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The Big List: Ghost Towns

THE BIG LIST: “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.” Shelley’s poem Ozymandias, a vision of lost ruins in the desert, mocks the ultimate fate of even greatest human cities, and the greatest vanities. Here are a few of the more unusual ghost towns you’ll find dotted around the world.

‘Ugly’ fish face up to extinction

WEIRD WORLD: They may be last of their species – and scientists joke they may be too ugly to breed. London Zoo has appealed to fish keepers to find a mate for their two tropical Mangarahara cichlids, which come originally from Madagascar.

Stray dogs sniff out human remains

WEIRD WORLD: A Polish businessman who stashed human body parts in a city warehouse instead of incinerating them was exposed by local stray dogs, who started gathering hungrily outside.

German expat dies in Phuket after night out drinking

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 17 April 2013, 04:17PM

PHUKET: German national Peter Lutz Teubner, a Phuket resident, was found dead in his house in Karon today (April 17).

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Wednesday 17 April 2013, 02:09PM

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Phuket dive boat drama: ‘Passengers jumped overboard’

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 17 April 2013, 12:24PM

PHUKET: The manager of the liveaboard dive boat Little Princess has given dramatic details of how the boat sank in heavy seas off Koh Tachai in Phang Nga province yesterday (April 16), with many passengers jumping overboard, and their belongings sinking to the bottom of the sea along with the boat.

Phuket: Police station builder’s contract to be terminated today

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 17 April 2013, 11:27AM

BANGKOK: The Royal Thai Police have resolved to terminate their contract with PCC Development and Construction Co to build 396 police stations, some of them in Phuket, despite the company threatening to take the matter to court.

Fourth member of Phuket skimmer gang sought

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 17 April 2013, 10:59AM

PHUKET: Police have issued a photograph of a fourth member of the alleged ATM skimming gang, three of whom were arrested on Sunday (April 14). He has been named as 20-year-old Mounir Arabi, a French citizen, also wanted in Pattaya for skimming.

Phuket Buddhist amulet expert dies

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 17 April 2013, 10:49AM

PHUKET: Local singer and well-known Phuket Town Buddhist amulet expert Teerapon Kaewsakul, 46, died from a heart attack yesterday (April 16) in his apartment.

Yet another day free of road deaths in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 17 April 2013, 09:56AM

PHUKET: The island yesterday continued its run of days free of road fatalities, recording five accidents with five people taken to hospital.

'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.

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