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Phuket airport to Patong bus starts July 1. Definitely

PHUKET: The long-awaited bus service from Phuket International Airport to Patong will launch on July 1, it was confirmed in a meeting this afternoon (June 19) at Phuket Provincial Hall.

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Now it’s Phuket’s Andara under the microscope

PHUKET: The high-profile Andara resort and property development, along with the Parisorn project, currently under construction in Kamala, were this morning (June 19) examined by a high-level and very suspicious team from the Ministry of Interior.

Thousands evacuated after blasts at Russian arms depot

MOSCOW: More than 6,000 people were evacuated in central Russia overnight after a series of massive explosions at an arms depot blew out windows and sparked a fire, the emergency situations ministry said Wednesday.

French floods claim first victim, Lourdes remains closed

TOULOUSE: Flash floods in southwestern France killed an elderly woman as the inundated grotto at the Roman Catholic pilgrimage site of Lourdes remained closed for a second day on Wednesday.

Democrat duo's arrest won't be sought

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 09:05AM

BANGKOK: The Department of Special Investigation has decided against seeking the arrest of former premier Abhisit Vejjajiva and his former deputy Suthep Thaugsuban when they report to acknowledge murder charges against them tomorrow.

Australia migration experts get top-up

Phuket News / Business

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 08:59AM

PHUKET: Playfair Visa and Migration Services, Australia’s largest private migration firm, in conjunction with the Migration Institute of Australia (MIA) last week held a two-day workshop at the Naka Island Luxury Collection Resort & Spa.

Qatar Airways alliance move will boost Phuket

Phuket News / Business

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 08:58AM

PHUKET: The announcement in October that Qatar Airways, which services Phuket from its Doha hub, will join the 12-member oneworld global airline alliance continues a trend by Middle East airlines servicing Phuket to join alliances.

Major property website opens office in Phuket

Phuket News / Business

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 08:55AM

PHUKET: DDproperty.com, which claims to be Thailand’s number one property website, last week launched its Phuket office, the first step outside Bangkok, with offices in Chiang Mai, Pattaya and Hua Hin to follow.

Tourism ‘must abandon race to the bottom’

Phuket News / Business

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 08:48AM

THAILAND: Thailand’s tourism sector must halt its “race to the bottom” and try harder to retain tourists willing to spend money, say experts – though not at the expense of society or the environment.

Sunny times for Shades structures in Phuket

Phuket News / Business

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 08:44AM

PHUKET: Phuket's ritzy new beach club at Laguna, Angsana Resort’s Xana with Attica, now boasts a huge fabric shade structure over its 30-metre-long beach-pool bar.

Phuket's Banyan, Anantara and Hilton score at awards

Phuket News / Business

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 08:43AM

PHUKET: The Banyan Tree Residences development, having won in October the award for Best Villa Development in the Thailand Property Awards, has now won the accolade for Southeast Asia as a whole.

Z-team launch new condos

Phuket News / Business

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 08:41AM

PHUKET: Following the sell-out success in July of Zcape Condominium, developer Tri Property Co has announced the launch of a second Z-Style condo project in Cherng Talay: Zcape X2 Condominium.

Laguna Phuket boss counters ‘low-end’ critics

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 06:22PM

PHUKET: The Banyan Tree Group today (December 11) launched its latest product, Laguna Shores, to the press. Along the roads through Laguna, banners proclaim that the 229-apartment development is “in the heart of Laguna”.

Missing man’s mother views Phuket CCTV sightings

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 06:03PM

PHUKET: The mother of missing American surfer Brett Bean told police this morning she cannot be sure whether CCTV camera stills of a man taking money from her son’s bank account via an ATM machine show her son.

Baby, teachers among six dead in southern shootings

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 05:34PM

THAILAND: Six people, including a one-year-old girl and two teachers, were gunned down in separate attacks on a teashop and school in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south on Tuesday, police said.

Phuket Opinion: Either way

Phuket News / Opinion

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 03:29PM

PHUKET: The decision by British High Court officials in the case of alleged killer Lee “Pitbull” Aldhouse, could have gone either way.

Four die, 30 hurt in Mae Sot bus crash

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 02:54PM

MAE SOT: Four passengers, two of them foreigners, were killed and more than 30 others injured, 10 seriously, when a Bangkok-bound tour bus from Tak's Mae Sot district overturned on the Mae Sot-Tak highway on Tuesday morning, police said.

Exile media crafting new role from inside Myanmar

Phuket News / Asia

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 02:39PM

MYANMAR: Their journalists risked jail terms to report inside Myanmar under years of brutal junta rule, but once-exiled media now operate openly -- and face flak for being too cosy with the new leaders.

Russian-Korean found dead in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 09:43AM

PHUKET: A Russian citizen of Korean origin was found dead in an apartment in Rawai early yesterday evening (December 10).

Jeans banned at Indian school to curb harassment

Phuket News / Asia

Monday 10 December 2012, 06:26PM

INDIA: An Indian college announced on Monday it had banned girls from wearing jeans, short dresses and T-shirts to crack down on sexual harassment, sparking outrage from pupils and rights campaigners.

UN aid call as Philippines typhoon toll tops 600

Phuket News / Asia

Monday 10 December 2012, 06:25PM

PHILIPPINES: The United Nations launched a $65 million global aid appeal Monday to help desperate survivors of a typhoon that killed more than 600 people and affected millions in the southern Philippines.

Post-interview ‘hot mic’ embarrasses Russia’s Medvedev

Phuket News / World

Monday 10 December 2012, 06:24PM

RUSSIA: Stark divisions within Russia’s elite were exposed Monday when a hot mic mishap showed Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev slamming security forces as “jerks” for launching an early morning raid against a filmmaker.

S.Africa prays for frail Mandela

Phuket News / World

Monday 10 December 2012, 06:22PM

SOUTH AFRICA: South Africans united to offer prayers for ailing national icon Nelson Mandela on Monday, who is spending a third day in hospital for undefined tests.

310,000 young Thais are hyperactive

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 10 December 2012, 06:20PM

BANGKOK: About 310,000 Thai youngsters have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), many of them, because their mothers had been smoking and drinking while they were pregnant, according to the Ministry of Public Health.

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