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Phuket Tunnel 'Approved Within Months'

Phuket Tunnel 'Approved Within Months'

Phuket Tuk-Tuks, Taxis Probe by Bangkok

Phuket Tuk-Tuks, Taxis Probe by Bangkok

Wild Phuket Brawl: Aussies Seriously Hurt

Wild Phuket Brawl: Aussies Seriously Hurt

Phuket Action on Jet-Skis Welcomed

Phuket Action on Jet-Skis Welcomed

Phuket Targets Drinkers, Venues for Safety

Phuket Targets Drinkers, Venues for Safety

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Phuket Defamed as 'Elephant-Eating' Myth Runs Amok Worldwide

Bruised Phuket Flower Seller, Aged Seven, Says She is From Vietnam

Krabi Spends Big on Projects, and a Monkey Holding a Coconut

Koreans Love Phuket, Russians Love Thailand; Top Brands Eye Burma; Phuket Events

Phuket Boat Show Showcases Region for the Wealthy

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Phuket Families Face Mass Eviction in Property Dispute

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Onlookers at the site where the nameless expat was found hanged

Phuket Expat Body Found Hanged in Jungle Near Freedom Beach

Latest An expat man with no identification has been found hanged from a tree not far from Freedom Beach, the third in a coincidental string of deaths this year.

The greatest nation in the world? Perhaps, for a fortunate few

Racism and Refugees: We're All in the Same Boat

Australia Day speech Boatpeople come in different sizes, colors, and degrees of social standing. Here's a powerful Australia Day speech with relevance to all on board Phuket, rich or poor, privileged or classless.

Patong venue owners say they struggle to make money without opening late

Patong Venues 'Struggle to Make Money' Under 2am Curfew

Latest A spokesperson for entertainment venues in Patong says that it seems unfair for bars and nightspots to pay nearly 10 million baht a month to stay open, then to be closed down.

Dr Porntip Rojanasunan, asked to investigate Phuket ''spider'' death

Dr Porntip to Probe Phuket 'Spider' Death Riddle

Latest Thailand's foremost pathologist, Dr Porntip Rojanasunan, is to investigate the mysterious death of a Phuket man, possibly from an exotic spider bite.

One of the spiders sampled by Mai Khao residents yesterday amid concerns over the death of a man from an unknown bite

TAT Seeks More Cash; Coup Takes Control; Aussie Tourist Killed; Call to Cut Visitors; Capitalism Over?; Phuket Events

Phuket News UPDATE TAT seeks big budget boost; Jeremy Renner back acting; Why Thailand needs quality, not quantity; Liverpool's big draw; Tuber dies in Laos; More world sport.

RESTAURANTS / EVENTS / NIGHTLIFE

At 380 baht perhaps the taste is fabulous, but will it fill your tummy?

Phuket's Muslims Create Field For 20,000

At 380 baht perhaps the taste is fabulous, but will it fill your tummy?

Phuket's The Bay Regatta Tops for the Sights

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Re: Phuket Expat Body Found Hanged in Jungle Near Freedom Beach
Glassy wrote on Saturday January 28, 2012 at 06:09

On a related topic of a body of a foreign man found floating off Coral Island: There's been a fair few of those in re...

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Re: Bruised Phuket Flower Seller, Aged Seven, Says She is From Vietnam
Talisman wrote on Saturday January 28, 2012 at 07:36

We lived near a flower seller in Chalong; she spent her days working at a cafe then weaving the flowers for sale that...

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Re: Wild Phuket Brawl: Aussies Seriously Hurt
michael wrote on Saturday January 28, 2012 at 06:39

does not matter where they come from if there is trouble the police need to sort it out, not the local groups tuk-tuk...

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Re: Patong Venues 'Struggle to Make Money' Under 2am Curfew
Pete wrote on Saturday January 28, 2012 at 06:27

Sorry Mr Ree but night clubs around the world don't open until 10 or 11 pm and most of therm stay open until around 6...

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