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Improvement of polluted Phuket canal ‘underway’

PHUKET: Much of the polluted Klong Bangtao has been dredged in order to improve flow and reduce bottlenecks that cause stagnation, a meeting at Phuket Provincial Hall was told this morning (May 23).

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Taxis, taxis, taxis – a week of fever in Phuket

PHUKET: Thirty meter taxis from the Phuket Limousine & Business Services cooperative (PBC) convened a mob at Phuket International Airport yesterday evening (May 22), blocking one of the two roads into the airport.

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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.

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

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 07:05PM

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

Thai ‘expo powerhouse position strengthened’

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 07:02PM

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).

Thailand's labour skills ‘must be boosted’

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:59PM

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).

THAI defends safety record after poor survey marks

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:55PM

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).

PC Air to sue Korean partners

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:53PM

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.

Phuket Airport ‘risks losing private jet visitors’

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:49PM

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.

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’

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:41PM

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.

China to survey islands disputed with Japan: Xinhua

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:36PM

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.

Art Basel unveils plans for Hong Kong show

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:33PM

HONG KONG: Art Basel on Tuesday unveiled the lineup for its inaugural Hong Kong show in May, in which it promised “the strongest combination of galleries from East and West that the art world has ever seen”.

Phuket manager arrested after ‘years of bullying and cheating’

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:30PM

PHUKET: The developer and manager of a condominium in Wichit has been arrested on a variety of charges after tenants complained about a reign of fear he conducted against them as he allegedly pocketed money that should have been used to pay bills or for repairs.

Canadian kills two, self in Philippine court

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:26PM

PHILIPPINES: A Canadian involved in legal disputes with his neighbours shot dead two people Tuesday in a courtroom rampage in the central Philippines before killing himself, police said.

Video captures brave rescue in Spanish metro

Phuket News / World

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:25PM

SPAIN: A Spanish policeman was Tuesday hailed a hero after a dramatic security video captured him rescuing a woman who fell onto the tracks of the Madrid subway system moments before a train arrived.

Japan mourns highest terror toll since 9/11

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:24PM

JAPAN: Japan grieved Tuesday over its greatest loss of life at militant hands since 9/11 as the carnage in Algeria provoked soul-searching for a people who have been relatively immune to Islamist terror.

Spate of Iraq car bombs kill 17

Phuket News / World

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:23PM

IRAQ: A wave of attacks in and around Baghdad and in northern Iraq killed 17 people and wounded dozens of others on Tuesday, shattering a relative calm after a spate of deadly attacks last week.

China's Xi says 'no leniency' in corruption fight

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:23PM

CHINA: China's president-in-waiting Xi Jinping intensified calls for a crackdown on corruption Tuesday, saying there would be "no leniency" for party officials whatever their rank, state media reported.

Golden day for Phuket pork vendor

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 05:39PM

PHUKET: Pork vendor Atcharaporn Weerakarn has bought tickets for the annual Red Cross lottery for as long as she can remember, and yesterday (January 21) she was rewarded when she finally won the grand prize – B500,000 worth of gold.

New airport-Kata bus service to launch in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 03:44PM

PHUKET: Despite the possibility of a violent reaction from taxi and tuk-tuk drivers, a new bus service linking Phuket International Airport to Kata via Patong will begin in March, the Chief of the Phuket Land Transportation Office (PLTO), Teerayut Prasertphol, has announced.

Myanmar gets ready for first ever international literary festival

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 02:54PM

MYANMAR: The Irrawaddy Literary Festival, to be held in Yangon from Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd February 2012, brings together a stellar cast of high-profile international authors and local Burmese counterparts.

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