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eurosport Mark Webber will leave Formula 1 at the end of the season. The Australian will join Porsche's new sportscar program, which will tackle the Le Mans 24 Hours race in 2014.
PhuketWATCH Daily Media Wrap
PHUKET: The daily wrap of Thailand news, with a Phuket perspective, plus relevant reports from national and international media. Beware of inconsistent imitations.
Phuket Update Phuket FC got off to a flying start in the Thai Com FA Cup with a 2-0 victory over Premier League team Ratchaburi FC last night. Whether the good form can generate a late Phuket FC charge to the top in Division One is the next challenge.
nationmultimedia.com VietJetAir will launch scheduled flights by early next year from Suvarnabhumi to Phuket, Chiang Mai and Had Yai, as well as charter flights to China. Thai AirAsia is confident despite the arrival of Lion Air and VietJetAir, launched just two years ago.
bangkokpost.com On the heels of its first subsidiary airline in Thailand, Vietnam's low-cost carrier is in talks to create similar joint-venture carriers in Burma, Cambodia and Laos and is eyeing opportunities in China, Indonesia and Malaysia.
nationmultimedia.com The Environment Office affirmed that Indonesian forest-fire haze hovering over Thailand's lower South is declining. Phuket, Songkhla, Narathiwat and Yala saw less amounts of tiny-particle dust from the previous day, they said.
news.com.au Governor-General Quentin Bryce has invited former PM Kevin Rudd to be sworn in again as Australia's leader. Rudd's return as Labor leader has triggered the prospect of an August election, a wholesale clean-out of the cabinet and a dramatic rewrite of key policies.
smh.com.au In a day of high drama Rudd defeated Australia's first female PM Julia Gillard 57-45 in a party-room vote, but the switch came with significant political fallout as six ministers resigned.
bangkokpost.com Six monks in America have come under fire from laymen for their smartphone shopping, queuing to buy coffee and eating in a US steakhouse - as the National Office of Buddhism replies it is inappropriate, but not serious misbehavior.
thelocal.se Thai police have now opened an investigation into why a Swedish man was allowed to leave the country while under suspicion for the murder of a New Zealand man, with investigators seeking to assess whether any officials accepted bribes.
scmp.com Police in Port Moresby are still hunting attackers who hacked to death four Chinese nationals at a grocery store, the Chinese embassy in Papua New Guinea said.
illawarramercury.com.au The family of Joshua Smits, 24, who died after reportedly leaping from the balcony of a Phuket hotel, say they are awaiting answers on the circumstances surrounding his death. Sister Casey Rey said the family had opted not to travel to Phuket after consulting embassy officials.
smh.com.au The worst may have passed for the Australian dollar and it could start to stabilise just above 92 US cents, currency strategists say.
foxnews.com AC Milan president Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to seven years in prison after he was found guilty of paying for sex with 17-year-old Karima El Mahroug. The 76-year-old Berlusconi has said he will appeal the charges.
reuters A former US spy agency contractor facing charges of espionage remained in hiding at a Moscow airport while the prospect grew of a protracted Russian-US wrangle over his fate.Ecuador, where Edward Snowden has requested asylum, said a decision could take months.
globaltimes.cn Media in South China's Guangdong Province revealed that giving men ''happy ending'' masturbation in exchange for money is not considered an act of prostitution, and those who provide these services will not face prosecution. Local residents in Guangdong seem unperturbed.
reuters Billionaire Marc Rich, who invented modern oil trading and was pardoned by President Bill Clinton over tax evasion, racketeering and busting sanctions with Iran, died in Switzerland aged 78.
Phuket World Sports Wrap
bbc.co.uk Defending champion Roger Federer suffered his earliest exit at Wimbledon since 2002 with a second-round defeat to world number 116 Sergiy Stakhovsky. Seven-time winner Federer, 31, lost 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 (7-5) 7-5 7-6 (7-5) on a dramatic day that had seen a record seven players retire through injury.
reuters Andy Murray kept his feet while all around him were losing theirs to negotiate his way past a tricky second round opponent as Wimbledon descended into a chaotic flurry of skids, shocks and drop outs.
metro.co.uk Third seed Maria Sharapova repeatedly lost her footing and eventually her place in the tournament to Michelle Larcher De Brito 6-3, 6-4. Second seed Victoria Azarenka pulled out of her match with Flavia Pennetta after failing to recover from a knee injury she suffered when slipping on Monday.
Phuket Coming Events 2013
July 6-7 Phuket Air Show and Family Picnic, Phuket Air Park
July 17-21 Cape Panwa Hotel Phuket Raceweek
July 22 Arsarnha Bucha Day
August 12 HM The Queen's Birthday
October 5-13 Phuket Vegetarian Festival
October 23 Chulalongkorn Memorial Day
October 29-November 3 Womens' volleyball, Karon beach
November 17 Loy Kratong Day
November 24-December 1 Challenge Laguna Phuket Tri-Fest. Laguna Phuket
December 5 HM The King's birthday
Phuket Coming Events 2014
January 9-12 Phuket International Boat Show, Royal Phuket Marina
November 14-21 Fourth Asia Beach Games, Phuket
