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PHUKET: After several years of preparation, the high-end Kata Rocks project has unveiled its first Sky Villa, its first of 34 such homes ranging in size from one bedroom to four.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 06:44PM

Phuket eco-bottle meets quick acceptance from hotels

PHUKET: Resorts and hotels on Phuket and elsewhere in Thailand have given a very warm welcome to a new Thai product: drinking water in bottles made from maize.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 06:39PM

The world is not enough – yet

PHUKET: When Robert Braithwaite started building boats in 1968, it was a leap into a different league. It’s a leap that has paid off in a big way over the ensuing 44 years.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 06:35PM

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: 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.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 06:09PM

Pot-growing grandpa busted for corn cache

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

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 04:41PM

Hi-so battle over island property off Phuket

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.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 04:23PM

Floating corpse fished from Phuket's Phang Nga Bay

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

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 03:05PM

Hundreds of southern Thai schools shut over militant attacks

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.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 02:21PM

Thai 'Red Shirt' protest leaders to go on trial

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.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 02:20PM

Phuket says bonjour to new French fair

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.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 11:19AM

Burmese come off worse in Phuket crash

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).

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 10:34AM

Tune to open hotel in Phuket

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.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 10:18AM

Treason complaints against Pitak Siam leaders

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

Monday 26 November 2012, 05:38PM

1,900 counterfeit items seized in Phuket

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).

Monday 26 November 2012, 05:37PM

Chalerm ‘to blame for police housing scandal’

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.

Monday 26 November 2012, 05:12PM

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