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NEWS TODAY May 22

Massive power black-out in southern Thailand. Immigration police raid in Kathu Wat. Deal struck for life-gurads in June. Monsoon pushing fish prices up.

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Man dies after second-storey fall in Phuket

PHUKET: A welder from Nan province in northern Thailand died around 11am this morning (May 22) when he fell from the second floor of a building near the Heroines’ Monument.

Update: Foreigner found drowned in Phuket identified

PHUKET: The foreigner found drowned and washed up on Patong Beach at around 7 on Tuesday morning (May 21) near Loma (Dolphin) Park has been identified.

'Biggest blackout ever' hits Phuket and 13 other provinces

PHUKET: The 'biggest power outage ever' in Thailand blacked out 14 southern provinces Tuesday evening, plunging almost the entire South, including Phuket, into blackness for lengthy periods.

Six dead as Typhoon Bopha lashes Philippines

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 04:28PM

PHILIPPINES: Typhoon Bopha killed at least six people in the Philippines on Tuesday as the strongest storm to hit the country this year forced more than 50,000 to seek refuge in emergency shelters, officials said.

Indonesian embassy warns maids to avoid Malaysia

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 04:28PM

MALAYSIA: Indonesian maids should avoid working in Malaysia, their embassy in Kuala Lumpur said Tuesday, after the latest domestic worker scandal there saw 105 women locked up and forced to work without pay.

Rights 'catastrophe' in southern Yemen: Amnesty

Phuket News / World

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 04:27PM

YEMEN: Yemen's southern Abyan province was the scene of a human rights "catastrophe" during fighting between Al-Qaeda-linked militants and government troops, Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday.

Thais hunt for killer tiger after second deadly attack‎

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 04:24PM

THAILAND: Terrified Thai villagers in Yala were on Tuesday hunting a tiger suspected of killing two people in less than a week after a woman was mauled to death in a rubber plantation near the site of an earlier attack.

D-Day set in Krabi’s oil palm war

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 03:49PM

THAILAND: A mob of 300 small farmers who nine months ago invaded an oil palm plantation in Krabi on which the land lease had expired, may finally leave after one of their number was shot in the leg by an unidentified gunman on Sunday (December 2).

American booked after Phuket death crash

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 12:44PM

PHUKET: American Scott Franklin Dean Jr, 31, faces a charge of careless driving causing death after he was in collision with a motorbike on Wiset Rd on Sunday (December 2) near the Saiyuan Rd intersection.

‘It’s no hoax’ – Phuket megaparty organisers

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 12:16PM

PHUKET: Nearly 20,000 tickets have been sold for the Sydictive Element New Year’s party on Surin Beach, but organisers are still keeping mum over whether American socialite Paris Hilton will appear.

Man survives gang hanging

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 08:57AM

THAILAND: A man escaped death when he was thrown off a bridge with a rope around his neck by a gang of men purportedly acting on the order of his boss, reports said.

Phuket dive shop goes up in flames

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 3 December 2012, 04:19PM

PHUKET: A dive shop in Kamala went up in flames in the early hours of Sunday morning (December 2). Police are investigating the cause.

Pitbull denies Phuket murder

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 3 December 2012, 02:51PM

PHUKET: Lee “Pitbull” Aldhouse has admitted to police that he stabbed Dashawn Longfellow on August 14, 2010, but told them that he did not intend to kill the American.

Thai 'Red Shirt' MP jailed after bail revoked

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 3 December 2012, 09:11AM

THAILAND: A lawmaker who was among the key leaders of Thailand's "Red Shirt" street protests in 2010 was jailed Friday after a court revoked his bail on terrorism charges linked to the demonstrations.

Thai man killed in suspected tiger attack

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 3 December 2012, 09:10AM

THAILAND: A rubber tapper was mauled to death in a suspected tiger attack in Yala, southern Thailand, the second such incident in the area in recent years, a local official said Friday.

Tributes flow in for BIS Phuket student

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 3 December 2012, 09:06AM

PHUKET: The nine year old British International Student killed in a car crash last Thursday has been described as a “wonderful, fun-loving young girl” by her headmaster.

Phuket police issue arrest warrant for killer of suspected Hungarian

Phuket News / Phuket

Sunday 2 December 2012, 07:22PM

PHUKET: Phuket Police have released an arrest warrant for 38-year-old Moshe David in connection with the suspected murder of fellow Hungarian, 47-year-old Peter Reisz at 2pm today.

Cop caught on candid camera asking for ‘coffee money’

Phuket News / Thailand

Sunday 2 December 2012, 02:01PM

BANGKOK: An online video clip of a police officer asking for “coffee money” from a motorist has provoked the ire of netizens against the Thai boys in brown.

Foreigner threatened with gun on Pattaya Beach

Phuket News / Thailand

Sunday 2 December 2012, 01:25PM

PATTAYA: A foreigner was threatened with a gun on Pattaya Beach earlier this morning after a Thai gun owner spotted him with his former girlfriend.

Pitbull lands back in Phuket to face trial

Phuket News / Phuket

Sunday 2 December 2012, 10:59AM

PHUKET: Briton Lee Aldhouse, accused of the murder of American Dashawn Longfellow in August 2010, arrived back in Phuket under close guard last night at about 8 pm after being extradited from Britain, where he fled after the killing.

Mutilated body may be that of missing Hungarian

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 1 December 2012, 06:16PM

PHUKET: Police believe the body found mutilated inside a plastic bag in Patong could be that of missing Hungarian man Peter Reisz, aged 47.

Korkaew in jail as court revokes bail

Phuket News / Thailand

Saturday 1 December 2012, 12:36PM

BANGKOK: The Criminal Court yesterday revoked bail for Pheu Thai list-MP and red-shirt co-leader Korkaew Pikulthong for violating his bail conditions.

Dead foreign male found stuffed in black plastic bag

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 30 November 2012, 10:01PM

PHUKET: The body of a foreign male estimated to be approximately 30 years old has been found stuffed in a black plastic bag in Soi Bang Tong, Kathu.

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