Phuket’s iconic Phromthep Cape will be in the national spotlight on October 29 when a large crowd is expected to turn out for a nationally televised singing of the Thai National Anthem.

The weeks around November 1 – the official start of the “high season” in Phuket – are full of events, particularly charity fund-raisers.

The Great Phuket Rubber Duck Race will bw just one of the events at PCF Race Day on, November 7 at Canal Village in the Laguna complex.

Question: What covers 10 rai (4½ acres or 1.8 hectares) and floats? Answer: the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, the world’s largest warship.

Did you hear the one about the cannibal who thought the comedian tasted funny? Luckily there are (at least, as far as we know) no cannibals in Patong.

Five of the sleekest, most expensive cars available in Thailand will soon be on show in Phuket, at Central Festival’s recently opened CFP Convention Hall.

Phuket Writers Bloc workshops are aimed at assisting writers of all kinds with information that will help technique, editing and marketing of the written word.

The Andaman Players are at it again, this time with interactive drama, as they drag theatre-goers into a web of death and deceit on the Nile.

Phuket is set to be the battleground for two major events in the world of cool-and-sexy-see-and-be-seen, as two leading names in the world of deejay night clubs, Bangkok’s Bed Supper Club and Ibiza’s Hed Kandi, go, er, Bed-to-Hed.

Phuket’s film festival may be dead, but fashion is very much alive, with more than 150 models and celebrities heading for the island for Phuket International Fashion Week, from June 24 to 30. There will be 21 fashion shows during the week, with the promise of concerts by 20 or more top artists every night – no names announced so far, although there is a strong rumour going round the Korean all-girl band Wonder Girls will be performing at some stage.