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Phuket black taxi accused of molesting tourist

PHUKET: A“black taxi” driver was accused today of molesting a 19-year-old Chinese tourist during a five hour ordeal, during which he repeatedly tried to have sex with her and she repeatedly defended herself.

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Phuket Police must stamp out abuse of tourists, says Chinese envoy

PHUKET: China’s Haad-Yai-based Vice Consul, Qin Jian, has urged police to crack down hard on sexual attacks on tourists, following yesterday’s alleged molestation of a 19-year-old Chinese tourist by a “black taxi” driver who picked her up from the airport.

Government yields to pressure over school closures

BANGKOK: Bowing to a public outcry and resistance from many civic groups, the Education Ministry has agreed to create a joint committee to look into the issue of small school closures.

DSI arrests B150 million bank robber

HUA HIN: The Department of Special Investigation arrested the head of a Swiss bank robber gang on May 16 in Hua Hin.

US senators slam Oscar-tipped Bin Laden movie

Phuket News / World

Thursday 20 December 2012, 02:29PM

US: Three top US senators, including former White House hopeful John McCain, on Wednesday slammed a new Osama bin Laden manhunt movie for suggesting that torture helped find the Al-Qaeda chief.

China arrests nearly 1,000 doomsday 'cult' members

Phuket News / Asia

Thursday 20 December 2012, 02:29PM

CHINA: China has arrested nearly 1,000 people in a crackdown on a Christian sect that spread doomsday rumours and targeted communist rule, state media said Thursday ahead of the supposedly Mayan-foretold apocalypse.

Phuket worker dies from electric shock, fall

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 20 December 2012, 01:10PM

PHUKET: A metal worker died on Tuesday in Vachira Phuket Hospital after he received an electric shock and then fell from the top of a four-metre-high archway where he had been working.

Kata Rocks in Phuket wins another accolade

Phuket News / Business

Thursday 20 December 2012, 09:17AM

PHUKET: Phuket’s Kata Rocks has picked up another International Property Award at an awards dinner in London.

Video of eagle attacking toddler sparks online buzz

Phuket News / World

Thursday 20 December 2012, 08:55AM

MONTREAL: A video of a golden eagle swooping down in Montreal and briefly snatching a toddler off the ground sparked online buzz, but turned out on Wednesday to be a hoax that some said harms wildlife.

US to open military ties soon with Myanmar: official

Phuket News / Asia

Thursday 20 December 2012, 08:40AM

MYANMAR: The United States is poised to take "nascent steps" to open up military ties with Myanmar as a way of bolstering political reforms undertaken by the former pariah state, a senior US defense official said Wednesday.

Thai deputy PM charged over export of 100 tigers to China

Phuket News / Thailand

Thursday 20 December 2012, 08:40AM

BANGKOK: A Thai deputy prime minister was charged Wednesday in connection with the export to China of 100 tigers, an endangered species protected by international law, the attorney general's office told AFP.

The Big List: Great Imposters

Phuket News / Weird World

Wednesday 19 December 2012, 05:34PM

THE BIG LIST: Pranksters, hoaxers, fakers, imposters and impersonators. Pretending to be someone (or something) that you’re not might be just a joke, or it might get more serious.

Chinese model in hot water over cop photos

Phuket News / Weird World

Wednesday 19 December 2012, 05:29PM

BEIJING: Chinese authorities sentenced a 23-year-old model to nine months in jail, suspended for a year, after she posted pictures of herself in a police uniform on the internet.

Police lieutenant’s secret identity as a ‘Baller’

Phuket News / Weird World

Wednesday 19 December 2012, 05:27PM

DALLAS: In the latest ‘Lucille Baller’ rap song, she talks about how she will shoot anyone who messes with her since she’s “been to hell and back”.

The secret US plan to nuke the moon

Phuket News / Weird World

Wednesday 19 December 2012, 05:24PM

WASHINGTON: A secret US military plan to detonate an atomic bomb on the moon in the 1950s was designed as a warning to the Soviet Union, says a scientist who worked on the project.

Patong business people object to Phuket party

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 19 December 2012, 05:18PM

PHUKET: A group of Patong business people disagree with plans to move the Sydictive Element New Year’s party from Surin Beach to Patong – and have warned that the compensation expected by Patong businesses for the disruption will be considerable.

InterCon to manage former Evason Resort in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 19 December 2012, 04:12PM

PHUKET: The InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) - the world’s largest hotel group in terms of number of rooms - today (December 19) announced that it has signed a management contract for the former Evason Resort in Rawai.

Phuket's Thalang district without power

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 19 December 2012, 03:52PM

PHUKET: At 3pm today (December 19) power was abruptly cut in Thalang district.

Kamala bag-snatch robbers caught in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 19 December 2012, 02:10PM

PHUKET: Two thieves who admitted to having robbed many tourists in the Kamala area were arrested yesterday (December 18) in Phuket after they robbed an expat resident as he walked along Kamala beach in Phuket.

8 hurt in Phuket as crane rips roof off minibus

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 19 December 2012, 12:41PM

PHUKET: Eight tourists, mostly Russians, miraculously escaped serious injury when the roof of their minibus was peeled back like a sardine can by the jib of a mobile crane at about 9 am yesterday (December 18) in Chalong, Phuket.

Unusual tourists land in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 19 December 2012, 11:56AM

PHUKET: The island had an unexpected arrival of “package tourists” on Monday (December 17) when between 500 and 600 Asian openbill storks touched down in Rawai, the first time in human memory that these birds have been seen in Phuket.

KL consulate confirms: no one-year non-B visas

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 19 December 2012, 11:46AM

PHUKET: A staffer at the consular section of the Royal Thai Embassy in Kuala Lumpur has confirmed that the consulate is effectively no longer issuing one-year multiple-entry non-immigrant B visas except in special cases.

‘You can’t block off Patong Beach’, says deputy mayor in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 19 December 2012, 11:30AM

PHUKET: Patong deputy mayor Chairat Sukbal has confirmed he is aware of plans to move Phuket's Sydictive Element New Year’s party to Patong beach, but says the beach will not be able to be blocked off because it is a public area.

Australia to apologise for forced adoptions

Phuket News / Asia

Wednesday 19 December 2012, 11:19AM

AUSTRALIA: Australia will formally apologise for the forced adoption of tens of thousands of babies born mostly to unmarried mothers between the 1950s and 1970s, the government said Wednesday.

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