restaurant, is looking for waiter/waitress, English (spoken and written), assistant +50,000 BAHT pascal@taillard- experienced waiters, wait- speaking. We also need to accountant, good with PER MONTH electricity.com RECEPTIONIST KATA resses and bar staff. Please one cook's assistant for Microsoft Office, Word, and Swedish/ Norwegian/ Danish/ Hotel requires a female Thai send your CV to us for consid- Italian cuisine. For more Excel. Please send CV, refer- Finnish speaking, work permit ACCOUNTANT receptionist. Must be reli- eration. Tel: 081-8937028. information please contact ences and expected salary. free. Contact Marc for info. WANTED able and speak English. Fax: 076-254827. Email: Khun. Orasa. Tel: 087-518 Walk-in interviews are also pos- Tel: 086-683 3526. Email: Thai national with experience, Please contact for more in- spice.island.phuket@gmail. 8837. Email: sible. Tel: 076-245962. Email: marcjonker_69@hotmail. computer skills. Full time. Tel: formation at Tel: 081-892 com [email protected] hakan @tharadonestate.com com 081-537 6866. 1621.

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Employment Wanted

THAI WOMAN I can read, write and speak very good English, very good German, and basic French. I have good computer skills. I have my own car. I am trustworthy and reliable. If you are looking for a good worker, please do not hesi- tate to contact me. Email: [email protected]

WINDS OF CHANGE Swiss chef is ready for you. 25 years' experience in inter- national and contemporary kitchen. My goal is that guests return. Tel: 087-882 1499.

EXPERIENCED BAR MANAGER English nationality, experi- enced in stock taking, sales, etc. Looking for relief/part time work within Phuket. All offers considered. Please contact me for more informa- tion. Telephone 085-460 8487 or email bobhammond @hotmail.co.uk

PAINTER/ DECORATOR 30 years' experience in En- gland. Seeking work in the Phuket area. No job too small - give me a call! Tel: 085-460 8487. Email: [email protected]. uk

ACCOUNT, MEMBER SERVICE, HR We need: - 1 Member Service staff - an HR officer with knowledge of visas and work permits and experience in HR field - 1 Accounting Manager with experience of more than 5 years and the ability to us ad- vanced Excel program. All positions are for Thai na- tionals. Candidates must have a strong command of English - written and spoken (business level). Tel: 076-326291. Email: recruitment@premierproperty leisure.com

SPECIALIST DESIGN COFFEE SHOP NEEDS RESTAURANT & BAR KITCHENS CONDO MANAGER A MANAGER MANAGER Dutchman, specialized in de- REQUIRED English speaking, computer We need an experienced man- sign kitchens and bathrooms, Will be responsible for main- skills, good salary. Contact ager to run a team of 10 in a with a lot of experience in tenance of common areas; tel: 086-509 7510. Email: creative F&B venture. Report- renovation and general inte- supervision of Thai staff; [email protected] ing to the shareholders, the rior building, is looking for op- liason with owners & man- successful candidate will need portunities. I have excellent agement board; and control, PROOFREADER to understand all aspects of communication skills, live in budgeting and accounting & COPYWRITER the business and be involved in Phuket, and speak fluent En- functions. Interested parties Looking for a native English its development. Tel: 081- glish, Dutch, and French - should apply by email at: speaker to proofread and write 8937028. If this is you, please and fairly good German. Tel: kalimresidence @gmail.com articles for publication. Email: send us your CV to email: 085-156 9084. Email: mueller.1971@gmail. com [email protected] [email protected] Gazette Online Classifieds – 10,000 readers every day! November 15 - 21, 2008 CLASSIFIEDS PHUKET GAZETTE 47 Tout, Trader & Trumpet

GAS GRIDDLE 450 BAHT EACH TO ALL FILIPINOS Articles Cost 20,000 baht, will accept Large fans: 1,500 baht. 2 lazy Bulletins Need help? Call Emelda. Tel: BAR FOR SALE For Sale 13,000 baht. Double 3-liter boy beige chairs: 8,000 baht. 084-305 0963. french fries machine. Will ac- Large fan: 1,500 baht. Paint- PUBLIC NOTICE cept 10,000 baht. Both new. ing: 3,000 baht. Plus garden Bungy Thrills Int’l Co Ltd GOLD & SILVER Located in Rawai. Telephone: art, tools, drill, lamp: 1,000 Business 9CT gold watch: 6,000 baht. wants to add 1 Director, Khun 089-473 1351. baht. Contact Pat (12pm - 8 Unruean Kaeobun. Opportunities Lady's dress ring, emerald pm). Tel: 084-846 4256. Email: style: 3,000 baht. My ring: LEAVING THAILAND [email protected] Terrence Andrew Pearce and 2 Thai directors to have power 7,000 baht. 9 CT, solid silver Red and white leather bean- COFFEE SHOP to sign all company papers and Good location. Open now, rose bowl: 6,000 baht. Tel: bag: 800 baht. Karana tent, PATONG LG 42" PLASMA TV stamp. fully stocked. Must see 087-922 3242. Email: patong sleeps 5: 1,000 baht. Karana Excellent condition, complete Shop has Internet and ice 850,000 baht for all. Call [email protected] Tent, sleeps 3: 500 baht. Tel: with wall brackets. Price: cream with alfresco area and Barry at the number above. 084-857 7706. Email: shertin 24,950 baht. Tel: 086-943- RALPH BLENKISOP two floors above for living. In Karon with sea view plus I POD, VIDEO @gmail.com 3056. Hello again, Ralph. I have an- Rent very low: only 13,000 big screen TV, kitchen and/ Ipod, video version, 30 GB, other letter for you. You can baht per month. Urgent sale or sleeping room. Tel: 086- with charger. One year old, MOVING SALE SIZE 41 WOMENS’ get it Mon to Fri at my of- for only 750,000 baht. Tel: 2791671. Email: astralofts but good as new as never ONE YEAR OLD SHOES, HOT! fice. John. Tel: 076-330 085-816 3910 or 084-697 @hotmail.com 6840. Mail: terryballphuket really used. Open to offers. suround sound TV: LG 37" w/ I bought these on Ebay and 967, 081-892 0474. Fax: Tel: 086-953 8616. Email: 5 speakers + cabinet: 46,000 076-330990. Email: John@ @gmail.com they are too big for me. Tur- SPACE FOR RENT [email protected] baht. 2 small teak dressers: quoise leather, open-toe cork siamdivers.com 4,000 baht. Samsung fridge, PATONG Prime location in Phuket City, wedges, from the UK. Very 80 sqm. Rent for yoga or BABY / TODDLER 67": 5,500 baht. Imported unique and great condition. SHOPHOUSE STUFF portable oven with 2 top burn- Home bar on Bangla Road. 16 dance studio. Contact Price 650 baht. Email: sylvie George. Tel: 081-892 7860. Imported quality Quinny ers (electric): 5,000 baht. King @andamanavenue.com million baht, Chanote, or Speedi SX, three-wheel baby/ support matress with sheets 30x30 lease. Tel: 087-881- toddler stroller with Maxi-Cosi and pillows: 6,000 baht. Also 7600. RESTAURANT & BAR FURNITURE Guesthouse for sale, opposite car seat (fits together). have 5 plants, 4 sets of cur- ELECTRONIC SALE 10,000 baht. Good quality tains and rods. Tel: 084-846- GUESTHOUSE Royal Paradise Hotel Patong. Moving sale. All beautiful and FOR SALE 8 guest rooms, shower, traditional dark wood crib 4256. contemporary. For info call af- Good location with restau- aircon. TV, luxury. Tel: 081- with pads and mattress. ter October 20. Contact Ben. rant, 6 rooms, newly reno- 895 6587. 7,500 baht. Or everything for MOVING SALE Tel: 087-897 5175. 15,000 baht. Tel: 076- Never used sofa, bed, mat- vated, ready to run, includes 282795, 081-787 9454. Fax: tress, cooker, 3 fridges, cof- website. 1.2 million baht. Tel: 076-246180. Email: andersp ARTICLES FOR SALE 087-069 1823. SHOP FOR RENT fee machine, 2,000 DVDs in 1. Crafted wood antique vase. @loxinfo.co.th Italian/French, Pioneer DVD 19 sqm with aircon, ground recorder, computer scanner- 2. Glass food display cabinet. RESTAURANT/CAFE floor of Minotel hotel, 19 EXPAT LEAVING SALE laser, Acer laptop, Samsung Brand new: 7,000 baht. for sale near Heroines Monu- Sawasdirak Rd, Patong. Quality teakwood furniture. TV 21". Tel: 081-294 5441. 3. Painting of Louisiana street ment, Pa Khlok. Room (aircon) Please contact Taxie for Display/Book case, Desk, Side/ scene. Best for restaurant, + terrace = 40sqm. Fully more details. Tel: 076-296- display table, Sun-lounger with NINTENDO WII pub, bar. equipped/running. Upstairs 3 654. Email: info@minotel fabric cushion, pair bedside Almost brand new Nintendo Tel: 081-294 5441. bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, par- patong.com tables w/ drawers, 6 drawer Wii, with extra remotes. Also tially furnished. 225,000 + chest, telephone cabinet. Tel: rent 14,000 baht per month. Guitar Hero III. Both still in SPONSOR ELEGANT 087-274 7648. Email: deb boxes. For sale due to country Articles Tel: 089-700 4094. Email: SHOPHOUSE a needy child. The Phuket In- [email protected] relocation. Email: yantyhong Wanted [email protected] Bargain: 4-story shophouse ternational Women’s Club is @yahoo.com with Chanote. Fully-equipped a volunteer organization rais- CHILD CAR SEAT BARS, restaurant on 1st and 2nd ing funds for educational Used child's car seat in very WHEEL CHAIR LOOKING FOR POOL GUESTHOUSES floors. Fully furnished apart- scholarships. We rely on the good condition. European used one time. Bought for TABLE Bangla, Nanai. Many business ment on 3rd and 4th floors. goodwill of donors and spon- safety standards. Suits child 5,230 baht, selling for 3,500 I'm looking for a pool table, opportunities at www.jane Value: 6.7 million baht. Now sors – small and large. If you 9-18kg. 2,000 baht. Email: baht. Contact Colette. Tel: second hand, good condition. propertyphuket.com priced at only 5.5 million baht. would like to put something [email protected] 089-212 1254. Tel: 089-939 5127. Have to move out. Tel: 081- back into the community in 12 ROOM 891 5602. which you live, contact us to GUESTHOUSE find out more about giving a Remodeled, fantastic loca- HOTEL FOR SALE, Agents for Classified Advertising prize or being a sponsor. tion, 9-year lease, restaurant/ Contact Carol (Tel: 087- PATONG bar. Comes with company Bromma Guesthouse. 22 PHUKET 4178860 Email: carol. and work permit +++. [email protected]) or K. Sue rooms in 3-unit, 800-sqm Only 4.5 million baht! Email: building. 400 sqm of freehold Julapan Stationery Tel: 076-282254 (Tel: 087-277 6948. Email: [email protected] [email protected]). land. By owner direct at 45 Chao Fa East Rd (next to Siam Commercial Bank) million baht. Tel: 076-512- BAR IN PATONG 151, 089-290 9567. Email: Khun Woody’s Sandwich Shoppe Tel: 076-282403 BRIDGE [email protected] Fisherman’s Way Business Center, Chao Fa East Rd Play Wednesday afternoons for sale. Heart of Patong, all www. brommathaihouse.com at Royal Phuket Marina. ready to go for high season. Tapas + drinks included. Pool table, etc. 500,000 HOTEL FOR SALE K.L. Mart Tel: 076-280400/3 baht. Please contact Get. Contact Alan. Tel: 084-065 Beach front hotels in Pattaya Fax: 076-280403 Tel: 084-895 5736. Patak Rd, Chalong 7590. and Phuket. Contact Nick. Email: [email protected] Earth Language School Tel: 076-232398/9 LOOKING FOR BOAT PATONG INTERNET Phang Nga Rd, Phuket City Fax: 076-232398 PARTNER CAFE I am looking for someone in for lease. 2-year contract – RUNNING RESTAURANT Sin & Lee Tel: 076-258369 Phuket who is interested in 300,000 baht and 15,000 buying a small speed boat, baht. Tel: 084-850 7739. in Patong for lease on the main Thalang Rd, Phuket City Fax: 076-211230 such as "Crownline", as a half road. 2nd & 3rd levels sea owner. I live in Rawai. Please PATONG PARADISE view, fully equipped, 60 seats, Taurus Travel Tel: 076-344521/2 contact me, Gary, as above if 30-room successful hotel, air conditioning. For 2 million Aroonsom Plaza Rat-U-Thit 200 Pi Rd, Patong Fax: 076-344523 you might be interested. Tel: only 25 million baht (no baht only. Tel: 081-797 7199. 089-090 6969. Email: tropical agents). Email: docucolumns Email: oscarfashion12@ 41 Minimart Tel/Fax: 076-324312 [email protected] @hotmail.com hotmail.com Srisoonthorn Rd, Cherng Talay LADIES SOCIAL RESORT FOR SALE TENNIS LOOKING FOR A well-known resort for sale Deli Supermarket Tel: 076-342275 Anyone interested in getting a AN INVESTMENT in Koh Jum (Krabi), 7 rai with Rat-U-Thit 200 Pi Rd, Patong Fax: 076-344314 group of Ladies, 40+, to- in Phuket & Phang Nga. Chanote title in the center of gether to enjoy social Tennis? Seaview land/house. Tel: the beach. Access road, wa- Property Information Center [PIC] Contact me by email or mobile. 081-539 9269. Website ter. Power will be installed 2nd Fl, Central Festival (in front of Siam Commercial Bank) Tel: 089-469 8100. 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BUSINESS FOR SALE MASSAGE SHOP Internet Cafe in Patong, PATONG BEACHFRONT Busy soi, central Patong, 9 210sqm. Tel: 081-908 8303. GUESTHOUSE RESTAURANT bedrooms, 5 chairs, 13 staff, www.dream-cafe.com 18 rooms, bar, restaurant, Ao Chalong Yacht Club 3-year lease. 990,000 baht. long lease, excellent loca- (ACYC) is accepting ten- Tel: 085-473 7847. Email: BAR FOR SALE tion, Thai Ltd company, 2 der proposals for opera- [email protected] Equipped with TV, pool table work permits. Reduced tion of the F&B facilities in and fully-stocked bar. Great price: 4.9 million baht. Tel: its new Beachfront Club SALE: MASSAGE spot on Nanai 89, opposite 080-697 1744. House at Chalong Bay. SHOP Baan Zan Market. Only Applicants must submit a Located at Patong Beach, near 750,000 baht. Tel: 076-323- resume showing a mini- Simon Cabaret. Tel: 083-635- 219, 089-971 2989. Email: RETAIL SHOP mum of 5 years experi- 6239. [email protected] FOR SALE ence in restaurant man- Retail shop located be- agement. For tender appli- BEER BAR tween Laguna and Surin: cation information, please Bar at Soi Sukumvit, Patong, RESTAURANT / BAR fully stocked and profes- contact Allan Mossop: on the 1st fl. Ready to run for IN KAMALA sionally fitted with own des- [email protected], or the high season. Pool table. Over 200 sqm restaurant/ ignated parking. Ready for Tel: 076-270752, +66- Cheap: only 280,000 baht for bar with unique concept on the high season. Genuine (0)81-737 0722. Applica- 2 year and 3 month lease. 1/2 rai of land in Kamala. reason for sale; would be tions must be submitted Rent: 10,000 baht per month. Plus Kids Corner and (pool happy to discuss possible before 3pm on Friday, 7 Tel: 087-113 3043. Email: table) lounge. New 5-year partnership. Reasonable 5- November, 2008. [email protected] lease at 20,000 baht per year lease. One million baht. month will be signed. Great Tel: 084-363 5126. Email: PATONG RESTAURANT potentials. Contact. Tel: [email protected] GUESTHOUSE PATONG 087-277 0636. Email: info 8 rooms, 3 shops, motorbike for sale. Patong. Near Bangla, @svenskskola.com parking, new building. Con- ready to start. Price: 2 million SHOP IN PATONG tract: 10 years. Fully fur- baht. Tel: 089-728 4005. ESTABLISHED nished. Key money: 1.7 million Email: [email protected] for rent. Best location. Soi baht only. Tel: 086-739 1348. BUSINESS FOR SALE Foodland, 50sqm. All Quality publications, fully op- branches, please contact HONGKONG STOP BAR FOR erational, start now to take Khun Peter. Tel: 081-892- RENT/SALE high season Profits. Includes 8526. EXHIBITION 25,000 long established company set- This is a prestigious business Newly set up in Soi Sea up and work permits. Tel: to business event in the Asia Dragon. Probably the most 085-574 4414. Email: nim BUSINESS Pacific region, providing op- beautiful bar in Patong. @c-publishing.com OPPORTUNITY portunities for property de- - 2 units. Chicken farm project for sale, velopers, realtors and inves- - Top location near Soi SMALL RESORT/ next to Phang-nga. Monthly tors to make new contacts Bangla. HOME income of 120,000 baht. E- and forge new business. ISP - 12 small rooms. is delighted to offer our per- Income opportunity. 3 fully- mail for info. 30% downpay- - Top audio/video equipment sonal presentation of your furnished private pool villas, ment and the balance up to 3 (Bose, Behringer etc). close to Nai Harn Beach, spa- years. Contact at email: project at this event. Our fee cious and high quality, 10% [email protected] is only 25,000 baht, plus your - Running as a go-go or open return. 38.5 million baht. Con- marketing material. Tel: 084- bar is possible. tact owner. Please contact VERY WELL SITUATED 058 1217. Fax: 076-281 Fully equipped. Tel: 084- for more details. Tel: 086-684 restaurant at the main south- 067. Email: anna@inside- 848 3495 (Osi in German), 5368. Email: alex@sai-nam- ern 3 junction of Phuket. Kata, property.com 089-590 3968 (Holger in En- naya.com Rawai, Nai Harn. All com- glish). Email: stop-bar@ pletely furnished, kitchen, bar, HOT SALE. NICE holgervolp.com Photos at QUINL THAI dining. More than 50 seats, RESTAURANT www.holgervolp.com EXPORT DIRECTORY balcony, terrace, parking, of- Only 30 meters from Patong Quinl Thailand Co Ltd has just fice, staff rooms, including a Beach. Good price. Tel: 081- launched the free online Thai- shop. Nice light & sound sys- 891 6697. Business land Export Directory. With tem. Special price: 3.2 million Products & QuinL, you can list your com- baht. Low rent: 28,000 baht/ BAR AND pany and its products, ser- month, 3-year contract, can RESTAURANT Services vices online - with your own be extended. Contact (English) (inside hotel) for rent in subdomain. Email: mr@quinl. George: 089-725 6994, Patong, Rat-U-Thit Rd. Key A&D LEGAL AND com For further details, please (Thai) Wee: 086-745 3359. money: 800,000 baht. 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Saloon Cars TOYOTA CORONA SUBARU 1800 GLF-5 1993 PORSCHE Pickups 2006 TOYOTA VIGO Metallic blue, very good con- 928GTS dition, recently spent 50,000 Described by the test driver NISSAN SENTRA baht to recondition engine, at the Porsche dealer as the 2007 FORD RANGER 2000 battery, petrol pump, alter- best 928 in Thailand. 2.4 PICKUP New LPG, automatic, ste- nator. Service receipts avail- million baht. Serious inquir- Like new, only 23,000km. Still reo, aircon, looks perfect. able. 80,000 baht. Tel: 080- ies only. Tel: 089-4724904. has 13 months of factory war- Supercheap asking price of 7179353. Email: wblueboyo Email: [email protected] ranty. Extras include alloys, Prerunner for sale. Manual, only 99,000 baht. Tel: 089- maxi-liner, Carryboy box, and 4-door, AC, CD, solid trans- @aol.co.uk 58,000km, 3.0cc diesel. 728 6752. 3 months of first class insur- Full options: DVD-MP3, rear mission, everything new. ance. Western lady owner. 90,000 baht. Tel: 081-397 NEW HONDA JAZZ parking sensors, front Para CHEVROLET OPTRA Living in Thailand; hence the 4222. HONDA CITY TYPE Z Red Jazz, 2009 SVAT, 2 shock, etc. Nice pickup in 1.6 Estate, year 2005, 1 low price of only 375,000 baht. very good condition. Price: year of top insurance, family Year 2001, dark blue, 1.5cc, months old. 1,000km. In- Tel:081-895 4480. Email: cludes 50,000 baht in ac- 650,000 baht. Please call car, only one owner (farang), HONDA CITY 1997 manual, aircon, central lock- [email protected] 089-725 6994 (Eng) or excellent condition. 510,000 Economical, nice car, CD ing, 138,500kms. 320,000 cessories. Sale due to reloca- tion of lady owner. Cash or fi- CUSTOM VIGO 086-745 3359 (Thai). Email: baht. Contact Khun Porn, as player, 135,000km. Can be baht. For sale direct from jdelatorre@helmsbriscoe. above. Tel: 076-661572, seen at QSI school. 190,000 owner. Contact. Tel: 081- nance transfer. Tel: 087- Best Vigo in Phuket. 2006/7. com 087-274 0680. Email: noe baht obo. Tel: 076-354077. 9707019. Email: nisaya19 2747648. Email: debspatter Road permit is valid for 1 year. [email protected] @yahoo.com [email protected] Fully fitted inside and out. Ex- cellent condition. Priced for a NISSAN BIG M NISSAN 350Z FOR SALE: NISSAN quick sale at 850,000 baht. 115,000 baht obo. 1990, very good condition with newly re- Good condition, convertible, SUNNY 1,800 TOYOTA CAMRY Tel: 083-481 1203. Email: MITSUBISHI CEDIA built engine. Very reliable, year 2008. Tel: 081-956- Vip neo, leather, gold, [email protected] VIRAGE New Model 2006/2007. many extras. Tel: 086-684- 7700. 40,000km, 1 year full insur- 2004, limited edition. Im- Dark Blue, 40,000km all op- ance, 4 years old. 475,000 ISUZU DMAX 2008 5368. maculate condition. Black. tions. Cost new: 1.75 million Brand new, bought for NISSAN SENTRA 92 baht. Contact. Tel: 089- Asking 450,000 baht (nego- baht. Will sell for 1.2 million. MAZDA PICKUP 8540277 (English) or 086- 735,000 baht. Selling for 230,000km, good condition tiable). Tel: 081-8922248. Tel: 081-7888280. 595,000 baht. Less than 125,000km. Perfect condi- 120,000 baht. Tel: 086-064 4417686 (Thai). Email: djxav Email: rajbalaguru@yahoo. tion. 100,000 baht. Contact. @loxinfo.co.th 4,000km. Call for informa- 8265. Email: qrospidou@ com tion. Tel: 081-271 3045. Tel: 087-9757672. Email: hotmail.com HONDA CITY ZX V- [email protected] 2006 HONDA CIVIC TEC 2006 MITSUBISHI STRADA MISUBISHI LANCER 1.8 I-VTEC 31,000km, automatic, ABS, 25 TURBO 2001 FORD RANGER Auto gear, 99,000 baht, Auto, full options, chrome CHEVROLET air-bag, 2005/45 ZR, 16' mags, XL OPTRA 1.6L 2 small scratches in doors. power steering, no rust, CD wheels, many extras, 1-year warranty. 495,000 Good condition. Insurance pick-up, diesel, well main- 2006, auto, 18,000km, player, new aircon, service 35,000km, well maintained. baht. Tel: 087-8866766. paid until August 2009. See tained. CD player, aircon, sil- gray. Can convert to gas. record, new tyres. Tel: 084- Asking 650,000 baht. Tel: for yourself. 350,000 baht. ver. Nice pick-up, 215,000 Blaupunkt 5-CD stereo. 184 1856. 084-4464492. Email: rabbit_ Call 076-285352 or 089-473 baht. Rawai. Tel: 089-473- 480,000 baht or 170,000 [email protected] TOYOTA ALTIS 2377 for more details. Or email 1351. + take over payments. Tel: FOR SALE morten.pasby @gmail.com 1990 TOYOTA 081-8934661. Email: valiant MITSUBISHI 2-DOOR CORONA VOLVO 2.3 T @loxinfo.co.th Diesel, new tires, new work Excellent running condition. Blue colour, very fast due to 2007 CHEVROLET COLORADO just done on aircon, good run- Female owner. Used daily. upgraded computer. Only ner. 99,000 baht. Full tax and 4-door, common rail, 3.0cc, 1st class insurance. Aircon, 625,000 baht. Excellent con- SLK MERCEDES 200 insurance. Call Tel: 083-175- tax, insured. 395,000 baht. power steering, electric win- dition w/ all service from 1997, green. Perfect condi- 0485. dows. 105,000 baht (non-ne- Volvo. Contact. Tel: 081- tion. 98,000km, full insur- Please call for more details. gotiable). Tel: 076-381523, 0917565. Email: vikas.malik ance. Asking 1.5 million baht. Tel: 084-441 3633. 084-006 8736. Or email: @courtyard.com Tel: 087-2849690. Contact AMAZING MAZDA [email protected] 2001, gold, automatic gear- ISUZU D-MAX PICKUP for more details. Email: full 4-DOOR 2004 [email protected] box, full set of options. CD 25D Fighter, superior cab 1993 PORSCHE 2.5 manual, 100,000km, seats 5, low mileage, low 928GTS player. Price: 470,000 baht. FORD FOCUS Contact for more details. CD/DVD player, radio, TV. running cost, in great condi- Described by the test driver at ’98 TOYOTA SOLUNA FOR SALE Tel: 086-6900626. Email: 399,000 baht ono. Good deal. tion. Tel: 085-6927961. the Porsche dealer as the best Excellent condition, 1.5 li- 2006, 4 doors, blue, auto, [email protected] Please call for more details. Email: [email protected] 1.8L, just 10,000km, full 928 in Thailand. 2.4 million ters, 5-speed, power win- Tel: 081-387 3809. service. 750,000 baht. Tel: baht. Serious inquiries only. Tel: dows and locks. 255,000 083-103 6578. 089-4724904. Email: dennis baht. Tel: 081-0036902. @hbdesign.biz Email: [email protected] Wheels & Motors

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2007 RED HONDA 4 x 4s 2006 MAZDA BT-50 Motorbikes PHANTOM Rentals Bicycles 4X4 TDI Garaged from new and in in excellent condition. Only brand new condition Tel: SUZUKI CARIBIAN 18,000km. 5-speed, all op- ATV 4X4 FOR SALE 086-757 1362. Or Email: RENT MOTORBIKE: 65-YEAR-OLD Economical red Jeep, good tions. 525,000 baht or trade Runs good, lots of fun. 25,000 peteroconnor1980@hot 2,400 B / MO BICYCLE condition, 1 year registration, baht. Tel: 085-783 1890. Honda Wave: 2,400 baht per for sale. Old from Holland. for 4-door automatic car of mail.com aircon. 100,000 baht. Tel: similar value. Contact for month. Honda Click automatic: We accept offers. Tel: 081- 076-319457. HARLEY DAVIDSON 3,000 baht per month. Call or 294 5441. more details. Tel: 081-535 PHANTOMS 0202. Email: aadams007@ Soft tail deluxe, 2005, as new, mail for details. Tel: 089-973 VIGO 4WD 4X4 2005 13,000km. 790,000 Call Joe. Yellow: 45,000 baht. Silver: 5081, 086-683 7162. Email: ‘06 TREK MADONE 5.2 yahoo.com 55,000 baht. Red: 60,000. All G, manual, complete & top Tel: 084-054 8122. [email protected] Frame: OCLV 120 Carbon condition, extras, service bikes 2 to 5 years old. Tel (En- LANDROVER V8I glish): 086-149 0005. Tel Aero book. Price: 560,000 baht. HONDA SHADOW TOYOTA AVANZA - Fork: Bontrager Race X Lite, Tel: 087-294 5737. Discovery, auto, excelent 400 (Thai): 089-487 5126. 1,500CC AUTO condition, 106,000km. CD, carbon American classic, 1999, ex- for rent. 18,000 baht per safe vehicle. Tel: 081-543- - Wheels: Bontrager Race Lite cellent condition, nice bike. HONDA DASH 125CC month; 5,500 baht per week. 0980. TOYOTA VIGO 135,000 baht. Tel: 085-384 1999, 40, 000km, fast bike: Tel: 089-700 4094. Email: - Shifters: Shimano Ultegra 8494. 180kph, fully legal + docu- [email protected] STI, 10 speed TOYOTA FORTUNER ments. Kathu. Price: 18, 000 - Front & Rear Derailleur: FOR SALE baht. Tel: 087-0331829. HARLEY DAVIDSON HONDA CIVIC Shimano Ultegra Black Fortuner, 3 years old, 2009 FOR RENT - Pedals: Shimano Dura Ace very good condition. 800,000 Just Arrived! Nightster Black/ HONDA CLICK 18,000 baht per month 7800 Pedals. baht ono. Tel: 081-803- 7189. Orange: 770,000 baht. O.T.R. and Honda Wave, two years with full insurance. Nego- Fax: 076-342733. Email: Tel: 086-945 0370. Or mail: Fat Boy Denim Black: old, very good condition. Tel: tiable for long term rental. [email protected] harald20 @hotmail.com For sale. 4x4, 2 doors, 1,167,000 baht. O.T.R. 081-2945441. Tel: 083-790 7118. Email: 52,000km. 450,000 baht. Sportster 2007, 1200 R in [email protected] Wanted Tel: 081-891 5602. SUZUKI JEEP & Black, as new: 545,000 baht. HONDA PHANTOM, HONDA PHANTOM Contact Marc at Motorcycle 3 YEARS OLD TOYOTA VIOS 1992 Suzuki: 80,000 baht. World at mobile number 087- FOR RENT CAR WANTED FORTUNER 2006 887 9606. Or send email to: 13,500km. Price: 55,000 2 years old and in good condi- 2003 Phantom: 40,000 baht. Phone (Eng): 087-893 for 4 months. Must be auto- AUTO baht. Both in good condition. [email protected] tion. 19,000 baht per month. matic. Optical condition is not 0589. Phone (Thai): 086- Tel: 089-882 9246. Email: Diesel, silver Lenso alloys, Tel: 087-2753614. Contact 9483052. important. Not interested in DVD, special reg no. Toyota for more details at. Email: GREEN YAMAHA MIO [email protected] Suzuki Jeep. Maximum bud- warranty plus immaculate. [email protected] Automatic, 2.5 years old, get is 12,000 baht per month. 950,000 baht. Tel: 085-784 9,700 km. Good condition with MOTORBIKES CHEAP CAR Email: [email protected] 0569. green book and insurance. Very nice custom bike: Honda FOR RENT Steed. Green book, insurance TOYOTA FORTUNER Price: 23,000 baht. Tel: 084- Honda city, automatic, long- WANTED 668 4537, 086-953 3884. and tax, new. 152,000 baht. term. Only 12,000 baht/moth Are you leaving Phuket and/or '02 FORD RANGER auto 4x4 for rent, 1 year old, Email: miyax_25@hotmail. Tel: 084-639 0392. Tel: 086-743 2011. Email: looking to sell a car? Wanted: 2.5 4DR 4WD color: night blue. 3.0L diesel, com [email protected] small 4 door car up to, say 4 years Near-showroom condition. first-class insurance, rental for SUZUKI SV650 old. Auto or manual. Must be 185,000 kms. Carryboy and 6 months: 40,000 baht, or rent HARLEY DAVIDSON / 1996 in good condition. Very direct from owner, all in good Sony CD/MP3. 310,000 baht. for 12 months: 35,000 baht. DYNA fast, green book, insurance. MINIBUS AND CAR condition and reasonably priced Tel: 086-9499255. Email: Tel: 086-9510076. Contact Low Rider - 2003 Anniver- Contact fordetails. Tel: 081- FOR RENT Tel: +34-629-791004. Email: [email protected] for more details. Or Email: sary. Only 4,500 km. Acces- 5391380. [email protected] [email protected] TOYOTA sories, new tires, Green Book, SPORT RIDER tax and 1st class insurance. HONDA WAVE ISUZU D-MAX 2004 620,000 baht. Tel: 076-398 3 BIKES FOR SALE, 2004. Immaculate condition, WANTED Top of the line D-MAX. 4WD, 040 or 089-474 1828. Email: GOOD PRICES fully loaded, auto 4x4, one 125cc. Electric starter. Disc 4 Doors, 3L, many extras. [email protected] 1) Honda Dash. 1999, top brake. Maximum 2 years old. owner, must see. Tel: 081- 425,000 baht. Tel: 086-942- speed: 180kmh, open en- 7645179, 086-4780340. Tel: 081-3670991. 1969. Or email: laclisque@ HONDA PHANTOM gine,15,000 baht. Minibus, Vios, Jazz, City Email: j.t.torgersen@gmail. gmail.com com chopper style, blue crome, 2) Yamaha Rainbow, 1998, for rent. We’re offering 13,000km, 3 years old, 45,000 7,000 baht. low-season prices. Tel: Others FORD RANGER 4X4 ISUZU D-MAX LS baht. Tel: 087-8817600. 3) Yamaha Rainbow 1998, 081-5388567. Email: [email protected] Hurricane, turbo. Full options, Perfect condition. 4D, 4WD, ugly but good engine, 4,000 ENGINE FOR SALE year 2004. Only 48,000km. 4- navy blue, many extras. Only HONDA BROSS baht. Tel: 076-381280, 085- 5.7 litre Chevrolet V8 c/w door, manual gear, sound sys- 460,000 baht. Tel: 086-942 650cc. Price: 85,000 baht. 781 1068. CAR RENTAL automatic transmission. Can tem: 40,000 baht. Dark blue. 1969. Email: laclisque@ Call or mail to view. Tel: Email: 10,000-20,000 baht per be test run. 120,000 baht. Excellent condition. 450,000 gmail.com 085-796 7835. Or email: [email protected] month, full insurance. Tel: Tel: 086-277 8461. Email: baht. Tel: 081-8919461. [email protected] 089-472 7304. [email protected] 52 PHUKET GAZETTE November 15 - 21, 2008

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