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Hong Kong’s struggle to combat its waste crisis

HONG KONG: An army of road sweepers and refuse collectors keep the streets clean in the heart of Hong Kong – but on the outskirts, growing mountains of waste are testament to what campaigners say is an environmental crisis.

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Orania, South Africa’s whites-only town

Welcome to Orania, South Africa: a whites-only enclave established in 1991 during the dying years of apartheid.

Phuket/South blackout will cost industry 'billions'

BANGKOK: The huge power blackout in the South on Tuesday night could cost the food and rubber processing sector about 10 billion baht, and the government must ensure it does not happen again, Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) secretary-general Tanit Sorat said on Wednesday.

Yingluck: Find cause of Phuket/South blackout

BANGKOK: Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has ordered an investigation into the causes of the massive power blackout in 14 southern provinces on Tuesday night, and the preparation of contingency plans to ensure it does not happen again.

Wong appointed Movenpick DOSM

Phuket News / Business

Monday 16 July 2012, 12:02PM

PHUKET: Mövenpick Resort & Spa Karon Beach Phuket has appointed Ailin Wong as the new Director of Sales and Marketing

Outrigger appoints Phi Phi GM

Phuket News / Business

Monday 16 July 2012, 11:59AM

PHUKET: Outrigger Hotels and Resorts Asia Pacific has appointed Frenchman Marc Landgraf to oversee the management and operations of the Phi Phi Island Village Beach Resort and Spa.

Hotel staff survey backs five-day week

Phuket News / Business

Monday 16 July 2012, 11:55AM

PHUKET: Before the JW Marriott Resort & Spa opened in Phuket in 2002, management announced a five-day work week for staff.

Thai-Scand JV plans mall at Ao Makham

Phuket News / Business

Monday 16 July 2012, 11:53AM

PHUKET: A Thai-Scandinavian consortium is to build a B220-million-baht community mall in Phuket by the end of the year.

Officials inspect Laem Singh land

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 13 July 2012, 05:57PM

PHUKET: Vice Governor Somkiat Sangkhaosutthirak led a team of officials on Wednesday (July 11) to inspect the contentious 35 rai of land on the hillside next to Laem Singh Beach.

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).

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