Volume 14 Issue 8 News Desk - Tel: 076-236555February 24 - March 2, 2007 Daily news at www.phuketgazette.net 25 Baht The Gazette is published in association with Island-wide security IN THIS ISSUE NEWS: Swiss man stabs po- CCTV now online lice; Two die in head-on By Janyaporn Morel smash. Pages 2 & 3 INSIDE STORY: Patong Beach PHUKET: The next time you are masseuse set ablaze in having a night out on the town in broad daylight. Patong, Kata-Karon or Phuket Pages 4 & 5 City be sure to keep a smile on your face: you might be on TV. AROUND THE NATION: To Don Col Peerayuth Karachedi, Muang or not to Don Muang? Superintendent for Administrative Airlines are divided. Page 8 Affairs at Phuket Provincial Po- AROUND THE SOUTH: More lice Station, told the Gazette on than 30 bombs ring in the February 14 that a closed-circuit Chinese New Year in the television (CCTV) system has Deep South. Page 9 been fully tested and is now op- erational in the three popular PEOPLE: Club diva Barbara Tucker belts out her famous tourist locations. anthems in the name of Love. Each of the three locales Pages 14 & 15 has 16 cameras linked to a com- mand center at a local police sta- AMBROSIA’S SECRETS: Fishing tion in Kathu, Chalong and for compliments nets few re- Phuket City, respectively. sults. Page 17 Installed under a 16-million- WATCHERS WATCHING: Worawit Worrawiboonpong, Manager of CAT Telecom’s Phuket Office, shows LIFESTYLE: Strap-ons and slip- baht contract with telecommuni- cations provider CAT Telecom off the capabilities of the new high-tech surveillance system to Phuket City Police Superintendent Col ons – shoes; U2’s latest Nos Svettalekha at the Phuket City Police Station CCTV Command Center. greatest hits. Pages 18 & 19 Public Company Ltd, the CCTV system uses high-speed wireless area of coverage… but from our The ease with which the tively. The course will be taught COMPUTERS: More Windows CDMA EV-DO technology, tests we can confirm that the video images can be replayed by engineers from project con- woes, but learn how to avoid similar to the wireless network system is up and running at all and reviewed is expected to im- tractor Bosch Security System a few. Page 30 now available to Internet users three locations,” he said. prove law enforcement, security Thailand, Col Peerayuth added. SPORT: Youth Football Home; around the island. About one week was spent and traffic control, he said. Cat Telecom will be given Johnny Walker Classic up- “All the equipment is ready, testing the equipment in all three By the end of February 10 more days to fine-tune the date; Rassada Cup; Darts. but we still need to make minor areas, he added. police officers in the respective system to police requirements, Pages 34 & 35 adjustments to optimize effi- The CCTV cameras can command centers will begin a after which time the police will ciency, such as shifting camera record data for up to 30 days be- two-month training program in sign off for final payment, he PROPERTY: Gardening: Rose angles slightly to maximize the fore the data needs to be archived. how to operate the system effec- said. Apples; Design: Minimalism; Construction; Property Watch. Pages 36-39 PLUS Teenage murder suspects still at large By Sompratch Saowakhon single arrest warrant for all four All four are suspects in the mit murder in the case. TRASH, QUEER NEWS 6; ACROSS can be requested from the court. January 31 slaying of transsexual According to police, the THE B AY 7; AROUND THE ISLAND PHUKET: Almost three weeks Lt Col Adul Niraphai, an glue addict Keittirat Longnawa. youths were huffing glue with the 10; GOOD LIVING 13; HAPPEN- after a gang of nine teenagers Investigating Inspector at Phuket All were allegedly “friends” victim when one of the boys be- INGS 16; TRAVEL 20; MOTORING killed a transvestite in a glue-fu- City Police Station, told the Ga- of K. Keittirat, 31, whose body came enraged and stabbed K. 21; TAKE A BREAK 23 & 24; eled stabbing frenzy, four sus- zette he knows the full names of was found on January 31 with the Keittirat with a kitchen knife. BOOKS, DIARY 25; EDITORIAL, pects remain at large. two of the teenagers, one 17 and throat slashed near Soi Hon- High on glue, the other eight LETTERS, FIRST PERSON 26 & 27; Phuket City Police say they the other 18, but only the nick- saitong in Rassada Village 3. youths then joined in a frenzy of HOROSCOPES, PATTAYA 28; know the full names of two of names of the other two suspects: Five suspects, ranging from stabbing, kicking and hitting the TSOWNDINGS 29; BUSINESS & the remaining suspects, but are a 14-year-old girl nicknamed a 16-year-old girl to a 21-year- victim with sticks, Phuket City MONEY 32 & 33; CLASSIFIEDS waiting to learn the full names of “Rom” and 17-year-old boy nick- old man, have already been Police Station Superintendent Col 40-51. the other two suspects so that a named “Mut”. charged with conspiring to com- Nos Sawetalek told the Gazette. 2 PHUKET GAZETTE NEWS February 24 - March 2, 2007 Old Phuket Town Festival Swiss swindler arrested PHUKET CITY: The 9th Annual Old Phuket Town Festival will take place on and around Thalang Rd from 5 pm to midnight on Feb- after stabbing policeman ruary 23, 24 and 25. The festival will start with By Janyaporn Morel handcuffs and ordered Mr Lang- a daily Chinese prayer ceremony ansand to put his hands behind his from 5 pm to 6 pm at Queen THALANG: Swiss national back. Sirikit Park. Carlos Minnig, 39, on February The undercover officer and On Friday, at 5:30 pm, there 19 stabbed a Tourist Police of- two more Tourist Police officers will be a “Phuket Culture Pa- ficer while resisting arrest on sus- doing surveillance then moved in rade”, from Saphan Hin up picion of attempting to extort to arrest Minnig, who stabbed Phuket Rd to Rassada Rd, west “protection money” from a fel- one of the officers before he to Suriyadet Circle then north to low Swiss national. could be detained. Thalang Rd, where it will turn The arrest followed com- The officer sustained only east and end at Queen Sirikit plaints from Swiss businessman minor injuries. Park. Rene Langansand, 42, that Min- On searching Minnig, offic- At 7 pm Phuket City Mayor nig claimed to be an Interpol ers found a package of cannabis Somjai Suwannasuppana will agent and offered protection ser- hidden in a cigarette packet. open the festival in the park. vices for Mr Langansand’s Koh Minnig confessed that to having There will be activities, Lanta business – for a fee. bought the drug in Koh Lanta. shows and amusements from According to a Tourist Po- During questioning at the 6:30 pm to 10 pm every night at lice press release, Mr Lang- Phuket Tourist Police Office, the park and along Thalang Rd. ansand filed a complaint at Mannig failed to produce his pass- Near the park, people will Phuket City Police Station claim- port. be able to board a gor jan boat, ing that Minnig, 39, had made Pol Maj Bundit Khaosutham (in uniform) announces the arrest of He has been charged with and travel along a section of Carlos Minnig, a Swiss national, on charges of extortion, drug extortion, resisting arrest, posses- phone calls and sent text mes- possession, illegal entry and resisting arrest. Klong Bang Yai as Phuket City sages to his wife, Atchara Yoong- sion of a Class 5 drug (cannabis) residents once used to do. thong. Phuket Tourist Police In- Tambon Thepkrasattri, Thalang. and illegal entry into the King- From 7:45 pm to 8:35 pm In the messages, Minnig al- spector Maj Bundit Khaosutham When the pair arrived at the dom. there will be a nightly light and legedly threatened to kill Mr ordered an undercover officer to scene, Minnig ordered Mr Lang- “We think that Minnig was sound show in the park. Langansand’s entire family if pro- accompany the businessman to ansand to get out of the car and not working alone,” Maj Bundit An exhibit showing photo- tection money was not paid that the arranged delivery spot, a lie face down on the ground. said. “We are now tracking down graphs from HM the King evening. house in Pru Somparn Village, Minnig then produced a pair of his accomplices,” he added. Bhumibol Adulyadej’s visit to Phuket in 1959 will run daily from 5 pm to 10:30 pm, while a display entitled “Old Sino-Portuguese Koh Yao villagers stage pier protest Phuket” will be shown simulta- neously at 63 Thalang Rd. By Sompratch Saowakhon approved during a July 20 meet- Citing arguments put for- come to a quick decision, he said. ing chaired by Phang Nga Gov- ward by the NHRC, the MNRE About a month ago, the PHANG NGA: About 30 protec- ernor Winai Buapradit. ordered that the project be post- MoT requested Phang Nga Gov- tors have been camping out for It wasn’t until late Decem- poned indefinitely while the MoT ernor Winai Buapradit to have more than a month on Klong Son ber that residents of Baan Yamee, reconsiders its approval. construction postponed until the Beach on Koh Yao Yai, demand- where the project is to be built, However, the protesters say MoT makes a decision, he ing the government scrap plans learned that the 85-foot pier they will not leave the beach un- added.