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Phuket airport to Patong bus starts July 1. Definitely

PHUKET: The long-awaited bus service from Phuket International Airport to Patong will launch on July 1, it was confirmed in a meeting this afternoon (June 19) at Phuket Provincial Hall.

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Now it’s Phuket’s Andara under the microscope

PHUKET: The high-profile Andara resort and property development, along with the Parisorn project, currently under construction in Kamala, were this morning (June 19) examined by a high-level and very suspicious team from the Ministry of Interior.

Thousands evacuated after blasts at Russian arms depot

MOSCOW: More than 6,000 people were evacuated in central Russia overnight after a series of massive explosions at an arms depot blew out windows and sparked a fire, the emergency situations ministry said Wednesday.

French floods claim first victim, Lourdes remains closed

TOULOUSE: Flash floods in southwestern France killed an elderly woman as the inundated grotto at the Roman Catholic pilgrimage site of Lourdes remained closed for a second day on Wednesday.

Airdrop to animals as spring snow blights Britain

Phuket News / World

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 12:23PM

LONDON: Britain's military airdropped fodder to farms cut off by freak spring snow as concerns grew Tuesday for livestock animals feared buried under giant snowdrifts.

Bill Gates the unknown explores Ghana's health progress

Phuket News / World

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 12:17PM

GHANA: The freckled man with the rectangular glasses instantly recognisable to much of the world stood in the West African heat, staring at data that had nothing to do with selling software.

US Supreme Court cautious on same-sex marriage

Phuket News / World

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 12:17PM

WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court trod cautiously Tuesday as it considered gay marriage, with justices appearing hesitant to deliver a sweeping historic verdict on the emotionally charged issue.

Mob torches mosque in fresh Myanmar unrest: police

Phuket News / Asia

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 12:15PM

YANGON: A rampaging mob set fire to a mosque and homes in a central Myanmar town, a police official said Wednesday, the latest outbreak of violence in communal unrest that has left at least 40 people dead.

Strong quake injures 20 in Taiwan

Phuket News / Asia

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 12:14PM

TAIPEI: A strong earthquake shook buildings in the Taiwanese capital Taipei on Wednesday, injuring at least 20 people and sparking a fire, emergency officials said.

Thailand seizes 104 smuggled endangered pangolins

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 11:57AM

BANGKOK: The Thai navy on Tuesday said it had intercepted wildlife traffickers attempting to smuggle 104 endangered pangolins to China on the Mekong river.

Thailand set for peace talks with rebels

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 11:56AM

BANGKOK: Thailand and a key rebel group operating in the insurgency-wracked south are set to begin landmark peace talks Thursday aimed at curbing violence that has killed more than 5,500 people in nine years.

Phuket City ‘ready to counter water shortages’

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 10:31AM

PHUKET: Thavorn Jirapattanasopon, Deputy Mayor of Phuket City, says the city will be able to handle water shortages expected to hit if there is no rain soon, and has a plan in place to solve any shortages.

Burmese stabbed to death in Phuket work camp

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 09:16AM

PHUKET: A Burmese worker, Kyaw Zin Lat, 29, was stabbed to death last night (March 26) in a camp for construction workers in front of Phuket Zoo, in Chalong.

Cameras to track tiger numbers in Bangladesh census

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 26 March 2013, 08:43PM

DHAKA: Bangladesh is to launch a census of tigers next month living in the world's largest mangrove forest in a bid to determine the full extent of the threat to their survival, scientists said on Tuesday.

Italy court orders retrial in Knox sex-murder case

Phuket News / World

Tuesday 26 March 2013, 08:35PM

ROME: Italy's highest court of appeal overturned the acquittal of US student Amanda Knox on Tuesday and ordered a retrial over the murder of her British housemate in what prosecutors said was a drug-fuelled sex attack.

Officials probe large piece of cleared Phuket land

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 26 March 2013, 06:14PM

PHUKET: A large, steep piece of land in Kamala, across the road from Laem Singh Beach, was visited yesterday (March 25) by officials after a complaint that it was too steep to be in private hands and was possibly in a forestry reserve – yet had been encroached on by “a businessman”.

Phillips Group buys leading Phuket property portal

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 26 March 2013, 06:04PM

PHUKET: The Phillips Group Pte Ltd announced this week that it has bought Phuket Property Dot Com Ltd, which developed one of the island’s leading websites for property sales and rentals. The price was not revealed.

Sri Panwa in Phuket to be put into property fund

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 26 March 2013, 06:03PM

PHUKET: Phuket luxury resort Sri Panwa will be sold into a property fund, Bill Barnett reports on his blog thephuketinsider.com.

Phuket's Sansiri launches high-end beach project

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 26 March 2013, 06:01PM

PHUKET: Sansiri has officially launched its latest project on Phuket, its first on a beach and its first “premium class” condo aimed at an international market.

Concerns over rising flows of hot money

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 26 March 2013, 05:55PM

BANGKOK: Two of Thailand’s financial heavyweights have called on the Bank of Thailand (BoT) to review the policy interest rate as a short-term solution to what they believe are excessive amounts of short-term foreign capital – so-called “hot money” – flowing into the country.

Bangkok Airways, shopping and power boost Samui’s rise

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 26 March 2013, 05:54PM

KOH SAMUI: Hotel occupancy in Koh Samui was at an all-time high of 68 per cent overall for 2012, compared with 59 per cent in 2011, thanks to new direct international flights and aircraft upgrades, according to consulting firm C9 Hotelworks.

Marriott man to head up Hilton sales

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 26 March 2013, 05:50PM

SINGAPORE: Hilton has appointed Dominic Sherry as Head of Sales for Asia Pacific, based in Singapore.

Thai Smile set to launch from Phuket

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 26 March 2013, 05:43PM

PHUKET: Thai Smile, Thai Airways International’s junior sister, is to launch three new routes from Phuket at the beginning of April, two linking with India and one between Phuket and Kuala Lumpur.

B2tn rail project ‘will transform Thailand’

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 26 March 2013, 05:41PM

BANGKOK: A seven-year scheme for a dual-track rail system, to be developed by the State Railway of Thailand (SRT), will change the face of the nation, a senior official says.

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