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Phuket’s Baba Wedding returns

PHUKET: The annual Baba (Peranakan) Wedding ceremony will be held this weekend in Phuket Town from June 22-24.

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Fake press release gets Putin ally 'fired'

MOSCOW: Russia was embroiled in political mystery Thursday after it emerged that an unidentified hacker had managed to fool the country's main news agencies into believing that one of President Vladimir Putin's closest allies had been "fired" from his post.

China, Russia angry over US human trafficking criticism

BEIJING: China and Russia on Thursday blasted a US report that downgraded their countries for failing to make greater efforts to combat human trafficking, a move which could lead to sanctions.

1,000 feared dead in Indian monsoon as army mobilizes

DEHRADUN: Thousands of Indian soldiers battled on Thursday to reach villages and towns cut off by flash floods and landslides in the country's north as officials warned at least 1,000 people may have been killed.

Round-world cruise for Chinese

Phuket News / Business

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 05:37PM

Costa Cruises has sign-ed a partnership with Shanghai Airlines Tours (SAT) to take mainland Chinese from Shanghai on an 83-day round-the-world cruise next year.

AEC ‘will result in fierce competition for hospitality jobs’

Phuket News / Business

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 05:31PM

The Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) says Thai hospitality and tourism workers will face fierce competition from foreign labour once the Asean Economic Community (AEC) starts in late 2015.

Asean Secretary-General looks at tourism progress in Southeast Asia

Phuket News / Business

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 05:26PM

Le Luong Minh, the new Secretary-General of the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean), took office in January. His five-year tenure will include the birth of the Asean Economic Community (AEC). In this interview, released by Asean, he gives a progress report on tourism integration in Southeast Asia

Italian arrested in Thailand over B300 million fraud

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 05:02PM

CHIANG MAI: Thai authorities have arrested an Italian man wanted over alleged links to a human trafficking ring which swindled around US$10 million (B300 million) from European taxpayers and banks, immigration officials said on May 23.

Court rules Thai army killed Italian journalist

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 04:57PM

BANGKOK: The Southern Bangkok Criminal Court on Wednesday ruled that Italian journalist Fabio Polenghi was killed by a bullet fired by the security forces during the May 19, 2010 dispersal of the red-shirt protestors.

Snake in bedroom gives Phuket woman a fright

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 04:11PM

PHUKET: Phuket resident Lies Sol got a surprise when she arrived home yesterday (May 28) to find a long green snake in her bedroom.

NEWS TODAY May 29

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 02:48PM

Ferry sinks off Koh Phi Phi. Shot fired in Buddhist Wat. DNA tests confirm missing millionaire in Samui.

Phuket ferry accident ‘caused by nature’ – marine office

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 01:00PM

PHUKET: The director of the Marine Office has praised the captain of the sinking ferry off Phuket yesterday, and has said the accident was “caused by nature”.

Phuket expat celebrates birthday with charity event

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 12:28PM

PHUKET: This year Phuket expat Kaye Smith is having a birthday celebration with a difference.

Phuket Opinion: Getting over those tribal instincts

Phuket News / Opinion

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 10:50AM

BANGKOK: Thai culture still relies far too much on relationships, rather than ideologies.

Jackass Chiang Mai? Motorcycle nakedness pranksters seen branching out

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 10:12AM

CHIANG MAI: After Jetpol Chanboontawee, 24, was arrested recently for obscenity after riding his 1.2 million baht Ducati motorbike through Chiang Mai naked and posting the video on Facebook, it has come to light that his team who call themselves Rock Mode have made quite a few daredevil films.

100 rescued from sinking Phuket ferry

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 10:57PM

PHUKET: About 100 tourists – mostly foreigners but including 11 Thais – were rescued this afternoon from a ferry carrying them from Phi Phi to Rassada Pier in Phuket.

Samui skeleton confirmed as missing millionaire’s

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 06:28PM

PHUKET: The results of DNA comparisons have confirmed that the body found buried under a villa on Koh Samui on April 21 is that of missing Hungarian multi-millionaire Laszlo Csapai, who went missing two years ago.

Shot fired at funeral in Phuket Town temple

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 05:57PM

PHUKET: Police were called to Wat Mongkolnimitr last night (May 27) after receiving a report about a fight and a gun being fired in the temple grounds during a funeral.

Monk: I do meth to lose weight

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 05:43PM

KALASIN: A 41-year-old monk who told police he took methamphetamine to slim down has been charged with using an illegal drug.

Massive carrier drops anchor in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 05:01PM

PHUKET: The massive American aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, one of the world’s largest warships, dropped anchor off the Deep Sea Port this morning (May 28).

Mystery over Phuket stink

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 03:50PM

PHUKET: Local residents from Soi Gurdsap, next to Siam Niramit along the bypass road, met with officials from the tourist magnet to complain about unpleasant smells they say are climbing over the wall from Siam Niramit and into their homes.

NEWS TODAY May 28

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 03:29PM

From aboard the 'USS Nimitz'. New video of the Tersco gold-shop gunman. Another Patong Hill truck with 'brake failure'. Phuket FC to play Krabi Wednesday night.

Masseuse 'lured into' web dating scam

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 12:26PM

BANGKOK: A 23-year-old masseuse on Monday turned herself in to the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) after being implicated in an online dating scam, police said.

German fled Suvarnabhumi airport as Australian escort slept

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 12:23PM

BANGKOK: A man being taken back to Germany to face charges after completing a jail sentence in Australia fled from a transit lounge at Suvarnabhumi airport through a fire exit while his Australian police escort was asleep, Thai authorities said on Monday.

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