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Food & drink · Cherngtalay · 1 November

PRU x FRIENDS: The Farm Festival

Chefs, growers, producers, artisans and live music gather at PRU Jampa Farm for the restaurant’s tenth-anniversary programme.

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Longtail boats and a speedboat moored in calm turquoise water off Rawai beach in Phuket, with a wooded headland and distant islands under a hazy sky.Remote Work

Phuket's best-rated coworking space isn't on the beach at all. These are the five its users rate highest

We ranked Phuket coworking spaces by Google Maps rating on 13 November 2026, with at least 50 reviews and one location per operator. Denz, Insight Place, Let's Work, Grind Time Rawai and PLACE make the top five, and the leader sits in the hills above Patong.

13 Nov 2026 · Remote Work
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Two Thai-Malay dishes on blue and white plates on a marble table in Phuket: a spicy salad with sliced shallots, chillies and tomato on a banana leaf, and a chilli dip in a stone mortar served with carrot, long beans, cucumber and small auberginesNews

Two Michelin stars outside Bangkok for the first time: Phuket's PRU breaks the capital's grip

The MICHELIN Guide Thailand 2027 has promoted PRU in Phuket to two stars, the first restaurant outside Greater Bangkok to reach that level. Phuket also gains two one-star restaurants, Chiang Mai gets its first star, and the Bib Gourmand list grows to 151.

11 Nov 2026 · News
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Three sanitation workers in pink and blue overalls emptying bins into the back of a blue garbage truck at night on a Thai street, with bagged rubbish piled by a shuttered shopfrontNews

Phuket's main landfill has stopped taking rubbish, and nobody can say when it will reopen

Phuket City Municipality suspended all waste deliveries to the island's disposal centre on 8 November 2026 after the landfill passed capacity in its seventh crisis. Here is why it happened, the numbers behind it, and what it could mean for rubbish collection where you live.

10 Nov 2026 · News
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View over low-rise Chiang Mai city with the Doi Suthep mountain range behind under a blue sky.Remote Work

Thailand's nomad hubs lead Southeast Asia on 5G. So why does a third of Chiang Mai's broadband miss the remote-work bar?

Ookla's Speedtest data for 13 Southeast Asian nomad hubs puts Phuket, Bangkok and Chiang Mai top for 5G availability, but only 65.7% of Chiang Mai's fixed broadband tests clear a basic remote-work threshold. How Thailand compares with Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City and Bali, and what to check before signing a lease.

08 Nov 2026 · Remote Work
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