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KUALA LUMPUR: Thailand opened its first formal peace talks with a rebel group from its insurgency-wracked south Thursday, as a fresh bombing killed three people in a stark reminder of the difficulties negotiators face.

Thursday 28 March 2013, 12:06PM

Online battle slows internet worldwide

The largest known distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in the history of the internet is currently slowing down the Net worldwide.

Thursday 28 March 2013, 09:52AM

Phuket hotel occupancy at least 70pc for Songkran month

PHUKET: Thai tourism during the coming Songkran holiday will be bustling in Phuket and other major cities due to a positive environment and political stability, say two industry groups.

Thursday 28 March 2013, 09:45AM

Thai Airways adds extra Phuket flights for Songkran

PHUKET: Thai Airways International (THAI) will schedule extra flights providing over 4,800 additional seats to popular domestic tourist destination, including Phuket, for the Songkran festival.

Thursday 28 March 2013, 08:57AM

10 children still missing in refugee camp blaze

MAE HONG SON: About 10 children are still missing in the aftermath of the devastating inferno at Mae Surin refugee camp which has left 37 dead, activists say.

Thursday 28 March 2013, 08:44AM

10 children still missing in refugee camp blaze

MAE HONG SON: About 10 children are still missing in the aftermath of the devastating inferno at Mae Surin refugee camp which has left 37 dead, activists say.

Thursday 28 March 2013, 08:43AM

Phuket: Wristband tags mooted for prisoners

PHUKET: Phuket officials are waiting to receive regulations from the Ministry of Justice on the administration of a system of electronic wristbands that will be used to restrain low-risk convicts in their homes rather than sending them to jail or keeping them there.

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 03:11PM

Phuket Opinion: People power

Phuket News / Opinion

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 02:40PM

PHUKET: People power ladies and gentlemen, people power.

12 held for gambling in Phuket

PHUKET: Thalang police arrested 12 people after they went for a routine inspection of a karaoke bar in Srisoontorn just after midnight this morning (March 27) and spotted the 12 gambling in an adjacent room.

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 02:20PM

Phuket shootout remains a mystery despite murder charge

PHUKET: The two survivors from the March 20 boarding house shootout, in which two others were shot dead, are recovering, police say, but are not yet well enough to tell police what happened in the house in Sam Kong.

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 02:18PM

Phuket serial snatch robber arrested

PHUKET: Serial snatcher Sattawat “Pae” Settaraksa, 30, from Songkhla was arrested by police yesterday (March 26) in Phuket Town after he snatched property in ride-by robberies from more than 10 victims in the past two months.

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 01:25PM

Phuket house fires ‘were arson’ – owner

PHUKET: Two old tin houses in a poor part of Chalong, originally built as storage sheds, were completely destroyed by fire in the early hours of Tuesday (March 26) in what the owner of one of them claims was arson.

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 12:51PM

Payroll bungle leaves Ratchaburi police stunned

RATCHABURI: Dozens of officers at Ban Pong district police station were startled when they went to withdraw money from their bank accounts after their salary was paid on March 26 and found a huge shortfall in their wages.

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 12:28PM

Airdrop to animals as spring snow blights Britain

LONDON: Britain's military airdropped fodder to farms cut off by freak spring snow as concerns grew Tuesday for livestock animals feared buried under giant snowdrifts.

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 12:23PM

Bill Gates the unknown explores Ghana's health progress

GHANA: The freckled man with the rectangular glasses instantly recognisable to much of the world stood in the West African heat, staring at data that had nothing to do with selling software.

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 12:17PM

US Supreme Court cautious on same-sex marriage

WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court trod cautiously Tuesday as it considered gay marriage, with justices appearing hesitant to deliver a sweeping historic verdict on the emotionally charged issue.

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 12:17PM

Mob torches mosque in fresh Myanmar unrest: police

Phuket News / Asia

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 12:15PM

YANGON: A rampaging mob set fire to a mosque and homes in a central Myanmar town, a police official said Wednesday, the latest outbreak of violence in communal unrest that has left at least 40 people dead.

Strong quake injures 20 in Taiwan

Phuket News / Asia

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 12:14PM

TAIPEI: A strong earthquake shook buildings in the Taiwanese capital Taipei on Wednesday, injuring at least 20 people and sparking a fire, emergency officials said.

Thailand seizes 104 smuggled endangered pangolins

BANGKOK: The Thai navy on Tuesday said it had intercepted wildlife traffickers attempting to smuggle 104 endangered pangolins to China on the Mekong river.

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 11:57AM

Thailand set for peace talks with rebels