news.sky.com A plane with more than 100 people on board has overshot a runway on Bali and plunged into the sea. According to the AFP news agency, an Indonesian official said passengers and crew survived.

abc.net.au The Lion Air Boeing 737 crashed at Denpasar's main airport this evening. Amateur internet footage shows the plane has cracked in half and submerged in the water with its safety slides deployed.

thejakartaglobe.com There were 101 passengers - 96 adults, five children and one baby - and seven crew on board the flight that left Bandung at 12:56pm. The flight was due to land at 3:40 pm. The Boeing 737-800 ER jet crashed into the water 50 meters from the runway.

aap It is not yet known if any Australians or other foreigners were aboard the plane.

nytimes.com Lion Air is Indonesia's largest privately-run airline, flying within Indonesia and to Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, China and Saudi Arabia.

independent.co.uk Hours after Guan Tianlang was the first player ever penalized for slow play at the Masters, the 14-year-old became the youngest player to make the cut at Augusta National.


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economist.com Songkran, the Buddhist festival marking Thailand's new year that begins on April 13, was once, it is said, a mellow, pious affair. It is now a nationwide water war, where the weapons are water-pistols, buckets and hoses, the battlefield is the street and the fuel that keeps the armies going is often alcoholic.

bangkokpost.com You can have fun taking part in the Songkran festivities without alcohol, as many communities are proving with alcoholic beverage-free zones for the holiday celebration.

nationmultimedia.com Many Thai visitors are seen with their families, to spend their holiday in Phuket and Krabi. Meanwhile, Chinese visitors top the list of foreign visitors, followed by those from Russia and Australia. Pratuang Sornkham, Phuket airport director, estimates that the airport will cater services to 35,000 visitors on daily average during April 12-16.

bangkokpost.com The Tourism Authority of Thailand aims to promote Thailand more in Asean and expects to welcome at least seven million tourists from the region this year. TAT has launched a website with a Chinese-language version, Dongnanya.travel, in collaboration with Weibo, the leading Chinese website, to boost Thai tourism among Chinese travellers.

thelocal.se A 44-year-old Swedish citizen has been given the death penalty by a Malaysian court for drugs trafficking, a crime which is penalised by hanging in the south-east Asian country. The Swede is of Iranian origin and was living in Stockholm before moving to Thailand several years ago. He is said to have owned a bar in Pattaya.

ft.com Singapore stuck to its tight monetary policy stance even as gross domestic product unexpectedly contracted in the first quarter, but lowered its inflation forecast for 2013, sending the Singapore dollar lower.

time.com Rangoon's so-called ''model shows'' are hardly salacious affairs compared with the raunchy sex shows that have made Bangkok one of the world's sex-tourism capitals. A sex industry catering to foreign tourists has been kept largely at bay, simply because Burma has had relatively few visitors to date. But there are signs this is changing.

vice.com During my week in Sittwe, with the help of those who accompanied me, I obtained evidence that strongly implies that the Burmese military is imprisoning Rohingya women from the Arakhan region and using them as sex slaves. That evidence has been passed on to the International Labor Organisation, a United Nations agency, which has lodged a complaint to the Burmese government and launched an investigation in an attempt to rescue the women.

theaustralian.com.au Two years ago the Indonesian office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees had fewer than 50 Rohingya asylum-seekers on its books. Today there are more than 800, and nearly all are trying to get to Australia. ''Some of my friends have gone to Australia already and after two or three years they get citizenship,'' Feazel Ali tells The Australian. ''Finally they can live in peace.''

skynews.com.au One asylum seeker boat is feared to have sunk on its way to Australia while another has been detained by the Indonesian navy after running aground near Sulawesi. Indonesian search and rescue authorities scrambled to locate the spot where a boat carrying around 70 asylum seekers was reported to have sunk in the Sunda Strait.

bernama Bali Administrative Government received an award from the United Nations' World Health Organisation and the Food and Agriculture Organisation for its success in reducing the number of rabies cases in human and animal, Indonesia's Antara news agency reported.



bbc.co.uk Australian Jason Day leads the Masters after firing a four-under 68, Tiger Woods drops shots late on while teenager Guan Tianlang makes the cut despite a slow play one-shot penalty.

usatoday.com Woods saved strokes on Nos. 12, 14, 15 and 16 with an array of chip shots and clutch putts, keeping him just three shots behind leader Jason Day. Woods shot 71 and will start Saturday's third round tied for seventh.

guardian.co.uk Premier League football clubs have been accused of ''unfair and exploitative'' practices after advertising for young interns to work as highly qualified performance analysts without pay or expenses.

triathlete-europe.competitor.com Two-time Ironman World Champion Chris McCormack will be headlining the inaugural Laguna Lang Co Triathlon in Vietnam this weekend. Ahead of the race we caught up with the triathlon legend to discuss the off-season and why he's looking forward to Vietnam..



ISLAND BLISS and Trisara are holding a Ready-to-Wear Collection Fashion Show 2013 5pm-7pm on April 27 at Trisara, 800 baht admission or 1200 baht with post-runway dinner, goes to the Good Shepherd Phuket. rsvp sales@trisara.com

April 13-17 Songkran New Year Festival

April 13 Angsana Laguna Phuket with XANA and Attica invites guests and Phuket locals to celebrate Thai New Year with a full day program. Entrance is freewith a lot of fun activities from Songkran water wars parade to Miss Songkran Competition and much more.

April 14-21 Phuket Bike Week

April 22-28 Phuket Pride Week, with the theme ''Same Same Not Different.'' Grand Parade 4pm April 27.

April 28 Kata-Karon Mini-Marathon, Karon Park

May 1 National Labor Day

June 9 Laguna Phuket International Marathon

July 17-21 Cape Panwa Hotel Phuket Raceweek

October 5-13 Phuket Vegetarian Festival

November 9 Asian Cup Triathlon Sprint, Patong

November 10 ITU Long Distance Series triathlon, Patong

November 17 Loy Kratong Day

November 24-December 1 Challenge Laguna Phuket Tri-Fest. Laguna Phuket

December 5 HM The King's birthday



November 14-21 Fourth Asia Beach Games, Phuket