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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.

Mother returns for abandoned baby

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 08:52AM

PHUKET: The mother who abandoned her newborn baby daughter in Thalang Hospital on October 18 has returned to the hospital after staff found her working in a village in Thalang district.

Phuket Opinion: Facing the music

Phuket News / Opinion

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 05:50PM

PHUKET: Once again, the Vegetarian Festival has provided a feast of deliciously healthy food, wonderfully weird thrills, and disgustingly literal spills.

Cash crisis delays Khmer Rouge trial

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 05:31PM

ASIA: Cambodia's landmark trial of three ex-Khmer Rouge leaders faces fresh delays, the UN-backed court said Tuesday, explaining funding woes would force it to hold fewer hearings each month.

Pattaya police hunt Russian stab suspects

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 05:15PM

THAILAND: An emergency meeting of senior officers was held at the Pattaya Tourist Police Station on Monday evening to discuss the case of a Russian woman who was repeatedly stabbed as she walked back to her hotel in the early hours of Monday on Jomtien Beach.

Phuket ‘robbed by government’ of convention centre

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 04:08PM

PHUKET: Boonsupa Tantai, president of the “We Love Phuket” club, has said Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s government has ‘robbed’ the island of the chance to benefit from the planned B2.6 billion international convention centre, which was axed by the cabinet on October 2.

Demolisher’s men start probing on Monday

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 02:02PM

PHUKET: The first group of the 366 six-man teams to investigate land titles on behalf of Damrong “The Demolisher” Pidech are expected to arrive in Phuket next Monday (October 29).

Phuket Gov pays tribute to King Rama V

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 12:32PM

PHUKET: Phuket Governor Maitree Intusut, along with other officials, paid tribute to the late King Chulalongkorn, also known as King Rama V, by laying a wreath at his statue at the Phuket Provincial Hall this morning.

Royal faux pas sparks Cambodian factory unrest

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 12:12PM

ASIA: Police in Cambodia were called in on Monday to prevent a riot at a factory whose Chinese manager angered 1,000 workers by ripping up photos of recently deceased former king Norodom Sihanouk.

Singapore opens new cruise terminal, eyes Asian market

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 12:12PM

ASIA: Singapore has opened a new cruise terminal capable of berthing the world's biggest luxury liners, in a bid to boost the city-state's position as a regional travel hub.

Immunity for Thai senator who shot ex-wife

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 08:41AM

THAILAND: Thailand's Senate on Monday voted to deny a request by the police to question one of its members who shot his ex-wife at the dinner table with an Uzi 9mm pistol.

Paris Hilton arrives to announce Phuket party

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 07:56AM

PHUKET: American socialite Paris Hilton arrived in Bangkok yesterday (October 22) to help announce a New Year’s party in Phuket that will feature a stage floating on the ocean.

‘Fearless’ men climb bladed ladder

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 22 October 2012, 06:09PM

PHUKET: More than 30 maa song climbed bladed ladders at a packed Bang Niew Shrine in Phuket Town last night.

Gov chairs meeting for Phuket press

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 22 October 2012, 05:30PM

PHUKET: Around 20 members of the Phuket Press Association were given a lecture on essential media laws on Saturday (October 20) by Dr Supaporn Sridee from the faculty of Mass Communication, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University.

Public appeal after mother of newborn baby vanishes

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 22 October 2012, 05:03PM

PHUKET: A public appeal has been launched after a Thai woman gave birth at Thalang Hospital on October 18 and then vanished later that day, leaving her newborn baby girl in the hospital.

Amateur mistake from gold robber leads to arrest

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 22 October 2012, 04:42PM

PHUKET: Jakkreut Jantnont robbed a gold shop of a one-baht weight necklace on Thursday evening in Patong, and was caught when he went to a shop in Phuket Town the following day trying to sell it, police say.

Man robs tourist of more than B200,000

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 22 October 2012, 04:05PM

PHUKET: Police said an unidentified Kuwaiti tourist was assaulted and robbed of more than B200,000 in valuables on Saturday (October 20) in Patong.

Kathu police in ‘drugs crackdown’

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 22 October 2012, 03:52PM

PHUKET: Kathu District Police Superintendent Pol Col Jirapat Pochanapant ordered a “continuing crackdown on illegal drug use” today (October 22) in his area, which includes Patong.

Expert praises Hard Rock safety measures

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 22 October 2012, 03:40PM

PHUKET: Hard Rock Cafe – the second major entertainment venue to experience a fire in recent months – was investigated yesterday (October 21) by Bangkok-based President of the Safety in Architecture section of the Association of Siamese Architects, Dr Bundit Pradabsook, who also visited the Tiger Disco ruins.

Sun rises in East, retires in West for expats, survey suggests

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 22 October 2012, 12:48PM

THAILAND: Asia is fast becoming a top destination for professional people and executives who go abroad for their companies, their careers and their bank accounts: the expatriates.

Thai 'transgender airline' grounded over finances

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 22 October 2012, 12:46PM

THAILAND: Months after taking to the skies with Thailand's first transsexual air crew, fledgling carrier PC Air has suspended services over financial troubles that left passengers stranded in South Korea.

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