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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.

Monday 15 April 2013, 04:07PM

Torrential rain engulfed Bali crash jet: passenger

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".

Monday 15 April 2013, 04:05PM

Phuket expat skimmed for B100,000

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.

Monday 15 April 2013, 03:58PM

Philippines discovers pangolins on Chinese poacher boat‎

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.

Monday 15 April 2013, 03:49PM

Three foreigners arrested for skimming in Phuket

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.

Monday 15 April 2013, 02:56PM

Phuket expat in ICU following motorbike crash

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.

Monday 15 April 2013, 01:27PM

Irishman dead in diving accident in Koh Tao

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

Monday 15 April 2013, 11:09AM

Songkran ‘gives B600m boost to Phuket’

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

Monday 15 April 2013, 10:55AM

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: 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.

Monday 15 April 2013, 10:04AM

Songkran day four: Still zero road deaths in Phuket

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.

Monday 15 April 2013, 09:52AM

Prachuab ‘disaster area’ after storms

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.

Monday 15 April 2013, 08:48AM

Phuket Bike Week begins in Patong

PHUKET: Phuket Bike Week kicked off in style today (April 14), with an impressive opening ceremony marking the start of the fun-filled week.

Sunday 14 April 2013, 09:35PM

China H7N9 bird flu spreads to new province

China's H7N9 bird flu virus spread to a new province on Sunday, with state media reporting two human cases in central Henan just west of the area where the disease was centred.

Sunday 14 April 2013, 06:01PM

Bangkok Bank sees signs of Russia boom

Phuket News / Business

Sunday 14 April 2013, 04:38PM

BANGKOK: Bangkok Bank has seen greater business opportunities in trade finance with Russia in the face of bilateral trade talks.

Asian gecko threatened by medicine trade

KUALA LUMPUR: Activists warned Thursday that wild populations of Southeast Asia's striking Tokay Gecko were in danger of being over-hunted for use in traditional medicine in China and other countries.

Sunday 14 April 2013, 04:03PM

Teenagers among five dead in Belgian bus crash

Phuket News / World

Sunday 14 April 2013, 03:58PM

BRUSSELS: At least five people died and several were injured when a bus carrying Ukrainian and Russian teenagers crashed in northern Belgium, news media reported.

China's Weibo to expand into Thailand

BANGKOK: Weibo.com, the world's third-largest social media site, has selected Thailand as one of 10 countries in which it will expand this year.

Sunday 14 April 2013, 03:49PM

Booklets launched to help public understand AEC

BANGKOK: Two booklets have been published to help people prepare for the launch of the Asean Economic Community in 2015.

Sunday 14 April 2013, 03:47PM

Filipino caught in Phuket with ice worth B24m