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Phuket teacher runs marathon for cancer-stricken colleague

PHUKET: As HeadStart teacher Richard Allenby lay on his hospital bed before surgery at Bangkok Hospital Phuket, he was convinced he was going to die. He told his adult son to look after his pregnant wife and their unborn child.

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Who's responsible for Phuket's blackout?

BANGKOK: The energy minister has reasons to be upset about the southern power outage, as no one at the electricity supplying agencies made the decision to save the region.

Stockholm 'police brutality' riots go into third day

STOCKHOLM: Riots in a poor, mainly immigrant suburb of Sweden's capital have continued into a third night.

Boundless destruction as US tornado rescue winds down

MOORE: As rescue efforts in Oklahoma wound down Wednesday, residents turned to the daunting task of rebuilding a US heartland community shattered by a vast tornado that killed at least 24 people.

Will extradition finally resolve Dashawn Longfellow's death?

Phuket News / Features

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 06:18PM

PHUKET: When Dashawn Longfellow was murdered more than two years ago, in the early hours of August 14, 2010, Phuket’s foreign community, and particularly the Thai boxing and MMA community, were horrified.

Free helmets for all in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 06:09PM

PHUKET: Class Act Media Co Ltd, owners of The Phuket News and Phuket Live 89.5 radio are to collaborate with Thung Thong Police and Kathu Municipality in a campaign to encourage motorcyclists to ride safely.

Pot-growing grandpa busted for corn cache

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 04:41PM

PHANG NGA: A 63-year-old farmer in Phang Nga province has been arrested for growing 100 marijuana plants in among his corn crops.

Hi-so battle over island property off Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 04:23PM

PHUKET: In a tale that has great potential as the basis of a Thai soap opera, a member of the wealthy Osathanugrah family from Bangkok is embroiled in a legal battle over three pieces of land totalling 17 rai on Koh Yao Noi, Phang Nga, worth an estimated B300 million.

Floating corpse fished from Phuket's Phang Nga Bay

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 03:05PM

PHUKET: Police have recovered a dead body of a man seen floating in the sea near Racha Yai island.

Hundreds of southern Thai schools shut over militant attacks

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 02:21PM

THAILAND: Teachers in insurgency-wracked southern Thailand decided Monday to suspend classes at hundreds of schools in the region over the killings of education workers by Muslim militants.

Thai 'Red Shirt' protest leaders to go on trial

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 02:20PM

THAILAND: Thai leaders of "Red Shirt" opposition protests that rocked Bangkok in 2010 are set to stand trial Thursday for terrorism, in a case that risks inflaming the kingdom's political tensions.

Phuket says bonjour to new French fair

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 11:19AM

PHUKET: After 12 years of the successful Bonjour French Fair in Bangkok, held at the Queen Sirikit Convention Centre, a new French Fair will be held in Phuket from November 30 to December 2.

Burmese come off worse in Phuket crash

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 10:34AM

PHUKET: Two Burmese men were hurt when the motorbike they were riding crashed with a Toyota Fortuner in Chalong at 8:30 this morning (November 27).

Tune to open hotel in Phuket

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 10:18AM

PHUKET: Tune Hotels, the hotel arm of AirAsia founder Tony Fernandes’ empire, will open its latest property on Rat-U-Thit 200 Pi Rd in Patong, in January next year.

Treason complaints against Pitak Siam leaders

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 26 November 2012, 05:38PM

BANGKOK: The Pitak Siam anti-government protest ended on Saturday (November 24), but the legal smearing has only just begun.

1,900 counterfeit items seized in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 26 November 2012, 05:37PM

PHUKET: Customs officers have seized 1,900 items of counterfeit goods left at the Phuket bus terminal last Tuesday (November 20), it was revealed at a press conference today (November 26).

Chalerm ‘to blame for police housing scandal’

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 26 November 2012, 05:12PM

BANGKOK: Maverick MP Chuwit Kamolvisit, Leader of the Love Thailand Party yesterday (November 25) took Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobumrung to task over the police housing scandal, revealed in The Phuket News in March this year.

Israel defence minister Barak quits politics

Phuket News / World

Monday 26 November 2012, 04:53PM

ISRAEL: Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Monday announced he was quitting political life after a decades-long career that also saw him serve as prime minister.

Sarkozy to meet ex-PM amid leadership battle

Phuket News / World

Monday 26 November 2012, 04:51PM

FRANCE: France's ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy was to meet with his former prime minister Monday amid a damaging leadership battle that is threatening the future of their right-wing UMP party, a source said.

Medvedev says 'does not rule out' Kremlin comeback

Phuket News / World

Monday 26 November 2012, 04:47PM

RUSSIA: Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said he is not ruling out a return to the Kremlin after his 2008-2012 single term as Russian head of state but was happy working as premier under his mentor Vladimir Putin.

TOT faces deadline for 3G plan

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 26 November 2012, 04:39PM

BANGKOK: The new TOT board has given the state agency a 90-day deadline to implement the first phase of its third-generation (3G) service on a full-scale commercial basis.

Thai PM faces no confidence motion

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 26 November 2012, 04:35PM

BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Sunday faced a no-confidence debate launched by her opponents in parliament, a day after political protests turned violent in Bangkok.

'Gangnam Style' becomes YouTube's most watched video

Phuket News / Asia

Monday 26 November 2012, 04:29PM

South Korean pop sensation Psy's "Gangnam Style" on Saturday became YouTube's most-watched video of all time, registering more than 805 million views to overtake "Baby" by Canadian heartthrob Justin Bieber.

Broken Tooth a living reminder of Macau's vicious past

Phuket News / Asia

Monday 26 November 2012, 04:23PM

The release from jail next month of a triad boss known as Broken Tooth is fuelling speculation that the Chinese gambling playground of Macau could be on the verge of a return to the vicious gang violence of its colonial past.

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