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PHUKET: The Krung Thai Bank’s electronic banking system appears to have crashed about two hours ago, with the country’s 8,000 ATMs across the country not working, and online banking not available.

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 05:40PM

Thailand ‘must drop cheap labour mindset’

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 05:27PM

THAILAND: With labour short ages continually in the spotlight, and the government’s firm commitment to the B300 day wage, Thailand has been warned that it cannot continue to rely on cheap labour to attract investment and make low-cost goods for export.

Labour shortage ‘is pushing up’ prices of condos

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 05:26PM

THAILAND: Prices for Bangkok condominiums are rising as a shortage of construction workers puts a brake on development, says property consultant Colliers International Thailand.

Phuket’s territorial taxis ‘getting worse’

PHUKET: Black taxis may now have been turned into green ones by the government, but the problem of taxi drivers in general defending their territories either by extorting “taxes” from outsiders or simply threatening them with violence has not gone away.

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 04:45PM

Diana among bookies' favourites for royal baby name

UK: Bookmakers reckon Prince William and his wife Catherine will name their baby after a close relative, with his late mother Diana among the early front-runners.

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 04:39PM

British press 'delighted' but anxious over royal baby

UK: Britain's press on Tuesday celebrated the 'delightful' news that Prince William and his wife Catherine are to have a baby, but the expectant mother's bout of morning sickness tempered spirits.

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 04:38PM

Ex-leader of Myanmar monk rallies held: official

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 04:36PM

MYANMAR: A leader of Myanmar's 2007 monk rallies has been arrested, an official said Tuesday, in his latest brush with the law since being freed from jail along with hundreds of other political prisoners this year.

US hearing for Strauss-Kahn set for December 10

US: A hearing in the civil case of disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been set for December 10, after reports he will settle with the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault.

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 04:29PM

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

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.

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 04:27PM

Thais hunt for killer tiger after second deadly attack‎

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.

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 04:24PM

D-Day set in Krabi’s oil palm war

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).

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 03:49PM

American booked after Phuket death crash

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.

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 12:44PM

‘It’s no hoax’ – Phuket megaparty organisers

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.

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 12:16PM

Man survives gang hanging

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.

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 08:57AM

Phuket dive shop goes up in flames

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

Monday 3 December 2012, 04:19PM

Pitbull denies Phuket murder

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.

Monday 3 December 2012, 02:51PM

Thai 'Red Shirt' MP jailed after bail revoked

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.

Monday 3 December 2012, 09:11AM

Thai man killed in suspected tiger attack