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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.

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.

Suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen kidnap 3 foreigners in Yemen

Phuket News / World

Saturday 22 December 2012, 09:49AM

SANAA: Gunmen suspected of links to Al-Qaeda kidnapped two Finns and one Austrian in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Friday, say security officials.

Berlin bank hostage drama ends peacefully

Phuket News / World

Saturday 22 December 2012, 09:45AM

BERLIN: A hostage drama in a Berlin bank branch ended peacefully early Saturday with the release of an employee and the arrest of his assailant, police said.

Strong 6.8 earthquake strikes off Vanuatu

Phuket News / Asia

Saturday 22 December 2012, 09:17AM

A strong 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of the South Pacific island of Vanuatu on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, but no immediate tsunami warning was issued.

Air Berlin submits incident report following Phuket plane fire

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 21 December 2012, 11:56PM

PHUKET: Air Berlin, the carrier whose plane apparently caught fire midair on Thursday (December 20) shortly after departing Phuket International Airport, has confirmed a report has been submitted to German investigation branch BFU and Thai authorities following the incident.

Phuket megaparty ‘almost confirmed’ for Patong

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 21 December 2012, 03:10PM

PHUKET: Sydictive Element organisers say the New Year’s Party now planned for Patong Beach, Phuket, is “almost confirmed” and will likely be officially announced this afternoon.

Confusion follows Phuket aircraft fire

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 21 December 2012, 12:40PM

PHUKET: Six flights were unable to land in Phuket and had to return to their point of origin or divert to nearby regional airports, while another five flights due to take off from Phuket were severely delayed.

Flaming Air Berlin plane lands safely at Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 21 December 2012, 09:29AM

PHUKET: Three tyres on an Air Berlin plane with one engine on fire exploded as the pilot made an emergency landing at Phuket International Airport last night, officials say.

Bangkok police rescue abducted woman

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 21 December 2012, 09:28AM

BANGKOK: Police on Tuesday (December 18) arrested three youths who allegedly abducted a university student who had refused to talk to them.

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