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Hong Kong’s struggle to combat its waste crisis

HONG KONG: An army of road sweepers and refuse collectors keep the streets clean in the heart of Hong Kong – but on the outskirts, growing mountains of waste are testament to what campaigners say is an environmental crisis.

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Japan parliament approves child abduction treaty

TOKYO: Japan's parliament on Wednesday approved an international treaty on child abductions after decades of pressure from the United States and other Western nations.

British PM 'proud' of gay marriage bill but economy now focus

LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday he was proud MPs had voted to back gay marriage but admitted the debate has been divisive and said his focus would now be on economic matters.

Orania, South Africa’s whites-only town

Welcome to Orania, South Africa: a whites-only enclave established in 1991 during the dying years of apartheid.

Ravi Shankar: 'The Godfather of World Music'

Phuket News / World

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 01:55PM

INDIA: Ravi Shankar, who died on Tuesday aged 92, was the world's most famous sitar player, popularising classical Indian music abroad largely through his work with The Beatles' George Harrison.

End attacks on children in Thai south: UN

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 01:50PM

NARATHIWAT: The UN on Wednesday called for an end to violence against children in southern Thailand following the "senseless and unacceptable" shooting of a baby girl in a region racked by nine years of unrest.

Fundraiser for cancer-stricken Phuket expat

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 11:44AM

PHUKET: Friends of well known Phuket sailor Kevin Ashby are holding a fundraising night on Friday (December 14) to raise money for his cancer treatment.

UN launches major cholera appeal for Haiti

Phuket News / World

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 10:24AM

HAITI: The United Nations on Tuesday launched a $2.2 billion appeal for a campaign to halt a cholera epidemic in Haiti, widely blamed on UN peacekeepers, which has killed more than 7,750 people.

North Korea successfully launches long-range rocket

Phuket News / Asia

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 10:23AM

NORTH KOREA: North Korea successfully launched a long-range rocket on Wednesday, in defiance of UN sanctions threats over what Pyongyang's critics have condemned as a disguised ballistic missile test.

Democrat duo's arrest won't be sought

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 09:05AM

BANGKOK: The Department of Special Investigation has decided against seeking the arrest of former premier Abhisit Vejjajiva and his former deputy Suthep Thaugsuban when they report to acknowledge murder charges against them tomorrow.

Australia migration experts get top-up

Phuket News / Business

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 08:59AM

PHUKET: Playfair Visa and Migration Services, Australia’s largest private migration firm, in conjunction with the Migration Institute of Australia (MIA) last week held a two-day workshop at the Naka Island Luxury Collection Resort & Spa.

Qatar Airways alliance move will boost Phuket

Phuket News / Business

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 08:58AM

PHUKET: The announcement in October that Qatar Airways, which services Phuket from its Doha hub, will join the 12-member oneworld global airline alliance continues a trend by Middle East airlines servicing Phuket to join alliances.

Major property website opens office in Phuket

Phuket News / Business

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 08:55AM

PHUKET: DDproperty.com, which claims to be Thailand’s number one property website, last week launched its Phuket office, the first step outside Bangkok, with offices in Chiang Mai, Pattaya and Hua Hin to follow.

Tourism ‘must abandon race to the bottom’

Phuket News / Business

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 08:48AM

THAILAND: Thailand’s tourism sector must halt its “race to the bottom” and try harder to retain tourists willing to spend money, say experts – though not at the expense of society or the environment.

Sunny times for Shades structures in Phuket

Phuket News / Business

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 08:44AM

PHUKET: Phuket's ritzy new beach club at Laguna, Angsana Resort’s Xana with Attica, now boasts a huge fabric shade structure over its 30-metre-long beach-pool bar.

Phuket's Banyan, Anantara and Hilton score at awards

Phuket News / Business

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 08:43AM

PHUKET: The Banyan Tree Residences development, having won in October the award for Best Villa Development in the Thailand Property Awards, has now won the accolade for Southeast Asia as a whole.

Z-team launch new condos

Phuket News / Business

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 08:41AM

PHUKET: Following the sell-out success in July of Zcape Condominium, developer Tri Property Co has announced the launch of a second Z-Style condo project in Cherng Talay: Zcape X2 Condominium.

Laguna Phuket boss counters ‘low-end’ critics

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 06:22PM

PHUKET: The Banyan Tree Group today (December 11) launched its latest product, Laguna Shores, to the press. Along the roads through Laguna, banners proclaim that the 229-apartment development is “in the heart of Laguna”.

Missing man’s mother views Phuket CCTV sightings

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 06:03PM

PHUKET: The mother of missing American surfer Brett Bean told police this morning she cannot be sure whether CCTV camera stills of a man taking money from her son’s bank account via an ATM machine show her son.

Baby, teachers among six dead in southern shootings

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 05:34PM

THAILAND: Six people, including a one-year-old girl and two teachers, were gunned down in separate attacks on a teashop and school in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south on Tuesday, police said.

Phuket Opinion: Either way

Phuket News / Opinion

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 03:29PM

PHUKET: The decision by British High Court officials in the case of alleged killer Lee “Pitbull” Aldhouse, could have gone either way.

Four die, 30 hurt in Mae Sot bus crash

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 02:54PM

MAE SOT: Four passengers, two of them foreigners, were killed and more than 30 others injured, 10 seriously, when a Bangkok-bound tour bus from Tak's Mae Sot district overturned on the Mae Sot-Tak highway on Tuesday morning, police said.

Exile media crafting new role from inside Myanmar

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 02:39PM

MYANMAR: Their journalists risked jail terms to report inside Myanmar under years of brutal junta rule, but once-exiled media now operate openly -- and face flak for being too cosy with the new leaders.

Russian-Korean found dead in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 09:43AM

PHUKET: A Russian citizen of Korean origin was found dead in an apartment in Rawai early yesterday evening (December 10).

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