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Britain's Kate in last public event before giving birth

LONDON: Prince William's wife Catherine on Saturday carried out her last public engagement before giving birth to their first baby, at Queen Elizabeth II's official 87th birthday celebrations.

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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.

India monsoon floods leave 120 dead

DEHRADUN: Military helicopters dropped emergency supplies Wednesday to thousands of tourists and pilgrims stranded by flash floods that tore through towns and temples in northern India, killing at least 120 people, officials said.

Patong underwater in Phuket storm

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 10 June 2013, 12:02AM

PHUKET: Heavy rain all evening coupled with a high tide have resulted in flooding along the west coast of Phuket, particularly in Patong – as usual.

Phuket Opinion: Cheating the cheaters

Phuket News / Opinion

Sunday 9 June 2013, 04:59PM

BANGKOK: Foreign workers are useful. They fill the jobs we don’t have the proper skills to do, or the jobs that we simply don’t want to do.

Driver crushed by coach door in Pattaya

Phuket News / Thailand

Sunday 9 June 2013, 04:53PM

PATTAYA: Security Officers who were on routine patrol at a Coach Stop located within the grounds of their Hotel, discovered the body of a coach driver who appeared to have been crushed by the doors of his own vehicle.

Drunk Aussie smashes taxi window in Pattaya

Phuket News / Thailand

Sunday 9 June 2013, 12:36PM

PATTAYA: An Australian tourist was reported to have smashed a taxi window with a brick after he had consumed too much alcohol in Pattaya in the earlier hours of this morning.

Pickup crashes off Phuket road, rolls down hill

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 7 June 2013, 06:23PM

PHUKET: A driver believed to be Korean escaped death this afternoon (June 7) when his pickup truck flew off the road on the way up to the Khao Kad viewpoint and rolled 20 metres down the almost vertical hillside.

Phuket Exclusive: Pegas on public image, tour bus crashes

Phuket News / Features

Friday 7 June 2013, 06:12PM

PHUKET: People on Phuket don’t seem to have too many good things to say about Russian tour company, Pegas Touristik these days.

Shocking night for Phuket loris

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 7 June 2013, 04:52PM

PHUKET: Two Kusoldharm Foundation staff on their nightly rounds came across a slow loris at 3 am this morning (June 7) lying on the ground at the top of Khao Rang, Phuket Town.

700 join Phuket protest against Deputy PM

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 7 June 2013, 04:02PM

PHUKET: More than 700 Phuket people gathered this morning (June 7) at Saphan Hin before marching to Provincial Hall to deliver a letter to Governor Maitree Intusut, demanding the dismissal of Deputy Prime Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi for remarks he made at a Pheu Thai rally in Chiang Mai last weekend.

NEWS TODAY June 7

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 7 June 2013, 01:40PM

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.

Teen assailant leaves ID at failed Phuket bag snatching

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 7 June 2013, 01:37PM

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

‘Entrepreneur’ smashes down Phuket mangroves

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 7 June 2013, 12:24PM

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.

Formula 1 heading for Phuket?

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 7 June 2013, 10:32AM

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

Old men in murder-suicide in Phuket bank

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 6 June 2013, 03:27PM

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

The Big List: Going underground

Phuket News / Weird World

Thursday 6 June 2013, 03:16PM

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.

Smuggling tunnels deliver KFC to Gaza

Phuket News / Weird World

Thursday 6 June 2013, 03:14PM

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.

High-flying African witches told to go low

Phuket News / Weird World

Thursday 6 June 2013, 03:12PM

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.

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

Phuket News / Weird World

Thursday 6 June 2013, 03:08PM

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.

Indian medical students caught-up in Pattaya jet ski scam

Phuket News / Thailand

Thursday 6 June 2013, 03:00PM

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.

NEWS TODAY June 6

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 6 June 2013, 01:25PM

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.

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