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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.

'Tourists jumped from Tiger's second storey'

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 18 August 2012, 05:11PM

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.

Tiger survivor describes the horror inside

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 18 August 2012, 04:44PM

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

French family tell of terrifying hours after Tiger blaze

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 18 August 2012, 03:43PM

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.

Patong blaze: work on ID of victims starts tomorrow

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 17 August 2012, 04:55PM

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.

Super Sonic

Phuket News / Features

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

Phuket News / Features

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 News / Phuket

Friday 17 August 2012, 07:53AM

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

700 join anti-Tesco protest

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 16 August 2012, 06:00PM

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.

Two die violently in rubber plantations

Phuket News / Thailand

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.

Pineapple and Flower Fair open at Saphan Hin

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 16 August 2012, 05:00PM

PHUKET: The 20th annual Phuket Pineapple and Flower Fair opened yesterday evening (August 15) at Saphan Hin.

Phuket Opinion: Farming out the future

Phuket News / Opinion

Thursday 16 August 2012, 04:03PM

PHUKET: The continuing battle between local farmers and property developers appears to be going the way of the developers. Should it be?

Phuket Opinion: Gambling on a better Phuket future?

Phuket News / Opinion

Thursday 16 August 2012, 03:59PM

PHUKET: Dhanin Chearavanont is not the first person to advocate the legalisation of casinos in Thailand, but as Thailand’s richest man, he is certainly the most prominent so far. He has a valid point.

3,400 'addicted to drugs in Phuket'

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 16 August 2012, 11:16AM

PHUKET: Phuket has far more drug addicts than was realised, it was revealed at a meeting at Provincial Hall yesterday (August 15).

Samui running out of power

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 16 August 2012, 11:12AM

PHUKET: The chief of Koh Samui’s Regional Electricity Authority District Office says that power use is sky-rocketing on the popular island, resulting in frequent scheduled blackouts in some areas.

Romadom ready for today

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 16 August 2012, 11:05AM

PHUKET: Phuket’s favourite street performer, Romadom ‘the silver statue’, will be battling for a place in the grand finals of Thailand’s Got Talent at 5.30pm on Channel 3.

Police hunt Chuwit 'casinos' in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 16 August 2012, 11:01AM

PHUKET: Police yesterday (August 15) raided seven locations around the island listed in a post on Bangkok MP Chuwit Kamolvisit’s Facebook page as being casinos.

‘Demolisher’ takes a look at Trisara

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 15 August 2012, 07:26PM

PHUKET: The Director of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, Damrong Pidech, visited Trisara, a luxury resort and spa on the west coast of Phuket this afternoon (August 15).

Buffalo put down after sick attack

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 15 August 2012, 06:03PM

PHUKET: Cherng Talay resident Vivienne Reis found a water buffalo with its back leg severed and its young calf in distress, while she was on an early morning cycle along a lake near the Laguna Village on Wednesday (August 15).

Thai senator says he shot ex-wife by accident

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 15 August 2012, 12:53PM

A Thai senator who shot his ex-wife at the dinner table with an Uzi 9mm pistol said Tuesday that her death was a tragic accident.

Farmers losing battle with developers

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 15 August 2012, 10:20AM

PHUKET: The countryside in Srisoonthorn is becoming a battleground between traditional and modern, farmers and developers – and the farmers worry that the old ways, and their livelihood, may be pushed into extinction.

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