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Coming from Thanyapura where SuperKidz starts tomorrow (Saturday). Two dead in stabbing incident at Krung-Sri, Phuket Town. Tourist registration crackdown paying off. Phuket FC play on Sunday and the end of an era - Esther Williams dies.

Friday 7 June 2013, 01:40PM

Teen assailant leaves ID at failed Phuket bag snatching

PHUKET: Thalang policemen yesterday evening (June 6) arrested a Thai teenager for attempting to snatch a handbag from an Irish expatriate.

Friday 7 June 2013, 01:37PM

‘Entrepreneur’ smashes down Phuket mangroves

PHUKET: Following complaints from local people, the Chairman of Pa Khlok OrBorTor on Wednesday led police and other officials on a raid on an allegedly illegal construction site among mangroves in Moo 2.

Friday 7 June 2013, 12:24PM

Formula 1 heading for Phuket?

PHUKET: Phuket, Khon Kaen or Nakhon Ratchasima could be a new venue for Thailand’s first Formula One event in 2015.

Friday 7 June 2013, 10:32AM

Old men in murder-suicide in Phuket bank

PHUKET: Two elderly men stabbed each other to death in a bank in Phuket Town at midday today (June 6). Both died.

Thursday 6 June 2013, 03:27PM

The Big List: Going underground

THE BIG LIST: Freedom, oil, gold... and now KFC. Digging tunnels in the earth is a dangerous business, but the rewards can be worth it. Here are some deep facts about the most unusual tunnelling efforts in history.

Thursday 6 June 2013, 03:16PM

Smuggling tunnels deliver KFC to Gaza

WEIRD WORLD: People in the Gaza Strip can now order deliveries of Kentucky Fried Chicken, thanks to a new smuggling service which brings the takeout from Egypt through a network of underground tunnels.

Thursday 6 June 2013, 03:14PM

High-flying African witches told to go low

WEIRD WORLD: Witches in Swaziland are forbidden from flying their broomsticks at altitudes of more than 150 metres from the ground, after a safety-minded government crack-down on supernatural aviators.

Thursday 6 June 2013, 03:12PM

Bangkok Opinion: I know who burned CentralWorld

Phuket News / Opinion

Thursday 6 June 2013, 03:10PM

BANGKOK: Give me my B10 million – I know exactly who the arsonist that torched CentralWorld back on May 19, 2010 is. This dude is notorious. He has struck before and no doubt he will strike again. His name is Ai Puad.

Tourists picnic on drifting iceberg

WEIRD WORLD: Rescue workers in Iceland were surprised to find three American tourists stranded on an iceberg drifting in a glacial lagoon, seated at a dinner table laden with food.

Thursday 6 June 2013, 03:08PM

Indian medical students caught-up in Pattaya jet ski scam

PATTAYA: Late on Wednesday night, Pattaya’s Tourist Police dealt with two Indian medical students who were forced by a group of jet ski operators to hand over the equivalent of B45,000 in cash for minor damage the pair were alleged to have caused to jet skis they had rented earlier in the day.

Thursday 6 June 2013, 03:00PM

NEWS TODAY June 6

Putting Patong Power underground. A new shopping centre near Heroine's Monument. 'V for Vendetta' meets Thai politics. Your responses from yesterday's Bus crash in Patong.

Thursday 6 June 2013, 01:25PM

Phuket crackdown on foreign guest reporting pays off

PHUKET: A drive to get hotels and guesthouses on the island to conform with the law and report details of foreign guests staying with them is paying off, say Immigration Police.

Thursday 6 June 2013, 12:09PM

Australian tourist in Bali died dragged by current during heavy rain

Phuket News / Asia

Thursday 6 June 2013, 10:07AM

BALI: An Australian tourist, Joanne Louise Randall, age 40, died as she slipped and was dragged by strong currents of a gutter in Kuta, Bali when rain was pouring heavily on Sunday (May 26).

Frenchman stabbed on Pattaya beach

PATTAYA: French national Rashea Thalmaboudi, 57, reported to the Pattaya police station covered in blood.

Thursday 6 June 2013, 10:03AM

Russian woman self-harms as she confronts husband at his Pattaya restaurant

PATTAYA: A Russian woman confronted her husband at his Jomtien Beach restaurant in Pattaya early on Monday morning over their recent split due to him meeting another woman.

Thursday 6 June 2013, 09:59AM

Frenchman in Samui goes crazy after wife abandons him

SAMUI: A French man went 'crazy' after he was abandoned by his wife. He ran into a bar naked and started destroyed everything within the premises.

Thursday 6 June 2013, 09:51AM

King’s image survives Phuket fire

PHUKET: Firemen were called to a house in Soi Udomsuk off Sakdidet Rd in Wichit this afternoon after the owner went out leaving a candle burning, which started a fire.

Wednesday 5 June 2013, 05:22PM

NEWS TODAY June 5

Phuket's Governor returns from nice trip to Nice, France. Incredible footage of a bus out of control down Patong Hill. Campaigners want slow loris touts prosecuted. And the new iPhone 6.. or is it??

Wednesday 5 June 2013, 04:10PM

Australian farmer files B15m fraud charge against Thai fiance