UPDATE
OSCARS 2012 Best Picture: The Artist; Best Actor, Jean Dujardin for The Artist; Best Actress: Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady; Best Director, Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist; Best Supporting Actor, Christopher Plummer; Best Supporting Actress, Octavia Spencer.
afp Flamboyant British comic Sacha Baron Cohen pulled a stunt on the Oscars red carpet, pretending to pour the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il's ashes onto an interviewer.
PhuketWatch Daily Media Wrap
PHUKET: A daily wrap of Thailand news, with a Phuket perspective, plus relevant reports from national and international media.
Phuket Update This afternoon's meeting of Phuket honorary consuls with Phuket administrators has some hot competition for attention from the Oscars and from the vote by MPs in Australia to support Prime Minister Julia Gillard 71-31 over Kevin Rudd.
smh.com.au Julia Gillard strides down the corridors of Parliament House into the Labor caucus room in fighting red, surrounded by her closest supporters in a scene reminiscent of 'Reservoir Dogs.'
telegraph.co.uk Producers for the Oscars ceremony will be hoping that the show does not lose its status as the second most-watched TV event in the US behind the Super Bowl, after a strong showing by the Grammys.
Associated Press Adam Sandler received a record 11 nominations on Saturday for the worst-movie Razzies as star, producer or writer of three 2011 movies: Jack and Jill, Just Go With It and Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star.
nationmultimedia.com Democrat MP Boonyod Sooktinthai brought empty liquor bottles found in a garbage dumpster at Parliament as proof of lawmakers drinking - but he stopped short of pointing a finger at Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung.
Phuket Update The mascots for the National Youth Games on Phuket from May 26 to June 5 have been chosen and will go on sale in two sizes, at 250 baht and 350 baht. About 14,000 participants and officials will be on Phuket for the games from every Thai province. Phuket sports spaces are now being upgraded.
bangkokpost.com Three more Iranians were detained by the police on suspicion of involvement in the bombings on February 14. The two men and one woman were identified as Madani Seyed Mehrded, Rahimi Rad Iraj, a chef at a hotel in Soi Nana, and his wife Mahboobh Tasbehi.
nationmultimedia.com Would Aung San Suu Kyi say that the reform process in Burma is irreversible: "I do not know whether the army is behind the reform. We do not know where the army stands in regard to the reforms and I've always said that until we know that the army is solidly behind the reform movement, we cannot say the process is irreversible."
wsj.com Budget airlines are dramatically expanding the number of inexpensive, long-distance flights across Asia, hoping the region's dynamism can lift the standard curse of long-distance bargain carriers: They rarely earn money.
Associated Press A 12-year-old boy has died of bird flu on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, bringing the human death toll in the country worst hit by the illness to 154 since 2005, a health official said.
bbc.co.uk Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been discharged from hospital, one day after being admitted because of a long-standing abdominal complaint.
pattayadailynews.com Pattaya police arrested a retired Air Force Briton Norman Wallis while he was having sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old-boy in a parked car. The 79-year-old claimed that he did not know that it was against the law.
chinapost.com.tw Singapore is the third richest country in the world, ranking behind only Qatar and Luxembourg, according to Forbes magazine.
Phuket World Sports Wrap
guardian.co.uk An emotional Kenny Dalglish described Liverpool's Carling Cup final victory as the start of a new era of success for the Anfield club after they overcame a late scare and dramatic penalty shootout against Cardiff City to collect their first trophy in six years. Cardiff City 2-2 Liverpool (Liverpool 3-2 pens)
Associated Press Ryan Giggs marked his 900th game for United by scoring a stoppage-time winner in a 2-1 win at Norwich. United is two points behind Manchester City.
guardian.co.uk Arsene Wenger believes Arsenal can still overhaul Tottenham Hotspur and secure automatic qualification for the Champions League after describing his side's comeback to thrash their north London rivals 5-2 as ''perfect''.
smh.com.au Ably led in the field by Shane Watson in his debut game as captain after three months on the sidelines, Australia's resounding 87-run bonus-point victory booked the hosts a berth in the finals and left the Indians with an unsavoury taste in their mouths nearing the end of a nightmare tour.
the-afc.com Thailand demolished Australia 7-0 to enter into the final of the ongoing Asean Zone qualifiers eventually booking a berth in the 2012 AFC Futsal Championship which will be held in the UAE in May.
Phuket Coming Events 2012
March 10-11 Weekend fairs begin at Boat Lagoon, Phuket City
March 29-April 1 Phuket International Boat Show, Royal Phuket Marina
April 6-8 Phuket Bike Week
April 12-13 Songkran New Year Festival
April 23-28 Phuket Pride Festival
April Opening of Gardens by the Bay, Singapore, three waterfront gardens that will dwarf Kew in London and provide ''green lungs'' for the city.
May 5 Krabi celebrates the province's 140th anniversary
May 26-June 5 National Youth Games, Phuket
Phuket Coming Events 2014
November 14-21 Fourth Asia Beach Games, Phuket
If Phuket Wan is an English written Web Site can you write in English please...Labour has a "U" in it as does colour, American short-cut so called grammar really is annoying.
Posted by Nick on February 27, 2012 15:58
Editor Comment:
Sorry to disturb your conventional mindset, Nick, but the official name of the party is the Australian Labor Party. And that goes back to 1891. As with 'programme' usurping the much more practical 'program', many of the flourishes in English english are actually poncy additions that the Americans are right to exclude.