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Poll: Energy Minister Pongsak blamed for Phuket blackout

PHUKET: Energy Minister Pongsak Raktapongpaisal should be held responsible for the massive blackout in 14 southern provinces on Tuesday, say the majority of respondents to an Abac Poll.

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Big waves sink longtails, leave tourists stranded offshore

KRABI: Following the onset of the southwest monsoon, many boats were damaged and sunk this afternoon in Krabi waters (May 25) by big waves and inclement weather.

Thai aunt denies pimping girl in South Korea

BANGKOK: The aunt accused of luring her teenage niece into prostitution in South Korea has turned herself in, police investigating the case said yesterday.

Bomb kills five rangers in Thailand's restive south

BANGKOK: Five paramilitary rangers were killed and one other wounded in an ambush when suspected rebels detonated a bomb buried in a road in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south, local police said Friday.

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 News / Phuket

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 02:20PM

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.

Phuket shootout remains a mystery despite murder charge

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 02:18PM

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.

Phuket serial snatch robber arrested

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 01:25PM

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.

Phuket house fires ‘were arson’ – owner

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 12:51PM

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.

Payroll bungle leaves Ratchaburi police stunned

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 12:28PM

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.

Airdrop to animals as spring snow blights Britain

Phuket News / World

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 12:23PM

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.

Bill Gates the unknown explores Ghana's health progress

Phuket News / World

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 12:17PM

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.

US Supreme Court cautious on same-sex marriage

Phuket News / World

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 12:17PM

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.

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

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 11:57AM

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

Thailand set for peace talks with rebels

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 11:56AM

BANGKOK: Thailand and a key rebel group operating in the insurgency-wracked south are set to begin landmark peace talks Thursday aimed at curbing violence that has killed more than 5,500 people in nine years.

Phuket City ‘ready to counter water shortages’

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 10:31AM

PHUKET: Thavorn Jirapattanasopon, Deputy Mayor of Phuket City, says the city will be able to handle water shortages expected to hit if there is no rain soon, and has a plan in place to solve any shortages.

Burmese stabbed to death in Phuket work camp

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 09:16AM

PHUKET: A Burmese worker, Kyaw Zin Lat, 29, was stabbed to death last night (March 26) in a camp for construction workers in front of Phuket Zoo, in Chalong.

Cameras to track tiger numbers in Bangladesh census

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 26 March 2013, 08:43PM

DHAKA: Bangladesh is to launch a census of tigers next month living in the world's largest mangrove forest in a bid to determine the full extent of the threat to their survival, scientists said on Tuesday.

Italy court orders retrial in Knox sex-murder case

Phuket News / World

Tuesday 26 March 2013, 08:35PM

ROME: Italy's highest court of appeal overturned the acquittal of US student Amanda Knox on Tuesday and ordered a retrial over the murder of her British housemate in what prosecutors said was a drug-fuelled sex attack.

Officials probe large piece of cleared Phuket land

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 26 March 2013, 06:14PM

PHUKET: A large, steep piece of land in Kamala, across the road from Laem Singh Beach, was visited yesterday (March 25) by officials after a complaint that it was too steep to be in private hands and was possibly in a forestry reserve – yet had been encroached on by “a businessman”.

Phillips Group buys leading Phuket property portal

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 26 March 2013, 06:04PM

PHUKET: The Phillips Group Pte Ltd announced this week that it has bought Phuket Property Dot Com Ltd, which developed one of the island’s leading websites for property sales and rentals. The price was not revealed.

Sri Panwa in Phuket to be put into property fund

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 26 March 2013, 06:03PM

PHUKET: Phuket luxury resort Sri Panwa will be sold into a property fund, Bill Barnett reports on his blog thephuketinsider.com.

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