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Traditional soothsayers are predicting good harvests and plentiful water for the year ahead after the Royal Ploughing Ceremony at Sanam Luang yesterday.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 03:48PM

Rohingya boat lost with 150 aboard

MYANMAR: A boat carrying up to 150 Rohingya people fleeing the approaching Cyclone Mahasen has capsized off Myanmar’s coast, the UN said today (May 14).

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 03:36PM

Five con artists arrested in Phuket

PHUKET: Police yesterday (May 13) arrested another five members of the Gang Kwai, notorious for swindling people out of millions of baht by coercing them into gambling for cash, land deeds and other possessions.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 03:22PM

Record-breaking flyer lands in Phuket

PHUKET: Malaysian James Tan landed in Phuket last night (May 13) on his last stop before the final leg of a solo round-the-world flight that will make him the youngest pilot ever to fly solo around the globe.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 10:25AM

Women 'smuggled pills in their privates'

KALASIN: Three Lao women were charged with drug trafficking on Monday after they were found with 4,000 speed pills stashed inside their genitals and rectums, police said.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 09:36AM

OJ Simpson appears in Las Vegas court seeking retrial

LOS ANGELES: O.J. Simpson appeared in a Las Vegas court Monday, hoping to be retried for a September 2007 casino hotel robbery on grounds that his longtime lawyer had botched his defense.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 09:35AM

Salt in foods is still high: US study

WASHINGTON: The amount of salt in foods that are processed or sold at fast food restaurants is still high despite calls by medical experts for people to cut sodium for better health, a US study said Monday.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 09:34AM

US abortion provider convicted of murder

NEW YORK: A US abortion provider was found guilty Monday of murdering three babies with scissors after they were born alive in his filthy Philadelphia clinic.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 09:27AM

The fall of a New Zealand drug lord

ROTORUA: New Zealand has been riveted lately by the tale of a drug kingpin who built a methamphetamine empire on precursor drugs smuggled from Thailand, only to be brought down by his adultery with several wrong women.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 08:42AM

Phuket officials join disaster relief exercise

PHUKET: Eight participants from the island arrived back in Phuket at the weekend after taking part in the four-day Asean Regional Forum Disaster Relief Exercise (ARF DiREx 2013), a regular exercise to boost preparedness for dealing with disasters.

Monday 13 May 2013, 05:35PM

Brit caught for 2-year Phuket overstay, and dope

PHUKET: Immigration police this morning arrested 45-year-old British man, Stephen Peering, on charges of exceeding his permit to stay by two years, and possession of marijuana.

Monday 13 May 2013, 04:55PM

Singapore says US scientist depressed, left suicide notes

SINGAPORE: A US high-tech researcher whose family claims he was murdered in Singapore was under treatment for depression and left suicide notes before he was found hanged, a public inquiry was told Monday.

Monday 13 May 2013, 03:54PM

Hong Kong transsexual wins fight to marry her boyfriend

HONG KONG: A transsexual woman in Hong Kong won a groundbreaking court appeal Monday allowing her to marry her boyfriend and forcing the government to re-write the city's marriage laws.

Monday 13 May 2013, 03:53PM

Off-campus hazing parties banned

BANGKOK: A ban has been imposed on off-campus parties for freshmen at all institutes under the Vocational Education Commission (VEC), Education Minister Pongthep Thepkanchana said on Monday.

Monday 13 May 2013, 03:52PM

Last 'Death Railway' Brit dies

The last British prisoner of war to work on the construction of the World War II 'Death Railway' between Thailand and Myanmar has died, aged 99.

Monday 13 May 2013, 03:46PM

Rubber boom fuelling land grabs in SE Asia: report

PHNOM PENH: Vietnamese rubber firms bankrolled by an arm of the World Bank and Germany's Deutsche Bank are driving a land-grabbing crisis in Southeast Asia, activists said Monday.

Monday 13 May 2013, 03:33PM

Pioneer US TV anchor Barbara Walters to retire

WASHINGTON: Barbara Walters, who in 1976 became the first woman to anchor one of the daily network television news shows, announced late Sunday that she will retire next year.

Monday 13 May 2013, 03:31PM

NEWS TODAY May 13

More airport taxi turmoil. Illegal logging near Phuket town. Officials checking baby elephants' DNA. PLUS 'Sunday Brunch' at Rivet & Rebar restaurant, Indigo Pearl.

Monday 13 May 2013, 02:57PM

Thief raids Phuket police station