Phuket Red Cross Fair returns

Phuket Red Cross Fair returns

By Tanyaluk Sakoot

After a shady one-year hiatus last year, the annual Red Cross Fair is back. Image: Phuket Red Cross

PHUKET: The popular Phuket Red Cross Fair will return to Saphan Hin this year, after being called off quietly by provincial officials last year and replaced by a ‘Phuket Brand Phuket Best Festival’ instead.

For more than two decades the annual Red Cross Fair in Phuket has been been held at Saphan Hin. Each year the fair draws many thousands of visitors, and is extremely popular with Thais, with the only aberration being last year, when it was quietly cancelled with no official announcement.

A Phuket Red Cross official, who declined to be named, last year told the The Phuket News, “There are multiple reasons we are not holding the Red Cross Fair, but these reasons are the decision of Phuket Red Cross President Sudarat Plodthong.”

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