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Thai aunt denies pimping girl in South Korea

BANGKOK: The aunt accused of luring her teenage niece into prostitution in South Korea has turned herself in, police investigating the case said yesterday.

Bomb kills five rangers in Thailand's restive south

BANGKOK: Five paramilitary rangers were killed and one other wounded in an ambush when suspected rebels detonated a bomb buried in a road in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south, local police said Friday.

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.

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.

Fire erupts in Tesco Lotus fruit smoothie shop

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 3 November 2012, 04:34PM

PHUKET: A fire broke out during the early hours of Saturday (November 3) in a second-floor fruit smoothie shop at the Tesco Lotus Supercenter in Rassada district, with the cause believed to be either an electrical short or an overheated electric water boiler.

Robber 'chose Kasikorn because there was no security guard'

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 3 November 2012, 02:13PM

PHUKET: Phuket Police held a press conference this morning to give details of the arrest of the Kasikorn bank robber Anusit “Aow” Keawmukda, saying he also robbed a gold shop in Bangkok in 2007.

Phuket hotel wall collapses on neighbourhood

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 3 November 2012, 12:29PM

PHUKET: A five-metre high wall at the Senses Beach Resort on Nanai Rd, Patong, collapsed on Saturday morning (November 3), with bricks, concrete, scaffolding and other building equipment falling onto houses below.

Phuket police arrest Kasikorn bank robber

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 3 November 2012, 11:58AM

PHUKET: Phuket police last night arrested the man believed to be responsible for robbing the Phuket Town Kasikorn bank branch on Wednesday.

Brit commits suicide from Phuket Town tower

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 2 November 2012, 01:56PM

PHUKET: A 64-year-old British man jumped to his death from the Phuket Tourist Police Headquarters’ Radio Broadcast Tower in Phuket Town this morning at 7:15 am.

Police recover 2.5 million from Phuket bank robbery

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 2 November 2012, 12:22PM

PHUKET: Following a raid on a house in Koh Kaew this morning, police have found B2.5 million of the missing money from Wednesday’s dramatic gunpoint bank robbery.

Top cop visits robbed Kasikorn bank

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 2 November 2012, 11:49AM

PHUKET: An investigation team led by the new Southern Thailand Police Commander, Pol. Maj. Gen. Yongyuth Jaroenmanit with his Region 8 team and the Phuket Provincial Police visited the robbed Kasikorn Bank branch on Wednesday (October 31) to inspect the premises and collect evidence.

‘Mum, I can breathe now’

Phuket News / Features

Friday 2 November 2012, 11:29AM

PHUKET: A Singaporean company provides life-changing machine for Petch, reports Nattha Thepbamrung.

Locals protest over loss of regular Phuket market

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 2 November 2012, 09:18AM

PHUKET:Around 50 local residents gathered at the Phuket Provincial Hall on November 1 to protest against the proposed new Chalong hospital on 10 rai of land just north of Chalong Circle.

New fight needed against killer malaria in Asia

Phuket News / Asia

Friday 2 November 2012, 09:14AM

ASIA: Asia accounts for 88 percent of all malaria cases and most of the 46,000 annual deaths occurring outside Africa, a new report shows Friday as experts demand more urgency in fighting the deadly disease.

Asia drug boom fuels surge in opium cultivation: UN

Phuket News / Asia

Friday 2 November 2012, 09:14AM

ASIA: Opium cultivation in Southeast Asia has doubled over the last six years as growing demand for heroin in China and the rest of Asia lures more farmers to grow poppies, the UN said Wednesday.

Thai prostitution network dismantled in Switzerland: police

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 2 November 2012, 09:13AM

THAILAND: Swiss police said Wednesday they had dismantled a network that imported Thai women and men and forced them to work as prostitutes in several Swiss cities.

Boy among six gunned down in Thai south

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 2 November 2012, 09:13AM

THAILAND: An 11-year-old boy was among six people killed in a spate of shootings in Thailand's restive south, police said Thursday, as a violence continues to roil the Muslim-majority area.

Australia wants closer ASEAN ties: FM Carr

Phuket News / Asia

Friday 2 November 2012, 09:11AM

ASIA: Australia will elevate its engagement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and seek to more closely align its foreign policy with that of the bloc, Foreign Minister Bob Carr said Friday.

One dead, one seriously injured after tuk tuk crash

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 1 November 2012, 04:40PM

PHUKET: A 20-year-old motorbike rider is dead after the bike he was driving crashed into a tuk-tuk on Wiset Rd, near the Le Meridien Phuket hotel around 2am this morning (November 1).

Grandfather and grandson drown at Phuket beach

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 1 November 2012, 03:49PM

PHUKET: A 70-year-old man and his three-year-old grandson drowned off Mai Khao beach around 10.30am this morning.

‘Put money in the bag’ – bank staff recount Phuket robbery

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 1 November 2012, 10:14AM

PHUKET: Police last night issued a B100,000 reward to anyone who can help catch the unidentified man who robbed the Kasikorn Bank branch on Thepkrassatri Rd yesterday afternoon, holding a female staff member at gunpoint as she was ordered to collect cash.

‘No boutique hotels will be affected’ – Sydictive

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 1 November 2012, 09:56AM

PHUKET: Representatives from Sydictive Element, the organisers of the Surin Beach New Year’s bash, spoke to The Phuket News yesterday while in Phuket, saying they do not feel that any boutique hotels in the area will be affected by the party.

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