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Fantasia Fun at Lighthouse Weekend Market

WORD ON PHUKET: It was a fun-packed weekend for all the family at the monthly Boat Lagoon Lighthouse Market on 28 – 29 March with a Fantasia theme featuring Disney characters and circus acts on the dockside as well as more than 50 stalls along the boardwalk offering everything from gourmet munchies to hand-made products and organic produce. The next Lighthouse Weekend Market is on 25 – 26 April…

Summer Selfies With Sunflowers at Central Festival Phuket

WORD ON PHUKET SHOPPING: This week is your last chance to take summer snapshots among the sunflowers at Central Festival.

Strike a pose on the straw bales or on the bicycle with a windmill in the background and sunflowers all around for that perfect summer snap right here in Phuket. Head to the sunflowers on the ground floor near the escalators.

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Legends Make Music Saturday Night at Hard Rock Patong

WORD ON PHUKET MUSIC SCENE: Phuket brightest young rockers, the Legends of Siam, are launching their debut album “This Means War” on Saturday night (28 Feb) at the Hard Rock Cafe in Patong.

Phuket rock band Legends of Siam

Entry is free for the concert and a rockin’ good time from 7pm onwards!

Listen to the band’s new single Writing My Name on Soundcloud.com

Property Promotions at Phuket Real Estate Show

WORD ON PHUKET PROPERTY: Expectations are high among the property developers promoting the latest condos and houses for sale in Phuket at the Phuket Real Estate Show at Central Festival Phuket, 19-25 February.

Visitors can expect to find some excellent deals and promotions at the fair from the variety of properties on offer at the 50-plus display booths, ranging from affordable condos for under…

WORD ON PHUKET EARTHQUAKE: Phuket earthquake monitors have confirmed that Phuket was shaken by a 4.0 magnitude quake just after 1pm this afternoon.

Residents across Phuket have called in to say they felt the tremor. A resident in Koh Kaew said the ground “shook violently”.

The earthquake is said to have originated off Koh Yao, about 2km underground.

No injuries have been reported and there have…

Earthquake Tremor Felt in Phuket

WORD ON PHUKET EARTHQUAKES: Reports are coming in of a tremor felt in north Phuket at about 1pm.

Teachers at a school in north Phuket reported feeling a rumble under their feet that slightly shook the building for a few seconds.

There have so far been no official confirmations of an earthquake. However, the USGS earthquake monitoring network recorded a 6.2 earthquake off the east coast of…

Lighthouse Weekend Market Returns This Weekend

More family fun in store for this weekend’s Lighthouse Market at Boat Lagoon Phuket, February 21 – 22

WORD ON PHUKET: Mores shopping, more chilling and many more things to eat and drink can be found this weekend at the 2nd Boat Lagoon Lighthouse Weekend Market this Saturday and Sunday (21-22 February).

Fish & chips at the Tablespoon stall

This month’s Lighthouse Market promises to be bigger and…

UK Riot Police Raid Suspected ‘Benefits Cheats’ in Croydon

WORD ON CHANGING WORLD: Teams of police in riot gear smashed their way onto two family homes in Croydon in the UK to collect evidence in cases of suspected benefits fraud.

Police in riot gear raid a home in Croydon. Photo: Grant Melton

Police, accompanied by council officials, barged into the neighbouring homes at 6am this morning, one where a mother lives with her two children in their early…

Thais Win Snow Sculpture Contest

WORD ON THAI ART: A team of Thai sculptors is celebrating their sixth win at the 42nd annual International Snow Sculpture Contest 2015 in Sapporo, Japan, after winning over the judges with a sculpture titled “The Ubiquitous Tuk-Tuk”.

The Thai team craft their tuk tuk

The Thai trio beat 11 other teams from around the world, mostly from colder regions.

The team created the 3-metre-high snowtuk tuk…

Gay Pride Phuket 2015

WORD ON PHUKET GAY SCENE: The 11th Gay Pride Phuket Festival is set for 19th  – 26th April, 2015.

Gay Pride Phuket 2013

The Phuket Loves You Club (PLU) is in its fourth year of promoting Phuket Pride, The theme for this gay/LGBT festival in Patong is “Freedom To Live”.

Soi Paradise in Patong is the main venue for the week’s parties, climaxing in a procession along the Patong Beach front road of…

Phuket Kids Observe Dolphin Slaughter in Japan

WORD ON DOLPHIN SLAUGHTER: Students from the Geko Community in Phuket are currently monitoring the slaughter of wild dolphins at the Taiji Cove in Japan.

Dolphin slaughter at Taiji Cove, Japan. Photo: The Dolphin Project

The Phuket-based kids have joined other monitors with the Rick O’Barry Dolphin Projectas part of a campaign to prevent a dolphinarium opening in Phuket that would use dolphins…

Big Drug Bust in Southern Thailand

WORD ON THAILAND DRUG BUSTS: Police found 30 million baht worth of speed pills and heroin hidden under coconuts in a pick up truck pulled over at police checkpoint in Songkhla Province, southern Thailand, on Saturday morning.

The drugs, reportedly being transported from North Tjhailand to Naratiwat Province in the south, included 66,000 speed pills and 13.5kg of heroin.

The two in the truck, a 27…

WORD ON THAILAND: Thailand’s political landscape is being restructured in what appears to be a dramatic move towards real, grass-roots people power through decentralization.

The original copy of the 2007 constitution, written on a traditional folding book. On the pages shown, King Bhumibol Adulyadej signed and applied his regnal seal (the seal of the garuda) and the three great seals (from left…

Phuket Old Town Festival

WORD ON PHUKET: Expect crowds of thousands walking the streets of Phuket Town on February 15 – 17 during the 2015 Old Phuket Town Festival.

The annual festival celebrating the vibrant ‘Baba’ days of yesteryear is a held in the heart of Phuket Town, where the roads are closed off so pedestrians can walk among the vast array of market stalls selling endless choices of street food, strange drinks,…

Chinese New Year in Phuket

WORD ON PHUKET: Visiting Phuket during Chinese New Year is one way to guarantee experiencing the clourful and noisy annual celebrations among Phuket’s substantial Chinese community.

Visit any of Phuket’s Chinese shrines, most of which are in Phuket Town, in the last week of February to see the traditional festivities large Chinese population, Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations are commonplace…

Pink Floyd Song For Palestine

WORD ON CHANGING WORLD: PInk Floyd front man Roger Waters has recorded a “Song for Palestine” after seeing for himself some of the horrors Palestinians face on a daily basis, literally imprisoned on a piece of land that is getting smaller and smaller by the day — yet almost no coverage in the mainstream media.

Roger Waters – Song For Palestine

scroll down for video: Song for Palestine

In his own…