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Thai aunt denies pimping girl in South Korea

BANGKOK: The aunt accused of luring her teenage niece into prostitution in South Korea has turned herself in, police investigating the case said yesterday.

Bomb kills five rangers in Thailand's restive south

BANGKOK: Five paramilitary rangers were killed and one other wounded in an ambush when suspected rebels detonated a bomb buried in a road in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south, local police said Friday.

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.

Phuket Buddhists celebrate Makha Bucha Day

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 25 February 2013, 04:03PM

PHUKET: Today is Makha Bucha Day, a key date in the Buddhist calendar, when Buddhists celebrate the teachings of the Buddha, and commemorate a key event that took place nine months after the Buddha attained enlightenment.

1,500 turn up to Phuket ‘Talent’ auditions

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 25 February 2013, 01:11PM

PHUKET: Around 1,500 people from Phuket and all over Thailand mobbed the Millennium Hotel in Patong’s Jungceylon complex on Saturday and Sunday (February 23-24) for the auditions for Season 3 of the Thailand’s Got Talent television talent contest.

VIDEO: 780 kg of kratom seized in Phuket; three arrested

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 25 February 2013, 11:22AM

PHUKET: Three men were arrested when Thalang police seized more than three quarters of a ton of kratom leaves from trees in their gardens in Baan Pa Khlok in a series of raids.

Police cast doubt on Scottish rape claim

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 25 February 2013, 09:02AM

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: The rape of a Scottish woman in Nakhon Si Thammarat has prompted the provincial police force to launch a manhunt for the offenders.

Phuket positions itself as 'retail therapy' destination

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 25 February 2013, 08:35AM

PHUKET: A big increase in Chinese and Russian tourists has transformed the popular resort island of Phuket into a shopping destination.

B1.02bn of meth pills seized

Phuket News / Thailand

Sunday 24 February 2013, 08:49PM

BANGKOK: Police seized a total of 3.4 million methamphetamine pills, worth more than 1.02 billion baht in street value, in three major drug busts, Pol Maj Gen Surapol Thuanthong, deputy commissioner of the Narcotics Suppression Bureau, said on Sunday.

Phuket drug dealer tries to shoot police

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 23 February 2013, 03:51PM

PHUKET: Police had a lucky escape this week when Witoon Piwluang, a drug dealer in Cherng Talay grabbed an officer’s gun and tried to shoot the police who had come to arrest him.

B3 million Russian tour company scam reported to Pattaya Police

Phuket News / Thailand

Saturday 23 February 2013, 10:24AM

PATTAYA: A Russian travel agency is once again under the spotlight and is thought to have sold an estimated B3 million worth of non-existent tour packages to Russian tourists.

Thai water buffalo goes from slaughterhouse to stardom

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 22 February 2013, 11:17PM

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: A picture posted on Facebook has helped save a water buffalo from the slaughterhouse and it is now on course to star in movies.

Russian baby killed in Koh Phangan crash

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 22 February 2013, 11:15PM

KOH PHANGAN: A nine-month-old Russian baby was killed and his mother critically injured when two motorcycles collided on Koh Phangan.

Phuket court told of family’s search for ‘House of Horror’ victim

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 22 February 2013, 06:28PM

PHUKET: Norwegian Stein Havard Dokset was in court again today for the second day of prosecution testimony in the “House of Horror” murder case.

Prompong: Police stations fiasco ‘has bad effect on Phuket’

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 22 February 2013, 06:17PM

PHUKET: Phue Thai Party spokesman Prompong Nopparit told The Phuket News today (February 22) that he is very concerned about the effect the years-long delays in building new police stations and police accommodation will have on tourism destinations such as Phuket.

True planning 4G launch in April

Phuket News / Business

Friday 22 February 2013, 05:08PM

BANGKOK: True Move will launch the country’s first fourth-generation (4G) commercial mobile service on the international standard 2.1-gigahertz spectrum in April, in a bid to beat its bigger rivals.

Work on Phuket ‘mangrove’ highway to start soon

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 22 February 2013, 04:06PM

PHUKET: The Department of Rural Roads today (February 22) confirmed that work on the elevated Phuket South Highway, also known as the Klong Koh Pee highway, will start around the end of April or beginning of May.

Thai contestant wins ‘Asia’s Next Top Model’

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 22 February 2013, 03:06PM

BANGKOK: Jessica Amornkuldilok of Thailand has won the first season of the TV reality show Asia's Next Top Model.

Phuket: Learning to live with the pain

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 22 February 2013, 12:10PM

PHUKET: A New Zealand mother describes how she's coped since her son, Nick McCutcheon, died after a scooter accident in Phuket in 2011.

Myanmar expands visa on arrival list

Phuket News / Asia

Friday 22 February 2013, 11:52AM

MANDALAY: Citizens of another 22 countries are now eligible for a visa on arrival at Mandalay International Airport, the Myanmar Times has reported. The list of eligible countries now totals 48.

Phuket: Former Nepal Prince's condition 'critical'

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 21 February 2013, 07:50PM

PHUKET: Former Nepalese crown prince Paras Shah, who was arrested in Phuket on a marijuana possession charge in October last year, is in a 'critical' condition after being admitted to hospital.

Phuket's Nai Harn 'sixth best beach in Asia' - TripAdvisor

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 21 February 2013, 07:36PM

PHUKET: Nai Harn beach in southern Phuket has been ranked in sixth place in a TripAdvisor list of the top 10 beaches in Asia.

Tourists deny Phuket tsunami drill ‘panic’

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 21 February 2013, 07:01PM

PHUKET: Tourists on the beach at Kata this afternoon have denied an online report that there was panic just before 3 pm when tsunami warning sirens sounded for an evacuation practice.

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