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Friday, July 3, 2009 - Local time in Phuket: 08:58
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Protesters started to leave and operations at airport went back to normal around 11:00 this morning. >>> Read more
For the first time in recent years, police closed down Bangla road and it's bars at 02 am. It seems BKK police is doing a tour in the south to enforce closing times.
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A farang bar owner was arrested while "working" in the bar last week and couldnt show a work permit. This happened sometimes in the past but havent heard anything similar in recent years. So if you own a bar, make sure you dont do any work in your bar.
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"Foreign investors holding property through shell companies using Thai nominees have been warned to restructure their holdings or face prosecution", commerce minister told journalists today.
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Finally, after a few years of construction and some problems with funding it is finally open. The 5 billion baht shopping center looks very nice and will be a great addition to Patong and Phuket. It will still take a few months until all shops are up and running. Don't miss the fountain magical show at 19:00 and 21:00 every day, its impressive.
>>> Read more and see some photos
 There is a new bar at the end of Soi Seadragon named "Raging Bull Bar" who have a machanical bull for riding. Its great fun, I never tried anything like this before and it is nice to have something new in Patong and the idea is great. Give it a try. Ride the bull look easy but its not even if it may look slow speed on the movie.
My friend also tried but he lasted for just 2 seconds.
See my movie of my first attempt.
A faction of the Thai military led by the army chief says it has overthrown Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Soldiers seized government offices and took up strategic positions around the capital, Bangkok. Parliament and the constitution have been suspended.
Read more here (forum)
Or read other related news articles here
Today the new mobile prefixes is in use, you need to add 8 after the 0. E.g. 01-895 23 00 will be 081-895 23 00.
 We have now installed our own weather station in Patong Beach for current weather statistics but also monthly and yearly statistics will be provided as we store everything in a database.
Our weather page update every 15 minutes, you can view it here:
weather.phuket-info.com
It keeps track of temperature, humidity, rainfall, barometer, wind speed and wind direction and also lot of other variables and trends.
Bangkok Post reported today that a widely used loophole used by foreigners to own land/house will be taken action against, which means foreigners can not create a "shell company" to own the land with paid Thai nominees to act as shareholders and who have invested nothing to facilitate the purchase.
So for the time being, this has raised a lot of questions and already stall home sales to foreigners.
Read full story.
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