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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.

'Indisputable' that US practiced torture after 9/11: panel

Phuket News / World

Wednesday 17 April 2013, 09:31AM

U.S: It is 'indisputable' that the United States engaged in torture after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and top officials are ultimately to blame, says an independent review released Tuesday.

THIS WEEK IN PHUKET & PHUKET IN FOCUS

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Wednesday 17 April 2013, 09:22AM

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Quake kills at least 37 in Pakistan and Iran

Phuket News / Asia

Wednesday 17 April 2013, 12:09AM

QUETTA, PAKISTAN: A powerful earthquake struck southeastern Iran today (April 16), killing at least 34 people across the border in Pakistan and shaking buildings as far away as the Gulf and New Delhi.

Weather sinks dive boat, strands 400. Navy to the rescue

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 16 April 2013, 10:48PM

PHANG NGA: The Thai Navy offshore patrol vessel HTMS Pattani is currently standing off Koh Tachai, halfway between the Similan and Surin Islands, taking on board some 400 tourists and recreational divers stranded there by heavy weather.

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).

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