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independent.co.uk A manhunt is under way in the Canadian city of Moncton after a gunman shot dead three members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and left two others injured. A Facebook page, which appears to belong to the suspect, was active shortly before and during the city-wide manhunt.
reuters Governors in 13 provinces have been transferred, mostly from Thailand's pro-Thaksin north and northeast, according to the junta's National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO).
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bangkokpost.com All 200 members of the new National Legislative Assembly, the coupmakers' new parliament, are likely to be appointed. Members will also be appointed to the planned National Reform Council, which will comprise 150 members, 140 of from professional groups and educational institutions and the rest law experts, according to a Krungthep Turakit report, quoting a source in the NCPO.
reuters A handful of pro-army supporters gathered outside the Australian embassy in Bangkok to protest against what they see as foreign meddling in Thailand's internal affairs. The demonstration was not violent and some protesters even handed roses to police and embassy staff.
nationmultimedia.com Street concerts will be held for nine days and nights in August at a cost of 200 million baht in an attempt to boost Bangkok's image. The street concerts will also be held in other tourist cities including Chiang Mai, Phuket, Pattaya and Hua Hin.
aljazeera.com Thai travel agents have asked the military to end the nighttime curfew in Koh Phangan - a southern island scheduled to host one of its wildly popular ''full-moon parties'' in just over a week - as Thailand's massive and crucial tourism industry struggles with the aftermath of last month's military coup, local media reported.
The Hunt for Missing Flight MH370
telegraph.co.uk British yachtswoman Katherine Tee added to speculation about the location of a possible crash site by revealing she saw a glowing plane over the Indian Ocean in March while bound for Phuket. ''There were two other planes passing higher than it - moving the other way - at that time,'' she wrote on sailing site Cruisers Forum, a firm for which she also works.
cnn.com Three hundred days: That's how long a private contractor will have to cover a remote area of the Indian Ocean a little smaller than the country of Sri Lanka where officials believe missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 ended up.
independent.co.uk The next phase of the hunt - which is already the most expensive in aviation history - will cover about 60,000 square kilometres of ocean, at a cost of at least $60m. The precise search zone will be finalised within a few weeks.
Phuket World of People
bangkokpost.com A combined police and military task force in Phuket arrested 73 people wanted for operating the so-called ''taxi mafias'' in an ongoing attempt to sweep illegal operators from the island.
nnt Entertainment businesses in Phuket have reported a huge increase in revenue right after the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) lifted the curfew.
travelmole.com Stick it up your junta: Russians pile into Phuket. An increase in direct international flights helped to insulate Phuket from any negative impact of the ongoing political turmoil in the Thai capital, according to CBRE, the real estate consultant. CBRE said the data shows the sensitivity of Asian feeder markets to political unrest in Thailand and the lack of concern from Russian tourists regarding the same.
pcworld.com Google has already received around 41,000 requests to delete links to personal information from its search results in the three weeks since a key ruling by the European Court of Justice about the so-called right to be forgotten.
uk.finance.yahoo.com Facebook has said it is close to completing end-to-end encryption across its network to put an end to government snooping.
cosmopolitan.co.uk The Advertising Standards Agency has ruled that the advert for [Phuketwan Phuket Woman of the Year 2013] Rihanna's new fragrance, Rogue by Rihanna, must not appear in places where it could be seen by children, after a complaint that the advert was too "sexually suggestive".
washingtonpost.com Pink Floyd protesters argued that ''playing Israel now is the moral equivalent of playing Sun City at the height of South African apartheid'' but the Rolling Stones are going ahead with a concert there.
scmp.com Hong Kong's Victoria Park became a galaxy of candlelight last night with what was claimed to be a record crowd marking the 25th anniversary of the June 4 Tiananmen crackdown.
ft.com Tesco has suffered its worst trading in decades, with sales from UK stores open at least a year falling 3.8 percent in the past three months as Britain's biggest retailer battles to turn round its domestic business in the midst of an escalating price war.
scmp.com London's Heathrow airport welcomed its first passengers to a 2.5 billion pound terminal, aiming to avoid the chaos of the last major opening and bolster its case for remaining a major hub.
wired.com In 100 years, there will be flying taxis and people will travel to the moon routinely. Knowledge will be instilled into students through wires attached to their heads. These may sound like the predictions of modern-day futurists, but they???re how people a century ago saw the future - otherwise known to you and me as the present.
watoday.com.au Gwyneth Paltrow: Yelling at water hurts its feelings
What's Happening Around Asean Nations
afp Indonesia will deport 20 international teachers, including two Australians, over immigration violations discovered after an investigation into allegations a child was sexually abused by cleaning staff. The teachers, from the Jakarta International School, are of various nationalities, including people from New Zealand, the US and Britain, senior immigration official Maryoto Sumadi said
news.sky.com Police in Malaysia's Tioman Island have confirmed that a body has been found in the search for missing Brit Gareth Huntley. The backpacker disappeared last week after attempting to find a waterfall in the jungles of the paradise island.
malaysia-chronicle.com Our society is full of heroes who publicly speak against the oppression of Rohingya Muslims in Burma, but get utterly annoyed when they see Rohingya beggars in their neighborhoods. It seems we are ready to die for Islam but we cannot stand the sight of a sweating, deprived Muslim.
mizzima.com The collection of census data in Rakhine State remains stalled because of the issue of Rohingya self-identification, a senior Ministry of Immigration and Population official told Mizzima. The government controversially decided not to allow Rohingya to identify their ethnicity as such in the census, which was held in most of Burma (Myanmar) from March 30 to April 10.
advocate.com The Dorchester Collection Fashion Prize has been awarded every year since 2010 but the competition will not take place this year, due to boycotts by fashion industry leaders over the antigay laws of Brunei, whose government owns the Dorchester Collection, a global hotel company.
hollywoodreporter.com Out of everything the beleaguered Dorchester company has attempted, none is as shameless and desperate as its most recent approach:using its employees as human shields to deflect criticism of the sultan and his horrific new policies.
scmp.com The Philippines and Vietnam are ''hijacking'' the regional bloc Asean to enlist support for their rival claims in the South China Sea, stirring up trouble for China with its neighbors, according to a book published by a government think tank in Beijing.
bloomberg The risk of territorial disputes damaging trade in Asia is ''very real'' and the region must focus on shoring up economic links as well as security ties, according to Singapore Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen.
bangkokpost.com Thai gamblers seemed to have lost their appetite for gambling in Cambodian casinos after the military seized power, reports said. Only 700 Thais went through Poipet where the casinos are located on Monday, a dip from about 1500 before the coup was announced on May 22, the Phnom Penh Post reported.
bangkokpost.com Burma will soon call tenders from local and foreign firms to upgrade 30 domestic airports, a senior aviation official said. The country has a total of 69 airports.
World Cup 2014 and Phuket World of Sport
news.com.au The total market value of the entire Socceroos squad is less than that of Australia's group rival Spain's highest paid player. Barcelona superstar Andres Iniesta is worth $74,816,500. Australia is worth $61,119,810. Spain's total market value? $673,567,074 - 11 times more than the Socceroos.
afp Wayne Rooney and Rickie Lambert were on target for an experimental England side in a 2-2 friendly draw with Ecuador which turned sour with two late red cards.
bbc.com Andy Murray produced a late surge to beat Gael Monfils in five sets and reach the French Open semi-finals, where he meets Rafael Nadal.
Coming Events on Phuket
June 6-14 Phuket prisons fair, Saphan Hin, Phuket City
June 8 Laguna Phuket marathon
July 11 Arsanha Bucha Day
July 16-20 Phuket Race Week yachting, Cape Panwa
August 12 Queen's Birthday
September 24-October 2 Vegetarian Festival, Phuket
October 23 Chulalongkorn Memorial Day
November 6 Loy Kratong
November 14-21 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
