scmp.com Anti-Occupy sentiments are on the rise throughout Hong Kong as annoyed residents, business owners and anti-Occupy activists get into quarrels and clashes with protesters holding out in Causeway Bay, Admiralty and Mongkok.

afp A 33-year-old American working in Liberia as a freelance cameraman for NBC News has been infected with Ebola and will be flown back to the US, the network says.

reuters Austria called for standardised German-language translations of the Koran and moved to prohibit foreign funding of Muslim organisations on its soil in a draft law aimed in part at tackling Islamic extremism.

AP United Airlines said it is notifying passengers who were on flights with a man later diagnosed with Ebola and telling them how to contact federal health officials.


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theguardian.com One or possibly two Burmese migrant workers have confessed to murdering two British backpackers found dead on a Thai island last month, police said.

bangkokpost.com A senior policeman says five hours of interrogation has brought a confession from one of three Burmese (Myanmar) suspects caught on Koh Tao video just before the brutal murders of two English tourists. A formal press briefing is expected once the DNA test results on the three are obtained.

bbc.com Tensions are mounting among Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigners as all of their demands are rejected and the chief executive refuses to resign. Protesters threatened to occupy government buildings if CY Leung did not step down.

mirror.co.uk Thailand announced that they have held talks over potentially hosting the Tour de France. However, their proclamations have come as a surprise to the Amaury Sport Organisation - who runs the tour - who say something has been lost in translation, somewhere along the line.



nationalpost.com Four members of a family the US Ebola patient was staying with were confined to their Texas home under armed guard as the circle of people possibly exposed to the virus widened and Liberian authorities said they would prosecute the man for allegedly lying on an airport questionnaire.

bangkokpost.com Researchers at Siriraj Hospital, part of Mahidol University, claim they have developed the world's first ''antibody treatment'' that could cure Ebola virus infections.



bordermail.com.au A Wodonga man seriously injured in a balcony fall on Phuket is recovering in hospital. Tim Cover, 24, was standing on a second floor balcony at the Phuket Graceland Resort and Spa in Patong when it collapsed on Tuesday night. He had been standing on the balcony with his friends Tim Hanson and Richard Jones before the incident. Andrew Cover said he expected his brother to make a full recovery.

pattayapeople.com Police officers from Pattaya, Banglamung, Nongprue, Na-Jomtien and Huay Yai gathered at Banglamung police station to discuss progress in a recent case involving a 23-year-old Danish female tourist who had been raped and robbed of her possessions. The investigation is ongoing.

bangkokpost.com What were soldiers armed with war weapons doing at a public hearing on a proposed sea port for transporting coal to a proposed coal-fired power plant in Krabi last week? Their presence, together with a battalion of local police and ''volunteers,'' hardly posed a welcoming gesture for people in what was supposed to be a public participatory exercise.

news.com.au Five Swiss people died and two more were injured when their helicopter crashed in France near the border with Switzerland, French officials said. The EC130 helicopter came down in the garden of a suburban house near the city of Montbeliard, some 13 kilometres from the Swiss border, French police said.

bangkokpost.com The cabinet has set the pay rates of everyone involved in the coup administration, with top man Gen Prayut receiving 125,590 baht per month.

news.com.au Western Australian surfer Sean Pollard was meant to play his footy grand final this weekend, now he's in hospital after losing an arm and hand in a shark ''feeding frenzy''.

bangkokpost.com Letter: When Thai officials try to make things appear better, they just make things worse because most Thais don't understand the Western mindset that focuses on having the right information; not smoke and mirrors to make people ''feel better''.

insidethegames.biz Asia can take credit for the boom in global beach and sea sports due to the success of the Asian Beach Games, it was has been claimed by Wei Jizhong, honorary life vice-president of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA). The Asian Beach Games are a pioneer in this effort to bring new sports to the sand, as proved in the upcoming Games in Phuket, Thailand, Wei claimed.

news.com.au It may just be brotherly love, but former president George W Bush said his younger brother Jeb wants to be in the White House in 2016 - and he's encouraging him to run.

edmontonjournal.com Traveling as a guest of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (which brought 800 travel and food industry journalists to Bangkok for a familiarisation tour at the same time), I was lucky enough to see a lot of Thailand in a short period of time. I spent four days inBangkok, four in the Chiang Mai area, and a brief day and a half in Phuket. It was an unforgettable experience, and for all the right reasons. The Thai people, the exoticism of the Asian culture, the weather, the stunning natural beauty . . . it all begged a return trip. In particular, I hope to get back to Phuket someday, as it was perhaps my favorite stop.

nationmultimedia.com Accor Group, set to open its 10th property in Phuket at Karon Beach, hopes to capture a large slice of the increase in foreign-tourist arrivals to the destination as well as domestic meetings and conferences. The new hotel, Novotel Phuket Karon Beach, is slated to open on October 15.

iflscience.com Plenty of news outlets have covered the story of ''Jasmine Tridevil,'' who claims to have had a third breast implanted through plastic surgery. One problem though: the whole thing didn't happen.

telegraph.co.uk A coffee fan from Texas has spent more than $100,000 visiting 11,733 Starbucks across six different continents, although he admits he wouldn't recommend the coffee.



smh.com.au An American woman was murdered in Bali and stuffed into a suitcase because she called her daughter's boyfriend a ''nigger,'' according to police. Bali criminal investigation chief Nengah Sadiarta also alleged for the first time that the murder weapon in the killing of Sheila von Wiese-Mack was a glass fruit bowl.

mmtimes.com UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has accused the Burmese government of largely failing to take legal action against those responsible for outbreaks of religious violence over the past two years. He also called for the government to address the citizenship status of Rohingya Muslims, who are not recognised as citizens.

bangkokpost.com Lifting the ban on US arms sales will allow Hanoi to buy military P-3 Orion surveillance aircraft, to keep better track of China in the South China Sea.



nationmultimedia.com Thailand suffered mixed fortunes at the Asian Games when the women's volleyball team made history by clinching a bronze medal, the first ever for the country at an Asiad, while the men's soccer team ended fourth - for the fourth time.



October 23 Chulalongkorn Memorial Day

November 1-3 Patong Carnival

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



February 13-15 Phuket Yacht Show