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Phuket mansion grounds to become public park

PHUKET: The grounds around a classic but decaying Sino-colonial mansion on Wichit Songkram Rd near Kathu are to be turned into a new exercise park run by the Phuket Provincial Administration Organisation, but the well-known mansion will remain.

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Phuket taxi driver denies kidnapping, molestation

PHUKET: The black taxi driver arrested after allegedly abducting a Chinese tourist on Sunday night (May 19) and attempting to molest her, today appeared in court where he denied kidnapping and sexual assault charges.

Three arrested for Phuket bikes-for-ransom scheme

PHUKET: Three teenagers have been arrested for stealing motorbikes and then holding them for ransom.

The Big List: Lost and Found

THE BIG LIST: Stories of missing soldiers and standed sailors are as old as literature itself – Homer’s hero Odysseus was cursed to wander for 10 years after the battle of Troy before returning home. Here are some strange but true tales of men who were lost and then found a long time later.

Taiwan harvests organs from executed inmate

Phuket News / Asia

Sunday 23 December 2012, 05:12PM

TAIPEI: A hospital in Taiwan harvested organs and other body parts from one of six executed death row inmates, in a controversial procedure that could help five patients, local media reported Sunday.

Killer on the run after shooting massacre in Takuapa

Phuket News / Thailand

Sunday 23 December 2012, 01:02PM

TAKUAPA: Police are hunting a man who shot dead three men at Takuapa in Phang Nga province last night, including the father of Thai pop singer Ice RSiam.

Loei villagers oppose hazardous gold rush

Phuket News / Thailand

Sunday 23 December 2012, 11:36AM

WANG SAPHUNG: Villagers in a remote part of Thailand's Loei province say they fear for their homes and health as a gold mine seeks to expand its operations nearby.

War-nostalgia no cure for ailing Vietnam economy

Phuket News / Asia

Sunday 23 December 2012, 11:16AM

HANOI: Posters of US bombers crashing in flames festoon Hanoi to mark another anniversary in a long-finished war. But behind the usual propaganda Vietnam's rulers face a modern-day threat – anger over the economy.

Italy election campaign kicks off amid Monti speculation

Phuket News / World

Sunday 23 December 2012, 11:10AM

ROME: Italy's election campaign kicked off on Saturday amid uncertainty over whether Prime Minister Mario Monti will launch himself into the political fray and fight flamboyant billionaire Silvio Berlusconi for the top job.

Spain's massive 'El Gordo' lottery provides break from crisis woes

Phuket News / World

Sunday 23 December 2012, 11:08AM

MADRID: Hundreds of fans of Spain's annual Christmas lottery turned out to the draw on Saturday, some clad in wacky costumes and all hoping to win a piece of the pie and forget their economic woes.

Two dead in China's Shaanxi province as blaze sweeps through office tower

Phuket News / Asia

Sunday 23 December 2012, 11:07AM

BEIJING: Two people were killed and 20 injured when a fire swept through a 14-storey office tower in northwest China on Saturday, state media reported.

Kidnapped South Korean workers freed in Nigeria

Phuket News / World

Sunday 23 December 2012, 11:05AM

YENAGOA: Four South Korean workers and a Nigerian who were kidnapped this week in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria appeared in public on Saturday after they were released unharmed.

Pakistan Suicide attack kills provincial minister, 8 others

Phuket News / World

Sunday 23 December 2012, 11:04AM

PESHAWAR,: A suicide bomber killed a senior provincial minister and eight other people at a political meeting in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, officials said, in an attack claimed by the Taliban.

Pope pardons butler but expels him from Vatican

Phuket News / World

Sunday 23 December 2012, 11:02AM

VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday pardoned his former butler Paolo Gabriele, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing secret papal memos, but banished the once loyal servant from the Vatican forever.

Indian police tear gas New Delhi gang-rape protesters

Phuket News / World

Sunday 23 December 2012, 11:01AM

NEW DELHI: Indian police on Saturday tear-gassed, baton-charged and fired water cannon at demonstrators on the sixth and most violent day of protests against the brutal gang-rape of a student last weekend.

Australian Djs could face prosecution for royal hoax

Phuket News / World

Sunday 23 December 2012, 10:59AM

LONDON: British prosecutors will decide whether to pursue charges against two Australian Djs, police said Saturday, after a nurse who took a hoax call to a hospital treating Prince William's pregnant wife Kate apparently killed herself.

Volcano spews ash on Chile-Argentina border

Phuket News / World

Sunday 23 December 2012, 10:57AM

SANTIAGO: Southern Chile's Copahue Volcano belched plumes of ash skyward Saturday, prompting authorities there and in neighboring Argentina to issue a low-level alert.

Chief's hunger strike fuels Canada aboriginal drive

Phuket News / World

Saturday 22 December 2012, 10:09AM

OTTAWA: A native chief's hunger strike in view of Canada's parliament has inspired an aboriginal rights movement and massive protests across Canada and far beyond its borders.

Obama calls for scaled-back 'fiscal cliff' package

Phuket News / World

Saturday 22 December 2012, 10:07AM

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama Friday told lawmakers to go home and drink some Christmas egg nog before coming back to Washington to pass a scaled-down tax package to avert a year-end fiscal crisis.

Hugh Grant wins 'substantial' phone-hacking damages

Phuket News / World

Saturday 22 December 2012, 10:05AM

LONDON: Actor Hugh Grant has accepted a “substantial sum” from Rupert Murdoch's British tabloid publisher over phone hacking by the News of the World, the British actor's lawyer said on Friday.

Russia denounces West's 'dangerous' stance on Syria

Phuket News / World

Saturday 22 December 2012, 10:02AM

MOSCOW: Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday denounced the West's “dangerous” stance in support of Syrian rebels seeking to unseat President Bashar al-Assad.

Argentina protests Britain's renaming of Antarctic territory

Phuket News / World

Saturday 22 December 2012, 09:59AM

BUENOS AIRES: Argentina summoned Britain's ambassador Friday to complain about London's decision to rename a disputed part of Antarctica in honor of Queen Elizabeth II.

US gun lobby urges armed police in every school

Phuket News / World

Saturday 22 December 2012, 09:55AM

WASHINGTON: The United States' most powerful pro-gun lobbying group demanded Friday that armed police be deployed to every school in the country following a mass shooting that left 20 young children dead.

Judge halts Argentine woman's wedding to sister's killer

Phuket News / Weird World

Saturday 22 December 2012, 09:53AM

BUENOS AIRES: An Argentine judge has blocked a planned wedding between a 22-year-old woman and her twin sister's convicted killer Friday after a formal complaint by her mother.

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