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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

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Tuesday 12 March 2013, 09:29AM

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.

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

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.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 09:17AM

Australia gambles on move to tackle slot machine addicts

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.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 09:13AM

Saving the universe

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 09:10AM

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.

Odds stacked against an Asian pope

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.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 09:00AM

Naval land in Phuket eyed for executive jets

PHUKET: Airports of Thailand (AoT) is turning to the Royal Thai Navy (RTN) to set aside part of its reserved area at Phuket International Airport for private jet parking.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 07:50AM

Phuket still a popular spot for Danes

PHUKET: Even though more and more Danes make their way to Caribbean destinations such as Punta Cana, Mexico or Aruba, Thailand is still the preferred destination overseas, with Phuket still a top attraction.

Monday 11 March 2013, 10:30PM

Expat blogger tweets pic of allegedly corrupt Thai official

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 11 March 2013, 08:49PM

BANGKOK: Thai netizens have joined well-known travel blogger Richard Barrow in condemning an official at the Revenue Department who allegedly asked a hugely inflated fee for tax documents.

DSI ‘Russian’ probe in Phuket still ongoing

PHUKET: Pol Lt Col Nimit Promma of the Department of Special Investigation said today that the DSI’s investigation into foreign businesses in Phuket continues, though it has yet to find anyone breaking the law.

Monday 11 March 2013, 07:13PM

Japan marks second tsunami anniversary

JAPAN: People all over Japan bowed their heads in silence Monday as they remembered the almost 19,000 who died when a ferocious tsunami surged ashore two years earlier.

Monday 11 March 2013, 05:18PM

Main accused in Delhi gang-rape found dead in cell

NEW DELHI: The main accused in the fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi last December was found dead in his prison cell Monday, prompting fury from the victim's family and accusations of murder.

Monday 11 March 2013, 05:17PM

Phuket Sydictive party boss to sue complainants

PHUKET: Jirat “Champ” Petnunthawong, MD of Sydictive Element, which staged the controversial New Year’s party on Patong Beach, has announced that he will bring civil and criminal defamation suits against complainants who held a press conference last Wednesday (March 6) in Bangkok.

Monday 11 March 2013, 12:30PM

Phuket: Rohingya ‘drowned, not shot’