Phuket airport honours honest tourist van driver

Airport director Phet Chuncharoen held a small ceremony at the auditorium on the fifth floor of the Phuket airport office building to reward Pornpong Klaithongkham, 40. Pornpong drives a van that takes foreign tourists from the airport to various tourist destinations in the island-province. On August 11, he found a leather handbag with 3,300 in euro banknotes. He contacted tourist police at the airport who later found the owner, Mohaiminur Reza, 32, who was staying at a Patong hotel. The happy tourist offered 200 euros to Pornpong as a reward.