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HONG KONG: An inflatable rubber duck six storeys high sailed into Hong Kong harbour on Thursday to the cheers of hundreds of people who gathered to watch the classic bathtime-inspired artistic creation.

Thursday 2 May 2013, 04:02PM

Mekong forest facing sharp decline: WWF

BANGKOK: Demand for farmland may strip the Greater Mekong region of a third of its remaining forest cover over the next two decades without swift government action, a leading conservation group warned Thursday.

Thursday 2 May 2013, 03:58PM

40kg of pangolin scales en-route to Vietnam

BANGKOK: The Freeland Foundation, a national organisation dedicated to stopping illegal wildlife trade and human slavery, congratulated French customs this week for seizing endangered animal body parts originating in West Africa en-route to Vietnam.

Thursday 2 May 2013, 03:54PM

Fast fashion, fair wages: Vietnam's lesson for Bangladesh

HANOI: From factory fires to slave labour, the growth of mass manufacturing in Southeast Asia has not been problem-free, but after shedding its "sweatshop" reputation the region could have lessons for Bangladesh.

Thursday 2 May 2013, 03:39PM

Inventor claims his ‘time machine’ fortells future

WEIRD WORLD: An inventor in Iran claims he’s invented a time machine that can predict the future with “98 per cent accuracy.”

Thursday 2 May 2013, 03:23PM

The Big List: A brief history of time machines

Traffic police swoop on Kathmandu holy cows

Thursday 2 May 2013, 03:26PM

THE BIG LIST: The Iranian “time machine” sounds a more like a crystal ball for predicting the future, rather than a machine for travelling in time – but its inventor claims he’s working on that, too. Here are a few of the other historic milestones in the development of time machines...

WEIRD WORLD: Police in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu have launched a campaign to round up cows roaming the streets, blaming the sacred animals for car accidents and traffic jams.

Thursday 2 May 2013, 03:22PM

‘Pregnant man’ denied divorce

WEIRD WORLD: A transgender man who has given birth to three children since starting to change sex from being a woman has been denied a divorce by a court in Arizona – because the judge decided his marriage was invalid.

Thursday 2 May 2013, 03:20PM

Teen dies imitating movie scene

Phuket News / Thailand

Thursday 2 May 2013, 03:15PM

CHANTHABURI: A worker at a fruit orchard drowned on Thursday morning after he and two friends tried to imitate a comedy boating scene in the highly popular Thai movie Pee Mak Phra Khanong.

Print versus radio in ultimate Phuket burger eating showdown

PHUKET: Live 89.5’s breakfast show host Sam “chicken fillets” Clarke will go head to head with Novosti Phuketa’s editor Alexander “I will eat you for breakfast” Semenov in the Burger Eating Competition this Saturday (May 4) at Home Pro in Chalong.

Thursday 2 May 2013, 03:05PM

NEWS TODAY May 2

Two foreigners dead in Rawai. Hotel safe their caught. A million Chinese tourists already in 2013. PLUS Alice takes us to 'World in Grey' exhibition.

Thursday 2 May 2013, 01:29PM

Benz-driving thief ‘robbed six Phuket hotels’: police

PHUKET: Details emerged today of the hotel room thefts carried out by Reutdhimet Singha-ampai, 34, who was arrested in the Jungceylon shopping mall in Patong yesterday.

Thursday 2 May 2013, 12:29PM

Woman in Northern Ireland takes 30 minutes to parallel park car [VIDEO]

Phuket News / World

Thursday 2 May 2013, 12:24PM

BELFAST: A woman in Belfast, Northern Ireland took almost 30 minutes to parallel park her car. Having refused their assistance, students Ciaran Doherty and Ciaran Shannon, who live in a nearby house, decided to video her parking efforts half way in.

Explore Phuket Town on foot with the Walk Rally

PHUKET: Those keen to discover and explore Phuket Town by foot should enter the Phuket Walk Rally, which is being held next Saturday (May 11).

Thursday 2 May 2013, 11:03AM

Police crack spate of Phuket hotel robberies

PHUKET: Police appear to have cracked the case of the hotel safe deposit box robber who stole the contents of room safes – and sometimes the safes themselves – from hotels in Patong, Karon and Kata over the past few months.

Wednesday 1 May 2013, 05:23PM

Royal Thai Police to step up gun control from May

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 1 May 2013, 04:58PM

BANGKOK: The Royal Thai Police is set to step up its control on gun ownership from May onwards.

Small whale found stranded on Phuket beach

PHUKET: A young Dwarf Sperm Whale, about two metres long and weighing between 100 and 150 kilogrammes, was found on Patong beach this morning (May 1) at about 8am, attracting a crowd of curious tourists and locals.

Wednesday 1 May 2013, 04:15PM

Two foreigners found dead in Saiyuan Rd, Phuket

PHUKET: Two foreigners were found dead in Saiyuan Rd, Rawai, yesterday (April 30), in separate cases.

Wednesday 1 May 2013, 03:57PM

NEWS TODAY May 1