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Taxi blockade at airport. Another protest - outside Governor's mansion. Dredging at Bang Tao Klong nearly complete.

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The Big List: Ghost Towns

THE BIG LIST: “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.” Shelley’s poem Ozymandias, a vision of lost ruins in the desert, mocks the ultimate fate of even greatest human cities, and the greatest vanities. Here are a few of the more unusual ghost towns you’ll find dotted around the world.

‘Ugly’ fish face up to extinction

WEIRD WORLD: They may be last of their species – and scientists joke they may be too ugly to breed. London Zoo has appealed to fish keepers to find a mate for their two tropical Mangarahara cichlids, which come originally from Madagascar.

Stray dogs sniff out human remains

WEIRD WORLD: A Polish businessman who stashed human body parts in a city warehouse instead of incinerating them was exposed by local stray dogs, who started gathering hungrily outside.

Phuket hotel figures soar

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 6 November 2012, 02:59PM

PHUKET: Phuket delivered outstanding performances in occupancy rate and revenue per available room (RevPAR) of all destinations in Asia Pacific covered by the August STR Global report.

Thailand ‘a hot target’ for hotel investors

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 6 November 2012, 02:57PM

THAILAND: Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels (JLLH) are tipping Thailand as a hotel investment market to watch.

Scam artist nets B1.5m from Phuket victim

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 6 November 2012, 02:53PM

PHUKET: Chawwarote Jangjob, 44, was arrested yesterday for scamming a local man out of B1.5 million by posing as a representative of Phuket’s new Police Chief, Maj Gen Chote Chavalviwat.

‘Ultra-luxury’ cruises head for Phuket

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 6 November 2012, 02:50PM

PHUKET: Miami-based “ultra luxury” cruising company SeaDream Yacht Club has released details of its first ever season sailing in Asia and northern Australia, which will include a stop in Phuket.

Obama, Romney end tumultuous White House campaign

Phuket News / World

Tuesday 6 November 2012, 12:08PM

WORLD: Barack Obama and Mitt Romney made their final cases to Americans on election eve Monday, capping a grueling, negative, multi-billion dollar campaign and handing their fates to voters.

DNP cancels massive park fees hike

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 6 November 2012, 10:53AM

THAILAND: In the face of a deluge of criticism from the travel industry, the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) has cancelled its planned massive hike in park entry fees.

Gov stresses construction standards after wall collapse

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 5 November 2012, 06:47PM

PHUKET: Governor Maitree Intusut visited the Senses Beach Resort in Nanai Rd, Patong, yesterday (November 4) to inspect the damage caused when a four-metre-high boundary wall of the hotel collapsed the day before onto houses below it.

Kasikorn Phuket bank robber had done it before

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 5 November 2012, 06:22PM

PHUKET: Anudit Kaewmookda, who robbed the Kasikorn Bank branch on Thepkrasattri Rd last Wednesday (October 31), escaping with B2.7 million, has confessed to pulling off another bank robbery, on January 29 this year.

Central Festival Phuket East opens

Phuket News / Business

Monday 5 November 2012, 03:48PM

PHUKET: The grand opening will not be until December 15 but “Central Festival Phuket East” is now open for business.

Protesters block new Phuket Red Shirt Village plan

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 5 November 2012, 02:21PM

PHUKET: Two groups of local people calling themselves the “Phuket Urban Anti-Red” and the “Phuket Model Banish Red Shirt Village” gathered at the Dragon Park on Thalang Rd in Phuket Town yesterday morning (November 4) to protest once more against any attempt to establish a Red Shirt Village on the island.

Phuket-bound tourists injured in bus smash

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 5 November 2012, 12:56PM

PHUKET: Around 11 tourists were injured when a bus suffered a tyre blowout and smashed into a concrete wall in Phang Nga yesterday (November 4).

75-year-old Phuket man hurt after crashing into dog

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 5 November 2012, 11:13AM

PHUKET: A 75-year-old foreign motorcyclist, Jean Marie Aug, was taken to Patong hospital after crashing into a dog on Nanai Rd, Patong, on Friday evening.

Two arrested for skimming Phuket ATM

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 5 November 2012, 11:01AM

PHUKET: Two Bulgarian men were arrested last night (November 4) when they went to retrieve sophisticated “skimming” equipment they had installed in an ATM.

Two dead, three injured from carbon monoxide poisoning

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 5 November 2012, 02:12AM

PHUKET: A 30-year-old Burmese worker and his colleague are dead and three others are severely injured after suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning while they slept.

Newborn left in controversial Belgian 'babybox'

Phuket News / World

Sunday 4 November 2012, 06:07PM

WORLD: A newborn baby boy has been left in a "babybox" in the Belgian city of Antwerp, the latest unwanted infant whose parents have taken advantage of a controversial charity scheme, the Belga news agency reported Sunday.

China ex-minister formally expelled from party: media

Phuket News / Asia

Sunday 4 November 2012, 06:06PM

ASIA: China's ruling Communist party formally expelled former Railways Minister Liu Zhijun on Sunday, paving the way for a trial over alleged bribe-taking of 800 million yuan ($128 million), state media said.

Poland reburies former president after body mix-up

Phuket News / World

Sunday 4 November 2012, 06:06PM

WORLD: Poland has reburied the body of its last leader-in-exile Ryszard Kaczorowski after a mix-up over the remains of some victims of a 2010 presidential plane crash in Russia that killed 96 people including the then head of state.

Operators say B100m tourism business threatened by shallowing channel

Phuket News / Thailand

Sunday 4 November 2012, 06:03PM

THAILAND: Tour boats headed for Koh Chang and Koh Pyam islands are being impeded by repeated silting of the channel used for access to Pak Nam pier in Ranong town, endangering a 100-million-baht tourism business.

Proposal to merge 50 ‘black plate’ Phuket taxis with airport fleet

Phuket News / Phuket

Sunday 4 November 2012, 05:53PM

PHUKET: As part of the current effort to legalise Phuket’s enormous fleet of unregistered taxis by early next year, it has been proposed that 50 vehicles be merged into the Phuket Mai Khao and Sahakorn Rot taxi associations working Phuket International Airport.

Naughty monk arrested for lewd behaviour

Phuket News / Thailand

Saturday 3 November 2012, 04:52PM

THAILAND: A 70-year-old monk has attracted attention of the wrong kind after he found himself arrested after displaying his private parts to a 55-year-old woman.

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