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NEWS TODAY May 24
Taxi blockade at airport. Another protest - outside Governor's mansion. Dredging at Bang Tao Klong nearly complete.
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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.
‘Ugly’ fish face up to extinction
WEIRD WORLD: They may be last of their species – and scientists joke they may be too ugly to breed. London Zoo has appealed to fish keepers to find a mate for their two tropical Mangarahara cichlids, which come originally from Madagascar.
Stray dogs sniff out human remains
WEIRD WORLD: A Polish businessman who stashed human body parts in a city warehouse instead of incinerating them was exposed by local stray dogs, who started gathering hungrily outside.
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.
Mystery over Norwegian ‘inheritance for Phuket’
Phuket News / Phuket
Monday 11 February 2013, 06:19PM
PHUKET: Mystery surrounds news reports that a Norwegian expat left millions of baht to Phuket women and children, after Phuket police said they had not received any details about it.
Rubber ducks in training for big race in Phuket
Phuket News / Phuket
Monday 11 February 2013, 04:31PM
PHUKET: “Rubber Duckie You’re The One…” Everyone who has a ticket corresponding to a numbered duck in the Great Phuket Rubber Duck Race – in just over two weeks’ time – will be humming the famous song from Sesame Street, hoping that their duck will be the winning one.
Silence in Phuket land investigation probes
Phuket News / Phuket
Monday 11 February 2013, 03:50PM
PHUKET: Those – and there are many – who have been holding their breath while a variety of government agencies investigated land titles on Phuket can breathe normally for the time being, with the two main probes now apparently in hibernation.
Australian found dead following Phuket bike crash
Phuket News / Phuket
Monday 11 February 2013, 12:41PM
PHUKET: A 32-year-old Australian man was found dead on the side of the road in the early hours of this morning (February 11) following what police believe was a motorbike crash.
Rich Norwegian leaves inheritance to Phuket people
Phuket News / Phuket
Sunday 10 February 2013, 04:39PM
PHUKET: A Norwegian who died of causes believed to be related to asthma on Saturday left behind a will in which his assets worth more than 100 million baht are to be donated to foundations for the elderly and children in Phuket.
Hotel room theft results in Iranian arrest in South Pattaya
Phuket News / Thailand
Sunday 10 February 2013, 11:16AM
PATTAYA: An Iranian, who claims he is well connected to local 'foreign police' was arrested early on Saturday morning, accused of stealing cash and valuables from a central Pattaya hotel room.
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