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Battle over beachside ‘encroachment’ in Phuket

PHUKET: Vice-Governor Somkiat Sungkhaosutthirak today paid a visit to a piece of land next to Bangtao Beach that has recently become the centre of heated debate in the local community around Klong Bangtao.

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Robber in raincoat raids Phuket convenience store

PHUKET: A robber wearing a motorbike helmet with the visor down and a red plastic raincoat walked into the Baan Lipon, Thalang, branch of the 24-hour Family Mart chain of convenience stores this morning and pulled a knife.

Chinese tourist drowns during trip off Phuket

PHUKET: Chinese tourist Li Ran, 30, drowned this afternoon (June 18) while on a trip to Racha Yai island.

Top Nazi war crimes suspect, 98, charged in Hungary

BUDAPEST: Hungarian prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 98-year-old top Nazi war crimes suspect over his brutal role in organising the deportation of some 12,000 Jews to World War II death camps.

Phuket: Missing Hungarian’s body found under Samui villa

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 22 April 2013, 05:47PM

PHUKET: Police on Koh Samui are scrambling to explain the discovery of a human skeleton buried under a luxury villa believed to belong to Phuket murder accused Moshe David.

Phuket Opinion: Greetings from the Governor

Phuket News / Opinion

Monday 22 April 2013, 05:02PM

PHUKET OPINION: I would like to say Happy Thai New Year to all the readers of The Phuket News and wish you good luck for the coming year. I also want to say a big welcome to all visitors to the island over this joyful period. In this month’s Greetings from the Governor column, I wish to address three issues.

Phuket Opinion: Learning from the Sea Gypsies

Phuket News / Opinion

Monday 22 April 2013, 04:58PM

PHUKET OPINION: Having read recent articles in the media regarding the Rawai Sea Gypsies, I wanted to write to you about the plight of the people who taught me all I know about the Andaman Sea and still continue to educate and amaze me – the Rawai Sea Gypsies.

Phuket Opinion: Boats, pubs, marinas and boat shows

Phuket News / Opinion

Monday 22 April 2013, 04:51PM

PHUKET OPINION: I went to the Phuket boat show last month.

Thai teen survives four storey jump in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 22 April 2013, 04:27PM

PHUKET: A 17-year-old teenager miraculously survived jumping out of the window of a fourth floor apartment in Phuket Town this morning (April 22).

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Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 22 April 2013, 02:18PM

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Two foreigners dead in Phuket big bike smashes

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 22 April 2013, 12:02PM

PHUKET: A 33-year-old Briton wearing only a pair of blue shorts died just after midnight this morning (April 22) when he overshot the bend near Wat Tai on Chao Fa East Rd and smashed into the guard rail.

Missing Hungarian's body found at villa

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 22 April 2013, 11:08AM

SURAT THANI: A skeleton believed to be that of Laszlo Csapai, a 39-year-old Hungarian businessman missing for two years, was yesterday found beneath a luxury villa on Koh Samui in Surat Thani.

Pattaya boat collision injures 18

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 22 April 2013, 09:43AM

CHON BURI: Eighteen South Korean tourists were injured, two seriously, when two speedboats ferrying them to Pattaya's Koh Larn collided Sunday morning.

20 dead from China bird flu: state media

Phuket News / Asia

Sunday 21 April 2013, 11:10PM

BEIJING: The death toll from a new strain of bird flu in China has reached 20, with dozens infected, state media reported Sunday, as experts said there was no evidence so far of human-to-human transmission.

Rescuers in China scrabble to find quake survivors

Phuket News / Asia

Sunday 21 April 2013, 11:04PM

LUSHAN: Thousands of rescue workers combed through flattened villages in southwest China on Sunday in a race to find survivors from a powerful quake as the toll of dead and missing rose past 200.

YouTube airs video of Bali Police extorting tourist [VIDEO]

Phuket News / Asia

Sunday 21 April 2013, 09:28AM

SEMINYAK: A four and half-minute video showing a Bali police officer asking for money from a Dutch tourist following a minor traffic violation is currently circulating on YouTube, uploaded from an account called “gil4sekali”.

Democracy loses in halls of parliament

Phuket News / Opinion

Sunday 21 April 2013, 09:20AM

BANGKOK: In theory, a democratic nation is governed by three branches: the executive, judicial and the parliamentary or legislative. In Thailand's reality, the country is governed formally by those three institutions, but also informally by two other institutions, the military and what we shall term as the 'old establishment'.

'No collusion' over Preah Vihear

Phuket News / Thailand

Sunday 21 April 2013, 09:16AM

BANGKOK: Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul has denied allegations that the government has colluded with Cambodia in the Preah Vihear temple dispute case.

Osborne questions currency of an independent Scotland

Phuket News / World

Sunday 21 April 2013, 08:47AM

LONDON British finance minister George Osborne cast doubt Sunday on whether Scotland could keep the pound as its currency if voters opt for independence in a referendum next year.

Phuket: Thalang police bust two drug dealers

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 20 April 2013, 07:42PM

PHUKET: Police in Thalang received a tipoff from informers about drugs on April 18.

Klong Koh Pee dam in Phuket to be repaired

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 20 April 2013, 07:14PM

PHUKET: It has been announced that the Klong Koh Pee public dam in Chalong – which has been out of action for almost two years – is going to be repaired.

iServe Youth Camp 2013 in Phuket a 'success'

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 20 April 2013, 11:59AM

PHUKET: Around 200 teenagers took part in the “iServe Youth Camp 2013” on April 19-20 at Sirirat National Park by Naiyang Beach.

US police detain Boston bomb suspect

Phuket News / World

Saturday 20 April 2013, 08:23AM

WATERTOWN: Police said Friday they had detained a teenaged suspect in the Boston marathon bombings after a showdown at a house in the suburbs.

Chinese bank ICBC tops Forbes Global 2000 list

Phuket News / Business

Saturday 20 April 2013, 08:21AM

WASHINGTON: Chinese bank ICBC knocked US oil giant ExxonMobil from its perch as the world's biggest public company Wednesday, ranking number-one for the first time on the Forbes Global 2000 list.

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