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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.

Friday 19 April 2013, 03:46PM

Entertainer Rolf Harris named as British sex probe suspect

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.

Friday 19 April 2013, 03:41PM

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

Chef caught setting Phuket bikes on fire ‘accidentally’

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.

Friday 19 April 2013, 12:08PM

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: 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.

Friday 19 April 2013, 10:38AM

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

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.

Thursday 18 April 2013, 11:44PM

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

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.

Thursday 18 April 2013, 11:41PM

Swedish anorexia patients targeted by modelling agencies

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.

Thursday 18 April 2013, 11:40PM

Bangkok killer found in Phuket after 11 years

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

Thursday 18 April 2013, 05:54PM

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

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

Thursday 18 April 2013, 05:19PM

The Big List: Strange Food

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.

Thursday 18 April 2013, 04:48PM

Phuket: Rawai soi turned into garbage dump

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.

Thursday 18 April 2013, 04:46PM

Archaeologists uncover ancient ‘Gates of Hell’

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

Thursday 18 April 2013, 04:42PM

BBQ guinea pigs to ‘feed the world’

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.

Thursday 18 April 2013, 04:40PM

Tuk-tuks shine lights on airstrip emergency

WEIRD WORLD: Hundreds of motorbike taxis lined an unlit airstrip in a jungle region of Peru so an emergency medevac plane with three very sick patients could take off – including a woman and her newborn baby.

Thursday 18 April 2013, 04:37PM

10-week hiccup attack baffles teen’s doctors