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ASIA: China's ruling Communist party formally expelled former Railways Minister Liu Zhijun on Sunday, paving the way for a trial over alleged bribe-taking of 800 million yuan ($128 million), state media said.

Sunday 4 November 2012, 06:06PM

Poland reburies former president after body mix-up

Phuket News / World

Sunday 4 November 2012, 06:06PM

WORLD: Poland has reburied the body of its last leader-in-exile Ryszard Kaczorowski after a mix-up over the remains of some victims of a 2010 presidential plane crash in Russia that killed 96 people including the then head of state.

Operators say B100m tourism business threatened by shallowing channel

THAILAND: Tour boats headed for Koh Chang and Koh Pyam islands are being impeded by repeated silting of the channel used for access to Pak Nam pier in Ranong town, endangering a 100-million-baht tourism business.

Sunday 4 November 2012, 06:03PM

Proposal to merge 50 ‘black plate’ Phuket taxis with airport fleet

PHUKET: As part of the current effort to legalise Phuket’s enormous fleet of unregistered taxis by early next year, it has been proposed that 50 vehicles be merged into the Phuket Mai Khao and Sahakorn Rot taxi associations working Phuket International Airport.

Sunday 4 November 2012, 05:53PM

Naughty monk arrested for lewd behaviour

THAILAND: A 70-year-old monk has attracted attention of the wrong kind after he found himself arrested after displaying his private parts to a 55-year-old woman.

Saturday 3 November 2012, 04:52PM

Fire erupts in Tesco Lotus fruit smoothie shop

PHUKET: A fire broke out during the early hours of Saturday (November 3) in a second-floor fruit smoothie shop at the Tesco Lotus Supercenter in Rassada district, with the cause believed to be either an electrical short or an overheated electric water boiler.

Saturday 3 November 2012, 04:34PM

Robber 'chose Kasikorn because there was no security guard'

PHUKET: Phuket Police held a press conference this morning to give details of the arrest of the Kasikorn bank robber Anusit “Aow” Keawmukda, saying he also robbed a gold shop in Bangkok in 2007.

Saturday 3 November 2012, 02:13PM

Phuket hotel wall collapses on neighbourhood

PHUKET: A five-metre high wall at the Senses Beach Resort on Nanai Rd, Patong, collapsed on Saturday morning (November 3), with bricks, concrete, scaffolding and other building equipment falling onto houses below.

Saturday 3 November 2012, 12:29PM

Phuket police arrest Kasikorn bank robber

PHUKET: Phuket police last night arrested the man believed to be responsible for robbing the Phuket Town Kasikorn bank branch on Wednesday.

Saturday 3 November 2012, 11:58AM

Brit commits suicide from Phuket Town tower

PHUKET: A 64-year-old British man jumped to his death from the Phuket Tourist Police Headquarters’ Radio Broadcast Tower in Phuket Town this morning at 7:15 am.

Friday 2 November 2012, 01:56PM

Police recover 2.5 million from Phuket bank robbery

PHUKET: Following a raid on a house in Koh Kaew this morning, police have found B2.5 million of the missing money from Wednesday’s dramatic gunpoint bank robbery.

Friday 2 November 2012, 12:22PM

Top cop visits robbed Kasikorn bank

PHUKET: An investigation team led by the new Southern Thailand Police Commander, Pol. Maj. Gen. Yongyuth Jaroenmanit with his Region 8 team and the Phuket Provincial Police visited the robbed Kasikorn Bank branch on Wednesday (October 31) to inspect the premises and collect evidence.

Friday 2 November 2012, 11:49AM

‘Mum, I can breathe now’

Phuket News / Features

Friday 2 November 2012, 11:29AM

PHUKET: A Singaporean company provides life-changing machine for Petch, reports Nattha Thepbamrung.

Locals protest over loss of regular Phuket market

PHUKET:Around 50 local residents gathered at the Phuket Provincial Hall on November 1 to protest against the proposed new Chalong hospital on 10 rai of land just north of Chalong Circle.

Friday 2 November 2012, 09:18AM

New fight needed against killer malaria in Asia

ASIA: Asia accounts for 88 percent of all malaria cases and most of the 46,000 annual deaths occurring outside Africa, a new report shows Friday as experts demand more urgency in fighting the deadly disease.

Friday 2 November 2012, 09:14AM

Asia drug boom fuels surge in opium cultivation: UN

ASIA: Opium cultivation in Southeast Asia has doubled over the last six years as growing demand for heroin in China and the rest of Asia lures more farmers to grow poppies, the UN said Wednesday.

Friday 2 November 2012, 09:14AM

Thai prostitution network dismantled in Switzerland: police

THAILAND: Swiss police said Wednesday they had dismantled a network that imported Thai women and men and forced them to work as prostitutes in several Swiss cities.

Friday 2 November 2012, 09:13AM

Boy among six gunned down in Thai south

THAILAND: An 11-year-old boy was among six people killed in a spate of shootings in Thailand's restive south, police said Thursday, as a violence continues to roil the Muslim-majority area.

Friday 2 November 2012, 09:13AM

Australia wants closer ASEAN ties: FM Carr

ASIA: Australia will elevate its engagement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and seek to more closely align its foreign policy with that of the bloc, Foreign Minister Bob Carr said Friday.

Friday 2 November 2012, 09:11AM

One dead, one seriously injured after tuk tuk crash