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Massive power cut hits Phuket and entire South

PHUKET: A massive blackout apparently originating from a fault at the hydropower station at the Rachaphrapa dam in Surat Thani blacked out Phuket tonight, along with all provinces to the south.

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Update: Foreigner found drowned in Phuket identified

PHUKET: The foreigner found drowned and washed up on Patong Beach at around 7 on Tuesday morning (May 21) near Loma (Dolphin) Park has been identified.

'Biggest blackout ever' hits Phuket and 13 other provinces

PHUKET: The 'biggest power outage ever' in Thailand blacked out 14 southern provinces Tuesday evening, plunging almost the entire South, including Phuket, into blackness for lengthy periods.

Nine foreigners held on work permit charges

PHUKET: Nine people, apparently Chinese and Burmese nationals, were arrested this afternoon (May 21) at Wat Kathu for working without work permits.

Myanmar on alert as cyclone grows

Phuket News / Asia

Sunday 12 May 2013, 04:18PM

YANGON: Myanmar's authorities were on alert Saturday as a cyclone threatened to hit the west of the country where around 140,000 people displaced by communal violence languish in flood-prone camps.

China marks anniversary of killer Sichuan quake

Phuket News / Asia

Sunday 12 May 2013, 04:17PM

BEIJING: China Sunday marked the fifth anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake which killed more than 80,000 but some said questions remained over the thousands of children who died as their schools collapsed.

Phuket Opinion: Tales of Thalang traffic woe

Phuket News / Opinion

Sunday 12 May 2013, 03:51PM

PHUKET: The locals in Thalang were excited. Tesco was going to build a new store next to the school. There were going to be lots of restaurants, a department store and theatres.

Six legs good, says monster maker

Phuket News / Weird World

Sunday 12 May 2013, 03:33PM

WEIRD WORLD: A British man has built a six-legged diesel-powered walking vehicle that looks like a giant robotic insect.

Big cat takes bathroom break from circus

Phuket News / Weird World

Sunday 12 May 2013, 03:33PM

WEIRD WORLD: A woman visiting the bathrooms backstage during a circus show had an unexpected encounter with one of the performers – an escaped tiger.

Chinese man creates iced apartment block

Phuket News / Weird World

Sunday 12 May 2013, 03:31PM

WEIRD WORLD: An apartment tenant in China accidentally created a frozen waterfall outside his eight-storey building when he left the taps on all winter.

The Big List: Weird weather stories

Phuket News / Weird World

Sunday 12 May 2013, 03:26PM

PHUKET: Be thankful you’re here on a sunny island: a winter in China’s Jilin City (see story at right) hits a regular night-time low of minus-25 Celsius at night. Here are some tales of global weird weather.

Phuket ‘desert chic’ fundraiser raises B750,000

Phuket News / Phuket

Sunday 12 May 2013, 02:41PM

PHUKET: Local charity Phuket Has Been Good To Us raised more than B750,000 at its recent Mystic Mirage fundraising event.

Two Phuket baby elephants ‘arrested’

Phuket News / Phuket

Sunday 12 May 2013, 02:40PM

PHUKET: In an echo of a probe last year into “illegal” elephants in Phuket, officials are investigating the backgrounds of two baby elephants in Phuket that are suspected to have been taken from the wild or smuggled in from a neighbouring country.

Turkey car bombings blamed on Syria

Phuket News / World

Sunday 12 May 2013, 01:17PM

ANKARA: Turkey was reeling Sunday from twin car bomb attacks which left at least 43 people dead in a town near the Syrian border, with Ankara blaming pro-Damascus groups and vowing to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Sharif poised to form next Pakistan government

Phuket News / World

Sunday 12 May 2013, 01:15PM

KARACHI: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif appealed to all parties to join him in tackling Pakistan's mountainous problems after securing victory in historic elections that defied Taliban violence.

Suvarnabhumi to get smart card system for Thais

Phuket News / Thailand

Sunday 12 May 2013, 12:51PM

BANGKOK: A smart card and barcode system is to be introduced by the end of this year at Suvarnabhumi Airport to facilitate processing at immigration for Thai citizens.

It wasn't me, says PM's website hacking suspect

Phuket News / Thailand

Saturday 11 May 2013, 01:37PM

BANGKOK: A man suspected of hacking into the website of the Prime Minister's Office and posting messages insulting the premier surrendered to police this morning, denying the allegation and saying he is ready to cooperate with the police investigation.

Illegal loggers at work again in Phuket hills

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 10 May 2013, 02:28PM

PHUKET: More than 200 illegally-cut hardwood boards worth around B4 million were discovered in Kathu Forest Reserve yesterday evening (May 9) by Kathu District Office officials.

Clean-up launched for stinking Phuket canal

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 10 May 2013, 02:25PM

PHUKET: Officials and locals, led by Governor Maitree Intusut, this morning (May 10) joined a ceremony to mark the beginning of the clean-up of stinking Klong Bang Yai.

Phuket's airport taxi-meters run into opposition

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 10 May 2013, 01:30PM

PHUKET: A group of 'taxi-meter' drivers who won the right to pick up passengers at Phuket's airport have run smack into tough opposition from rivals.

Smoking ban soon in Phuket Airport domestic lounge

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 9 May 2013, 02:27PM

PHUKET: The smoking room in the domestic departure lounge of Phuket International Airport is to be closed at the end of this month (May), but will remain open in the international departure lounges.

True’s limited 4G phone service to launch in Phuket this year

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 9 May 2013, 02:26PM

PHUKET: Telecoms company True Move has jumped pre-emptively to beat its bigger rivals with the launch yesterday (May 8) of Thailand’s first commercial fourth-generation (4G) wireless broadband service, and it will be introduced to Phuket this year.

Boy, 16, dies in Phuket shooting

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 9 May 2013, 02:24PM

PHUKET: Police are investigating the shooting in the early hours of yesterday (May 8) in which a 16-year-old boy was killed.

Fundraiser for Phuket schoolgirl with cancer

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 9 May 2013, 02:22PM

PHUKET: Friends of seven-year-old islander Pauline Holmes are holding a fundraising event on May 16 after the Phuket schoolgirl was diagnosed with thyroid and lymph node cancer last week – she urgently requires expensive surgery in Bangkok.

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