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PHUKET XTRA - December 1
More delays for Samkong underpass, missing money at Similans, missing Aussie biker in Pattaya, local protest against US Ambassador, BKK cabbie crackdown and World AIDS Day.

PHUKET: Relegation still looms for Phuket FC as they dropped from 15th to 16th place in the YAMAHA League Division One table following a defeat to Ang Thong FC last Sunday (Nov 29) at the Ang Thong Stadium.

PHUKET: A staffer at Phuket International Airport has been arrested for stealing duty-free items with an estimated value of about B100,000 that were to be loaded onto an aircraft and sold mid-flight en route to Helsinki.

PHUKET: Police seized more than 500 grams of crystal meth (ya ice) worth about B1 million from a drug dealer who told police he bought the drugs via someone inside Phuket prison.

CHONBURI: A former Australian motorcycle gang member arrested six years ago for drug trafficking, obstruction of justice, and involvement in the theft of B5 million from a Melbourne casino was abducted at gunpoint from his Pattaya home early yesterday (Nov 30).

PHANG NGA: Seven assistants to the Similan Islands National Park chief have been transferred following a sharp drop in fee collections at the popular park in Phang Nga, north of Phuket.

BANGKOK: Despite closer ties between Bangkok and Beijing, the United States has not “lost” Thailand to China, American Ambassador Glyn Davies said yesterday (Nov 30) amid mounting protests over his criticism of the country’s lese majeste law.

The UN Refugee Agency welcomes the Royal Thai Government’s announcement that 18,773 formerly stateless people have been granted nationality in Thailand over the last three years.

latest Police on Phuket trailed a man suspected of being involved in a gang that steals credit cards from bus pagssengers an d then a second team shot out a tyre to arrest him.