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Bangkok: Reconciliation bill comes under fire

BANGKOK: The reconciliation bill sponsored by Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung is facing growing opposition as it would exonerate those responsible for the crackdown on the 2010 red shirt protests.

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Aerosmith's Steven Tyler spotted in Phuket Town

PHUKET: Phuket Town locals got a shock last night when they spotted Aerosmith's lead singer Steven Tyler partying at Timber Hut bar in Phuket Town.

Phuket Police must stamp out abuse of tourists, says Chinese envoy

PHUKET: China’s Haad-Yai-based Vice Consul, Qin Jian, has urged police to crack down hard on sexual attacks on tourists, following yesterday’s alleged molestation of a 19-year-old Chinese tourist by a “black taxi” driver who picked her up from the airport.

Phuket black taxi accused of molesting tourist

PHUKET: A“black taxi” driver was accused today of molesting a 19-year-old Chinese tourist during a five hour ordeal, during which he repeatedly tried to have sex with her and she repeatedly defended herself.

Chavez breathing woes worsen: govt

Phuket News / World

Tuesday 5 March 2013, 11:37AM

CARACAS: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is suffering from a 'new and severe' infection that has worsened his breathing as he undergoes intensive chemotherapy, the government said late Monday.

Yingluck says she 'sometimes' thinks like her brother

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 5 March 2013, 11:13AM

STOCKHOLM: Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Monday during a visit to Stockholm that she 'sometimes' thinks like her brother, the controversial and exiled former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.

200 protest against new Phuket Provincial Hall plan

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 4 March 2013, 09:42PM

PHUKET: A group of around 200 local people gathered late this morning at the Phuket Provincial Hall to protest about plans to build a new provincial hall.

Phuket: DSI to charge police station builders with fraud

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 4 March 2013, 05:33PM

PHUKET: The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) will bring fraud charges against PCC Development and Construction Co (PCC) after receiving complaints from 20 companies subcontracted by PCC to build police stations nationwide, including in Phuket.

16 gamblers caught at Phuket cock fight

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 4 March 2013, 04:45PM

PHUKET: Sixteen people were arrested for cockfighting and gambling in a raid on a cock fight in Baan Bangla in Pa Khlok yesterday afternoon (March 3).

Phuket road rage bus driver named

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 4 March 2013, 03:02PM

PHUKET: Bus driver Sanchai Putpong has denied pointing a gun at a Phuket woman driver on February 23, but admitted carrying the gun and damaging her car window with it.

New Hon Con for Pattaya announced

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 4 March 2013, 12:37PM

PATTAYA: British Ambassador Mark Kent announced on February 28 that Bert Elson had been appointed Honorary Consul to Pattaya.

Phuket Sea Gypsies lose first round of land fight

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 4 March 2013, 12:21PM

PHUKET: Seven members of the Sea Gypsy community in Rawai have lost the first round in what promises to be a long legal battle to continue living where they say they have lived for generations.

Fishing boat bursts into flame in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 4 March 2013, 12:06PM

PHUKET: An Indonesia fishing boat caught fire at the fishing boat pier in Rassada Port at about 5:15pm on Saturday afternoon (March 2)

Health plans for foreigners in Thailand under review

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 4 March 2013, 09:57AM

BANGKOK: The Ministry of Public Health on Thursday revealed it was seeking appropriate forms of health insurance for foreigners in preparation for the formation of the Asean Economic Community (AEC) in 2015.

British queen hospitalised with gastroenteritis

Phuket News / World

Monday 4 March 2013, 09:48AM

UK: Britain's 86-year-old Queen Elizabeth II spent Sunday night in hospital after being admitted for the first time in 10 years as a precautionary measure against the symptoms of gastroenteritis.

Australian climate on 'steroids' after hottest summer

Phuket News / Asia

Monday 4 March 2013, 09:31AM

AUSTRALIA: Australia's weather went 'on steroids' over a summer that saw an unprecedented heatwave, bushfires and floods, the climate chief said Monday, warning that global warming would only make things worse.

Australia's Fairfax newspapers go tabloid

Phuket News / Asia

Monday 4 March 2013, 09:30AM

SYDNEY: Australian broadsheet newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age on Monday ditched their century-old format for tabloid in a major overhaul at ailing media giant Fairfax.

Panty thief arrested over strangling

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 4 March 2013, 01:01AM

PATHUM THANI: A man who told police he broke into a 20-year-old student's apartment in Pathum Thani to steal her underwear on Friday has allegedly confessed to killing her after she caught him in the act.

Thailand in landmark ivory pledge

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 4 March 2013, 12:58AM

BANGKOK: Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra promised Sunday to end her nation's trade in ivory, delighting conservationists who have long urged the kingdom to tackle the rampant smuggling of tusks through its territory.

Sukhumbhand wins, Pheu Thai concedes defeat in Bangkok election

Phuket News / Thailand

Sunday 3 March 2013, 08:25PM

BANGKOK: MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra of the Democrat Party has won Sunday's Bangkok governor election with a record-high number of votes, as his Pheu Thai rival, Pol Gen Pongsapat Pongcharoen, conceded defeat.

Pistol-toting bus driver arrested in Phuket - report

Phuket News / Phuket

Sunday 3 March 2013, 03:56PM

PHUKET: Phuket police have reportedly arrested the man who allegedly held a pistol to the head of a Phuket mother last weekend in a road rage incident.

Myleene Klass spotted in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Sunday 3 March 2013, 11:52AM

PHUKET: British popstar Myleene Klass has been spotted enjoying herself on a night out in Patong.

Seven nabbed in B312m drug bust

Phuket News / Thailand

Saturday 2 March 2013, 07:26PM

SAMUT PRAKAN: Police have arrested seven drug suspects and seized 800,000 methamphetamine pills, worth 240 million baht in street value, and 16 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine worth 72 million baht.

Bomb kills two, wounds 12 in Thai south

Phuket News / Thailand

Saturday 2 March 2013, 07:23PM

YALA: Two security officials died and 12 people were wounded in a blast in Thailand's south on Saturday, an army spokesman said, as unrest continued despite plans for talks with a key rebel group.

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