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NEWS TODAY May 22
Massive power black-out in southern Thailand. Immigration police raid in Kathu Wat. Deal struck for life-gurads in June. Monsoon pushing fish prices up.
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Man dies after second-storey fall in Phuket
PHUKET: A welder from Nan province in northern Thailand died around 11am this morning (May 22) when he fell from the second floor of a building near the Heroines’ Monument.
Update: Foreigner found drowned in Phuket identified
PHUKET: The foreigner found drowned and washed up on Patong Beach at around 7 on Tuesday morning (May 21) near Loma (Dolphin) Park has been identified.
'Biggest blackout ever' hits Phuket and 13 other provinces
PHUKET: The 'biggest power outage ever' in Thailand blacked out 14 southern provinces Tuesday evening, plunging almost the entire South, including Phuket, into blackness for lengthy periods.
Boy, 6, drowns in waste treatment pond
Phuket News / Phuket
Friday 13 July 2012, 05:25PM
PHUKET: A six-year-old boy, Yuthakarn Limpek, died after he fell into a pond at the Patong wastewater treatment plant on Rat U-Thit 200 Phi Soi 2 at about 10 am today (July 13).
Resort site is completely legal: Arcadia boss
Phuket News / Phuket
Friday 13 July 2012, 05:14PM
PHUKET: Maitree Narukatpichai, Executive Director of Phuket Arcadia Ltd, which owns the Pullman Phuket Arcadia Naithon Beach, insisted yesterday (July 12) that the ownership of the land for the resort, currently under construction, is completely legal.
Licensing group promises stricter control of elephant numbers
Phuket News / Phuket
Friday 13 July 2012, 05:10PM
PHUKET: One more elephant will be joining the Siam Niramit Phuket cultural show soon, and a second is likely to follow once the paperwork is in order.
Bangla Loris touts still at it
Phuket News / Phuket
Friday 13 July 2012, 05:01PM
PHUKET: Two Thai men using captured Javan Lorises to make money from photographs of tourists posing with the animals, were arrested on Bangla Rd in Patong on Sunday 8 (July). The animals were confiscated.
Qatar Airways ‘best in the world’
Phuket News / Business
Friday 13 July 2012, 04:51PM
Qatar Airways, which links Phuket with Doha and from there on to Europe twice a week, has been named world’s best airline for the second year in a row.
Australian defence chief vows to stamp out abuse
Phuket News / World
Friday 13 July 2012, 03:10PM
Australian Defence Force chief General David Hurley Friday vowed to stamp out abuse in the military following a damning report detailing allegations of rape and sexual assault.
Japan braces for more rain after at least 19 die
Phuket News / World
Friday 13 July 2012, 03:10PM
Southwestern Japan was bracing for the effects of more torrential rain Friday, on top of "unprecedented" downpours that swamped whole neighbourhoods, leaving at least 19 dead and eight missing.
Clinton in plea for workers' rights in Asia
Phuket News / World
Friday 13 July 2012, 03:09PM
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Friday urged Southeast Asian nations to promote workers' rights and improve labour conditions as a means of spurring economic growth.
More than 30 people killed in S.African train crash
Phuket News / World
Friday 13 July 2012, 03:08PM
More than 30 people were on Friday killed in South Africa when a train ploughed into a truck carrying dozens of farm workers on a railway line, an official said.
IMF to open Myanmar office in Thailand
Phuket News / Thailand
Friday 13 July 2012, 03:08PM
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has announced a new office aimed at boosting its support for Myanmar as the impoverished nation grapples to revive its long-neglected economy.
UK to reduce price of passports
Phuket News / Phuket
Friday 13 July 2012, 02:54PM
PHUKET: The price of a standard British passport is to be reduced by £5 (B250) from this autumn, Immigration Minister Damian Green announced on Wednesday (July 11).
Afghans sing of love and war
Phuket News / World
Friday 13 July 2012, 02:31PM
In a country where music was silenced in the name of Allah for five years, the beat is back and even rock shares the airwaves with the romantic strains of traditional Afghan songs.
BIG LIST: Angry Animals (Vol. II)
Phuket News / Weird World
Friday 13 July 2012, 12:26PM
A couple of months ago we took a look at some of the animal kingdom’s freakiest defence mechanisms. But since it turns out some Australian cuttlefish can put Soi Bangla’s katoey to shame with their gender bending abilities, we thought we’d revisit the subject.
‘Rightful King of England’ dies
Phuket News / Weird World
Friday 13 July 2012, 12:12PM
An Australian forklift driver who some historians argued was the true heir to the British throne has died in the small New South Wales town he called home.
'Come and arrest me', drug dealer tells police
Phuket News / Weird World
Friday 13 July 2012, 12:03PM
A bungling Thai drug dealer who sent text messages goading police to apprehend him has been arrested with dozens of amphetamine pills, a police officer from Isarn said last Thursday (July 5).
Aussie cops almost get stern dressing down
Phuket News / Weird World
Friday 13 July 2012, 12:01PM
Police in Australia narrowly escaped an undressing after stumbling into a rowdy hens’ night where they were mistaken for strippers by the bride-to-be and her friends.
Cross-dressing mollusc
Phuket News / Weird World
Friday 13 July 2012, 12:00PM
Scientists have observed a cross-dressing cuttlefish take sexual trickery to new depths.
Is cancer in Phuket's air?
Phuket News / Features
Friday 13 July 2012, 11:24AM
PHUKET: Phuket needs to clamp down on diesel-belching vehicles. Tanyaluk Sakoot investigates.
BIG LIST: Robot Rage
Phuket News / Weird World
Friday 13 July 2012, 11:15AM
We know humanity is doomed when we can no longer beat our robot overlords at rock, paper, scissors, but maybe you don’t realise just how doomed we were, until you read the following:
Against the clock: When a minute lasts 61 seconds
Phuket News / Weird World
Friday 13 July 2012, 11:13AM
Horologists around the world last Saturday (June 30) carried out one of the weirdest operations of their profession: they held back time.
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