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Phuket’s Baba Wedding returns

PHUKET: The annual Baba (Peranakan) Wedding ceremony will be held this weekend in Phuket Town from June 22-24.

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Tourism Authority of Thailand photo comp returns

PHUKET: Photographers, tourists, travellers, media, and anyone with a camera are invited to participate in the Tourism Authority of Thailand’s (TAT) second TATNews Photo Contest, with large cash prizes up for grabs.

Report documents ‘slavery’ in Thailand

BANGKOK: The government is doing too little to stop tens of thousands of trafficking victims being forced into “modern slavery” in the sex trade, fishing-related industries and domestic servitude in Thailand, the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report by the US State Department has warned.

NEWS TODAY - Risk taking 'Aussies'?

Statistically, Australians are the most likely to die or be harmed during their trip to Phuket. Why is that? You had your say and the answers were, well, consistent!

First human H7N9 case in Beijing

Phuket News / Asia

Saturday 13 April 2013, 02:12PM

BEIJING: A seven-year-old girl is Beijing's first human case of H7N9 bird flu, local authorities said on Saturday as China's outbreak of the disease spread to the capital.

Songkran road toll rises to 101 across Thailand

Phuket News / Thailand

Saturday 13 April 2013, 02:07PM

BANGKOK: A total of 62 people were killed and 496 injured in 465 road accidents nationwide on Friday, the second of Songkran's 'seven dangerous days' (April 11-17), the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department reported on Saturday.

Phuket 7 days of danger opens with four accidents

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 12 April 2013, 06:28PM

PHUKET: Governor Maitree Intusut will unfortunately not get his wish for the three zeroes fulfilled this year – Zero road accident, zero injuries and zero deaths during the Seven Days of Danger, starting yesterday (April 11).

Dead man found floating in Phuket waters

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 12 April 2013, 06:23PM

PHUKET: A dead man was found floating off Koh Tapao this morning (April 12) near the deep sea port. Police believe that he probably died about 10 days ago.

British molester arrested in Phuket, deported

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 12 April 2013, 05:54PM

PHUKET: Briton Hugh Glass, 57, was arrested yesterday (April 11) by Phuket Immigration Police at the request of the UK’s Serious Crime Squad, which wants him for child molestation offences.

Phuket police urge Songkran celebrants to take it easy

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 12 April 2013, 05:39PM

PHUKET: Thung Thong police officers led by Pol Maj Pramuan Jaikratok visited The Phuket News this morning (April 12) to ask the company’s newspapers, radio station and TV station to spread the word to Songkran celebrants in Phuket: Take it easy and be careful during the festival.

News Today, April 12

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 12 April 2013, 05:30PM

Phuket Media Club seeks donations for refugees

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 12 April 2013, 05:12PM

PHUKET: The Phuket Media Club (PMC) is receiving donations of consumer goods for victims of the March 22 fire at the Karen and hilltribe refugee camp in Mae Hong Son in the north of Thailand.

The dark side of Songkran: The danger on Phuket's roads

Phuket News / Features

Friday 12 April 2013, 04:02PM

PHUKET: Songkran’s not all fun and games, as Nattha Thepbamrung discovers speaking to the forgotten victims of road crashes during the holidays

Coconuts Bangkok site revamped

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 12 April 2013, 02:53PM

BANGKOK: Bangkok news site, Coconuts Bangkok, has been revamped for mobile and tablet use and user-generated content function, and will expand to Singapore in April.

Phuket officials in tough checks on ferry safety

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 12 April 2013, 02:38PM

PHUKET: Marine Police and officials from the Provincial Marine Office today (April 12) began stringent checks on ferry safety which will continue throughout the Songkran period.

Young Phuket Rohingya refugees in legal limbo

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 12 April 2013, 12:57PM

PHUKET: Officials given the task of looking after Rohingya refugees in Phuket are at a loss as to how to handle them, thanks to the government in Bangkok dragging its feet on issuing a policy on handling the refugees.

Bird flu ‘not a concern’ for Phuket, health office says

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 12 April 2013, 12:02PM

PHUKET: The head of the Phuket Provincial Public Health Office has said the H7N9 ‘bird flu’ virus, which has now killed 10 people in China, is “not a big concern” for Phuket.

Draft-dodging Thai Ladyboys get last laugh in Pattaya

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 12 April 2013, 08:53AM

PATTAYA: Many ladyboys showed up at Banglamung City Hall to be declared exempt from military conscription.Thai men over age 21 are required to register for at least one military draft before age 30. Draftees are picked by a lottery, but Thai law exempts ladyboys.

Police ‘have suspect in mind’ for Phuket robbery-murder

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 11 April 2013, 06:06PM

PHUKET: Investigators tasked with tracking down the man who robbed the CP Goldmaster shop next to Tesco-Lotus on the bypass road three days ago, and shot a customer to death, already have a suspect in mind.

Brunei naval vessel visits Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 11 April 2013, 05:47PM

PHUKET: The KDB Darussalam, an 80-metre offshore patrol vessel from the Royal Brunei Navy is currently tied up at the Deep Sea Port in Cape Panwa, on a visit to the Royal Thai Navy.

The Big List: Weird Medical Devices [GALLERY]

Phuket News / Weird World

Thursday 11 April 2013, 02:46PM

THE BIG LIST: Building your own dialysis machine to save money seems like a extreme instance of medical self-help, but it’s hard to argue with results. In centuries past, a combination of ignorance and hope saw the proliferation of all sorts of quack medical gadgets – as well as a few devices that actually worked as intended. Here are a few of the more bizarre devices on the medical books.

Trying the tree-iron?

Phuket News / Weird World

Thursday 11 April 2013, 02:43PM

WEIRD WORLD: Pro golfer Sergio Garcia might be considering a change of name to Tarzan, after playing a shot from the midst of an oak tree during the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in Florida.

Robot dinosaurs invade Australia

Phuket News / Weird World

Thursday 11 April 2013, 02:41PM

WEIRD WORLD: An Australian billionaire has ordered more than 100 life-size robot dinosaurs to populate his new holiday resort.

Homemade kidney machine keeps man alive for 13 years

Phuket News / Weird World

Thursday 11 April 2013, 02:39PM

WEIRD WORLD: A Chinese man with kidney disease has kept himself alive for more than 13 years using a homemade dialysis machine.

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