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Phuket teacher runs marathon for cancer-stricken colleague

PHUKET: As HeadStart teacher Richard Allenby lay on his hospital bed before surgery at Bangkok Hospital Phuket, he was convinced he was going to die. He told his adult son to look after his pregnant wife and their unborn child.

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Who's responsible for Phuket's blackout?

BANGKOK: The energy minister has reasons to be upset about the southern power outage, as no one at the electricity supplying agencies made the decision to save the region.

Stockholm 'police brutality' riots go into third day

STOCKHOLM: Riots in a poor, mainly immigrant suburb of Sweden's capital have continued into a third night.

Boundless destruction as US tornado rescue winds down

MOORE: As rescue efforts in Oklahoma wound down Wednesday, residents turned to the daunting task of rebuilding a US heartland community shattered by a vast tornado that killed at least 24 people.

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.

Bishop prays for Suicidal Angels

Phuket News / Weird World

Friday 13 July 2012, 11:12AM

An Austrian bishop, possibly shaken by the idea of Suicidal Angels, has called on fellow Catholics to pray for music fans attending a death-metal festival early next month.

Robot beats rock, paper and scissors

Phuket News / Weird World

Friday 13 July 2012, 11:11AM

The University of Tokyo has just ruined a nearly 2,000-year-old game, producing a robot that can beat a human at rock, paper, scissors every single time.

Abhisit in Phuket to brainstorm 'blueprint'

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 13 July 2012, 09:15AM

PHUKET: Former Prime Minister and current leader of the Democrat Party, Abhisit Vejjajiva was in Phuket on Wednesday (July 11) as part of a public speaking tour entitled, “Summon up the power to design Thailand. The 10 Foundations of the Blueprint for Thailand”.

'Demolisher' orders probes into 10 sites

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 13 July 2012, 09:02AM

PHUKET: Damrong ‘the Demolisher’ Pidech, the Director of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation has ordered nine separate committees to investigate the legality of nine land plots on the north west coast of Thalang District, where a number of five-star hotels, resorts and villas are currently under construction.

Thailand braces for key court ruling

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 13 July 2012, 08:46AM

Hundreds of police are expected to surround Thailand's Constitutional Court Friday as the country braces for a crunch ruling that threatens to rip open the kingdom's bitter political divisions.

Spanish man blogs Bangkok suicide on Facebook: police

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 13 July 2012, 08:46AM

A Spanish man found dead in his apartment in downtown Bangkok on the eve of his 37th birthday had live-blogged his suicide on his Facebook page, Thai police said Thursday.

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