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Boundless destruction as US tornado rescue winds down

MOORE: As rescue efforts in Oklahoma wound down Wednesday, residents turned to the daunting task of rebuilding a US heartland community shattered by a vast tornado that killed at least 24 people.

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Phuket vendors protest no-parking zone

PHUKET: Around 30 street vendors attended a meeting at the Phuket City Municipality to discuss a new no-parking zone outside Vachira Hospital, which they say has led to lost revenue for them.

Senators inspect former Phuket VG’s hilltop paradise

PHUKET: A Senate committee led by Boonsong Kowawisaratch, senator for Mae Hong Son Province, this morning (May 22) visited the resort-style house built by a former vice-governor of Phuket, high in the hills overlooking Patong.

British police charge man over IRA bombing 31 years ago

LONDON: A man has been charged over a notorious IRA bombing in London in 1982 which killed four British soldiers on ceremonial duty, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

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

Phuket News / Thailand

Sunday 14 April 2013, 04:03PM

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.

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

Phuket News / Thailand

Sunday 14 April 2013, 03:49PM

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.

Booklets launched to help public understand AEC

Phuket News / Thailand

Sunday 14 April 2013, 03:47PM

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

Filipino caught in Phuket with ice worth B24m

Phuket News / Phuket

Sunday 14 April 2013, 11:27AM

PHUKET: Sonny Pasong Cornel, 31, from the Philippines was arrested at Phuket International Airport on Friday morning when he arrived from India via Kuala Lumpur carrying 7.1 kilos of crystal methamphetamine (ya ice) concealed in his luggage.

Fingers crossed: No Phuket Songkran road deaths so far

Phuket News / Phuket

Sunday 14 April 2013, 10:59AM

PHUKET: The island has managed to get through the first three days of the Seven Days of Danger, covering the Songkran period, without a single road death.

Plan to open Don Muang to all airlines

Phuket News / Business

Saturday 13 April 2013, 08:18PM

BANGKOK: Airports of Thailand says it will open Don Muang Airport to all international airlines, putting it on an equal footing with Suvarnabhumi Airport.

Myanmar’s wine astonishes experts

Phuket News / Business

Saturday 13 April 2013, 08:16PM

Myanmar may be best known for its decades of brutal military rule, but behind the bamboo curtain maverick entrepreneurs have toiled for years to put the nation on the map for the far from brutal art of winemaking.

New GM for Allamanda Phuket

Phuket News / Business

Saturday 13 April 2013, 08:08PM

PHUKET: Femke Beekers has been appointed General Manager of the Best Western Allamanda Laguna Phuket.

Thailand ‘trailing its neighbours’ as a destination

Phuket News / Business

Saturday 13 April 2013, 08:08PM

When it comes to favourite destinations for tourists, Thailand is behind Singapore and Malaysia, according to a report published by the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Nok Air to launch Tak-Myanmar routes

Phuket News / Business

Saturday 13 April 2013, 08:02PM

Nok Air plans to operate two new routes from Mae Sot district in Tak Province to Myanmar in preparation for the establishment of the Mae Sot Special Economic Zone and the Asean Economic Community (AEC).

Suu Kyi arrives in Japan after 27 years

Phuket News / Asia

Saturday 13 April 2013, 07:58PM

TOKYO: Myanmar's democracy hero Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Japan on Saturday, her first visit to the country where she spent time as a university researcher nearly three decades ago.

‘Bonobo heaven’: life at a DR Congo ape sanctuary

Phuket News / World

Saturday 13 April 2013, 07:54PM

Claudine Andre, a 67-year-old Belgian living in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has spent the last twenty years dedicated to the protection of the bonobo, an extraordinary species of ape threatened by trafficking and poachers.

New China premier Li faces challenge to exert authority

Phuket News / Asia

Saturday 13 April 2013, 07:51PM

China’s new premier Li Keqiang has risen from relatively humble roots to take charge of running the government of the world’s second-largest economy, but could struggle to enforce his will.

Thatcher's daughter: 'This will be a tough and tearful week'

Phuket News / World

Saturday 13 April 2013, 07:46PM

LONDON: Margaret Thatcher's daughter Carol said on Saturday that she was expecting a "tough and tearful week" ahead of her mother's high-profile funeral on Wednesday.

Indian girl with swollen head needs 'miracle': parents

Phuket News / Asia

Saturday 13 April 2013, 07:45PM

JIRANIA KHOLA: A desperate Indian father whose young child suffers from a condition that caused her head to swell up to an enormous size said Saturday he is praying for a "miracle" to save her life.

Passenger plane misses Bali runway and lands in sea

Phuket News / Asia

Saturday 13 April 2013, 07:40PM

DENPASAR: An Indonesian plane carrying more than 100 passengers broke in two after missing the runway at Bali airport Saturday and landing in the sea, leaving dozens injured but no fatalities.

Lion Air plane crashes off Bali coast

Phuket News / Asia

Saturday 13 April 2013, 04:37PM

DENPASAR: A plane carrying more than 130 passengers overshot the runway at Bali airport and went into the sea on Saturday but everybody on board survived, a transport ministry official said.

First human H7N9 case in Beijing

Phuket News / Asia

Saturday 13 April 2013, 02:12PM

BEIJING: A seven-year-old girl is Beijing's first human case of H7N9 bird flu, local authorities said on Saturday as China's outbreak of the disease spread to the capital.

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