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PHUKET: A Korean tourist died after being recovered from heavy surf at Karon beach, on Phuket’s southwwest coast, this afternoon (August 13).

PHUKET: The search continues for a Korean tourist who last seen being swept to sea by large waves at a Phuket beach yesterday (August 12), just one day after a Singaporean tourist died after swimming on an island day trip off Phuket.

JAPAN: Japanese police have arrested a man accused of bursting into a lawyers office and cutting off his penis with garden shears before flushing the organ down a toilet.

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PHUKET: Police arrested two men from Pattalung on Sunday (August 9) and Monday (August 10) after they were found to be in possession of a total of 157.12 grams of crystal meth (ya ice) and 200 methamphetamine pills (ya bah).

PHUKET: The annual Por Tor Festival, known throughout the Southeast Asia as the “Hungry Ghost Festival”, will return to Phuket from August 26 to September 12.

CRICKET: Match 7 of the Outrigger Resorts T20 cricket league saw the Madras Cafe Superkings triumph over the Laguna Cricket Club by 18 runs at the Alan Cooke Ground in Thalang on Sunday (August 9).

Latest A man was injured when his motorcycle collided with a vehicle towing a jet-ski in Patong’s beach road. Police were trying to figure precisely how it happened.