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PHUKET: Type-O Rhesus-negative blood is urgently required at Vachira Phuket Hospital for a foreign man who is in serious condition and must have urgent heart surgery.

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 05:21PM

Central Festival Phuket announce B10bn expansion

PHUKET: Central Retail Corporation (CRC), the country's leading retail operator, will spend over 10 billion baht to develop a new luxury lifestyle complex in Phuket.

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 05:12PM

Dead baby found dumped at Phuket trash site

PHUKET: Police are investigating the death of a newborn baby girl, after she was found at 10am this morning (January 16), dumped in a black bag.

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 05:12PM

Aussie outlaw Ned Kelly to be buried beside mother

AUSTRALIA: Legendary Australian outlaw Ned Kelly will finally be laid to rest beside his mother in line with his final wishes at a plot not far from the site of his last stand, his family said Wednesday.

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 05:10PM

Second Khmer Rouge suspect hospitalised in Cambodia

CAMBODIA: Former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan was admitted to hospital in Cambodia on Wednesday, a court official said, becoming the second ageing war crimes suspect taken ill within days.

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 05:10PM

Japan PM heads to SE Asia on first overseas tour

JAPAN: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday left for Southeast Asia on his first overseas trip since winning power, seeking to shore up relationships as a counterweight to an increasingly confident China.

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 05:05PM

Malaysia rated top Muslim-friendly holiday destination

SINGAPORE: Malaysia has been rated the world's top Muslim-friendly holiday destination in a survey released Wednesday that listed Egypt, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Singapore as runners-up.

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 05:04PM

Swiss man, 87, drowns in Phuket

PHUKET: The waters of Patong Bay claimed another life yesterday when an 87-year-old Swiss citizen was found drowned in front of Loma Park in Phuket.

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 11:15AM

Phuket condo bully’s reign of fear ends in arrest

PHUKET: The manager of a condominium in Wichit has been arrested on a variety of charges after tenants complained about a reign of fear he conducted against them as he allegedly pocketed money that should have been used to pay bills.

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 10:54AM

Snoop Dogg sighted in Phuket

PHUKET: Snoop Lion, the artist formerly known as Snoop Dogg, arrived in Phuket late last night and is currently staying at the Sri Panwa resort in Panwa.

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 08:59AM

Dutch man’s death in Phuket confirmed as drowning

PHUKET: Police have announced that Dutch national Stephan Henricus Maria Buczynski, 26, whose body was found floating in the sea off Patong on Sunday morning (January 13), died of drowning.

Tuesday 15 January 2013, 07:21PM

Scared Phuket tenants in plea to government

PHUKET: Ten people went to the Phuket Governor’s residence at 10 pm last night, planning to ask him to help them with their landlord’s representative who, they alleged, had cut off their power and water and vandalised a car belonging to one of the tenants.

Tuesday 15 January 2013, 07:08PM

Light-fingered monk defrocked in Phuket

PHUKET: A monk from Chaiyapoom Province in Isaan was defrocked after being caught stealing money from shops in Phuket Town today (January 15).

Tuesday 15 January 2013, 07:02PM

Hong Kong tourist dies in Phuket pool mystery

PHUKET: A tourist from Hong Kong has died in mysterious circumstances while swimming in the pool at the JW Marriott Phuket Resort & Spa late yesterday morning (January 14).

Tuesday 15 January 2013, 06:09PM

Family desperate to hear from missing Brit

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 15 January 2013, 05:46PM

KOH TAO: The family of a 22-year-old British tourist spoke of their alarm on Sunday (January 13) when he failed to return home on a flight from Thailand. He has now been missing for almost a week and the alarm has turned to anguish.

Iranian suspects deny Bangkok blast plot: lawyer

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 15 January 2013, 05:02PM

BANGKOK: Two Iranians on trial for an alleged botched bomb plot against Israeli diplomats in Bangkok appeared in court again Tuesday as their Thai lawyer protested their innocence.

'Very happy' Bush the elder leaves hospital

US: Former US president George H.W. Bush was released from hospital on Monday following more than two months of treatment for bronchitis, a bacterial infection and a persistent cough.

Tuesday 15 January 2013, 10:52AM

US boy guilty of killing Neo-Nazi father

US: An abused 12-year-old boy who shot his Neo-Nazi father dead while he was sleeping at their California home was found guilty Monday of second degree murder.

Tuesday 15 January 2013, 10:51AM

Britain's Cameron to make EU speech in Netherlands on Friday

UK: British Prime Minister David Cameron will give a long-awaited speech on his country's future relationship with the European Union in the Netherlands on Friday, his Downing Street office said.

Tuesday 15 January 2013, 10:50AM

New York school bus strike to strand 152,000 kids