israelhayom.com The family arrived at the shore without their daughter. ''They were completely devastated and crying in disbelief. It was heartbreaking to watch,'' an eyewitness said.

bangkokpost.com Five people were killed and many others injured when a car collided head-on with a tour bus in Muang district of Roi Et province on Wednesday night, police said.

smh.com.au After a spate of high-profile killings, Americans are now confronting the ugly reality that its police kill its citizens far more often than those of other western nations.


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news.com.au A 12-year-old Israeli girl has died as more than 100 passengers were rescued after a ferry burst into flames and sank between Krabi and Phuket. The Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed the death, adding that it was trying to arrange for the body to be repatriated to Israel, Haaretz reported.

bangkokpost.com Krabi Governor Songpol Sawasditham confirmed the girl's disappearance. He said more rescue staff and divers including personnel from Third Naval Area Command will join the search on Thursday for the missing girl.

bangkokpost.com Thailand and Russia signed bilateral agreements to combat drug trafficking, boost investment and develop the Thai energy sector. The countries aim to double bilateral trade in 2016.



AP The Indonesian government has announced it will form a special team to investigate allegations of slavery in the fishing industry, as officials prepare to return hundreds of foreign crewmen to their homelands.



Phuket Update Police are looking for a driver who fled after a collision that killed a motorcycle rider on Phuket on Tuesday night. Thalang police have the minivan involved in the crash and now want to question the missing driver about the death of Pornsit Rattanaburi, 23.

nationmultimedia.com Hotels in Phuket will be operating at the highest rate of 87 percent occupancy over the Songkran New Year while business at hotels in Bangkok will grow by 12.2 per cent, says Minister of Tourism and Sports Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul. According to Kobkarn, the Thai government has signed a memorandum of understanding with Russia in a bid to revive the number of tourists from Russia.

Phuket Update Beach umbrellas were reported to have been placed all over Surin's sands a day after authorities dressed in camouflage and wearing guns confiscated more than 50 brollies from tourists for not being in the official ''10 percent zone.''

watoday.com.au An investigation into an international ivory smuggling ring moving goods through Australia is underway after 110 kilos of elephant tusks were intercepted by customs officers at Perth Airport.

reuters Dzokhar Tsarnaev, 21, has been found guilty of killing three people and injuring 264 others in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and of fatally shooting a police officer four days later.

telegraph.co.uk A university museum in Japan has broken a seven-decade taboo on discussing the dissection of live American prisoners of war by medical personnel.

afp French World War II hero Jean-Louis Cremieux-Brilhac, one of the first to condemn the Nazi gas chambers, died on Wednesday aged 98, President Francois Hollande announced.

news.com.au In the grand tradition of Australia's fondness for Big Things, the NSW town of Nyngan wants to erect a Big Bogan on the Bogan River.

ft.com Marine Le Pen has taken steps to oust her father Jean-Marie from the party he founded, as the head of France's far-right National Front attempts to sanitise the party ahead of the next election.

bbc.com The shorter you are, the greater your risk of heart problems, a team at the University of Leicester says. The study, of nearly 200,000 people, found sections of DNA that control both height and heart health.

independent.ie The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary on April 9, marking a decade since Camilla became an HRH.

bangkokpost.com Realising the importance of protecting underwater ecosystems Pimalai Resort and Spa on Lanta island in Krabi is pleased to be a leader in initiating an annual clownfish release program.



straitstimes.com Securing Myanmar's cooperation in the outer approaches to the Malacca Strait could be aimed beyond counter-piracy, to include stemming the seaborne outflux of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar

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afp Philippe Coutinho produced a moment of magic to earn Liverpool a much-needed 1-0 victory at second-tier Blackburn Rovers in their FA Cup quarter-final replay.

news.com.au Jack Nicklaus, golf's greatest, upstaged this year's Masters cast at the age of 75 with a hole-in-one at the famed tournament's Par-3 Contest.

news.com.au The former boss of motorsport's governing body has provided a grim prediction of where Formula 1 is headed if it doesn't make drastic changes quickly. Max Mosley, the FIA president from 1993 to 2009, said at least half the grid was facing financial ruin and the sport was headed for ''collapse''.



April 11-19 Phuket Bike Week

April 13-15 Songkran Festival

May 4 Additional public holiday scheduled

June 20-21 Baba wedding at Old Phuket Town

July 15-19 Cape Panwa Hotel Phuket Raceweek