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What does it take to win an election in Phuket?

Sunday 3 January 2021 11:00 AM

Phuket last month saw its first President of the Phuket Provincial Administration Organisation (PPAO, or OrBorJor) elected in six years. But voter turnout was very low, and a winner announced. Here, the chief of the Phuket office of the Election Commission of Thailand explains how.

Closing Nai Harn Beach at nightfall

Phuket News / Q&A

Tuesday 4 August 2020 05:09 PM

Do lifeguards have the authority to tell people to leave the beach when after sun sets? Read on...

How to contact Honorary Consuls in Phuket

Phuket News / Q&A

Sunday 1 September 2019 01:00 PM

Ever needed to contact an Honorary Consul in Phuket, but didn't know how? Well, here's the list that the police get...

Handling waste at Kamala

Phuket News / Q&A

Sunday 13 January 2019 11:00 AM

QUESTION I am a tourist and I recently saw some different coloured bins at Kamala Beach and wondered what the different coloured bins are for? Is it for separating recyclable waste? If so, is trash separated at the point of disposal, and hence disposed of properly for recycling? What happens to the waste put into these bins? Does the local council have a way of recycling waste, or at least making sure it gets to the right people who can recycle it? – Kendra, from USA   ANSWER The Kamala Tambon Administration Organisation (OrBorTor) uses bins of three different colours for the public to dispose of their general litter. Green bins are for general waste such as food, yellow bins are for recyclable waste such as plastic bottles or even something that could be sold, and red bins are for “hazardous materials”, which includes batteries, paint cans, fluorescent light tubes and so on. We have a lot of these throughout Kamala subdistrict, about 120 bins in total. We provide one green bin for every three to five households in the area for residents to use together, while yellow bins are placed in front of Kamala Mosque and in front of houses of community leaders and local environmental officers in every village in Kamala. Red bins we have placed in public park areas and in front of the 30th Rajaprajanugroh School Phuket. We empty the bins twice a day: once in the morning to collect the waste put in the bins during the night, and again late in the afternoon to collect the waste put in the bins in the daytime. Waste from the red and green bins is taken to the solid-waste separation and disposal facility at Saphan Hin. There, waste from the green bins will be incinerated and the waste from the red bins will be stored until there is enough material to economically transport it to a facility outside Bangkok for safe disposal there. Waste from the yellow bins is sold to local people who collect recyclable waste, and they sell it on to a larger merchant dealing in recyclable waste. The money raised, only about B200-B300 a month, is donated to a local temple or mosque. We do have an area behind Kamala OrBorTor office where some waste is stored. This is usually for burying items like discarded old sofas or branches of trees that we cut in the Kamala area. – Somsak Chaochang, Chief of the Health Division, Kamala Tambon Administration Organisation (OrBorTor).

Are special motorbike licence plates legal?

Phuket News / Q&A

Sunday 14 October 2018 11:00 AM

Lucky licence plates are nigh a Thai tradition, but can you get them for your motorbike? Read on...

Are businesses in Phuket national parks legal?

Phuket News / Q&A

Sunday 25 February 2018 02:00 PM

We read about crackdown after crackdown on private businesses set up within national parks in Phuket and elsewhere in Thailand, but there are businesses openly operating in plain sight within the same parks. Are these businesses legal? Read on to find out...

Is blurring licence plates on tourist buses, vans and taxis legal in Phuket?

Phuket News / Q&A

Sunday 11 February 2018 11:00 AM

It seems that nearly every time you wait at a set of traffic lights in Phuket, there is a tourist minivan or even bus with licence plate so blurred it looks like the damage was done intentionally. Want to know what the legal position on this is? Read on...

When the road hazard in Phuket is a building

Phuket News / Q&A

Sunday 21 January 2018 11:00 AM

For more than a decade the incomplete building on the street that has become known as “Soi Banzaan” in Patong has stood blocking half the street, with not a single step by officials the rectify the “ultimate road hazard”. Want to know why it is there and why nothing is being done about it, read on for the very limited responses The Phuket News has been able to obtain from the officials themselves...

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