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Taxi blockade at airport. Another protest - outside Governor's mansion. Dredging at Bang Tao Klong nearly complete.

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The Big List: Ghost Towns

THE BIG LIST: “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.” Shelley’s poem Ozymandias, a vision of lost ruins in the desert, mocks the ultimate fate of even greatest human cities, and the greatest vanities. Here are a few of the more unusual ghost towns you’ll find dotted around the world.

‘Ugly’ fish face up to extinction

WEIRD WORLD: They may be last of their species – and scientists joke they may be too ugly to breed. London Zoo has appealed to fish keepers to find a mate for their two tropical Mangarahara cichlids, which come originally from Madagascar.

Stray dogs sniff out human remains

WEIRD WORLD: A Polish businessman who stashed human body parts in a city warehouse instead of incinerating them was exposed by local stray dogs, who started gathering hungrily outside.

Heavy rains bring flooding, again

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 5 July 2012, 01:23PM

PHUKET: Heavy rain this morning has, as usual, flooding large parts of Patong and other parts of the island.

Phuket News rewards loyalty

Phuket News / Business

Thursday 5 July 2012, 11:58AM

PHUKET: To reward our classified customers, The Phuket News is now offering a Loyalty System for returning Premium Classified users.

Barry’s big adventure

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 4 July 2012, 07:41PM

PHUKET: Barry Buck, General Manager of security firm SGS, was the lucky winner of the “Your Island, Your Station, Your Sticker” competition on Phuket Live Radio 89.5 – an affiliate of The Phuket News.

Heroic tourist saves girl from rape

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 4 July 2012, 06:48PM

PHUKET: A heroic Japanese tourist received 15 stitches in his head after intervening to prevent a taxi driver from raping an Australian tourist at 4 am today.

Phuket to be model for tackling tourism woes

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 4 July 2012, 06:36PM

PHUKET: The Royal Thai Police (RTP) is currently focusing on solving Phuket’s major problems as part of its “Phuket Model” project - an initiative they hope will later pave the way to fixing tourism-related problems in other major tourism hubs such as Koh Samui and Pattaya.

Bangkok oil refinery blast triggers closure calls

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 4 July 2012, 06:07PM

An explosion at an oil refinery in the heart of Bangkok which sparked a massive fire early Wednesday has triggered calls for the relocation of the 120,000 barrels-a-day facility.

Navy to practice air-sea rescue

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 4 July 2012, 06:04PM

PHUKET: The Royal Thai Navy Third Area Command will carry out a full-scale search and rescue exercise using helicopters next Tuesday (July 10), in the sea off Cape Panwa.

Rape ‘victim’ begins jail sentence

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 4 July 2012, 05:48PM

PHUKET: Australian Stevie Bamford, 21, yesterday (July 3) begun serving 15 days in Bang Jo Detention Centre for giving a false statement to the police that she was raped.

Police urged to get new stations built

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 4 July 2012, 05:23PM

PHUKET: A Vice-President of the Phuket Tourist Association, Bhuritt Maswongssa, today (July 4) urged the Royal Thai Police (RTP) to give priority to a plan to build two new police stations, in Karon and Wichit District.

No evacuation order after Bangkok refinery fire

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 4 July 2012, 03:35PM

No evacuation order was issued following the Bangchak refinery fire this morning in Bangkok, but nearby schools have been closed and officials are examining the air quality.

Heavy weather for 2-3 days

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 4 July 2012, 11:53AM

PHUKET: The Southern Meteorological Center for the West Coast has issued a warning that heavy rain can be expected across the island for the next few days.

Single female, over 30 and 'too old' to marry in UAE

Phuket News / World

Wednesday 4 July 2012, 11:05AM

If you are a 30-year-old Emirati woman and still single, then you have missed the marriage boat: by UAE standards, you are now considered to be too old.

Crackdown on airport black taxis begins

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 4 July 2012, 10:35AM

PHUKET: Police have initiated a drive against unregistered “black’ taxis at Phuket International Airport (PIA).

Blast at Bangkok oil refinery triggers huge blaze

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 4 July 2012, 10:30AM

An explosion at an oil refinery in an industrial area of Bangkok sparked a massive fire early Wednesday, sending a thick column of smoke into the air that could be seen across the city.

Gov wants 5,000 CCTV cams on the island

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 4 July 2012, 09:49AM

PHUKET: Phuket Governor Tri Augkaradacha said yesterday (July 3) that he wants to see the number of CCTV cameras in Phuket increase to 5,000 by next year.

Seven hurt in fishing boat blast

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 3 July 2012, 05:53PM

PHUKET: The captain and six crew members of a Phuket fishing boat were burned, some severely, when a gas explosion set their boat on fire on Sunday (July 1) and then sank it.

Police Chief reveals plans to improve security

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 3 July 2012, 05:37PM

PHUKET: Actions to improve security in Phuket have been proposed by Provincial Police Commander Pol Maj Gen Chonasit Watanawarangkun, following a meeting yesterday (June 2) with commanders of police stations on the island.

Indonesian 'haze' drives fishing fleets to port

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 3 July 2012, 03:12PM

Illegal burning of forests in Indonesia, which blankets southern Thailand in a thick haze every year, has this year driven fishing fleets back to port because of dangerously reduced visibility at sea, according to a report released on Monday (June 2). The opaque air conditions extend well into the Gulf of Thailand.

Officials try again to bring taxis to heel

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 3 July 2012, 12:15PM

PHUKET: Phuket authorities have announced that they will begin meeting with taxi rank leaders tomorrow (July 4), as part of a fresh attempt to solve taxi and tuk-tuk problems, including unregistered vehicles, violence against passengers and “influential people” supporting the drivers.

Ten dead in Koh Phangan-bound bus crash

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 3 July 2012, 11:46AM

Ten people are dead and 17 others injured following a bus crash in Surat Thani this morning (July 3).

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