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Taxi blockade at airport. Another protest - outside Governor's mansion. Dredging at Bang Tao Klong nearly complete.

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The Big List: Ghost Towns

THE BIG LIST: “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.” Shelley’s poem Ozymandias, a vision of lost ruins in the desert, mocks the ultimate fate of even greatest human cities, and the greatest vanities. Here are a few of the more unusual ghost towns you’ll find dotted around the world.

‘Ugly’ fish face up to extinction

WEIRD WORLD: They may be last of their species – and scientists joke they may be too ugly to breed. London Zoo has appealed to fish keepers to find a mate for their two tropical Mangarahara cichlids, which come originally from Madagascar.

Stray dogs sniff out human remains

WEIRD WORLD: A Polish businessman who stashed human body parts in a city warehouse instead of incinerating them was exposed by local stray dogs, who started gathering hungrily outside.

Phuket talent on show at Laguna

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 5 March 2013, 03:07PM

PHUKET: British International School (BIS) student 15-year-old Siska Greene won the Youth Talent Competition on Sunday (March 3), held at Laguna as part of the Phuket Community Foundation’s Rubber Duck Race event.

93-year old Australian accused of child rape in Thailand

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 5 March 2013, 12:31PM

CHIANG MAI: A 93-year-old Australian man accused of raping four young Thai sisters in one of the worst child sex abuse cases investigated in Thailand is likely never to face justice.

Phuket Opinion: Phuket Governor Maitree Intusut

Phuket News / Opinion

Tuesday 5 March 2013, 12:19PM

PHUKET: This month I want to discuss three issues: Phuket’s transport projects, the Phuket International Airport, and work permits and visas for foreigners on the island.

Sri Lanka bars foreigners from owning any land

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 5 March 2013, 12:11PM

BANGKOK: Thailand, as readers will know, does not allow foreigners to own land. Sri Lanka, however, has long allowed foreign ownership.

Bangkok boom attracts new property players

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 5 March 2013, 12:09PM

BANGKOK: The property boom has drawn new developers, who have shifted from other businesses, along with long-dormant property groups, to launch projects in and outside Bangkok.

TOT deal to usher in digital TV

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 5 March 2013, 12:08PM

BANGKOK: Thailand’s state-owned telecommunications company, TOT, has signed memoranda of understanding (MOU) with three terrestrial TV stations to help usher in digital broadcasting and do away with analog.

AirAsia heading for India

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 5 March 2013, 12:06PM

INDIA: With Kingfisher out of the way, AirAsia is planning to move its low-cost model into India, submitting an application to India’s investment regulators for a new airline venture, which it hopes to launch by the end of the year.

Thai govt to lower guide levels

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 5 March 2013, 12:05PM

THAILAND: A government committee on tourism problems has approved in principle a proposal to lower the minimum education level required for Thais to become tour guides to Grade 9.

Phuket hotel accepts Chinese bank card

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 5 March 2013, 12:03PM

PHUKET: With an increasing number of guests from China visiting Phuket every year, local businesses are making adjustments.

Beijing busiest Asian airport, Bangkok fifth

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 5 March 2013, 12:02PM

BANGKOK: According to the recently released ACI Passenger and Freight Flash Reports, Asia Pacific airports finished the year with a strong 7.1 per cent increase in passenger numbers.

Phuket: Thailand Property Awards launched

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 5 March 2013, 11:58AM

BANGKOK: The eighth annual Thailand Property Awards were officially launched last week at a special event hosted by organisers Ensign Media Ltd.

Wombs for rent: Indian surrogate mothers tell their tales

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 5 March 2013, 11:41AM

NEW DELHI: As baby Lili celebrates her first birthday in Australia, far away in India her surrogate mother recalls the day the child was born – and on whom she never laid eyes.

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.

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