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Call for Interpol to track down California Wow boss

PHANG NGA: Canadian fitness club chain CEO Eric Levine made headlines three years ago when he sold his vast Villa Beyond at Natai Beach, Phang Nga, for a reported US$24 million (B720 million).

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New corporate job for Phuket's Anthony Lark

PHUKET: Leading Phuket hotel GM Anthony Lark has been bumped upstairs to a corporate role with the newly-formed Trisara parent company, Montara management, Bill Barnett reports in his thephuketinsider.com blog.

Global air traffic on rise

Global air-passenger traffic grew by 3.2 per cent in April, compared to a year ago, driven by travel in emerging markets, the global airline industry body said on Thursday (May 30).

Training, guides ‘badly needed'

PHUKET: The Association of Thai Travel Agents (ATTA) has identified two major challenges; the need for better trained staff and a workable strategy to divert tourists to new destinations.

No feeding the fish, please

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 1 January 2013, 09:20AM

PHANG NGA: The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation is to crack down on visitors feeding fish at diving and snorkelling sites near the Surin and Similan islands.

Christians, OrBorJor reward ‘excellent Phuket people’

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 31 December 2012, 05:19PM

PHUKET: Members of the Phuket Provincial Administrative Organisation (OrBorJor) and local Christian communities gathered last night (December 30) to reward eight “Excellent People of 2012” for their contributions to society.

‘Colourful Countdown’ to light up Phuket City

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 31 December 2012, 04:18PM

PHUKET: If you are not among the millions of people who are heading for the Sydictive beach party or its TAT-backed free electronic music counterpart at Karon Beach, there’s an alternative in Phuket Town.

Bus driver flees crash that kills two motorcyclists in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 31 December 2012, 02:38PM

PHUKET: Two more motorcyclists died in the early hours of this morning when they were in collision with a bus full of tourists heading for Phuket International Airport.

Akon ‘definitely not appearing’ at Phuket megaparty

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 31 December 2012, 01:03PM

PHUKET: Senegalese R&B and hip-hop performer Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam – better known as Akon – will most definitely not be the headliner at the Sydictive party tonight (December 31). In fact, he won’t be appearing at all.

Amateur video shows Moscow crash landing

Phuket News / World

Monday 31 December 2012, 12:07PM

MOSCOW: Amateur video shows the moment when a passenger jet smashed into a raised highway after missing the runway at Moscow's airport.

New parks supremo sows confusion with reshuffle

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 31 December 2012, 11:41AM

PHUKET: Environmental activists are trying to understand the implications and the behind-scenes politicking following a major reshuffle of senior staff at the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP).

Uruguayan resort thieves nab jewels worth $4.6 mn

Phuket News / World

Monday 31 December 2012, 11:04AM

MONTEVIDEO: Some $4.6 million (3.5 million euros) worth of jewelry and another $33,000 (25,000 euros) in cash were stolen from a house in an exclusive Uruguayan resort town, police said Sunday.

Mexico police to be fired after refusing to work

Phuket News / World

Monday 31 December 2012, 11:02AM

GUADALAJARA: Thirty-one Jalisco state police officers refusing to work amid Mexico’s staggering drug violence will be dismissed Monday, a government official said.

Nine dead in US after bus careens into Oregon ravine

Phuket News / World

Monday 31 December 2012, 11:01AM

LOS ANGELES: A Canada-bound bus crashed through a guard rail on an icy road in Oregon on Sunday and careened into a ravine, killing at least nine people and injuring at least 18 others, state police said.

East Timor bids farewell to peacekeepers after 13 years

Phuket News

Monday 31 December 2012, 10:57AM

DILI: The UN ends its peacekeeping mission in East Timor Monday after 13 years of boots on the ground in Asia’s youngest nation following a bloody transition to independence.

Fear reigns in Central Africa’s capital Bangui

Phuket News / World

Monday 31 December 2012, 10:52AM

BANGUI: Nightfall in Bangui’s normally bustling streets brings an eery quiet to the capital of the Central African Republic, where authorities have enacted a curfew ahead of a possible rebel move on the city.

US Lawmakers still at odds on brink of fiscal cliff

Phuket News

Monday 31 December 2012, 10:47AM

WASHINGTON: US lawmakers are returning to work on New Year’s Eve for the first time in more than 40 years in a final attempt to reach a deal to avert a fiscal calamity set to hit the world economy within hours.

Gang hits gem-cutting plant in Brazil, takes hostages

Phuket News / World

Monday 31 December 2012, 10:35AM

BRASILIA: Military police killed the leader of a gang that had spectacularly blasted its way into a gem-cutting plant Sunday, traded fire with police and made off with nine hostages who were later safely freed.

World waits to welcome New Year with a bang

Phuket News / World

Monday 31 December 2012, 10:31AM

SYDNEY: A wave of dazzling firework displays will sweep the world as local clocks strike midnight and herald the New Year tonight, with with long-isolated Yangon joining the global pyrotechnics for the first time.

Two tourists die in Phuket road crash

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 31 December 2012, 10:04AM

PHUKET: Two tourists, thought to be Russian, died on Saturday night (December 29) in Cherng Talay when they crashed their motorbike and a pickup truck ran over them.

Redfoo spotted party rocking in Hua Hin

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 31 December 2012, 09:45AM

HUA HIN: Redfoo, one half of dance act LMFAO, of phenomenal global smash hit ‘Party Rocking’, was spotted on a Thai beach at the weekend.

Chavez suffers new post-op setback: VP

Phuket News / World

Monday 31 December 2012, 09:45AM

CARACAS: Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has suffered a new setback after cancer surgery in Cuba, raising new fears about his political future, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said Sunday.

Hillary Clinton hospitalized with blood clot: official

Phuket News / World

Monday 31 December 2012, 09:02AM

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been hospitalized after suffering a blood clot following an accident several weeks ago, her senior State Department aide Philippe Reines said Sunday.

Gang-rape victim's body back home in grief-stricken India

Phuket News / Asia

Sunday 30 December 2012, 08:21AM

NEW DEHLI: The body of a gang-rape victim arrived back in New Delhi on Sunday after her death from sickening injuries in a Singapore hospital as India was engulfed by a mass outpouring of grief and anger.

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