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KOH PHANGAN: A British man has told British newspaper The Sun how he almost died in a stabbing at the same spot where British tourist Stephen Ashton was shot dead on Koh Phangan on January 1.

Monday 7 January 2013, 11:19AM

Eight hurt in Phuket pickup smash

PHUKET: A pickup truck overshot a curve and overturned at Baan Tung Maphrao in Thalang District on Saturday (January 8), resulting in eight people being injured, four of them children.

Monday 7 January 2013, 10:11AM

Honest Phuket man returns lost wallet

PHUKET: Phuket man Songsak Mungmat was walking along the road in Chalong on Sunday (January 7) afternoon when he noticed a wallet lying on the ground, containing B10,000.

Monday 7 January 2013, 10:08AM

All's well that ends well for Phuket foal

PHUKET: A four month-old female foal was rescued after hours of being stuck in a well in the Thalang district on Friday.

Sunday 6 January 2013, 04:09PM

‘Lost in Thailand’ becomes highest-grossing Chinese film ever

CHINA: Comedy caper “Lost in Thailand” has become the highest-grossing Chinese film ever with over 1 billion yuan (B5 billion) in box office earnings.

Sunday 6 January 2013, 03:45PM

Smuggled motorcycles fuel a burgeoning black market

MYANMAR: Unlike most Southeast Asian cities, Myanmar’s former capital of Yangon is remarkably free of whining motorcycles and scooters _ thanks to a gang of thugs and a high-profile case of road rage. The ban was introduced a decade ago when a motorcycle gang known as the Scorpions, made up of young men from families of the elite and which had affiliations with the grandsons of the late dictator Ne Win, ventured near the motor convoy of Vice-Senior General Maung Aye in Yangon.

Sunday 6 January 2013, 11:49AM

Ladyboy thief arrested in Pattaya

PATTAYA: A ladyboy looking to raise funds so he could undergo a silicon breast implant procedure who allegedly drugged and robbed millions of baht from a Russian resident in Pattaya has now been arrested.

Saturday 5 January 2013, 02:59PM

Govt warns against defying ICJ ruling

THAILAND: Thais should be wary of the consequences if they want to defy the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on the Preah Vihear temple, the Foreign Ministry warned Friday.

Saturday 5 January 2013, 02:51PM

Drug-fuelled gunman kills seven in Philippines

KAWIT, PHILIPPINES: A gunman with a semi-automatic pistol killed seven people and wounded 11 others during a drug-fuelled rampage in a slum near the Philippine capital on Friday, authorities said.

Friday 4 January 2013, 10:26PM

Phuket seeks B670m for garbage problems

PHUKET: Island authorities are to apply to Bangkok for massive spending to keep up with the increasing amount of garbage on the island.

Friday 4 January 2013, 06:49PM

Phuket V/Gov inspects mangrove ‘encroachment’

PHUKET: Officials led by Vice-Governor Somkiat Sangkhaosutthirak yesterday (January 3) went to inspect land on the banks of Klong Mudong, Chalong, after complaints of illegal land encroachment in the mangrove forest.

Friday 4 January 2013, 05:29PM

Rawai fish pirate arrested

PHUKET: A Rawai man was arrested yesterday evening (January 3) in possession of 349 exotic fish and 117 pieces of live coral, all taken from the wild.

Friday 4 January 2013, 04:18PM

Car dream may be nightmare

BANGKOK: Some 1.3 million new cars from the first-time car buyer scheme will be roving the streets in 2013.

Friday 4 January 2013, 02:23PM

'Don't Be Evil': US slams planned North Korea visit by Google boss

The United States on Thursday criticized a planned visit to North Korea by Google chairman Eric Schmidt, calling it ill-timed in the wake of Pyongyang’s widely condemned rocket launch last month.

Friday 4 January 2013, 11:41AM

Mobile calls capped at B0.99 a minute

PHUKET: The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) has capped domestic mobile phone call charges at 99 satang per minute with effect from Tuesday (January 1).

Thursday 3 January 2013, 05:39PM

The Big List: 2012 in Weird News

Phuket News / Weird World

Thursday 3 January 2013, 05:17PM

The Mayan Prophecy was a weird hit in 2012, despite the lack of any rational explanation for the ‘end of the world’. Here we take a second look at some of this year’s other odd moments.

Cabbies say 'no' to service refusal

BANGKOK: More than 2,000 taxi drivers in Bangkok have pledged not to refuse service to passengers by choosing who to take or where to go.

Thursday 3 January 2013, 05:16PM

‘Alien’ skulls unearthed in ancient graveyard

Phuket News / Weird World

Thursday 3 January 2013, 05:14PM

WEIRD WORLD: Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered a cache of ancient human skulls warped into strange, alien-like shapes.

Apocalypse, Not

Phuket News / Weird World

Thursday 3 January 2013, 05:11PM

WEIRD WORLD: The world failed to end on December 21, 2102, contrary to a popular prediction. The prospect that a group of Mayan priests more than a thousand years ago had the inside dope on the apocalypse was clearly total nonsense, but the idea still enthralled thousands of people around the world.

Nine die during Seven Days of Danger