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bbc.co.uk US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney have battled over national security, in the third and final televised presidential debate. The two candidates are running neck and neck with two weeks until the election.
dailymail.co.uk A Dallas insurance company that paid out $7.5 million in bonus money to Lance Armstrong for his Tour de France victories said they are seeking to get their money back. It was ''improper'' for him to keep the money, a spokesperson said.
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thephuketinsider.com The paparazzi are expected to come out for a mega Sydictive Element New Year's Eve Party on Surin Beach. On show will be a reported floating stage located in the sea and international glamor girl Paris Hilton.
Paris Hilton tweets: At the Sydictive Element Launch Party at Zense in #Bangkok #Thailand to announce their amazing New Year's Eve Party in #Phuket.
Paris Hilton tweets: Very short but amazing first trip to #Bangkok #Thailand. Now at the airport getting ready to take off to New York. #Jetsetter ;)
manager.co.th Sydictive Element Music Festival is the world's top concert grand party that lasts up to 48 hours, which will be held to welcome the New Year on December 30-31 at Surin Beach on Phuket.
bangkokpost.com Cabinet approved a budget of 517.34 million baht for 27 development projects proposed by a group of four southern provinces along the coast of the Gulf of Thailand, government spokeswoman Sansanee Nakpong said.
bbc.co.uk Three people have been killed in clashes between Muslims and Buddhists in the western Burmese state of Rakhine, officials say. Some 300 houses in a number of villages have been burnt down in the first serious violence since June when a state of emergency was declared after deadly clashes.
telegraph.co.uk An Italian court convicted six scientists and a government official for failing to give adequate warning of the 6.3 strength earthquake which destroyed the city of L'Aquila and killed 309 people in 2009. The seven, all members of a body called The National Commission for the Forecast and Prevention of Major Risks, were charged with negligence and malpractice.
afp Months after taking to the skies with Thailand's first transsexual air crew, fledgling carrier PC Air has suspended services over financial troubles that left passengers stranded in South Korea.
bangkokpost.com Army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha is calling on state agencies to help the military and the police win support from the people in the far South to end the region's persistent violence.
dailymail.co.uk Max Hastings writes: Most of the men and women who rise to the top of the BBC hierarchy are self-serving bureaucrats of meagre abilities and scant editorial judgment. Their most conspicuous skill is in securing extravagant rewards. Their most consistent characteristic is cowardice. The Savile scandal has exposed a profound malaise which will take years to cure.
independent.co.uk Two more tabloid newspapers were dragged into the phone-hacking scandalwith the former England football manager Sven Goran Errikson among four people intending to sue the Daily Mirror and the Sunday People. Mr Errikson's action against the Daily Mirror relates to a period when [CNN celebrity] Piers Morgan was serving as editor.
aap Disgraced media magnate Conrad Black has compared News Ltd boss Rupert Murdoch to Joseph Stalin saying: ''Mr Murdoch is a psychopath, a person of no emotional or ethical thought, governed entirely by an expedient analysis of what his self-interest requires.''
cnn.com Burma's leader has held his first press conference since taking power in 2011, in a show of openness for the once secretive and repressive regime. President Thein Sein fielded around 30 questions from reporters at his residence.
nationmultimedia.com Everything is set for the Bangsaen Thailand Open World Tour powered by PTT at Bangsaen Beach, with volleyball teams hitting the beach today. The week-long tournament, featuring 49 women's teams from 20 different countries, was previously held on Phuket.
exhibitionworld.co.uk Local politicians and tourism industry groups in Phuket have lashed out against a Thailand Cabinet decision to drop plans for an international convention and exhibition centre on the southern island. Phuket Tourism Association vice-president Bhurritt Maswongsa told Phuketwan the project was another sign that the current government didn't care about the southern region and was ignoring the three elements Phuket's tourism future required: Safety, security and sustainability.
pattayadailynews.com A 25-year-old Russian tourist was slashed five times with a knife during a street robbery in Jomtien by two men who fled on a motorbike. The thieves stole her handbag and tried to yank a gold necklace from her neck, but she resisted and ran for help, seriously bleeding from her wounds.
smh.com.au The IMF says Taiwan now almost equals Australia in output and GDP per head. But its currency has been held down to a third of the $A's value, to keep its manufacturing competitive with China.
guardian.co.uk Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has proved he is not only alive but still kicking with a scathing attack on the ''imperialist media'' for spreading rumors that he was either dead or in a neuro-vegetative state.
Phuket World Sports Wrap
guardian.co.uk Lance Armstrong ''has no place in cycling'' and has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after the sport's world governing body, the UCI accepted the findings of the United States Anti-Doping Agency's investigation.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk West Yorkshire Police Chief Constable Sir Norman Bettison ''boasted'' about smearing Liverpool fans in the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster, a senior Labour MP has claimed. Shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle claimed Sir Norman, who was a chief inspector with South Yorkshire Police at the time of the 1989 tragedy, revealed he had been asked to help ''concoct'' the force's version of events.
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Phuket Coming Events 2012
Until October 24 Phuket Vegetarian Festival
October 21-24 Phuket International Sports Fishing titles
November 25 Laguna Phuket Triathlon
November 28 Loy Kratong Day
November 30 AustCham Phuket sundowners social and business networking
December 1 World AIDs Day
December 1-8 King's Cup Regatta
December 5 HM The King's Birthday
December 10 Constitution Day
December 15-20 Patong Carnival
December 25 Christmas Day
Phuket Coming Events 2014
November 14-21 Fourth Asia Beach Games, Phuket
"Army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha is calling on state agencies to help the military and the police win support from the people in the far South to end the region's persistent violence."
What ever happened to the well publised "ceasefire"? Did anyone really believe it was going to happen, especially after the army said the insurgence would still be punished by the law, but no mention that they themselves would be treated the same.
Posted by dbate_me on October 23, 2012 07:57