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Phuket Updating Digest Indonesia faces international condemnation after firing squad executions; Nepal avalanche ends climbing season; Joni Mitchell in a coma; German football surprise.

Latest The Governor of Krabi has acted to reduce excessive prices for residents and tourists. In neighboring Phuket, large commissions for taxis and tuk-tuks inflate many prices.

Around the Region Eight men are killed by an Indonesian firing squad; Filipina intended for execution spared as woman surrenders to police; Malaysia struggles with Isis links; Burmese fishermen await trip home.

PHUKET: The owner and founder of Rawai-based Blue Label Diving and his wife are currently struggling to get down out of the mountains of quake-shattered Nepal and back to Phuket after a harrowing 72 hours in the mountains near Mount Everest, the worlds tallest mountain.

PHUKET: The black water that has been flowing from a klong across Naiyang Beach for the past few days is not human pollution, officials say. It is rotted leaves.

SAILING: Thanks to the help of charitable locals, five of Phukets youngest sailors from the Phuket Youth Sailing Club (PYSC) will be able to compete in the Optimist Nationals at the Top of the Gulf Regatta 2015 in Pattaya later this week.

`The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment will blacklist tour guides who damage the environment from national marine parks.

Indonesia made final preparations today (April 28) to execute eight foreigners by firing squad, as family members wailed in grief during last visits to their loved ones and ambulances carrying white coffins arrived at the drug convicts prison.

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