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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.

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 08:44AM

Phuket's Banyan, Anantara and Hilton score at awards

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.

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 08:43AM

Z-team launch new condos

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.

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 08:41AM

Laguna Phuket boss counters ‘low-end’ critics

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”.

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 06:22PM

Missing man’s mother views Phuket CCTV sightings

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.

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 06:03PM

Baby, teachers among six dead in southern shootings

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.

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 05:34PM

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

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.

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 02:54PM

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

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 09:43AM

Jeans banned at Indian school to curb harassment

Phuket News / Asia

Monday 10 December 2012, 06:26PM

INDIA: An Indian college announced on Monday it had banned girls from wearing jeans, short dresses and T-shirts to crack down on sexual harassment, sparking outrage from pupils and rights campaigners.

UN aid call as Philippines typhoon toll tops 600

Phuket News / Asia

Monday 10 December 2012, 06:25PM

PHILIPPINES: The United Nations launched a $65 million global aid appeal Monday to help desperate survivors of a typhoon that killed more than 600 people and affected millions in the southern Philippines.

Post-interview ‘hot mic’ embarrasses Russia’s Medvedev

Phuket News / World

Monday 10 December 2012, 06:24PM

RUSSIA: Stark divisions within Russia’s elite were exposed Monday when a hot mic mishap showed Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev slamming security forces as “jerks” for launching an early morning raid against a filmmaker.

S.Africa prays for frail Mandela

Phuket News / World

Monday 10 December 2012, 06:22PM

SOUTH AFRICA: South Africans united to offer prayers for ailing national icon Nelson Mandela on Monday, who is spending a third day in hospital for undefined tests.

310,000 young Thais are hyperactive

BANGKOK: About 310,000 Thai youngsters have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), many of them, because their mothers had been smoking and drinking while they were pregnant, according to the Ministry of Public Health.

Monday 10 December 2012, 06:20PM

Intruder slept with mentally ill woman

LAMPANG: A man sneaked into a stranger's house and was caught lying on a bed with a mentally disabled woman, police said on Monday.

Monday 10 December 2012, 06:19PM

Thaksin's appearance 'just a coincidence'

BANGKOK: Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's appearance at a muay Thai event in Macau on Sunday night that was broadcast live on state-run Channel 11 was just a coincidence, Pheu Thai Party spokesman Prompong Nopparit said on Monday.

Monday 10 December 2012, 06:18PM

Surin Beach tourist info centre opens in Phuket

PHUKET: The Tourist Information Center at Surin Beach, aimed at giving information to visitors to the beach and tightening security, was officially opened on Friday (December 7).

Monday 10 December 2012, 04:42PM

Mystery of missing Phuket surfer deepens

PHUKET: The mystery of the disappearance of American surfer Brett Bean has deepened with the news that since emailing his mother, Patricia Lynne Bean, on November 26 – his last contact with her – two withdrawals have been made by ATM from his bank account.

Monday 10 December 2012, 04:01PM

'I didn't kill Peter Reisz' says second Phuket murder suspect