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PHUKET: Burglars pried open the door of a tattoo shop in Patong in the early hours of Sunday (June 2) and stole items worth B100,000.

Tuesday 4 June 2013, 06:46PM

Deputy PM riles people of Phuket

PHUKET: Controversial and outspoken Deputy Prime Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi is once again in hot water, this time with the people of Phuket.

Tuesday 4 June 2013, 06:28PM

Thailand sees record income from movies

Thailand earned a record B671.43 million from on-location film shoots in January to April this year, according to a Ministry of Tourism and Sports’ Thailand Film Office Department.

Tuesday 4 June 2013, 06:15PM

Phuket Business: Structured investment hazards

PHUKET: The past few years have seen an explosion in the number of structured investment products launched by banks worldwide and aimed at expatriates and other international investors in the region.

Tuesday 4 June 2013, 06:11PM

Big drive for more medical tourists

BANGKOK: Travel agents are calling for Thailand to improve its medical tourism by adding new services and maintaining its high treatment standards.

Tuesday 4 June 2013, 06:08PM

Phuket's Naka resort receives awards

PHUKET: The Naka Island resort just off Phuket has won two accolades in the International Hotel Awards 2013-14, for Best Resort Hotel in Thailand and Best Spa Hotel in Thailand.

Tuesday 4 June 2013, 06:07PM

Minister ‘to listen to locals’ on new Krabi power station

KRABI: Following Thailand’s biggest ever blackout last week, Energy Minister Pongsak Raktaphongpaisarn will travel to Krabi province to “receive information and listen to opinions of the locals on a new coal-fired power plant before considering its construction”, government news organisation NNT reports.

Tuesday 4 June 2013, 06:05PM

New boss of TAT selected

BANGKOK: Tourism Authority of Thailand’s board last week selected Thawatchai Arunyik, the current deputy governor for domestic marketing, as the organisation’s next governor.

Tuesday 4 June 2013, 05:59PM

Thailand says no third country wants Rohingya

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 4 June 2013, 04:48PM

BANGKOK: Thailand said Tuesday that it was unable to find any other country willing to accept about 2,000 Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Myanmar who have been detained for several months.

Alleged girlfriend killer arrested in Phuket monk’s quarters

PHUKET: A Nothanburi man who was on the run for a year and a half after he allegedly killed his girlfriend and hid her body, was last night (June 3) arrested in Phuket.

Tuesday 4 June 2013, 04:19PM

Spanish tourists ‘beat up security guards’ in Phuket

PHUKET: Police in Karon today arrested a Spanish couple and charged them with beating up the security guards at their hotel, the Golden Sand Inn in the early hours of this morning (June 4)

Tuesday 4 June 2013, 02:23PM

Michael Douglas denies blaming oral sex for his cancer

LOS ANGELES: A spokesman for Michael Douglas denied Monday that the veteran Hollywood actor had blamed his throat cancer on oral sex, in a British newspaper interview.

Tuesday 4 June 2013, 02:06PM

Union launches strike backing Turkey's anti-govt protests

ISTANBUL: One of Turkey's main trade union confederations on Tuesday joined protests against the government, after another night of clashes between police and protesters in Istanbul and Ankara.

Tuesday 4 June 2013, 02:02PM

China fire survivors tell of 'sea of flames': report

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 4 June 2013, 02:01PM

BEIJING: Survivors of an inferno at a poultry processing plant in China that killed 120 people told of their desperate attempts to save others trapped in the blaze, state media reported Tuesday.

US commanders face calls for overhaul of justice system

WASHINGTON: Top US commanders are likely to face tough questioning Tuesday from impatient senators who want an overhaul of the military justice system to stem an epidemic of sexual assaults in the ranks.

Tuesday 4 June 2013, 02:00PM

Salvadoran doctors perform C-section in high risk pregnancy

SAN SALVADOR: Doctors performed a C-section Monday on a chronically ill Salvadoran woman denied an abortion despite her high-risk pregnancy, in a case that garnered global attention.

Tuesday 4 June 2013, 01:59PM

Hong Kong to mark Tiananmen anniversary with huge vigil

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 4 June 2013, 01:58PM

HONG KONG: Hong Kong will hold a candlelight vigil to mark the 24th anniversary of the bloody crackdown in Tiananmen Square Tuesday, with organisers expecting 150,000 people as the southern Chinese city bristles over the issue of mainland interference.

Bodies of nine Myanmar migrants found off Ranong

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 4 June 2013, 01:55PM

BANGKOK: Thai authorities have found the dead bodies of nine people believed to be illegal migrants from Myanmar whose boats sank in a recent storm, marine police said on Monday.

Phuket Gov enthuses over twin city Nice

PHUKET: Governor Maitree Intusut flew back to Phuket last Friday after a one-week visit to Nice in France to try to build on a twin-city agreement signed between Phuket and the de facto capital of the French Riviera – 24 years ago.

Tuesday 4 June 2013, 01:46PM

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