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Improvement of polluted Phuket canal ‘underway’

PHUKET: Much of the polluted Klong Bangtao has been dredged in order to improve flow and reduce bottlenecks that cause stagnation, a meeting at Phuket Provincial Hall was told this morning (May 23).

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Taxis, taxis, taxis – a week of fever in Phuket

PHUKET: Thirty meter taxis from the Phuket Limousine & Business Services cooperative (PBC) convened a mob at Phuket International Airport yesterday evening (May 22), blocking one of the two roads into the airport.

NEWS TODAY May 23

'Blackout could have been avoided'. Thai industries affected by black out. Former VG house suspect overlooking Patong.

Who's responsible for Phuket's blackout?

BANGKOK: The energy minister has reasons to be upset about the southern power outage, as no one at the electricity supplying agencies made the decision to save the region.

Uruguayan resort thieves nab jewels worth $4.6 mn

Phuket News / World

Monday 31 December 2012, 11:04AM

MONTEVIDEO: Some $4.6 million (3.5 million euros) worth of jewelry and another $33,000 (25,000 euros) in cash were stolen from a house in an exclusive Uruguayan resort town, police said Sunday.

Mexico police to be fired after refusing to work

Phuket News / World

Monday 31 December 2012, 11:02AM

GUADALAJARA: Thirty-one Jalisco state police officers refusing to work amid Mexico’s staggering drug violence will be dismissed Monday, a government official said.

Nine dead in US after bus careens into Oregon ravine

Phuket News / World

Monday 31 December 2012, 11:01AM

LOS ANGELES: A Canada-bound bus crashed through a guard rail on an icy road in Oregon on Sunday and careened into a ravine, killing at least nine people and injuring at least 18 others, state police said.

East Timor bids farewell to peacekeepers after 13 years

Phuket News

Monday 31 December 2012, 10:57AM

DILI: The UN ends its peacekeeping mission in East Timor Monday after 13 years of boots on the ground in Asia’s youngest nation following a bloody transition to independence.

Fear reigns in Central Africa’s capital Bangui

Phuket News / World

Monday 31 December 2012, 10:52AM

BANGUI: Nightfall in Bangui’s normally bustling streets brings an eery quiet to the capital of the Central African Republic, where authorities have enacted a curfew ahead of a possible rebel move on the city.

US Lawmakers still at odds on brink of fiscal cliff

Phuket News

Monday 31 December 2012, 10:47AM

WASHINGTON: US lawmakers are returning to work on New Year’s Eve for the first time in more than 40 years in a final attempt to reach a deal to avert a fiscal calamity set to hit the world economy within hours.

Gang hits gem-cutting plant in Brazil, takes hostages

Phuket News / World

Monday 31 December 2012, 10:35AM

BRASILIA: Military police killed the leader of a gang that had spectacularly blasted its way into a gem-cutting plant Sunday, traded fire with police and made off with nine hostages who were later safely freed.

World waits to welcome New Year with a bang

Phuket News / World

Monday 31 December 2012, 10:31AM

SYDNEY: A wave of dazzling firework displays will sweep the world as local clocks strike midnight and herald the New Year tonight, with with long-isolated Yangon joining the global pyrotechnics for the first time.

Two tourists die in Phuket road crash

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 31 December 2012, 10:04AM

PHUKET: Two tourists, thought to be Russian, died on Saturday night (December 29) in Cherng Talay when they crashed their motorbike and a pickup truck ran over them.

Redfoo spotted party rocking in Hua Hin

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 31 December 2012, 09:45AM

HUA HIN: Redfoo, one half of dance act LMFAO, of phenomenal global smash hit ‘Party Rocking’, was spotted on a Thai beach at the weekend.

Chavez suffers new post-op setback: VP

Phuket News / World

Monday 31 December 2012, 09:45AM

CARACAS: Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has suffered a new setback after cancer surgery in Cuba, raising new fears about his political future, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said Sunday.

Hillary Clinton hospitalized with blood clot: official

Phuket News / World

Monday 31 December 2012, 09:02AM

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been hospitalized after suffering a blood clot following an accident several weeks ago, her senior State Department aide Philippe Reines said Sunday.

Gang-rape victim's body back home in grief-stricken India

Phuket News / Asia

Sunday 30 December 2012, 08:21AM

NEW DEHLI: The body of a gang-rape victim arrived back in New Delhi on Sunday after her death from sickening injuries in a Singapore hospital as India was engulfed by a mass outpouring of grief and anger.

Booze hound actor Charlie Sheen opens bar in Mexico

Phuket News / World

Sunday 30 December 2012, 08:19AM

LOS CABOS: US actor Charlie Sheen, who has a long history of hard partying and scandal, has a new night spot in Mexico -- his own, a local official said Saturday.

26 injured in Macau-Hong Kong ferry collision

Phuket News / Asia

Saturday 29 December 2012, 08:30PM

HONG KONG: Twenty-six people were injured on Saturday in a collision between a Hong Kong-bound passenger ferry and a buoy in Macau, authorities said.

Phuket Sydictive megaparty announces arrival of first act

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 29 December 2012, 08:21PM

PHUKET: At 9.30pm last night (December 28), at a press conference held at Graceland Hotel in Patong, Sydictive chairman Dr Vorachat Petnunthawong made a statement to media present.

Philippines seeks unity after birth control law signed

Phuket News / Asia

Saturday 29 December 2012, 02:37PM

MANILA: President Benigno Aquino's government called for reconciliation on Saturday after a 'divisive' birth control act was signed into law despite bitter opposition from the influential Catholic church.

Canada strips citizenship of alleged Nazi war criminal

Phuket News / World

Saturday 29 December 2012, 11:30AM

OTTAWA: Canada has stripped citizenship from a Ukrainian-born man it is seeking to deport for alleged ties to a Nazi killing squad in World War II, the immigration ministry announced Friday.

Australia legal challenge to Japan whaling moves closer

Phuket News / World

Saturday 29 December 2012, 11:29AM

CANBERRA: Australia Saturday condemned Japan's annual whaling expedition as its hunting fleet steamed to the Southern Ocean, and said a challenge through the International Court of Justice should be heard in 2013.

Indian gang-rape victim dies in Singapore

Phuket News / Asia

Saturday 29 December 2012, 11:24AM

SINGAPORE: An Indian student whose savage gang-rape on a bus in New Delhi sparked mass protests across the country died on Saturday in a Singapore hospital after suffering severe organ failure.

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