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Taxi blockade at airport. Another protest - outside Governor's mansion. Dredging at Bang Tao Klong nearly complete.

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The Big List: Ghost Towns

THE BIG LIST: “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.” Shelley’s poem Ozymandias, a vision of lost ruins in the desert, mocks the ultimate fate of even greatest human cities, and the greatest vanities. Here are a few of the more unusual ghost towns you’ll find dotted around the world.

‘Ugly’ fish face up to extinction

WEIRD WORLD: They may be last of their species – and scientists joke they may be too ugly to breed. London Zoo has appealed to fish keepers to find a mate for their two tropical Mangarahara cichlids, which come originally from Madagascar.

Stray dogs sniff out human remains

WEIRD WORLD: A Polish businessman who stashed human body parts in a city warehouse instead of incinerating them was exposed by local stray dogs, who started gathering hungrily outside.

Moving ceremony to mark Phuket tsunami anniversary

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 14 December 2012, 09:37AM

PHUKET: The annual “Light Up Phuket” ceremony will mark the eighth anniversary of the deadly Asian tsunami that killed quarter of a million people around the Indian Ocean, with 279 known dead in Phuket and another 620 missing, presumed dead.

Meteor shower to fill Phuket night sky tonight

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 13 December 2012, 06:24PM

PHUKET: Provided rain clouds clear, the sky tonight (December 13) is expected to be lit up by hundreds of meteors burning up in the atmosphere – or shooting stars, as they are more colloquially known.

Phuket ‘murder house’ owner speaks out

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 13 December 2012, 05:33PM

PHUKET: The owner of the three-bedroom house where Hungarian Peter Reisz was murdered on November 24 has spoken for the first time since the killing, saying she will never again rent out her house by the day to hopefully avoid the same thing happening again.

German found murdered in Pattaya condo

Phuket News / Thailand

Thursday 13 December 2012, 05:29PM

PATTAYA: Pattaya Police responded to reports of a murdered foreigner in a Jomtien Condominium complex on Thursday after condo staff discovered the body of a German occupant of a 28th floor apartment.

Second suspect reenacts part in Phuket murder

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 13 December 2012, 04:21PM

PHUKET: Hungarian Lajos Gyorgy Kvalka was today (December 13) taken by police to reenact his part in the murder of fellow Hungarian Peter Reisz on November 24.

Phuket's Live 89.5 sponsors ThaiVisa

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 13 December 2012, 03:58PM

PHUKET: The Phuket News’ sister operation, Phuket Live Radio 89.5 FM, has concluded an agreement to become a sponsor of the Phuket Forum on ThaiVisa.com.

Clinton doesn't believe she'll run in 2016

Phuket News / World

Thursday 13 December 2012, 01:57PM

US: Outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said again Wednesday she has no plans to make a second bid to be America's first woman president.

Australian regulator opens probe into royal prank station

Phuket News / Asia

Thursday 13 December 2012, 01:53PM

AUSTRALIA: Australia's media watchdog on Thursday opened an investigation into a prank call to the hospital treating Prince William's pregnant wife Catherine ahead of autopsy results on the nurse who died.

Computer snags hinder 12/12/12 couples

Phuket News / Thailand

Thursday 13 December 2012, 01:43PM

BANGKOK: Computer software glitches frustrated many couples trying to register their marriages Wednesday on the auspicious date of 12/12/12.

Ex-Thai PM to be charged with murder over protest death

Phuket News / Thailand

Thursday 13 December 2012, 01:33PM

BANGKOK: Thailand's former premier Abhisit Vejjajiva is set to be charged with murder on Thursday over the death of a civilian during a military crackdown on anti-government 'Red Shirt' rallies two years ago.

'Demolisher' launches first Thai green party

Phuket News / Thailand

Thursday 13 December 2012, 01:25PM

PHUKET: Damrong 'The Demolisher' Pidech, retired director-general of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) yesterday registered what will effectively be the country’s first green political party – the Thai Forest Land Reclamation Party (FRP).

2013 ‘likely to be a dry year for Phuket’

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 13 December 2012, 01:20PM

PHUKET: Thailand’s Southeastern Meteorology Centre has warned that this coming year is likely to be a dry one for Southern Thailand.

Yingluck to visit Pattani Thursday

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 06:27PM

BANGKOK: Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will travel to Pattani province in the far South on Thursday for meetings with teachers and other groups.

Cambodian girl, 13, rescued from Phuket gang

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 05:48PM

PHUKET: A terrified 13-year-old Cambodian girl has been handed over to the Foundation for Children and Family after she was caught peddling flowers to tourists on Rat U Thit 200 Phi Rd, Patong, on Monday night (December 11).

Fiery Phuket reception for red-shirt leader Nattawut

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 04:51PM

PHUKET: Nattawut Saikua, the firebrand Red Shirt leader – who, in the days approaching the violent climax of the movement’s mass protest in January 2010, urged supporters to “Burn them, burn them all, folks” – arrived in Phuket this morning (December 12) to a small but fiery reception from a small group calling themselves “Local Phuket People”.

Pirated items seized in Phuket are destroyed

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 04:20PM

PHUKET: Customs officials this afternoon (December 12) brought in a diesel roller to destroy 9,762 pirated products seized in recent raids.

Western 'luk thung' singers to visit Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 02:05PM

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.

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