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Phuket mansion grounds to become public park

PHUKET: The grounds around a classic but decaying Sino-colonial mansion on Wichit Songkram Rd near Kathu are to be turned into a new exercise park run by the Phuket Provincial Administration Organisation, but the well-known mansion will remain.

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The Big List: Lost and Found

THE BIG LIST: Stories of missing soldiers and standed sailors are as old as literature itself – Homer’s hero Odysseus was cursed to wander for 10 years after the battle of Troy before returning home. Here are some strange but true tales of men who were lost and then found a long time later.

‘MIA Vietnam vet’ exposed as hoax

WEIRD WORLD: A man claiming to be an American soldier missing since his helicopter was shot down during the Vietnam War has been exposed as a hoaxer.

Sno Cone Joe wages street war on Mr Ding-A-Ling

WEIRD WORLD: There ain’t enough ice-cream eaters in this town for the both of us – that was the message Joshua Malatino had for his rival ice-cream van drivers in Gloversville, New York.

Phuket jet ski problems almost resolved

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 1 October 2012, 05:00PM

PHUKET: The government, along with Phuket authorities, are now very close to finding a resolution of the jet ski rentals problem.

Free Wi-Fi for all on its way to Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 1 October 2012, 03:44PM

PHUKET: Free Wi-Fi is on the way for residents and visitors to Thailand with the introduction of the latest government project, ICT Free Wi-Fi for Tourism, TTR Weekly reports.

Phuket Opinion: Bye bye Bali

Phuket News / Opinion

Monday 1 October 2012, 12:49PM

PHUKET: AirAsia’s decision in 2010 to introduce a direct flight from the tropical island of Phuket to the tropical island of Bali was odd. Why would anybody who lives in Phuket want to visit Bali or vice versa?

Phuket Muslims protest at anti-Islam film

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 1 October 2012, 09:13AM

PHUKET: Hundreds of Muslim people in the Bang Tao area gathered on Friday at the Mu Ka Rom mosque to protest against the Innocence of Muslims movie, an anti-Islam film that has sparked global protests.

Six dead, dozens injured in Thai south attacks

Phuket News / Thailand

Sunday 30 September 2012, 10:41PM

THAILAND: Bombing and shooting attacks have killed six people and left 27 wounded across the restive Thai south in two days of violence in the insurgency-plagued region, police said Sunday.

Thai interior minister quits amid land sale probe

Phuket News / Thailand

Sunday 30 September 2012, 10:40PM

THAILAND: Thailand's interior minister and leader of the ruling party resigned from the cabinet on Friday amid a spiralling graft probe scandal and fears over the political fallout for the government.

Phuket Lotus protesters meet Commerce boss

Phuket News / Phuket

Sunday 30 September 2012, 10:16PM

PHUKET: Santichai Santhawanpat, the vice general director of the Department of Internal Trade, along with Phuket MP Rewat Jindapol and municipality representative Niwat Engchuan held a meeting yesterday (Saturday) to discuss the proposal for the new Tesco Lotus in Phuket Town.

Graft busters spar with land officials

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 28 September 2012, 07:30PM

PHUKET: Land officers and the adviser to the Department of National Parks and Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP), which has been rattling skeltons all around Phuket with its land investigation, confronted each other at the Sirinart Marine National Park offices this morning.

Mayor and locals plan how to block Tesco

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 28 September 2012, 07:14PM

PHUKET: Local officials met yesterday (September 27) to discuss ways to block the construction of a large Tesco-Lotus hypermarket on Bangkok Rd in Phuket Town.

Worker electrocuted atop LED billboard

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 28 September 2012, 06:46PM

PHUKET: A Nakorn Sri Thammarat man working on the erection of a new giant LED advertising screen just south of the Central Festival mall was electrocuted this afternoon (September 28).

Store owner 1, burglar 0

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 28 September 2012, 05:56PM

PHUKET: A burglar who climbed to the third floor of a Phuket Town clothing store was confronted and finally overcome by the store’s owner after a furious struggle in the wee hours of Thursday morning.

Croc escapes cage on board Qantas flight

Phuket News / World

Friday 28 September 2012, 02:35PM

Baggage handlers came to the rescue on board a Qantas flight earlier this month, capturing a loose crocodile that had escaped its cage in the aircraft’s cargo hold.

Asian fashion grads have New York moment

Phuket News / Asia

Friday 28 September 2012, 02:17PM

There’s nothing glamorous about ironing your own collection before a show at New York fashion week, but if that’s what it takes for Jie Jessie Liu to break into the business, she’ll do it.

Day change for DJ Boy George set

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 28 September 2012, 01:57PM

PHUKET: Former Culture Club singer turned DJ Boy George, originally scheduled to perform at Bliss Beach Club on October 4, will now perform on Friday, October 5.

Survivors tell of Nepal avalanche

Phuket News / Asia

Friday 28 September 2012, 01:45PM

Climbers who survived an avalanche in the dark on one of the world’s deadliest peaks told Tuesday of their horror as breaking dawn revealed the bodies of their companions littering the mountain.

Gov says goodbye

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 28 September 2012, 01:37PM

PHUKET: A farewell banquet for Governor Tri Augkaradecha on Monday night (September 24) attracted some 1,500 people – a veritable Who’s Who of the great and good in Phuket – to the governor’s official residence.

Surf's up for girls

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 28 September 2012, 01:34PM

PHUKET: The posters advertise a “sea, sand, sun and surf camp” as Rip Curl Launch their Girls Go Surfing Day tomorrow (September 29) at Kata Beach.

No box jellyfish here – scientist

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 28 September 2012, 01:30PM

PHUKET: The recently appointed Director of the Phuket Marine Biological Centre (PMBC) at Cape Panwa, Ukkrit Satapoomin, has strenuously denied that he issued a warning about the possibility of highly venomous box jellyfish being found in the waters around Phuket.

Tiger fire started inside – report

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 28 September 2012, 01:26PM

PHUKET: The deadly fire at the Tiger Discotheque in Patong on August 17 probably started inside the building, Phuket Police Chief Maj Gen Chonasit Wattanavrangkul has said.

Miss Thailand 2012 arrives in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 28 September 2012, 11:38AM

PHUKET: Miss Thailand World 2012 Vanessa “Na-Chatra” Muangkod arrived in Phuket this morning for the opening of the O2 Beach Club in Chalong tonight.

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