bangkokpost.com Residents of a Krabi village have voted to force True Corp to remove its mobile-phone cell tower from the Khiriwong sub-district neighborhood over fears about radiation.


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nationmultimedia.com Police found evidence during a search of three homes belonging to security guards working at Central Festival on Samui that they believe is linked to the car-bomb attack on the shopping mall on Friday night. The three guards were detained for questioning.

stltoday.com Plagued by dysfunctional leadership, facilities that are falling apart and a campus lacking basic services offered at a typical college, Webster University's leadership needs to decide whether to upgrade its Thailand location or abandon it, a report released by the university on Monday says. It describes dozens of significant trouble areas for the school, ranging from facilities overrun by pests to a toxic culture where students commonly believe their administrators are crooks.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/webster-u-acknowledges-failures-of-thailand-campus/article_5792b316-c560-5953-a6a4-7af5f1f0e36d.html



bangkokpost.com Thailand has made its case in writing to move up from the Tier 3 list of world's worst human trafficking violators, and it's now entirely up to Washington.



AP President Barack Obama has nominated a former US envoy for North Korea policy, Glyn Davies, as ambassador to Thailand. The White House announced the nomination. The Senate has to approve Davies' appointment, which comes amid strains in the US-Thai alliance.

masslive.com Phuket police have curtailed their search for a Holyoke native missing off the coast while on a SCUBA diving trip, and Joshua Devine's wife, Tassana, is not happy. ''This is not a search,'' she told a reporter for Phuketwan.com, ''This is sight-seeing.''

bangkokpost.com You can't book a ticket on a Thai airline to Japan after next month, when Tokyo will decide whether to continue ''temporary'' landing rights.

scmp.com China's exports and imports both fell sharply last month, sparking concern about the health of the world's second-largest economy, although the slip failed to prevent the stock markets from posting another day of frenzied rises.

bangkokpost.com About 100 angry youths and Ayutthaya street vendors protested against provincial authorities, police and soldiers prohibiting them from organising a live concert and foam party on U-Thong road to celebrate the Songkran festival.

nytimes.com Prosecutors have filed homicide charges against a sheriff's department volunteer who fatally shot, apparently by accident, an unarmed suspect who was lying in the street, believing he was firing a Tazer, not a pistol.

cnn.com The real lure is what Koh Phayam came without. No traffic. No full-moon parties. And none of the unfettered development that has turned Koh Samui and many Thai islands into parodies of their former stunning selves.

scmp.com Taiwan said it would try to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as a regular member, after Beijing on Monday turned down its request to become a founding member.



SMALL motorcycles are deadly. Over the next decade, they are on course to claim more lives in the developing world than HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. The most obvious way to cut down on motorcycle fatalities would be to wear a helmet. But the laws are lightly enforced and largely ignored.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/helmet-use-cambodia/

Try Phuketwan's Asean Today daily:
http://phuketwan.com/tourism/asean-today-body-river-expands-games-why-motorcycles-kill-sultan-bling-22253/



afp Raheem Sterling helped Liverpool keep alive their hopes of finishing inside the Premier League's top four and securing a place in next season's Champions League with a 2-0 victory over 10-man Newcastle United at Anfield.

smh.com.au Formula One championship leader Lewis Hamilton has been criticised for again spraying champagne over a visibly uncomfortable hostess after claiming victory in the Chinese Grand Prix.

dailymail.co.uk Charity runners taking part in a 10km fun run at the weekend were left exhausted after being sent on an unscheduled two-mile detour. The blunder was believed to have been caused by a race marshal taking a toilet break during the event, missing 300 runners who should have been directed at a junction point.



Until April 19 Phuket Bike Week

May 4 Additional public holiday scheduled

June 20-21 Baba wedding at Old Phuket Town

July 15-19 Cape Panwa Hotel Phuket Raceweek