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Volume 14 Issue 19 News Desk - Tel: 076-236555May 12 - 18, 2007 Daily news at www.phuketgazette.net 25 Baht The Gazette is published in association with OrBorTor 2 die in rescue to go to the polls IN THIS ISSUE By Sompratch Saowakhon NEWS: Small retailers call for truck accident government support; Patong PHUKET: The four-year terms Hospital to get ‘local’ admin- By Sompratch Saowakhon of 11 Tambon Administration OrBorTor istration. Pages 2 & 3 Organizations ( ) in RASSADA: Two people died Phuket will end on August 29. INSIDE STORY: A look behind and five were injured when a Elections for new OrBor- the Koh Kaew shooting pro- Kusoldharm Volunteer Rescue Tor councilors and presidents test. Pages 4 & 5 Foundation truck rushing four must be held within 45 days of accident victims to hospital and dissolution. AROUND THE SOUTH: Six-ton boulder squashes cook at il- a Toyota sedan collided at high The 11 tambon are Wichit, legal resort. Page 8 speed at the Tesco-Lotus inter- Rawai, Chalong, Rassada, Koh section early on May 6. Kaew, Kamala, Mai Khao, Sri- AROUND THE NATION: Lottery The rescue truck was on soonthorn, Cherng Talay, Sakoo system protest. Page 9 the way back from responding to and Thepkrasattri. DINING OUT: Setting the mood an accident in Kathu in which a The Phuket Election Com- at Grove Gardens. Page 13 policeman was killed. mission (PEC) has announced Phuket City Police Inspec- that the elections are likely to be PEOPLE: Life in Israel and the tor for Investigations, Lt Col Adul held before October 12, although IDF through Thai eyes. Nirapai, identified the two dead a date has yet to be set. Pages 14 & 15 as Kusoldharm volunteer Apirak When the date is set, it is TRAVEL: The hottest and Suemuang, 24, and Namfon expected that all alcohol sales will Niewnaen, 19. Two people, including one rescue volunteer, died after this be banned for one day, beginning coolest district in surprising Kusoldharm Foundation rescue truck was hit broadside at the Tesco Singapore. Page 21 Namfon was one of four at 6 pm the night before the elec- accident victims being rushed Intersection May 6. Photo: Lars G. Dikander tion and extending until midnight FIRST PERSON: Khun Woody from Tung Tong in Kathu to Traveling northbound to- The drivers of both vehicles after the polls are closed. defends his turf. Page 27 Vachira Phuket Hospital in ward the intersection along the suffered non-critical injuries. The elections will mark the HEALTH MATTERS: Fighting off Phuket City at the time of the bypass road at the same time was During treatment they were first time constituents in the 11 those mozzies. Page 28 accident, about 5:10 am. a Toyota Vios being driven by a given blood-alcohol tests, the re- sub-districts will have voted di- An officer at Tung Tong man identified as Pinij Aree, age sults of which have not been re- rectly for OrBorTor presidents, COMPUTERS: TV on your com- not reported. leased. puter, evil rootkits. Page 30 Police Station told the Gazette who will serve four-year terms. that the first accident happened The front of his Vios hit the Mano Jaengchee, Deputy OrBorTor elections in Pa BUSINESS AND MONEY: Pawn- when a car driven by Sgt side of the rescue truck, slam- Director of Kusoldham Khlok, the island’s 12th tambon, shops; Money Talks. Weeraphong Charoenwong, 30, ming it into a traffic light pole. Foundation’s disaster relief sec- were held two years ago under Pages 32 & 33 based at Tung Tong Police Sta- The force of the impact sheared tion, told the Gazette that the the new rules. SPORT: Boxing; TriBallistic; tion, went off the road and over- the bed cover off the rescue truck vehicle involved in the crash was As with the previous round Futsal; Darts. turned. and all five passengers, the four dispatched from Kusoldharm’s of elections, each voter will be Pages 34 & 35 Sgt Weeraphong died in the accident victims and rescue vol- Phuket City station. required to cross off the number vehicle and Jaws of Life had to unteer Apirak, were thrown from K. Mano explained that he of his chosen candidates on the PROPERTY: Gardening; Decor; be used to extract his body from the bed. wanted traffic police to consider ballot before depositing it into the Construction; Home of the the wreck. His four female pas- Both Namfon and Apirak changing the system of late night ballot box under the watchful eye Week. Pages 36-39 sengers were then picked up by were rushed to Vachira, where warning signals used at the in- of a PEC official. the Kusoldharm pickup involved they later died. tersection, as these could cause This election will also find PLUS in the second accident. All seven people involved confusion to those unfamiliar with a replacement for the President The pickup, with a covered in the accident suffered injuries, the system. He also called on mo- of Kamala’s OrBorTor after QUEER N EWS, STAMPS 6; AROUND bed, headed back from Tung including rescue truck driver torists to pay more attention and Jaral Sararak was unseated in THE R EGION 7; AROUND THE ISLAND Tong along Phra Phuket Kaew Visak Sridaranop, he said. late February. 10; HAPPENINGS 16; HOROSCOPES cede the right-of-way to Rd with siren sounding as it ap- Col Adul told the Gazette K. Jaral was removed from 17; LIFESTYLE 18 & 19; MOTOR- Kusoldharm rescue vehicles proached the Tesco Lotus inter- that the accident occurred be- office after the Kathu District ING 20; TAKE A B REAK 23 & 24; when their sirens are sounding. cause both drivers failed to ex- BOOKS, PHUKET DIARY 25; EDI- section. The traffic light was “It’s our duty to get acci- Chief signed an order following TORIAL, LETTERS, ISSUES & AN- flashing red as the pickup ap- ercise caution by driving at high dent victims safely to hospital as allegations of corruption. SWERS 26 & 27; THE GRAY AREA proached, the lights warning driv- speed, ignoring the traffic lights soon as possible for treatment. OrBorTor Kamala is cur- 28 & 29; CLASSIFIEDS 40-51. ers along the bypass road were and failing to slow down and It was an accident that I never rently under the stewardship of flashing yellow, Col Adul said. check for crossing traffic. want to see repeated,” he said. Acting President Karoon Seeden. 2 PHUKET GAZETTE NEWS May 12 - 18, 2007 Swiss man Gazette appoints new B600,000 found dead in stolen from hotel room Managing Director Norwegian’s KARON: A housekeeper in ranee ‘Ann’ Pienprasertkul has been elected Karon discovered the body of a OManaging Director of the Phuket Gazette Co Ltd, Patong home with responsibility for all operating divisions and 64-year-old Swiss man, the vic- PATONG: A burglar made off tim of apparent heart failure, on products of the company. Now in her eighth year with the Gazette, with 600,000 baht in cash and May 3. K. Oranee joined as an advertising sales person. She valuables stashed in a safe sto- The man, identified by po- became marketing manager in 2002 and was appointed len from the home of a Norwe- lice as Beat Fritz Meier, was General Manager in 2005. gian man living on Soi Maneesri. staying at the Marina Cottage The Bangkok native is a graduate of Bangkok The victim, Oystein Karlsen, bungalow resort. University with a bachelor’s degree in Business 38, told the Gazette the burglar In her report to the police, a Administration. broke into his hillside home in Soi resort housekeeper said she found Before joining the Gazette in 1999, she had held Maneesri, located off Petchakut him naked under a sheet, with two various public relations positions in New Zealand. Rd, opposite the entrance to unused condoms nearby. She had also worked for five years with UCOM in Simon Cabaret, between 3 am Lt Col Chana Sutthimas, Bangkok, where she was responsible for procurement and 5 am on May 6. Inspector at Chalong Police Sta- of cable and satellite broadcast equipment. Although five people were tion, told the Gazette that at the asleep in the house at the time, scene he saw no signs of a the thief managed to break in struggle or any injuries to Mr though a glass door, remove the Meier, leading him to believe that safe and other items, and escape the man died of heart failure. completely undetected. However, he is waiting on doc- Small retailers call Mr Karlsen put the total tors to confirm the cause of value of the heist at about 600,000 death. baht. Some 160,000 baht had Mr Meier’s passport shows been placed in the safe the night that he arrived in Phuket April 23 before by a house guest who and was scheduled to leave May for more support planned to travel to Pattaya the 22. – Sompratch Saowakhon following day, Karlsen said. By Sompratch Saowakhon cal taxes because their businesses can compete better. Some of the guest’s valu- PIMEX moves to are registered in Bangkok, not Gov Niran said he would try ables were insured against theft, Royal Phuket Marina PHUKET CITY: The Phuket Phuket. to raise the issue with the PM, he added. Chamber of Commerce (PCC) Superstores generate a along with other pressing prob- The safe also contained im- PHUKET: For the first time in its has called for the central govern- great deal of garbage and waste lems facing the island. portant personal documents, in- five-year history, the Phuket In- ment to help small retailers cope in local communities without hav- The Phuket Revenue Office cluding passports.
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