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PHUKET: There will be no alcohol allowed inside the Sydictive Element party, said Phuket Provincial Police Commander Maj Gen Choti Chavalviwat today after a meeting of police chiefs from every police station in Phuket, held at Kathu Police Station.

Friday 28 December 2012, 07:33PM

Two Brits caught in Phuket ‘ice’ bust

PHUKET: Two Britons, Billy David, 23, and Lee Cannon, 42, were arrested on Christmas Day (December 25) on charges of dealing in crystal methamphetamine (“ya ice”).

Friday 28 December 2012, 04:27PM

China launches rival GPS satellite system

BEIJING: China has launched commercial and public services across the Asia-Pacific region on its domestic satellite navigation network built to rival the US global positioning system.

Friday 28 December 2012, 02:28PM

North Korea is nuclear test-ready: US think-tank

SEOUL: North Korea has repaired extensive rain damage at its nuclear test facility and could conduct a detonation on two weeks notice, a US think-tank said Friday, citing satellite imagery analysis.

Friday 28 December 2012, 02:27PM

Four Thais jailed over 54 Myanmar migrant deaths

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 28 December 2012, 02:25PM

BANGKOK:Four people smugglers were sentenced to up to 10 years in prison by a Thai court after 54 illegal workers from Myanmar suffocated to death inside a seafood container, an official said Friday.

Jailed Vietnam bloggers to hear appeal verdict

HANOI: Three prominent Vietnamese bloggers appeared in court Friday to appeal against their prison sentences for “anti-state propaganda”, a lawyer said, following international calls for their release.

Friday 28 December 2012, 02:24PM

India gang-rape victim battles against the odds

SINGAPORE: An Indian gang-rape victim was “struggling against the odds” to survive on Friday after suffering a heart attack and brain injuries, as medics criticised a decision to fly her to Singapore.

Friday 28 December 2012, 02:22PM

Japan whaling fleet leaves port for Antarctica

TOKYO: Japanese whaling vessels left port Friday bound for the Southern Ocean on their annual hunt for the huge marine mammals, a media report and Greenpeace said.

Friday 28 December 2012, 02:19PM

Four injured, 17 vehicles damaged in Phuket pile-up

PHUKET: A tourist bus, fourteen cars and two motorbikes were involved in a pile-up on Phuket’s west coast road after the bus driver lost control of the brakes on his vehicle. Fortunately there were no serious injuries.

Friday 28 December 2012, 10:33AM

Fake 'aunt' of US massacre victim planned to defraud donors

NEW YORK: US authorities on Thursday arrested a woman accused of trying to profit from the massive public outpouring of support over the Newtown school massacre by posing as an aunt of one of the victims.

Friday 28 December 2012, 10:01AM

Sumatran "corpse flower" bloom a big hit in Brazil

Phuket News / Weird World

Friday 28 December 2012, 09:57AM

RIO DE JANEIRO: Hundreds of visitors are flocking daily to a botanical garden in southeastern Brazil to watch the rare blooming of the Titan arum, the world’s smelliest and largest tropical flower.

Two more billion-dollar cruise ships announced for French yard

NANTES: A French shipyard landed a multi-million-dollar contract Thursday as a US cruise company announced it was ordering a massive luxury liner from STX France at Saint Nazaire, on the Atlantic coast.

Friday 28 December 2012, 09:54AM

Dinosaur smuggler admits trade in plundered Asian fossils

NEW YORK: A man accused of smuggling 70-million-year-old dinosaur skeletons, including a Tyrannosaur, into the United States pleaded guilty in court Thursday.

Friday 28 December 2012, 09:49AM

Australian royal hoax DJs ‘unlikely to face charges’

SYDNEY: Two Australian DJs who made a hoax call to a hospital treating Prince William’s pregnant wife Catherine are unlikely to face prosecution, police said Friday.

Friday 28 December 2012, 09:46AM

US evacuates embassy in Central African Republic

WASHINGTON: The United States evacuated its embassy in the Central African Republic on Thursday and temporarily halted its operations, amid security fears after rebels seized large swathes of the country.

Friday 28 December 2012, 09:43AM

‘Stormin Norman’ Schwarzkopf dead at 78

MIAMI: Norman Schwarzkopf, the US general who led Operation Desert Storm, which liberated Kuwait from Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 1991, has died at the age of 78, a US official said Thursday.

Friday 28 December 2012, 09:40AM

Travel chaos as deadly storm hits northeast US

NEW YORK: The US northeast was battered by heavy snow and strong winds Thursday as a mighty storm carved a violent arc across several states, killing more than a dozen people and snarling holiday travel.

Friday 28 December 2012, 09:38AM

Man injured in east Australia shark attack

PORT MACQUARIE: A man survived an attack by a shark off Australia’s east coast Friday, but lost a finger and suffered a serious bite to the thigh, ambulance officials said.

Friday 28 December 2012, 09:34AM

Remembering the Tsunami

PHUKET: Wednesday, December 26, was a day for remembering the victims of the Asia Tsunami of eight years ago.

Friday 28 December 2012, 09:08AM

Phuket prosecutors pushing for Pitbull murder conviction