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NEWS TODAY May 24

Taxi blockade at airport. Another protest - outside Governor's mansion. Dredging at Bang Tao Klong nearly complete.

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The Big List: Ghost Towns

THE BIG LIST: “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.” Shelley’s poem Ozymandias, a vision of lost ruins in the desert, mocks the ultimate fate of even greatest human cities, and the greatest vanities. Here are a few of the more unusual ghost towns you’ll find dotted around the world.

‘Ugly’ fish face up to extinction

WEIRD WORLD: They may be last of their species – and scientists joke they may be too ugly to breed. London Zoo has appealed to fish keepers to find a mate for their two tropical Mangarahara cichlids, which come originally from Madagascar.

Stray dogs sniff out human remains

WEIRD WORLD: A Polish businessman who stashed human body parts in a city warehouse instead of incinerating them was exposed by local stray dogs, who started gathering hungrily outside.

Argentine ghost town rises from the waves

Phuket News / Weird World

Friday 24 May 2013, 03:34PM

WEIRD WORLD: A town in Argentina that was under water for 25 years is once again proving an attraction for tourists.

Berserker Australians get rough Phuket justice

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 24 May 2013, 12:44PM

PHUKET: Two out-of-control Australians received rough justice early yesterday morning (May 23), after they attacked an American in a bar on Bangla Rd and started a brawl.

Phuket Opinion: Kept in the dark

Phuket News / Opinion

Friday 24 May 2013, 12:10PM

PHUKET: If Tuesday night’s black out – the biggest outage ever recorded in Thailand – taught us anything, it is to always be careful in Thailand. That you’re on your own and that nothing is probably as it seems.

Improvement of polluted Phuket canal ‘underway’

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 23 May 2013, 06:36PM

PHUKET: Much of the polluted Klong Bangtao has been dredged in order to improve flow and reduce bottlenecks that cause stagnation, a meeting at Phuket Provincial Hall was told this morning (May 23).

Taxis, taxis, taxis – a week of fever in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 23 May 2013, 05:48PM

PHUKET: Thirty meter taxis from the Phuket Limousine & Business Services cooperative (PBC) convened a mob at Phuket International Airport yesterday evening (May 22), blocking one of the two roads into the airport.

NEWS TODAY May 23

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 23 May 2013, 03:47PM

'Blackout could have been avoided'. Thai industries affected by black out. Former VG house suspect overlooking Patong.

Who's responsible for Phuket's blackout?

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 10:37PM

BANGKOK: The energy minister has reasons to be upset about the southern power outage, as no one at the electricity supplying agencies made the decision to save the region.

Phuket teacher runs marathon for cancer-stricken colleague

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 06:39PM

PHUKET: As HeadStart teacher Richard Allenby lay on his hospital bed before surgery at Bangkok Hospital Phuket, he was convinced he was going to die. He told his adult son to look after his pregnant wife and their unborn child.

Stockholm 'police brutality' riots go into third day

Phuket News / World

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 06:29PM

STOCKHOLM: Riots in a poor, mainly immigrant suburb of Sweden's capital have continued into a third night.

Boundless destruction as US tornado rescue winds down

Phuket News / World

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 06:15PM

MOORE: As rescue efforts in Oklahoma wound down Wednesday, residents turned to the daunting task of rebuilding a US heartland community shattered by a vast tornado that killed at least 24 people.

Phuket vendors protest no-parking zone

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 06:06PM

PHUKET: Around 30 street vendors attended a meeting at the Phuket City Municipality to discuss a new no-parking zone outside Vachira Hospital, which they say has led to lost revenue for them.

Senators inspect former Phuket VG’s hilltop paradise

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 05:59PM

PHUKET: A Senate committee led by Boonsong Kowawisaratch, senator for Mae Hong Son Province, this morning (May 22) visited the resort-style house built by a former vice-governor of Phuket, high in the hills overlooking Patong.

British police charge man over IRA bombing 31 years ago

Phuket News / World

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 05:48PM

LONDON: A man has been charged over a notorious IRA bombing in London in 1982 which killed four British soldiers on ceremonial duty, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Japan parliament approves child abduction treaty

Phuket News / Asia

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 05:08PM

TOKYO: Japan's parliament on Wednesday approved an international treaty on child abductions after decades of pressure from the United States and other Western nations.

British PM 'proud' of gay marriage bill but economy now focus

Phuket News / World

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 05:07PM

LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday he was proud MPs had voted to back gay marriage but admitted the debate has been divisive and said his focus would now be on economic matters.

Hong Kong’s struggle to combat its waste crisis

Phuket News / Asia

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 04:51PM

HONG KONG: An army of road sweepers and refuse collectors keep the streets clean in the heart of Hong Kong – but on the outskirts, growing mountains of waste are testament to what campaigners say is an environmental crisis.

Orania, South Africa’s whites-only town

Phuket News / World

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 04:48PM

Welcome to Orania, South Africa: a whites-only enclave established in 1991 during the dying years of apartheid.

Phuket/South blackout will cost industry 'billions'

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 04:38PM

BANGKOK: The huge power blackout in the South on Tuesday night could cost the food and rubber processing sector about 10 billion baht, and the government must ensure it does not happen again, Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) secretary-general Tanit Sorat said on Wednesday.

Yingluck: Find cause of Phuket/South blackout

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 04:12PM

BANGKOK: Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has ordered an investigation into the causes of the massive power blackout in 14 southern provinces on Tuesday night, and the preparation of contingency plans to ensure it does not happen again.

Condo raid nets capital's 'largest-ever drugs haul'

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 04:11PM

BANGKOK: A raid yesterday at a condo in Bung Kum district netted Bangkok's largest-ever single seizure of drugs, police say.

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