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PHUKET: Laguna Property has begun selling units in the third wing of its Laguna Shores holiday apartment development, just three months after launching the project.

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 05:06PM

Consumer confidence highest for 19 months

BANGKOK: The consumer confidence index (CCI) rose from 81.7 in January to 84.0 for February, Thanavath Phonwichai, director of the Economic and Business Forecasting Centre at the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce has announced.

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 05:01PM

Yoo to go into hotel managing

PHUKET: International design firm yoo – headed by French designer Philippe Starck, British developer John Hitchcox, British interior designer Kelly Hoppen and designer Jade Jagger (daughter of Mick) – is moving into hospitality management.

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 05:00PM

Keeping an eye on teleworkers

Telecommuting – having staff work at home, even in other countries, all linked via the Internet – is fine in theory. It reduces office space and office costs, and is good for the planet because it reduces the number of commuters.

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 04:50PM

Helicopter deliveries ‘to boom’

Honeywell expects global deliveries of new helicopters for non-military use will increase to between 4,900 to 5,600 over the five-year period from this year to 2017.

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 04:48PM

AirAsia awarded India go-ahead

KUALA LUMPUR: AirAsia has won approval from India’s Foreign Investment Panel to set up an airline in a joint venture with the giant Tata group, an Indian government official said this week.

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 04:45PM

Buriram race track has double agenda

BANGKOK: With the Thai government concentrating firmly on populist policies such as the very expensive rice pledging programme, the no-tax first car scheme and others, the dream of the late Minister of Tourism and Sports, Chumpol Silpa-Archa to establish a Grand Prix track in Thailand has long looked like a non-starter.

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 04:42PM

Chiang Mai's haze problem remains under control

CHIANG MAI: The haze problem in northern Chiang Mai Province continues but the situation are still under control, according to local health officials.

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 04:10PM

Squat toilets to be scrapped in a bid to end knee-arthritis, boost tourism

BANGKOK: The government has planned to launch a campaign to discourage squat toilets, in a pledge to end knee-related arthritis and boost tourism.

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 04:01PM

Calling for peace in Thailand's south

NARATHIWAT: People hold banners as they take part in an anti-violence protest in the southern province of Narathiwat on March 9.

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 03:55PM

Nuclear-hit Fukushima to get 20,000 cherry trees

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 03:19PM

TOKYO: A project to plant 190 kilometres (120 miles) of Japan's tsunami-hit coast with cherry trees has begun, with organisers saying they want something to welcome nuclear evacuees in three decades' time.

Buri Ram family finds kitten corpse in sausages

BURI RAM: Residents in Buri Ram’s Satuek district are paying respect and making offerings to a kitten corpse, believing that it could bring them luck for the next lotto drawing.

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 03:16PM

Pope Francis greets crowds at inauguration

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Tuesday 19 March 2013, 03:11PM

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis swept into St Peter's Square on Tuesday to greet throngs of pilgrims before a sumptuous ceremony in which Latin America's first pontiff will receive the formal symbols of papal power.

Philippine court suspends birth control law

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 03:11PM

MANILA: The Philippines' highest court suspended on Tuesday a controversial birth control law that had met fierce opposition from the powerful Catholic Church.

37 killed in western India bus crash: police

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 03:10PM

MUMBAI: A speeding bus careered off a river bridge in western India Tuesday, killing 37 people and injuring another 14, police said.

Chiang Mai bank driver arrested for stealing B9m

CHIANG MAI: Police on Tuesday arrested a suspect in the theft of nine million baht from a Krungthai Bank cash delivery van in Chiang Mai province earlier this month.

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 03:09PM

'Shipwrecked' fundraiser for Phuket Sunshine Village

PHUKET: The first ever fundraising party for the Phuket Sunshine Village (PSV) childcare centre is on the way, with proceeds helping the 120 children who live full time at the village in Koh Sirae.

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 02:13PM

Time to paint it black at DaVinci in Phuket

PHUKET: For the third time, DaVinci restaurant’s wide terrace will welcome fashionable islanders for the Black is Back fashion show on March 24.

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 02:11PM

A Big Night Out at Phuket's ACG

PHUKET: Well there I was, in my back garden, sat under the shadow of a Durio tree. Twilight had cast its fading hues of tranquillity that settled on deep waters of a yonder lake. Soon dusk neatly gave way to the inky abyss of darkness, whereupon a solitary light reflected on the faint water’s ripples; ‘Look, the moon is swimming,” says my two-year-old daughter.

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 02:10PM

Sicma take top spot in Phuket young bands comp