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PHUKET: The pedestrian bridge connecting Central Festival Phuket with the newly opened Central Festival East (formerly Home Works) will close on February 14, with demolition taking place the following day.

Monday 4 February 2013, 02:46PM

Man charged after wielding knife outside Buckingham Palace [VIDEO]

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Monday 4 February 2013, 02:46PM

LONDON: A man who was shocked by British police with a Taser stun gun as he waved large knives outside Buckingham Palace was charged on Monday with affray and possessing a bladed weapon in public.

Phuket: Govt wants Youtube sex spoof removed

BANGKOK: The government plans to ask YouTube to remove a video clip mocking the sex industry in Thailand.

Monday 4 February 2013, 01:41PM

German and British suspected child molesters caught by Pattaya police

PATTAYA: Two suspected child molesters and a Thai agent who is accused of procuring minors for foreign customers were arrested by police on Saturday.

Monday 4 February 2013, 12:40PM

Russian man found dead in Phuket

PHUKET: Chalong police are investigating the death of a Russian man, identified as Evgenii Pozhitkov, 40, who was found dead in the kitchen of his pool villa in Rawai yesterday afternoon (February 3).

Monday 4 February 2013, 10:28AM

Sri Lanka rescues 138 stranded on sinking boat: navy

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Sunday 3 February 2013, 10:13PM

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's navy on Sunday rescued 138 Bangladeshis and Myanmar nationals from a sinking fishing vessel off the island's east coast, officials said.

Thai cop arrested with 20 elephant tusks

CHUMPHON: A Thai policeman has been arrested after he was caught trying to smuggle 20 elephant tusks, officials said Sunday.

Sunday 3 February 2013, 10:11PM

US winter almost over: Phil the groundhog

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Sunday 3 February 2013, 09:09AM

NEW YORK: It's official, at least according to America's most celebrated groundhog: spring is around the corner.

Hollande gets hero's welcome in a Mali fearful of future

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Sunday 3 February 2013, 09:06AM

BAMAKO: President Francois Hollande received a rapturous welcome in Mali on Saturday as he promised that France would stay as long as necessary to continue the fight against Islamist rebels in the country's north.

Phuket police housing scandal back in the spotlight

PHUKET: Tharit Pengdit, DSI Director together with MP Prompong Nopparit, Pheu Thai Party spokesman, visited Phuket today to reexamine the police housing scandal.

Saturday 2 February 2013, 11:14PM

Phuket boat ordeal owners describe accident as 'force majeure'

PHUKET: Tour company Andawaree Co Ltd, which runs tours to Phi Phi from Chalong Pier, held a press conference yesterday (February 1) about the accident on January 30.

Saturday 2 February 2013, 05:01PM

Patong community mourns much-loved Phuket expat

PHUKET: Tributes were being laid in Patong over the weekend following the death of Phuket businessman, Swedish man Niklas “Nicke” Kring, 42, who died in a motorbike crash.

Saturday 2 February 2013, 03:17PM

WTO unlikely to help Laos escape Thailand's grasp

BANGKOK: Laos joins the World Trade Organisation on Saturday, a major step for the small communist country but one that experts say may not break its powerful neighbours' stranglehold over its economy just yet.

Saturday 2 February 2013, 08:32AM

Rohingya baby born in refugee boat near Phuket

PHUKET: A Rohingya refugee gave birth to a baby boy on an overcrowded boat carrying around 110 people which arrived in Thailand from unrest-hit western Myanmar, an official said Thursday.

Saturday 2 February 2013, 08:24AM

China approves Ping An sale to Thailand's CP Group

BEIJING: China said Friday it had approved British bank HSBC's sale of its stake in insurance giant Ping An to a Thai conglomerate for $9.4 billion, ending speculation that the deal was on the verge of collapse.

Saturday 2 February 2013, 08:20AM

Honest Phuket van driver returns B120,000

PHUKET: A 24-year old van driver Sarawut Sompan is being praised for his honesty after he handed in around B132,000 worth of cash belonging to an Indonesian official.

Friday 1 February 2013, 03:26PM

L&H launches Phuket Inizio project

PHUKET: Land and House Park Phuket launched a new housing project, Inizio Koh Kaew last Friday (January 18) on 26 rai of land in a quiet soi behind the Isuzu showroom on Thepkrassattri Rd, aimed, like so many new developments in Phuket, at first-home buyers at the lower end of the Thai market.

Friday 1 February 2013, 12:52PM

Sansiri targets uni market in Phuket

PHUKET: Bangkok giant Sansiri is set to launch its fifth dcondo project on the island, on a site near Phuket Rajabhat University. It will be called dcondo Campus Resort Kuku.

Friday 1 February 2013, 12:51PM

Phuket Property Show ‘is the best so far’

PHUKET: The Phuket Property Show 2013, held at Central Festival Phuket from January 17 to Wednesday (January 23) has been the most successful yet.

Friday 1 February 2013, 12:49PM

Phuket architects celebrate five years of success