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reuters More than 200 boatpeople held in southern Thailand will be pushed back out to sea, police said on Monday, despite calls by rights group to stop a policy that puts would-be asylum seekers at risk.
bangkokpost.com Southern provinces on the Andaman coast are being advised to brace for steady rain for two more days. The provinces are Ranong, Phang Nga, Phuket, and Trang.
bangkokpost.com A 62-year-old British man found dead in a hotel room in Chiang Mai province early Monday was believed to have died using a helium suicide mask, according to Thairath Online. A note indicated that the man intended to end his life by inhaling helium while listening to songs from a laptop.
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nationmultimedia.com Navy Region 2 sent a warship and an aircraft to search for the crew of a fishing boat reportedly sunk in the Gulf off southern Thailand. The Bt4-million Kor Phu-ngern fishing boat, after it was hit by four-metre waves. Phuket, Krabi, Phang Nga and other southern provinces face storms until Wednesday.
cnn.com After his party's drubbing in the midterm elections, President Barack Obama will wade into a mass of foreign policy challenges during his trip to Asia this week.
bangkokpost.com The head of the National Reform Council now says he expects success in six fields - including a halt to corruption and a system of fair justice.
Phuket World of People
bangkokpost.com A Belgian man died after his motorcycle crashed into a power pole in Hua Hin early Sunday. Xavier Marco, 45, was not wearing a helmet.
news.com.au She's the breakout star of Channel Nine's factual reality series 'Embassy.' Trudy McGowan's advice as First Secretary and Consul in the Australian embassy in Bangkok: ''Thailand can feel like Disneyland but you cannot forget that the law of that country is the law which applies to you. We don't have a magic wand to get you out or trouble.''
stickmanbangkok.com Have things changed much in Phuket since the military government took over? Despite what you hear with the words coup or military, I see it as a positive. It looks good to me that things are more orderly. People really now believe that there's a possibility that there will be less corruption, the Thai government could become easier to deal with, that things just seem to be more fair than they were before. Maybe it's an illusion, I don't know, but I am glad it happened.
bangkokpost.com Phuket immigration police have arrested Belgian Patrick Lagrou, 55, who is wanted in his home country for trade in contraband and growing marijuana, police said.
bangkokpost.com A 22-year-old Venezuelan was crowned Miss International Queen at a beauty contest in Pattaya that bills itself as the world's largest pageant for transsexuals and transvestites.
bbc.com Mexican authorities have arrested at least 14 students in Mexico City after protests over the suspected murder of 43 fellow students. The protesters attacked the National Palace, burning the main door and painting slogans on the walls.
pcworld.com ''In five years, most of [Facebook] will be video,'' CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during the company's first community town hall, in which he took questions from the public on a range of topics.
usatoday.com About 800,000 civilians have been mobilised to patrol Beijing neighborhoods in red armbands, and 1000 high-definition surveillance cameras with facial recognition were installed in Huairou District, where world leaders will gather for Apec Tuesday, state news agency Xinhua reported.
independent.co.uk One of the developers of the contraceptive pill has predicted his own invention will become redundant as more people choose to be sterilised, making sex purely recreational by 2050.
Around the Asean Region
outbreaknewstoday.com The number of dengue fever cases and deaths have increase by more than 10,000 and 20, respectively, in Malaysia during the past month, according to new data published by the Malaysian news source, The Star.
nationmultimedia.com Fortify Rights concluded in its report that Burma (Myanmar) state security forces are complicit in and profiting from the increasingly lucrative maritime human trafficking and smuggling of Rohingya Muslims from Rakhine state. Since 2012, Myanmar state security forces have collected payments from Rohingya asylum seekers fleeing Myanmar by ships operated by transnational criminal syndicates.
Phuket World of Sport
afp Arsenal missed the chance to go fourth in the English Premier League after Swansea came from behind to beat the Gunners 2-1 with two late goals at the Liberty Stadium.
afp Newcastle United's impressive revival continued with a 2-0 victory away to West Bromwich Albion that took them into the top half.
rappler.com The Philippine national football team failed to conquer the Thai national booters on their home soil yielding 3-0 to in a friendly at Nakhon Ratchisima.
Coming Events on Phuket 2014
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
Coming Events on Phuket 2015
February 13-15 Phuket Yacht Show
