bangkokpost.com A 35-year-old Japanese man fell to his death from a highrise condominium building in Bangkok's Huay Kang district late Monday night, police said.

AP Unidentified gunmen have abducted two Canadians, a Norwegian resort manager and a Filipino woman from a southern Philippine island, the military and police said.

theguardian.com German prosecutors say they have charged a 91-year-old woman with 260,000 counts of accessory to murder on allegations she was a member of the Nazi SS who served in the Auschwitz death camp complex.


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bangkokpost.com The government and security forces admit they still have no information on arrests of bombing suspects in Malaysia, including the ''yellow T-shirt man''.

bangkokpost.com Some 32 police officers from three major units have been transferred en masse to inactive posts for alleged involvement in the trafficking of Rohingya migrants.

nationmultimedia.com Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan said he believed the human-trafficking network had many more accomplices.

nnt Songsak Saicheua, Thailand's Secretary-General of the Department of American and South Pacific Affairs, said the country was downgraded to Trafficking in Persons Tier 3, the report's lowest ranking, due to inadequate enforcement by the authorities, lack of proper protection for victims and a failure to address human trafficking in the country's fishing industry.



bangkokpost.com The Tourism Authority of Thailand launched a ''buy one, get one free'' room promotion at 32 hotels in Bangkok and Phuket until October to attract visitors. TAT deputy governor Juthaporn Rerngronasa said that the promotional campaign would run September 22 to October 31 and was available at 15 hotels in Bangkok and 17 in Phuket.

ft.com Russia is to deploy 2000 military personnel to its new air base near the Syrian port city of Latakia, signalling the scale of Moscow's involvement in the war-torn country. The deployment ''forms the first phase of the mission there,'' according to an adviser on Syria policy in Moscow.

nationmultimedia.com Officials from the Central Institute of Forensic Science (CIFS) will testify today in the defence of two Myanmar suspects who stand accused of murdering two British tourists in Koh Tao. Khunying Porntip Rojanasunan, director general of the CIFS, said yesterday three CIFS members would testify because they took part in the process of DNA testing and physical examination of the defendants.

telegraph.co.uk Flamboyant German tech entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has appeared in a New Zealand court after nearly four years of legal wrangling, at a hearing to determine whether he will face copyright infringement and other charges in the United States.

scmp.com China's faltering economy is expected to receive unprecedented attention when President Xi Jinping arrives in Seattle on Tuesday for the start of his first state visit to the United States.

nationmultimedia.com World No 1 Novak Djokovic and ninetime French Open champion Rafael Nadal will promote Thailand as a tourist destination in a daylong activity that will include shopping at OTOP and visiting the Prime Minister's Office during their Bangkok exhibition next month.



thetimes.co.uk President Thein Sein, a former general, boasted in a video message of his personal part in banning the Rohingya and in shaping new, discriminatory, laws to protect ''race and religion''. ''There's a mobilisation of bias and hatred against the Rohingya across Burmese society and the government is jumping on this,'' said Phil Robertson, deputy director of the Asia division at Human Rights Watch. Myanmar, human rights activists fear, is sliding towards apartheid.



afp The Springboks' stunning defeat by Japan in their opening match of the Rugby World Cup has shocked South Africa, casting doubt on the team's chances of progressing to the final stages of the tournament.



PHUKET hosts the southern region's Prison Fair until September 23 with all kinds of useful, well-made goods available at Saphan Hin park in Phuket City. Furniture is a specialty. Food and trees and plants are also on sale.

September Quicksilver surf carnival at Patong beach

October 15-23 Phuket Vegetarian Festival

November Patong Festival

November 20 Laguna Phuket Triathlon

November 25 Loy Kratong festival

November 29 Challenge Laguna Phuket 2015

November 29 Phuket King's Cup Regatta

December 5 HM The King's Birthday

December 26 Tsunami memorial ceremonies




January 7-10 Phuket International Boat Show