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The Big List: Ghost Towns

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

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

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.

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.

Quiksilver surf comp starts today in Patong

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 12 September 2012, 11:56AM

PHUKET: The Quiksilver Open Phuket Thailand 2012 surfing competition kicked off this morning at Patong Beach, and will run until Saturday.

Gov Tri to retire at month's end

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 12 September 2012, 10:42AM

PHUKET: Phuket Governor Tri Augkaradacha retires at the end of September after two years in the job. His successor has yet to be named, though political observers will be watching carefully for clues as to which force in politics is behind the new man – or woman.

Bounty hunter killed over copyright dispute

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 12 September 2012, 10:17AM

THAILAND: The agent of a firm trying to uncover violators of copyright law – a copyright bounty hunter – was shot three times in the head on Monday, September 10 in a Karaoke bar in the Meuang district of Surat Thani.

‘Fagin’s gang’ robbers caught

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 12 September 2012, 09:56AM

PHUKET: Police Patong arrested a pair of youthful robbers on Sunday evening (September 9). They also arrested a Phuket Town man and charged him with buying stolen goods from the duo.

Sexy dancing – but no booze at fair

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 11 September 2012, 06:01PM

PHUKET: Friday sees the opening of a culinary event aimed at attracting families by being alcohol-free.

Cambodia deports Pirate Bay co-founder: police

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 11 September 2012, 05:50PM

ASIA: Cambodia on Monday deported a co-founder of The Pirate Bay filesharing website, sending him back to Sweden where he faces a one-year prison sentence for promoting copyright infringement.

Dengue fever: Vaccine trial raises a muted cheer

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 11 September 2012, 05:49PM

THAILAND: A prototype vaccine for dengue notched up the best success yet against the disease but failed to protect against all its viral strains, researchers reported on Tuesday.

Appeal for O-negative blood donations

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 11 September 2012, 05:15PM

PHUKET: Vachira Phuket Hospital’s blood bank has made an appeal for donations of type O-negative blood to save the life of a 17-year-old Itipon Sailek, badly injured in a motorbike smash on Saturday (September 8).

Hell hath no fury...

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 11 September 2012, 04:51PM

THAILAND: Trang municipal police were called in the early hours of Sunday (September 9) to the scene of a drive-by shooting in which two people were badly injured.

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