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Phuket rain fails to dampen locals' merit making spirit

PHUKET: This morning's heavy rain did not affect the turnout for the “Tam boon klang lhad” (Merit Day) as hundreds of locals poured into downtown Phuket to donate food and items to the local monks and 'make merit'.

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Bangkok: Reconciliation bill comes under fire

BANGKOK: The reconciliation bill sponsored by Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung is facing growing opposition as it would exonerate those responsible for the crackdown on the 2010 red shirt protests.

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler spotted in Phuket Town

PHUKET: Phuket Town locals got a shock last night when they spotted Aerosmith's lead singer Steven Tyler partying at Timber Hut bar in Phuket Town.

Phuket Police must stamp out abuse of tourists, says Chinese envoy

PHUKET: China’s Haad-Yai-based Vice Consul, Qin Jian, has urged police to crack down hard on sexual attacks on tourists, following yesterday’s alleged molestation of a 19-year-old Chinese tourist by a “black taxi” driver who picked her up from the airport.

84-rai suspect land plot discovered

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 14 September 2012, 04:49PM

PHUKET: Another suspect land paper covering 84 rai, which officials believe encroaches on Sirinart Marine National Park, was discovered this week.

Angsana manager dies in road smash

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 14 September 2012, 02:35PM

Thai bid clouds Heineken's Asian expansion

Phuket News / Business

Friday 14 September 2012, 09:02AM

A battle for dominance in Asia's lucrative beer market broke out Thursday as a Thai tycoon made a $7.1 billion bid for a Singapore group that includes a brewer about to be taken over by Dutch giant Heineken.

Romney: Middle East needs US leadership

Phuket News / World

Friday 14 September 2012, 09:02AM

WORLD: Mitt Romney paid tribute Thursday to four American diplomats killed in Libya, insisting that US power was vital in the Middle East, but he halted his criticism of President Barack Obama's handling of the crisis.

Ex-Navy SEAL among four dead in Libya attack: US official

Phuket News / World

Friday 14 September 2012, 09:01AM

WORLD: One of the four Americans killed in Tuesday's attack on the US consulate in Libya was a former member of the elite Navy SEALs, a US official said Thursday.

Pentagon chief to visit China, Japan in Asia tour

Phuket News / Asia

Friday 14 September 2012, 09:00AM

ASIA: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta departs this weekend on a trip to China, Japan and New Zealand, officials said Thursday, as part of a US bid to shift towards the region despite crises in the Middle East.

Thailand says Myanmar preparing for refugee return

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 14 September 2012, 09:00AM

THAILAND: About 120,000 Myanmar refugees in Thailand may return home within a year, the kingdom's National Security Council said Thursday, following recent talks between the two nations.

Hundreds jailed by 'fake' bomb detectors in Thai south

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 14 September 2012, 08:57AM

THAILAND: Implicated by the wand of a "bogus" bomb detector, Hassan became one of hundreds detained in Thailand's insurgency-racked south because of equipment that experts say is useless.

Cough mixture ‘courier’ busted

Phuket News / Thailand

Thursday 13 September 2012, 06:07PM

Army special operations troops and regular police in Songkhla seized some 1,600 bottles of prescription cough syrup hidden in a 10-wheel truck they stopped for inspection on Tuesday morning (September 11).

Ice house raided, four held

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 13 September 2012, 04:36PM

PHUKET: Acting on a tip that a house in Sri Sunthorn Rd, Soi Bangtao 5, Cherng Talay, was being used for consumption of illegal drugs, Cherng Talay police superintendent Pol Col Jirasak Siemsak ordered his men to investigate.

Fugitive Philippines governor ‘in Phuket’

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 13 September 2012, 03:37PM

PHUKET: Authorities in the Philippines believe that a fugitive governor of the province of Palawan, wanted for organising an assassination, may be in Phuket.

Apple goes big screen with iPhone 5

Phuket News / Business

Thursday 13 September 2012, 08:59AM

Apple on Wednesday introduced a new iPhone 5 with a bigger screen and slimmer body that analysts quickly branded a sure hit for the culture-changing tech giant.

Damrong plans massive expansion of land probe

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 12 September 2012, 07:12PM

PHUKET: Some 400 teams of investigators from the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) and related authorities may be set up to investigate land papers for a further 3,000 rai of land suspected of having been illegally taken from the Sirinart Marine National Park.

Abbot of Wat Chalong dies at 87

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 12 September 2012, 06:13PM

PHUKET: Phra-kru Udom Vetchakit, the Abbot of Phuket’s premier Buddhist temple, Wat Chalong, died at 4:21 pm yesterday (September 11) in Bangkok Hospital, aged 87.

More wet weather on the way

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 12 September 2012, 05:34PM

PHUKET: Somsri Hantrakul, the director general of the Thailand Weather Department, has issued a warning that monsoon conditions will bring heavy rain and winds across Thailand, including the Andaman Coast region, from tomorrow until next Monday (September 13-17).

At least 240 killed in Karachi garment factory fire: police

Phuket News / Asia

Wednesday 12 September 2012, 05:26PM

ASIA: At least 240 people died at a garment factory in Karachi, in the worst inferno in decades to hit Pakistan's Arabian Sea port and biggest city, just hours after 21 died at a shoe factory in Lahore, close to the Indian border.

US envoy and 3 consul officials killed in Benghazi: Libya

Phuket News / World

Wednesday 12 September 2012, 05:23PM

The American ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, and three officials were killed when a mob attacked the US consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi, the interior ministry said Wednesday.

Man caught smuggling Bangkok-bought loris in his pants

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 12 September 2012, 03:55PM

THAILAND: A man travelling from Bangkok to Dubai was arrested for animal smuggling during a layover in India recently when a customs officer noticed a monkey in his trousers.

Hospitalised French tourist dies

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 12 September 2012, 03:16PM

PHUKET: French tourist Jerome Heras, 35, died early today in Vachira Phuket Hospital from injuries sustained in a high-speed motorbike smash in the early hours of Monday (September 10).

Thailand embraces 'Gangnam Style'

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 12 September 2012, 12:16PM

THAILAND: The global phenomenon that is ‘Gangnam Style’, an infectious K-pop song written and produced by South Korean rapper Psy, has inspired a huge number of homages.

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