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Improvement of polluted Phuket canal ‘underway’

PHUKET: Much of the polluted Klong Bangtao has been dredged in order to improve flow and reduce bottlenecks that cause stagnation, a meeting at Phuket Provincial Hall was told this morning (May 23).

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Taxis, taxis, taxis – a week of fever in Phuket

PHUKET: Thirty meter taxis from the Phuket Limousine & Business Services cooperative (PBC) convened a mob at Phuket International Airport yesterday evening (May 22), blocking one of the two roads into the airport.

NEWS TODAY May 23

'Blackout could have been avoided'. Thai industries affected by black out. Former VG house suspect overlooking Patong.

Who's responsible for Phuket's blackout?

BANGKOK: The energy minister has reasons to be upset about the southern power outage, as no one at the electricity supplying agencies made the decision to save the region.

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

Phuket News / Opinion

Sunday 21 April 2013, 09:20AM

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'.

'No collusion' over Preah Vihear

Phuket News / Thailand

Sunday 21 April 2013, 09:16AM

BANGKOK: Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul has denied allegations that the government has colluded with Cambodia in the Preah Vihear temple dispute case.

Osborne questions currency of an independent Scotland

Phuket News / World

Sunday 21 April 2013, 08:47AM

LONDON British finance minister George Osborne cast doubt Sunday on whether Scotland could keep the pound as its currency if voters opt for independence in a referendum next year.

Phuket: Thalang police bust two drug dealers

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 20 April 2013, 07:42PM

PHUKET: Police in Thalang received a tipoff from informers about drugs on April 18.

Klong Koh Pee dam in Phuket to be repaired

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 20 April 2013, 07:14PM

PHUKET: It has been announced that the Klong Koh Pee public dam in Chalong – which has been out of action for almost two years – is going to be repaired.

iServe Youth Camp 2013 in Phuket a 'success'

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 20 April 2013, 11:59AM

PHUKET: Around 200 teenagers took part in the “iServe Youth Camp 2013” on April 19-20 at Sirirat National Park by Naiyang Beach.

US police detain Boston bomb suspect

Phuket News / World

Saturday 20 April 2013, 08:23AM

WATERTOWN: Police said Friday they had detained a teenaged suspect in the Boston marathon bombings after a showdown at a house in the suburbs.

Chinese bank ICBC tops Forbes Global 2000 list

Phuket News / Business

Saturday 20 April 2013, 08:21AM

WASHINGTON: Chinese bank ICBC knocked US oil giant ExxonMobil from its perch as the world's biggest public company Wednesday, ranking number-one for the first time on the Forbes Global 2000 list.

Phuket police boss slams Bangkok over CCTV delay

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 19 April 2013, 07:33PM

PHUKET: The gold shop robbery and murder on April has highlighted once again a nagging problem for Phuket’s police force: the continuing lack of decent coverage of the island with CCTV cameras, despite proposals to the government.

Phuket Town citizens setting up safety zone

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 19 April 2013, 07:31PM

PHUKET: A new Phuket Town safety zone is to be set up soon, following the success of the safety zones that have been in operation in Patong since July last year and more recently in Chalong.

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.

NEWS TODAY April 19

Phuket News / Phuket

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.

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