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PHUKET: The two criminals involved in the horrible killing of 60-year-old Australian travel agent Michelle Smith are now behind bars.

Thursday 12 July 2012, 09:09AM

Phuket Opinion: Phuket stands alone

PHUKET: This week Thai tycoon Dr Boon Wanasin stated his case and desire for Phuket to become a Special Economic Zone, which would in effect give the island complete autonomy over its decisions.

Thursday 12 July 2012, 09:07AM

Phuket Opinion: Looking to the wrong example?

PHUKET: The island of Racha Yai, some 24 km from Phuket, attracts around 1,200 day-trippers from Phuket every day during the high season. Some spend the night, while others stay just for the day, snorkelling or scuba diving, or walking or lounging on the beautiful sands before returning.

Thursday 12 July 2012, 08:57AM

Phuket Opinion: A nasty cloud with a silver lining

PHUKET: It must come as a nasty shock for someone who has worked in the same place for a couple of decades to be told, with no warning, that you no longer have a job. Here’s your severance pay. Go away. Right now.

Thursday 12 July 2012, 08:54AM

CCTV system 'root of improved security'

PHUKET: Senior Phuket officials met today (July 11) in one of a series of ongoing meetings on how to solve problems on the island and rebuild tourist confidence, rocked by the killing of Australian travel agent Michelle Smith on June 20.

Wednesday 11 July 2012, 06:33PM

Vice Governor calls for separation of garbage

PHUKET: Vice-Governor Chamroen Tipayapongtada today (July 11) called for serious action to implement garbage separation across Phuket.

Wednesday 11 July 2012, 06:28PM

Smugglers caught with tanker of diesel

PHUKET: Customs officials hit black gold on Monday afternoon (July 9) when they seized a tanker with 230,000 litres of smuggled diesel on board, 10 nautical miles (18.5 km) off Racha Noi Island.

Wednesday 11 July 2012, 03:47PM

Thai pardon for US citizen jailed for royal insult

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 11 July 2012, 12:05PM

Thailand on Wednesday said a Thai-born US citizen jailed for insulting the kingdom's revered monarch had been granted a royal pardon, in a move welcomed by the United States.

Aussie firm interested in light rail plan

Representatives from an Australian company, UGL Rail Ltd, and the company’s local partner, Thai Rail Tech (TRT), visited Phuket Vice-Governor Sommai Preechasin yesterday (July 10) to register their interest in the Phuket Light Railway Project.

Wednesday 11 July 2012, 10:16AM

Exercise shows Navy's rescue skills

PHUKET: Around 500 people showed up at Cape Panwa yesterday morning (July 10) to watch the Royal Thai Navy Third Area Command carry out a full-scale search-and-rescue exercise using helicopters.

Wednesday 11 July 2012, 09:11AM

Mystery of stay-at-home girl’s death

PHUKET: Police are trying to unravel the mystery of a teenager found dead in her home in Chalong this afternoon.

Tuesday 10 July 2012, 09:38PM

Corruption: 3,600 rai of Phuket land under investigation

PHUKET: Title deeds for more than 12,000 rai of land around Thailand are under investigation by the Office of the National Anti Corruption Commission (NACC) because of suspicions they were obtained through corruption.

Tuesday 10 July 2012, 07:02PM

'Spies' to seek out illegal tour guides

PHUKET: Following increasing complaints about foreigners working illegally as tour guides, the Phuket Provincial Tourism Office is to send out “spies” to check on tour companies and track down those that are using foreigners as guides.

Tuesday 10 July 2012, 06:17PM

Work to start on new memorial

PHUKET: Work will begin soon on construction of a new Phuket Historical Memorial at the Victory Field near Baan Riang, where the annual re-enactment of the 1785 victory of Phuket forces over an invading Burmese army takes place.

Tuesday 10 July 2012, 04:37PM

Troubled Istana development 'to restart very soon'

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 10 July 2012, 11:04AM

PHUKET: One of Thailand’s ritziest property developments, Istana, which appeared to be going the same way as the now abandoned Puravana and Barama Bay projects, is being pulled back from the brink, its new managing director, Michael Brereton, says.

ASEAN reaches out to Beijing over South China Sea code

Southeast Asian foreign ministers Monday said they were ready to open talks with Beijing over easing friction in the South China Sea, after agreeing key points of a pact aimed at preventing maritime disputes.

Tuesday 10 July 2012, 10:08AM

Health meetings' high hopes

PHUKET: Around 60 high-level health officials from the Association of Southeast Asian nations, plus their colleagues from China, Japan and South Korea, met in Phuket last week at the Movenpick Resort & Spa Karon Beach.

Monday 9 July 2012, 03:42PM

Asian nations under pressure to ease sea tensions

Southeast Asian nations were to hold crunch talks Monday on easing friction in the South China Sea as the US called for progress on the thorny issue at the start of a regional security forum.

Monday 9 July 2012, 03:04PM

Suu Kyi makes Myanmar parliamentary debut

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi made her historic parliamentary debut Monday, marking a new phase in her near quarter century struggle to bring democracy to her army-dominated homeland.

Monday 9 July 2012, 02:30PM

WHO finds virus link to Cambodia mystery disease