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telegraph.co.uk The pain in Spain falls mainly on parents, who are now legally obliged to continue to support their children financially until they can find a job.
smh.com.au Bali nine duo Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will be able to pursue their next legal appeal, after it was confirmed they will be given a hearing in a Jakarta court on Thursday.
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Today's Top News Items
bangkokpost.com The DSI has summonsed the abbot of Wat Phra Dhammakaya, Phra Dhammachayo, and other monks for interrogation next week about hundreds of millions of baht in controversial donations.
nationmultimedia.com The environmental impact assessment (EIA) report on the Klong Rua coal seaport and coal-fired power plant project in Krabi province was rejected yesterday amid pressure from the Protect Krabi Network. The panel of experts reviewing the report said the report was misleading and incomplete.
usatoday.com Harrison Ford is being hailed as a heroically skilled pilot for crash-landing a small plane on a local golf course when he could not return to the Santa Monica Municipal Airport nearby. ''I would say that this is an absolutely beautifully executed - what we would call a forced or emergency landing, by an unbelievably well-trained pilot,'' said Christian Fry of the Santa Monica Airport Association, according to AP.
Phuket World of People
andrew-drummond.com Headline: Organised crime and why I left Thailand.
Phuket Update Municipal officials reportedly seized more than 100 sunbeds and other pieces of beach equipment on Phuket's Bang Tao beach. Cherng Talay police fined 10 vendors 2000 baht each. Monday is the day for the new ''10 percent zone'' rules to be in place.
Phuket Update Phuket police are seeking the owner of 40 illegal slot machines, valued at two million baht, discovered packed in a small rental house on Yaowarat Road by the property's owner.
indiatimes.com The Nagaland government has ordered a judicial probe into a 10,000-strong mob dragging an alleged rapist out of Dimapur Central Jail and lynching him.
traveller.com.au The Twitter campaign for Australians to #BoycottBali over the very sad case of convicted drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran brought with it an immediate and expected backlash by Indonesians. "Australia can #boycottbali all they want," tweeted @pandji, "that only means no more stupid drunks on board of Indonesian airlines." And this from @radixhidayat: "Yes, Aussies, please #boycottbali. We'll keep the paradise island, you'll keep the continent of dangerous animals."
http://www.traveller.com.au/balinese-welcome-boycott-by-boganaires--bogans-with-money-13pnfd
bangkokpost.com Global passenger and freight traffic began 2015 with a slower growth than last year as uncertainties remain for the rest of the year.
washingtonpost.com When news emerged this week that authorities in Australia had secretly euthanised hundreds of koalas in an act of population control, some foreign observers couldn't resist bringing up the scenes at the G20. On its Facebook page, the Russian embassy in Canberra posted a tongue-in-cheek comment, expressing its mock concern for the creature held aloft by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Around the Asean Region
reuters Forty years after the Vietnam War, the old demilitarised zone remains one of the world's most dangerous places, littered with unexploded bombs that have killed 42,000 people.
Try Phuketwan's Asean Today daily:
http://phuketwan.com/tourism/asean-today-scammer-turned-child-abuse-stop-executions-says-malaysia-fights-21996/
Phuket World of Sport
skysports.com Australian golfer Adam Scott admitted he is still not entirely comfortable with a conventional putter despite hauling himself into a share of second place at the halfway stage of the WGC-Cadillac Championship.
Coming Events on Phuket 2015
March 1-15 Heroines Festival
March 4-8 Bay Regatta
April 11-19 Phuket Bike Week
April 17-19 Songkran Festival
May 4 Additional public holiday scheduled
June 20-21 Baba wedding at Old Phuket Town
July 15-19 Cape Panwa Hotel Phuket Raceweek
Ed, on your list of upcoming events on Phuket you show Songkran as being the 17-19th of April. Are you sure this is correct as my Google searches show it as being 13-15th of April. Also I believed it is only celebrated over one day in Phuket.
Posted by chill on March 12, 2015 14:56
Editor Comment:
13-15 April it is.