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Phuket teacher runs marathon for cancer-stricken colleague

PHUKET: As HeadStart teacher Richard Allenby lay on his hospital bed before surgery at Bangkok Hospital Phuket, he was convinced he was going to die. He told his adult son to look after his pregnant wife and their unborn child.

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'Blackout could have been avoided'. Thai industries affected by black out. Former VG house suspect overlooking Patong.

Who's responsible for Phuket's blackout?

BANGKOK: The energy minister has reasons to be upset about the southern power outage, as no one at the electricity supplying agencies made the decision to save the region.

Stockholm 'police brutality' riots go into third day

STOCKHOLM: Riots in a poor, mainly immigrant suburb of Sweden's capital have continued into a third night.

Death Row dinners

Phuket News / Weird World

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 06:58PM

WEIRD WORLD: American artist Julie Green has spent 13 years painting the final meals of death row inmates – so far she’s painted more than 500 “last requests”.

One hurt by brakeless Phuket bus

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 06:34PM

PHUKET: An out-of-control but fortunately empty tour bus crashed into a woman on a motorbike this afternoon (February 13) before hitting a power pole on the way down from Patong Hill into Patong, causing traffic chaos.

Phuket KFC man gets a nasty surprise

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 06:18PM

PHUKET: A part time delivery man working for KFC received a nasty surprise when he turned up at room No 11 in the Purata Inn in Thung Tong yesterday (February 12) at around 9 pm, with a delivery of chicken wings.

DSI officials arrive to check ‘Russian’ firms in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 05:52PM

PHUKET: A team from the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) in Bangkok arrived in Phuket today (February 13) to gather information about Russian-operated businesses suspected of operating illegally in Bang Tao.

Phuket resident ‘lucky to be alive’ after robbery

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 03:41PM

PHUKET: When long-time Phuket resident Mari Okawa was robbed on Sunday evening (February 10), the first thing she thought was how lucky she was to be alive.

'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).

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