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Phuket rain fails to dampen locals' merit making spirit

PHUKET: This morning's heavy rain did not affect the turnout for the “Tam boon klang lhad” (Merit Day) as hundreds of locals poured into downtown Phuket to donate food and items to the local monks and 'make merit'.

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Bangkok: Reconciliation bill comes under fire

BANGKOK: The reconciliation bill sponsored by Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung is facing growing opposition as it would exonerate those responsible for the crackdown on the 2010 red shirt protests.

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler spotted in Phuket Town

PHUKET: Phuket Town locals got a shock last night when they spotted Aerosmith's lead singer Steven Tyler partying at Timber Hut bar in Phuket Town.

Phuket Police must stamp out abuse of tourists, says Chinese envoy

PHUKET: China’s Haad-Yai-based Vice Consul, Qin Jian, has urged police to crack down hard on sexual attacks on tourists, following yesterday’s alleged molestation of a 19-year-old Chinese tourist by a “black taxi” driver who picked her up from the airport.

Bali salvage team to haul plane wreck to beach

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 16 April 2013, 02:39PM

DENPASAR: Indonesian investigators were set Tuesday to cut up the wreckage of a plane that crashed off Bali and haul it to a beach, as they probe what caused the accident, the military said.

Weather warning for Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 16 April 2013, 10:38AM

PHUKET: The Southern Meteorological Centre has issued a heavy rain warning for Phuket, from today until tomorrow (April 16-17).

Accused Phuket tourist cop refuses to answer questions

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 16 April 2013, 09:54AM

PHUKET: The Tourist Police senior sergeant at the centre of the Phuket Town boarding shootout investigation in late March is still refusing to answer many police questions about the incident.

Songkran Day 5: Phuket still free of road deaths

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 16 April 2013, 09:02AM

PHUKET: The island continued its remarkably death-free road record yesterday, the fifth day in the “Seven Days of Danger” Songkran road accident period, with no one killed on the roads.

Athletics world shocked by Boston blasts

Phuket News / World

Tuesday 16 April 2013, 08:44AM

BOSTON: Distance running greats Haile Gebrselassie and Paula Radcliffe were among those stunned by the twin blasts that left at least two dead and dozens injured at the Boston Marathon on Monday.

Russians spread their wings to the South

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 16 April 2013, 08:42AM

Khao Lak, Krabi and Koh Samui are expected to become popular destinations for Russian travellers thanks to beautiful beaches and convenient transport.

Police release Phuket gold robbery-murder video

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 15 April 2013, 05:46PM

PHUKET: Police have issued a compilation of shots from CCTV cameras showing different angles of the gold robbery and murder at the CP Goldmaster shop last Monday (April 8).

Phuket: Family looks for help to get injured American back home

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 15 April 2013, 04:48PM

PHUKET: George Byrdwell Harris Jr has been lying in a hospital in Phuket for the past eight months after a horrific motorbike accident in August last year.

Hong Kong transsexual woman in last fight to wed boyfriend

Phuket News / Asia

Monday 15 April 2013, 04:07PM

HONG KONG: Hong Kong's highest court on Monday began hearing the final appeal of a transsexual woman who is seeking to wed her boyfriend, in a potentially groundbreaking case for the Chinese city.

Torrential rain engulfed Bali crash jet: passenger

Phuket News / Asia

Monday 15 April 2013, 04:05PM

JAKARTA: A torrential downpour engulfed the Lion Air plane that crashed in Bali at the weekend, a passenger said Monday, describing how the sudden rain storm made the sky look "as if it was night".

Phuket expat skimmed for B100,000

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 15 April 2013, 03:58PM

PHUKET: Phuket expat Ali Goebel is issuing advice to other ATM users after B100,000 was skimmed from her bank account on Saturday while in Hua Hin – cover your hand when you’re entering your pincode.

Philippines discovers pangolins on Chinese poacher boat‎

Phuket News / Asia

Monday 15 April 2013, 03:49PM

MANILA: The Philippine Coast Guard said today (April 15) that it had found hundreds of scaly anteaters, or pangolins, frozen in the cargo hold of a Chinese boat that ran aground in a protected marine sanctuary last week.

Three foreigners arrested for skimming in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 15 April 2013, 02:56PM

PHUKET: Three foreigners – two Frenchmen and a Tunisian – were arrested yesterday (April 14) in a rented home in Phuket Country Club on charges of skimming bank ATM cards.

Phuket expat in ICU following motorbike crash

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 15 April 2013, 01:27PM

PHUKET: Phuket resident Cathy Coles-Clark is unlikely to forget the moment she came across her husband, Stuart, lying on the road following a bad motorbike crash after he dodged a cat on the road.

Irishman dead in diving accident in Koh Tao

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 15 April 2013, 11:09AM

KOH TAO: Irishman Colin Callanan, 29, from West Cork, has drowned in a diving accident in Koh Tao.

Songkran ‘gives B600m boost to Phuket’

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 15 April 2013, 10:55AM

PHUKET: Songkran has injected up to B600 million into Phuket’s economy this year, according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT).

Phuket Opinion: Fighting fire with fire

Phuket News / Opinion

Monday 15 April 2013, 10:19AM

PHUKET: In response to a threat issued by a Karon tuk-tuk driver that, if introduced, a public bus service from the airport to Kata and Karon would be met with public road protests, a Phuket News reader suggested that “heads should be cracked”, in order to fight the violence with even greater violence.

Phuket expat fined B4,000 for false robbery report

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 15 April 2013, 10:04AM

PHUKET: Phuket expatriate, Frenchman Marc Forestier, has been fined B4,000 by the Phuket District Court for filing a false report stating that he had been robbed.

Songkran day four: Still zero road deaths in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 15 April 2013, 09:52AM

PHUKET: Four days into the “Seven Days of Danger” road accident period surrounding Songkran, Phuket is still mercifully free of deaths. Yesterday (April 14) there were just three reported accidents on the island, with three people injured.

Prachuab ‘disaster area’ after storms

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 15 April 2013, 08:48AM

PRACHUAB KHIRI KHAN: All districts in the upper south province of Prachuab Khiri Khan have been declared disaster areas after strong winds and rains ravaged many places on Saturday.

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