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Battle over beachside ‘encroachment’ in Phuket

PHUKET: Vice-Governor Somkiat Sungkhaosutthirak today paid a visit to a piece of land next to Bangtao Beach that has recently become the centre of heated debate in the local community around Klong Bangtao.

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Thai monks rebuked over 'ostentatious' jet ride

BANGKOK: The behaviour of Thailand's Buddhist clergy has been thrust under the spotlight after footage emerged of three monks flying in a private jet, wearing earphones and sunglasses and travelling with a Louis Vuitton luxury bag.

Robber in raincoat raids Phuket convenience store

PHUKET: A robber wearing a motorbike helmet with the visor down and a red plastic raincoat walked into the Baan Lipon, Thalang, branch of the 24-hour Family Mart chain of convenience stores this morning and pulled a knife.

Chinese tourist drowns during trip off Phuket

PHUKET: Chinese tourist Li Ran, 30, drowned this afternoon (June 18) while on a trip to Racha Yai island.

Tourism Malaysia goes bigger at Phuket Old Town Festival 2013

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 02:40PM

PHUKET: The 14th Phuket Old Town Festival is here back and for the 3rd consecutive years, Tourism Malaysia will be joining this event in ‘Bigger’. It will be held from 15-17 February 2013 at Phuket Road (opposite Phuket Town Inn), Phuket Town.

Police want conscripts to boost ranks

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 12:18PM

NONG KHAI: The Royal Thai Police Office will propose amending the police law to allow for police conscription as part of national service, a senior officer in the force says.

A date with the Phuket Woulfe pack

Phuket News / Business

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 12:35PM

PHUKET: It’s been a year since The Phuket News last visited Brian Woulfe at his contemporary offices in Baan Wana Park and interviewed him about his design business, Designed By Woulfe.

Thai Gov coffers get boost

Phuket News / Business

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 12:33PM

The Ministry of Finance has disclosed that the government earned B94 billion higher in revenue in the previous financial year compared to that of the year before.

Japan’s top three automakers posted record sales last year

Phuket News / Business

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 12:31PM

Japan’s three biggest automakers – Toyota, Nissan and Honda – on Monday posted record sales for 2012, as the results confirmed that Toyota recaptured the world’s biggest automaker crown.

Can this woman save South Africa?

Phuket News / World

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 12:27PM

SOUTH AFRICA: One of South Africa's most dynamic women appears set to enter politics, setting off rampant conjecture about whether she could finally help forge a viable alternative to the seemingly unshakeable African National Congress.

North Korea a final frontier for Google Maps

Phuket News / Asia

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 12:22PM

NORTH KOREA: North Korea was a final frontier for Google Maps. It took years and the help of amateur map-makers who once lived there or knew people who did to add gulags, streets and other details to what was long a patch of grey at the online atlas.

US consulate in Chiang Mai under close watch

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 12:00PM

CHIANG MAI: The government has ordered that security be beefed up for the US consulate in Chiang Mai following intelligence reports of a potential terrorist attack.

With test, N. Korea threat looks more real

Phuket News / Asia

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 10:12AM

NORTH KOREA: With a defiant nuclear test, North Korea has shown it poses an increasingly credible threat but some doubt whether even the notoriously bellicose regime would ever use weapons of mass destruction.

Australian MPs vote for Aboriginal recognition

Phuket News / Asia

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 09:37AM

AUSTRALIA: Australian lawmakers formally recognised indigenous peoples as the country’s first inhabitants on Wednesday, five years after an historic apology to Aborigines for past wrongs.

17 gunmen killed in Narathiwat military base attack: army

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 08:54AM

BANGKOK: Scores of heavily armed gunmen stormed a military base in unrest-plagued southern Thailand, an army spokesman said Wednesday, in a major assault that left at least 17 militants dead.

Jellyfish warnings for Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 10:49PM

PHUKET: The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources has launched a campaign warning tourists in Phuket to beware of venomous jellyfish when swimming in the Andaman Sea after a number of foreigners were stung and required treatment.

Police warn of bag snatchers in Phuket Town

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 07:31PM

PHUKET: Phuket police are advising people to be careful with their belongings following bag-snatchings and other robberies in Phuket Town.

Two drunks drown in separate Phuket incidents

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 06:35PM

PHUKET: Two drunk men drowned within hours yesterday afternoon (February 11) in separate incidents after deciding they wanted to swim in tin ponds. One body was recovered yesterday, the other around 11am today (February 12).

Gasohol takes over in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 06:31PM

PHUKET: Stocks of 91-octane gasoline on Phuket are rapidly disappearing as filling stations around the island comply with government policy to phase out pure gasoline 91 and replace it with gasohol – a mixture of gasoline with ethylene produced from vegetable matter.

Phuket 'body in the bin' trial begins

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 04:07PM

PHUKET: The trial of Norwegian Stein Havard Dokset, arrested last year after police found the rotting body of his ex-girlfriend in a garbage bin in his house, began today (February 12) in the Phuket Provincial Court.

Blaze hits abandoned Phuket resort

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 11:44AM

PHUKET: Fire severely damaged the part-completed Phuket Peninsula Spa & Resort at Nai Yang beach overnight on Sunday (February 10). No deaths or injuries were reported but the flames demolished much of the resort’s roof.

Navy SEAL who killed bin Laden breaks his silence

Phuket News / World

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 09:46AM

US: The Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden broke his silence Monday, recounting the night he shot the Al-Qaeda leader three times and the financial anxiety he now faces as an unemployed civilian.

Good riddance, sex abuse victims tell pope

Phuket News / World

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 09:46AM

US: Pope Benedict XVI did nothing to punish pedophile priests or Church seniors who looked the other way, according to US and Irish victims hoping his successor will focus on fighting sex abuse.

Mystery over Norwegian ‘inheritance for Phuket’

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 11 February 2013, 06:19PM

PHUKET: Mystery surrounds news reports that a Norwegian expat left millions of baht to Phuket women and children, after Phuket police said they had not received any details about it.

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