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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.

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‘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.

Argentine ghost town rises from the waves

WEIRD WORLD: A town in Argentina that was under water for 25 years is once again proving an attraction for tourists.

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).

Phuket Opinion: Fighting fire with fire

Phuket News / Opinion

Monday 15 April 2013, 10:19AM

PHUKET: In response to a threat issued by a Karon tuk-tuk driver that, if introduced, a public bus service from the airport to Kata and Karon would be met with public road protests, a Phuket News reader suggested that “heads should be cracked”, in order to fight the violence with even greater violence.

Phuket expat fined B4,000 for false robbery report

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 15 April 2013, 10:04AM

PHUKET: Phuket expatriate, Frenchman Marc Forestier, has been fined B4,000 by the Phuket District Court for filing a false report stating that he had been robbed.

Songkran day four: Still zero road deaths in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 15 April 2013, 09:52AM

PHUKET: Four days into the “Seven Days of Danger” road accident period surrounding Songkran, Phuket is still mercifully free of deaths. Yesterday (April 14) there were just three reported accidents on the island, with three people injured.

Prachuab ‘disaster area’ after storms

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 15 April 2013, 08:48AM

PRACHUAB KHIRI KHAN: All districts in the upper south province of Prachuab Khiri Khan have been declared disaster areas after strong winds and rains ravaged many places on Saturday.

Phuket Bike Week begins in Patong

Phuket News / Phuket

Sunday 14 April 2013, 09:35PM

PHUKET: Phuket Bike Week kicked off in style today (April 14), with an impressive opening ceremony marking the start of the fun-filled week.

China H7N9 bird flu spreads to new province

Phuket News / Asia

Sunday 14 April 2013, 06:01PM

China's H7N9 bird flu virus spread to a new province on Sunday, with state media reporting two human cases in central Henan just west of the area where the disease was centred.

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.

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