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BALI: A 56-year-old British grandmother was sentenced to death Tuesday for smuggling cocaine into the Indonesian island of Bali, in a shock verdict after prosecutors recommended 15 years imprisonment.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 01:03PM

Phuket taxi driver held for 'rape' of tourist

PHUKET: A meter taxi driver has been arrested on a charge of rape after a Chinese tourist told Phuket police on Saturday (January 19) he frightened her into performing sexual acts with him.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 12:53PM

American expat held for Phuket shooting incident

PHUKET: An American expat living in Phuket was arrested on Saturday morning (January 19) on firearms charges, after saying the gun in his possession “went off by itself”.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 11:43AM

Phuket game boys break into school to play online

PHUKET: Three primary school students who used a knife to break into a Cherng Talay school’s computer room over the weekend to play video games and use Facebook will face prosecution.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 11:40AM

Austrian tourist in Phuket found dead next to sexual aids

PHUKET: An elderly Austrian tourist was found dead in his Patong hotel room bed on Sunday (January 20), and is believed to have died from a medical condition.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 11:00AM

Aussie misses target, shoots Phuket tourists

PHUKET: An Australian tattoo parlour owner, angry with a Danish man who he said had not repaid money he had borrowed, shot at him last night.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 10:56AM

Missing UK man's bank touched

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 09:52AM

BANGKOK: Money has been withdrawn from the home bank account of a British man missing in Thailand for more than two weeks, UK police said on Tuesday.

Veteran BBC presenter Stuart Hall charged with rape

Phuket News / World

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 08:57AM

UK: British police on Tuesday charged veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall with one offence of rape and 14 of indecent assault committed between 1967 and 1986.

Asian students outshine Thai colleagues

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 08:53AM

CHIANG RAI: Students from Asian countries are better than their Thai counterparts in English-language proficiency, rector of Mae Fah Luang University Wanchai Sirichana, said on January 22.

Singapore cool-off should heat up property sales abroad

SINGAPORE: The number of Singaporeans buying overseas property is likely to increase after their government introduced property cooling measures, website PropertyGuru.com predicts.

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 07:05PM

Thai ‘expo powerhouse position strengthened’

BANGKOK: Thailand’s strong position as “the exhibitions powerhouse of Asean” has been strengthened further by the decision of two professional exhibition companies to set up regional headquarters in Bangkok, says the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB).

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 07:02PM

Thailand's labour skills ‘must be boosted’

BANGKOK: The government must make an effort to improve labour skills to match market demand in order to reduce the impact of the daily minimum wage hike in both the short and the long term, says the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI).

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:59PM

THAI defends safety record after poor survey marks

BANGKOK: Thai Airways Inter- national (THAI) has defended its safety record after being placed low down in a safety ranking compiled by Germany’s Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre (JACDEC).

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:55PM

PC Air to sue Korean partners

BANGKOK: PC Air, the privately owned Thai charter airline that leapt to fame by hiring ladyboy as cabin crew, has sued two South Korean business partners for B1.5 billion in compensation for damage to its reputation.

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:53PM

Phuket Airport ‘risks losing private jet visitors’

PHUKET: The massive overcrowding at Phuket International Airport is causing such inconvenience to the tycoons and celebrities arriving by private jet that they may simply go elsewhere, a Hong Kong-based organisation has warned.

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:49PM

Mali war shows France is Africa’s reluctant gendarme

Phuket News / World

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:44PM

FRANCE: Despite sending warplanes and soldiers to fight Islamists in the Sahara, French President Francois Hollande has largely kept his promise to shun the shady system that saw France dictate politics in former African colonies, analysts said.

Pakistan foreign minister says India ‘warmongering’

PAKISTAN: India is “warmongering” over deadly clashes in the disputed Kashmir region, Pakistan’s foreign minister said Tuesday while calling for talks to end the new hostilities.

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:41PM

China to survey islands disputed with Japan: Xinhua

CHINA: Beijing is to carry out a geographical survey of islands in the East China Sea, state media said on Tuesday, the latest salvo in an increasingly tense dispute with Tokyo over the uninhabited territory.

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:36PM

Art Basel unveils plans for Hong Kong show