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bangkokpost.com Phuket remains one of seven provinces free from fatalities in the first six days of the annual Songkran festival. Throughout Thailand, 306 people have been killed and 3070 injured.
time.com The Pentagon said that the bodies of up to 388 troops killed during the Pearl Harbor attacks, who are buried in ''unknown'' graves in Hawaii, will be disinterred and identified using the latest DNA technology.
manchestereveningnews.co.uk A couple were forced to leap into the sea to save their lives when a ferry exploded off Thailand's southwestern coast - killing a 12-year-old girl. Grandparents Iain and Elaine Marshall, from Salford, have told of their terrifying ordeal while travelling on the doomed ferry from Ao Nang to Phuket beach resort.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/thailand-ferry-disaster-salford-couple-9044499
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bangkokpost.com The US nominated a new ambassador, then cancelled the first round of talks about Cobra Gold 2016, and no one is sure what is going on.
nationmultimedia.com As Thailand continued to celebrate the Songkran Festival, the Road Safety Centre reported that five days of the holiday monitoring period had seen 2406 road crashes killing 251 persons and injuring 2532. Phuket was among 10 fatality-free provinces.
bangkokpost.com Police say the military regime is misleading the investigation of the Koh Samui bomb explosion, especially the spokesmen who loudly claim it was a political act.
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nbcconnecticut.com Witnesses told the family that missing American diver Joshua Devine was aggressive and paranoid on the boat, so two other divers brought him into a storage room in hopes of calming him down. They left for 15 minutes, and when they returned, he wasn't there. The family wonders why officials didn't take more immediate action to find Devine - and why it took so long for his fellow divers to report him missing.
wfsb.com His heartbroken family is fed up and demanding answers. ''For our government to say he's lost in Thai water, there's nothing we can do, is unacceptable,'' Devine's sister Jennifer Bakoski said. The family says he's been involved with the military since he was 18 years old and now it's time for his country to fight for him.
asiacruisenews.com Authorities in Phuket are planning to make easier visa policies to improve marine tourism, says tourism minister Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul. The governor of Phuket, Nisit Jansomwong, called for the expansion of Phuket's deepsea port to receive more cruise traffic.
afp More than 20 passengers were injured when an Asiana Airlines Airbus A320 overran a runway in western Japan, officials and local media said.
afp An Alaska Airlines plane has made an emergency landing in Seattle after a gate worker in the northwestern US city fell asleep in the cargo hold before takeoff, and wound up trapped. The airline said in a statement that the pilot on flight 448 made an emergency landing after hearing knocking sounds coming from below.
reuters About 400 migrants died in an attempt to reach Italy from Libya when their boat capsized, survivors said on Tuesday, the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean where the death toll from shipwrecks has surged this year.
independent.co.uk After years of domination by Singha and Chang (the brewery behind Singha has a royal warrant), the craft scene is gaining traction in Thailand too, prompted by a growing demand for a wider range of beers. In recent years, underground home brewing for private consumption has taken off, despite it being illegal.
cnn.com Often referred to as the ''world's biggest water fight,'' Songkran is an annual three-day festival during which revelers splash water on each other. It marks the traditional Thai New Year and is celebrated from April 13 to 15.
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Interesting how even large and reputable news agencies like afp can get their facts wrong.
The Asiana flight did not overrun the runway, it touched down 330m short and off the centerline, ploughed through an antenna array, spun around 180 degrees and stopped 1500m down the runway.
An accident eerily similar to the Asiana crash at SFO less than 2y ago.
http://avherald.com/h?article=484c306e&opt=0
Posted by Herbert on April 15, 2015 09:42
Editor Comment:
We've seen photos of the aircraft on grass, Herbert. It definitely did not stop on the runway.
AP reports: ''Authorities are investigating initial reports that the Airbus A320 may have hit an object on the runway during landing, causing damage to the rear of its body and the cover of the engine on the left wing, the ministry said.
''Video of the scene showed the aircraft's body turned around, with its nose pointing in the direction that the plane had come from.''
I'd rely on photographic evidence. Perhaps for once, your usual reliable source is confused.