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Latest Raiders have nabbed illegal beach equipment from the sands at Surin but it will be the New Year before illegal beach clubs and restaurants are demolished.

Latest It’s the sultan’s clauses not Santa Claus that matter as Christmas is subdued in Brunei this year. The New year could bring whipping for adultery, though, if shariah laws are implemented.

Phuket Updating Digest Top Thai kickboxer from US among overstayers nabbed; Korean budget line begins daily flights to Phuket; Blatter banned for eight years; Lost jet-ski rider rescued.

Around the Region Jetstar flight to Singapore diverts to Darwin; About 50 haze firms to suffer; Region aims to beat soaring road tolls; Police turn water cannon on garment strikers; Malaysia targets Tier One.

PHUKET: Vice Governor Chokdee Armornwat has confirmed that the demolition of the buildings along the Surin beachfront, on Phuket’s west coast, will not happen before New Year’s Day.

ZURICH: An ethics tribunal of scandal-plagued FIFA on Monday (Dec 21) banned Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini for eight years saying they had abused their positions over a 2 million Swiss francs payment made to Platini.

PHUKET: Local police have yet to decide whether or not to rule the death of a British woman who died after falling from the back of a moving tuk-tuk on Kamala Hill early yesterday morning as an accident.

SHENZHEN: A landslide that swept through an industrial park in southern China has buried more than 30 buildings in a sea of mud, leaving 91 people missing and triggering a gas explosion, Chinese media said Monday (Dec 21).

Veteran of no less than six of the seven installments of the Phuket International Blues Rock Festival, Rich returns for a one-night-only concert at HOME Restaurant, Kalim @ 7pm. Assisting Rich on stage will be local blues band Mojo Man for a night to r…