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abc.net.au Bailed Australian expat Mark Pendlebury, 59, appeared in court on Phuket today accused of murdering a Thai security guard outside a Patong nightclub earlier this month. He will reappear at the court every 12 days until his trial.
bangkokpost.com In recent years, Lee Kuan Yew expressed two areas of caution about Thailand. First, the military's interference. Second, a failure for Thailand and other countries in the region to close economic and social gaps.
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Today's Top News Items
bangkokpost.com Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents president Hamzah Rahmat said the elimination of the fee for Chinese travellers would actually push mainlanders to visit other Southeast Asian nations that don't have visas at all.
afp African elephants could be extinct in the wild within a few decades, experts warned on Monday at a major conservation summit in Botswana that highlighted an alarming decline in numbers due to poaching for ivory.
bangkokpost.com Attempts to remove the aircraft boneyard at Don Mueang airport to free up parking space for operational planes have been foiled by Thai Airways International.
Human Trafficking in Thailand
nationmultimedia.com Thailand is cracking down on human trafficking in the fisheries industry under a 180-day international protocol, Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan said. He said illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, dubbed pirate fishing, was on a watchlist and Thai authorities have a 180-day deadline to suppress it.
nationmultimedia.com Police are pushing ahead with a plan to register the DNA records of beggars and homeless people based in Bangkok, in an attempt to combat human trafficking which has resulted in scores of these people being enslaved and abused.
Phuket World of People
gazettelive.co.uk 33-year-old Phillip Boyle had been to the pub and then headed home for a few quiet bevvies on Friday night. But by early Saturday morning, after pulling an all-nighter, Phillip had been persuaded to jet to the popular beach resort of Pattaya in Thailand for an impromptu lads' holiday - taking just a Tesco carrier bag stuffed with T-Shirts and boxer shorts.
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/i-went-few-quiet-drinksand-8901006
thephuketinsider.com The 240-room Sheraton Krabi will be reflagged to the Dusit chain as of July 1st this year.
nationmultimedia.com Five Vietnamese were arrested in Chiang Mai for shoplifting brand-name clothes worth hundreds of thousands of baht by stuffing them into foil-lined bags to fool the barcode detectors, police announced.
Phuket Update Fresh from the Maldives, manager David de Brito is the newest addition to the executive level of the Keemala resort, set within the lush woodlands of Kamala. Due to open its doors to guests in the latter part of 2015, Keemala is busy appointing the most talented management to ensure its brand message of 'Beyond Enchanting' is delivered seamlessly to its guests.
bangkokpost.com The driver of the van that dropped off a foreign family on the side of a Bangkok expressway said he will file a police complaint against the person that shared a photo of the passengers on social media and said they were abandoned.
theguardian.com Greece's leftwing prime minister Alexis Tsipras stood beside German leader Angela Merkel and demanded war reparations over Nazi atrocities in Greece, even as the two leaders sought to bury the hatchet following weeks of worsening friction and mud-slinging.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk Taylor Swift has bought the web domain names TaylorSwift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult before they become available to buy as part of a public sale by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) set to take place on 1 June.
independent.co.uk Two million 5 pound notes made of polymer plastic are being released by The Clydesdale Bank this month as a safer and more durable alternative to paper banknotes.
Around the Asean Region
nationmultimedia.com Thailand offers condolences on the demise of Singapore's foundation father Lee Kuan Yew, Prayut postpones visit to Singapore, tributes flow in from world leaders.
Try Phuketwan's Asean Today daily:
http://phuketwan.com/tourism/asean-today-gum-control-singapore-lee-mourned-marine-murder-charge-accused-child-sex-22105/
Phuket World of Sport
ibtimes.co.uk The Premier League could end up ''owned by foreigners, managed by foreigners and played by foreigners'' unless measures proposed by the game's governing body the Football Association (FA) are adopted, says FA chairman Greg Dyke.
Coming Events on Phuket 2015
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
