bangkokpost.com Apple Inc officially will bring its latest iPhone models to Thailand Oct 31, the California company announced.


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scmp.com China's central tourism authority has issued a warning about Bangkok-based budget airline Jet Asia Airways after 235 passengers were stranded at the Thai beach resort of Phuket on their way to the northern Chinese city of Shenyang.

bangkokpost.com People-smugglers kidnapped dozens of Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh after duping them with fake job offers, and trafficked them to a rubber plantation in southern Thailand, officials said. ''Two Thai men have been charged with human trafficking,'' said Nappadon Thiraprawat of Takua Pa police.

afp Most of the 53 were Rohingya from UN-run camps in Bangladesh, according to Chutima Sidasathian of the Phuketwan news website who was present during interviews with the group. ''This is a new thing . . . before, we saw Rohingya displaced by violence who wanted to get to Malaysia, but this wasn't their plan - these people want to go back to the UNHCR camps,'' she said.

bangkokpost.com Separatist gangs renewed their arson attacks on southern schools with a vengeance, burning down six Pattani schools in a night, leaving children without classrooms and bringing angry orders from army headquarters to track down the insurgents.



independent.ie Police in Thailand insist they have ''concrete'' evidence linking two Burmese men to the murders of British tourists Hannah Witheridge and David Miller, as they denied reports the suspects have withdrawn their confessions.



scmp.com A Texas health care worker has tested positive for Ebola even though she wore full protective gear while caring for an Ebola patient in hospital who later died, health officials said.



Phuket Update It's Police Day on Phuket and around Thailand with hundreds of officers expected to turn out to hear what their superior officers are seeking to achieve under the military. Corruption is no longer being tolerated.

Phuket Update Phuketwan encountered a pickup with two motorcycles and two riders in the tray at the Thachatchai checkpoint last night. The pickup was stopped. But hey, the two riders were telling the officer, we're both wearing helmets.

abc.net.au Disgraced South African athlete Oscar Pistorius will return to court today for sentencing over the negligent killing of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

nationmultimedia.com Instilling moral values could be the key to solving national woes, says likely National Reform Council chief Thienchai Kiranan. He says his main contribution will be to foster the concept of moral integrity in society, because this can solve deep-rooted problems that have contributed to Thailand's national crises.

nationmultimedia.com Just a week since its implementation, the Metropolitan Police's controversial campaign of rewarding traffic police 10,000 baht for arresting bribe-offering law-breakers appears doomed. The Traffic Police's caretaker commander, Colonel Apisit Muangkasem, issued a statement saying that the concerned police agencies had agreed the campaign should be suspended.

aap Jailed pedophile Rolf Harris could face fresh charges, with up to 10 new victims coming forward with accusations of sexual assault against the former children's entertainer.

cnn.com At least six people have died since Cyclone Hudhud hit the eastern coast of India, uprooting trees and utility poles. Authorities had evacuated 200,000 people ahead of its arrival.

foxnews.com Islamic State militants are claiming responsibility for a triple suicide bombing that killed at least 58 people in Iraq Sunday. Activists say Kurdish fighters have been able to halt the advance of the extremist group in the Syrian border town of Kobani.

nytimes.com Fighters for the Islamic State were managing to blend in with disenfranchised Sunni populations in some Iraqi towns and villages near the capital, raising the chances of militant attacks against targets in Baghdad, President Obama's top military adviser said.

andrew-drummond.com As Thai police reel from allegations of incompetence and beating suspects during their investigation into the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the island of Koh Tao perhaps an even more shocking story has come to light showing how Thai police invented a crime to arrest a British tourist.

news.com.au Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters have an ''almost zero chance'' of changing Beijing's stance and securing free elections despite more than two weeks of rallies, the city's embattled leader Leung Chun-ying says.

nationmultimedia.com Advertorials should be marked, a seminar entitled Revolution of News People, Revolution of the Media heard in Bangkok.

AP People dressed as clowns are causing a stir in California's San Joaquin Valley. The latest after-dark sighting came Saturday, when police in Bakersfield responded around 8pm to a report of a clown holding a firearm. Officers searched but didn't find anyone.



theaustralian.com.au For David Byron, whose teenage daughter Chloe died at the hand of Jemaah Islamiah radicals in the Bali bombings, the current wall-to-wall media coverage of terrorism is an acute reminder of how, 12 years on, the struggle continues. ''It seems to be constant,'' Mr Byron told The Australian at the annual Bali memorial event in Sydney.

citynews.ca Indonesian authorities will detain Canadian teacher Neil Bantleman, 45, for up to 30 more days on allegations of child sexual assault, according to his family.

onislam.net A human rights group has warned that a growing number of Rohingya Muslims have been facing state-sponsored torture and persecution over alleged affiliation to a vague militant organisation.



Phuket Update Phuket FC coach Reuther Moreira will be encouraged after his team delivered a 1-0 victory over third-placed Siam Navy to lift the island team out of the relegation zone to twelth position in Division One.

theage.com.au Australia clinched a one-day series win over Pakistan in Dubai on Friday, beating the host team by five wickets to take a 2-0 lead in the three-match cricket series.



October 23 Chulalongkorn Memorial Day

November 1-3 Patong Carnival

November 6 Loy Kratong

November 14-23 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



February 13-15 Phuket Yacht Show