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Taxi blockade at airport. Another protest - outside Governor's mansion. Dredging at Bang Tao Klong nearly complete.

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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.

The Big List: Ghost Towns

THE BIG LIST: “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.” Shelley’s poem Ozymandias, a vision of lost ruins in the desert, mocks the ultimate fate of even greatest human cities, and the greatest vanities. Here are a few of the more unusual ghost towns you’ll find dotted around the world.

Helicopter deliveries ‘to boom’

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 04:48PM

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.

AirAsia awarded India go-ahead

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 04:45PM

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.

Buriram race track has double agenda

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 04:42PM

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.

Chiang Mai's haze problem remains under control

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 04:10PM

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

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

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 04:01PM

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

Calling for peace in Thailand's south

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 03:55PM

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

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

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 03:16PM

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.

Pope Francis greets crowds at inauguration

Phuket News / World

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

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 03:09PM

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.

'Shipwrecked' fundraiser for Phuket Sunshine Village

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 02:13PM

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.

Time to paint it black at DaVinci in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 02:11PM

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

A Big Night Out at Phuket's ACG

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 02:10PM

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.

Sicma take top spot in Phuket young bands comp

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 01:48PM

PHUKET: The Battle of the Young Bands hit fever pitch on Saturday (March 16) at the Hard Rock Cafe, with four more bands competing for a coveted place in the finals on May 4.

Phuket people not happy, says national survey

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 11:38AM

PHUKET: Phuket may lure thousands of tourists a year to its sandy shores, but our residents are some of the unhappiest people in the kingdom, according to a survey by the National Statistical Office.

MOU signed on Phuket trash, pollution

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 18 March 2013, 06:45PM

PHUKET: Governor Maitree Intusut today (March 18) signed a memorandum of understanding with all tessabaan (town councils)and orbortor (sub-districts) on the island on controlling garbage, water pollution and air pollution.

Gold-snatch Phuket couple locked up

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 18 March 2013, 05:23PM

PHUKET: A boyfriend-girlfriend duo, already wanted on other charges, have been arrested by Thalang police after a drive-by snatching in which they robbed a woman of a gold necklace she was wearing.

Thai shrimp farming industry under fire

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 18 March 2013, 05:13PM

BANGKOK: Thailand’s multi-billion dollar shrimp industry has been fiercely criticised in an article published by one of the world’s most popular news websites.

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