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independent.co.uk A Thai satellite has captured images showing up to 300 objects floating in the southern Indian Ocean, around 200km from the area where recovery teams are searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
ap Buddhist-led mobs hurled stones at the offices and homes of international aid workers in Myanmar's western Rakhine state on Thursday, prompting police to evacuate some of the workers from their houses, residents and officials said.
bbc.com An air and sea search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane has again been suspended because of bad weather in the southern Indian Ocean.
andrew-drummond.com Thai Anti-Narcotics Police working with Australian Federal Police have seized over 147 kilograms of heroin from an Australian run frozen seafood company in Thailand. The stash was believed to be destined for Australia - hidden in seafood containers.
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bangkokpost.com Land transport authorities have revealed 45 percent of double-decker buses have failed basic safety tests. Seven highways unsafe for Thailand's 6200 double-deckers include Krabi-Phangnga, the Transport Minister said. The death toll from this week's ravine crash is 29.
bangkokpost.com Hundreds of dog skins have been found dumped in a forest in Sakhon Nakon province in an area notorious for exporting canine meat and skins used for making leather for items such as golf gloves, police said.
huffingtonpost.com Greta Van Susteren apologised for "insulting" Thailand. She recently called the country's government out for taking 10 days to hand over radar data in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Van Susteren had called Thailand ''the lamest country of the day'' and government officials there a bunch of ''jerks'': ''To Thailand, I'm sorry I got mad and I'm sorry I insulted them.''
bangkokpost.com Red shirt leader Nattawut Saikuar produced a new list of who he thinks will be appointed in case of a ''neutral'' government while protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban said the way to find out the name of the next prime minister is for Yingluck Shinawatra to resign.
Latest on Lost Flight MH370
usatoday.com The pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet is believed to be solely responsible for the flight being taken off course and there is no evidence of a mechanical failure or hijacking by a passenger, according to an law enforcement official involved in the investigation.
nydailynews.com Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was reportedly crushed that his wife had decided to move out and was also having problems with another woman with whom he was romantically involved, according to a friend, who is also a pilot. ''He's one of the finest pilots around and I'm no medical expert,'' said the friend, who is also a pilot and insisted on not being identified. ''But with all that was happening in his life, Zaharie was probably in no state of mind to be flying.''
cnn.com A Chicago-based attorney has taken the first formal legal steps related to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Monica Kelly, an attorney at Ribbeck Law, asked a state judge to order the airline and manufacturer of the missing plane to provide an extensive list of information.
reuters New satellite images have revealed more than 100 objects in the southern Indian Ocean that could be debris from a Malaysian jetliner missing for 18 days, while planes scouring the frigid seas also reported seeing potential wreckage.
sg.news.yahoo.com Malaysian Home Minister Zahid chronicled how two Iranians travelled to Doha, Qatar and then Phuket, where they bought the stolen passports believed to be priced at US$10,000 each. He confirmed that the two left Thailand and entered Malaysia using the stolen passports.
time.com The current search area is also located in an area with great underwater volcanic activity, making the sea floor extremely rugged.
bbc.com If anger continues to build against the Chinese leadership, the families could be entering very dangerous territory. Chinese police are now preventing journalists from meeting family members inside the Beijing hotel where the relatives receive their daily briefings - an ominous sign that the government will not accept any more public protests.
Phuket World of People
bangkokpost.com Police will start foot patrols in Cherng Talay on Phuket today to look for clues to help them find missing Russian businessman Alexei Slabinskiy. Cherng Talay is where 23-year-old Yana Strizheus was discovered injured in a hotel room on March 16, more than a week after the couple were reported missing on the island.
blackpoolgazette.co.uk The family of British barber Stephen Campbell, 38, who died in a jet-ski crash in Pattaya, will not have to pay 30,000 pounds to repatriate his body. An insurance company reviewed the case and said they would cover the cost.
nationmultimedia.com Four workers were found dead after inhaling hydrogen sulphide while cleaning a waster-water management system's pool in Phuket City, police said.
bangkokpost.com Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva is in good spirits in hospital after fracturing his right collarbone in a fall at his home.
nationmultimedia.com More than 200 illegal Muslim migrants arrested in Songkhla this month have their ethnic roots in Anatolia - the Asian region of Turkey - but it will take some more time to identify their exact nationality, said Immigration Division 6 commander Thatchai Pitaneelaboot.
news.com.au Lachlan Murdoch has been appointed non-executive co-chairman of 21st Century Fox and News Corp, the company announced.
usatoday.com As more bodies were found in the remains of the deadly Oso mudslide in rural Washington state, there was a glimmer of bright news with a video of the dramatic helicopter rescue of a four-year-old boy trapped in a mountain of clay.
AP The House Foreign Affairs Committee called for an end to persecution of Burma's minority Rohingya Muslims in one of the strongest US congressional criticisms yet of Burma's reformist government.
irrawaddy.org Burma's ambassador to Washington rejected allegations of mistreatment against minorities and said the government won't tolerate incitement to religious hatred.
bangkokpost.com The Appeals Court upheld the acquittal of computer programmer Surapak Phuchaisaeng on a charge of lese majeste. The Appeals Court rectified the ''incomplete verdict'' of the court of first Instance and ordered the return of Mr Surapak's computers that were seized by police.
nationmultimedia.com The number of new residential projects launched in Bangkok and its suburbs this year is likely to be between 25 percent and 35 percent down on last year's level.
nationmultimedia.com Some 500 Thai trawlers are being kept ashore as Indonesia closed its waters to Thai vessels in response to the death of two Indonesian navy personnel were reportedly killed by crew of Thai fishing boat.
news.com.au North Korean men have reportedly been ordered to get the same haircut as leader Kim Jong-un.
Phuket World SportsWrap
independent.co.uk Now Liverpool are the ones doing the grinding- grinding down the oldest enemy and, while Manchester United suffer, grinding out the wins on a turf which has assumed all the fearsome qualities it once possessed. Liverpool 2-1 Sunderland.
goal.com Manchester United's senior hierarchy is ''evaluating all possibilities'' as it attempts to arrest the club's steep descent under David Moyes.
bbc.com England all-rounder Ravi Bopara says Thursday's World Twenty20 game against Sri Lanka is a must-win if they are to progress from the Super 10 stage.
Phuket Coming Events 2014
March 30 Vote for Thailand senators, alcohol sales banned from 6pm March 29 to midnight March 30
April 6 Chakri Memorial Day
April 7 Substitute holiday for Chakri day
April 10-20 Phuket International Cricket, Republic Ground, Chalong
April 11-19 Phuket Bike Week
April 13-16 Songkran New Year Water Festival
April 20-27 Phuket Pride Week
April 26 Vote for mayor in Patong, alcohol sales banned in election area from 6pm April 25 to midnight April 26
May 24 Visakha Bucha Day
July 11 Arsanha Bucha Day
August 12 Queen's Birthday
September 24-October 2 Vegetarian Festival, Phuket
October 23 Chulalongkorn Memorial Day
November 6 Loy Kratong
November 14-21 Fourth Asia Beach Games, Phuket
December 5 King's Birthday
December 10 Constitution Day
December 25 Christmas Day
December 26 10th Anniversary, 2004 Tsunami
December 31 New Year's Eve
