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abc.net.au A tornado has caused a ''mass casualty situation'' in the US state of Arkansas after ripping through the town of Vilonia, local officials said.
bangkokpost.com People's Democratic Reform Committee supporter Charoen Insuriya, 71, has been charged with hacking his Red-supporting neighbor Pud Jaimul, 56, to death in Mae Tha district when the pair got drunk and talk turned to politics.
PhuketWATCH Daily Media Wrap
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Today's Top News Items
bangkokpost.com Reversing an earlier comment, a Democrat spokesman now says his party leader, Abhisit Vejjajiva, has never offered to talk with Thaksin Shinawatra.
bangkokpost.com Police will seek arrest warrants from the Criminal Court for two men, identified from security camera footage, suspected of killing renowned red-shirt poet Kamol Duangphasuk in Bangkok on Wednesday.
bangkokpost.com Police said they couldn't figure out why anyone had ambushed and killed Kamol with a shot to the heart. The media, deep within news pages, echoed that. This isolated police and the media from the rest of the population, who definitely could figure out at least one reason.
reuters US President Barack Obama said that the rights of Burma's minority Muslim population were not being fully protected and warned: ''Myanmar won't succeed if the Muslim population is oppressed.''
abc.net.au Referring to the Rohingya, President Obama warned that ethnic and religious conflicts could move Myanmar in a ''very bad direction''. Burma denies citizenship to 800,000 Rohingya residents.
Phuket World of People
NNT The famous Bang Tao beach on Phuket Island is once again plagued with polluted sea water that causes skin rashes and infections.
bangkokpost.com A task force unit of the 25th Infantry Regiment arrested 71 Myanmar illegal migrant workers in Kraburi district of Ranong province following a tip-off. The migrant workers were brought by boat to Ranong by traffickers. Their destinations were Phuket, Surat Thani, Songkhla and Malaysia.
courier-journal.com "I don't think that we can sit back and wait for somebody to solve these problems," Hillary Clinton told a Methodist women's conference about human trafficking. "We can roll up our sleeves and get to work."
smh.com.au Pope Francis made history on Sunday, elevating to sainthood John XXIII and John Paul II, two of his most famous papal predecessors, in a ceremony bearing themes of hope and reconciliation for the world's one billion Roman Catholics.
bangkokpost.com Thailand's transsexuals will continue to face problems every April, when the conscription draw rolls around. But since last year, all military recruiting units in Thailand followed new procedures. There is a special section for them to sit while waiting to be called, which is separate from the main area, and is in a closed room that no one can see into.
More News from the Region and the World
MCOT Border authorities arrested 16 people believed to be Uyghur Muslims as they tried to illegally enter Thailand. A combined force of immigration police and army patrolled a Cambodian border zone and intercepted a pickup truck which looked suspicious.
nytimes.com The United States has reached a 10-year agreement with the Philippines that will give American warships, planes and troops greater access to bases in the archipelago, American officials said.
livemint.com The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 widened after an unmanned submarine failed to find any wreckage. ''The Bluefin-21 submersible will today scour beyond a circle that was centered on signals detected earlier this month,'' Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) said in a statement.
Phuket World of Sport
theguardian.com Manchester City are still third in the Premier League table, peering up at the teams who collided at Anfield, but the title is theirs to lose again. Crystal Palace 0-2 Manchester City.
independent.co.uk One would not wish to watch it every week for the rest of one's life but to see the millionaires under Mourinho's command working like crazy to carry out his demands to the letter is to get a taste of the power of this coach. Liverpool 0-2 Chelsea.
Phuket Coming Events 2014
April 30 US Embassy Outreach, Le Meridien Phuket Beach Resort, 8am-noon.
May 24 Visakha Bucha Day
July 11 Arsanha Bucha Day
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
