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NEWS TODAY May 24

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

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Thai aunt denies pimping girl in South Korea

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

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.

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.

Phuket nightlife raids net ‘dancer’ and 10 illegal foreign workers

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 05:53PM

PHUKET: Kathu Police last night (April 29) arrested 11 foreigners for working illegally in four nightspots along Bangla Rd, Patong.

Bangladesh defends disaster effort as anger grows

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 05:43PM

DHAKA: Bangladesh on Tuesday defended its decision to snub foreign aid after the collapse of a factory complex as anger flared at the recovery operation and towards the building's owner when he appeared in court.

Gene clues point to Cambodia for resistant malaria

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 05:33PM

PARIS: Gene analysis of malaria parasites has pinpointed western Cambodia as the hotspot of strains that are dangerously resistant to artesiminin, the frontline drug against the disease, scientists said on Sunday.

King Willem-Alexander takes Dutch throne

Phuket News / World

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 04:30PM

AMSTERDAM: Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander became Europe's youngest monarch on Tuesday after his mother, Queen Beatrix, abdicated and his country hailed the avowedly 21st-century king with a massive, orange-hued party.

Phuket Prison remains ‘clean’ – officials

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 03:44PM

PHUKET: Two hundred man staged a dawn raid on Phuket Provincial Prison this morning (April 30).

NEWS TODAY April 30

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 03:40PM

Protest against illegal foreign workers, Police swoop on Bangla road strip clubs, A meeting about 'meetings' PLUS this week's Phuket event guide with Kirsty and Sash.

Phuket’s serial bike burner ‘enjoyed it’

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 02:28PM

PHUKET: Police last night (April 29) arrested a 37-year-old man for a series of motorbike arsons.

Kuwait deports expats for "grave" traffic offences

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 02:09PM

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait has deported 213 foreigners over the past few days for committing "grave" traffic offences as part of a drive to reduce accidents, a senior interior ministry official said in comments published on Tuesday.

B69 million drug bust in Bangkok

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 01:55PM

BANGKOK: Bangkok police seized illegal drugs with an estimated value of 69 million baht on the street value and arrested three suspects on Monday night Metropolitan Police Bureau chief Khamronwit Thoopkrajang said.

Jackson lawyer blasts 'ruthless' AEG at death trial

Phuket News / World

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 12:11PM

LOS ANGELES: Michael Jackson's mother on Monday accused the promoter of his doomed final tour of sacrificing the drug-addled star in a 'ruthless' pursuit of profit in the months before his 2009 death.

Young obesity doubles death risk before 55: study

Phuket News / World

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 12:09PM

PARIS: Men who are obese in their early 20s are twice as likely as peers of average weight to die before reaching the age of 55, a study said Tuesday.

Phuket Rotary fundraiser on Friday

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 12:01PM

PHUKET: Rotary International and Lost Legends will join up on Friday (May 3) at the Underwood Art Factory on the bypass road, to hold a fundraising event, with half of all funds raised going toward a small school in a Burmese work camp in Phuket.

Labour Day celebrated in Phuket tomorrow

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 10:46AM

PHUKET: Tomorrow (May 1) is celebrated in Thailand – as in many countries around the globe – as Labour Day. It is an official holiday for employees, so many businesses will be closed for the day.

Govt discusses setting up Tourist Court

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 09:02AM

BANGKOK: The Tourism Ministry is working on a plan to set up a specific Tourist Court aimed at offering better protection and swifter justice for foreign visitors to the country.

Phuket’s Chinese-speaking guides in mass protest

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 29 April 2013, 07:58PM

PHUKET: More than a hundred tour guides protested for about three hours at Phuket Provincial Hall late this morning (April 29), furious at the rapidly increasing numbers of illegal Chinese tour guides on the island.

Phuket ‘still needs convention centre’

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 29 April 2013, 07:21PM

PHUKET: The island is ready to become a major centre for meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions (Mice) but still needs a Convention Centre.

Five Iraq car bombs kill 16: officials

Phuket News / World

Monday 29 April 2013, 05:53PM

BAGHDAD: Five car bombs exploded Monday in mainly Shiite areas south of Baghdad, killing 16 people, officials said, the latest attacks in a seven-day wave of violence costing more than 230 lives across Iraq.

20 hurt in gas blast in historic Prague

Phuket News / World

Monday 29 April 2013, 05:50PM

PRAGUE: A powerful gas blast ripped through a block of flats in Prague's historic centre on Monday, injuring about 20 people, rescuers said, adding that some people may be buried in the rubble of the damaged building.

Thai 'Yellow Shirts' face court over airport rallies

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 29 April 2013, 05:49PM

BANGKOK: A Thai court on Monday postponed the trial of dozens of royalist activists facing charges relating to their roles in 2008 rallies that paralysed Bangkok's main airports stranding thousands of tourists.

UAE court jails 3 Britons on drugs charges: report

Phuket News / World

Monday 29 April 2013, 05:48PM

DUBAI: A United Arab Emirates court on Monday sentenced three Britons to four years in jail each on drugs charges, Gulf News reported, amid claims they have been beaten and tortured by police.

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