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PHUKET: Patong Beach, Phuket Town and Promthep Cape have all been earmarked for “upgrades” as part of a B1 billion government project to improve tourism sites.

Friday 9 November 2012, 02:03PM

Phuket's Dusit, Indigo, win travel ‘Oscars’

PHUKET: Phuket picked up three major gongs at the World Travel Awards 2012, held at the InterContinental Singapore.

Friday 9 November 2012, 02:01PM

New Kalima Resort opens in Phuket

PHUKET: The new five-star Kalima Resort & Spa has officially opened with a 220-degree view over Patong Bay.

Friday 9 November 2012, 02:00PM

Outrigger takes over property on Phi Phi

PHUKET: The Outrigger Phi Phi Island Resort and Spa officially opened at the weekend.

Friday 9 November 2012, 01:58PM

Sunseeker dealers heading for Phuket

PHUKET: Sunseeker, British manufacturer of sleek motor yachts, has chosen Phuket as the venue for this year’s annual International Distributor Conference, which will be held from November 14 to 18, at the JW Marriott Phuket Resort & Spa.

Friday 9 November 2012, 01:57PM

China's painful past displayed under political shadow

Phuket News / Asia

Friday 9 November 2012, 01:39PM

ASIA: A group of museums commemorating China's violent Cultural Revolution is opening up normally tightly controlled discussion of the chaotic era -- but only up to a point.

‘Power tattoos’ and Thai teens

THAILAND: Police raided the home of a renowned tattooist after reports of several brawls involving his ‘disciples’, who wanted to test their ‘bullet proof’ tattoos, reports said.

Friday 9 November 2012, 01:35PM

Anti-violence protest in deep south

THAILAND: Thai Muslim villagers and students take part in an anti-violence protest a day after a car bomb planted by suspected separatist militants killed three and injured sixteen in the restive southern province of Narathiwat on November 5

Friday 9 November 2012, 01:34PM

Integrated centre ‘will solve Phuket land problems’

PHUKET: A meeting of a working group of more than 20 officials was held yesterday (November 8) as the first stage in setting up a Phuket Land Centre, which will be a central point to pull together all the government departments involved in land matters.

Friday 9 November 2012, 12:15PM

AB negative blood required for Phuket expat

PHUKET: Family and friends of a 68-year-old German man living in Phuket have made an urgent appeal for people with AB negative blood to donate.

Friday 9 November 2012, 10:17AM

Memorial service and football tourney to honour Phuket expat

PHUKET: A memorial service for Christopher Hart, who died earlier this week in a motorbike accident, is scheduled for Monday at Wat Pra Thong in Thalang at 1pm.

Friday 9 November 2012, 10:09AM

Obama to meet Suu Kyi, Myanmar president in Yangon

Phuket News / Asia

Friday 9 November 2012, 09:52AM

ASIA: Barack Obama will meet Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and President Thein Sein on a historic first visit to the country by a sitting US president designed to boost a political reform drive.

Phuket-based Swede, 67, hangs himself

PHUKET: Swedish citizen Per-ake Ingvar Arvidsson, 67, hanged himself last night (November 8) at the back of the HomePro complex in Chalong.

Friday 9 November 2012, 09:11AM

Pentagon chief to visit Thailand

THAILAND: US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will travel to Australia, Thailand and Cambodia next week as part of America's strategic tilt to the Asia-Pacific, even as crises in the Middle East demand the Pentagon's attention and resources.

Friday 9 November 2012, 08:11AM

Volunteer medics on frontline of Thai south insurgency

THAILAND: They are rubber tappers by trade but every week are summoned to the scene of beheadings, bombs and shootings as volunteer medics dealing with the fallout from Thailand's southern insurgency.

Thursday 8 November 2012, 04:32PM

Phuket Andaman Cultural Festival postponed

PHUKET: The planned Andaman Cultural Festival, originally due to begin tomorrow (November 9) has been postponed until sometime in December, a spokesperson for the Provincial PR Office said yesterday (November 7).

Thursday 8 November 2012, 02:53PM

Obama to visit Thailand later this month

Newly re-elected US President Barack Obama will visit Thailand later this month along with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to discuss regional strategies, according to reports.

Thursday 8 November 2012, 02:03PM

Thai-American wins seat in Congress

PHUKET: Voters in Illinois, the home state of President Barack Obama, have elected the first person of Thai origin to the US Congress.

Thursday 8 November 2012, 10:37AM

Sydictive New Year Phuket megaparty details still hazy

PHUKET: Confusion remains over the finer details of the Paris Hilton-announced New Year’s party on Surin Beach, with organisers yet to be granted permission for the floating offshore stage.

Thursday 8 November 2012, 09:47AM

Phuket dugong dies from propeller wounds