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I recently went on a wonderful trip to Spain which was organised by Bart Duijkers from the Andaman Wine Club in Phuket. The trip was designed for wine lovers and was designed around staying in small boutique and historical vineyard hotels.

Hip-hop duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis were the surprise winners on Sunday (October 25) for Best Video at the MTV Europe Music Awards in a show dominated by Justin Bieber.

Hip-hop duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis were the surprise winners on Sunday (October 25) for Best Video at the MTV Europe Music Awards in a show dominated by Justin Bieber.

News Analysis One minute, there is a vocal group of opponents of the Phuket Dolphinarium. The next, opponents are hard to find. And so on the holiday island, it’s on with the show.

CHINA: China announced the end of its hugely controversial one-child policy yesterday (Oct 29), after decades of strict, sometimes brutal enforcement left it with an ageing population and shrinking workforce that has heightened the challenges of slowing economic growth.

Latest There’s something fishy about the Patong Carnival and it’s probably because the fun event ties with the Patong Seafood Festival this year. The motto: Drink, eat and be merry.

The government will roll out an executive decree and other measures next week to deal with illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

PHUKET: The Phuket Highways Office has vowed to install more barriers at a second section of the bypass road where concrete barriers have been removed so that motorbikes can again make illegal turns.

PHOTO ALBUM Fire destroyed a wooden ceramics shop and house in southern Phuket with the blaze being blamed on a snake crawling into a transformer and triggering a small blast.