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Phuket: Today's 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.

Briton drowns at Patong

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 26 July 2012, 09:59AM

PHUKET: Starhub vice president and Briton, Peter John Cook, 47, drowned on Tuesday morning (July 24) at Patong Beach, before lifeguards came on duty.

Villagers finally catch naughty monk

Phuket News / Thailand

Thursday 26 July 2012, 09:41AM

Outraged villagers in the Haad Yai district of Songkhla have finally nailed the abbot of the local Wat Kuanluang, who they claim has been dallying salaciously with women for years.

Two die in Chao Fa accidents

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 26 July 2012, 09:19AM

PHUKET: Two people died on Chao Fa West Rd on Tuesday in separate accidents.

Driver crushed by own crane

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 26 July 2012, 09:17AM

PHUKET: A crane truck driver was crushed to death when the crane fell on him on Tuesday morning (July 24).

Progress reported with candidate dengue vaccine

Phuket News / Thailand

Thursday 26 July 2012, 08:59AM

Trials in Thailand with a candidate vaccine for dengue, a potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease, have shown it to protect against three of the four virus strains, its French maker said Wednesday.

Myanmar prison terms for Thai 'encroachers'

Phuket News / Thailand

Thursday 26 July 2012, 08:59AM

Almost a hundred Thai nationals were sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison, a Myanmar official said Wednesday, after they were held for illegally crossing the border to run rubber plantations.

Health concerns for Thai charged with royal slur

Phuket News / Thailand

Thursday 26 July 2012, 08:58AM

A Bangkok court has charged a 64-year-old Thai-born New Zealand resident for insulting the kingdom's revered monarchy, police said Wednesday, despite concerns over the woman's mental health.

Five police killed in south roadside bomb

Phuket News / Thailand

Thursday 26 July 2012, 08:58AM

Five policemen were killed and another was critically wounded Wednesday in a roadside bomb attack in Thailand's restive south, police said, as an uptick in violence since the start of Ramadan continued.

Elections to bring booze bans

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 25 July 2012, 02:42PM

PHUKET: Two upcoming elections will result in 30-hour alcohol sales bans, one across the island and the other in Patong.

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 25 July 2012, 02:39PM

PHUKET: The Department of Intellectual Property is to hold a seminar on avoiding international music copyright infringement on August 6 at the Blue Ocean Resort, Patong, from 2pm to 6pm.

Phuket charity launches monthly pub quiz

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 25 July 2012, 12:55PM

PHUKET: The last Monday of every month will see the brains of Phuket converge for a battle of wits and intellect – all for a good cause.

Vote for Gig

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 25 July 2012, 11:10AM

PHUKET: Warunee ‘Gig’ Suwannurak, Phuket’s pint-sized singer with a larger than life voice, leaves for Bangkok today to take part in the semi finals of Thailand’s Got Talent on Sunday.

Asia fuels record elephant, rhino killings: WWF

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 25 July 2012, 09:19AM

China, Vietnam and Thailand are among the worst offenders in fuelling a global black market that is seeing record numbers of elephants and rhinos killed in Africa, environment group WWF said on Monday.

Sex, drugs, stigma put Thai transsexuals at HIV risk

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 25 July 2012, 09:17AM

From a cafe near the go-go bars of a Bangkok red light district where she campaigns for safe sex, Gigi gives an unvarnished view of how she joined Thailand's growing ranks of transgender people with HIV.

Thai troops shot Italian photographer: police

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 25 July 2012, 09:16AM

Government troops are believed to have shot an Italian photographer who was killed during mass opposition street protests in 2010 in Bangkok, police told an official inquest in Thailand on Monday.

Demand made for bus decency

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 24 July 2012, 05:43PM

PHUKET: A professor at the Phuket Vocational College has unwittingly become the figurehead for inter-provincial public bus decency after making a complaint over what she deemed as the screening of ‘inappropriate’ movies.

Elderly gamblers race to avoid capture

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 24 July 2012, 04:40PM

PHUKET: Eleven people – including three women aged over 60 – were arrested yesterday (July 23) following a raid on an illegal casino in Wichit, but not before they went “running in all directions” to evade capture.

Gun culture thrives despite US massacre

Phuket News / World

Tuesday 24 July 2012, 03:39PM

A girl aged five or six tries out a rifle in an Aurora gunshop, oblivious to Friday's massacre in this Colorado town. "Honey, it's too big for you, we will find you another," says her mother.

Outrigger signs to buy Laguna Beach Resort

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 24 July 2012, 10:42AM

PHUKET: After four months of secrecy, the new owner of the Laguna Beach Resort (LBR) has been announced: Outrigger Hotels and Resorts.

Mystery over death of man in jail

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 23 July 2012, 06:25PM

A man who escaped from Phang-nga prison early this month, then four days later decided to surrender, died on Saturday (July 21) in official custody – reportedly after vomiting blood.

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