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Briton Held for Murder of Girlfriend Volume 11 Issue 35 News Desk - Tel: 076-236555 August 28 - September 3, 2004 Daily news at www.phuketgazette.net 20 Baht The Gazette is published in association with Briton held Ease rules for for murder IN THIS ISSUE of girlfriend NEWS: Figures show property foreigners, Gov business is soaring; ‘Don’t ruin your future’ warning to Khao Lak. Pages 2 & 3 INSIDE STORY: Pressure, not pleasure, in paradise. urges Bangkok Pages 4 & 5 AROUND THE ISLAND: SFX Coliseum cinema. Page 6 By Sangkhae Leelanapaporn PEOPLE: A new career from &Dhirarat Boonkongsaen the depths. Pages 10 & 11 PHUKET CITY: Phuket Gover- AROUND THE REGION: Green nor Udomsak Usawarangkura Murder victim Jantra Weangta. and lean times in Khao Lak. has told Deputy Prime Minister By Siripansa Somboon Pages 12 Suwat Liptapanlop that Bangkok LIFESTYLE: Gizmos on the go; will need to make life easier for CHALONG: Briton Michael Laying hands on glands. foreigners if Phuket is ever to de- John Taylor, 40, has been ar- Page 14 & 15 velop into the “international rested on a charge of murdering city” envisioned by the govern- his girlfriend on August 17. He AFTER DARK: Dallying at ment. is being held in custody in Diver’s Bar. Page 16 “Yesterday, I met with Phuket Provincial Prison. FIRST PERSON: Why Patong DPM Suwat to discuss prepara- Police say they have state- should party 24/7. Page 21 tions for the arrival of Prime ments from eight people con- Minister Thaksin Shinawatra firming their belief that Taylor, GOVERNOR’S LETTER: Plans next week,” he told the Gazette known locally as “Mick the for a local super-aquarium. on August 20. Pom”, murdered 27-year-old Page 22 “I told him that if the gov- Jantra Weangta at the home they BUSINESS & MONEY: Local ernment really wants Phuket to shared in Chalong. economy ‘growing well’; In- attract international investment, Pol Maj Jessada Sangsu- vesting down under. then it will have to make it easier ree, an inspector at Chalong Po- Page 23 for foreigners to get visas, work lice Station, told the Gazette, SPORT: ACYC results; Diving; permits and extensions of stay.” “We have eight statements that Soccer. Pages 24 & 25 The Governor, who re- suggest Mr Taylor is the mur- cently returned from a trip to the derer. The court issued an arrest GOOD LIVING: Kamala’s US, said Immigration, the Labor warrant, but he still denies the Rockfish on a roll. Page 29 Office and the Ministry of For- Gov Udomsak: ‘If the government really wants Phuket to attract accusation.” PROPERTY: Tasty Villa Santi; eign Affairs should upgrade their international investment, then it will have to make it easier for Maj Jessada said that Tay- Home of the Week in Wichit; procedures and services to inter- foreigners to get visas, work permits and extensions of stay.‘ lor claims that, around the time Construction.Pages 30 & 31 national standard. K. Jantra is estimated to have “The government depart- migration Office has clarified the one-year permit to stay based on been killed, he was drinking at ments that deal with foreigners rules governing deposits foreign- marriage or retirement do not the Moonlight Bar in Karon and PLUS are all still using the same old ers must keep in bank accounts have to freeze the money in their then having sex on the beach systems. When investors arrive, in order to qualify for permit-to- accounts,” explained. “They just with a katoey, 21-year-old Fon- QUEER NEWS 4; AROUND THE they first have to go to Immigra- stay extensions on the basis of need to show us proof of their noi Khonsau. NATION 7; HAPPENINGS 9; tion, then to another agency for marriage or retirement status. normal income and expenses and Taylor asserts that he found HOROSCOPES 14; KIDS 17; a work permit. It’s too compli- Specifically, foreigners do prove that they can support K. Jantra dead on the bed when HEARD & SCENE, TSOWNDINGS cated,” he said. not need to maintain a minimum themselves in Thailand to a good he and K. Fonnoi went to the 18; BOOKS; COMPUTERS 19; Gov Udomsak said that balance in their bank accounts, standard of living. house. EDITORIAL, LETTERS 20; ISSUES DPM Suwat made no commit- Pol Capt Krissarat Nuesen, “Some foreigners have K. Jantra died from a single & ANSWERS 21; HEALTH 22; ment, but said he would discuss Deputy Inspector of the Phuket misunderstood the minimum bal- stab wound to the heart. Nearby, MOTORING 26; WINE 29; GAR- the matter with the departments Provincial Immigration Office, ance requirement as meaning police found a large Bowie knife DENING 32; CLASSIFIEDS 33-40 concerned. said. they would no longer be able to and a pair of bloodstained trou- Meanwhile, the Phuket Im- “Foreigners applying for a Continued on page 2 sers. 2 PHUKET GAZETTE NEWS August 28 - September 3, 2004 Immigration Figures show property Anchalee clarifies slams plan bank deposit business is soaring to extend regulations By Gategaeo Phetsawang especially in Phuket,” said K. Thanit. “About 40% of invest- of runway From page 1 PHUKET: Figures indicating ment in Phuket is in real estate.” use their own money. In fact, how the property industry in Another indicator of the Immigration does not require that Phuket is booming were pre- property boom supplied by K. PHUKET CITY: Plans by the funds be kept in the bank at all sented this week by the Phuket Thanit was the amount of tax Airports Authority of Thailand times. It does, however, require Real Estate Club (PREC). collected by the PPLO. In 2003 (AAT) to extend the 3,000-meter that foreigners be prepared to At a conference on the the figure was about 100 mil- runway at Phuket International prove their financial status is southern Thai economy, held at lion baht, he said, whereas in Airport by 700m came under fire sound at any time we decide to the Royal Phuket City Hotel on the first three months of this from Anchalee Vanich-Thepa- check on them. August 23, PREC Secretary year alone, a massive 456 mil- butr, President of the Phuket Pro- “It’s not that we won’t let Thanit Prateepnathalang said that lion baht in taxes was paid to vincial Organization at a meeting them take money out of their ac- between January and July this the PPLO. on August 24 at The Metropole. count to pay normal living ex- year, property companies applied He said, “Land on Phuket The extension is deemed penses, but the required balance for permission to build 43 new is one-fifth the price of land in necessary by the AAT to allow developments. Of these, 28 had Worrying about a bubble: Tha- Singapore, but we expect it to should be shown properly and for nit Prateepnathalang. fully-laden Boeing 747-400 air- a sufficient period of time. so far been approved. increase to half the Singapore liners – used extensively on “There have been many The investment in indi- Land Office (PPLO), 10 property price. It currently sells for [as routes to and from Europe – to cases in which bank accounts vidual developments ranges from companies were granted permis- much as] 20 million baht per rai. take off. were almost empty just a few 250 million to 700 million baht, sion for developments. “The trend for real estate However, K. Anchalee said days after they showed the mini- he said, noting that most are “The government’s deci- investment is still upward, but I that Phuket’s expanding tourist mum required balance. aimed at European or American sion [two years ago] to reduce worry that it may be growing too markets are in Asia rather than “We suspect [that in these buyers. taxes and fees on property invest- rapidly, and may result in another in Europe. Short-to-medium haul cases] people were borrowing Last year, according to fig- ment to 0.01% has made the bubble crisis [like in 1997],” he aircraft, which require shorter money from friends so that they ures from the Phuket Provincial property business grow rapidly, added. runways, are generally used on could meet the requirement on these routes, she said, adding the day when we checked, then “For this reason, a 3,700-m run- returning the money as soon as More top comedians for Phuket way is not necessary.” that had been accomplished. That K. Anchalee said that the is wrong,” he said. KOH KAEW: Three top stand- BBC 1 show Secrets of Magic, edy Awards and won a Sony Ra- existing commercial air traffic is To be granted a one-year up comedians from the London and his BBC 2 series, Stuff The dio Award. already disruptive for local com- extension of permit-to-stay, any comedy circuit will be in Phuket White Rabbit, has achieved re- Newcastle comedian Mick- munities, mostly Muslim, whose male foreigner applying on the on September 15 to entertain and cord ratings for its time slot. ey Hutton, known for roles in UK prayer times, she said, are often basis of being married to a Thai embarrass punters at The Water- Also on stage will be Mil- TV shows Crocodile Shoes and disturbed by the sound of jet en- must show a minimum balance mark bar and restaurant, at the ton Jones, winner of the Perrier Spender, will wrap up the eve- gines overhead. of 400,000 baht. (There is no Boat Lagoon. The show will start Best Newcomer award and the ning. K. Anchalee suggest that a such requirement for foreign at 9 pm. 1996 Edinburgh Festival comedy Tickets cost 1,700 baht compromise 300-m extension women married to Thais.) Those First on stage will be come- award for his first solo show.
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