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Phuket teacher runs marathon for cancer-stricken colleague

PHUKET: As HeadStart teacher Richard Allenby lay on his hospital bed before surgery at Bangkok Hospital Phuket, he was convinced he was going to die. He told his adult son to look after his pregnant wife and their unborn child.

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Stockholm 'police brutality' riots go into third day

STOCKHOLM: Riots in a poor, mainly immigrant suburb of Sweden's capital have continued into a third night.

Boundless destruction as US tornado rescue winds down

MOORE: As rescue efforts in Oklahoma wound down Wednesday, residents turned to the daunting task of rebuilding a US heartland community shattered by a vast tornado that killed at least 24 people.

Phuket vendors protest no-parking zone

PHUKET: Around 30 street vendors attended a meeting at the Phuket City Municipality to discuss a new no-parking zone outside Vachira Hospital, which they say has led to lost revenue for them.

Hong Kong transsexual wins fight to marry her boyfriend

Phuket News / Asia

Monday 13 May 2013, 03:53PM

HONG KONG: A transsexual woman in Hong Kong won a groundbreaking court appeal Monday allowing her to marry her boyfriend and forcing the government to re-write the city's marriage laws.

Off-campus hazing parties banned

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 13 May 2013, 03:52PM

BANGKOK: A ban has been imposed on off-campus parties for freshmen at all institutes under the Vocational Education Commission (VEC), Education Minister Pongthep Thepkanchana said on Monday.

Last 'Death Railway' Brit dies

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 13 May 2013, 03:46PM

The last British prisoner of war to work on the construction of the World War II 'Death Railway' between Thailand and Myanmar has died, aged 99.

Rubber boom fuelling land grabs in SE Asia: report

Phuket News / Asia

Monday 13 May 2013, 03:33PM

PHNOM PENH: Vietnamese rubber firms bankrolled by an arm of the World Bank and Germany's Deutsche Bank are driving a land-grabbing crisis in Southeast Asia, activists said Monday.

Pioneer US TV anchor Barbara Walters to retire

Phuket News / World

Monday 13 May 2013, 03:31PM

WASHINGTON: Barbara Walters, who in 1976 became the first woman to anchor one of the daily network television news shows, announced late Sunday that she will retire next year.

NEWS TODAY May 13

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 13 May 2013, 02:57PM

More airport taxi turmoil. Illegal logging near Phuket town. Officials checking baby elephants' DNA. PLUS 'Sunday Brunch' at Rivet & Rebar restaurant, Indigo Pearl.

Thief raids Phuket police station

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 13 May 2013, 02:54PM

PHUKET: A 24-year-old painter embarrassed police in Patong on Friday night (May 11) when he simply walked into the ground-floor police station office of the Deputy Superintendent for Investigations, Pol Lt Col Paisarn Sungthep, and walked off with a pistol and a laptop computer.

Phuket Opinion: Straying far from home

Phuket News / Opinion

Monday 13 May 2013, 11:01AM

PHUKET: Proverbial hats off to the Soi Dog Foundation for neutering their 50,000th dog as part of their 10-year-long sterilisation programme this week.

Branson debuts as AirAsia stewardess

Phuket News / World

Monday 13 May 2013, 09:21AM

KUALA LUMPUR: British billionaire Sir Richard Branson strutted his stuff as an AirAsia flight attendant yesterday (May 12), complete with fishnet stockings and figure-hugging red pencil skirt, false eyelashes – and his trademark beard.

Chon Buri's Bang Saen beach ruined by debris

Phuket News / Thailand

Sunday 12 May 2013, 04:32PM

CHON BURI: Bang Saen beach in Chon Buri is rapidly losing its appeal to beach-goers and holiday-makers as it becomes increasingly filthy from rubbish and debris, and dead fish wash up on the shore, according to a Khao Sod report.

Political link likely in Thai Rath building attack

Phuket News / Thailand

Sunday 12 May 2013, 04:31PM

BANGKOK: Police are looking into whether Saturday morning's attack on the office of the Thai Rath newspaper is linked to the controversy surrounding its cartoonist's comments about the prime minister.

Pope Francis canonises first saints of his reign

Phuket News / World

Sunday 12 May 2013, 04:25PM

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Sunday created the first saints of his reign, canonising some 800 Italian martyrs who refused to convert to Islam in the 15th century, as well as a Colombian and a Mexican who founded congregations.

Damascus denies responsibility for Turkey bombings

Phuket News / World

Sunday 12 May 2013, 04:24PM

DAMASCUS: A Syrian minister on Sunday denied accusations that Damascus was behind a bomb attack in a Turkish town that left dozens dead, a day after Ankara blamed supporters of President Bashar al-Assad for the blasts.

S. Korea's presidency apologises for sex scandal

Phuket News / Asia

Sunday 12 May 2013, 04:21PM

SEOUL: South Korea's presidential office apologised Sunday for an "very shameful" scandal involving a former senior official who was fired midway through President Park Geun-Hye's US visit.

Bangladesh collapsed building death toll rises to 1,125

Phuket News / Asia

Sunday 12 May 2013, 04:20PM

DHAKA: The death toll from the collapse of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh rose to 1,125 on Sunday after 15 more bodies were found in the rubble overnight, 19 days after the disaster struck.

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.

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