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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

WEIRD WORLD: A camel that grateful townsfolk in Timbuktu presented to President Francois Hollande has probably been eaten by the family that was supposed to be looking after it, say French officials.

Friday 3 May 2013, 01:00PM

China nabs 900 over rat and other meat scandals: official

Phuket News / Asia

Friday 3 May 2013, 12:29PM

BEIJING: China has detained 900 people for meat-related crimes including selling rat and fox meat as beef and mutton, the public security ministry said, in another blow to the nation's food safety.

Indonesia holds two suspects over Myanmar embassy plot

Phuket News / Asia

Friday 3 May 2013, 12:27PM

JAKARTA: Indonesian anti-terrorist police have detained two men suspected of planning a bomb attack on the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta on Friday in the wake of fresh violence against Muslims in Myanmar, officials said.

Airport to be built in Yala

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 3 May 2013, 12:03PM

YALA: An airport will be constructed in Betong, the border district in Yala province, at a cost of 1.2 billion baht, the Department of Civil Aviation said.

Thai woman held for Korean sex trade

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 3 May 2013, 12:01PM

BANGKOK: A South Korean man and a Thai woman have been arrested for their alleged involvement in human trafficking and the flesh trade in Korea.

Children get free Phuket movie experience

PHUKET: Around 100 excited children were treated to a free movie this morning (May 3) thanks to the generosity of the Evolution Cinema Planetarium in Central Festival.

Friday 3 May 2013, 11:50AM

Phuket officials pose as tourists to nab Russian wake park owner

PHUKET: The Russian owner of the Phuket Wake Park in Kathu, Oleg Lizunov, and his three foreign employees were arrested yesterday afternoon (May 2) when officials from the Phuket Provincial Employment Office, Phuket Police and Bangkok Labour Office visited the site.

Friday 3 May 2013, 11:26AM

OrBorJor targets Phuket flooding with B60m

PHUKET: The Provincial Administration Organization (OrBorJor) has set aside a budget of B60 million from the central government for flood protection projects around the island.

Thursday 2 May 2013, 06:02PM

Stinking Phuket klong solutions mapped out