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Dead falcon sparks spy scare on Indian border

Friday 3 May 2013, 01:06PM

THE BIG LIST: The suspected Pakistani camera falcon may be just the latest effort by the world’s spy masters to deploy the feathered and the furred in espionage. Here are a few of the other animal ‘spies’ over the years.

WEIRD WORLD: Indian security forces have found a dead falcon fitted with a small camera which has sparked alarm near the country’s highly militarised border with Pakistan, say officials.

Friday 3 May 2013, 01:03PM

Patient driver saves striken paramedic

WEIRD WORLD: A late-stage cancer patient has saved the life of an ambulance driver who suffered a heart attack, by taking the wheel of his vehicle and driving him to hospital.

Friday 3 May 2013, 01:01PM

Timbuktu family eat French president’s camel

WEIRD WORLD: A camel that grateful townsfolk in Timbuktu presented to President Francois Hollande has probably been eaten by the family that was supposed to be looking after it, say French officials.

Friday 3 May 2013, 01:00PM

China nabs 900 over rat and other meat scandals: official

BEIJING: China has detained 900 people for meat-related crimes including selling rat and fox meat as beef and mutton, the public security ministry said, in another blow to the nation's food safety.

Friday 3 May 2013, 12:29PM

Indonesia holds two suspects over Myanmar embassy plot

JAKARTA: Indonesian anti-terrorist police have detained two men suspected of planning a bomb attack on the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta on Friday in the wake of fresh violence against Muslims in Myanmar, officials said.

Friday 3 May 2013, 12:27PM

Airport to be built in Yala

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 3 May 2013, 12:03PM

YALA: An airport will be constructed in Betong, the border district in Yala province, at a cost of 1.2 billion baht, the Department of Civil Aviation said.

Thai woman held for Korean sex trade

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 3 May 2013, 12:01PM

BANGKOK: A South Korean man and a Thai woman have been arrested for their alleged involvement in human trafficking and the flesh trade in Korea.

Children get free Phuket movie experience

PHUKET: Around 100 excited children were treated to a free movie this morning (May 3) thanks to the generosity of the Evolution Cinema Planetarium in Central Festival.

Friday 3 May 2013, 11:50AM

Phuket officials pose as tourists to nab Russian wake park owner

PHUKET: The Russian owner of the Phuket Wake Park in Kathu, Oleg Lizunov, and his three foreign employees were arrested yesterday afternoon (May 2) when officials from the Phuket Provincial Employment Office, Phuket Police and Bangkok Labour Office visited the site.

Friday 3 May 2013, 11:26AM

OrBorJor targets Phuket flooding with B60m

PHUKET: The Provincial Administration Organization (OrBorJor) has set aside a budget of B60 million from the central government for flood protection projects around the island.

Thursday 2 May 2013, 06:02PM

Stinking Phuket klong solutions mapped out

PHUKET: A meeting yesterday (May 1) at the Phuket Provincial Hall agreed on steps to be taken to stop the stench of sewage seeping into the homes of people living in Sam Kong, Phuket Town, from Klong Bang Yai, Phuket’s largest and longest waterway.

Thursday 2 May 2013, 05:01PM

Somali famine killed 258,000, half of them children: report

Phuket News / World

Thursday 2 May 2013, 04:05PM

NAIROBI: Almost 260,000 Somali people, half of them children, died of dire hunger from 2010 to 2012, greatly more than was feared at the time, an official report said Thursday.

Top of the bill: giant rubber duck sails into Hong Kong

HONG KONG: An inflatable rubber duck six storeys high sailed into Hong Kong harbour on Thursday to the cheers of hundreds of people who gathered to watch the classic bathtime-inspired artistic creation.

Thursday 2 May 2013, 04:02PM

Mekong forest facing sharp decline: WWF

BANGKOK: Demand for farmland may strip the Greater Mekong region of a third of its remaining forest cover over the next two decades without swift government action, a leading conservation group warned Thursday.

Thursday 2 May 2013, 03:58PM

40kg of pangolin scales en-route to Vietnam

BANGKOK: The Freeland Foundation, a national organisation dedicated to stopping illegal wildlife trade and human slavery, congratulated French customs this week for seizing endangered animal body parts originating in West Africa en-route to Vietnam.

Thursday 2 May 2013, 03:54PM

Fast fashion, fair wages: Vietnam's lesson for Bangladesh

HANOI: From factory fires to slave labour, the growth of mass manufacturing in Southeast Asia has not been problem-free, but after shedding its "sweatshop" reputation the region could have lessons for Bangladesh.

Thursday 2 May 2013, 03:39PM

Inventor claims his ‘time machine’ fortells future

WEIRD WORLD: An inventor in Iran claims he’s invented a time machine that can predict the future with “98 per cent accuracy.”

Thursday 2 May 2013, 03:23PM

The Big List: A brief history of time machines

Traffic police swoop on Kathmandu holy cows

Thursday 2 May 2013, 03:26PM

THE BIG LIST: The Iranian “time machine” sounds a more like a crystal ball for predicting the future, rather than a machine for travelling in time – but its inventor claims he’s working on that, too. Here are a few of the other historic milestones in the development of time machines...