That calendar is finally out – the one with five scantily clad Phuket girls-about-town. The calendar that will raise funds for the orphans at the Phuket Sunshine Village.

If there’s one thing Bryan Lunt likes, it’s a party. And why not – he now has his own party venue, the suggestively named Climax at the top of his own love pad development – sorry, apartment development, Absolute Bangla Suites, just off the infamous womb of Patong, Soi Bangla.

Stereo Lab, the disco on the sand at Surin Beach, which earlier brought Hed Kandi to the island for the first time, has scored another hit, booking Brooklyn-born deejay Todd Terry for a night on December 2.

There was a time when visitors to Phuket would go to the Siray area, east of Phuket Town, for just one reason: to catch the big ferry to Phi Phi. Now Koh Siray has snagged its first five-star international hotel brand, with the opening of the Westin Siray Bay Resort & Spa in March next year.

The 2010 Phuket International Marine Expo (PIMEX) is expected to attract over 75 local and international exhibitors and over 4,000 visitors.

Twenty Belgian beauty queens added glamour to a pre-opening dinner at the soon-to-open Blue Elephant restaurant in Phuket Town.

Niche Cars are coming back for two days, this time parking their extreme machines at the Royal Phuket Marina.

The Laguna Phuket resorts complex has been chosen as the venue for the climax of the new annual Asia-Pacific Ironman 70.3 Event Series, starting next year and attracting top triathletes from around the world.

The Phuket Community Foundation (PCF) has announced that its income from the Race Day it organised on November 7 totaled around 288,000 baht.
PCF Director Janyaporn Morel remarked, “We are delighted with the financial result. This is the first time we have organised such an event. It is also the first time that a Rubber Duck [...]

AirAsia has added yet another destination linked by direct flights to its Phuket regional hub – Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.