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PHUKET: Members of Phuket Lifeguard Club are waiting to hear whether the Phuket Provincial Administration Organisation will renew its contract to guard the island’s beaches, and on what terms.

Friday 3 May 2013, 04:21PM

Phuket Money: Making the best of that ancient forgotten pension

Many Brits and nationals of other countries who previously worked in the UK will have accumulated pension funds from their ex-employers or via their own private pension schemes during their time spent working there.

Friday 3 May 2013, 04:21PM

TAT to open language schools for guides

BANGKOK: The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is set to open new language schools in major provinces across the country in a bid to shore up the nation’s lack of skilled tour guides.

Friday 3 May 2013, 04:20PM

BoT continues to resist pressure over high baht

BANGKOK: Pressure continues to mount on the Bank of Thailand (BoT) over the rising Thai baht.

Friday 3 May 2013, 04:19PM

Most Thai workers ‘unhappy with boring jobs, low pay’

A majority of Thai workers are unsatisfied with their current jobs and many see their salary as too low, says a survey from a recruitment company.

Friday 3 May 2013, 04:16PM

Ministry kicks back Thai Smile spinoff

BANGKOK: A plan to set up THAI Smile Airways Co as a subsidiary of THAI Airways International has been sent back to the national carrier by the Transport Ministry for further study.

Friday 3 May 2013, 04:14PM

Khao Yai property boom heading for a legal wall

Rich families who own most of the new property projects in Khao Yai may suffer the most from a possible drop in land prices if the new Nakhon Ratchasima town plan does not allow any property development.

Friday 3 May 2013, 04:13PM

New chef joins Indigo Pearl resort in Phuket

PHUKET: The Phuket Indigo Pearl resort has announced the appointment of Jack Yoss as its new executive sous chef and chef of the resort’s Rivet restaurant.

Friday 3 May 2013, 04:09PM

Phang Nga, Krabi seen as back-ups for Phuket Airport

PHUKET: With the Phuket International Airport extension, currently under construction, expected to be full to capacity as soon as it opens, the airport’s bosses are looking at other ways to handle the continually soaring passenger numbers.

Friday 3 May 2013, 04:05PM

Police waiting on DNA result for Samui skeleton

SURAT THANI: Police are having to rely on DNA matching to identify the skeleton found buried beneath the basement of a villa in Koh Samui owned by accused Hungarian-Israeli murderer Moshe David, also known as Gabor Nemeth.

Friday 3 May 2013, 04:04PM

‘Half billion visitors by 2017’

Visitor arrivals to the Asia-Pacific region will grow to 581 million by 2017 with an annual growth rate of 4.1 per cent, according to a new Asia-Pacific Visitor Forecast released Thursday.

Friday 3 May 2013, 04:03PM

NEWS TODAY May 3

Lightning blacks out Phuket NE coast

Friday 3 May 2013, 03:41PM

PHUKET: Lightning struck this morning (May 3) in the Pa Khlok area, leaving much of the northeast coast blacked out.

Friday 3 May 2013, 03:18PM

The Big List: Spy Animals

Dead falcon sparks spy scare on Indian border

Friday 3 May 2013, 01:06PM

THE BIG LIST: The suspected Pakistani camera falcon may be just the latest effort by the world’s spy masters to deploy the feathered and the furred in espionage. Here are a few of the other animal ‘spies’ over the years.

WEIRD WORLD: Indian security forces have found a dead falcon fitted with a small camera which has sparked alarm near the country’s highly militarised border with Pakistan, say officials.

Friday 3 May 2013, 01:03PM

Patient driver saves striken paramedic

WEIRD WORLD: A late-stage cancer patient has saved the life of an ambulance driver who suffered a heart attack, by taking the wheel of his vehicle and driving him to hospital.

Friday 3 May 2013, 01:01PM

Timbuktu family eat French president’s camel