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PHUKET: The Phuket Media Club (PMC) is receiving donations of consumer goods for victims of the March 22 fire at the Karen and hilltribe refugee camp in Mae Hong Son in the north of Thailand.

Friday 12 April 2013, 05:12PM

The dark side of Songkran: The danger on Phuket's roads

Phuket News / Features

Friday 12 April 2013, 04:02PM

PHUKET: Songkran’s not all fun and games, as Nattha Thepbamrung discovers speaking to the forgotten victims of road crashes during the holidays

Coconuts Bangkok site revamped

BANGKOK: Bangkok news site, Coconuts Bangkok, has been revamped for mobile and tablet use and user-generated content function, and will expand to Singapore in April.

Friday 12 April 2013, 02:53PM

Phuket officials in tough checks on ferry safety

PHUKET: Marine Police and officials from the Provincial Marine Office today (April 12) began stringent checks on ferry safety which will continue throughout the Songkran period.

Friday 12 April 2013, 02:38PM

Young Phuket Rohingya refugees in legal limbo

PHUKET: Officials given the task of looking after Rohingya refugees in Phuket are at a loss as to how to handle them, thanks to the government in Bangkok dragging its feet on issuing a policy on handling the refugees.

Friday 12 April 2013, 12:57PM

Bird flu ‘not a concern’ for Phuket, health office says

PHUKET: The head of the Phuket Provincial Public Health Office has said the H7N9 ‘bird flu’ virus, which has now killed 10 people in China, is “not a big concern” for Phuket.

Friday 12 April 2013, 12:02PM

Draft-dodging Thai Ladyboys get last laugh in Pattaya

PATTAYA: Many ladyboys showed up at Banglamung City Hall to be declared exempt from military conscription.Thai men over age 21 are required to register for at least one military draft before age 30. Draftees are picked by a lottery, but Thai law exempts ladyboys.

Friday 12 April 2013, 08:53AM

Police ‘have suspect in mind’ for Phuket robbery-murder

PHUKET: Investigators tasked with tracking down the man who robbed the CP Goldmaster shop next to Tesco-Lotus on the bypass road three days ago, and shot a customer to death, already have a suspect in mind.

Thursday 11 April 2013, 06:06PM

Brunei naval vessel visits Phuket

PHUKET: The KDB Darussalam, an 80-metre offshore patrol vessel from the Royal Brunei Navy is currently tied up at the Deep Sea Port in Cape Panwa, on a visit to the Royal Thai Navy.

Thursday 11 April 2013, 05:47PM

The Big List: Weird Medical Devices [GALLERY]

THE BIG LIST: Building your own dialysis machine to save money seems like a extreme instance of medical self-help, but it’s hard to argue with results. In centuries past, a combination of ignorance and hope saw the proliferation of all sorts of quack medical gadgets – as well as a few devices that actually worked as intended. Here are a few of the more bizarre devices on the medical books.

Thursday 11 April 2013, 02:46PM

Trying the tree-iron?

WEIRD WORLD: Pro golfer Sergio Garcia might be considering a change of name to Tarzan, after playing a shot from the midst of an oak tree during the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in Florida.

Thursday 11 April 2013, 02:43PM

Robot dinosaurs invade Australia

WEIRD WORLD: An Australian billionaire has ordered more than 100 life-size robot dinosaurs to populate his new holiday resort.

Thursday 11 April 2013, 02:41PM

Homemade kidney machine keeps man alive for 13 years

WEIRD WORLD: A Chinese man with kidney disease has kept himself alive for more than 13 years using a homemade dialysis machine.

Thursday 11 April 2013, 02:39PM

News Today, April 11

Phuket gets Thailand’s newest planetarium [VIDEO]

Thursday 11 April 2013, 02:23PM

PHUKET: The latest generation of cinema, with a screen in the shape of a dome, giving a 360-degree “immersive” experience has opened at Central Festival – the first of its kind in Thailand.

Thursday 11 April 2013, 10:26AM

With great power comes great responsibility

Phuket News / Opinion

Thursday 11 April 2013, 10:19AM

PHUKET: The motorbike crash on the weekend involving two Russian students from British International School raised an important point about driving on the island’s roads.

Mystery alligator fish caught by Thai fishermen [VIDEO]

PHITSANULOK: Fishermen on the Nan river in Phitsanulok's Prom Piram district were astounded when a large, odd-looking fish was caught near the shore on Wednesday.

Thursday 11 April 2013, 09:10AM

Bangkok taxi driver returns B520,000, gets 'good person' T-shirt

BANGKOK: This Tuesday, a Bangkok cabbie returned B520,000 in cash to a couple who had left that amount in the back of his cab.

Thursday 11 April 2013, 09:04AM

British man jumps off overpass in Pattaya

PATTAYA: A British national thought to originate from Scotland was seen to jump off the Bali Hai Overpass in South Pattaya early on Tuesday Morning.

Thursday 11 April 2013, 08:50AM

American publisher found dead in his Pattaya apartment