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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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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.

Top Nazi war crimes suspect, 98, charged in Hungary

BUDAPEST: Hungarian prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 98-year-old top Nazi war crimes suspect over his brutal role in organising the deportation of some 12,000 Jews to World War II death camps.

Camera footage found of Phuket murder

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 03:48PM

PHUKET: Phuket police say footage from cameras near the Phuket Town intersection where Jintana Mahattanapak was murdered last Friday has revealed poor quality images of the suspects.

Fares set for green-plate Phuket taxis

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 03:08PM

PHUKET: Set prices have been announced for green-plate taxis, including those recently converted from their illegal “black plate” status.

Loan shark enforcers beat up two women

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 02:19PM

PHANG NGA: Three enforcers for a major loan shark were arrested yesterday in Takuapa, Phang Nga, after beating up two women who did not in fact owe any money.

British grandmother gets death for drugs in Indonesia

Phuket News / Asia

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 01:03PM

BALI: A 56-year-old British grandmother was sentenced to death Tuesday for smuggling cocaine into the Indonesian island of Bali, in a shock verdict after prosecutors recommended 15 years imprisonment.

Phuket taxi driver held for 'rape' of tourist

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 12:53PM

PHUKET: A meter taxi driver has been arrested on a charge of rape after a Chinese tourist told Phuket police on Saturday (January 19) he frightened her into performing sexual acts with him.

American expat held for Phuket shooting incident

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 11:43AM

PHUKET: An American expat living in Phuket was arrested on Saturday morning (January 19) on firearms charges, after saying the gun in his possession “went off by itself”.

Phuket game boys break into school to play online

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 11:40AM

PHUKET: Three primary school students who used a knife to break into a Cherng Talay school’s computer room over the weekend to play video games and use Facebook will face prosecution.

Austrian tourist in Phuket found dead next to sexual aids

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 11:00AM

PHUKET: An elderly Austrian tourist was found dead in his Patong hotel room bed on Sunday (January 20), and is believed to have died from a medical condition.

Aussie misses target, shoots Phuket tourists

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 10:56AM

PHUKET: An Australian tattoo parlour owner, angry with a Danish man who he said had not repaid money he had borrowed, shot at him last night.

Missing UK man's bank touched

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 09:52AM

BANGKOK: Money has been withdrawn from the home bank account of a British man missing in Thailand for more than two weeks, UK police said on Tuesday.

Veteran BBC presenter Stuart Hall charged with rape

Phuket News / World

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 08:57AM

UK: British police on Tuesday charged veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall with one offence of rape and 14 of indecent assault committed between 1967 and 1986.

Asian students outshine Thai colleagues

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 08:53AM

CHIANG RAI: Students from Asian countries are better than their Thai counterparts in English-language proficiency, rector of Mae Fah Luang University Wanchai Sirichana, said on January 22.

Singapore cool-off should heat up property sales abroad

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 07:05PM

SINGAPORE: The number of Singaporeans buying overseas property is likely to increase after their government introduced property cooling measures, website PropertyGuru.com predicts.

Thai ‘expo powerhouse position strengthened’

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 07:02PM

BANGKOK: Thailand’s strong position as “the exhibitions powerhouse of Asean” has been strengthened further by the decision of two professional exhibition companies to set up regional headquarters in Bangkok, says the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB).

Thailand's labour skills ‘must be boosted’

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:59PM

BANGKOK: The government must make an effort to improve labour skills to match market demand in order to reduce the impact of the daily minimum wage hike in both the short and the long term, says the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI).

THAI defends safety record after poor survey marks

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:55PM

BANGKOK: Thai Airways Inter- national (THAI) has defended its safety record after being placed low down in a safety ranking compiled by Germany’s Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre (JACDEC).

PC Air to sue Korean partners

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:53PM

BANGKOK: PC Air, the privately owned Thai charter airline that leapt to fame by hiring ladyboy as cabin crew, has sued two South Korean business partners for B1.5 billion in compensation for damage to its reputation.

Phuket Airport ‘risks losing private jet visitors’

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:49PM

PHUKET: The massive overcrowding at Phuket International Airport is causing such inconvenience to the tycoons and celebrities arriving by private jet that they may simply go elsewhere, a Hong Kong-based organisation has warned.

Mali war shows France is Africa’s reluctant gendarme

Phuket News / World

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:44PM

FRANCE: Despite sending warplanes and soldiers to fight Islamists in the Sahara, French President Francois Hollande has largely kept his promise to shun the shady system that saw France dictate politics in former African colonies, analysts said.

Pakistan foreign minister says India ‘warmongering’

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 06:41PM

PAKISTAN: India is “warmongering” over deadly clashes in the disputed Kashmir region, Pakistan’s foreign minister said Tuesday while calling for talks to end the new hostilities.

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