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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.

Chon Buri snake farm caught selling endangered snake meat to tourists

Phuket News / Thailand

Saturday 27 April 2013, 01:11PM

CHON BURI: Authorities have confiscated a large haul of endangered reptiles from a snake farm in the Sattahip district of Chon Buri after they discovered that the owners of the farm had been selling endangered snake meat to tourists.

4 year old Cambodian boy electrocuted at North Pattaya Building Site

Phuket News / Thailand

Saturday 27 April 2013, 01:08PM

PATTAYA: A 4 year old Cambodian boy was electrocuted at a constructors campsite on Wednesday.

Dengue increase prompts Phuket PR campaign

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 26 April 2013, 05:36PM

PHUKET: Along with Governor Maitree Intusut, a group of around 50 officials from the Phuket Provincial Public Health Organisation (PPPHO) and Phuket Town Municipality distributed leaflets on Thalang Road today as part of a public awareness campaign about dengue fever.

Phuket Sea Gypsies advised to go to Admin Court

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 26 April 2013, 05:33PM

PHUKET: Sea Gypsies in Rawai – facing possible eviction from their village because a local businessman, Piyawat Saeng-niemkul, has ownership papers for the land – have been urged to take their case to the Administrative Court as a way to buy time.

Spotlight on Thailand's rubber industry

Phuket News / Business

Friday 26 April 2013, 04:08PM

PHUKET: Later this month rubber growers in Thailand plan to march on Bangkok to highlight the plummenting prices of rubber despite government effort to shore them up.

DSI probes alleged police execution in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 26 April 2013, 04:07PM

PHUKET: Department of Special Investigation (DSI) officers yesterday (April 25) visited Suan Luang Park on Chao Fa Rd in Phuket Town, the site of an alleged extrajudicial killing by police three and a half years ago.

Kittirat dreams of firing BoT governor

Phuket News / Business

Friday 26 April 2013, 04:06PM

BANGKOK: Finance Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong admitted on Friday (April 19) that he has thought about replacing Bank of Thailand governor Prasarn Trairatvorakul because of his failure to cut the key policy rate, as he had called for.

Phuket-based Yacht Solutions in deal with Ital Thai

Phuket News / Business

Friday 26 April 2013, 04:01PM

PHUKET: Phuket-based Yacht Solutions has signed a deal with giant Ital Thai Marine to create “the very best superyacht facility in Thailand”.

NEWS TODAY April 26

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 26 April 2013, 03:23PM

'Black plate' airport taxis cut a deal, plans for Airport boat pier revealed, officials seek public help to root out illegal workers and Simon Ostheimer, Managing Editor of The Phuket News chats about this week's issue - out now.

Kidnapped Karen girl ‘Air’ being treated but funds running out - Chiang Mai expatriate visits her at children's home

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 26 April 2013, 02:31PM

CHIANG MAI: In early 2013 ‘Air,’ the young girl from the Karen hill tribe who was kidnapped by a Thai couple on 20 May 2008, managed to escape from her abusers.

Police post photos of drunk drivers on Facebook

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 26 April 2013, 02:10PM

BANGKOK: Metropolitan police have started to take drunk driving more seriously.

Iraq lurks at Bush's Texas-sized party

Phuket News / World

Friday 26 April 2013, 02:04PM

DALLAS: Something was unmentionable in polite company gathered to dedicate George W. Bush's presidential library here Thursday: the words "Iraq war."

Rare snake bite death in Australia

Phuket News / Asia

Friday 26 April 2013, 01:58PM

SYDNEY: A hockey player has died in Australia after being bitten by a snake that he picked up -- a rare fatality despite the country being home to the planet's 10 deadliest species.

Russia psychiatric hospital fire kills 38

Phuket News / World

Friday 26 April 2013, 11:52AM

MOSCOW: A fire broke out Friday in a psychiatric hospital near Moscow, killing 38 people, Russia's health ministry said.

Laguna Phuket’s marathon rocks with new theme song

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 26 April 2013, 11:43AM

PHUKET: This year’s Laguna Phuket International Marathon is rocking its thousands of runners and fans around the world with a specially-commissioned “Run Paradise” theme song.

Protected wild animals seized at Chon Buri snake farm

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 26 April 2013, 10:50AM

CHON BURI: Local authorities seized an undisclosed number of protected wild snakes today at a snake farm in Sattahip district after local residents reported to authorities that tourists from abroad came to consume the reptiles and their byproducts.

‘Help us target illegal foreign firms in Phuket’ – DSI

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 26 April 2013, 09:51AM

PHUKET: The Deputy Director of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has called on the people of Phuket to submit pictures and videos of illegal foreign businesses in action.

Phuket airport boat pier details revealed

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 25 April 2013, 07:29PM

PHUKET: The Phuket Marine Office today revealed details of its plans to build an L-shaped pier at Phuket International Airport to provide passenger transport by sea to Patong.

Former ‘black’ taxis in deal with Phuket Airport

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 25 April 2013, 07:19PM

PHUKET: The 250-member Mook Andaman Taxi group today (April 25) came to an agreement with Airports of Thailand, owner of the Phuket International Airport, that will allow 25 members to pick up passengers at the airport.

'Business as usual' following Korean speed-boat crash

Phuket News / Thailand

Thursday 25 April 2013, 05:57PM

PATTAYA: Despite promises from local government officials and government ministers from Bangkok to introduce immediate checks on boat operators and their crews and to provide better support and policing of vessels used to transport tourists, we have determined that absolutely nothing has changed since the accident last Sunday which saw 19 Korean tourists injured, six seriously.

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