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Best of Phuket 2014 The Phuketwan Person of the Year 2014 realised that treating people as illegal migrants without checking whether they were human trafficking victims was wrong for Thailand.

Phuket Updating News Thailand clamps down on drunk drivers with new law; NY kills scores in Shanghai; Road toll rises in Thailand; AirAsia plane recovery continues today; Phuket events.

Asean in Spotlight More drown in Philippines, Malaysia Thailand; Singapore boost aircraft search and rescue; Australia joins Burma’s border protection; Malaysia ponders plane’s loss.

PHUKET: Two more potential murder weapons were seized by Phuket police at two separate checkpoints today, including a Walter .380 holstered by an 18-yearr-old, as well as a .45 Colt possessed by a 40-year-old.

PHUKET: Police were alerted to a motor vehicle accident in the early hours of this morning involving a Mercedes Benz and Honda motorbike.

PHUKET: Thailand’s banks are “returning happiness” to the people over the New Year by canceling the fees usually charged for withdrawing or depositing funds through ATMs in provinces other than the one where the account is held.

The island attracts top athletes from around the world and produces premier competitors across a wide range of sports. It’s been a big year for several Phuket-based athletes. Here is a look back at our competitor’s top moments of 2014 away from the island…

Sean Dee, executive vice president and chief marketing officer of hotel chain Outrigger, has announced the addition of two new professionals to the company’s global distribution team. Kristopher “Kris” Honeycutt.

PHUKET: Yet another “New Year” is upon us. On a geological scale, it’s hardly anything special – an arbitrary point on a relative time scale, a prompt to mark that our planet has clocked yet another 940- million-kilometre trip around our sun, just one more to add to some 4.6 billion orbits, since, it is widely believed by scientists, Earth was formed.