Phuket Update Three Cambodians have been arrested on Phuket for selling fake sunglasses at Kata beach, officials announced. Four pairs of sunglasses could be bought for 100 baht and sold to tourists for between 150 baht and 600 baht a pair, Phuket administration volunteers were told after making the arrests.


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thephuketinsider.com Phuket property and resorts guru Bill Barnett writes: Today is the day that I've decided ThePhuketInsider news blog shall end.

nationmultimedia.com Haze from forest fires in Sumatra is blanketing several provinces in the South, but air pollution levels are still under the safety limit, according to the 16th Regional Environment Office in Songkhla. Halem Chemarikan, director of the office, said Hat Yai was hardest hit with Surat Thani, Phuket, Narathiwat, Yala and Satun were also covered with haze.



bangkokpost.com The ''man in the blue shirt'' who carried and dumped the bomb at the Sathon Pier in August is named Zubae and is in hiding along the Thai-Malaysian border.



theguardian.com A family of three were reportedly among 16 people killed when torrential rain across the French Riviera sparked flash floods that upturned cars, submerged whole streets and inundated homes.

nationmultimedia.com Political cartoonist Sakda Sae-Iew, aka Sia, will be sued if he continues to publish work that distorts the truth, he was told by the National Council for Peace an Order (NCPO). Sakda, who works for Thai-language paper Thai Rath, was summoned by the junta to explain his cartoons, which the NCPO's committee on media conduct considers to have misrepresented the facts.

Phuket Update Staff from Phuket International Airport joined with officials from the Disease Control Department to welcome back the first of hundreds of Southern Thai Muslim passengers who have begun to return from the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

theguardian.com US defense secretary Ash Carter repeated President Obama's promise of a ''full and transparent'' investigation into whether his country's military was responsible for an airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan that killed 22.

indianexpress.com Angela Merkel, accompanied by a delegation of several cabinet ministers and top officials, arrived in India on a three-day visit. She will hold wide-ranging talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday.

nytimes.com Hope faded for finding any survivors of a mudslide in Guatemala that killed at least 96 people as the smell of rotting bodies spread across the enormous mound of earth and rescuers reported the buried dwellings they reached were filled with water, suggesting anyone trapped inside would have drowned.

newsfultoncounty.com Medical examinations performed on a group of Rohingya women who claimed they were raped outside a refugee camp in Indonesia have found no indication of sexual abuse, according to police

munchies.vice.com In America, an unprecedented outbreak of avian flu may have caused egg prices to rise amid mass shortages, but the people of Thailand are reckoning with an entirely different, egg-related problem: Somebody is allegedly trying to sell them fake eggs made of plastic. And those eggs are thought to be coming from China.



bangkokpost.com Search teams failed for a second day to find the missing Aviastar Mandiri Twin Otter, presumed down in rugged Sulawesi jungle with 10 people aboard.



afp Alexis Sanchez scored twice as Arsenal reeled off a stunning 3-0 defeat of Manchester United that sent Arsene Wenger's side up to second in the Premier League.

afp Liverpool sacked manager Brendan Rodgers on Sunday following a year of disappointing results that culminated in a poor start to the current season.

bangkokpost.com Joe Schmidt said Ireland's 16-9 win over Italy was not for the faint-hearted but the coach insisted winning ugly was OK as it secured a World Cup quarter-final place.

huffingtonpost.com.au England has crashed out of the Rugby World Cup in spectacular fashion, after being beaten by Australia 13-33. It's the first time a host country hasn't made it out of the pool stages - which means the English are in for an enormous ribbing.



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