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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.

For Koh Maphrao, light at the end of a long tunnel

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 06:06PM

PHUKET: Mains power for Koh Maphrao is still coming, but it’s coming at a snail’s pace, the chief of the Phuket Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) has explained.

US consular outreach heads for Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 02:57PM

PHUKET: Staff from the Consular Section of the American Embassy in Bangkok will visit Phuket for their regular “consular outreach” next Tuesday (June 19).

Tycoon in plea for SEZ status for Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 12:14PM

PHUKET: Thai tycoon Dr Boon Wanasin has made an eloquent plea for Phuket to be declared a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) to free it from the dead hand of central government dithering.

Work on illegal restaurant stopped

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 09:31AM

PHUKET: Nine Burmese workers were arrested yesterday (June 11) while working on construction of a new restaurant on Tri Trang Beach, south of Patong.

Battery thieves crash phone network

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 09:18AM

PHUKET: Thalang police arrested two Thai men last night (June 11) after they were found in possession of more than 30 large batteries.

Australian, 22, raped in tuk tuk

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 09:05AM

PHUKET: An Australian tourist, 22, was raped by three men in a red tuk-tuk in Patong on Sunday night (June 10), according to reports by Kathu Police.

Bangkok taxi drivers lend a beating hand

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 11 June 2012, 05:40PM

It’s not just Phuketians who experience woes at the hands of the Thai taxi and tuk tuk ‘industry’; a Thai man was mauled by three taxi drivers at Bangkok’s Makkasan Airport Link station for taking photos of a driver who refused to take him to his destination.

Shaming the trading of Phuket dog meat

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 11 June 2012, 04:42PM

PHUKET: The Soi Dog Foundation has launched the Trade of Shame Campaign in a bid to raise awareness of the growing dog meat trade across Asia.

AEC 2015 - will see rise in Phuket crime

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 11 June 2012, 12:19PM

PHUKET: The arrival of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015, when nationals of the ASEAN bloc will be able to travel and work in Thailand more or less without hindrance, will encourage more crime, a senior policeman has warned.

Phuket police officer dies in car accident

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 11 June 2012, 12:03PM

PHUKET: Kathu police officer, Capt Thanakrit Kiawyai, died in a car accident on Patak Rd in Karon yesterday morning (June 10).

Skool's out at Laguna

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 11 June 2012, 11:13AM

PHUKET: Laguna Phuket’s annual Summer Family Festival gets off to a rocking start on Saturday June 23 at the Canal Village with an opening “Skool’s Out” party featuring a double bill of the island’s hottest young bands – The Screaming Hypocrites and Legends of Siam.

Celebrating the difference: Phuket's Sikh community

Phuket News / Features

Monday 11 June 2012, 11:08AM

PHUKET: Besides the currency in which devotees donate money, pretty much everything else resembles a traditional Indian Sikh service at the Gurdwara Sikh temple in Phuket Town.

Chalong Police bag six dealers

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 11 June 2012, 09:59AM

Six people were arrested in Chalong on Friday for selling Bangkok-bought drugs to tourists, bar staff and teenagers.

Seven held in million-baht drug busts

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 11 June 2012, 09:39AM

Seven people were arrested on Saturday and some 6,500 methamphetamine (ya ba) pills and more than half a kilo of crystal methamphetamine (ya ice) seized.

Phuket woman shot dead in suspected British love hit

Phuket News / Phuket

Sunday 10 June 2012, 06:36AM

PHUKET: A Thai woman, Sumittra Namfuk, 55, was killed in her house on Soi Rakchat U-thit in Thungtong yesterday afternoon (June 9). Police suspect the murder was motivated by her affair with a British boyfriend.

Yellow Shirts march through Phuket City

Phuket News / Phuket

Sunday 10 June 2012, 12:04AM

About 50 members of the Phuket Guard group (People's Alliance for Democracy), Phuket Model (anti-red-shirt village) and Phuket multicolored-shirt group marched through Phuket City today (June 9) to show their opposition to four contentious reconciliation bills.

Patong tunnel 'could be reality in five years'

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 8 June 2012, 07:35PM

PHUKET: The road tunnel under Patong Hill, between Kathu and Patong, could be completed in as little as five years.

Crackdown on Phuket hookahs

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 8 June 2012, 05:12PM

Phuket: Phuket Vice-Governor, Chamroen Tipayapongtada yesterday (June 7) pledged to tightly control the use of hookahs in shops in Phuket.

Beach closure rumours denied

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 8 June 2012, 04:13PM

PHUKET: Rumours that Patong Beach is to be closed until the bad weather clears have been denied by officials.

Debate over 'helping' Sea Gypsies

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 8 June 2012, 10:49AM

PHUKET: A plan to rehouse a community of Sea Gypsies in mangroves at the edge of Phuket City might be dropped following a meeting yesterday (June 7) at Phuket Provincial Hall.

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