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PHUKET: Police and prison guards are searching Phuket Town for a suspect incarcerated in Phuket Prison awaiting trial on cheque fraud who escaped from Vachira Phuket Hospital this morning (Dec 18).

PHUKET: Roads throughout the heart of Phuket Town will close tomorrow morning (Dec 19) as the annual Christmas parade takes place, from 10am to 11am.

PHUKET: Two men died on Phuket’s roads after the driver missed the bend and crashed his pickup truck into a streetlight pylon near King Power on Chao Fa West Rd, Wichit, early this morning (Dec 18).

PHUKET: The continuing rolling out of major development projects initiated by the Thai government in Phuket and elsewhere in the country has thrown the legal state of play of investor-State agreements into sharp relief.

INDIA: University student Santadevi Meghwal has been threatened, harassed, ostracised and even fined by a council of male elders in her village in India. But the 20-year-old is determined to push ahead with annulling her child marriage, and join a small but growing number of youngsters in northern India rejecting the ancient tradition.

SOUTH AFRICA: Green, tidy, with safe public areas and winding bicycle paths – Steyn City is a vast “self-sufficient” development outside Johannesburg, that highlights growing controversy over South Africa’s divided urban society.

PHUKET XTRA - December 18 Missing Brit found, Patong cables go underground, The Ombudsman Mobile, four shot in Krabi and Miss Thailand impresses at Miss Universe, Las Vegas.