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BANGKOK: The falsified border map used by Cambodia at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) could be key evidence allowing a verdict in favour of Thailand, the Thai legal team fighting the case says.

Tuesday 23 April 2013, 09:16AM

Boston marathon bombing suspect charged

Phuket News / World

Tuesday 23 April 2013, 08:52AM

BOSTON: Boston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could face the death penalty after being charged on Monday for his alleged role in the attacks which left three people dead and 200 wounded.

Canada foil Al Qaeda-backed train smash plot

Phuket News / World

Tuesday 23 April 2013, 08:38AM

OTTAWA: Two foreign nationals have been arrested in Canada in connection with what federal police said Monday was a plot backed by Al-Qaeda to derail a passenger train in the Toronto area.

Eight more Phuket bikes torched

PHUKET: Eight motorcycles were incinerated early this morning (April 22) next to the Irawadee Ket Ho condominium in Kathu. This brings to 20 the number of motorcycles burned in a continuing spate of arson attacks.

Monday 22 April 2013, 06:47PM

Police baffled by skeleton in Phuket hills

PHUKET: Police are scratching for clues to the identity of a skeleton found by local people in the Nakkerd Mountains yesterday morning (April 21), not far from the big Buddha.

Monday 22 April 2013, 06:40PM

Phuket: Missing Hungarian’s body found under Samui villa

PHUKET: Police on Koh Samui are scrambling to explain the discovery of a human skeleton buried under a luxury villa believed to belong to Phuket murder accused Moshe David.

Monday 22 April 2013, 05:47PM

Phuket Opinion: Greetings from the Governor

PHUKET OPINION: I would like to say Happy Thai New Year to all the readers of The Phuket News and wish you good luck for the coming year. I also want to say a big welcome to all visitors to the island over this joyful period. In this month’s Greetings from the Governor column, I wish to address three issues.

Monday 22 April 2013, 05:02PM

Phuket Opinion: Learning from the Sea Gypsies

PHUKET OPINION: Having read recent articles in the media regarding the Rawai Sea Gypsies, I wanted to write to you about the plight of the people who taught me all I know about the Andaman Sea and still continue to educate and amaze me – the Rawai Sea Gypsies.

Monday 22 April 2013, 04:58PM

Phuket Opinion: Boats, pubs, marinas and boat shows

PHUKET OPINION: I went to the Phuket boat show last month.

Monday 22 April 2013, 04:51PM

Thai teen survives four storey jump in Phuket

PHUKET: A 17-year-old teenager miraculously survived jumping out of the window of a fourth floor apartment in Phuket Town this morning (April 22).

Monday 22 April 2013, 04:27PM

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Monday 22 April 2013, 02:18PM

Two foreigners dead in Phuket big bike smashes

PHUKET: A 33-year-old Briton wearing only a pair of blue shorts died just after midnight this morning (April 22) when he overshot the bend near Wat Tai on Chao Fa East Rd and smashed into the guard rail.

Monday 22 April 2013, 12:02PM

Missing Hungarian's body found at villa

SURAT THANI: A skeleton believed to be that of Laszlo Csapai, a 39-year-old Hungarian businessman missing for two years, was yesterday found beneath a luxury villa on Koh Samui in Surat Thani.

Monday 22 April 2013, 11:08AM

Pattaya boat collision injures 18

CHON BURI: Eighteen South Korean tourists were injured, two seriously, when two speedboats ferrying them to Pattaya's Koh Larn collided Sunday morning.

Monday 22 April 2013, 09:43AM

20 dead from China bird flu: state media

Phuket News / Asia

Sunday 21 April 2013, 11:10PM

BEIJING: The death toll from a new strain of bird flu in China has reached 20, with dozens infected, state media reported Sunday, as experts said there was no evidence so far of human-to-human transmission.

Rescuers in China scrabble to find quake survivors

Phuket News / Asia

Sunday 21 April 2013, 11:04PM

LUSHAN: Thousands of rescue workers combed through flattened villages in southwest China on Sunday in a race to find survivors from a powerful quake as the toll of dead and missing rose past 200.

YouTube airs video of Bali Police extorting tourist [VIDEO]

Phuket News / Asia

Sunday 21 April 2013, 09:28AM

SEMINYAK: A four and half-minute video showing a Bali police officer asking for money from a Dutch tourist following a minor traffic violation is currently circulating on YouTube, uploaded from an account called “gil4sekali”.

Democracy loses in halls of parliament

BANGKOK: In theory, a democratic nation is governed by three branches: the executive, judicial and the parliamentary or legislative. In Thailand's reality, the country is governed formally by those three institutions, but also informally by two other institutions, the military and what we shall term as the 'old establishment'.

Sunday 21 April 2013, 09:20AM

'No collusion' over Preah Vihear