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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.

Monday 16 July 2012, 11:59AM

Hotel staff survey backs five-day week

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

Monday 16 July 2012, 11:55AM

Thai-Scand JV plans mall at Ao Makham

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

Monday 16 July 2012, 11:53AM

Officials inspect Laem Singh land

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.

Friday 13 July 2012, 05:57PM

Boy, 6, drowns in waste treatment pond

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).

Friday 13 July 2012, 05:25PM

Resort site is completely legal: Arcadia boss

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.

Friday 13 July 2012, 05:14PM

Licensing group promises stricter control of elephant numbers

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.

Friday 13 July 2012, 05:10PM

Bangla Loris touts still at it

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.

Friday 13 July 2012, 05:01PM

Qatar Airways ‘best in the world’

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.

Friday 13 July 2012, 04:51PM

Australian defence chief vows to stamp out abuse

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.

Friday 13 July 2012, 03:10PM

Japan braces for more rain after at least 19 die

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.

Friday 13 July 2012, 03:10PM

Clinton in plea for workers' rights in Asia

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.

Friday 13 July 2012, 03:09PM

More than 30 people killed in S.African train crash

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.

Friday 13 July 2012, 03:08PM

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: 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).

Friday 13 July 2012, 02:54PM

Afghans sing of love and war

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.

Friday 13 July 2012, 02:31PM

BIG LIST: Angry Animals (Vol. II)

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.

Friday 13 July 2012, 12:26PM

‘Rightful King of England’ dies

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.

Friday 13 July 2012, 12:12PM

'Come and arrest me', drug dealer tells police

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).

Friday 13 July 2012, 12:03PM

Aussie cops almost get stern dressing down