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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.
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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.
Government yields to pressure over school closures
BANGKOK: Bowing to a public outcry and resistance from many civic groups, the Education Ministry has agreed to create a joint committee to look into the issue of small school closures.
DSI arrests B150 million bank robber
HUA HIN: The Department of Special Investigation arrested the head of a Swiss bank robber gang on May 16 in Hua Hin.
'A Thai Love Song' by Malaysia's Namewee goes viral
Phuket News / Thailand
Wednesday 13 February 2013, 03:40PM
BANGKOK: 'A Thai Love Song' by Malaysian artist Wee Meng Chee, better known as Namewee, has become a regional hit after a video of the song was uploaded to Youtube last week.
Tourism Malaysia goes bigger at Phuket Old Town Festival 2013
Phuket News / Phuket
Wednesday 13 February 2013, 02:40PM
PHUKET: The 14th Phuket Old Town Festival is here back and for the 3rd consecutive years, Tourism Malaysia will be joining this event in ‘Bigger’. It will be held from 15-17 February 2013 at Phuket Road (opposite Phuket Town Inn), Phuket Town.
Police want conscripts to boost ranks
Phuket News / Thailand
Wednesday 13 February 2013, 12:18PM
NONG KHAI: The Royal Thai Police Office will propose amending the police law to allow for police conscription as part of national service, a senior officer in the force says.
A date with the Phuket Woulfe pack
Phuket News / Business
Wednesday 13 February 2013, 12:35PM
PHUKET: It’s been a year since The Phuket News last visited Brian Woulfe at his contemporary offices in Baan Wana Park and interviewed him about his design business, Designed By Woulfe.
Thai Gov coffers get boost
Phuket News / Business
Wednesday 13 February 2013, 12:33PM
The Ministry of Finance has disclosed that the government earned B94 billion higher in revenue in the previous financial year compared to that of the year before.
Japan’s top three automakers posted record sales last year
Phuket News / Business
Wednesday 13 February 2013, 12:31PM
Japan’s three biggest automakers – Toyota, Nissan and Honda – on Monday posted record sales for 2012, as the results confirmed that Toyota recaptured the world’s biggest automaker crown.
Can this woman save South Africa?
Phuket News / World
Wednesday 13 February 2013, 12:27PM
SOUTH AFRICA: One of South Africa's most dynamic women appears set to enter politics, setting off rampant conjecture about whether she could finally help forge a viable alternative to the seemingly unshakeable African National Congress.
North Korea a final frontier for Google Maps
Phuket News / Asia
Wednesday 13 February 2013, 12:22PM
NORTH KOREA: North Korea was a final frontier for Google Maps. It took years and the help of amateur map-makers who once lived there or knew people who did to add gulags, streets and other details to what was long a patch of grey at the online atlas.
US consulate in Chiang Mai under close watch
Phuket News / Thailand
Wednesday 13 February 2013, 12:00PM
CHIANG MAI: The government has ordered that security be beefed up for the US consulate in Chiang Mai following intelligence reports of a potential terrorist attack.
With test, N. Korea threat looks more real
Phuket News / Asia
Wednesday 13 February 2013, 10:12AM
NORTH KOREA: With a defiant nuclear test, North Korea has shown it poses an increasingly credible threat but some doubt whether even the notoriously bellicose regime would ever use weapons of mass destruction.
Australian MPs vote for Aboriginal recognition
Phuket News / Asia
Wednesday 13 February 2013, 09:37AM
AUSTRALIA: Australian lawmakers formally recognised indigenous peoples as the country’s first inhabitants on Wednesday, five years after an historic apology to Aborigines for past wrongs.
17 gunmen killed in Narathiwat military base attack: army
Phuket News / Thailand
Wednesday 13 February 2013, 08:54AM
BANGKOK: Scores of heavily armed gunmen stormed a military base in unrest-plagued southern Thailand, an army spokesman said Wednesday, in a major assault that left at least 17 militants dead.
Jellyfish warnings for Phuket
Phuket News / Phuket
Tuesday 12 February 2013, 10:49PM
PHUKET: The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources has launched a campaign warning tourists in Phuket to beware of venomous jellyfish when swimming in the Andaman Sea after a number of foreigners were stung and required treatment.
Police warn of bag snatchers in Phuket Town
Phuket News / Phuket
Tuesday 12 February 2013, 07:31PM
PHUKET: Phuket police are advising people to be careful with their belongings following bag-snatchings and other robberies in Phuket Town.
Two drunks drown in separate Phuket incidents
Phuket News / Phuket
Tuesday 12 February 2013, 06:35PM
PHUKET: Two drunk men drowned within hours yesterday afternoon (February 11) in separate incidents after deciding they wanted to swim in tin ponds. One body was recovered yesterday, the other around 11am today (February 12).
Gasohol takes over in Phuket
Phuket News / Phuket
Tuesday 12 February 2013, 06:31PM
PHUKET: Stocks of 91-octane gasoline on Phuket are rapidly disappearing as filling stations around the island comply with government policy to phase out pure gasoline 91 and replace it with gasohol – a mixture of gasoline with ethylene produced from vegetable matter.
Phuket 'body in the bin' trial begins
Phuket News / Phuket
Tuesday 12 February 2013, 04:07PM
PHUKET: The trial of Norwegian Stein Havard Dokset, arrested last year after police found the rotting body of his ex-girlfriend in a garbage bin in his house, began today (February 12) in the Phuket Provincial Court.
Blaze hits abandoned Phuket resort
Phuket News / Phuket
Tuesday 12 February 2013, 11:44AM
PHUKET: Fire severely damaged the part-completed Phuket Peninsula Spa & Resort at Nai Yang beach overnight on Sunday (February 10). No deaths or injuries were reported but the flames demolished much of the resort’s roof.
Navy SEAL who killed bin Laden breaks his silence
Phuket News / World
Tuesday 12 February 2013, 09:46AM
US: The Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden broke his silence Monday, recounting the night he shot the Al-Qaeda leader three times and the financial anxiety he now faces as an unemployed civilian.
Good riddance, sex abuse victims tell pope
Phuket News / World
Tuesday 12 February 2013, 09:46AM
US: Pope Benedict XVI did nothing to punish pedophile priests or Church seniors who looked the other way, according to US and Irish victims hoping his successor will focus on fighting sex abuse.
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