bbc.com Nine Palestinian militants have been killed in Israeli air raids on Gaza following rocket attacks on Israel.

AP An AirAsia jetliner skidded off the runway on landing at Brunei's Bandar Seri Begawan International Airport, but all those onboard disembarked safely.

nationmultimedia.com The body of a 13-year-old girl who disappeared on a train from Surat Thani to Bangkok was found near tracks early Tuesday. A 22-year-old man who worked as a cleaner in the sleeping compartment confessed to raping her and dumping her body.

theguardian.com Australia has been accused of breaking international law and violating the refugee convention after returning a group of 41 Sri Lankan asylum seekers directly into the hands of the Sri Lankan navy.


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Bangkok Update Thaivisa.com has been given access to a new Police order proposal that is due to be signed and released imminently, detailing tough new measures for foreigners who overstay in Thailand. Foreigners who ''surrender'' (usually by presenting themselves at Immigration when leaving the country) will be barred from returning for a period that will depend on how long they have overstayed.

reuters Britain pledged to investigate claims that politicians may have sexually abused children in the 1980s in a conspiracy by members of the establishment who used their power to cover up the crimes.

bangkokpost.com In the 47 days since the May 22 coup, the junta has transferred more than 60 top government officials. Transferring some officials to inactive posts without a clear explanation of what have they done wrong and appointing new ones without providing supporting evidence of how it will help achieve NCPO goals, is highly questionable.

independent.co.uk Chancellor Angela Merkel's government is planning to scrap a no-spy agreement Germany has held with Britain and the US since 1945 in response to an embarrassing US-German intelligence service scandal which has deeply soured relations between Berlin and Washington.



skysports.com Goals galore, incredible atmospheres, superstar players and much more. We provide a few reasons why, in 2014, we might just be witnessing the best World Cup in history.

World Cup Tuesday, Wednesday
Brazil v Germany, Netherlands v Argentina.



Phuket Update A fire in a visitors' reception room at Phuket Provincial Hall caused about 30,000 baht in damage and took 10 minutes to control.

bangkokpost.com The Third Region Navy said it was cleaning up all illegal activities and will improve services at the Phuket airport within a month. The airport has been plagued for years with tourist-unfriendly problems that need to be quickly solved,said Capt Sompong Narkthong, chief of staff for operations fleet. He pledged fast action.

theglobalfruit.com It is unconscionable that an academic researcher [Briton Andy Hall] could face jail time for an audit conducted in a Thai fruit factory.

bangkokpost.com Editorial: While the media reports on the positive reception the junta gets in Bangkok, it pays little attention to the army's attempts to silence community activists, activists and human rights defenders in rural areas.

belfasttelegraph.co.uk Gingers could be facing extinction as the red hair gene - thought to be a response to cloudy weather in Ireland and Scotland - is predicted to die out with climate change.



scmp.com A Vietnamese military helicopter on a parachute training mission crashed close to the Vietnamese capital, killing 16 people on board and wounding five others.

blueandgreentomorrow.com Live wild elephants are being illegally captured and cruelly trained in Myanmar to be sold to the tourism industry in Thailand, a new report by wildlife trade organisation Traffic has discovered.

bangkokpost.com Urgent reforms are needed to regulations and elephant registration procedures in Thailand to bring wild and domesticated animals under one law and stop illegal sales of captured wild elephants across the border from Myanmar (Burma), according to a new report.

wsj.com The two men locked in a dead heat to be elected Indonesia's next president are focusing their final push on roughly 15 million undecided voters, mostly on the densely populated islands of Java and Sumatra.

nationmultimedia.com Laos and Thailand have vowed to work together to tackle the ongoing cross-border human trafficking as officials of both sides held talks last week in Laos.



telegraph.co.uk According to Sir Bobby Charlton, Alfredo di Stefano, who died on Monday aged 88, was the greatest player he ever saw kick a football. The great Real Madrid stalwart, the man who scored in five successive European Cup finals, played out his career long before football became an international obsession.

mirror.co.uk Marcel Kittel's Tour de France sprint supremacy continued as the German won stage three on The Mall in London.



July 11 Arsanha Bucha Day

July 16-20 Phuket Race Week yachting, Cape Panwa

August 11 Special holiday for Queen's Birthday

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