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PIMEX Starts Thursday [January 8] and with be worth a visit - really!

The National Reform Council (NRC) has slammed the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) for failing to take action against mobile phone companies taking advantage of consumers by charging unfair mobile phone fees on a per-minute basis.

SAN DIEGO: A Navy commander pleaded guilty Tuesday (January 6) in a massive bribery scheme involving a longtime military contractor in Asia who allegedly offered luxury travel, prostitutes and other bribes to officers in exchange for confidential information about ships movements including ships visiting Phuket.

Latest It took two hours for family members and a psychiatrist to talk down a Phuket Cioty postman who threatened to jump because his wife had left him with three children.

PHOTO ALBUM A new zoning system will oblige tourists who bring their own umbrellas to Phuket’s beaches to sit with vendors and masseuses in special ‘‘10 percent’’ zones.

Latest A US Navy commander has pleaded guilty in the Glenn Defense Marine Asia case that involves scams worth $20m in overbillings at Phuket and other ports.

Latest The staff at Phuket’s Immigration offices have been switched in transferring all of the officers from Patong following complaints of illegal payments being made.

Latest A truck runs out of control down Phuket’s Patong Hill, leaving the driver and his girlfriend injured and wreckage at a key intersection that takes more than three hours to clear.

Latest Phuketwan’s editor has his passport returned temporarily for a mercy dash as a group of Canadian lawyers criticises Australian inaction in the Royal Tha Navy criminal defamation case.