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PHUKET: Two teenage boys who snatched a bag from a Singaporean tourist yesterday (March 11) were seriously hurt when the motorbike they were driving crashed into an oncoming car moments later.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 05:14PM

Bangkok-Pattaya high speed train by 2018

BANGKOK: The government is aiming to complete the country's first high-speed train between Bangkok and Pattaya by 2018.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 03:56PM

Hat Yai Police: Sorry grandpa, wrong man

SONGKHLA: Police admit they made a blunder in obtaining an arrest warrant on burglary charges for a 79-year-old man who has trouble walking.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 03:49PM

Six expats arrested in Phuket on work permit offences

PHUKET: Six East Europeans were arrested yesterday (March 11) around midday by Immigration Police in Rawai, on work permit offences.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 11:45AM

Six Cambodian children arrested in Phuket raid

PHUKET: Six Cambodian children and six adults in Patong were arrested on Friday afternoon (March 8) by a Phuket Immigration team led by Superintendent Pol Col Sanchai Chotkayaikit.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 11:39AM

Phuket: Honey, I shrunk the superyacht...

PHUKET: Phuket’s Yacht Solutions has just finished shrink-wrapping an entire luxury yacht, the 42 metre catamaran SY Douce France. This is the first time a superyacht has been entirely shrink-wrapped in Thailand.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 09:54AM

Phuket: Erawan plans property fund

PHUKET: Listed Erawan Group PLC has filed documents with the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) for the setting-up of a property fund, writes Bill Barnett in his blog, thephuketinsider.com.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 09:51AM

Asia-Pacific ‘to lead aircraft demand to 2033’

SINGAPORE: Asia-Pacific airlines will lead global demand for larger and more eco-efficient aircraft types over the next 20 years, according to the latest market forecast for the region by Airbus.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 09:38AM

AirAsia also announces profit jump

BANGKOK: AirAsia, Asia’s largest low-cost carrier by fleet size, said Tuesday that its fourth-quarter profit jumped 168 per cent year-on-year amid increased passengers.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 09:33AM

Big turnaround for THAI as 2012 profitability soars

BANGKOK: Thai Airways International (THAI) has announced a net profit of more than B6 billion for last year’s operations – a sharp turnaround from 2011 when the company suffered a B10.2 billion loss.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 09:32AM

CITES 'has lost patience' with Thailand

BANGKOK: The world's top officials on illegal ivory trading say Thailand and other 'gang of eight' countries must stop the business within a year or suffer severe trade sanctions.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 09:29AM

When property investments crumble

PHUKET: In our most recent article, we focused on the very real benefits of accumulating a portfolio of physical property to create a personal retirement plan that will generate a passive income stream from rents, and hopefully also bring the added benefit of capital gains in the future.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 09:29AM

Marking the best of Bangkok

BANGKOK: Bangkok Airways recently celebrated its 45th anniversary with a circus-themed party at the Bangkok Convention Centre, Centara Grand at Central World.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 09:27AM

Tour guide laws on the table as AEC approaches

BANGKOK: The Bureau of Tourism and Guide Business Registration of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) held a meeting with hotel and tourism representatives and legal experts, to discuss the law governing tour guide business, before the ASEAN Economic Community takes place in 2015.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 09:24AM

New York photographer snaps city's face

Phuket News / World

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 09:21AM

NEW YORK: New York is famously photogenic, but photographer Brandon Stanton is not interested in the skyscrapers, bridges or famous yellow cabs. It is New Yorkers themselves he wants to capture -- 10,000 of them.

A home for transgender elderly in Indonesia

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 09:17AM

JAKARTA: A dozen elderly women are gathered inside the pink house, set on a narrow dirt road in a dusty suburb of Jakarta. Together they sew, bake and chat.

Australia gambles on move to tackle slot machine addicts

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 09:13AM

SYDNEY: It's just after morning opening at Sydney's Randwick Labor Club and already a few regulars are at the slot machines, or "pokies" as they are better known, for a quiet flutter.

Saving the universe

BANGKOK: Miss Universe 2005 Natalie Glebova (centre), costumed as Wonder Woman along with children dressed as elephants and tigers, takes part in a WWF-sponsored demonstration outside the venue of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) on its opening day in Bangkok on March 3.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 09:10AM

Odds stacked against an Asian pope

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 09:00AM

VATICAN CITY: Catholics in Asia and other parts of the world where the Roman Catholic Church is growing fast would dearly like to see the cardinals choose an Asian pope for the first time in history when they begin meeting on Tuesday to select a successor to Benedict XVI.

Naval land in Phuket eyed for executive jets