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PHUKET: Continuing its string of unusual and fascinating speakers, the International Business Association of Phuket (IBAP) last Friday (August 10) had crisis management expert Richard Hancock on stage at the A2 Access Resort & Villas on the bypass road.

Monday 20 August 2012, 07:04AM

Family Mart to expand Thai network

Family Mart has affirmed that it remains committed to Thailand, despite rumors that it was reconsidering its business in the kingdom.

Monday 20 August 2012, 06:52AM

One more step towards 3G

Three major mobile private-sector service providers, AIS, DTAC, and True Move have said they are ready to bid for a 3G service license in a bidding process expected to begin in October.

Monday 20 August 2012, 06:51AM

Hun Sen reveals casinos are 'essential to defence'

While Phuket rattles with rumour and debate over whether the complex on Koh Rang Noi is, or is not intended to be a casino, Cambodia’s maverick Prime Minister Hun Sen has come up with a novel take on the usefulness of gambling houses.

Monday 20 August 2012, 06:51AM

BIG LIST: World's worst jobs

We’re gonna throw it out there and say being a paintball fitness instructor is the greatest job in the world. Here are some that aren’t so flash hot:

Monday 20 August 2012, 06:45AM

OMG 45secs LOL AMZNG!!!

A 17-year-old boy retained his title as America’s fastest texter on Wednesday in a duel of the thumbs held in front of onlookers at New York’s Times Square.

Monday 20 August 2012, 06:43AM

Bikinis at 40,000 feet

A Vietnamese airline has been fined for hosting a mid-flight dance by bikini-clad beauty pageant contestants without first gaining permission.

Monday 20 August 2012, 06:43AM

Fitness under fire

Having trouble dropping those excess kilos? Would someone putting a gun to your head help?

Monday 20 August 2012, 06:42AM

Romadon romps through to Thailand's Got Talent finals

PHUKET: It was louder, messier and even more perplexing, but Romadom’s Thailand's Got Talent semi final performance was also incredibly thought provoking, symbolic and emotional.

Sunday 19 August 2012, 07:43PM

'Tourists jumped from Tiger's second storey'

PHUKET: Shocking accounts of tourists jumping from the second floor and others trampled in the panic to escape are emerging following the fire at Patong's Tiger discoteque early on Friday morning.

Saturday 18 August 2012, 05:11PM

Tiger survivor describes the horror inside

PHUKET: Of those injured in the Tiger Disco fire of yesterday morning, only two remain in hospital.

Saturday 18 August 2012, 04:44PM

French family tell of terrifying hours after Tiger blaze

PHUKET: The family of Frenchman Benjamin Tallanotte, severely injured in the Tiger bar and disco complex in Patong, have described their terrifying four-hour search for Benjamin following the blaze.

Saturday 18 August 2012, 03:43PM

Patong blaze: work on ID of victims starts tomorrow

PHUKET: Work on identifying the four people who died in the blaze early this morning (August 17) at the Tiger disco on Bangla Rd in Patong will begin in earnest tomorrow with the arrival of experts from Bangkok.

Friday 17 August 2012, 04:55PM

Super Sonic

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Friday 17 August 2012, 03:19PM

PHUKET: Alasdair Forbes test drives the new Chevrolet Sonic.

A pitiful waste: B23m community centre becomes a rotting carcass

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Friday 17 August 2012, 03:03PM

PHUKET: The disastrous Asian Tsunami of December 26, 2004, that smashed into Phuket, killing at least 800 people and damaging structures all along the west coast of the island, was followed by an outburst of charitable activity from around the world.

4 dead in Patong blaze

PHUKET: Four people died last night in a major fire at the famed Tiger bar and disco complex on Bangla Rd, Patong.

Friday 17 August 2012, 07:53AM

700 join anti-Tesco protest

PHUKET: About 700 people from clubs and communities in Phuket Town marched through the streets this afternoon (August 16) to protest against a proposal to build a new Tesco-Lotus complex on Bangkok Rd, close to the Slaughterhouse Intersection.

Thursday 16 August 2012, 06:00PM

Two die violently in rubber plantations

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Thursday 16 August 2012, 05:56PM

Tha Sala District in Nakhon Sri Thammarat does not seem to be a good place to be in the rubber trade at the moment, with two violent deaths – one suicide and one a murder – being recorded on Tuesday (August 14) alone.

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