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4 plots of Phuket land checked - all illegal

PHUKET: As part of an ongoing investigation into land encroachment on the island, Pol Lt Gen Jutti Thammanovanich, Head of the Special Unit of the Ministry of Interior came down from Bangkok to investigate land plots in the Patong, Kathu and Kamala areas today.

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US carrier Nimitz due to visit Phuket

PHUKET: The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz is due to visit Phuket on May 28, anchoring in Makham Bay off the deep sea port.

PHUKET IN FOCUS This week's The Phuket News

Behind the news of this week's main stories in The Phuket News. Executive Editor, Alasdair Forbes on 'Phuket in Focus'.

Phuket Navy joins disaster exercise in Satun

PHUKET: A patrol boat and crew from the Phuket base of the Royal Thai Navy Third Fleet joined relevant government departments yesterday (May 16) in a full-scale marine disaster exercise off Pak Bara Pier in Satun Province.

Phuket underpass to be completed by early 2014

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 19 April 2013, 05:41PM

PHUKET: Phuket’s first underpass, which will run underneath the Tainan intersection by Central Festival, is expected to be complete by the start of 2014, the project engineer has confirmed.

A wet and not so wild week in Phuket

Phuket News / Opinion

Friday 19 April 2013, 05:10PM

PHUKET: While last week in Phuket was characterised by a pervading sense of fear and anger, over both the atrocious actions of the callous Tesco Lotus gunman, and promises of protests by the island’s tuk-tuk drivers, this week in Phuket has by contrast, at least on the face of it, been much calmer.

Boston bomb suspect killed after shootout: media

Phuket News / World

Friday 19 April 2013, 03:46PM

BOSTON: One of the Boston bombing suspects reportedly died Friday after a shootout with police, as explosions rang out near the tense US city and officers stayed on the hunt for a second suspect.

Entertainer Rolf Harris named as British sex probe suspect

Phuket News / World

Friday 19 April 2013, 03:41PM

LONDON: Veteran Australian-born entertainer Rolf Harris was on Friday named by media as one of the men questioned by British police investigating allegations of sexual abuse following the scandal involving former BBC DJ and presenter Jimmy Savile.

Thailand dabbles in ‘voluntourism’

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 19 April 2013, 03:23PM

BANGKOK: In an effort to attract more visitors to the Kingdom while simultaneously helping bolster the country’s ecosystem, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has decided to embark on a “voluntourism” project.

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Friday 19 April 2013, 03:10PM

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Chef caught setting Phuket bikes on fire ‘accidentally’

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 19 April 2013, 12:08PM

PHUKET: Three more motorbikes were set on fire in Karon early during Songkran (April 13) but this time – unlike in previous cases of motorbike arson around the island – CCTV cameras caught the culprit at work.

Laguna Phuket hosts record-breaking Nu Skin programme

Phuket News / Business

Friday 19 April 2013, 10:57AM

PHUKET: Laguna Phuket is playing a major role in a record-breaking annual incentive programme being staged over six days on the island for 4,000 delegates and staff of anti-aging products company Nu Skin Greater China, which is predicted to generate a business boom for Phuket and Thailand.

Phuket fugitive ducks into pond

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 19 April 2013, 10:38AM

PHUKET: A suspected drug dealer went to great lengths to evade police capture yesterday afternoon (April 18) by running away into the forest and trying to hide in a pond.

Preah Vihear temple case: Phnom Penh denies doctoring map

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 19 April 2013, 08:45AM

Cambodia denied Thursday that it had doctored a map to mislead the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in its request for the court to interpret its 1962 ruling on the Preah Vihear temple.

Race to find survivors after huge Texas blast kills up to 15

Phuket News / World

Thursday 18 April 2013, 11:44PM

TEXAS: Rescuers launched a door-to-door search Thursday for victims after a massive explosion at a Texas fertilizer factory killed as many as 15 people and leveled much of this small Texas town.

Six missing after two boats collide in Hong Kong: official

Phuket News / Asia

Thursday 18 April 2013, 11:43PM

HONG KONG: Six people were missing after two boats collided in waters off Hong Kong late Thursday.

Pakistani girl makes Time's 'most influential' list

Phuket News / World

Thursday 18 April 2013, 11:41PM

NEW YORK: Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani school girl and advocate for girls' education who survived a would-be assassin's bullet, is among the 100 most influential people in the world, Time magazine said Thursday.

Swedish anorexia patients targeted by modelling agencies

Phuket News / World

Thursday 18 April 2013, 11:40PM

STOCKHOLM: A Stockholm treatment centre for eating disorders on Thursday said talent scouts from modelling agencies had approached their patients outside the clinic, hoping to recruit them.

Bangkok killer found in Phuket after 11 years

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 18 April 2013, 05:54PM

PHUKET: Phuket Police yesterday (April 17) arrested a man wanted for a stabbing murder 11 years ago in Bangkok.

Phuket’s 'zero' road deaths record marred on last day

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 18 April 2013, 05:19PM

PHUKET: The island almost got through the Seven Days of Danger around Songkran with no road deaths.

The Big List: Strange Food

Phuket News / Weird World

Thursday 18 April 2013, 04:48PM

WEIRD WORLD: One man’s meat is another man’s cuddly pet, as the current gourmet fad for guinea pigs shows. Obviously weird food isn’t all that weird to the people who enjoy eating it, but a few delicacies are so unusual that they deserve special mention.

Phuket: Rawai soi turned into garbage dump

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 18 April 2013, 04:46PM

PHUKET: Canadian expat Andy Greenlay, 71, has been picking up garbage around where he lives in Rawai for 30 years, but the garbage problem has become so bad now that he cannot keep up with it.

Archaeologists uncover ancient ‘Gates of Hell’

Phuket News / Weird World

Thursday 18 April 2013, 04:42PM

WEIRD WORLD: Italian researchers say they’ve found the legendary “Gates of Hell”, known to the ancient Greeks and Romans as “Pluto’s Gate.”

BBQ guinea pigs to ‘feed the world’

Phuket News / Weird World

Thursday 18 April 2013, 04:40PM

WEIRD WORLD: You may remember them as a cherished childhood pet, but guinea pigs are turning up on posh restaurant menus around the world – and researchers say they could replace beef as a staple food.

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