reuters Former Olympic athlete and reality TV star Bruce Jenner, who is transitioning to life as a woman, revealed her new name as Caitlyn Jenner and posed in a white strapless leotard on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine.


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bbc.com A ship carrying more than 400 people has sunk in the Yangtze River in southern China, according to state media reports. The Xinhua News Agency said eight people had been rescued so far and work was under way to rescue the remaining passengers.

bangkokpost.com Opponents of a coal-fired power plant in Krabi will stage a rally this Saturday, calling on the government to scrap what they say will be a "disastrous" project. Protesters at Krabi provincial hall expect to be joined by networks of people from the six Andaman provinces, academics, and tourism and business operators.

bangkokpost.com Editorial: Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha should quash the defamation charges [against the two Phuketwan journalists] immediately and reprimand the officers who instituted the case.
http://bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/579663/phuketwan-suit-must-end



bangkokpost.com A Songkhla province court has approved an arrest warrant for a top army officer accused of smuggling Rohingya Muslim migrants into Thailand.

nationmultimedia.com A key piece of evidence implicating the Army general in human trafficking surfaced during the raid of the home of a key suspect last month in which bank transaction slips showing him as the recipient of a large amount of money were allegedly found.

reuters More than 700 migrants found packed aboard an overcrowded boat in the Andaman Sea were still being held offshore by Burma's navy on Monday, more than three days after the converted fishing vessel was intercepted.

AP ''No one should have to live like this, people are really suffering,'' said actor Matt Dillon, one of the first celebrities to get a first-hand look at what life is like for Rohingya in Burma's western state of Rakhine. ''They are being strangled slowly, they have no hope for the future and nowhere to go.''
hhttp://townhall.com/news/world/2015/06/01/matt-dillon-puts-rare-celebrity-spotlight-on-rohingya-n2006311

nationmultimedia.com Editorial: The ''special meeting on irregular migration'' might have eased some of the international pressure building on Thailand and her neighbors, but it did nothing to alleviate the plight of the Rohingya and other migrants.



telegraph.co.uk Bruce Jenner has appeared on the front cover of Vanity Fair as a woman. The former Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete and star of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, appears in women's clothing under the headline ''Call me Caitlyn''.

Phuket Update Police in Phuket's Thalang district have yet to identify a helmetless motorcycle rider who was killed in a head-on smash with a pickup as he rode the wrong way - a so-called ''ghost'' rider - along Thepkasattri Road in darkness at the weekend, just south of Phuket's Heroines Monument.

afp British woman Gemma Wale who kept her neighbors awake by engaging in enthusiastic love-making has been sentenced to two weeks in prison after a neighbor complained about her ''screaming and shouting''.

scmp.com A photographer has been heavily criticised on social media for carrying out a photo shoot of a near-naked model in the Forbidden City, the former imperial palace in the centre of Beijing, according to a newspaper report. Many internet users said the shoot was shameless and had profaned historical relics after a number of pictures showing the naked woman posing in front of white marble handrails and sitting on the head of a marble dragon circulated on the internet, The Beijing News reported.

independent.co.uk Up to 500 children reportedly kidnapped by Isis in Iraq could be used as suicide bombers and child soldiers, officials have claimed.

bbc.com A female tourist has been killed in a lion attack at a game park in South Africa. The lioness jumped through the open window of a car and mauled the woman thought to be from the US.

travelpulse.com Tragedy struck in Thailand last Wednesday when a man visiting the country from Kuwait was killed when his ankle straps broke and he fell 200 feet. According to Prasit Tarnsirisin of PhuketWan.com, 25-year-old Abdullah Adel Kadhmbadman was on vacation by himself when he decided to jump from the highest bungee in Phuket, Thailand.

theguardian.com Britain's Got Talent producers have apologised for not making it clearer that the winning act - a dog called Matisse - was substituted for a lookalike in the high-wire stunt that helped the animal and its owner win the talent competition.

thetimes.co.uk Three army reservists died after an SAS selection exercise that an officer had refused to cancel because it would involve ''too much paperwork,'' an inquest was told.

mirror.co.uk Britain's oldest sauropod dinosaur - nicknamed 'Alan' - has been identified from a fossil bone found in Yorkshire which was once England's 'Jurassic Park'.

theguardian.com Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is axing its free newspaper for Australian commuters, mX, as more readers choose to get their news from mobile devices.



aap Scores of asylum-seekers have come ashore in eastern Indonesia after their boat was intercepted by the Australian navy and pushed into Indonesian waters as they headed for New Zealand, police say.

Try Phuketwan's Asean Today daily:
http://phuketwan.com/tourism/asean-today-aussie-navy-turns-away-boat-seeks-solution-burma-depraved-pedophile-court-22584/


reuters Sweden's soccer authorities have not ruled out the possibility of a World Cup boycott in the wake of the controversy surrounding the re-election of Sepp Blatter as FIFA president, Swedish FA chairman Karl-Erik Nilsson told Reuters.



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