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Around the Region Aircraft may be tracked under new scheme; Singapore rich kids in Instagram dustup; White elephant captured in Burma; Why America’s war went wrong.

PHUKET: A 35-year-old French-Argentinian hotel manager was killed last night (February 28) after he drove he crashed into an electric pole.

PHUKET: A 35-year-old French man was killed last night (February 28) after he drove his motorbike drunk and crashed into an electric pole.

PHUKET: The body of a 53-year-old Danish man was found in his hotel room in Patong this morning (March 1).

PHUKET: A 55-year-old German man was rushed to hospital yesterday (February 28) after he was hit by a jet-ski at Paradise Beach, five kilometres away from Patong.

THAILAND: A member of a drug caravan was killed and 10 kilogrammes of heroin seized in a clash with army rangers along the Thai-Myanmar border in Chiang Mai on Friday (February 27).

LONDON: The London man believed to be Islamic State executioner Jihadi John told a journalist four years ago that surveillance by British security services had left him contemplating suicide, it emerged yesterday (February 28).

BANGKOK: They sell everything from noodle soup to sex toys, but Bangkoks famed street hawkers are now facing a crackdown as authorities in the fast-growing metropolis struggle to make space for pedestrians on the crowded pavements