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Ting Tong Bar leads the way

DARTS: Last seasons title winners (pictured) and favourites to finish top this time round too; the Ting Tong Bar (Nanai Road) notched up another 3 points last Tuesday night for their win over the Genius Bar. The Ting Tongers always seem to come up with a crack squad at the start of the new year, we’ll see if their form continues further into the season.

Chinese tourists hurt in Phi Phi speedboat crash

PHUKET: Five Chinese tourists were injured, one seriously, when two speedboats collided in the Phi Phi islands yesterday evening (Jan 28).

Govt begins removing tigers from scandal-tainted temple

KANCHANABURI: Five tigers were seized late yesterday (Jan 28) from the scandal-tainted “Tiger Temple”, the first move by the government to take away big cats from monks facing renewed allegations of wildlife trafficking.

OasisEd conducts art workshop for Airbnb superhosts

If you haven’t heard of Airbnb yet, then you just might be living in a cave. But do you know that caves around the world are now being rented out? On Airbnb!

Phuket UNESCO International Jazz Day 2016 to be biggest one yet

Phuket’s Vegetarian Festival and the King’s Cup Regatta are the two most famous annual events on this Thai island, now one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations. But, though each has undeniable merits, for jazz lovers there’s nothing like the annual Phuket UNESCO International Jazz Day festival in Phuket Town, organised jointly by the municipal office and Music Matter jazz club.

Film: Got to love The Hateful Eight new film by Tarantino

It’s far from being his best, but Tarantino’s latest is a Western with a delicious and dangerous difference In the stewpot of Quentin Tarantino’s tough-to-chew ingredients: graphic violence, racial animosity (if not racist hyperbole), linguistic provocation (counting the “n” word has become a sort of a game), indulgence in profanity and political incorrectness of all stripe, then in The Hateful Eight, the nearly threehour-long film is largely set in just one room. Heads smashed, women bashed, scrotum busted, black-man-white-man paranoia in full display – the director’s well-oiled strategy is to couch his exploitation exercise in cynical black comedy and gabby digressions – those delicious, funny, grandiloquent lectures on history and justice that he lately seems to favour

New Zealander found dead on yacht in Phuket yet to be identified

PHUKET: The body of a foreign man found on New Zealand registered yacht last Saturday (Jan 23) has still not been formally identified by family members. The true cause of death has also yet to be confirmed say police.

Street Eats: Kua Gling packs with fiery Southern spice

So youve been on the island for long enough now, and are finally ready to step outside of your culinary comfort zone?

Healthy, delicious snacking with Siam Dry Fruit

With so many fitnessminded people living in and visiting Phuket, healthy, delicious snacks are in high demand and have become a must for those looking to stay slim and in shape. Not to mention, all the kids growing up here, and who are constantly bombarded with artificially-sweetened and processed junk food – young and old, we all could use more healthy snack choices.

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