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The Big List: Ghost Towns

THE BIG LIST: “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.” Shelley’s poem Ozymandias, a vision of lost ruins in the desert, mocks the ultimate fate of even greatest human cities, and the greatest vanities. Here are a few of the more unusual ghost towns you’ll find dotted around the world.

‘Ugly’ fish face up to extinction

WEIRD WORLD: They may be last of their species – and scientists joke they may be too ugly to breed. London Zoo has appealed to fish keepers to find a mate for their two tropical Mangarahara cichlids, which come originally from Madagascar.

Stray dogs sniff out human remains

WEIRD WORLD: A Polish businessman who stashed human body parts in a city warehouse instead of incinerating them was exposed by local stray dogs, who started gathering hungrily outside.

No answers yet in Dutch tourist's death in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 14 January 2013, 01:37PM

PHUKET: The body of Dutch national Stephan Henricus Maria Buczynski, 26, found floating in the sea off Patong yesterday morning (January 13) has been sent to the National Forensics Institute in Bangkok after an autopsy at Patong Hospital failed to establish the cause of his death.

Phuket police stage security show in Patong

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 14 January 2013, 11:37AM

PHUKET: In a show of force to impress tourists and to ginger up Phuket’s security forces, the Deputy Commissioner of the Royal Thai Police presided over an assembly of some 300 police officers on Bangla Rd on Friday (January 11), and ordered all officers to show their power and enforce the law more strictly.

Nineteen children among 46 dead in China landslide

Phuket News / Asia

Monday 14 January 2013, 11:30AM

CHINA: A desperate search for three people missing in a landslide in southwestern China ended on Saturday when their bodies were pulled from the mud, taking the final death toll to 46 -- many of them children.

Thai journalists warn of interference after army protest

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 14 January 2013, 11:29AM

BANGKOK: Thai journalists have called on the country's powerful military not to pressure the media after uniformed soldiers protested outside a television station over comments critical of the army chief.

Mystery over tourist's body found floating off Phuket beach

Phuket News / Phuket

Sunday 13 January 2013, 10:12PM

PHUKET: Kathu Police are investigating the death of a Dutch tourist whose body was found floating in the sea off Patong this morning, in front of the Phuket Graceland Hotel.

Phuket reporter's alleged assassin arrested

Phuket News / Phuket

Sunday 13 January 2013, 09:47PM

PHUKET: The man who allegedly pulled the trigger in the assassination of Phuket reporter Wisut “Ae inside” Tangwittayaporn, a year ago almost to the day, was arrested in Cha-am, Phetburi, at 7 am today (January 13).

Six arrested in new India bus gang-rape case: police

Phuket News / Asia

Sunday 13 January 2013, 03:22PM

INDIA: Six men have been arrested over the rape of a passenger on a coach in India, police said Sunday, weeks after the gang-rape and murder of a student on a bus in New Delhi sparked nationwide protests.

Netizens protest Thai soap opera ban

Phuket News / Thailand

Sunday 13 January 2013, 03:17PM

BANGKOK: About 50 members of a social network group rallied on Sunday morning in front of the Maleenont Tower on Rama IV Road which houses Channel 3, demanding the prime-time political soap opera "Nua Mek 2" be put back on air immediately, reports said.

Xayaburi dam stirs debate on Mekong River Commission

Phuket News / Thailand

Sunday 13 January 2013, 03:15PM

BANGKOK: When ministers from the four member countries of the Mekong River Commission and donors meet in Luang Prabang, Laos this week, the future role of the agency will be on the table.

‘Damrong’s work will continue in Phuket’ - environment minister

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 12 January 2013, 04:04PM

PHUKET: Bangkok-based Natural Resources and Environment Minister Preecha Rengsomboonsap visited Phuket on Wednesday (January 9) and confirmed that the 366 land suppression teams, put on hold several months ago, would eventually continue with their job.

Awol soldier hangs himself in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 12 January 2013, 03:27PM

PHUKET: A 23-year-old solider based in the Thai military in Sattaheep, Chonburi, killed himself in Phuket last night (January 11) after escaping from the navy base in the area.

Australian tourist found dead in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 12 January 2013, 03:08PM

PHUKET: A 45-year-old Australian tourist was found dead at a Patong hotel in Phuket around 4pm yesterday, after police say he overdosed on medicine.

Mum sells child bride for B2,000

Phuket News / Thailand

Saturday 12 January 2013, 10:54AM

LOP BURI: A mother forced her 13-year-old daughter to marry a 34-year-old man who paid a bride price of 2,000 baht, The Pavena Foundation for Women and Children (Pavena) reported on Frida

Rayong man swallows B3m in drugs

Phuket News / Thailand

Saturday 12 January 2013, 10:52AM

RAYONG: Police on Friday arrested a man who swallowed 52.5 grammes of crystal methamphetamines (ya ice) and 22.5 grammes of cannabis, with a combined street value of about 3 million baht.

Govt moves to help detained Rohingya

Phuket News / Thailand

Saturday 12 January 2013, 10:42AM

BANGKOK: Authorities have pledged to look after the 704 Rohingya migrants rounded up in two raids.

Phuket Town flooding cures could cost up to B2bn

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 11 January 2013, 06:37PM

PHUKET: Huge tunnel systems costing as much as B2 billion are among proposals to solve rainy-season flooding woes in Phuket Town and neighbouring areas.

Thailand no longer top rice exporter

Phuket News / Business

Friday 11 January 2013, 04:22PM

Thailand lost its status as the world’s top rice exporter last year as a result of the controversial rice pledging scheme, being overtaken by India and Vietnam, an industry group said last Friday (January 4).

Phuket paint shop worker shot in head

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 11 January 2013, 04:22PM

PHUKET: An employee of a paint shop in Phuket Town is in a coma in the Vachira Hospital ICU after being shot in the head last night (January 10).

Russians, Japanese and Chinese take on Boeing and Airbus

Phuket News / Business

Friday 11 January 2013, 04:15PM

The Russians, Japanese and now Chinese are set to take on aviation giants Boeing and Airbus with new home-grown commercial regional jet airliners capable of landing loads of tourists at Phuket airport.

Bangkok Airways, Emirates boost flights

Phuket News / Business

Friday 11 January 2013, 04:02PM

PHUKET: Bangkok Airways is to double its Bangkok-Krabi service to twice a day from March 31 and increase its Bangkok-Mandalay service from three flights a week to four, starting September 16.

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