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NEWS: Suwit announces tour- fake bank cards ism targets; US military ex- zones perts lead counter-terrorism By Sompratch Saowakhon By Supanun Supawong course. Pages 2 & 3 KATHU: Police have arrested PATONG: New parking zones INSIDE STORY: Why a full three Sri Lankan men for credit will go into effect on a three- population count is hard – and card fraud, seizing more than month trial basis January 15, important. Pages 4 & 5 5,000 blank ATM cards, of which when a one-way traffic system about 2,300 were encoded with will begin along three major roads AROUND THE SOUTH: Illegal immigrants detained.Page 8 information from real bank cards. in the central tourist district. Police suspect the three A press conference was AROUND THE ISLAND: Fertilizer men may be part of a much larger held at Patong City Hall January factory formed. Page 10 ring operating in popular tourist 9 to remind the public about the areas throughout Thailand and change, which is intended to bring PEOPLE: It’s about time. other parts of the world. Pages 14 & 15 some measure of order and Investigating Inspector Pol safety to the town’s notoriously TSOWNDINGS: The gospel of Lt Col Boonlert Onklang of the chaotic roads. slob? Page 17 Kathu Police identified the three Attending were Patong suspects as Pathmathas Ganes- Mayor Pian Keesin, Phuket Pro- LIFESTYLE: Diamond deci- hamoorthy, 26; Srikanthan Vee- vincial Police Commander Pol sion; How to fix your foot’s rasingam, 29; and Sivagnanam faults. Pages 18 & 19 Maj Gen Decha Budnampetch Gnanakanthan, 35. and Kathu Police Superintendent FIRST PERSON: Boy attacked The passports of all three Pol Col Teerapol Thipjaroen. men revealed that they had been Suspect Pathmathas Ganeshamoorthy at Kathu Police Station with by 20 dogs. Page 27 the fake bank cards in front of him. Ganeshamoorthy and two other They reminded the public frequent visitors to Thailand. that beginning at 6 am on Janu- MAKING TRACKS: Thailand’s Sri Lankan men were charged with electronic card forgery and Col Boonlert said that po- ary 15, all southbound traffic will vanishing stripes. Page 28 possessing a fraudulent electronic card with intent to use. lice arrested Ganeshamoorthy be routed along Rat-U-Thit 200 BUSINESS & MONEY: On the and Veerasingam at the northern The men had picked up 2,300 cards had account informa- Pi Rd, which will become one- Move; The world on a string - end of Thaweewong Rd in the Gnanakanthan at the airport and tion programmed onto the mag- way. or is that a web? early evening of January 2 after dropped him off at his hotel, the net strips and nearly all of that Northbound traffic will be Pages 34 & 35 a closed-circuit TV camera had Pen Villas in Surin, he added. information came from British routed along the beach road. videotaped the pair using a fake A visit to Gnanakanthan’s accounts. All connecting roads will be SPORT: Grandfather of muay bank card to draw money from room early on January 3 uncov- Some cards were encoded two way, except Chalermprakiat Thai speaks; Local badmin- an ATM machine in front of the ered an additional 2,533 bank with account details from the US, Rd and Prachanukhro Rd, which ton boy; Langkawi Regatta; Kon Thai Pub in Karon. cards. Of these, 483 were green Finland and Sweden. both will be one-way heading to- President’s Cup coming; At the time of the arrest, and the remainder white. Unlike The information was from ward the beach. Darts rattled. Pages 34 & 35 one of the men was sitting in a the cards seized earlier that day, both debit and credit cards. He Soi Bangla also will be one- PROPERTY: Gardening; Decor: silver-colored Honda car; the all the cards were marked with added that police have not yet way during the day, but will close Teaked off; Construction; other was on the beach. a four-digit number. identified the account holders to all traffic nightly at 6 pm. Home of the Week: Loch A search of the vehicle un- Police also seized an who were defrauded. Parking will be permitted Palm. Pages 36-39 covered a notebook computer, MSR206 magnetic strip card “The men obtained the ac- along selected roads, as follows: 2,703 blank white bank cards and reader and encoder. count details from gang members • Thaweewong Rd (the PLUS three flash drives. The men were taken to in the UK who copied it from beach road), beach side from the After the arresting officers Phuket Provincial Court yester- customers’ cards when they used Sea Pearl Hotel to Soi Bangla; QUEER NEWS, TRASH 6; AROUND turned down a 2-million-baht day afternoon and each was them in shops or for other ser- • Rat-U-Thit 200 Pi Rd, THE R EGION 7; AROUND THE N A- bribe in exchange for their re- charged with one count of elec- vices. The gang then sent the 16- one side along its entire length, TION 9; AMBROSIA'S SECRETS 13; lease, the men were questioned, tronic card forgery and one count digit card number, card expira- side alternating daily; HAPPENINGS 16; TALES OF A Col Boonlert said. of possessing a fraudulent elec- tion date and four-digit pin code • Prachanukhro Rd, Ruam- TRAVELER 20; MOTORING 21; The two men told police the tronic card with intent to use. by email or phone to the cell here. jai Rd, Sawasdirak Rd and Haad TAKE A B REAK 23 & 24; BOOKS, cards and equipment belonged to DIARY 25; EDITORIAL, LETTERS Col Boonlert told the Ga- “The criminals then pro- Patong Rd, along the north side; 26; HOROSCOPES 29; COMPUTERS Gnanakanthan, who had arrived zette that checks made on Janu- grammed the card number and • Chalermprakiat Rd, along 30; CLASSIFIEDS 40-51. in Phuket earlier that day, Col ary 6 by officers from Thai Mili- expiration date into blank cards the south side, but only opposite Boonlert said. tary Bank showed that about Continued on page 2 the Swiss Palm Beach Resort. 2 PHUKET GAZETTE NEWS January 13 - 19, 2007

Continued from page 1 IN BRIEF Sri Lankan card Property expo opens at Central fraudsters nabbed Alleged rapist expiration date into blank cards PHUKET CITY: The Property using a magnetic strip card Investment Exhibition 2007 falls to death reader and encoder and wrote the (PIE), is being held at Central pin number on the cards. Festival Phuket until January CHERNG TALAY: Echa Bum- “They then used the cards 16, from 10 am to 9 pm. rung, 31, died of head injuries af- to withdraw cash from ATM More than 30 exhibitors ter being pushed off a second- machines here in Thailand. They have hundreds of properties in story balcony by the boyfriend of withdrew 2,000 to 5,000 baht a Phuket, Phang Nga, Krabi and a young woman he was caught time. on Koh Samui on show, at having sex with. “We believe the blank cards prices starting around Pol Lt Col Jessada Sang- also came from Britain,” Col US$500,000 (15 million baht). suree said that on the morning of Boonlert said. Properties with a total New Year’s Day, Echa allegedly value of more than 300 million “We believe that in total the followed a girl he had been drink- baht were reserved at last ing with back to her home, where men withdrew about 6 million year’s PIE expo. baht as they confessed that they she lived with her boyfriend, jet- received only 10% of the money ski operator Preecha Longlha, 36. they withdrew, the remaining As Echa was allegedly rap- 90% was sent to members of the ing his victim, Preecha returned gang abroad,” he added. home and heard screams for The men were being held at help. Kathu Police Station. In the ensuing fight, Suwit affirms Preecha shoved the Echa off the On January 15 police will request an extension of the men’s balcony, Col Jessada said. detention period to allow for fur- Preecha, who has been ther investigation into the fraud charged with murder, told police ring, Col Boonlert explained. he did not intend to kill Echa, and The cards seized in Phuket he didn’t think the fall would re- tourism targets sult in Echa’s death, Col Jessada were similar to cards seized in earlier raids in Bangkok and Chon added. Buri, he added. By Janyaporn Morel dards, but at the same time use the ‘green leaf’ standard to pro- New Year road Singer murdered PHUKET CITY: Tourism and tect the environment. Sports Minister Dr Suwit Yod- “We will also promote sports PHUKET CITY: The body of a manee affirmed the government’s to attract tourists; and most im- toll hits targets 29-year-old woman who had national targets for 2007 of 14.8 portantly, help local people and PHUKET: Three people died and been stabbed to death was found million foreign tourists and 82 communities to take part in local 32 people were injured in 35 re- in the area behind Wat Sansuk, million Thai tourists, with earn- tourism,” he added. ported accidents from December south of Nimit Circle January 6. ings of 547.5 billion baht and After the meeting, Dr Suwit 28 to January 3, nearly matching The body was reported to 377.8 billion baht, respectively. said that the most urgent prob- the government’s target road toll police at 8:20 am. Responding po- Dr Suwit announced the tar- lem that local businesspeople and for the holiday period. lice officers found the victim’s gets at a meeting of about 280 government agencies had notified The provincial government naked body laying face up with government and private sector him of was the lack of direct in- had set a target of no more than stab wounds to her chest. representatives from the 14 ternational flights to many popu- three dead and 39 injured in 35 Nearby were the woman’s southern provinces at The lar tourist destinations in the accidents for the period. shoulder bag, cosmetics and mo- Metropole hotel January 8. Del- southern provinces. torbike. egates included Governors, Vice- “I will have to talk to the Children’s Day The victim was identified by Governors, police, municipal and Dr Suwit Yodmanee, Minister of Transportation Ministry to find a relatives as Duentem “Kai” Tourism Authority of Thailand Tourism and Sports. way to help tourism in the South, PHUKET: Activities have been Tongsung, 29, a cashier at a local (TAT) officials, travel agents and region were outlined as sea, sand, such as connecting flights be- organized all over the island to en- Caltex gas station and a former tour operators. diving, golf, seafood and health tween Bangkok, Phuket and tertain kids on Children’s Day, singer at a Phuket City bar. The domestic tourism plan services, but the TAT will also Haad Yai, and flights to Phang January 13. Police believe she may have for the southern region this year promote other attractions, such as Nga, Samui and Ranong, with in- Highlights include a fire- been lured to the area for sex. is aimed at general tourists, youth culture, sports and entertainment. ternational flights,” he said. fighting drill at the airport and a Investigation Inspector Pol and family, working and high-in- Dr Suwit said that the plan The decades’ old idea of an demonstration of an air-sea res- Lt Col Ekkasit Pinkaew told the come people, seniors, and corpo- for 2007 was to target the niche international convention center in cue by the Royal Thai Navy at Gazette, “There were no signs of rate travelers, while the foreign market of “good quality, foreign Phuket was raised again. Cape Panwa. rape and her bag still had 200 baht tourism marketing plan is aimed tourists”. “Phuket has requested to build a in it, so we don’t know the mo- at “high-quality free individual He said, “To support the convention center [here], which Blackouts tive for her murder but we pre- travelers”, families, sport groups growth of tourism, we must con- I think is important; therefore I CHALONG: The Phuket Provin- sume it has to do with someone and honeymoon couples, he said. sider upgrading tourism resources will discuss it again with the cial Electricity Authority (PPEA) who was angry with her.” The main attractions for the according to ‘star rating’ stan- Phuket Governor,” Dr Suwit said. has announced blackouts along Chao Fa West Rd on January 15, 16 and 17, in order to continue its work on high-voltage power lines. The blackouts, from the PPEA substation to Chalong Circle, will be from 9 am to 5 pm. January 13 - 19, 2007 NEWS PHUKET GAZETTE 3 British boy electrocuted in Patong hotel room US experts lead By Suganya Semacote ming at the hotel pool before re- turning to his room, where he PATONG: Seven-year-old Brit- began playing a video game with- ish boy Connor Dean O’Keeffe out drying off. anti-terrorist was electrocuted while playing a The combination of water video game in his hotel room at and electricity led to an electric the Sunset Beach Resort, police shock, which proved fatal, police have confirmed. said. Pol Lt Col Sopol Borirak, of Col Sopol said that no Kathu Police Station, identified charges will be brought against police workshop the victim as son of David Skin- the hotel and there will be no in- ner, 49, and Kathleen Patricia vestigation. Curry, 45. No further details of the By Supanun Supawong Navy officers and four Crime Phuket can number from 250 to Police were notified of the accident were given by police. Suppression Division Officers 2,000 people at one time, he said. death about 8 pm on December Management at the hotel PATONG: Some 30 Thai police assigned to Phuket Customs. Leading the training is Lt 30 by staff at Patong Hospital, were unavailable for comment. and military personnel are under- Unlike previous counter-ter- Junior Grade Trevor Blount of the where the boy was rushed for The family was on a 10-day going a two-week “Military Law rorism programs organized by United State Coast Guard’s In- emergency treatment. stay at the hotel when the acci- Enforcement/Boarding Officer” JUSMAG in Phuket, this session ternational Training Division. Col Sopol said that police dent occurred and have now re- course conducted by US military focuses on threats at sea and port He said the coup in Sep- presume that the boy went swim- turned to the UK. experts at the Patong Resort areas, with training in how to tember had no impact on the train- Hotel. identify potential threats. ing to be offered, which was The training, which began Capt Walter Bruce Watson, scheduled before the coup, and CCTV ready next month January 8, is the latest of many Junior Naval Attache at the US has already been given in PHUKET CITY: Phuket Provin- Karon expected to be in service ventures funded by the US De- Embassy in Bangkok, told the Singapore and on Langkawi Is- cial Police Commander Pol Maj by the end of the month. fense Department’s Counter Ter- Gazette the training will help land in Malaysia Gen Decha Budnampeth has an- CCTV video feeds will be rorism Fellowship Program make areas such as Patong safe “There may be a few nounced that the 16-million-baht monitored at a command center (CTFP) for Thailand. The pro- for visiting sailors. things that are specifically for closed-circuit television (CCTV) in the local police stations: Kathu gram, which in 2006 had a bud- “The training that they pro- Thailand, but nothing would surveillance system will be op- Police station for Patong; Phuket get of about US$200,000 (more vide helps make Phuket a safer change as far as the coup is con- erational in three popular tourist City; and Chalong Police Station, than 7 million baht), is financed place for American sailors who cerned,” he said. districts by mid-February. which covers Kata-Karon. by the Joint United States Mili- come and visit. They train police Capt Watson said the whole Work on the project, begun Tourism industry leaders tary Assistance Group (JUS- in how to identify bombs and what US side was excited to be in last August, was funded under lauded the upcoming security MAG) office in Bangkok. to do if they find one,” he said. Phuket and was impressed by the former Phuket Governor Udom- boost, while noting that the New Attending the training are 10 “We have always felt that way the island’s security forces sak Uswarangkura’s discretion- Year’s Eve bombings in Bangkok officers of the Phuket Police Spe- Phuket is one of the safest places worked together. ary budget for provincial devel- had not greatly deterred foreign cial Operations Unit, along with in Asia, but this just helps give us “If anyone else wanted to opment. visitors from coming to Phuket. four officers from Kathu Police, assurance that it is even safer know how to do it right, we would The network, being installed Phuket Tourist Association six Marine Police officers, two than it was before,” he added. tell them to come to Phuket,” he by telecommunications provider President Maitree Narukatpichai Immigration Police officers, five US crews on leave in said. CAT Telecom Public Company insisted that cancellations result- Ltd, uses high-speed, wireless ing from the Bangkok bombings CDMA EV-DO technology, simi- were minimal, with occupancy Hotelier Sithi Tandavanitj passes away lar to the wireless network now rates in island hotels still high at available to Internet users around 90%, on average. PHUKET CITY: Sithi Tandavanitj, President of the He was also a former President of the main the island. Maj Decha also reminded Thai Hotels Association, Southern Chapter, died Thai Hotels Association. Sixteen CCTV cameras the press that a one-way traffic after suffering a heart attack on December 30. He K. Sithi may be best remembered for opening will begin operating in Patong in system would go into effect in was 79 years old. his family’s Sino-Portuguese-style home to towns- mid-February, with similar sys- Patong January 15. A sociable Phuket native, K. Sithi was on people and tourists for performances during the tems in Phuket City and Kata- The new system is ex- the management committee of The Metropole ho- annual Old Phuket Festival. pected to improve traffic flow as tel and also served as President of the Parent- K. Sithi’s son Thiti Tandavanitj told the Ga- Dutchman dies in well as increase security there, Teacher Association at Phuket Vocational Col- zette that the family home will continue to host these motorbike accident he said. lege. performances to maintain his father’s tradition. KAMALA: Dutch national Rob van Hardeveld, 40, died from in- juries sustained when his motor- bike went off the road at a sharp curve between Patong and Ka- mala on December 27. Pol Lt Naruwit Phuthawilo of Kathu Traffic Police reported that Mr van Hardeveld was dead at the scene of the accident. His body was returned to Holland on December 30. 4 PHUKET GAZETTE INSIDE STORY January 13 - 19, 2007

ince he began working in Phuket as a Vice-Gover- nor, he has seen many Sproblems develop, Phu- ket Governor Niran Kalayanamit PHUKET’S HIDDEN told the Gazette. Water supply and provision of “The biggest problem is that With its post-tsunami recovery now nearly complete, other public utilities will also be- Phuket is no longer a local soci- Phuket finds itself once again faced with the same come issues.” ety, as it was 20 or 30 years Dealing with encroachment ago…When I first arrived here problems it was struggling to deal with before the issues and other land squabbles in 2001, there were still about waves hit: fast-paced, poorly-regulated development are already a top priority for Gov 4,000 rai of rice paddies on the that is stretching the island’s infrastructure to its limits Niran, who established a high- island. level provincial panel to sort out “But now much of it has and causing social upheaval and environmental the numerous disputes on the is- gone, sold off by villagers for eco- degradation. Gazette Chief Reporter Sangkhae land following the unprecedented nomic reasons.” Leelanapaporn and News Editor Stephen Fein bombing of three homes in Cha- Gov Niran is glad to see long a little more than a month some of Phuket’s traditional ways report. after his promotion to Governor. of life preserved, even if it is just “There are now a lot of to serve the needs of the all-im- Thais and foreigners moving portant tourism industry. Gov Niran sees a huge in- most every nationality staying in here, both legally and illegally, but “I talked to the owner of a flux of outsiders – both foreign- Phuket. the amount of land remains the new hotel that just opened in ers and Thais from other prov- “We see foreigners apply- same – there is not enough. With Sakoo [in Thalang]. They bought inces – as another big challenge ing for work permits every day. I the demise of agriculture here, a piece of land next to the hotel facing the province, especially as think Phuket issues the largest many people have sold off their where they set up a rice paddy most of these people don’t appear number of work permits, after land to foreigners. Land in Phu- with some cows and buffalo so on house registration forms, Bangkok and Pattaya. Tailor ket has become very valuable – that their customers can watch which are used by the govern- shops are one of the biggest em- it’s like gold. This is why we see from the balcony while they are ment to allocate government bud- ployers, with most of their foreign people encroaching in mangrove eating lunch or dinner and get a gets. staff from Bangladesh, India and forests, along beaches and even taste of traditional Thai life,” he “This is what we call ‘ir- Pakistan. Other foreigners work in national parks. There are said. regular emigration’. There are in real estate, the diving industry people from all 76 Thai provinces “I think that we have to start about four million people visiting or as consultants,” he said. trying to grab land here, and this looking into this matter more, oth- Phuket each year, about 60% of “Some may think that it is is why it is so difficult to control. erwise old customs will cease to them foreigners. Some have de- time to start screening foreigners In the old days everybody knew exist. Phuket could soon become cided to work or stay here long- who want to come to Phuket or everybody else and crime was not just another concrete jungle with term. Some marry a Thai, others to limit the number of foreigners a problem, but now we have no identity of its own, as has hap- choose to retire here. As a re- entering Phuket each year [to people from all over Thailand set- pened to so many other places.” sult, we now have people of al- work]. But if you look at the other tling here.” point of view, it isn’t fair to new Gov Niran said Phuket’s businesses just starting up. Of registered population of 290,000 course well-established compa- residents is far below the actual egy to deal with this problem.] nies would like to see the market number of people on the island at Despite the inevitable stabilize, so that they can focus any given time – as evidenced by growing pains, Gov Niran is still on high-quality tourists and mak- the fact that the number of mo- eager to see the island’s infra- ing profits.” torbikes and cars registered here structure improve to support its However, Gov Niran told is much higher. continued growth as a premier the Gazette that if the issue of “We must admit that we international tourist destination. Phuket’s rapid growth is not ad- don’t know the actual pop- This will involve expanding dressed soon, the island may sim- ulation…This effects every as- the island’s road network, im- ply run out of resources to sus- pect of development. In economic proving public transportation by tain the growth. terms we lose out because the developing a rail system and fi- “If we do not control this central government allocates bud- nally building the world-class in- soon, there might be five million, gets based on the registered popu- ternational convention center that 10 million or even more. This will lation, and this is why we lack has been talked about for more lead people to begin to fight over funding in many areas, such as than two decades. resources such as land. It will also law enforcement.” [See The He also sees yachting and increase the amount of trash and Governor’s Letter, issue of Janu- sports tourism as other industries pollution. Traffic will increase. ary 6-12, for Gov Niran’s strat- the government should support. “Now we have only three marinas, with only half of the to- tal capacity of Langkawi in Ma- laysia. “We should also have a big sports complex as well, but we will have trouble getting these until the island’s actual population is known, and that is why I am making that a top priority,” he said. When asked about Phu- January 13 - 19, 2007 INSIDE STORY PHUKET GAZETTE 5

each registered citizen there. Patong Deputy Mayor Chai- rat Sukkaban told the Gazette that if the government expects to POPULATION CRISIS meet its target of 20 million tour- dealt with as soon as possible. ists by 2008, it should not expect For every registered resi- much help from Patong in terms dent of the province, there is an of providing extra rooms to ac- unregistered counterpart, he said. commodate them. “If you want to know why The municipality’s usable we are starting to see traffic land area is reaching its develop- jams, just look at the numbers. ment limit and hotel owners al- There are 300,000 cars and ready face big problems filling 300,000 motorcycles registered in hotel rooms during the low sea- the province,” he said. son, he said. But that is just the tip of the “Perhaps some parts of iceberg. “When you are out driv- Phuket still have an inadequate ing, you only need to notice how number of rooms to meet demand many vehicles have plates issued and can be further developed for in other provinces to realize the tourism, but not Patong. What we real extent of the problem,” he need is to find new target mar- said. kets to keep our rooms filled dur- To help address the “con- ing the low season.The most cealed population” issue, the PTA profitable hotels owe their suc- has already asked its member cess to good marketing that hotels to register their staff on a keeps rooms occupied during that house registration booklet (tabien period,” he said. baan in Thai) set up in the hotel’s K. Chairat said that among name. New staff are asked to the town’s important infrastruc- transfer their house registrations ture needs was the burial of over- from their home provinces to head power cables, the messy Phuket once they pass an initial entanglements of which are both employment probation period, he an eyesore and threat to public said. safety. He also said that existing He also called on the Land laws requiring people to register Transport Office to take more in the areas where they actually action in preventing traffic jams, reside are too weak to be effec- regulating of car and motorbike tive. “In fact, there is a law re- rental operators, and preventing quiring people to register after a locals from taking advantage of certain number of days after tourists. moving to a new province, but the K. Chairat is in favor of the The Kata-Karon area, which has seen an explosion in hotel construction in recent years, now has at least 8,500 hotel rooms. The tessabaan’s registered population in September 2006 stood at just 6,519. fine is only 50 baht. That is why governor’s plan to encourage So who is cleaning all those rooms? Gov Niran wants to find out. is doesn’t work,” he said. unregistered residents to get Problems of over-develop- themselves listed on local house ket’s ability to keep up with its paid better attention to permitting ficials who issue title deeds on ment, under-reported population registration forms. ever-growing population, Phuket procedures and encroachment what is actually government land, and all the ensuing social and en- “I think it is a good idea to Tourist Association (PTA) Vice- issues. he said. vironmental woes are probably know the real population of President Panu Maswongsa told “If property developments “We are a free trade coun- most pronounced in Patong. In Phuket, because it stands to help the Gazette the number of hotel were limited to land with proper try. As such we cannot stop busi- December 2006, the municipal- us in many ways. It will be im- rooms on the island has already title deeds there wouldn’t be ness or construction that is done ity had a registered population of portant to involve owners of rental passed the 40,000 mark, not in- much of a problem. Unfortu- legally. However, we do have en- 11,079. homes and flats in registering their cluding pool villas and other nately, that is not the case. People vironmental protection laws in Tourism Authority of Thai- tenants,” he said. types of accommodations cater- are now building on government place that could help slow down land figures for 2005 put the num- As for the continuing rise in ing to families and long-stay visi- land, including protected areas the impact of development, if en- ber of hotel rooms at 9,919. the number of hotel rooms, he tors. such as mangrove forests,” he forced.” Given the new hotel open- said, “We cannot forbid private K. Panu said the population said. K.Panu agrees that Phu- ings since 2005 and all the unreg- sector investment. If it is done explosion could be better con- In some cases, this is done ket’s “concealed population” is a istered establishments, it is safe according to the law, how can we tained if government agencies in collusion with government of- big problem, one that needs to be to say there is one hotel room for stop it?” 6 PHUKET GAZETTE NEWS January 13 - 19, 2007 Queer News Bad news for the Tiger of Thalang

eing the leader of a youth motorbike gang in hunt for the enemy while News rode pillion, pistol at Phuket is always dangerous. Occupational the ready. hazards include bullets and blades from Unbeknownst to the two hunters, Seua and the members of rival gangs, police who will other gang members had followed them out of the B club. eventually make a charge stick, and carelessly-driven pickups that can quickly put an end to motorcycling News and Flat found their quarry in the area of mayhem. The Royal Paradise Hotel and were about to attack Despite the obvious risks, gang leader Kroekkriat when Sq Ldr Sen Sgt Maj Amnat Kaewkrajok from Jantananon, from Baan Liphon in Thalang, would no Kathu District Police Station happened to pass by; doubt have been greatly surprised by the circumstances seeing what was going on, he stepped in to put a stop of his final undoing. to it. At 27, Kroekkriat, who went by “Seua Liphon” In front of crowds of Thai and foreign tourists, a or “Liphon Tiger”, was approaching retirement age ruckus ensued. News was thrown to the ground, but as leader of his gang and decided to train a promising he managed to pull out his pistol and fire a shot into young man, “News”, to eventually take control of the the air, just as Seua and the rest of the gang arrived group. on the scene. News’s attempts to step into the shoes of leader News, mistaking the newcomers for more mem- of the gang, a Thai Rath reporter implied, led to him bers of the opposing gang, opened fire, hitting Seua in being charged with attempted murder early last year the neck and stomach, killing him. – a charge for which he was out on bail at the time of Also hit in the salvo were: Seua’s 24-year-old TRASHING the events on New Year’s Day. sister Netanapha, who was hit in the right leg; two Friends of Seua told reporters that the night gang members, Suwan Ratanapontri and Narong started with the Liphon gang seeing in the new year Thongkhod, both 20, who were grazed on the right Phuket at Patong Beach. After the countdown, the gang shin and hit in the right knee respectively; and Phanitha Angsuchonsin, 22, who was seriously hurt after being moved on to strut their stuff at Night Station disco on PHUKET CITY: This piece of land at the corner of Surin Rat-U-Thit 200 Pi Rd. hit in the stomach. On seeing the carnage he had created, News Rd and Surin Soi 3 road used to be jungle. It’s private While dancing at the club, News accidentally land and there is a sign, presumably erected by the trod on the toe of a member of a local Patong gang, instructed Flat to drive him away from the scene be- fore he could be apprehended by police. owner, warning people against dumping garbage there. sparking a fracas. Pushing and shoving ensued, and To no avail, of course – it being a well known fact the Patong gang member asked if News wanted “to A local Thai-language daily reported on January 3 that police had caught up with News at his house in that those who trash the countryside are usually igno- take it outside”. News immediately accepted the chal- rant lowlifes who quit school before learning how to lenge and, determined to prove his bravery, asked his Tambon Srisoonthorn the next day as he was packing his bags to leave Phuket. read, in order to make a career out of defecating on friend Flat to accompany him to his bike to fetch a their own doorstep. 9mm pistol from under the seat. During questioning News allegedly admitted that he had accidentally shot dead his own gang leader Got a stinky informal trash dump that’s getting up News and Flat then walked back to teach the your nose? Let the world know – or Phuket at least – local boys a lesson, but were unable to find them. and that the gun he used had belonged to the victim. The report made no mention of the fate of Flat. by emailing a short description and a photo to dump@ Determined not to let the slight on his honor go un- phuketgazette.net punished, News instructed Flat to drive the bike on a Source: Thai Rath January 13 - 19, 2007 AROUND THE REGION PHUKET GAZETTE 7

hao Lak is back! These words were recently used as the K headline for several classified property ads in the Phu- Khao Lak completes ket Gazette placed by a Phuket- based real estate agent. This might appear as “just another ad” to some, but it re- veals a much deeper message to its tsunami comeback people who truly care about Khao Lak. Phuket-based realty agents have a much bigger spec- without helicopters landing on the trum of property, in different beach, almost destroying work- price and quality categories, lo- ers’ camps and covering the cated on the island itself. whole area in stirred-up sand; While this could lead them without the hype; and without the to concentrate on promoting only unnecessary party-like touch. Phuket, which would be in their I picked up comments from own interest, some of them have a Swedish couple who were very chosen to help promote Khao confused by the loud and omni- Lak by placing ads similar to the present disco music distributed by one mentioned above. tons of PA speakers. The hidden message in this “We get the impression that ad shows that Phuket expats ob- they [the organizers] are having viously support the combined ef- a big party here instead of a me- forts of Khao morial ceremony. Lak’s community “Next year, in fighting their we will go to a se- way out of the cluded beach post-tsunami mis- nearby and have ery by pushing re- our own little cer- construction ef- emony to remem- forts to the limit – ber our sister and against all odds. our brother-in-law And yes! who we lost here Khao Lak resi- ANDAMAN in 2004,” they told dents and busi- me. nessmen really COASTING A Khao Lak have done it; By Franky Gun expat who lost Khao Lak truly is many friends on back. Most repu- that Boxing Day table hotels and resorts in Khao said, “This stupid tsunami party Lak and along neighboring beach- really makes me angry. Sudden- es are fully booked, and most res- ly Bang Niang is so important to taurants, cafes and pubs are re- everyone – for a day – and after porting record figures much high- that we have to clean up the rub- er than in the best pre-tsunami bish they left behind. season of 2002-2003. “I have my own private Talking to visitors in Khao space where I mourn the loss of Lak, the words that I hear the my friends. I don’t need a party most are “courageous”, “brave” organizer to teach me how and and “unbelievable”. when to do it.” It seems that most people His point of view was shar- can’t believe how fast the area ed by most of the Khao Lak ex- has recovered and regained pats I talked to in December. strength in the tourism market. Without any fuss, party mu- Most remarkably, Phuket sic and limelight-hogging VIPs, expats have made nothing but the international tsunami museum positive comments about Khao opened its doors to visitors last Mourners release a lantern at Lak. Some years ago, Khao Lak month. The museum is opposite the Bang Niang Beach tsuna- seemed to be rather of an annoy- the 7-Eleven at the Petchkasem/ mi memorial December 26. ance to Phuket businesspeople Bang Niang Rd intersection and The ceremony provoked mix- since at that time it was consid- is open daily. ed reactions among Khao Lak ered a competitor and Phuketians In a subtle and ethical way, residents, with many put off fought hard to hush down every- visitors are introduced to the trag- by the party-like atmosphere. thing that could shift tourists’ at- ic events of December 26, 2004, tention away from the island. without any Hollywood-style location could be educational to Today everything has thrills and frills and certainly with- the party-loving organizers of the changed – Khao Lak has fought out disco music. past two Bang-Niang-based me- its way into the hearts of Phuket’s I believe a visit to this quiet morial services. expat majority with bravery and determination. The ad is the best example to prove it.

Memorial: The second tsunami memorial conducted on Bang Niang Beach on December 26 stirred up mixed emotions among Khao Lak expats and visitors alike. Opinions on the event have not been entirely positive. Many said they would pre- fer a quiet multi-religious cer- emony in the morning – without any media presence – and the obligatory lighting of candles and launching of paper lanterns after sunset – again without the pres- ence of the media and also with- out VIPs enjoying the limelight; 8 PHUKET GAZETTE AROUND THE SOUTH January 13 - 19, 2007

ship from the Thai Royal Navy Third Naval Area Com- A mand detained 64 Ro- Navy foils mass landing hingya and Arakanese illegal im- migrants following a search of a fishing boat near the mouth of the Kraburi River in Ranong on Jan- uary 3. All 64 were taken to Ra- by illegal immigrants nong Port for questioning by Im- migration and Marine Police, with K. In raised his hands to wai and Ranong Governor Kanchanapa plead for Montri to leave, but to Keeman present. no avail. K. In therefore grabbed The refugees were all men a knife and slashed at Montri’s aged between 18 and 50. From arm, but he still refused to leave. questioning the leader of the With rising anger, the elder- group, Norohamed, 27, and the ly man grabbed his shotgun and captain of the boat, Sun Su, 32, shot Montri once in the chest. authorities learned that the group “Montri’s behavior had had come from Cox’s Bazar, near been making life difficult for us the Burmese border in Bang- for a long time,” K. In said. ladesh. “He would come to see my The group collected 14,000 daughter all the time, even though baht and bought a fishing boat, she didn’t want to see him. which they then converted to “Recently he accused me transport people. and my wife of hiding her from They set off from Bang- him. He damaged our property ladesh on December 14 and were and even hit my wife. Even when hoping to meet an agent in Ra- I wai’d and pleaded, he wouldn’t nong named Soe Win, who prom- leave us alone.” ised to find them jobs in Malay- sia, the group’s representatives Gunpoint abduction foiled: told the authorities. Three people were left with bul- The men were due to be let wounds in the early hours of deported. New Year’s Day in Haad Yai af- The Rohingya are a Mus- ter a botched abduction attempt. lim minority ethnic group in north- The victims told police that ern Rakhine State, Burma. Many at about 3 am January 1, two men now reside in neighboring Bang- on a motorbike approached their ladesh due to Burmese govern- group and at gunpoint ordered ment persecution. Kanlaya Burirat, an 18-year-old high school student, to get on the Bad relations: A 72-year-old bike with them. man shot dead his estranged “son- ROADSIDE DESTRUCTION: A patrol vehicle carrying soldiers lies destroyed following a roadside They then drove off. Kan- in-law” in Trang January 4, bomb in Yala’s Muang District January 4. Ten soldiers were injured, three of them critically. laya’s two friends, Yusa Rradan- claiming that the victim always abun and Naran Ratanaphisai, came looking for his former Narin Phunsawai, arrived at the found the body of Montri Siphen, tri continued to come visit his ex- both 19, gave chase on their mo- “wife” and caused trouble when scene, they were met by In Bun- 41, a building contractor. He had wife, but she refused to see him. torbike. she would not see him. phen, who was waiting outside to been shot in the chest with a This caused him to fly into a On route Kanlaya managed When police from Trang give himself up. shotgun and had a knife wound rage, K. In said. to wrestle free and jump off the Town Police Station, led by Lt Inside the building they to his left elbow. When Montri arrived on motorbike as it was moving. The K. In reportedly told police January 4, his ex-wife was not man riding pillion then shot at that the victim had been his at home so Montri began accus- Kanlaya as she was lying in the daughter’s husband, but the cou- ing K. In and his wife of hiding road. ple separated after his daughter their daughter from him, he add- When her friends came into found out that Montri already had ed. view he opened fire, hitting both. a family. He then began smashing The would-be kidnappers After their separation, Mon- up furniture and hit K. In’s wife. then rode off at high speed, along with Kanlaya’s mobile phone. The victims were taken to a hospital, but were not seriously injured. Police are working on the theory that the men had taken Kanlaya with the intention of rap- ing her.

Around the South is taken from the pages of The Nation and Kom Chad Luek

pulleeeaze! If you have a radio, don’t take it to the beach! January 13 - 19, 2007 AROUND THE NATION PHUKET GAZETTE 9 25 provinces at risk of drought uthorities forecast that reaches a peak later in the year. the “One District One Scholar- 25 of Thailand’s 76 A vendor from ship” project launched by ousted Bo Bae Market in provinces will be hit by Public exposure: In a bid to in- Bangkok yells as Prime Minister Thaksin Shin- Aserious drought over crease government transparency, he tries to get awatra, but under the new name the next several months as the dry the Official Information Commis- loose from a “Scholarships for Community season continues. sion will work to ensure that all police truck. The Development” and with a differ- Siriphong Hangsa-phruek, state agencies provide public ac- man was among ent allotment system. head of the Ministry of Natural cess to details of government dozens of Education Minister Wijit Resources and Environment’s contracts. vendors from the Arisa-arn said the scholarships Water Resource Department, Prime Minister’s Office market who will now be granted from educa- said five of the 25 provinces at Minister Thirapat Serirangsan protested tional-service areas, not govern- risk were hit by serious flooding said the move is in line with Ar- against the city ment districts. during the recent rainy season. ticle 9 of the Official Information authorities’ order “The educational-service K. Siriphong said the long- Act 1997 requiring all state agen- to move to a area will ensure a fairer chance term forecast was conducted for cies to publicly reveal information new area. A for students vying for scholar- the first time as part of measures about projects, plans, budgets, number of ships. We must not forget that to prepare Thailand for the com- contracts and concessions. vendors were some districts have only one sec- ing El Nino weather pattern. The Official Information briefly detained ondary school while some others The risk assessment was Commission will begin checking after clashing have plenty of them,” said K. based on three factors for each whether all state agencies were with police. Wijit said, noting that the number province: length of time since the complying with the act by the end of secondary schools in the edu- last rainy day, irrigated or non-ir- of February, he said. cational-service areas was usu- rigated status, and water re- The government also plans Photo by: ally similar. Watcharachai serves, K. Siriphong said. to amend outdated laws to keep Klaipong The revamped project “Unlike previous years up with advanced technology and would also raise the maximum when we focused on trying to develop an index to indicate the income of eligible applicants’ beat the drought by shipping wa- transparency of each state Section 10 of the bill reads: sponsible for any resulting con- families, from 100,000 baht to ter to affected villages, we will agency, he said. “A person has the right to make sequence.” 150,000 baht a year. encourage them to build village- an advance directive stating his While supporters embraced Future recipients will also based pipe water systems as Right to die: A new Health Bill or her decision not to receive the bill, citing it respected a be required to study in fields that much as possible,” he said. that would give terminally-ill pa- medical treatment in a way that person’s will to choose whether respond to national and local de- The Water Resources De- tients the right to decline life-pro- serves only to delay his or her to live on or die, some expressed velopment needs, he added. partment had been building such longing medical treatment needs death during the terminal stage of concerns that such a move would pipe systems for years. only Royal Endorsement before his or her life…Health profes- lead to euthanasia. Around the Nation news round- It expected to complete becoming law. The bill was passed sionals shall be required to honor up is sourced from the pages of about 1,000 systems by March, by the National Legislative As- the advance directive and by do- Scholarship shift: The Educa- The Nation and Kom Chad Luek before the drought season sembly January 4. ing so, they shall not be held re- tion Ministry will continue with newspapers. 10 PHUKET GAZETTE AROUND THE ISLAND January 13 - 19, 2007

By Supanun Supawong n a bid to ease the load on the island’s only incinerator, at Saphan Hin, the Phuket IProvincial Administration WASTING AWAY Organization (OrBorJor) has opened an organic fertilizer fac- bins so that residents can sepa- tory to produce fertilizer from rate their organic and non-organic organic waste. waste, which is then collected by People on Phuket currently municipal garbage trucks during produce more than 450 tonnes of their normal rounds, but with the garbage a day and the volume is organic waste being sent to the rising about 7% a year, putting a factory. huge strain on the incinerator, The factory is not yet work- which handles the bulk of waste ing at capacity, but the municipal- disposal on the island. ity will later expand its collection The factory, built on two rai area to boost production. in Baan Borkraud in Thalang, Dry and liquid fertilizers are cost 2.7 million baht to build and produced at the factory. Two can process up to five tonnes of types of liquid fertilizer are made, organic waste a day, producing one from plant and fruit scraps up to two tons of fertilizer. and the other from animal waste, As well as reducing the vol- such as fish and shells. Dry fer- ume of waste to be burned, the tilizer is made from plant and fruit factory processes damp waste, scraps and animal droppings. which hampers efficient opera- The OrBorJor is looking to tion of the incinerator. sell its fertilizers, and is in the pro- Currently the organic waste cess of presenting its products to used is collected from 30 homes businesses such as hotels for use in Tambon Thepkrasattri and 80 in their gardens, Nongphanga homes in Baan Borkraud. Thep- Suwapith, Coordinator of the fac- krasattri Municipality distributed tory, told the Gazette.

REUSED REFUSE: Students help to sell bottles of liquid fertilizer produced by the new plant. However, prices for the fer- will operate in the same man- trash… now organic trash will be tilizers have not yet been set, she ner as the Thalang factory, will eliminated by the correct method added. be on a site behind Cherng Ta- and can be put to use as a fertil- A second organic fertilizer lay School. izer.” factory, costing about two million It will be connected to a Prasong Trirat, Mayor of baht to build, is planned for water treatment plant that is Tambon Thepkrasattri, empha- Cherng Talay, with work set to planned to be built at a later date. sized the project’s aim to act also begin in the first quarter of this Phuket Vice-Governor Wo- as a learning center. year. rapot Rathasrima, at the official “This project will be an ex- Thawat Rojthanapong, Di- opening of the factory on De- ample, and a way of educating rector of the Cherng Talay Tam- cember 1, said, “This is a very local people and government bod- bon Administration Organization good project as the organic fer- ies, in Phuket and across the Public Health office, said the tilizer factory can solve the prob- country, about community waste Cherng Talay factory, which lem of bad-smelling organic management.” January 13 - 19, 2007 PHUKET GAZETTE 11 12 PHUKET GAZETTE January 13 - 19, 2007 January 13 - 19, 2007 FEATURES PHUKET GAZETTE 13 Another year, another body hy can’t men and Narrow, tight, toned, firm – replaced the old crystal-clear Formal is a whole minefield women agree on these are all words that excite the “black tie”. of its own: Formal trendy? For- the ideal body average female’s saliva glands. AMBROSIA’S Added to that, there’s a kind mal with parents? Formal glam- Wshape? These days We can appreciate a Liv Tyler of unspoken consensus that the orous, or formal respectful? But a taut body is the envy of every décolleté and a Beyoncé behind, more confident you are, the less then again, formal is a picnic com- other woman who has reached but nothing commands our re- you are obliged to adhere to these pared with, say, lunch with the or passed her 40s. But my hour- spect quite like prominent bones, vague guidelines. upper class or – my personal glass-loving male friends find it a pronounced muscle definition, So, at parties, you will find nightmare – what to wear to a turn-off. drum-tight midriffs and thighs set girls in spray-on trousers and chif- rock concert. What will 2007 bring for the wide enough apart to pass a liter fon tops, strapless dresses, shred- Basically, when a woman pop singer Madonna? Every few bottle of mineral water between ded denim minis and whatever says “I’ve got nothing to wear”, years she is pictured looking fit- them. else takes their fancy. what she actually means is the ter than a butcher’s dog and twice Men – my partner includ- All this flexibility means that following. as muscular. And yet again, over ed, thank God for me – on the every choice becomes loaded “I have nothing to wear for a gossipy lunch with friends the other hand, despair of the bony- [email protected] with significance and every event this particular occasion, which is other day, photographs of Madge arsed female. They prefer wom- SECRETS involves second-guessing which subtly different from all other in her muscular glory became the en to be softly rounded, not Alp- way the other guests are going occasions. I haven’t got the right number one water-cooler topic hard like Arnie Schwarzenegger. dle age, apparently – it’s a no- to dress. It’s naff to look ultra- coded messages going on. I am for an hour or so. They long for pillowy breasts, brainer. polished if everyone else is wear- looking for edginess, vulnerabili- It’s become something of a lightly padded hips and neat little Nothing to wear? “I’ve got ing low-key stuff and it’s sad to ty, sexiness, nonchalance, and I ritual with my friends, and by now waists rather than the anaconda nothing to wear” is one of those dress wispy-pretty if the occasion don’t want to appear to be com- we know the routine. First, there torso we girls consider the epito- statements that really irritates is fashion-sharp. You’ll look as if peting. Is it any wonder I’m hys- is the male chorus of “Yeuch! Did me of fit. How many times have anyone who isn’t female. It is you’re trying too hard if you wear terical?” you see her? She looks like a man you heard a man say, wistfully, also one that every woman on the the glittery halter neck frock to Happy New Year. in drag.” “She looks so scrawny now” of planet can empathize with. the last-minute knees-up, but Then the females pipe up, some new Atkins/Ashtanga yoga Along with the conviction passé if you go in the glittery top Ambrosia Sakkadas, a UK-born “I think she’s amazing for forty- makeover, while the women that our thighs could do with be- and jeans. Greek Cypriot and graduate of something. God, I wouldn’t mind crowd around, begging for tips on ing smaller, not ever having quite A dress with a glittery scarf Central St Martins College of looking like that.” how to achieve the look? the right thing for the occasion is around the neck might solve the Art & Design in London, is an Back come the men, “Oh, In this respect, Madonna is a condition that afflicts all wom- problem, but not in a fashion-con- artist, designer and newspaper come on. She looks like a geezer exactly like the rest of us. Her en, regardless of the size of their scious crowd. Marc Jacobs, dar- columnist. Her first novel, Greek bird.” And so on. body shape is partly dictated by wardrobes or the money they ling, was doing them way back in Girls Don’t Cry, is available from At which point the women fashion, partly by her own stan- spend on clothes. 2002. amazon.com. declare their admiration for all the dards and partly by a sense of I clearly remember looking work Madonna puts into staying competition with her peers. She forward to the day when I was on top, and one of them says, has sensors geared to What Men grown-up and self-sufficient and “You men have no idea.” Want, of course, but they are all the panicking was behind me. Then the men look baffled, overridden when it comes to stuff But one of life’s harsher lessons because once again they’ve been that really matters, namely her is that that day never arrives. You reminded that, contrary to natu- figure. will never have the perfect ral law, how they react to a wom- She likes what she sees in clothes for the party, and if you an’s appearance is far less im- the mirror because she finds it do, the shoes will be wrong and portant than what women think aesthetically pleasing and be- the bag okay but not ideal. themselves. cause of what it represents: be- This is just part of the fe- This is something we’re all ing in control and knowing that male condition. It has always vaguely aware of, but it’s always she can hold her head up high at been this way, but the problem brought to our attention when those lunches with Britney and has undoubtedly been compound- Madonna gets snapped – biceps J.Lo. Muscles, from some wo- ed by modern culture. First of all, popping, brick-solid cleavage. The men’s point of view, equal stay- nobody has a clue any more fact is that women have their ide- ing young. Maybe she’s a little too about what they should be wear- al body type and men have their strong in the shoulders for some ing: dress codes are rarely spec- ideal female body type, and the tastes, but when the alternative ified, and instructions such as two are not the same at all. is bingo wings – the kiss of mid- “smart” and “smart casual” have 14 PHUKET GAZETTE PHUKET PEOPLE January 13 - 19, 2007

For Anupap Yongchuyot time is not just important – it is his life. At age 14, he was forced to leave school to provide for his family. He began working 13-hour days, seven days a week at Wong Chun Kee watch repair Time-honored store, bringing home 100 baht a month. Nearly 44 years later, he remains in the same location me to work at a bicycle shop in Phang Nga. That was the first on Phang Nga Rd. Now the master instead of the time I had ever left Phuket, but I apprentice, K. Anupap still carefully repairs timepieces was happy to do it and I under- day after day. stood why I needed to – I had to Here he tells the Gazette’s Sompratch Saowakhon help support the family. “But at lunch time on my how time has marked his story. first day I felt so homesick that I started crying, and that same day or 56 years the Wong other men to create a lathe fac- I fled back to Phuket. My father Chun Kee watch repair tory on the island. While his fa- understood how I felt, so he com- shop has stood quietly ther worked, young Anupap at- forted me and took me to his tucked away in Soi Pradit tended Ti-Hua Thai-Chinese pri- friend’s shop where I could work F mary school, now known as Thai opposite the On On Hotel on repairing watches,” K. Anupap Phang Nga Rd. The shop was Hua School, where Anupap en- explained. originally little more than a joyed classes with his friends. And work he did – from 7 wooden shed where the first At the end of each day, how- am to 8 pm, every day of the owner, after whom the shop is ever, K. Anupap returned home week, K. Anupap learned the named, repaired watches and re- to work odd jobs in the evenings watch-repair trade from his men- placed batteries. and on school holidays. When tor. For his long hours he brought For Anupap Yongchuyot, Anupap was 14, one of his home 100 baht a month; 95 baht however, the small shop has be- father’s associates defrauded the for the family and 5 baht he kept come the centerpiece of his life. company, leaving the family with as pocket money. K. Anupap’s father moved from a total of 20,000 baht, and forc- This experience instilled in China to Phuket in 1936 and ing Anupap out of school entirely. young Anupap a deep-rooted worked with a cooperative of four “After that my father sent work ethic and a sense of thrift that have stayed with him for life. Handy traits, he says, as he is his own boss and has to be very dis- ciplined. In the same year he started work, K. Anupap also had his first taste of love. “She was a pretty girl, a lot of boys liked her, but knew that the relationship wasn’t 1953, K. Anupap has continued she liked me. She told me she meant to be. running his mentor’s shop. liked me because I was a good “Life depends on destiny,” K. Anupap said that he boy,” he recalled. he says. “Everything happens by learns from each watch he re- K. Anupap courted her for itself and you can’t predict what’s pairs so he won’t make the same several years while he continued going to happen next.” mistake twice. He also prides working long hours at the watch For a decade K. Anupap himself on customer service and shop. However, because he learned from Wong Chun Kee is pained whenever a customer worked such long hours and how to repair watches. The two is dissatisfied. didn’t have time or money to became close to the point that K. “I can repair every kind of spend on her, another boy with a Anupap often refers to the late watch. It used to be very diffi- car began dating her. But Anupap shop owner as his second father. cult because spare parts were not didn’t let it get to him because he Since Wong Chun Kee’s death in manufactured and I had to make

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ership several times throughout the years, but finally, the last own- ers, the Ekwanich family, sold him the building in 2005. “I must have tried to buy Happy Ever After tradition this shop more than 10 times. Even though it’s small and very Recently married in Phuket old, I have developed a fondness for it because I’ve lived here for more than 50 years,” he said. K. Anupap also met his wife through working at the shop. She worked at another watch repair store and a salesman who traveled between the two set the pair up on their first date. They were both skeptical and didn’t want to go, but K. Anupap said he is very happy that he did. “I think it was destiny that he introduced us. Now I have a beautiful family: my wife and three sons.” K. Anupap said he has been successful in business because of both his skills and the reputation Wong Chun Kee built up before his death. “Now I have many custom- ers, both old and new, because they believe in the Wong Chun Kee name. Sometimes I give more time to the watches than to my family, which is a problem because I don’t take enough time to understand my wife and chil- dren. “I take about one or two hours for dinner with my family The passage of time: Anupap Yongchuyot then (above) and now (left). and then I am back to repairing them myself, but watches can be worked in the shop for many watches. But everything I have Rosemary Jones from Thailand and Eric Amakasu from Japan easily repaired now.” years, it was a struggle for him done has been for them, because were married at the Kata Thani Phuket Beach Resort on December 10 last year. Even though K. Anupap to own it. The shop changed own- I love them.” 16 PHUKET GAZETTE HAPPENINGS January 13 - 19, 2007 T his week

WHAT GOES ROUND, COMES ROUND: Rotary Club (RC) of Patong Beach President David Arell (left) receives a thank-you plaque from Supachai IT’S A SNIP: Ready to cut the ribbon to mark the December 22 grand opening of That’s Siam, Potchanukul, Takuathung District Chief in Phang Nga province, for the more the biggest zone in the Jungceylon shopping complex in Patong, are (from left) Jungceylon than 1.1 million baht donated to Takuathung Hospital to buy medical Phuket Vice-CEO Prawich Janyasittikul, Phuket Provincial Culture Office Chief Thawichart equipment. The money was donated by RC Patong Beach, RC Freyung- Intarit, Phuket Provincial Office of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Chief Aroon Kerdsom Grefenau in Germany and Rotary International. and That’s Siam designer and interior decorator Dulpichai Komolvanich.

SHOWTIME: Children’s art teacher Manop “Kru Pla” Leelaratanaporn (in black T-shirt) celebrates the opening of his English-language drama school, THE RIGHT SPIRIT: Courts Megastore (Thailand) Country Director Steve Church (in white Act & Art, in Chalong, with staff and (back row, from left) Eva Mooney, Jeff shirt) hosts a Christmas party for children from Phuket Special School. Beach and Hannah Rumble.

STEPPING OUT: Richard Lusted and his son Patrick are all smiles as they enjoy their end of year party at Bar Tango in Phuket City with the bevy of beauties from NOVEL IDEA: Nongnuch Buayai and Steven Pearce brought in the new year with the soft Siam Real Estate. opening of their new wine bar, Hemingways, located behind Jungceylon, in Patong. January 13 - 19, 2007 FEATURES PHUKET GAZETTE 17

onning Toaddy is a Celt- ic bard who’s been writ- ing the Thaksiad, an epic Fpoem celebrating the life THE GALILEO CODEX of Thaksin Shinawatra. Recent- ly we had the following conver- sation: Unlike The Da Vinci Fonning: Och, mon, the lass had Think a man like Jesus is Code, the book does na’ say that seven demons! Think the Son of gonna put up wi’ a wench like Tsow: Well, Fonning, how goes Jesus married Mary Magdalene. God’s gonna’ marry a wench like that? the Thaksiad? It says he married Martha of that, then? No, lad, a man like that, af- Bethany. You know, the lass who ter he’s tired himself out all day Fonning: Och, ah’ve given oop was fussin’ wi’ the cookin’ while Tsow: But he cast them out of healin’ lepers an’ raisin’ the dead, en i’. Got a new book in mind, her sister was listenin’ to Jesus her! is gonna want t’ come home to a though. This one’ll make me mil- teach. clean hoose and a welcomin’ lions. Got the idea from yon Da Fonning: An’ what if they came back? How would it look when wife an’ a warm fire on the Vinci Code. But I do it better. Fonning, what have you TSOWNDINGS Tsow: they found oot he’d moved in wi’ hearth, wi’ the bairns tucked Tsow: Tell me more. been smoking? Nobody’s going to her? There’d be a lot o’ raggin’ away in their cradles, an’ his pipe believe this garbage. By S. TSOW on him down in hell if that hap- an’ slippers all laid out an’ the Fonning: Aw’ reet. It’s called pened, I can tell ye. Bound t’ get haggis ready an’ the dram all The Galileo Codex. Gotta base Fonning: Hoots, mon, this is the ‘No, lad, a man like that, back t’ the ears of the Big Bloke poured an’ the telly turned on to 21st century. People will believe it on an Italian genius of the Re- Oopstairs, too. Big loss o’ face Larry King Live. anything. Especially if it sounds after he’s tired himself out naissance, y’see. And who can for the J-Man. compete with Leonardo da Vinci like gossip. all day healin’ lepers an’ Tsow: Gosh. You may be right. on that score better than Galileo raisin’ the dead, is gonna Tsow: If Jesus were going to get Galilei, the lad who discovered Tsow: If Jesus was married to want t’ come home to a married at all, it would’ve been Fonning: Ma book will give a gravity? Martha, how come it didn’t get more logical for him to marry significant boost to family values. into the gospels? clean hoose and a Martha’s sister. I mean, he prais- It’ll inspire the womenfolk to stay Tsow: Errrr, Fonning, I hate to welcomin’ wife an’ a warm ed her for listening to his teach- home an’ take care of the hoose tell you this, but… Fonning: The Church coovered fire on the hearth, wi’ the ing and chided Martha for wor- an’ pay attention to the cookin’ – it oop, lad! They could na have rying about the housework. not run off to New York an’ be- Fonning: Shush, lad, dinna’ an- him sittin’ in his wee cottage with bairns tucked away in their come the editor of Vogue or noy me wi’ facts. A Harvard pro- his lovin’ wife and a passel o’ cradles, an’ his pipe an’ Fonning: Aye, that’s what they’d somethin’ equally sinful. The con- fessor – no, make it Yale, we din- bairns, dinin’ on haggis an’ slippers all laid out an’ the like us to think. But now, Jesus servatives will love me for this. na’ want t’ be accused of plagia- smokin’ his pipe an’ sippin’ a dram was the Son of God, right? So he rism – discovers a treasure trove or two an’ watchin’ Larry King haggis ready an’ the dram must’ve been a sensible man. Tsow: You might get some static of Galileo’s old papers in a Tus- Live on TV after a hard day of all poured an’ the telly What sensible man would from the “womenfolk,” though. can wine cellar. castin’ oot demons. turned on to Larry King wed a dreamy, airy-fairy lass Among them is a book in That would make him just who’s always moonin’ about the S. Tsow can be flamed at stsow Italian. There’s a note on it scrib- another middle-class tradesman. Live.’ hoose over spiritual matters while @yahoo.com, except when he’s bled by Galileo sayin’ he trans- Much more romantic t’ have him the laundry piles oop an’ the floor trying to figure out why Jesus lated it from an ancient codex in roamin’ the hills of Galilee wi’ his needs moppin’ an’ there’s no cof- would be eating haggis when he Aramaic handed down to him by merry band of fishermen, just like Tsow: But why Martha? What’s fee in the pot an’ supper is but a could easily be dining on fish the Rosicrucians. Robin Hood. wrong with Mary Magdalene? distant dream, eh? and a glass of wine. 18 PHUKET GAZETTE LIFESTYLE January 13 - 19, 2007 Everybody must get stoned n the windows of the jew- elry shops on New York City’s 47th Street near the Ihigh-end shopping mile along Fifth Avenue the most precious th of precious stones twinkle as if A jeweler on 47 Street in New York, in competition with one another. the heart of the city’s It’s known as Diamond diamond district. For Street and it is not only one of Americans, there is no the centers of diamond trade in avoiding the diamond ring the US, but also where young when it comes men such as RJ Nool go looking to getting engaged. for that all-important engagement ring. Nool, 34, took his time look- ing for the right engagement ring and was not frightened off by the light his girlfriend with a very spe- prices he came across. Nool said cial ring, Broman said. he looked for the perfect ring for Customers typically go to more than two months after get- great lengths to spend their mon- ting lost in the large selection ey wisely, and Broman said most along Diamond Street. of his customers are educated Many men have the same about diamond quality. problem when it comes to find- Experts advise anyone ing an engagement ring – the one shopping for a diamond to under- that conjures up a certain spar- stand “the four C’s” – cut, color, kle in the eyes of the woman each clarity and carat weight. intends to marry. A small, delicate These relatively easy crite- ring without any distinctive fea- ria have meant more and more tures is an exception in the US. buyers are turning to the Internet Most men who want to give gemologist and jewelry buyer for And the girlfriends like to take place in the US, according to order diamonds. their girlfriends a ring choose a Continental Jewelers in Washing- show them off. After getting en- to International Diamond Con- Herschthal, however, advis- diamond, said Erik Broman, a ton. gaged it’s common for young sultants, a trade group. es buyers to use caution. Dia- women to organize their own en- In 2005 the US was the monds available for sale over the gagement parties in order to world’s largest market for pre- Internet are cheaper, but custom- broadcast the fact that they have cious stones, with total sales of ers may get unreliable informa- a diamond ring on their finger. US$31 billion. Total worldwide tion about the actual worth of the When the engaged woman lets sales in 2005 were about US$69 stones, she said. her girlfriends see her ring for billion. Diamond shopper Nool had the first time, a bit of showing The numbers are no surprise no complaints about insufficient off goes along with it, Broman to Julie Herschthal of Washing- advice when he bought his dia- said. ton jewelry store Mervis Dia- mond in New York. He said the Marissa Whitehall, 27, is mond Importers. Herschthal, a jewelers were very helpful and proud of the ring her boyfriend saleswoman at the store, said an understood that customers don’t gave her when he asked her to engagement that includes the gift make their decision after their marry him. of a diamond ring has long since first visit to a jewelry store. “I love this diamond,” said become a common practice fol- Problems arose only when Whitehall of the stone once worn lowed by all classes of people, not Nool saw the broad selection by her boyfriend’s grandmother. just the wealthy. available in the New York jewel- Whitehall’s girlfriends planned an A diamond ring is part of an ry stores. More than 90% of dia- engagement party to present the engagement no matter how much monds sold in the US are report- ring in a manner that acknowl- money a man earns, she said, ed to pass through New York. edges its importance in the histo- adding that some customers have In the end Nool went to a ry of the family. to save a lot, others less. jewelry store recommended by a Young women aren’t the The average amount an close female friend. only ones who benefit from American man spends on an en- The US$6,000 ring is now America’s love of diamonds. gagement ring should be equal to exactly where it belongs – on the About half of the total retail sales two to three months of his net left ring finger of his fiance. of diamond jewelry worldwide salary, if he wants to really de- Diana Teschler, dpa January 13 - 19, 2007 LIFESTYLE PHUKET GAZETTE 19 Feet,Feet, dodo youryour thing!thing! HOW DO YOUR FEET SHAPE UP?

Neutral/normal feet Adidas Adizer Kaha Normal feet are already ef- ficient in running so correc- tion is not needed from the footwear. Choose shoes with good structure and cushioned soles.

Over-pronation/flat feet Flat feet tend to roll inward Asics when running. Look for shoes that have firm mid- soles to help correct over- pronation. Avoid shoes with too much cushioning or curved outsoles.

Under-pronation/High-arched Nike Zoom Air Feet A curved, high-arched foot doesn’t absorb shock well. Find flexible shoes with curved outsoles, good cushioning and shock ab- sorption. s the newness wears Environment expert and Rotarian and Brad Kenney enjoys his morning run. Nice shoes, Brad. off 2007 and the holi- days come to a close, gratulations you have a normal By Laura Schafer padding in the midfoot area to est). Respected UK magazine Ait’s time to make an foot! For a normal foot the best provide over-pronation control. Runners World makes Asics Gel attempt at least to follow through shoe is a “stability control” shoe. Flat-footed runners should The SpEVA range are available Cumulus, available for about 4,500 on a few resolutions for the new Stability shoes are a mix of a look for motion control shoes; you for 4,000 to 5,000 baht. baht, its top choice for under-pr- year. motion control and cushioned do not want to buy highly cush- If your footprint doesn’t onating runners. Also highly com- It’s no secret that a very shoes, giving your feet the sup- ioned shoes as they will lack the connect and you just see the ball mended are Nike Air Pegasus, on common resolution is to get in port and shock absorption need- stability your foot needs. Motion and the heel of your foot this sale in Phuket at about 4,000 shape and lose weight, so what ed. control shoes are rigid and will means you have high arches and baht. better way to inspire yourself to If the whole foot is shown limit pronation. your foot under-pronates. Ath- Be sure to enlist the store start living that healthier lifestyle in the footprint and there isn’t an Asics, “Special EVA” or letes with high-arched feet need salesperson’s help. They should than a new pair of running area left blank for the arch, you SpEVA range of shoes contains to look for a shoe with cushion- know what type of shoe you need shoes? have a flat, or an over-pronated, a material that Asics claims im- ing to absorb shock. according to your workout plans When looking for new run- foot. This means that when you proves shock absorption and re- Again, Asics shoes come and foot needs and help you se- ning shoes it’s important to think walk your foot rolls (pronates) bound lift-off characteristics, de- highly recommended (no we lect the best shoe for your desired beyond your wardrobe. Buying inward. creases midsole breakdown and didn’t receive free trainers, hon- regimen and budget. the wrong shoes can lead to blis- ters, shin splints and back pain, so it’s vital to identify how you run and what kind of shoe you should be wearing. First, decide the type of run- ning you are going to be doing. For those who are more dedi- cated, long distance is a possibil- ity and could lead to marathon training. Others might be more interested in some off-trail jogging. And then there are those of us who are starting small, just a few laps to begin with. An off-trail shoe will need more traction and a more du- rable covering than shoes for track or road-surface running. If looking to train for a marathon, you will want to make sure you are buying hard-wearing shoes that will hold up to high-mileage runs. Next it’s time to consider your foot shape, which is best determined by looking at a foot- print, next time you step out of the shower make a footprint and study it for a minute. If your foot- print has the ball of the foot and the heel connected by a band, con- 20 PHUKET GAZETTE FEATURES January 13 - 19, 2007 Traveling back in time

Arch two of the highlights in the TALES 33,000-hectare Flinders Chase OF A National Park. The Kelly Hill Caves were TRAVELER discovered in 1881, and daily tours take in this stunning system of By Ed Peters caverns and sinkholes, as well as offering full spelunking expedi- eel back about 10,000 tions for those who wish to delve years and the piece of deeper in Kelly’s ornate maze of land now known as calcite formations. R Kangaroo Island had In the center of the island, reached a watershed. Little Sahara is a range of spec- The Australian continent’s tacular sand dunes rising straight tectonic plates were shaking their out of the bush. Sandboarding booty, so to speak, and the sea from the ridges is thrilling. was gradually eroding the land Kangaroo Island’s park bridge between Southern Austra- rangers are masters at getting lia and Kangaroo. visitors up close and personal with The result, 10 millennia lat- penguins, who waddle their way er, is fortunate for visitors as the from the waters around King- island is something of a “Lost scote and Penneshaw to cozy World” – a unique wilderness seaside burrows each evening. crammed with outstanding natu- Similar tours take in colonies of ral beauty, wildlife, pure air and sea lions as they doze in the sun clean water – all just a 45-minute after lengthy fishing forays in the ferry ride from Cape Jervis to the Southern Ocean. south of Adelaide. Kangaroo’s fresh air cer- Nothing lies between Kan- Above: Weird wind-carved rocks tainly sharpens the appetite, and ga and the Antarctic, and after on Kangaroo Island. the island’s growing range of Tasmania and Melville (off the Right: Tours now take visitors close to nature. gourmet produce – from award- coast of Darwin), this is Austra- winning sheep’s milk cheeses at lia’s third largest island, some the time of Julius Caesar – about the Island Pure Sheep Dairy to 150 kilometers long and 30km 2,000 years ago. pure Ligurian honey and olive oil wide, with roughly a third taken Kangaroo Island’s isolation – is on the menu at numerous up by designated conservation means that it is free from dingoes, restaurants and cafes. parks. foxes and rabbits, and threatened While the island can be a bit The island was not occupied species such as the koala and on the chilly side during the win- by Aborigines when Europeans platypus have been introduced to ter, summer brings both locals and first arrived in Australia, but ar- ensure their survival. visitors down to the seaside. Syd- chaeologists have since un- There are no prizes for ney University recently evaluat- earthed stone implements that working out how the island ar- ed 10,000 beaches across Aus- suggest Kangaroo Island had an rived at its current name, which bit to lower the marsupial popu- Such pursuits are no longer tralia (rating them on clarity of earlier human population that died was bequeathed by the explorer lation by slaughtering numerous practiced, and Kangaroo Island water, privacy and cleanliness) out for reasons unknown around Matthew Flinders, who did a fair kangaroos on the island in 1802. and the seas around it practically and Kangaroo Island’s Vivonne swarm with dolphins, sea lions, Bay came out tops. penguins, pelicans, wallabies and It’s just one of dozens of goannas, to name just a few. long, curved, sandy beaches – Apart from its fauna, Kan- perfect for beachcombing, pic- ga’s geology showcases some nics, surfing, swimming or fish- amazing land formations, with the ing – and one of the best destina- Remarkable Rocks and Admirals tions in this latter-day Eden. January 13 - 19, 2007 MOTORING PHUKET GAZETTE 21

he Toyota Corolla is hardly the most exciting car on the planet; but it T is also the world’s most successful in terms of sales. It is by some margin Toyo- BEHIND ta’s best-selling vehicle, with the THE Hilux pickup (see Gazette Au- gust 12) trailing by several mil- WHEEL lion units. By Jeff Heselwood The reason for this success is simple: the Corolla is a straight- forward, no-nonsense sedan that are traditional dark gray or a more is equally at home on the roads relaxed beige. of Phuket, the dirt tracks of some Depending on the market, African states or the congested there are now two gasoline and highways of the Philippines. two diesel engines, with three dif- In other words, they don’t ferent transmissions. All engines come any more ubiquitous than meet the latest Euro IV emissions the Corolla. standards and have improved fuel For reasons best known to economy. Toyota’s European arm, the 10th- There is a new 1.6 liter gas generation Corolla was launched Exciting?Exciting? No.No. motor producing 124 bhp (91 kW) in Helsinki at the beginning of and 157 Nm of torque. The 1.4L December. It had already made carried over from the current its debut in its native Japan when Corolla range gives 97 bhp and Toyota’s chief engineer Toshi 130 Nm. Diesel engines are a Ezaki said, somewhat optimisti- Successful? Yes. Successful? Yes. new 2.0 and the existing 1.4 D. cally, “I want the all-new Corolla Tediously reliable: Will the new Corolla break the car’s reputation as a safe but dull choice? Although torque is relatively high to give drivers more excitement on these units, power outputs in- and delight.” Not words general- age, are sensitive to dynamic, been sold worldwide. The vehi- Making the car marginally wider, evitably suffer. ly associated with Toyota’s mod- high-quality styling that provides cle is produced in 16 countries, the interior space is improved, A choice of a five-speed est entry-level model. a sense of luxury. Our new, spread over five continents, and while the upper surface of the manual or an automatic will gen- Mr Ezaki continued, “When strong design, combined with ex- is sold in more than 140 markets dash has been lowered to create erally be standard, although in it came to developing the 10th- cellent driving dynamics, should across the globe. Last year’s fig- a greater sense of roominess, and some countries a six-speed man- generation Corolla, the main chal- sweep away the stereotype of ures confirm its continued appeal, the panel itself is integrated into ual will be available. lenge was to create a car that Corolla as a good car that lacks with 850,000 cars sold around the the curve of the door trim. The new Corolla goes on would attract the younger gener- driver appeal. I am confident that world in 2005. Space around the driver and sale in all principal markets early ation while inheriting the durabil- we have developed a car that will The new model is slightly passengers has been increased, next year. ity, reliability and ease of handling stir great excitement the moment longer than the existing one, but with more head and leg room. that is so highly rated by our cur- you see it.” retains the same wheelbase. A Rear seat passengers benefit Jeff Heselwood can be con- rent customers. Since its launch in 1966, al- sporting stance has been achieved from a flat floor to increase their tacted by email to: jhc@ “All drivers, regardless of most 32 million Corollas have by a wider front and rear track. available space. Interior colors netvigator.com 22 PHUKET GAZETTE January 13 - 19, 2007 January 13 - 19, 2007 TAKE A BREAK PHUKET GAZETTE 23 PPUZZLESUZZLES The Cryptic Crossword

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1. Almost scores, is in cutting implement. (8) 5. Bend student into tips for making flowers. (6) Hidden Words 9. Preceding so, pig’s home Hidden in the grid below are the names of 20 Thai is indistinct. (5) provinces. The names may read vertically, horizontally or 10. I grew anon about Oslo diagonally. They may also read right-to-left or down-to- native. (9) up. Score: 10 or more, good; 13 or more, very good; 17 11. Bird box tier. (7) 13. Slow mover. Note: more or more, excellent. like lace. (7) 14. Thus, Scottish bridge from RNYDTQ J AUSZCAQY now on. (10) EEUBNUHPMALHYOA 17. Topple the States in overtime. (4) VFFBQOSBMWLA IR I 19. “Fight double,” they say. QSARABUR I AI NBHP (4) 21. Move heavily, John, to GCE FPHS JMQQT PXK chopper. (10) FGJHWKCPXZBHLXS 24. Queue for piece of pork. XCWGGNATTU I AQPW (7) 26. Fast about a little science KTLWUNTEETIBYZM for Hitler. (7) KXP EGAKKSHGUNAE 27. Devise dead used after paperwork bend. (9) Compiled by Tortuus. © 2007 CDPCPUXAWQPRAEX 28. Birds on strings? (5) KANCHANABUR I NZ E 29. Significance of foreign 14. Hotel I’d concealed. (3) 22. World body has lad with GDMP AUTRATH I OBN goods. (6) 30. In fold, get bigger. (8) 15. Strange drink. (3) nothing to discharge. (6) MNRSLOLDEWSBGBC 16. “Hi, Ena,” said dog’s 23. Nuts cash three points. CUOO I RUBAHCT EP H DOWN cousin. (5) (7) 17. Express opposition; I’ve a 25. Temporary employee has WHKYOLACXE I ODBU 2. Severely damage 100 target. (9) zero rhythm. (5) J XADATOZVDOAHDM after little wave. (7) 18. Kat’s back in the 26. It’s almost free, on gas. 3. Twisted cat is liar, but SD I CARAEAXUYUMP province. (3) (5) acidly witty. (9) 20. All the same in little J CAKHH I R I XHADYH 4. To renovate, I leave university grade. (7) Solution on next page HUHVPOAE SPAHCRO wiener returned. (5) 6. Behold note in charge; it ORTGHTENGSEPMAN can be reasoned. (5) Scribble Space UEOCTQVNEDGCGNO 7. Pets have network in Jupiter and Mars. (7) ZKHUWKFZGT I AB J A 8. The correct chap to fly PVKWKZZPQSCPCPD first, they say. (6) ZTUJZEDLFHANKDH 12. Animal waste is rotten, Al! (5) MW S A CWN V T B P O V B J Solution on next page Rhyme Solution, tips and computer program at Time www.sudoku.com The words described below all rhyme with “brood”. What are EZ TRIVIA QUIZ they? 1. Khao Yai National park 6. Who will play Indiana 1. Voiced lies mostly in which Thai Jones in the fourth displeasure. province? movie, coming out this year? 2. Ate. 2. In which country does 3. Courted. the Hajj pilgrimage 7. How old is he? 4. Impolite. take place? 5. Vendetta. 3. Which color is a mix- 8. Jigme Khesar Nam- ture of red and yellow? gyal Wangchuk will 6. Canny. soon be crowned king 7. Took legal 4. Who currently has a hit of which country? action. with the single Wind It Up? 9. What are the colors of 8. Strip. the Canadian flag? 9. Cross 5. Which country has representation. borders with Spain 10. JPEG, TIFF and BMP are Sudoku is very simple: each row, each column and each “box” of alone? nine squares within the puzzle must contain all the numbers from 10. Emotional all types of what? 1 to 9 with, naturally, no repetitions. Beware: there is only one solution to this puzzle, which is on the next page. state. Answers on next page 24 PHUKET GAZETTE TAKE A BREAK January 13 - 19, 2007 Get your brain in gear with The Monster Quiz Kids! Ask Mum and Dad to help you find the answers to these questions. They’re not easy but, if you do some research, you should be able to find the answers to all of them.

1. Who or what is a 7. The caves contain wall 14. In which year did priapulid? paintings dating back Rudolf Diesel patent the roughly how many years? Diesel engine? 2. Who said, “When a man opens the car door for 8. Which craftsman would 15. Constantine XI his wife, it’s either a new use a last? Palaeologus was the last car or a new wife.” ruler of which empire? 9. Who founded the Latin 16. Where would you find 3. Who wrote the music to Kingdom of Jerusalem? which the US Marine the Samoyed people? Quick Crossword Corps anthem is set? ACROSS 18. Jacket. 10. In 1788, Baptist minister 17. In Greek legend, who 19. Sicilian volcano. Elijah Craig was the first was the father of 4. Which company made a person to make what? 1. Injure with a knife. model of car called the Polyphemus and Orion? 4. Dethrone. DOWN De Soto? 7. Golf course part. 11. If you are locum tenens, 18. How long did the pony 2. Old-fashioned. express last as a 8. Snoop. what are you doing? 3. Without a saddle. 5. Where would you find business? 10. 3.14159, etc. 4. Stunted person. the Dravidian languages 12. What is the Rub’ al Khali, 11. Make a new pal. 5. Italian river. spoken? 19. Why did it end? and where is it? 12. Blueblood. 6. The Boss. 14. Yes, in Spain. 9. Bitter denunciation. 6. What did French 20. In which city was 15. Wildebeest. 13. Say. schoolboy Jacques 13. How many people died Napoleon born? 16. Soccer goal-scorer. 17. The wizard’s country. Marsal discover in in the Oklahoma City 1940? bombing of 1995? Answers below left Solution below right

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Monster Quiz Answers Hidden Words 1. A marine worm; 2. Prince Philip, Duke of SOLUTION Edinburgh; 3. Jacques Offenbach; 4. Chrysler; 5. +N+++++++++C+++ South India and Sri Lanka; 6. The Lascaux caves; + +U+NUHPMALH+ + + Solution to this 7. 16,000; 8. A cobbler; 9. Godfrey of Bouillon; + ++B++++++LA+++ week’s Quick 10. Bourbon whiskey; 11. Standing in for someone + SARABURIA+N+++ Crossword + ++++H++M++TP++ temporarily; 12. A desert in southeastern Saudi + +++++CP+++H+++ Arabia; 13. 169; 14. 1892; 15. Byzantine; 16. + +++++ATT+IA+++ Northern Siberia; 17. Poseidon; 18. Less than two + ++++N+EET+B+++ years; 19. The transcontinental telegraph line was + +++G+K+SH+UN++ completed, rendering it obsolete; 20. Ajaccio, + ++++U+A++PRA++ Corsica. K ANCHANABUR I N+ + G++P+UTRAT+++++ MN++L+++++++++C C UOO I RUBAHCT EPH EZ Trivia Answers +HKY+L++++IO++U ++ADATO++D+A++M 1. Nakhon Ratchassima; 2. Saudi Arabia; 3. Orange; + +ICAR+EA++Y++P Solution to this 4. Gwen Stefani; 5. Portugal; 6. Harrison Ford; 7. + +AKHH+R I + +A+ +H week’s Sudoku 64; 8. Bhutan; 9. Red and white; 10 Digital images. + +H++OA++++H++O puzzle + +T++TEN+++P++N + +O+T++N+++++++ + +HU++++G++++++ Rhyme Time Answers + +K++++++S+++++ 1. Booed; 2. Chewed; 3. Wooed; 4. Rude; 5. Feud; + +U+++++++A++++ 6. Shrewd; 7. Sued; 8. Denude; 9. Rood; 10. Mood. + +S++++++++O+++ January 13 - 19, 2007 FEATURES PHUKET GAZETTE 25 PATHOLOGIST POSSESSED

ollowing The Coroner’s Lunch and of the country but managed to return and “They were telling him, ‘Look at us. Thirty-Three Teeth, Disco for the hide out in the caves. What good did it do? All you did was fix Departed (Soho Press, New York, This is where two million tons of us up so we could go and be killed in the F2006, 247pp) is the third in Colin American bombs had failed to dislodge, or next battle.’ Cotterill’s series about 73-year-old Dr Siri even scratch, the Communist leadership. “They were right. He didn’t want to Paiboun, the national coroner of Laos. On a walk in the countryside, Dr Siri finds listen to them. He wanted to sleep, but in The time is 1977, two years after the himself mesmerized by sleep he’d have to Communist Pathet Lao have taken over the sunset: “He saw it face the malevolent the country and things are not going well. Off the as a huge bullet punc- spirits who lurked in A huge chunk of the population has fled turing the horizon in the dark alleyways of across the Mekong to Thailand. SHELF slow motion. The hori- his nightmares.” “With every post-revolution month By James Eckardt zon bled, red seeping These psychic that passed, the Pathet Lao government from the entry wound sessions lead to a vi- was learning how much more difficult it “A mummy, as if in frozen horror, lay and oozing across the sion of the dead danc- was to run a country of warm bodies shriveled within a shell of concrete that it landscape. ing to disco music in than it had appeared on paper,” Cotterill had once filled. “It occurred to the former assembly writes. “One arm was by its side; the other him that forensic pa- hall of Pathet Lao “For 10 years in the caves of held high above its head. Its knees were thology might be dam- headquarters. Huaphan, the dream had always been to bent slightly and it seemed to be dressed aging his appreciation Worse, posses- gain power. As few of the cadres hon- only in a pair of nylon shorts that were of nature.” sed by the spirit of estly believed that dream would ever come now several sizes too large for it. He is also tor- Odon, Dr Siri joins in. true, no detailed plans were laid for the “Their brilliant red contrasted sharply tured by the presence The plot grows darker future. with the almost black-chocolate surface of ghosts killed by the when it turns out that “No practical policy of public ap- of the corpse.” American war ma- both Odon and Isan- peasement was worked out. Nothing Dr Siri and his buxom quick-wit- chine. dro had been dabbling spoiled a good popular uprising more than ted nurse, Dtui, soon determine its iden- As established in in Palo Mayombe, the the presence of people and the need to tity: the body is that of Odon, one of the previous novel of Cuban version of voo- satisfy their unreasonable demands.” two black Cuban orderlies who’d been the series, Dr Siri is doo. Dr Siri had lived in those caves in assigned to the local hospital under Dr possessed by the spirit Just when you’d the remote northeast corner of Laos and, Santiago, a Cuban surgeon and an old of Yeh Ming, an ancient Hmong shaman. thought that Dr Siri and Nurse Dtui have as national coroner now, has been flown friend of Siri’s. This makes him susceptible to dreams and solved the mystery of the Cubans’ mur- from Vientiane back to Huaphan to inves- His tall and handsome companion visions. ders, the plot twists again for another sur- tigate a bizarre murder. Isandro had fallen in love with a patient, “So many ghosts were calling to him prise. A boulder has fallen on a concrete the lovely Hong Lan, daughter of the Viet- from the fields. Impressionable young cad- This is a tale told with great warmth pathway near the former presidential cave, namese colonel who was leading the fight- res were among them. He’d put many back and humor and I’m among the many of exposing a mummified corpse that had ing against local Hmong guerrillas. together in field hospitals after their en- Cotterhill’s fans eagerly awaiting the fourth been drowned in wet cement. The two Cubans were ordered out counters with the Hmong resistance. in the series. PHUKET DIARY www.phuketgazette.net/calendar

To January 30: Moments of International Blues Festival the line-up on the second night will February 16-20: Phang Nga tacting the secretary at Email: Color art exhibition The dates for the 2nd Annu- be headed by the Rich Harper Bay Regatta [email protected] This exhibition, at The Wa- al Phuket International Blues Fes- Blues Band from the US. The 10th Phang Nga Re- termark Bar & Restaurant in the tival at the Hilton Phuket Arca- Other acts already confirm- gatta organizers are taking reg- March 27-April 1: 7th Bang- Boat Lagoon, shows the work of dia Resort & Spa have been ed include Kyla Brox (Victor’s istrations, with this year’s re- kok Chess Club Open local artist Varaporn “Map” Pon- moved forward to the 3rd week- daughter), Phuket’s own Groove gatta limited to 45 yachts. Al- This touyrnament will be rit. Daily from 10 am until the bar end of February, for improve the Doctors, The Blues Machine ready 21 entries are confirmed, held at the Phuket Graceland closes. No entry fee. To contact chances of great weather during from Pattaya, and Blue on Blue, including two of the superfast Resort & Spa. the artist call Tel: 081-6963901 or the outdoor event. Cannonball and the Soi Dog Firefly 850s. The international tourna- email: art@phuket lifestyle.com Eight to 10 Thailand-based Blues Bank from Bangkok. The racing will take place ment is expected to attract about and highly- acclaimed internation- Tickets are 500 baht for one over the Chinese New Year. 100 chess players from Thailand January 21 - April 8: Island al artists will descend upon Phu- night or 800 baht for both nights. The opening party will be held and abroad. Furniture 2007 Cricket ket for two nights of great blues, For more information see the on February 16, with the racing Entry fees vary from 500 League. R&B and rock ’n’ roll. events website at www.phuket continuing around Phang Nga baht to 2,200 baht, depending on The Island Furniture Crick- The headline band on the bluesfestival.com or contact Bay and returning to Phuket the player’s skill level and club et League returns for its second first night will be British legend Andy Andersen by email to February 20. affiliations. season starting in late January & Victor Brox, who once had Jimi [email protected] or by To register, visit the website For more information visit finishing up in early April. Hendrix playing in his band, while calling Tel: 086-6822639. at www.bayregatta.com or con- www.bangkokchess.com Four local teams will play 12 round robin matches with the top two teams playing in the fi- nal. Games are 11 a side, 35 overs & played every Sunday during the season. Email Mark for more details at [email protected]. Call Tel: 086-1208346 or visit the web- site at www.phuketcricket.com.

February 16-17: 2nd Phuket 26 PHUKET GAZETTE EDITORIAL & LETTERS January 13 - 19, 2007

367/2 Yaowarat Rd, Amphur Muang, Phuket 83000 Tel: 076-236555 - Since 1994 - Fax: 076-213971 Email: [email protected] Stand up and be counted The recorded history of population censuses goes back as far as 500 BC, when the Persian Empire’s military used one for issuing land grants and tax purposes. There are also several references to gov- ernment head counts in the Bible. Census taking is hardly a Western innovation; the oldest census data still in existence comes to us from China, where the Han Dy- nasty successfully counted up its 57.5 million inhabitants back in the fall of 2 AD. Given such an impressive historical record, it is indeed sad that the government of Thailand seems to have no clue as to how many people actually inhabit Phuket, nor has it seemed to care – until now (see Inside Story, pages 4 and 5). Phuket Governor Niran Kalayanamit’s initiative to get an accu- rate assessment of the island’s population is simple common sense, especially given how much the island has lost over the years in gov- ernment budgets due to under-reporting the population, which is tabu- lated from house registration forms. The extent of the problem appears to be most severe along the island’s west coast, which is ironically also the island’s biggest cash cow in terms of tourism revenue. Over the years, Phuket has been a real money-spinner for the Letters nation. Last year alone, the province remitted 850 million baht in taxes and fees to Bangkok. What do we get in return? At most schools The Gazette is pleased to receive mail from read- with your views for publication in our next issue. in the province – at least those still being administered by the Minis- ers. Please write to us at 367/2 Yaowarat Rd, We reserve the right to edit all letters. Pseud- try of Education – funding remains woefully inadequate, as it is based Amphur Muang, Phuket 83000, fax to 076-213971 onyms are acceptable only if your full name and on the reported number of residents. or send an email to [email protected] address are supplied. It is a bitter irony that it took a tsunami and a subsequent flood of charitable donations, mostly from abroad, to provide elementary Praise for Chalong beach. Clearly, he’d missed the Long-term tourists spend schools like the one in Kalim with modern classrooms. chapter on do’s and don’ts in good money here – room rent, Many other government schools in the province appear little police Thailand. food, drink, entertainment and so different from their counterparts in the most rural, undeveloped back- It occurred to me that I on. All this money goes directly waters of Isarn. Are these to be the staging ground for Phuket’s I would like to compliment the should have joined the two men to local people. much-touted development into a high-tech, international city? Chalong Police for all of their help together, in a manner of speak- I have just spontaneously Sufficient government funding is lacking for law enforcement in dealing with a Thai landlord ing. Now that would surely have given a gift to a new mother who as well. It is no wonder the crime rate continues to rise as an ever- who refused to refund my house resulted in police attendance. had worked up to her last week growing influx of miscreants from other provinces come here, do damage deposit. Brian Davis of pregnancy at my favorite gro- their worst, and then disappear without a trace. How can a police Because I am a foreigner, I Bang Tao cery store. In Iceland mothers get department with funding based on a population of 290,000 be ex- wasn’t sure if I would be taken six months paid maternity leave, pected to protect the estimated one million people that might be on seriously. However, I received Only 90 days? Bye… just like in many foreign coun- the island during the peak high season? very fair help and treatment, tries. Wouldn’t it be nice if they It is time Phuket got the government funding it needs and de- maybe better than I would have When I or any other EU citizen could spend that time and all that serves. All this requires is for island residents to register on Phuket at home in the US. – or those from a long list of other welfare state money on a Thai house registration forms and for Immigration to add up how many Beginning with the police- countries – enter Malaysia, I can beach? tax-paying foreign residents are on the island. – The Editor woman who told me, “Don’t stay without a visa for three Tourists, long term or short, worry, we can help you,” all the months and get a three-month will probably obediently leave af- way to the officer who helped us extension upon request at the ter 90 days, but many will not re- negotiate a final settlement, the nearest immigration office. turn. I certainly will not. Any Chalong officers were very kind When a tourist – albeit from hassles they were subjected to In association with The Nation Multimedia Group PCL and very professional. I would a limited number of countries – will get re-told a thousand times especially like to thank Officer enters the US, he or she automati- to their friends and relatives at Saman Promhom. home and on Internet blogs. As Phil Lynch cally gets a three-month stay and Editor: Parichat Utintu we learn in marketing psychology, Phuket six additional months on request Managing Editor: Chris Husted at the port of entry, no visa re- positive experiences are rarely Editorial Consultant: Alasdair Forbes quired. reported. But when I came to Thai- All it would take is one News Editor: Stephen Fein Nude Driving land for the umpteenth time, Im- stroke of a pen by just one ex- Chief Reporter: Sangkhae Leelanapaporn Oh goodness, is Thailand turning migration officials at the airport ecutive to get back to the old Editorial Team: Natcha Yuttaworawit, Janyaporn Morel, into Costa del Sol? On a fairly give me just 30 lousy days when visa-run system. Dominic Earnshaw, Sompratch Saowakhon, Supanun Supawong, Suganya busy section of Bang Tao Beach, I really wanted to spend the en- Even better would be an Semacote, Zach Fridell, Laura Schafer. in between sun loungers, sand- tire winter. edict from the new governing castles and so on, I came across And if I want to stay longer council to adjust immigration re- General Manager: Oranee Pienprasertkul a guy driving golf balls full pelt than 30 days I cannot just go to quirements to something similar Marketing Manager: Natthira Susangrat into the sea, landing among the the closest immigration office and to those of Thailand’s tourism swimmers and jet-skis. A very full competitors. Nowadays that is Classifieds Manager: Phatsara Raktammakit ask for an extension. That would carrier bag of new golf balls be too easy. any country with a tropical cli- Publisher: The Phuket Gazette Co Ltd awaited dispatch. To punish me for my love mate, beaches and friendly Seemingly possessing more of Thailand, I have to spend a day people. There are many to chose Contact us money than common sense or on a bouncy microbus, leave the from. Advertising Sales: [email protected] consideration, he certainly had no country for a few minutes, get a So, sometime in January my safety- or environmental-aware- fresh 30-day stamp and return. 90 days will be up and I’ll take Classified Advertising: [email protected] ness. This not only costs money, but also the sleeper train ride to Butter- Website Services: [email protected] Further on, admittedly on a nerves and time. worth, Malaysia, where the same Gazette Guide inquiries: [email protected] quieter part of the beach, there Just before the fall of Thak- sun shines and the same ocean was a male nudist. I’m certainly sin, the powers-that-be made it laps the beaches. Telephone: 076-236555 (10 lines) Fax: 076-213971 no prude, but I anticipated even more foreboding. Now it’s I hear living expenses are grumbles, at the very least, from 90 days in, then 90 days out. One cheaper there than here. They Thai objectors as he was even offer Thai massage. The views expressed in the Phuket Gazette are those of the writers and contributors can get only three extension and do not necessarily reflect those of the publisher, the editor, the shareholders, or the stretched out within two meters stamps – three visa runs and Dr Jerry Hoss directors of The Phuket Gazette Co Ltd. of a small Buddhist shrine on the you’re out of here. Phuket and Detroit Letters conveying views and suggestions are published here. Those seeking comment from government Copyright © 1994-2007 The Phuket Gazette Co Ltd officialsofficials or and/or business business owners owners are published are published as Issues in Issues& Answers & Answers at www.phuketgazette.net. on the facing page. January 13 - 19, 2007 PERSPECTIVES PHUKET GAZETTE 27 Dealing with savage dogs t happened on Christmas ager of the housing development, Day. My son, World, was but he is always busy and all I playing on his scooter at the IRST can do is leave messages about Ipark in Moo Baan Thep F the increasing number of stray Satree on Thepkrasattri Rd, not dogs. far from Mission Hospital. PERSON On January 3 an officer I was working that day and from the OrBorTor shot three he was staying with my mom. He dogs with tranquilizers and was bored and just wanted to go moved them out of the area. outside, but after being outside for ight-year-old boy Tanwa Local people tried to tell them just 10 minutes he was bitten by E“World” Wortong was at- that there are not just three dogs, almost 20 stray dogs that roam tacked by a 20-strong pack of but the officer said they do not around here. have the budget to buy more My mom called me to tell stray dogs that roam the streets of tranquilizers. me that he had been bitten by a Moo Baan Thep Satree housing So many people here have dog, but I had no idea he was hurt development, located off Thep- been bitten by the dogs; it is a so seriously. I arrived home about problem that is getting very tire- 30 minutes later and when I saw krasattri Rd. some. Many people have also what they had done to him I cried. His injuries were so serious decided to sell and move out be- He was in such pain and his body, that his single mom, Tanatcha- cause they can’t sleep well at especially his legs, rear, arm, neck porn Sae-Ang, 35, decided to night and because the OrBorTor and face were covered with has done little about the problem. blood. sell their home because they can- Even when we want to take I took him to hospital for not endure the strays anymore. the garbage out at night we have treatment and vaccines six times. People in the village have to keep a close watch all around, He was not admitted to the hos- which is not how it should be. We pital but we had to go to have his called the local administration should have the freedom to go wounds cleaned and for more many times but there had been walk in the park or to the stores vaccinations almost every day little response until now. nearby. after that. My house cost almost 1.7 He stayed home for five The Gazette interviews K. Tanatchaporn about what she plans to do in hope of get- million baht, which is not cheap, days and went back to school ting officials to help make the village safe from stray dogs. but I have decided to sell it and January 3. He still can’t sit at all move out anyway. because his rear was bitten, so I don’t want money, I want he has to lay face down all the would be a problem like this. tacked, we have stayed here be- know that this is a problem, and to see officials get involved and time, even when he is eating. When people want to buy a house cause we had bought the house, it is quiet here at night because move all stray dogs to the right I don’t know what would they always look for a nice house but now I’m too tired to fight with no one is brave enough to go out. place. have happened if an old man did within their budget with parks the dogs. Residents are always calling I want to send a letter to not help my son. I might have lost nearby. Many people have laughed Rassada OrBorTor (Tambon Ad- the Minister of Interior and the him forever, or his injuries could People never think about at me after hearing that I am sell- ministration Organization) to Minister of Agriculture so they have been even more serious. stray dogs. It was a bad decision ing my house because of the stray complain or to ask them to do will know about this. I reported The worst thing is that now to live here because the number dogs, but if you haven’t had this something about the stray dogs, it to the police but they can only he is so scared of dogs. I carry of dogs with owners, as well as problem, you don’t know what it but an OrBorTor officer said they record my complaint as evidence him to the car in front of my house the strays, is increasing all the feels like or how hard it is to live do not have the budget to buy the to be used in the future because because he is still scared to go time. with this. tranquilizers necessary to move they cannot hold anyone respon- outside. That means he has to During the day some of the I took my son to school this the dogs. sible. stay at home and watch TV, and strays stay in the jungle or are morning, but after he saw the I called Rassada OrBorTor I don’t want the officers to cannot go out to play with other somewhere else, but every dogs at school he started to and let them know that my son kill these dogs, but please move kids. evening almost 20 stray dogs scream again. I just want him to was attacked by the stray dogs, them to somewhere else where I have lived here for two gather and bark very loudly. recover as soon as possible. but they only asked me for my they can live and people are safe years but never thought there Before my son was at- People in this neighborhood address. I used to call the man- as well. Issues&& Traffic solutions I’ve still got ANSWERS for Soi Namjai I live in Baan Namjai, in Rawai, The Phuket Gazette, 367/2 Yaowarat Rd, Muang, where it is nearly impossible to Phuket 83000. Fax 076-213971, or submit your access or leave our houses on issue at www.phuketgazette.net markets days. Vehicles on both those work sides of the street block access, although there are “no parking” signs and a policeman stationed Sleepless in the South there. The soi is the only one in the permit blues A wine bar-cum-dance venue mits for construction of restau- area that has not been paved and recently opened in Nai Harn. The rants in the area. However, there the traffic has created large pot- What is the current status on Every foreigner who wants music has been thumping loudly are no entertainment zones in the holes, which makes access and playing in hotels and bars for to work in Thailand needs to ap- until 2 am, making it impossible Rawai area. departing our houses nearly im- musicians? ply for a work permit from the for nearby residents to sleep. This venue could be a res- possible. What can we do about I’ve been told that work PPEO. Is it possible to ascertain taurant selling food and drink that these problems? permits are not required but I Work as a musician is not whether this establishment has also has music, but if they are dis- Exclusive resident must register where I play. prohibited to foreigners, nor work- the necessary licenses? Aren’t turbing people with loud music Rawai To create a company or to ing time limited, but people who they supposed to have noise in- and stay open beyond legal trad- have the bar pay for a work per- work as musicians have the right sulation? ing hours, you can tell the police. Aroon Solos, President, Ra- mit is a great expense and crazy to work only for one employer at Whatever happened to the I will pass this issue on to wai Tambon Administration if I’m only playing once a week. a time, otherwise it’s illegal. promising concept of zoning? Can the police, too. Organization (OrBorTor), re- Please, can you clarify this murky The musician employees we expect more of the same in plies: situation? can request a work permit through this previously quiet area? Pol Col Chalit Kaewyarat, Su- I have ordered officials to Elton John their employer or by themselves. perintendent, Chalong Police organize parking there and to al- Patong We will issue a work per- Aroon Solos, President of the Station, replies: low traffic to flow when the mar- mit as long as your visa is valid, Rawai Tambon Administration Thank you for informing us. ket is open. Boonchoke Maneechote, but the maximum is six months. Organization (OrBorTor), re- I’ll keep checking for places dis- We plan to pave this road. Chief of the Phuket Provincial For more information call plies: turbing people in Chalong and We have asked for the budget to Employment Office (PPEO), the PPEO at Tel: 076-212814. The OrBorTor issues per- Rawai areas. build a road there this year. responds: 28 PHUKET GAZETTE FEATURES January 13 - 19, 2007 TIGERS IN THAILAND?

MAKING TRACKS By Top Dog

he demise of the Asian Tiger is a subject regu- larly addressed by news- Tpapers and TV pro- grams around the world. Unfortunately, despite nu- merous meetings each year by government representatives and the threat of sanctions under agreements such as the Conven- tion on International Trade in En- dangered Species (CITES), this magnificent creature seems doomed in the wild. India, which is home to the largest population of tigers, has seen its tiger population dwindle from an estimated 100,000 a cen- tury ago to less than 2,000 today. This is despite the much heralded Project Tiger introduced in the 1970s to protect them. The burgeoning human population, to- gether with the increasing de- mand for tiger skins and body parts, has seen the total popula- tion of tigers completely wiped out in some “reserves” there. Of the eight species of ti- Thailand has done an outstanding job of trying to protect tigers – but is it enough? Probably not. – Photo by Monika Betley ger, three are now extinct and experts predict at least two more non-hunting areas, Thailand has by well-organized criminal gangs tence and other ailments has any this Tiger Temple to little more will go the same way within 10 done an outstanding job for con- throughout the region. effect whatsoever does not seem than a zoo and claim the animals years. servation in the region. It is not surprising. By trap- to slow the trade at all. Clearly are drugged to keep them doc- What about Thailand? It is “However, it is becoming ping a tiger a poor villager can Viagra has not caught on yet with ile, but this is hotly denied by the difficult to find any up-to-date clear that, with increasing human earn around US$1,000, the equiv- the more traditional Chinese. monks, who state that the objec- statistics. A survey carried out in pressures, the current protection alent of two years’ income in This is not the only problem, tive is to use the donations paid 1999 using trip cameras came up system cannot guarantee long- some of the poorer regions of however. It has long been tradi- by tourists who visit here to set with an estimate of around 250 term survival of many threatened Southeast Asia. tion among Thai hill tribes to strip up a proper reserve where the roaming the national parks close species and their habitats.” Tiger skins, which are of- and burn forest to grow crops and tigers, which have all been res- to the Myanmar border. From Although the trade of en- ten shipped via Bangkok, can also to hunt smaller mammals in- cued, can live a natural exist- what has happened in India it is dangered species is now illegal in easily fetch US$20,000 in Japan discriminately for food. ence. safe to assume that the number Thailand and its reputation for and North America (probably With the former, the tiger’s Presently they are caged is now far less. being the world’s largest super- the biggest single market), while habitat is reduced, while with the most of the time but are taken out The Wildlife Conservation market of such products has di- dried tiger bone and other deli- latter its natural prey disappears. each afternoon for walks, when Society Thailand admitted, “With minished, dozens of shops deal- cacies such as tiger penis soup Also, with dwindling numbers in- tourists can touch and pose with more than 40 years of national ing in body parts can be found just fetch hundreds of dollars per breeding increases, causing a them for photographs. park and wildlife laws to protect across the border in Cambodia kilo from people with money to general weakening of the spe- Although this facility oper- wildlife and wild lands and with and Myanmar. burn, particularly the Chinese. cies. ates on principles completely dif- extensive investment in national Undercover agents have The fact that none of these It may seem incredible that ferent from those found in the parks, wildlife sanctuaries and exposed a huge market operated ancient remedies for male impo- in the 21st century man seems West, the fact that there have powerless to prevent the total dis- been 10 cubs born here naturally appearance of one of the plan- in the past three years indicates et’s most magnificent creatures, they must be doing something but sadly that now appears to hap- right, as virtually all tiger births in pening rapidly. Western zoos occur only after One place in Thailand artificial insemination. where somebody is trying to pre- I shall be writing more about serve the Asian Tiger is Wat Phra this project next month as I plan Luangta Bua in Kanchanaburi to visit it in the next couple of province, about three hours drive weeks, and see for myself wheth- from Bangkok and not far from er it is just another tourist trap or the Bridge on the River Kwae. a genuine effort to preserve the Some people have likened tiger in Thailand. January 13 - 19, 2007 FEATURES PHUKET GAZETTE 29

InTheStars by Isla St ar

CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20): Beware of pessimism; it’s vital to start the week on a positive note. Love picks up after Wednes- day, but until then avoid any confrontational situations. Where money is concerned, this is not a good time to offer a loan to a Piscean friend in need – it’s important this person accepts more responsibility for their lifestyle. The scent of pine freshens your thinking.

AQUARIUS (January 21-February 19): Taurus can give useful ad- vice regarding a monetary dilemma, but Virgo is full of hot air. You find Scorpio attractive, but this will never be a compatible match. Aquarians are advised to regard the coming few weeks as a period of creating strong karma and emotional harmony. Think carefully in all ways before you act. A property project needs to be on stronger ground before you commit.

PISCES (February 20-March 20): A Virgo catches your eye on Sun- day, but their tendency to be right all the time would cause stress in a relationship. If you didn’t receive a career promotion or pay rise last month, take action by reminding the right people of your dedication. Luck is ready to back you up on Tuesday. Remember that happiness is a personal responsibility. The number 7 can bring luck midweek.

ARIES (March 21-April 20): This should be turning out to be a pow- erful career month, with achievement visible on the horizon. You are advised to adopt more creative thinking patterns to maximize the astral benevolence now working on your behalf. Something special is likely to develop from a platonic relationship with Sagittarius, but you must be patient. Monday is the best day to hold legal discussions. The color beige helps tone down your energy.

TAURUS (April 21-May 21): There is no point in worrying about water that’s already passed under the bridge. The sooner you realize it’s healthier to move on, the better. Answers to important questions should arrive sometime this week; you should feel cheered by the results. A calmer mood develops on Thursday and you will be in the right mindset to make plans. Number 5 comes alive on Wednesday.

GEMINI (May 22-June 21): You are advised to refrain from keeping secrets from your loved ones, no matter how trivial you consider this information to be. Honesty is the only policy this week. Unnecessary drama is about to be eliminated from your life, leaving you free to focus on what is really important. Give Leo the benefit of the doubt this weekend, instead of making a mountain out of a termite mound.

CANCER (June 22-July 23): You are advised to tone down your ego. Power struggles can only lead to a complete blackout. This is also not a good time to make impulsive decisions regarding love affairs; it’s far better to create a quiet space in which to reflect on what is good and bad in a particular relationship. Mixing business with plea- sure lightens your load this Saturday.

LEO (July 24-August 22): Your insecurity in spiritual matters can be eased by a meaningful conversation with an Arian friend this week- end. You are advised to pick up the pace of physical activity; all the holiday feasting and lounging around in your lair has probably not had a positive effect on your well-being. A new job appears promising, but talk to people already employed in this situation before making a firm decision. Number 3 is lucky on Monday.

VIRGO (August 23-September 23): You should heed clear messages from others this week; cracks in a relationship will not disappear unless you are prepared to look at the foundations of the problem. Employment is subject to auspicious stars after Tuesday; the planets will support your attempts to get noticed. Gemini would like to get to know you better. The color seaweed green enhances your charisma.

LIBRA (September 24-October 23): This is an excellent week to sow seeds for future work prospects. If you can resist being too independent, you have a good chance of hooking up with a like-minded Scorpio during the coming days. This person will be able to provide the financial backing that you lack to transform a creative idea into reality later in the year. Exciting family news cheers you up midweek – long distance travel is looking likely in the near future.

SCORPIO (October 24-November 22): You may feel frustrated about a certain area of your life at the moment. Some assistance from a practical-minded Taurus is forthcoming. You might not find their words helpful at first, but slowly the sense of what they’ve said will sink in. The rest is up to you. Aim for a low-key week to allow your depleted batteries to charge. The scent of sandalwood enhances your appeal.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23-December 21): Going out with Aries this weekend allows you to see the lighter side of life. Many of you have become bogged down in work worries, but these should ease after the middle of the month. Fun times lie ahead after that. You start to consider relocation, however a golden opportunity to better yourself without having to move is about to be presented. Tread water until this happens. The number 9 can bring luck on Sunday. 30 PHUKET GAZETTE COMPUTERS January 13 - 19, 2007 Vista: A view to spending large just finished final edits on my Microsoft changes its mind at the particularly in Phuket – suddenly second Windows Vista book last minute. fall over and play dead? Why was – Windows Vista Timesav Windows Vista itself isn’t there any slowdown at all? Iing Techniques For Dum- officially available just yet. It’ll Turns out there are three mies – and it feels good to be able launch in New York on January factors at work. to rejoin the human race. 29 with a(nother) multi-million- • The vast majority of In- The first Vista book, Win- dollar media extravaganza, full of ternet traffic in Asia travels to the dows Vista All-in-One Desk sound and fury, signifying noth- east, to the US, and not to the Reference For Dummies, hit ing. New PCs with Vista pre-in- west. It’s faster, easier and store shelves in the US and Eu- stalled will roll off the assembly cheaper to connect underwater rope a week before Christmas, lines on that date, and any new to the US, rather than using land and sold out before the end of PC you buy after mid-February lines, satellite and submarine ca- the year. or so will undoubtedly have Vista bles to traverse the (much great- With a total of nearly 1,400 installed. er) distance to Europe. There’s pages of text about Vista out the The final version of Vista a whole lot of data going through door, I’m feeling a bit of Vista (“Build 6000” or “RTM”) went a small handful of cables, and burn-out, as you might imagine. out to Microsoft’s biggest custom- many of them converge off the Writing computer books ers in early December. My over- This took six years? The very cheapest version of Windows Vista – coast of Taiwan. Home Basic – is really not worth having. For the full bells-and-whistles against impossi- all first impres- Vista, however, be prepared to shell out a whopping 14,275 baht. • Telecom companies all ble deadlines KHUN WOODY’S sion of Vista can over Asia, when confronted with gives new dimen- be summed up in you’d want to buy, an upgrade bits are already on your machine. broken lines to the US, didn’t sions to the old one question: It from Windows XP to Vista Home You just have to fork over the want to re-route to the west. curse, “May you COMPUTER took Microsoft Premium, costs 5,700 baht (or US shekels to get the features un- Why? Money. They don’t have live in interesting times.” six years to do that? $159). And, yes, you have to buy locked. Very clever. contracts with existing data pipe Imagine the joys of work- My second impression can one copy of Vista for each of your I’ll cover Vista extensively providers for redundant connec- ing with beta test versions of Win- be summed up in another ques- computers. in future columns. Drop me a line tions. Ad-hoc re-routing to the dows and Office that frequently tion: How can they get away with In general, I recommend and let me know what you’d like west would’ve cost an arm and turn belly-up at the most inoppor- charging so much? that you not try to upgrade: it’s a to see. two legs. Their customers got tune times, trying to figure out Check the prices and you’ll caught in the lurch. difficult process even under the QUAKING what the %$#@! Microsoft en- see what I mean. The full ver- best of circumstances, and older • The big Internet compa- gineers were thinking when they sion of Vista – called Vista Ulti- hardware (particularly older vid- n December 26, an earth- nies with servers located world- made some hare-brained design mate – runs 14,275 baht (US$ eo cards) may not make the tran- Oquake measuring 7.1 on the wide have historically skimped on decisions, and writing entire sec- 399) in the US. No, that isn’t a sition well. If you can wait, hold Richter scale hit Taiwan. Under- Asian locations. tions that have to be trashed when typo. The cheapest version that off until you can buy a new com- seas fiber optic cables got ripped I tried many times to con- puter with Vista pre-installed. up, and communication all over nect to Hotmail, Microsoft.com, When you get that new Asia took a big hit. Long-distance and Yahoo. No luck. But Google computer, beware of the new telephone on Taiwan was severe- and Gmail worked great. “Home Basic” version of Vista. ly curtailed for many days. In Why? Apparently Microsoft I call it Windows Vista Bait-and- mainland China, the government (which owns Hotmail) and Yahoo Switch. In creating Vista Home wouldn’t talk about it (“state se- haven’t invested enough in serv- Basic, Microsoft stripped away crets” they claim), but many peo- ers on this side of the Pacific. many features most Windows ple lost Internet service for an Google, on the other hand, users will want. The idea’s pret- extended period of time. has server farms all over the ty simple: Microsoft provides a Why? The Internet is noth- place. When I tried to get through very cheap version of Windows ing if not redundant. Urban folk- to Microsoft.com, I had to con- for hardware manufacturers to lore has it that the Internet was nect all the way to the US – and install on their cut-rate comput- built to take multiple nuclear hits that was like trying to breathe ers. and stay alive. (In fact, the Inter- through a tiny straw. But when I After a week or two with net’s initial design didn’t specifi- hit Google, I didn’t have to go over Home Basic you’ll be desperate cally address N-bombs, but it in- the Pacific. to upgrade to Home Premium cluded technology for handling (trust me, you will). To do so, you extensive multi-point failures.) Woody Leonhard’s new Win- call the manufacturer or log on Re-routing on the Internet dows books, Windows Vista All- to their website, provide your isn’t something that has to be set In-One Desk Reference For credit card number, and receive up manually: it’s automatic, part Dummies, and Windows Vista a new key. Type the new key in of the design, and “baked into” Timesaving Techniques For Dum- your machine and bingo! You’re the way the Internet works. So mies should be available world- suddenly upgraded to Home Pre- why did a relatively minor earth- wide this month. Email woody mium. You don’t get a new CD. quake in Taiwan make Internet @khunwoody.com or visit www. No package. No downloads. The connections all around Asia – askwoody.com. . January 13 - 19, 2007 PHUKET GAZETTE 31 32 PHUKET GAZETTE BUSINESS & MONEY January 13 - 19, 2007 ON THE MOVE Capital Santika Phothiphrom, from Bangkok, has been appointed Accounts Director at JW Mar- he implementation of riott Phuket Resort & Spa. capital controls in Thai- She has a degree in journal- land demonstrates how ism and communications from Ttruly complex the world Thammasat University, a post- is. The results of these measures, graduate diploma in commu- even after rapid amendments to nication arts from Edith Cow- protect the Thai stock market, an University in Perth, Aus- have continued to ripple. tralia, and a master’s degree Many innocent parties have in communication arts from become unintended victims and Griffith University in Brisbane, are being squeezed by these mea- Australia. K. Santika joined sures. the resort as Beverage Man- Their range is surprising. ger during pre-opening in 2001 The Japan External Trade Orga- and moved to Sales & Mar- nization (JETRO) reported in The keting as Accounts Manager Nation on December 28 that a in 2003. number of Japanese-based com- panies have suspended plans to Aekphon Phothiphrom, increase equity in their Thai sub- from Bangkok, has been ap- sidiaries because they simply pointed Assistant Food & Bev- cannot afford to deposit 30% of erage Director of JW Marri- this capital with the Central Bank ott Phuket Resort & Spa. He for one year. To add insult to in- graduated from IHTTI School jury this is a non-interest bearing of Hotel Management in Neu- account. chatel, Switzerland. K. Aek- They view the current mea- phon joined the resort as Di- sures as “a much more serious rector of Restaurants during problem than the coup”. pre-opening in 2001 and was JETRO however, gave a promoted to Food & Beverage balanced viewpoint; if the Thai Manager in April 2005. In his baht appreciates to 33 baht to the new role, K. Aekaphon will US dollar, it also would affect assist the Food & Beverage future Japanese investment, they Director in all aspects of food said. They suggest a 10% with- and beverage, as well as ban- holding requirement. quets. Foreign investment is vital to Thailand. Chalongphob Sus- Phiangjai Yaikaew, from songkorn, the President of the Nonthaburi, has been appoint- Thai Development Research In- ed Assistant Customer Rela- stitute, was quoted in The Nation tions Manager of Club Anda- on December 28 as saying, “The man Beach Resort. She has a financial crisis in 1997 happened degree in business manage- because we did not have a bond ment from Rangsit University market for support. in Bangkok and a master’s “But the 30% capital re- degree from the Faculty of serve requirement imposed on the Political Science from Ram- bond market would destroy the khamhaeng University. Before debt market in the long run and moving to Phuket she was a increase overall risks. The Cen- government officer at the In- tral Bank should review this ternational Security Office, [rule].” Ministry of Public Health, in He went on to discuss a Bangkok, for seven years. moderate solution that would be more market friendly. Fortunate- ly, he is an economic adviser to the Prime Minister and will be submitting these recommenda- tions to the central bank. However, other academics January 13 - 19, 2007 BUSINESS & MONEY PHUKET GAZETTE 33 control victims count the cost

to remain up until the end of wealth back to non-coastal prov- 2006. There is obvious upward inces. pressure on the Thai baht, so In addition, there is a need Central Bank intervention is a to continue to allow job creation given looking at the movements at a tremendous rate combined in the currency. with a business-friendly environ- The stock market is a little ment. stunned by events and markets Many foreign investors are hate uncertainty. Bloomberg (De- less than charmed with their cember 28) reported that there treatment as investors but every- was a lack of “offshore liquidity” body wants exposure to the “big in the Thai baht and routine for- one”. eign exchange movements – not A substantial number of an- speculators – were forcing the alysts believe that the forthcom- currency upward. ing Beijing Olympics will be the Bloomberg was only com- beginning of the debut of China menting on this one issue, not the on the world stage as a super- entire situation. power. Thai Finance Minister Pri- The emphasis will be on diyathorn Devakula is correct in China as a rising economic pow- his statement that the artificially er instead of a military one, on low value of the Chinese curren- the surface at least, though Tai- cy, the yuan, is causing many wan will still have cause for con- problems that are rippling out to cern. other countries, Thailand being A COMPLEX WORLD: Keeping people employed in China has an effect Thailand's economy. only one example. Correction: My article in last Photo: EPA/Zhu Chao Analysts generally agree week’s Gazette mentioned that have disagreed with his solution Naturally, PIMCO keeps a Make sure you always have an that the Chinese currency is as Friends Provident manages as- and have put forward their own continuing watching brief on ev- exit strategy in investments,” he much as 40% undervalued. The sets of about UK£50 billion economic models. ery economy in which it invests was quoted as saying in the Asian yuan is not convertible, so the (about 3.5 trillion baht). It actu- Another unintended target is and it is a very welcome visitor Wall Street Journal on Decem- Chinese authorities basically dic- ally manages assets of around persononified by the experience to any country. ber 27. In any event, PIMCO has tate the acceptable trading band UK£150 billion (more than 10 tril- of Michael Gomez Then PIM- limited investment in Thailand. for the yuan. China is looking at lion baht). of Pacific Invest- CO gets caught in Strong capital markets – this whole position from a domes- ment Management a Thai type situa- bonds and stock markets – are tic perspective. Richard Watson runs Global Company, a unit of tion; unexpected what Thailand needs. India’s eco- It suits the Chinese to have Portfolios Co Ltd, a Phuket- Germany’s Allianz but par for the nomic growth is greatly aided by an undervalued currency; exports based personal financial plan- AG, better known course when being its long-standing capital markets, become so much more competi- ning service. He can be reached as PIMCO and involved in emerg- which were installed by the Brit- tive and this creates employment. at Tel and Fax: 076-381997, virtually a house- ing market debt. ish in the late 19th century. China faces enormous challeng- Mobile: 081-0814611. Email: hold name in the Gomez has The pressure still seemed es, not least the need to spread [email protected]. US as it is a mas- ONEY seen the gyrations sive bond fund M of Latin American manager. debt markets and Gomez helps TALKS experienced in the manage US$35 bil- Argentinean debt lion of emerging By Richard Watson crisis when he market assets. On the Thai situ- thought that they would receive ation, he merely stated, “We’re preferential treatment because looking to mitigate”. they were holding Argentine Gov- PIMCO simply invests in ernment Bonds that carried a bonds throughout the world; it is guarantee from the World Bank. not in the business of speculation. “It was a painful lesson.

ASK KHUN WANIDA! MOMMA DUCK Problems with an extra-marital affair? Questions about Thai culture? Having communications problems? Need somebody to Love? Fax to 076-213971 or e-mail to [email protected] 34 PHUKET GAZETTE SPORTS January 13 - 19, 2007 CHARTCHAI CHIONOI: Blood, Sweat, Tears and Joy By Scott Mallon found doctors don’t know what is specifically wrong with him – hartchai Chionoi is other than his brain having been Thailand’s second damaged from being on the re- world champion in ceiving end of far too many professional boxing, punches. Fortunately he has the C resources to receive the care he after Pone Kingpetch, and is con- sidered the great-grandfather of needs and is examined every boxing in Thailand. He was HM three months. King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s fa- Several times a day he vorite boxer, spending time at the would motion to me, telling me he palace and often receiving public was spinning and suffering from praise from His Majesty. a headache. Noise compounds He is also a devout family his condition, filling his head with man who was driven by the need confusion. A room full of people to give his wife and four children talking can set off a headache, a good life. which is why he and his wife I took the 6 am train from moved to the countryside – it’s Bangkok, arriving in the early serene and uncluttered. evening to see Chionoi at his I found myself telling him home in Chiang Mai. His son Boi more than once how many chil- had arranged to pick me up but, dren I have and that “Yes, I am in typical Thai fashion, the entire married to a Thai woman. She’s Chionoi family was waiting for home in Bangkok taking care of me at the train station. I had a the kids.” His short-term memo- hotel reservation, but they would ry is virtually non-existent, though have none of it – I would be stay- his medium-to-long-term memo- ing at their home. We stopped and ry is excellent. had dinner at one of their favor- I resisted the urge to feel ite restaurants before we made sorry for him, and thankfully so. the 45-minute journey from the Much like Muhammad Ali, he wants no sympathy and is quietly city to their home in the hills. Chartchai Chionoi with the WBC World Flyweight Championship belt he won in Bangkok 40 years ago. The Chionoi home is set on content. He is far from destitute a hill about 200 meters from the the creek, and the house is an- life has to offer, including boxing, Chionoi’s wife of 45 years, has and is instead full of life. He has main road, hidden behind hun- other 100 meters through an al- of course. Family and relation- been his constant friend and com- land throughout Thailand and a dreds of trees in a lush, green ley of shrubs. ships are also popular subjects. panion, doing everything her hus- doting wife and four children who forest. The tallest trees are in the Chionoi’s home is a shrine There were times we talked band has with the exception of help make sure he is well taken back of the house and when to the three-time flyweight cham- only of boxing and others we physically getting in the ring and care of. They are all extremely standing on the doorstep the tip pion. It is a traditional Thai home, spent having fun; such as our trip doing battle. Nonetheless, she has proud of what he’s accomplished of the Doi Suthep is just visible. made from wood, two stories and to the waterfall on Chionoi’s felt her share of the punches – and sacrificed and are acutely A small pasture lies between the set on thick wooden pillars. Mod- property or our late-night barbe- and still does. aware he has given his blood, house and a creek just before a est but comfortable, you can’t cue, discussing the relative virtues When I first met Chionoi, I sweat and tears – for them. huge row of soaring trees that help but scan the busy walls of of being single or being married. had a hard time understanding When at the end of our time extends all the way to the main the home and take in the memo- I was given not only an interview, him; like countless other pugilists together I asked Chionoi if it was road. To get to the house, you ries of Chionoi’s life. but an inside look into the life of who have fought in many-a-hard all worth it, he wasted no time in must first negotiate a rickety, 7- That first night we stayed Chionoi and his family before and battle, he slurs his words. I origi- telling me “Definitely.” meter-long wooden bridge that up well into the wee hours of the after boxing. nally thought he might have Par- “Boxing has been good to descends at 45 degrees across morning talking about everything All along the way, Oot, kinson’s or Alzheimer’s, but later me and my family,” said Chionoi. “Sometimes it’s painful to see my championship belts and the pho- tos on the wall because I miss the excitement of being in the ring, but if I had it to do all over again I wouldn’t have it any other way.” Even now, 31 years after his last fight, his face and name are remembered. When a group of us went to a small food market on the side of the road, a woman asked, “Didn’t that guy used to be a fighter? He’s…Chionoi… right?!” Chionoi simply smiled and Ad-Silkair waved, slightly embarrassed but happy to be remembered. 2x5 K. Jeab CAREER: 1957 - 1975 Championships: WBC Flyweight (1966-1969, 1970), WBA Fly- weight (1973-1974), OPBF (1962, 1963), Ring Magazine Ti- tle, Lonsdale Title.

Scott Mallon is a member of the Boxing Writers’ Association of America, Ring Magazine’s Rat- ings Advisory Panel and the International Boxing Research Organization. He lives in Bang- kok with his wife and two chil- dren. January 13 - 19, 2007 SPORTS PHUKET GAZETTE 35 Local lad helps Thailand to bronze PATONG DARTS LEAGUE SHENZHEN, CHINA: Local badmin- ton player Maneephong Jongjit, 15, A serious shake-up helped take the Thailand Youth Badmin- PATONG: It was a rather jarring week in the Patong Darts League, ton Team to third place in their group at with the shock announcement that long-time stalwarts Shakers have the Badminton Asia Under 16 Mixed left the league, with immediate effect. Apparently Olivier and friends Team Events competition. are too busy making pizzas these days. Best of luck. Thailand’s team was boosted to a To rectify the league table, the results of all games played against 3-0 win over Sri Lanka thanks to Shakers have been discarded. For the rest of this season, all teams Maneephong’s win in Boy’s Doubles scheduled to meet Shakers will have the evening off – unless an- with his partner Nidhiphon Phuang- other bar is interested in replacing them. phuapet, as well as other wins in both In January 2 play, Piccadilly took all three points at league lead- the Boys and Girls Singles. ers Coyote to move within one point. In that match, Coyote got off to “I was happy with our placing, al- a 2-0 start in the singles, but Tony from Karon turned it around for though we expected to do better than Piccadilly, winning the third singles. Piccadilly won all the remaining this. Anyway, I think I did my best and points, with their captain Linds scoring the winning dart in the first I’ll continue practicing for the next tour- doubles and also closing the team game. nament,” Maneephong said. Meanwhile, defending champs Didi’s lost a close one at Off- The competition, held December shore, going down 5-4 in the singles/doubles but regrouping to win 20-22 in Shenzhen Longgang Sports the team game. Center, included nine teams divided into Tied for third place after the league table readjustment follow- two groups. Thailand competed against ing Shaker’s departure are Dog’s Bollocks and Queen Mary, who Indonesia, Korea and Sri Lanka. The took all three points at Funky Monkey (up for sale, but the dart team Thai team lost to both Indonesia and will play on according to owner Simon). Korea 1-3 before beating Sri Lanka. Team captains are asked to continue sending results to league China, from Group A, won the secretary Steen by 6 pm the Friday after the match at the latest. competition over second-placed Korea. Additional match information can be sent by email to darts@ Teams from Malaysia, Japan, India and What a racket: Maneephong Jongjit hams it up with a giant phuketgazette.net for inclusion in this article. Jordan also took part in the event. baminton racket. January 2 results: Offshore 5 Didi’s* 4; Coyote Bar 2 Piccadilly* 7; Dog’s Bollocks 8 Beach House* 1; Funky Monkey 3 Queen Mary* 6 (* = winner of beer leg). Standings: 1. Coyote Bar (16 pts.); 2. Piccadilly (15); 3.= Queen Mary, Dog’s Bollocks (14); 5. Didi’s (12); 6.= Offshore, Valhalla (8); 8. Beach House Boats slow to enter (6); 9. Funky Monkey (3). January 16 matchups: Piccadilly v Didi’s; Queen Mary v Dog’s Bollocks; Funky Monkey v Offshore; Valhalla v Coyote Bar; (home teams Langkawi regatta first). Beach House has bye. PGA Pres Cup date set By Chris Husted Class to improve on his second This year’s PNBR will be place finish last year. In that race held from February 16 to 20. KATHU: The Phuket Golf Asso- tournament there will be a party MALAYSIA: With less than four he finished behind David Lin- Mr Knight said a date has ciation (PGA) will hold their an- at the club house for competitors. weeks until the Royal Langkawi dhal’s La Samudra, which has yet to be set for this year’s Rebak nual Presidents Cup tournament PGA president Surin Bam- International Regatta 2007, to be not yet been entered in this year’s Champagne Run, the traditional January 26 at the Phuket Coun- rungphol said that he expects held from February 4 to 9, only event. overnight race from Ao Chalong try Club. more than 140 golfers to join this 21 yachts had been entered in the Bolero, Sofa So Good and to Rebak Island in Malaysia, The tournament will be di- tournament. The club will also event at the time of going to Nom de Plume have registered, enroute to Langkawi. vided into four flights based on vote for a new president at the press. and are likely to vie for top hon- He added that the ACYC handicap, with a flight for women meeting that evening as K. Surin Last year 41 teams took part ors in the Club Cruising Class. race calendar for its annual and youths as well. ends his tenure. in the event, including Thomas Fat Cat, My Toy and Ru- Keelboat and Multihull Race Se- Tee-off is at 11:30 am, and For more information con- Blixt on Ericsson VO60 and Rac- salka will also race, most likely ries will be announced within the registration costs 2,000 baht for tact K. Surin at Tel: 081-8912333 ing Class winner Ray Roberts’s in the Ocean Rover Class. next few weeks. PGA members, or 3,000 baht for or K. Sirichai at Tel: 076-3210- Quantum Racing on Ulumulu. However, Tony Knight of For more information call non-members. 3840, or email: info@phuketgolf. However, several yachts the ACYC told the Gazette that Mr Knight at Tel: 081-747 0074. In the evening following the org from Ao Chalong Yacht Club it is still too early to tell how many (ACYC), which has a strong ACYC yachts will be taking part. record of winning at the event, “Plenty of boats will be sail- will be back to defend their titles. ing down [to Langkawi] to take Returning to defend his part in the event, though some Multihull Racing title will be boats that have regularly raced Roger Kingdon on his Firefly 850 at Langkawi will not be joining Moto Inzi, and Kevin Gillow will this year,” he said. return on Minx to defend the “Perhaps having the Phang IRC1 title. Nga Bay Regatta (PNBR) held Keith Garry on Beaux Es- so close after it has something to prits will be back in the Premier do with it.” 36 PHUKET GAZETTE PHUKET PROPERTY January 13 - 19, 2007

Gardening with Bloomin’ Bert

have to start with an admis- they are still attached to the par- sion. I’m no Adonis. Brad ent tree. These specialized seeds Pitt and that Spanish bloke are called seedlings, and once Ifrom Zorro – Antonio Some- SWAMP THING they’re ready, they use the wa- thing-or-other I think it is, the la- ter around them to disperse them- dies seem to like him – have noth- selves. ing to worry about. In the middle of a mangrove At least I can say with a clump (known as a mangle, if you degree of confidence that my lim- want to get technical), the amount ited features have nothing on the of salt in the soil can be up to hapless individuals featured on a three times the amount found in website called www.mingers. seawater, believe it or not. Man- com – the name of the site alone grove trees are adapted to sur- makes it worth a visit. They proud- vive in salty soils that would kill ly claim to be “the home of the most other kinds of plants, which facially inept”, and having seen is the main reason why mangrove some of the offerings on display, trees can thrive in areas too harsh I can’t disagree. They have some for other vegetation. howlers. One type of mangrove, the That’s how things have black mangrove, performs an changed over the years – the In- impressive feat – it uses snorkels, ternet has opened up a whole new called pneumatophores. These world of opportunities for those structures are covered with small whose looks aren’t exactly clas- holes that allow the roots to sical. Maybe I’m in with a chance breathe in the same way a snor- after all. kel lets you breathe while under- I’ve always wondered why water. you seldom see people who look I know the mud in which like the back end of a bus in the these trees live isn’t exactly the media. Aliens tuning in to TV from most pleasant stuff in the world, space would be somewhat disap- if you were to scoop up just one pointed to land on this planet af- teaspoon of mud from a man- ter watching our TV output dur- Mud, mosquitos, snakes, creepy-crawlies – and the world’s ugliest trees. But they’re fascinating, too. grove forest and look at it under ing their travels here. They’d soon problems with her top shirt but- certainly up there in the ugly of odd sounds you will hear. The a very strong microscope, you’d realize that not all women have tons becoming mysteriously un- scheme of things. mangrove is about the only tree I find that it contains more than 10 Pamela Anderson’s profile. Un- fastened could be portrayed by a Tree-wise, one single exam- know that causes so much noise. billion bacteria which, I’m told, is fortunately, very few do. 50-year-old dragon from behind ple stands out as being perhaps Go anywhere near these things among the highest concentrations I remember a friend of the counter at Woolworths. You the ugliest tree on the planet – at low tide, and the mud sounds found in marine mud anywhere. mine, German as it happened, an know, the one with the mustache. the mangrove. Known as mai like a bowl of Rice Krispies. This bacteria helps break enthusiastic fan of the TV series I’m not putting forward a chai laen in Thai, it’s an odd Snap, crackle and pop from all down leaf litter and other bits of Dallas and Dynasty at the time, particularly good argument here, beast; decidedly weird. Initially, directions. natural material, and probably a going over to the States for a vis- on reflection. Television should mangrove trees seem to have lit- You’ll always find man- lot more less-natural debris that it. She was very much looking obviously be a beautifully perfect tle going for them, with their twist- groves at or near the water’s finds its way there, in turn pro- forward to it; after all, she knew place, where such common mon- ed branches and confused root edge in protected marine habitats, ducing sources of nutrition for exactly what to expect – she’d strosities as fat people, overbites, systems that look as if they can’t which means that while you are plants and animals, making man- been watching Americans on the unfetching haircuts and cellulite decide what they want to do. likely to find mangroves along the grove swamps an important telly for years. She came back a are nowhere to be seen. For many people, mangrove calm banks of the east coast of coastal habitat. little despondent, with only one In the western world, if you swamps look like muddy, unpleas- Phuket, you’re less likely to see The mangrove may not be thing to say on her return: “It’s want to see ugly people, just walk ant places filled with mosquitoes, them on the more wave-beaten the prettiest tree in the world, but not much like Dynasty – they’re outside. Ugly people abound. The snakes and spiders. Well actual- west coast shores of the island. at least it does a decent job. Fa- all as ugly as we are”. plant world tends to be a little ly, they are. But if you’re willing Having not scanned every inch cially inept humans, on the other Am I the only person who more attractive, though. But there to do some squelching around in of the west coast personally, I hand, well, I’m not so sure. And actually wouldn’t complain about are exceptions. The rather hid- the mud, you’ll find that hidden in know that somebody will no doubt if I ever suggest that generously seeing more unattractive people eous crown of thorns plant, with the twisted vines and branches prove me wrong on that point. cleavaged ladies with blouse but- on television? Perhaps that busty its insidious little thorns and silly are plenty of reptiles, wild look- So what makes a mangrove ton problems should be replaced bird from Lost who always has little flowers perched on top is ing insects, crabs and other ani- tree a mangrove tree? There are on TV by women with mustach- mals that make their homes in the several features that all species es, someone please shoot me. mangroves. of mangrove trees have in com- Then dump me in a mangrove If you do decide to brave mon: A tolerance to conditions swamp. the reptiles and creepy crawlies of high soil salinity and being sub- that make their home there, you merged in water or waterlogged Want to know more may be surprised by the variety soil, as well as a tolerance of low oxygen conditions. about a plant Most plants produce seeds in your garden? that don’t sprout until they are planted. Mangrove seeds are dif- Email Bloomin’ Bert at: ferent because they actually start [email protected] to grow into a new plant while January 13 - 19, 2007 PHUKET PROPERTY PHUKET GAZETTE 37

Decor by Suganya Semacote

Above, reclaimed teak dining table, 35,000 baht, and chairs, 8,900 baht each. Left, Julalak Khamphila: ‘I don’t think anywhere else in Phuket offers styles similar to ours.’ Reclaiming rustic charm sing reclaimed teak- based on previous styles that input from current market de- wood from South- used the natural color of teak- mand. I don’t think anywhere else east Asian homes, wood, but is in darker colors,” in Phuket offers styles similar to U Zee Zee Interior adds said K. Mam. ours,” said K. Mam. a touch of rustic charm to a mod- K. Mam and her husband, “The products here are ern contemporary look. Jim, work with Ojawa, a factory unique, and we have only high- The wood used to make the in Indonesia, because they feel end, quality pieces. Many cus- pieces of furniture at Zee Zee is that they get more original designs tomers say that our products are taken from old houses that have than they would from other man- expensive, but that’s because our been dismantled. The wood is- ufacturers. products are made using real teak then refurbished and fashioned The couple sailed to Thai- and quality materials, so they will into modern furniture, Julalak land from Indonesia, where Jim last,” she added. “Mam” Khamphila, owner owned a handicraft factory, with of Zee Zee Interior, explained. plans to start a new business. Zee Zee Interior. 293/27-3 Moo “We change our furniture Those plans became Zee Zee 1, Srisoonthorn Rd, Cherng Ta- designs every three to six Interior, which opened two years lay, Thalang. Open Monday to months, but maintain our con- ago. Saturday, 9 am to 6 pm. Tel: 076- cept of a contemporary look by “The inspiration for our 326046. Email: zeezee@cslox using the latest trends. For ex- products come from what we like, info.com. Website: www.zeezee ample, our ‘gray collection’ is but our designs come from us plus interior.com. 38 PHUKET GAZETTE PHUKET PROPERTY January 13 - 19, 2007

Construction Update by Janyaporn Morel

huket Chulajaroen Co Ltd will start building its 400-million-baht Tha- P naphat Park Phuket de- velopment on nine rai of land on Chao Fa West Rd next month. The project, near Suan Luang park, will contain shophouses, home offices and a block of con- dominiums. Worapong Boriboon, Mar- keting Manager of Pearl Real Estate Co Ltd, the marketing management company for the project, told the Gazette that the project owner, Phuket Chula- jaroen Co Ltd, saw there was still room for business expansion on the outskirts of Phuket City and therefore decided to develop a new business zone on a patch of land belonging to the company. The project will comprise a 160-unit block of condominiums, four three-and-a-half-story sho- phouses, which will each have a A place to work and live usable area of 203 square meters, and 39 three-story home offices usable area; and 14 Type B units face out onto the road, have all Type A home offices were al- The whole development – that will be divided into two types; with 220sqm of usable area. been sold. The home offices are ready on sale and reservations including garden, pool and park- 25 Type A units with 320sqm of The shophouses, which will still available. were also being accepted for ing spaces – is due to be com- “The Type A home offices Type B home offices, though pleted within three years. The will have three bedrooms and four customers requesting a Type B complex will have underground bathrooms and are suitable for will have a longer wait as con- electricity supply, water supply people who are looking for an struction will begin on Type A and holding tanks and a 12- office near the city. They com- first. meter-wide road. bine a home and a workplace in “The selling point of the The shophouses were on one,” K. Worapong said. home offices is that they will sale at 5.95 to 6.5 million baht. The first floor of the Type have a large usage area and also Until the end of February, the A home office can be used for a roof deck that can be used as first 10 Type A home offices (pic- an office area and will be equip- a garden or a relaxation area,” tured above) will be on promo- ped with a kitchen and a bath- he said. tion at 4.99 million baht. On room. The seven-story condomin- March 1 the price will rise to 5.29 The second floor will house ium will be divided into 160 stu- million baht. more office space as well as a dio, one-bedroom and two-bed- The Type B home offices multipurpose room that can be room units. All will be fully fur- range from 4.19 to 4.69 million used as another office or could nished. baht. The price of the condomin- be converted into a bedroom. K. Worapot said that they iums has yet to be released. The third floor will have expected to start selling the con- “The project is very close three bedrooms. The master bed- dominiums in July this year. to many city facilities and our room will have an en-suite bath- Construction work on the target customers are the new room and the other two bedrooms home offices will begin in Febru- modern generation of business will share a bathroom. ary. The first phase of Type A is owners who are looking for There will also be a living expected to be finished by the end home offices that give them area, which could also be used of the year, when building work more space and allow for a com- as an extra bedroom. on the condominium block will fortable lifestyle,” K. Worapot K. Worapot explained that begin. said. January 13 - 19, 2007 PHUKET PROPERTY PHUKET GAZETTE 39

Home of the Week Loch Palm SWISH, ON THE COURSE his multi-level home is lo- giving a yesteryear feel to the cated in the heart of Phu- home. ket, 12 kilometers from The master bedroom has a TPhuket City, close to all walk-in closet and a double- amenities and alongside the ninth seater Jacuzzi with lights. The fairway at Loch Palm Golf Club. golf course and hills, as well as Another golf course with the pool and living room, can be expansive views will open at the seen from the master bedroom. rear of the property in June. The 9m by 4m pool includes Custom-made, burnished an elephant motif water feature steel doors open to a long entry- with three spouts that pour into way that leads into this open-plan the pool, complementing the el- home. A large living room extends ephant statues surrounding the Above: The well-lit, inviting into the dining and kitchen area, pool. The pool area also includes living room of the home. with glass throughout from ceil- a barbecue grill and large deck, ing to floor providing views of the and is viewable from most areas Right: The wall around the pool swimming pool, terrace area, sur- of the home. forms an attractive backdrop rounding mountains and golf Ready to move in now or to and ensures privacy. course. buy as an investment with an op- The air-conditioned interior tional guaranteed rental return of occupies 323 square meters, in- 6% for up to two years. cluding four bedrooms with en- The home has Chanote title suite bathrooms, additional bath- and is available at 16 million baht. room, large office area and a large studio that could be con- To view contact Ken at Lifestyle verted into a fifth bedroom. Properties Co Ltd at Tel: 081- All of the fixtures and mir- 6493557 or Email: info@ rors in the home and outdoors are phuketlifestyle. com, or visit the custom made from burnished website at: www.phuketlife steel to match the front entrance, style.com. 40 PHUKET GAZETTE CLASSIFIEDS January 13 - 19, 2007 Property Gazette

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Sea view/breeze. 5 min- 2 new, connected shop- Has private swimming utes to Nai Harn Beach. Very exclusive, completely-furnished, new villa with swimming houses in Rawai, on Wiset pool. Fully furnished. Tel: 320sqm, 2 bedrooms with pool in best residential area of Patong. Two floors, three bed- Rd are for sale. Ground 086-2791602. For more ensuite, master with rooms with aircon, three bathrooms, Jacuzzi, Western kitchen floor: sales office, staff information, please see our Jacuzzi, guest shower, and dining area. Living area: 200sqm. Freehold land: 150sqm. room, kitchen, dining room website at: www.thai handcrafted custom bed- On hill, very beautiful over- and toilet. Second floor: norwaymansion.com room & kitchen furniture. Price: 8.5 million baht. 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LAND FOR SALE, 2 APARTMENTS HOUSE WITH POOL Rawai. 660sqm - 2.4 million SEA VIEWS at Kata beach. 4.5 million baht IN CHALONG baht. 360sqm - 1.3 million Only 600 meters to the will buy you two amazing fully- baht. 300sqm - 1.1 million beach. 1-, 2-, & 3-bedroom furnished apartments on a hill- baht. 164sqm - 480,000 baht. apartments from only 1.1 side only a short walk from All land is flat, clear, Chanote million baht. 20% already magnificent Kata Beach. and prices are negotiable as gone and selling fast! Full Unit 1 has 2 bedrooms, living the land must be sold. A freehold condo title. Be room, kitchen, bathroom, and builder is available. Tel: 086- quick! Phone James. Tel: a terrace front and back. 081-5552073, or Torry. 684 5368. Email: bisop5@ Unit 2 has one bedroom, living Beautiful house on 224sqm Tel: 085-0648079. Email: yahoo.co.uk room, kitchen, bathroom, and of land, with private pool. newpropertygroup@ terrace. 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[email protected] star development site, we can with 120, 160 or 220sqm. phone lines, high-speed Inter- 3 million baht. Tel: 085- assist you. Tel: 076-346346, Best opportunity on the island. net, 5 aircons. Includes furni- 7184741. Fax: 053-280733. POOL HOUSE LOVELY VILLA 089-8715192. German management! Tel: ture. Quiet location, 5km to Email: learnforlife @gmx.net in Rawai 6.2 million baht. 3- Hillside, big pool & garden, 086-7418345. Email: info@ the beach. Only 3.9 million For futher details please see bedroom, 2-bathroom house in tastefully furnished, beach QUICK SALE NEEDED 1nj.de For further details, baht. Tel: 086-2740010. website: www.youdee.com Rawai with pool. Tel: 076- nearby. Nice! Tel: 076-388- Villa and bungalow complex. please see our website at: Email: [email protected] 388685, 085-6196680. Fax: 236, 089-7275407. Email: Kamala villa, 360sqm plot www.1nj.de 076-388684. Email: info@ CHEAPEST VILLA [email protected] size, 3 bedrooms with TOWN HOUSE IN KATA andamanthaiproperty.com Thai pool villa. 6 million baht. For further details, please see ensuites, Western kitchen. SUPERCHEAP HOUSE The house is located in a quiet, For further details, please see Pool villa for urgent sale by our website at: www.villa- Large living/dining area, Thai house with pool. Desper- safe area, 800 meters from our website www.andaman owner near Kamala beach. sale-phuket.com lanscaped gardens, aircon. ate sale. Sacrifice price only 6 the beach. 3 bedrooms, one thaiproperty.com/atp_ prop Only 6 million baht. 4 bed- Bungalows comprise 5 units million baht. 4-bedroom, 5- with balcony. Kitchen and a erty_432.htm rooms, 5 bathrooms, sauna, MISSION HEIGHTS with 1 bedroom, aircon, bathroom, sauna, views, walk big living room. 4 aircons. 2.9 views. Amazing deal, must 1 rai. Located in a beautiful kitchen, bathroom, land- to Kamala beach, worth 10 million baht, 60-year lease. HOUSE FOR SALE see. Tel: 081-8162066. Email: development. Close to airport scaped gardens, swimming million baht. Must see. Tel: Tel: 087-0297590. Email: or rent. Villa 3, Soi 8/1, No.70/ coney [email protected] and golf course. 5km to Nai pool. 500sqm plot size. 15 081-8162066. Email: [email protected] 76. Fully furnished, 64sq wah, Yang Beach. Tel: 076-281- million baht with company or [email protected] 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. BEAUTIFUL LAND 529, 081-5362138. Fax: 076- 6 and 9 million baht respec- NEW 2-STORY Good price. Tel: 081-537- Rawai. 1 rai. Chanote. In cen- 281530. Email: info@jonathan tively. Owner returning to House on land area of 432 6045. ter of Rawai. Easy to build. -cruiser.com England due to ill health. Tel: LARGE HOUSE sqm. Price: 3.8 million baht. Asking: 4.5 million baht. Call 081-6064649. Large house in Chalong Please contact me for more HOUSE FOR SALE for more details. Tel: 089- NEW POOL VILLA area. 4 bedrooms, 2 bath- details. Tel: 087-2711270. Kathu. Corner house, 2 bed- 6525664. Land & house. 4 bedrooms, 3 LAND FOR SALE rooms, aircon, Western- Email: [email protected] rooms, 3 bathrooms, lounge, bathrooms, Euro kitchen. 1 rai Chanote. Rawai, con- style kitchen. Quiet street. dining rooms, kitchen. Fur- Contact for more details. Tel: crete road, electricity. Thai 4.2 million baht ono. Tel: SRISUCHART Gazette Online Classifieds – 081-7475293, 085-783- nished. 1.65 million baht. Tel: 10,000 readers every day! 081-0918908. Email: and English. Tel: 089-874- Phuket City. 1-story house, 2 081-7275514. [email protected] 7308. 9285. Email: chillihouse bedrooms, big living room, 2 @hotmail.com bathrooms, European-style kitchen with dishwasher. UBC, LAND FOR SALE telephone line, nice garden Kod Sireh. Beautiful land, with sala. Price: 3.6 million main road. 92sq wah. Tel: baht. Tel: 076-204138, 084- 086-8999282. 0602497.

PHUKET VILLA POOL VILLA Sale. Phuket Villa, Suan Luang, in Nai Harn. 2 en-suite bed- semi -detached. 45 sq wah. 3 rooms, big living area, pool. 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. 1.85 million baht. Tel: 076-288- million baht. Tel: 084-059- 047, 081-8941660. Email: 5577. [email protected] 42 PHUKET GAZETTE CLASSIFIEDS January 13 - 19, 2007 Property GazetteGazette

SEAVIEW PATONG 3 BEDROOM VILLA NAI HARN VILLAS GREAT VALUE! KOH YAO YAI HOUSE FOR SALE Luxury 2-bedroom apartment. ½ rai Chanote house lots. Nakatani Village, Kalim Bay. European kitchen, aircon, 1.5km north of Mission Hills Wonderful, fully-fitted-out UBC, ADSL, large swimming Golf Course. Government and furnished villa. Utter pool. Available for long- or road. Power nearby. luxury and fabulous location short-term rental. Tel: 086- 960,000 baht full price! (8 34 million baht. Tel: 081- 2790837. lots only) 9241447. Email: mail@ 14+ rai behind Pointe East villa.co.th HOUSE FOR RENT Kathu, peaceful residential 11-villa project, large com- in Pakchit area. Govern- East coast, 8 beachfront Land & Houses park Chalong. area, 134sqm living space. munal pool, secluded area ment road access. Year- and 5 oceanview plots New house, 3 bedrooms, 2 4.6 million baht. Tel: 076 - close to beautiful Nai Harn round stream. Nor Sor 3 available, already subdi- KATA SEAVIEW bathrooms, furnished aircon, 381490. Email: info@sea- Beach. Starting from 8.3 Gor title. 550,000 baht a vided, Nor Sor 3 Gor land LAND free access to pool, fitness property-international.com million baht. Tel: 076- rai! Financing available. title deeds. From 2 to 6 mil- Unique opportunity to buy 4 400 Gym. Tel: 081- 381490. Email: info@sea- Beautiful fully-modernized lion baht a rai. Tel: 076- rai of seaview land over- 7884655. LUXURY VILLAS property-international.com 1,000sqm (10,000sqf), 2- 381490. Email: info@sea- looking Kata Beach along property-international.com Rawai. Samakkea Village, Soi story building in Nai Yang with Thai company, 2 for- BUNGALOW Samakkea 2. Top-quality vil- FREEHOLD CONDO area. 3.9 rai Nor Sor 3 Gor eign directorships and 2 For rent. Fully furnished. 2 las with large swimming pool, Sought-after freehold condo- title.Underground electric, HOUSE FOR SALE work permits. Only need to bedrooms with aircon. Nice, transfer share ownership. In 3-4 bedrooms, fully-fitted minium. Thai-style, top floor solar hot water, many Or rent. 2 or 3 bathrooms and quiet & safe Chalong area. kitchens. From 7.3 million with wonderful sea views over amenities. 44 rooms includ- bedrooms. 5 km from Hero- secluded location in select 22,000 baht a month. Tel: baht. Tel: 083-1766602. Kalim Bay. Two bedrooms, ing 8 bathrooms.Excellent ines’ Monument toward Mis- area with electricity and 081-6064279. town water on site. Ideal for Send email to: info@thailand modern kitchen. Foreigner can as clinic, spa, office, school sion Hills Golf Course. Tel: andhome .com For further de- own in his/her name. 9.7 mil- or residence. Large parking 089-7298009. Email: seaview project. 32 million BUNGALOW baht. Also available, 0.5 rai tails, please see our website: lion baht. Tel: 076-290148, area, further buildable land. [email protected] 1 bedroom bungalow in front building plot in select devel- www.thailandandhome.com 086-2765117. Fax: 076- 36 Million baht. Financing of Chalong Bay beach for rent. opment surrounded by se- 290148. Email: jihshand available. See to appreciate! LAND 1 RAI Has terrace, kitchen, aircon, cure stone wall and mature LANTERN PROJECT @yahoo.co.uk Creative solutions for for- At Kho Ta Node. 1-2-39.9 rai, car park 15m from house. trees with excellent sea Near BIS. Must-see show eigners wishing to purchase. Chanote, next to new high- Fully furnished. 12,000 baht a views. Price: 6 million baht. house! 450sqm, water con- PATONG CONDO Please call Chris Fisher end project & near Laguna month. Please contact for Tel: 081-2735047. cept, 3 bedrooms, private lift 300m to beach. Clean, mod- for more details. properties. Road & electricity, more information. Tel: 084- and pool. SMEG kitchen, pent- ern, comfortable, new aircon, Tel: 086-9421930. suitable for private villa or Email: houseinphuket@ 658-4437, 089-7297978. house office with panoramic furnished, ready to move in, hotmail.com Email: small project. 5 million baht a Email: property1998@ view. Completion: June 2007. TV, pool, parking. Please call. [email protected] rai. Please contact for more hotmail.com Available for rent at 70,000 baht Tel: 081-0825707. For fur- information. Tel: 076-325- 5% Commission to LAND PLOTS a month. Please contact for ther details please see our 411, 081-3701189. Fax: 076- Brokers. For sale. HOUSE FOR RENT more details. Tel: 081-8779- website at: www.phuket- 325413. Email: phudtheera 3 bedrooms, 1 pool, ADSL, 292. Fax: 081-8779292. Email: accommodation.info - Small land plot, Rawai behind @phuket realty.net Blue Cafe: 500,000 baht. UBC, aircon, Rawai, available [email protected] from February. 40,000 baht a - 1 1/2 rai Patong sea view: 12 Please see our website at: BEACHFRONT LAND SEAVIEW LAND month. 2 bedrooms, ADSL, CONDOMINIUM million baht. www.grace gardensphuket.com 295sqm Nor Sor 3 Gor. Has In Ao Por. Nor Sor 3 Gor. aircon, in Kata. 17,000 baht a road between land and beach, 380sqm. Price: 1.55 million - 1 rai Nai Harn: 5 million baht. month. Tel: 081-7371687, 2-STORY BUILDING located at Kevin Beach Ao baht. Tel: 081-1719705. - 1 rai Cape Panwa, sea view: 086-9544155. Located on the bypass road, Por. Price: 1.55 million baht. Email: [email protected] 10 million baht. Tel: 086-272- Srisuchart Grand View. For Tel: 081-1719705. Email: 6508, 089-8715192. Email: HOUSE RENT/SALE [email protected] sale: 20 million baht. Great lo- [email protected] KAMALA 1 1/2 RAI Chalong Bay. 50 meters from cation for business. Call or House. Near beach, great op- the beach. 2 bedrooms, 2 bath- LAKE VIEW LAND TWO SHOPHOUSES email for visit or more details. Freehold, Boat Lagoon Ma- portunity, 10 million baht. Tel: rooms, 1 living room with For sale in Rawai. Chanote Samkong area. 5 minutes to Tel: 076-376-279. Email: rina, 195sqm living space, 076-292596, 086-2678477. kitchen. Please contact for title. Tranquil setting and close Tesco. 3 floors, 1 with mod- [email protected] direct waterfront, comfort- Email: tourniechristian@ more information. Tel: 076- to Rawai beach. 1.18 rai for ern shopfront. 3 years old. 2.8 able open-plan dining and liv- hotmail.com 388174, 085-7815664. LAND FOR SALE 6.27 million baht. Please call and 3 million baht. Tel: 076- ing, European kitchen, 2 In Mai Khao area: 10 rai on the PPH at Tel: 086-9060166. 254063, 087-2652889. bedrooms, boat mooring. NICE PATONG CONDO RENT A HOUSE beach, 170 million baht; 1 rai, With pool. 60sqm, fully fur- 72sq wah sea view, 3.2 mil- 8.5 million baht. Tel: 076- 13 RAI LAYAN BEACH TOP LAND IN RAWAI Beautiful house, views of el- nished. Please contact for ephants and nature, big terrace, lion baht; 7.3 rai, 500m from 381490. Email: info@sea- 13 rai with great sea/sunset 1 rai, Chanote title, road, elec- more details. Tel: 081-7727- 130sqm basement, garage, full the beach, 3.2 million baht a property-international.com views. This plot is ideal for an tric, quiet, easy to build on. 4.7 100, 081-5657427. Email: aircon, 2 bedrooms, 2 bath- rai; 3.3 rai quiet and private apartment project. Land titles million baht. Please call for [email protected] rooms. European style. Long- area, 2.7 million baht. Call for SMALL RESORT checked! Tel: 076-346346, more information. Tel: 087- term rent: 30,000 baht a month. more details. Tel: 083- Boutique resort/hotel for sale. 086-2726508. Fax: 076- 8938747. HOME IN KHOK KLOI Come look. Tel: 081-2711082. 1743880, 087-2646808. Top location great income. 346263. Email: info@phuket 118sqm, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath- Email: happyjo@ procom.in.th Tel: 089-6525664. realestate.com room with 904sqm garden, Properties sandwash walkway & patios, DETACHED HOUSE with 2-car covered parking, For Rent For rent. In gated estate close deep well with water tank. 2.6 to British International School. million baht. Tel: 081- 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 7284821. Email: elevendigits NEW HOUSE fully furnished, well main- @yahoo.com FOR RENT tained with nice garden. 35,000 baht a month. Avail- OFFICE BUILDING able Jan 07. Call Piyanute at Executive office building for Tel: 081-8926991, or David sale. 102sq wah. Includes at Tel: 081-8500911. aircon, security system and private carport. 15 million baht. Tel: 076-282211, 081- AMAZING 958-0815. Fax: 076-283251. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms SEA VIEWS Email: [email protected] at Pa Khlok, just 700 meters Large villa in Cape Yamu set from monument. Furnished, in delightful gardens sur- PATONG HOME OFFICE near international school. rounded by rolling hills and or shop. Modern and luxurious 15,000 baht a month. Tel: countryside. Superb views design. 3-story, 4 bedrooms, 084-8516115. Email: out to Phang Nga Islands. 3 5 bathrooms. 2 units available, [email protected] bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, each on 120sqm of land with lounge, dining and snooker 175sqm of living area. 300m room, maid’s room, kitchen, from the sea. On Phra Barami LAGUNA AREA study, sauna and swimming Rd, between Rat-U-Thit and House with pool, spa, poolside pool, furnished, UBC, Beach Rd. Freehold with bar, aircon, large garden, like Internet. 80,000 baht a Chanote. 18.5 million baht. resort. Lease: 39,000 baht a month. Tel: 086-2796283. Tel: 081-8936630. month. Tel: 089-5944067. January 13 - 19, 2007 CLASSIFIEDS PHUKET GAZETTE 43 Property Gazette

BUNGALOW HOUSE IN RAWAI 2-BEDROOM HOUSE VILLAS FOR RENT For long-term rent in Karon HOUSE + 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom Euro- LOVELY, 4 In Boat Lagoon, furnished, ser- Beach. 2 bedrooms, living BIG GARDEN pean-style house. Fully fur- BEDROOMS viced. Short term: 40,000 room, kitchen, bathroom, ter- Fully furnished, 2 aircon nished in rural Rawai on CHALONG baht a month. Long term: race, 2 airconditioners. Fully bedrooms, hot shower, liv- 780sqm. Large master bed- 4 bathrooms, spa, aircon, 35,000 baht a month. Avail- ready and fully furnished! ing room, kitchen, garage. room with ensuite, walk-in pool, garden, UBC. 800sqm. able now. Tel: 086-2820567. Quiet location near the beach. 11,000 baht a month. closet and aircon. Modern Quiet area. 65,000 baht a Monthly rent: 7,000 baht. Palai, Chalong. Tel: 081- Western-style kitchen with month. Call for more de- KAMALA BEACH Take-over of furniture is 8924311. granite tops and built-ins tails. Tel: 086-2817605. Nice apartments or houses for Ban Phrangthong Villa Es- wanted; let's speak about the throughout. UBC & phone line. long-term rental, furnished or tate, 4 bedrooms, fully fur- price! Ready to move in on 1st HOUSE FOR RENT Big breezy veranda, carport KATA PENTHOUSE unfurnished, 2 or 3 bedrooms. nished, pool, security, close March 2007. Tel: 087- Newly built, fully furnished, 3 and established garden. And rooms to rent near beach. 20,000-25,000 baht a to beaches. 80,000 baht a 0066263. Email: peterkaron bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. 7km Chanote title 8.3 million baht. Swimming pool, cable, TV month. Tel: 084-3059606. month, long term only. @gmx.de to Phuket City & 7km to Pa- Tel: 087-8919349. Email: fridge, etc. Clean views. Chalong, direct beachfront tong. Near Country Club. [email protected] 7,000 baht a month. 400 baht MODERN OFFICE villa, fully furnished, 3 bed- PATONG TOWER Available Feb 1 for 1-year a day. Tel: 086-276-6597. For rent/sale. Situated min- rooms, 70,000 baht a Sea view. 1-bedroom apart- rent. 27,000 baht a month. HOUSE FOR RENT utes from Phuket City, this month, minimum 1-year ment, 100 meters from Tel: 076-203060, 081-0904- Beautifully-furnished 2-bed- BUILDING SHOP newly-built small office offers contract. Tel: 076-381490. beach. UBC, pool, parking. 786. Email: malkham0614 room house in Kathu. Aircon, For rent 1,000sqm, fully fur- great value for a company of Email: info@sea-property- Tel: 084-8473304. @yahoo.com UBC, telephone line and nished & car parking area. Lo- 15-30 employees. All ameni- international.com kitchen. Long term only. Tel: cated near Heroines’ Monu- ties available. Move in and LONG-TERM RENT NEW KATHU HOUSE 081-3673106. ment. Tel: 089-4711585. Email: start work right away. Sell for SURIN BAY AREA Minimum 1 year, 1/2-rai com- For rent or sale. 3 bedrooms, [email protected] 4.3 million baht. Long-term plex in Kamala. Total 7 units, BANG TAO rent: 25,000 baht a month. Big garden. Long-term lease 2 bathrooms, furnished, gar- which consist of 2 x 2-bed- Bungalows for rent at 15,000 Tel: 081-537-5970. Email: now available on 3-bedroom den, aircon. Near Lotus, Cen- NEW HOUSE room apartments, 2 x 1-bed- baht a month + utilities (6 info@yourrooms .com house with aircon, 2 toilets, tral and Patong beach. For Phaklong, Thalang. 3 bed- room apartments, 3 studio months minimum) or 22,000 outdoor kitchen, opening up to rent at 25,000 baht a month. rooms, 2 bathrooms, fur- rooms. Swimming pool, baht a month, or 7,000 baht a 1.2 rai of screen-fenced gar- For sale at 4.5 million baht. nished kitchen. 13,500 baht a HOUSE FOR RENT Jacuzzi, landscaped gardens week. 2 bedrooms, 1 bath- den. Unfurnished or partially Please call for more details. month. Palm Garden 56/6. or sale. 2 floors, 4 bedrooms, with barbecue, etc. Private room with hot water, tele- furnished as required. Good for Tel: 081-7356684, 084- Tel: 081-6063525. 3 bathrooms, one big store- road, 5 mins from beach with phone line. Car park, gated, pets, kids & privacy. Large 187-1939. room and a large garden on amenities close by. Tel: 086- quiet, 3km from Surin. Call K. covered outdoor area. Garden SURIN APARTMENT the 80 square wah (320sqm) 2733437. Email: kamalarob Tee at Tel: 086-2786465 or maintenance provided. SHOPHOUSE BLOCK Modern, well-furnished, 2- landscape. It's on Saiyuan @yahoo.co.uk Betty at Tel: 076-270377. road, 10 minutes to Nai Harn 27,500 baht a month. Tel: 5 terraced houses for rent on bedroom 100sqm apartment or Rawai beaches. Direct sale 086-9410410, 086-269- the bypass road. 35,000 baht including: 42" Plasma TV, VILLA FOR RENT LOFT-STYLE FLATS for 6.5 million baht net includ- 2020. For more details and a month. Please call K. washing machine, SMEG ce- Beautiful new 2-bedroom villa Kathu. 4 large, quiet, central ing 2 aircons and some built-in photo please see website: Vachira for more information. ramic hob, breakfast bar. with private pool in walled flats. 6-15,000 baht a month furniture. Tel: 084-9916654. www.phuket_house.here. Tel: 081-3269495. Great views. Available long fastmail.fm/@Surin_Beach/ garden. Close to Rawai and long term. Tel: 081-968430. term for 30,000 baht a month. Nai Harn beaches. Fully fur- Tel: 085-8882022. Email: 3-BEDROOM HOME Surin%20House%20- RAWAI BEACH VILLA %20Details.doc nished, aircon, UBC, pool and DETACHED HOUSE [email protected] For details, Chao Fa Rd, 207sq wah, 3 bed- garden maintenance included. Rent room. Daily or monthly For rent or sale. Just 7 min- please see our website at: rooms, 3 bathrooms, nice liv- 35,000 baht a month. Tel: 3,000 to 9,000 baht. Aircon, RENT, BOAT LAGOON utes from international www.slees.com/photos/ ing room, good kitchen, cool 081-9701716. safe, ADSL, UBC. Tel: 084- school. Fully-furnished house LersuangApartment garden, parking for 3 cars. Large, 2-bedroom, 2-bath- 3079909. Email: dyotachan with 3 bedrooms, 2 bath- Fully furnished. For rent at room townhouse on Canal at HOUSE FOR RENT @yahoo.com rooms and ready to move in. FOR RENT OR SALE 40,000 baht a month or for Boat Lagoon. 1 year minimum. Located in secure estate. 3 Rental price: 20,000 baht a In condotel Sky Inn. 2 single sale at 6.7 million baht. Please Furnished. 33,000 baht a bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, din- LAKEVIEW APT/LOFT month. Selling price: 2.45 mil- rooms/1 double room. Tel: contact for further details. Tel: month. Tel: 086-2820567. ing room, living room, study, office. 2 bedrooms, 2 bath- lion baht (negotiable). Tel: 081- 089-8756803. Email: hebo41 081-5978315. Email: phuket8 fenced garden, UBC, ADSL. rooms, 3 floors, near Lotus. 539-9269. @gmail.com @hotmail.com 9 RAI FOR LEASE For rent long term. 30,000 Furnished, cable, phone, Located in Kathu. 2 minutes baht a month. Tel: 084-843- aircon. 20,000 baht a month. from Central. Suitable for long- 9579. Email: somlerdee@ Please call for more informa- term investor. For more info yahoo.com tion. Tel: 081-8928208. email: [email protected] CHALONG NEW HOME LONG-TERM RENT LAND IN PATONG For rent: 2-bedroom villa with Chalong. 3 bedrooms, 2 bath- For long-term lease. 2.5 & 3.5 swimming pool, aircon, UBC rooms, aircon, carpark, fur- rai. 200 Pi Rd. Tel: 081- TV & telephone line. Tel: 089- nished. Please call for more 6424280 (No brokers). 6521473. details. Tel: 089-7288311.

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1-2 RAI, ROOM+APARTMENT Building Property Chanote only. I want to rent 1- Short- and long-term rent Household 2 rai of land in the south of Patong from 800 baht per day. Products Wanted Items Phuket with Chanote title Tel: 076-512151, 089-290- & Services (only). This is for long term. 9567. Please see website at: Please, reasonable offers only! www.brommathaihouse.com 29" RCR TV EQUESTRIAN CENTER Tel: 086-1203660. Email: Former nanny's TV. Less than Seeks 1-5 rai to lease 3 to 30 [email protected] one year old. RCR brand. Per- years. Near any beach, pre- 2-BED TOWNHOUSE The Stone Doctor fect condition. Flat but not an with ADSL. 2 stories, 2 bed- LCD or plasma screen. 3,500 fer Bang Tao. Dry, cleared, 1 RAI+ SEA VIEW suitable for horses. Water, rooms, 3 bathrooms on quiet Specialist European stone- baht. View and take away. electric, small home desirable. Looking for up to 2 rai of soi near Patong hill, furnished, care products and services: Contact for more information. Tel: 084-8424581. Email: Chanote land with a sea view, 2 bedrooms with aircon. Tel: Tel: 08-99728544. Email: preferably on west coast of 086-9420957. Email: jdean • Restoration [email protected] • Sealing/Protection [email protected] Phuket. Must have road access @loxinfo.co.th • Maintenance and utilities. Email: ulrichkuhl@ BANDHIT CONSTRUCTION PRIVATE CASH BUYER gmail.com PATONG LUXURY All your maintenance, Houses, buildings, office decor, DINING SET Searching for house + land in protection & cleaning needs Central Patong 1- and 2-bed- projects, renovation, painting, In solid teak (mai sac) wood. Phuket. Up to 5 million baht to for natural and manufactured room apartments. Email for in- tiling, ceiling, aircon, electricity Dining table is 2 meters by 1 buy or long-term lease. stone. Accommodation formation and photos. Email: systems, sand wash, steel meter, with classic style oval 25,000 baht a month. No of- Available [email protected] • Marble • Sandwash work, plumbing. Tel: 087- scalloped edges. There are 6 fers from estate agents. Tel: • Granite • Terracotta 2636337, 089-5913996. matching curved-back chairs. 081-3697968 (Thai). 084- • Slate • Terrazzo ROOMS IN PATONG • Sandstone • Ceramics, etc Email: bandhitconstruction Perfect condition. 38,000 9173480 (German/English). 3-BEDROOM HOUSE @gmail.com baht. Tel: 085-7959105. Your own hot shower, 24-hour Prevent: rust, stains, mildew, Land & Houses. Aircon, 2 bath- security, close to beach. Tel: Email: [email protected] rooms with hot water, living algae, scratches LAND WANTED 076-342280, 081-9781956. Remove: builders’ residue, 500-900 rai beachfront. room, European and Thai kitch- Email: palm@ phuket.ksc.co.th incorrect sealants, rust, stains, JN-TECH Phuket, Phang Nga, Krabi. ens, fridge, washing, etc. The mildew, etc. Daily care & Construction company with FURNITURE Please call K. Lek for more house also has garden and cleaning products also available. German management has A 3-seater couch and 2 single chairs are for sale at Ban details. Tel: 081-2717222. carpark. Available from April Tel: 07-2824930, 076-271217 free capacity to build your Accommodation Kalim. Asking price is 6,000 for long-term rental. Tel: 076- Wanted Fax: 076-271218 houses or commercial build- GUESTHOUSE 283133, 081-8426497. Email: ings. Good quality for a cheap baht ono. Tel: 076-340456, [email protected] Wanted, take-over or partici- Email: [email protected] price. Tel: 086-7418345. 087-0151955. pation (long lease). Guest- GROUNDFLOOR ROOM Email: [email protected] Please see house should have a mini- Patong resident with broken our website at: www.1nj.de U KSENII GUESTHOUSE Household mum of 5 rooms and be in/ ankle in plaster cast needs CONSTRUCTION around Patong, Karon, Kata, Kata. Located at Kata Night ground-floor room or apart- Services Bazaar. New guesthouse "U All kinds of construction. BIG HOME Nai Harn or Rawai. Budget: ment until end of January. Houses, ceiling, paint, aircon, Construction, building, reno- 2 million baht. Please email Ksenii" has 7 fully-furnished Building with lift also fine. rooms with aircon, TV, hot steel, renovation. Please con- vation, shopfitting, electrics, friendly offers or recommen- Parking for car would be a tact for more information. Tel: metalwork, built-in furniture. PHUKET HOME dations. Please contact for & cold shower. Call Tel: 076- bonus. Please contact me MAINTENANCE 284238. For further details, 089-5913996, 087-2636337. Contact for more details. Tel: more information. Tel: 085- with details. Tel: 081-0888- Email: [email protected] 087-3835520. Construction, renovation, 7813814. Email: jochens please see: www.ksenia- 690. Email: peterxhosa guesthouse.com electricians, plumbers, car- [email protected] @yahoo.com penters, painters, tilers, gar- deners, aircon servicing, pest SHOPHOUSE NICE 3-BEDROOM BUNGALOW control and electrical goods I am interested in buying (free- house in Rawai. Located on Must be fully furnished with repairs. Call Khun Rin at Tel: hold) a shophouse or a large Soi Tristar, Sai Yuan rd. TV, equipped kitchen, dining 084-1935124. Or email: house with the possibility to Rawai. 800sqm garden. All and 2 bedrooms with air. A phukethomemaintenance@ host more than one family. All bedrooms aircon. Fully fur- small swimming pool would be yahoo.com areas considered but the prop- nished. Indoor and outdoor liv- an advantage. Needed from erty should be central and if ing room with nice view of 23 January through 20 possible near a beach. Even Chalong bay. 35,000 baht a March. Will pay +/- 40,000 HOUSE JOBS houses with a little mainte- month. Min 3-month rent, baht a month plus deposit. An old Thai female looking nance needed may be of inter- longer prefered. Call or email Contact for more details. Tel: for job as housekeeper or est. Email: Tobiasjohanssonh K. Da. Tel: 081-6937277. 089-9728544. Email: maid, doing cooking, laundry, @hotmail.com Email: [email protected] [email protected] child care, etc. Some English speaking and writing. Good experience as housekeeper and restaurant cook. I can Classified Advertisements live in or out. Please contact Please use this form to write your classified advertisement. Khun Nara. Tel: 086- 9968227. Email: chonaratt Then hand it to any of our agents. @hotmail.com

|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| (heading) Agents for Classified Advertising |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| PHUKET |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| K.L. Mart Tel: 076-280400/3 Patak Rd, Chalong Fax: 076-280403 |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| Earth Language School Tel: 076-232398/9 Phang Nga Rd, Phuket City Fax: 076-232398

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|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| Taurus Travel Tel: 076-344521/2 Aroonsom Plaza Rat-U-Thit 200 Pi Rd, Patong Fax: 076-344523 Classified ads are charged per line. Each line is 95 baht, with a minimum of 4 lines (heading included) per ad. 41 Minimart Tel/Fax: 076-324312 All advertising must be paid for in advance. Srisoontorn Rd, Cherng Talay Deadline for Property Gazette page: Friday 3 pm. Deli Supermarket Tel: 076-342275 Deadline for all other ads: Saturday 12 noon. Rat-U-Thit 200 Pi Rd, Patong Fax: 076-344314 January 13 - 19, 2007 CLASSIFIEDS PHUKET GAZETTE 45 Boats & Marine

SPORTFISHING CHARTER BOAT

40ft charter boat, 2 x 185hp inboards, powerful generator, boatyard re-fit completed, TV, DVD, galley, 4 cabins, sleeps 8 comfort- ably, power shower, elec- tric toilet, large fishing deck, fly bridge fitted with seating, GPS, fish finder, VHF. Sen- sible offers considered. Please contact for more in- formation. Tel: 085- 7143656. Email: crew @cruisephuket.com For further details, please see our website at: www. cruisephuket.com

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Sealine T52 Motor yacht, 1999. Outstanding, main- tained in a nearly like-new condition, 16 meters, 2x600 HP Man engines, 15 KW Kohler generator, tropi- cal air conditioning, ice- maker, flatscreen TV, Dolby surround system, 3 35 FT PLEASURE FOR SALE cabins, Thai tax paid/regis- Cruiser. Great condition. Donzi Z 33 deep V fast boat is for tered. Owner wants to buy Seats 25, 2 x 200hp sale 2x200hp Yamaha 40+kts. a bigger yacht. 22.8 million Yamahas. Boat comes with Reg for 11+2 pax. Recent re- baht must be seen! Please tour company: lease earning build (2005) like new. Call Phil for call for more information. 20,000 - 40,000 a month. more details and test drive. Tel: 081-8629710 (English, Price: 850,000 baht. Please Price: 3.2 million baht or decent German, Thai). contact. Tel: 084-6111913. offer. Tel: 081-8934186. 46 PHUKET GAZETTE CLASSIFIEDS January 13 - 19, 2007 Boats Island Job Mart & Marine

RESERVATION STAFF Diethelm Travel is looking for highly-qualified and ser- vice-minded operations staff. Good command of English and computer skills are required, experience in tourism is a plus. Please send CV by email or contact for more information. Tel: 076-209163, 081-892- 7714. Fax: 076-209174. Email: [email protected]

PICK YOUR AVON DINGY THAI OPTICIAN ENGINES AND GO! English, 4-meter, wooden Preferably woman, experi- floor, 5hp Johnson out- ence is a plus and must board. 150,000 baht. speak English. Please con- Please call for more infor- tact ASAP. Tel: 089- mation. 8746170. Tel: 089-8733952.

Brand-new "Steppa 36" fly- VANTAGE 326 bridge monohull fully fitted DEEP V SPEEDBOAT and ready to go. Just pick Choose your engines, paint your engine preference, scheme, cushion colors, we'll fit them, then you're etc, and complete this first away! Value, versatility, du- product from AMT for your rability, speed, stability, customized use. 33 feet, shallow draft, passenger sexy, fast boat, capable of capacity and enough shade 50+knots. For fishing, fun, for Phuket. "Steppa" de- tours, island transfers, ma- signs originated in Phuket rine ambulance, diving, etc. for commercial operations New high-tech construc- in the Andaman Sea. This tion, composite-built in Flybridge 36 is simply superb Phuket with 5-year war- at 2.5 million baht + VAT - ranty and full factory sup- without engines. Be smart - port. Contact Steve at Tel: buy local and save yourself 089-2878667. Email: a small fortune and a bunch [email protected] of ongoing maintenance For further details, please headaches. Please contact see our website at: www.a for more information. Tel: mtechnik.com Factory 076-270547, 081-891- visits welcome. 2895. Fax: 076-270- 548. Email: bloodnutreilly@ yahoo.com For further in- formation, see our web- YACHT FOR SALE site at: www.phuketwater PHUKET FREE PLUS ACCOUNTANT/ HOTEL STAFF PROPERTY CARE taxi.com MARKETING SALES Urgently in need of 1 recep- SERVICES CO LTD Little English experience, tionist with good English PCS Phuket urgently re- We are looking for sales and knowedge about Phuket, skills and 1 housekeeper for quires Site Managers expe- marketing staff. Thai nation- flexibility preferred. Good 27-room hotel in Patong. rienced in the janitorial field. TANKER VESSEL als. All customers will be Thai salary, great future. Send Please call for details. Tel: Preferred applicants are FOR SALE but some English will help. CV to email: info@ phuket 081-8921621. aged 30 years or up, com- landdeals.com. Tel: 081- puter literate, and have ba- 1.5 million baht with Thai Fairways Freedom 25. Very Experience preferred but not 5376866. sic English-speaking skills registration. Width 4.9m, seaworthy, just finished full necessary as full training will be given, top salary and ex- and a driver's license. length 24m. 150,000 liters. refit including new rigging, STAFF WANTED Please contact for more in- Please call Surin for more sails, engine, etc. She's a cellent commission. K.Nut- WWW.GLOBALHOME.EU New restaurant. The thanun. Tel: 076-245971, formation. Tel: 076- information. Tel: 081- lovely little ship, reasonably Needs advertisement sales rep Steakhouse is now hiring all 224658-9, 081-6949088. 8912333. Email: surin123 priced. Tel: 081-9252155. 085-8880636. Email: to visit realtors. Earn 50,000 positions. Please call Kulu PJ [email protected] Fax: 076-254774. Email: @csloxinfo.com Email: [email protected] baht a month. Email: v.ares for more information. Tel: [email protected] koug@ globalhome.eu 076-341116. January 13 - 19, 2007 CLASSIFIEDS PHUKET GAZETTE 47 Island Job Mart

ACCOUNTING/ ADMIN MANAGER Publishing company re- quires experienced person for a variety of general ac- counting functions: Quick OFFICE STAFF Book entries, cost control, banking, invoicing, tax in- For new pool company near voicing, collections (con- Laguna. Receptionist, tacting clients and arranging admin & secretary. Good payments), maintaining English & computer skills. accurate records, control Pool designer and estima- petty cash and daily acct du- tor. Visio & Autocad helpful, ties. As administration good English. Contact Gary manager you will oversee for more information. Tel: daily operations and junior 085-7952552. Email: staff and be part of the warton. [email protected] team. Right renumeration for right person. Please send CV and photo by email or PORTUGUESE contact for more informa- TEACHER NEEDED tion. Tel: 089-8664023, Can you teach Portuguese 089-8663064. Email: to GCSE Standard? If so info@artandculture contact Gary for more infor- asia. com mation. Tel: 085-7952552. Email: warton.gary@ CUSTOMER gmail.com Service executive. Position available in Hygiene & Pest Control Division. Preferred ABSOLUTE SALES CO applicants are female, aged 25 Absolute Sales Corporation - 40, university grads with urgently needs staff to work sales and operations experi- in the office on Phuket. People ence. Drivers license and own PROJECT MANAGER SALES MANAGER with good communication vehicle required. Please con- At least 5 years’ experience in Male/female, Thai nationality, skills needed for the post of tact for more information. Tel: construction or engineering, efficient English communica- manager to work with Russian 076-224658, 081-3702488. ability to establish and imple- tion skills. 5 years’ experience clients. Contact K. Svetlanas Fax: 076-254774. Email: ment project plans, well orga- in sales development in airline, for more information. Tel: [email protected] nized, problem-solving skills hotel or travel industry. Excel- HR MANAGER ACCOUNTANT 081-3976200. and proficiency in English lent presentation skills with Male/female, experience in Male/female, with English SECRETARY TO MD communication. Please con- ability to generate new busi- HR with multi-national com- communication skills and ex- RESORT IN BANG TAO tact for more information. Tel: ness opportunities. Please Executive Secretary required pany, possess in-depth knowl- perience in bookkeeping & Looking for staff. Good En- 076-328599. Or send CV to contact for more information. for a very exciting project in edge of HR management and taxation. Please send CV and glish speakers for restaurant/ email: pat@destination Tel: 076-328599. Send CV Phuket. Marketing and sales Thai labor laws. Excellent En- photo or contact for more kitchen/bar/cleaning/more. air. com to: [email protected] experience essential. Must be glish communication skills. Tel: details. Tel: 076-328505. Please call K. Cim for more a hard worker, highly moti- 076-328599. Send CV to: Email: bee@destination information. Tel: 087- vated and with good English/ CASHIER & BARTENDERS URGENTLY REQUIRED [email protected] air.com 188-7518. communication skills. An op- For bar on Rawai Beach.Good Sales Officer- Reservations Of- portunity to earn a very good English and experience re- ficer- Administrative Officer. salary. Initial trial period: 4 quired. Please send CV or con- Male/female with experience Find more Recruitment Classifieds at weeks. Please contact for tact for more information. Tel: and knowledge relevant to the more information. Tel: 087- 076-288887, 089-1961773. position applied for. Tel: 076- 8974541. Email: glk40@ Email: cindyjcochrane@ 328505. Send CV to email: www.phuketgazette.net! hotmail.co.uk hotmail.com [email protected] 48 PHUKET GAZETTE CLASSIFIEDS January 13 - 19, 2007 Island Job Mart

BAR/RESTAURANT Articles Kata beach. Excellent lease For Sale term, great revenues. Call Kevin. Tel: 084-7300190.

WINDSURF BOARD CHALONG RAWAI RD Established restaurant for Windsure beginner board, sale. 395,000 baht. Rent sail rig new, still packed. 8,000 baht/month. With 2- 50% price. Kawasaki KSR bedroom house+ 1320sqm, 110 mountain bike, Mon- more than 100 banana trees. goose, aluminium. Near Please contact. Tel: 089- new. Tel: 087-8888244. 6467176, 089-1662804. Email: asoke_chatterjee@ yahoo.com SCUBA Mares Ruby, Buddy Com- VERY POPULAR B&B mando BCD. 15 liter steel Rated "Best in town" by tank, Avanti Quattro fins, Lonely Planet. Teak & red Sunnto Solution computer, wood 2-story house with 12 Nomad sea kayak. All in rooms. Granite & marble good condition, sell 40,000 floors, baths & kitchen. Center or will split. Call for price. of Phang Nga. Busy all year. Tel: 081-6064649. Only 9.9 million baht. Tel: 081- 0882179.

INVESTOR/PARTNER Bulletins Wanted. To join the team at Lava Pub & Restaurant. Lava was launched in July 2006 in the Royal Phuket City Hotel. Lava has been gathering mo- mentum and is poised to be Phuket City's top spot espe- cially for expats and profes- sional Thais. Everything in place, world-class band, of- fice set up, fully staffed, etc. Up to 2006 shareholding avail- able to the right character. In- terested parties please con- tact Phil. Tel: 081-8934186. Email: lava_phuket@ yahoo. com

GUESTHOUSE LEASE Long established, long lease. 9 rooms, large restaurant, bar. YOUNG CREATIVE Employment Busy location. Quick sale at Architect. Required to work 1.6 million baht ono. Tel: 089- with a property company. Wanted 6489932. Experience in interiors and construction needed. Good BAR FOR SALE deal for the right person. Inter- FINANCIAL Prime location near to beach. views will be conducted in & Accounting. Wanted: Thai Call Kevin. Tel: 084-730- February. Email: sten56@ female with 12 years’ related Business 0190. Please see our website msn.com experience. Please call for full Opportunities details. Tel: 076-221191. at: www.tsba.info FREELANCE Email: andaman.best.travel Photographer. Required to @gmail.com INVESTOR/PARTNER BAR FOR SALE work with new company. Wanted. AMT was estab- Popular and successful. Amigos bar in Soi Seadragon Should have experience in CHEF IS LOOKING lished 2 years ago, and is now ready to produce high-quality, for sale. Pool table, darts, own print media and have stock For job. I like a fresh and cre- high-tech deep-v boats. AMT sound system. Price nego- (digital) of pictures of Phuket ative contemporary kitchen, has built a factory 10,000sqft. tiable dependant on length of for use in print and web. Using good teamwork and return Fully tooled and ready to roll. lease required. Tel: 087- PhotoShop. Office in Bang guests. Contact. Tel: 085- 1st boat 90% complete and 8838721. Tao, interview in February. 7910717. Email: [email protected] waiting sale. Any interested parties please contact Steve. INVESTMENT ADMINISTRATOR WEB AND GRAPHIC Factory visit welcome. Please Boutique hotel opening De- Thai female, 33, available for Designer. Fantastic Designer contact for more information. cember 2007, only 9 shares administrative positions. Good Tel: 089-2878667. Email: available. Great return and with wide experience in print, English and computer skills. web publishing, video editing [email protected] yearly holiday. Please contact. Ready for interview. Tel: 087- and latest electronic media Email: resortinvestment@ 2636337. Email: paradorn78 MASSAGE & BEAUTY hotmail.com wanted to join new company @hotmail.com with office in BangTao. Owner Salon. Professional beauty has 25 years’ experience salon and a very nice massage 300,000 BAHT with media in Europe. Good FARANG GUITARIST in the best location on Nanai Reward. If you can send us a deal for right person. Interview And singer looking for some- Rd. Up and running very well. property buyer. Just call in February. Email: sten56@ one to play with. Call Kevin for Good profits. About 10 staff, Marc. Give name and tele- msn.com full details. Tel: 084-730- 160sqm. Rent: 40,000 baht a phone of you and buyer...easy 0190. month, no key money. 3+3- money!! Please call. Tel: 085- SALES ADMIN year lease. Everything brand 7839062. Female, 25-35 years with good LOOKING FOR A JOB new. Family reason for selling. written and spoken English. A Singaporean lady, 27 years 850,000 baht ono. Monthly BEAUTY SALON year’s experience in sales old. English spoken & written. profit about 80-100,000 baht. Beauty salon on Nanai Rd. would be greatly appreciated. Experience in real estate & Call or email, no timewasters Rent: 12,000 baht a month. Tel: 076-215 710. Fax: 076- law firm in Thailand. Anything please. Quick sale. Contact. Key money: 250,000 baht. 224368. Email: phuketsales considered. Please call for full Tel: 089-8093566. Email: Tel: 089-6459453. Email: @somerville-siam.com details. Tel: 089-2897180. [email protected] [email protected] January 13 - 19, 2007 CLASSIFIEDS PHUKET GAZETTE 49 Tout, Trader & Trumpet

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Company registration 2,229 baht; one-year visa 5,999 FOR SALE baht; retirement visa 5,999 Guesthouse and restaurant. Lo- baht; work permit 5,999 cated opposite the main entrance baht; UK & US visa 16,999 to Royal Paradise Hotel. 6 guest baht. No more visa runs – rooms with shower, aircon, TV. get a one-year visa for only Luxury, beautiful restaurant with 5,999 baht. Establish your kitchen, high standard. 14 million Thai company today, buy baht. Tel: 081-8956587. Email: land or start your business for rudolfoan2 @hotmail.com only 2,229 baht! Property title search, sales contract RESTAURANT and land registration. Thai- For sale. In the heart of Patong, land’s largest legal service all furniture and materials with network. Always low prices company, low-rent 3+3-year by our licensed Thai lawyers. lease. Reasonably priced at 1.9 Please contact for further million baht. Tel: 084-850- 0375. information. Tel: 076-345- Email: [email protected] 277. Email: info@siam- legal.com GUESTHOUSE www.siam-legal.com LEASE, PATONG 22 spacious, clean rooms, cable TV, minibar, aircon. - Elevator, wireless Internet - Restaurant, bar area KAMALA - No maintenance needed Restaurant & bar. Famous for - Very qualified staff pizza & Tex-mex. 40 seats, air - 4-min walk to the beach conditioning, equipment, stock and furniture. For sale at - Unbelievable potential 500,000 baht + rent 6,000 - Rent for Jan-Feb paid baht a month. Contact for Key money: 2.6 m. baht. more details. Tel: 086-287- Email: 8966. Email: boomerkamala [email protected] @hotmail.com 50 PHUKET GAZETTE CLASSIFIEDS January 13 - 19, 2007 Tout, Trader Wheels & Motors

& Trumpet NISSAN CEFIRO 1992 Saloon Cars For sale, Nissan Cefiro 1992. In 4 x 4s mint condition. 150,000 baht. Power steering and windows. Leather seats. If interested, MITSUBISHI 4 X 4 please contact me on my cellphone. Cheers! Tel: 076- 215829, 089-7764200.

SALE MAZDA 323 1993 model, blue color, 126,000km, 4 doors, auto 2835cc. 4 doors. Year: De- gear, aircon, CD-radio player. cember 2001. First class in- Fixed price: 140,000 baht. surance. Service by Mitsu- Call after 6 pm. Please con- bishi. Price: 370,000 baht. Phuket’s Most Trusted & tact for more information. Tel: 076-322095-7, 081- Reputable Supplier of the Finest Tel: 084-8491037. Email: 6441367. Email: aong@ Quality Used SALOONS, [email protected] islandtechnology.com SEDANS, JEEPS & PICKUPS

New cars or trade-ins – TOYOTA COROLLA we have what you’re For sale. Year 1996, good looking for condition, CD player, well TOYOTA VIGO 3.0G maintained. Price: 220,000 4X4 For more info please call us at baht. Contact for more infor- Black, 4-door, 18 months old, Personal Tel: 076-224632, 216243 mation. Tel: 076-239111, only 12,000km. Also has Services www.suremotor.com 081-9583095. Fax: 076- first-class insurance. A1 238974. Email: suporn@ condition: 700,000 baht. asia-marine.net Call for more details. Tel: LEARN THAI 089-7292846. At home. Charming Thai lady SUBARU WRX teacher gives Thai lessons at IMPREZA Pickups your home. Full course with 1962 JEEP - conversation practice and REFURBISHED home study material. Begin- MITSUBISHI TRITON 230,00 baht. Get more in- ners or more advanced. Please 2006, megacab auto. 2WD, formation by email or phone. contact for more information. 6,500km, JVC CD, perfect Tel: 081-8924282. Email: Tel: 081-7971497. Email: load cover. 6 month insurance [email protected] [email protected] left. 495,000 baht. Tel: 089- 9711813. MASSAGE Turbo chip. Please contact In your home or hotel. For men NISSAN NV 1600 CC 2002 FORD RANGER for more information. Tel: XLT 4X4 by a man - only. Please con- 085-7977786.Email: 2 seats, custom-made tarp. 2 4-door, Turbo, farang tact for more details. Tel: 089- [email protected] new tires, taxed & insured, 2228206. recently serviced. Excellent owned, only 19,600km, condition. 130,000 baht. Call with carryboy, silver, im- 1967 VW BEETLE 1300 for more information. Tel: maculate condition, looks Personal and smells like new. Black/white two tone, CD, 089-6489694. 490,000 baht. Tel: 077- Services aircon, black glass, nice con- 248188, 086-2689460. dition. Much admired. FORD RANGER 2005 Wanted Email: sateebonsamui@ 165,000 baht to a good Hi-Rider open cab, 18 yahoo.com home. Please contact for months old. 26,000km. 5- Club TEACHER REQUIRED more information. Tel: 087- speed, aircon, alarm, etc. Memberships Japanese teacher needed for 2670102. Email: paul@ Manufacturer's warranty. HONDA CRV FOR SALE Available private lessons. Email: josethai reeframmer.com First hand, full service his- 2003 black color, abs, airbags, @mac.com tory. Non-smoking owner. Ex- leather seats, mp3 player. SPORT MAZDA ASTINA cellent condition. 510,000 715,000 baht. Tel: 089- Sport Mazda Astina F323, baht. Tel: 084-1880896. 8192313. Email: peterc_33 LAGUNA GOLF Personals Silver, Year 1995, 1800cc. @yahoo.com Re-sale 15-year member- Registered in your name & TOYOTA HILUX ship offer. 500,000 baht. BACKGAMMON fully insured. Payment op- X-tra Cab, 1997 model, very BIG JEEP FOR SALE Fully-restored engine, paint, Contact Jimmy Donald for Retired businessman looking tions: (1) cash 215,000 good condition, 2.8l engine, stainless bars, etc. Great is- more information. for Backgammon players on baht; (2) down payment of 155,000km. 150,000 baht land car. 150,000 baht firm, or Phuket Island. Please call for 110,000 baht and 6,250 ono. Leaving Thailand so must Tel: 076-271874. part exchange or trades. more information. Tel: 076- baht a month for remaining sell urgently. Contact for VISA SERVICE Email: annedonald13@ Please contact for more info. 386113, 081-5778443. 19 months. Must see to ap- more information. Tel: 076- Complete service for all kinds of btinternet.com preciate. Tel: 087-3809066. 288500, 087-8957810. Tel: 087-8914882. Email: visas, work permits and com- Email for photos and more Email: [email protected] [email protected] pany registration. Tel: 076- Pets details. Email: phuketislander 525063, 081-7284200. Fax: @yahoo.com 076-525063. Email: kwan_ Miscellaneous [email protected] for Sale BEAUTIFUL PIT BULL JAZZ COOL II PARTY OR WEDDING Red-nose pit bull puppies for 190,000km, used for 6 Kois bar has 2 bars/restaurants sale. Tel: 087-1466622, months, . Excellent condition, in Kamala and can provide an 087-2741388. full insurance. Contact for excellent location for your more details.Tel: 087- function's buffet for 20+. 3829407. From 2,000 baht. Tel: 087- ENGLISH BULLDOG 9037933 Eng/Thai. Female English bulldog for sale. We have beautiful AKC English CRV + VIOS TITLE SEARCH bulldog companions. Home- Honda CRV, 2003, red, Protect your investment. Check raised, vet examined, shots 27,000km. Asking: 700,000 the land title before you buy. and de-wormings current to baht. Toyota Vios 2003, auto We offer full legal services in- age. Health guarantee. Ship- gold, 52,000km. Asking cluding purchase agreement, ping and delivery available. 400,000 baht. Contact for lease and land registration. Free Tel: 415-4157- 75303 (Swit- more information. Tel: 089- consultation. Tel: 076-345277. zerland). Email: petbreed11@ 4744704. Fax: 076-284198. www.siam-legal.com/land yahoo.com Email: [email protected] January 13 - 19, 2007 CLASSIFIEDS PHUKET GAZETTE 51 Wheels & Motors

KAWASAKI BOSS 175 YAMAHA 400CC CHOP MITSUBISHI CEDIA HONDA CRV KIA 20 SPORTAGE 2006 with only 600km, excel- Bills for 60,000 baht. VGC 2003. 1.6L, auto, dark blue, SUZUKI CARIBIANS Aug 2002. 75,000km. Sil- FOR SALE lent condition. 65,000 baht. complete engine, paint. good condition. Available for For rent with full insurance. ver, auto, 1 owner, full op- For quick sale, KIA 20 Please contact for more infor- 85,000 baht. K. Tom. Tel: long-term lease with 1st-class 600 baht per day. 3,500 per tions. 650,000 baht. Please Sportage 4WD, 137,000 mation. Tel: 089-9715664. 087-1789273. insurance for 15,000 baht a week. 11,500 a month. Call contact for more informa- km, good condition, year month. Tel: 076-239820, Kois Bar Car Rent, Kamala. tion. Tel: 089-8736533. 1996. Price: 285,000 baht. YAMAHA TENERE 750 HONDA CHOPPER 081-7373720. Fax: 076- Tel: 087-9037933. Tel: 081-0868044. Email: 1995, green, 22,000km, with Phantom 200cc with only 239828. Email: chaiyaphong [email protected] NASTY ISUZU book, perfect condition 950km. 3 months old, used @dewaphuket.com BP RENTALS 2-year-old D-MAX, loaded! 200,0000 baht. Tel: 089- occasionally. 68,000 baht Suzuki Caribians for 10,000 31,000km. 6-disc stereo, hard TIGER SPORT CRUISER 9715664. (new: 90,000 baht). Tel: 086- CAR FOR RENT baht a month. Discount for long- 5948543. black cover. This is a strong & 2002 LTD. Good condition, 9,500 baht. Daihatsu Mira, term rental or limited mileage. beautiful truck. Must see. blue, one owner, 110,000km, KAWASAKI KSR 2006 good condition, easy to drive Full insurance. Tel: 089- Please contact for more infor- full service history, many ex- 110cc with only 900km, ex- ONE MUST GO and economical. For rent, 4727304. mation. Tel: 084-5078966. tras, 4-door, 4X4, leather inte- cellent condition. 48,000 Honda Shadow 600, 1994, 9,500 baht a month. Tel: rior. 550,000 baht ono. Tel: baht. Tel: 089-9715664. black-chrome, 160,000 baht. 081-5371050. OR Yamaha Super Tenere Car Services TOYOTA SPORT RIDER 081-7817250. Email: harvey [email protected] SUZUKI INTRUDER 750 XTZ 750, 1994, dark green, NOUVO & MIO & CAR Mint condition, 1 farang 170,000 baht. Both bikes For rent or sale. Nouvo 1 year have registration, tax and in- old: 40,000 baht or 4,800 owner, new engine in 2005, MINIBUS SERVICE HONDA CRV custom-made stainless ex- surance. Good condition. No baht a month. Mio 7 months 34,000KM haust pipes, new tires, accidents or rentals. Registra- old: 35,000 baht or 4,500 clutch, all parts from Ger- tion in your name, tourist visa baht a month. New car: Black metallic. 800,000 possible. Call for details. Tel: baht. Woman owner, first- many; too many to list. Runs 17,000 baht a month. Please great. Genuine book, tax and 076-296621, 081-6916147. contact for more information. hand. Call for more details. Fax: 076-344689. Email: Very good condition. Auto- Tel: 087-8822462. insurance paid. Will do regis- Tel: 089-5885692. matic. Just 7 years old, tration transfer for you. [email protected] 165,000km. 450,000 baht. 139,000 baht. Tel: 076- MIO 120 BAHT A DAY Please contact for more infor- CHEROKEE FOR 344707, 08-90216803. Rentals Honda 90 baht day. Yamaha mation. Tel: 084-8459178. SALE Fax: 076-344689. Email: Mio for rent: 2,900 baht a Minibus with aircon, full insur- [email protected] month. Honda: 2,300 baht a ance and careful driver. Can Jeep Cherokee, 4L, auto, CHEROKEE, 4.0L RENT NEW YARIS month. Contact for more de- go anywhere at your request. cream leather seat. Lady- HONDA MAGNA 1998 Auto, CD, aircon, fully insured. tails. Tel: 076-288542, 086- Tel: 081-5388567. Email: Bronze, perfect, new Sony owned, good condition. Main- 250cc, silver, 21,600km, Camry also available. Tel: 6837162. Email: somthawin [email protected] stereo, new paint and tenance by Mercedes ser- perfect condition. 140,000 076-282781, 081-1965212. _pw@ hotmail.com leather seats. All services vice. For quick sale: only by Benz. 91,000km. Only baht. Tel: 089-9715664. 320,000 baht. Tel: 081- CAR FOR RENT 420,000 baht. Please con- 3430777. Email:montha_ New Jazz for rent. Short or tact for more information. [email protected] HONDA CHOPPER Tel: 081-0780014. Email: For sale. Honda VLX 400. New long term. Please contact for bjarneaagaardhansen@ engine, perfect condition with more information. Tel: 084- hotmail.com book. 150,000 baht. Tel: 083- 8516121, 087-3829407. JEEP FOR SALE 3908639. 2002 FORD RANGER Why rent when you can buy XLT 4x4. 4-door, turbo, farang- a good reliable vehicle. Easy P.M.P. CAR RENT owned, only 19,600km,silver, to maintain, fun to drive jeep. HARLEY DAVIDSON And taxi service. Toyota with carryboy, immaculate con- Removable doors/windows. Wish, Camry, Vios, Yaris dition, looks and smells like new. Price: 79,999 baht. Tel: and Honda Jazz for rent. 490,000 baht. Contact for 087-2676024. Short term or long term. more details. Tel: 077- Minibus on tour, taxi ser- 248188, 086-2689460. Email: vice. Call for more details. [email protected] Motorbikes Tel: 087-2646808, 083- 1743880. TOYOTA FORTUNER 2005. 3.0D for exchange for 2005 15th anniversary Fat CHEROKEE FOR RENT auto gear or sale. Tel: 089- HONDA 750 CBR Jeep Cherokee, 4L, auto, HURRICANE Boy, very low km, immacu- 0219504, 086-2791602. late, registered, 15". 1 mil- leather seats, CD. For rent lion baht ono. Please contact with first class insurance. Only 23,000 baht a month. MITSUBISHI 4X4 for more information. Tel: 081-3619277. Tel: 081-5371050. Mega cab. 1999, 2-door, 5- speed, aircon, foreign- owned, very nice condition, TOYOTA VIGO PICKUP never used for work, BMW F650 GS 1997 For rent. 3L turbo/inter- 100,000km, CD. 375,000 Color black & gray. 150,000 Black, 16,000km with book, cooler, fully insured, long- baht. Tel: 077-826355, baht. Excellent condition perfect condition. 230,000 term rent only. 15,000 baht 087-0403007. Fax: 077- with book. Farang owner. baht. Please contact for a month. Call for details. Tel: 813145. Email: tomcox100 Contact Rooney for more more information. Tel: 089- 076-355488. Email: @hotmail.com details. Tel: 085-8881637. 9715664. [email protected] 52 PHUKET GAZETTE January 13 - 19, 2007