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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

PATTAYA: The body of a 57 Year old American was found in his South Pattaya rented apartment on Wednesday and police suspect he died in suspicious circumstances.

Wednesday 10 April 2013, 05:44PM

Phuket Gov hopes for ‘0-0-0’ road stats for Songkran

PHUKET: Governor Maitree Intusut said today (April 10) he is hoping for “Zero road accidents, zero injuries and zero deaths” during the “Seven days of danger”, starting tomorrow and running through the Songkran period.

Wednesday 10 April 2013, 05:20PM

Dramatic Chao Phraya rescue in Bangkok [VIDEO]

BANGKOK: An alert passenger captured a video of a dramatic rescue in the Chao Phraya river in Bangkok, when a man saved a woman from drowning, and was then, in turn, saved by her.

Wednesday 10 April 2013, 04:38PM

Wet weather coming to Phuket for Songkran

PHUKET: As thunder grumbled and dark clouds gathered over Phuket this afternoon, driven westwards from the Gulf of Thailand, meteorologists predicted cooler weather and a 10 per cent chance of rain tomorrow (April 11).

Wednesday 10 April 2013, 04:31PM

Aircraft travel set to get bumpier – scientists

Phuket News / World

Wednesday 10 April 2013, 04:00PM

LONDON: Flights will become bumpier as global warming destabilises air currents at altitudes used by commercial airliners, climate scientists have warned.

Fireworks and acrobats as Outrigger opens in style in Phuket

PHUKET: Four hundred people attended the sensational grand opening party of the 255-room Outrigger Laguna Phuket Beach Resort in Phuket on April 4.

Wednesday 10 April 2013, 03:28PM

News Today, April 10

Phuket gas delivery teenager shot

Wednesday 10 April 2013, 02:45PM

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