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NEWS TODAY - HM Queen Elizabeth's Birthday celebrations

The British monarch's 87th birthday was celebrated at the Royal Phuket Marina, hosted by the British Ambassador to Thailand, Mark Kent. The celebrations followed an intense day of meetings between international Ambassadors discussing 'all the usual issues'.

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US unveils $300 million in new aid for Syrian refugees

ENNISKILLEN: US President Barack Obama will tell G8 leaders Monday that Washington is offering a new $300 million aid package for refugees inside and outside Syria, a senior official said.

Two thirds of Chile faces desertification: president

SANTIAGO: Two thirds of Chile's territory is facing desertification in which the bone-dry Atacama Desert grows by over a meter (3.3 feet) a day, President Sebastian Pinera warned Monday.

Defiant Putin sets himself up as G8 outsider

ENNISKILLEN: Vladimir Putin's participation in the first G8 summit of his new term was supposed to seal his comeback to the global stage as Russia's paramount leader after winning a third presidential term last year.

Thai aunt denies pimping girl in South Korea

Phuket News / Thailand

Saturday 25 May 2013, 07:54AM

BANGKOK: The aunt accused of luring her teenage niece into prostitution in South Korea has turned herself in, police investigating the case said yesterday.

Bomb kills five rangers in Thailand's restive south

Phuket News / Thailand

Saturday 25 May 2013, 07:42AM

BANGKOK: Five paramilitary rangers were killed and one other wounded in an ambush when suspected rebels detonated a bomb buried in a road in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south, local police said Friday.

NEWS TODAY May 24

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 24 May 2013, 04:39PM

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

The Big List: Ghost Towns

Phuket News / Weird World

Friday 24 May 2013, 03:40PM

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

Phuket News / Weird World

Friday 24 May 2013, 03:37PM

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

Phuket News / Weird World

Friday 24 May 2013, 03:35PM

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.

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