VIETNAM: Fixing weighing scales used to be good business on Vietnam’s floating Cai Rang market, but the last repairman on the river now makes just a few dollars a month as modernity pushes traders to land.
Any professional horticulturist will tell you that flexible black grow-bags are the cheapest plant containers available.
Helmets, helmets, helmets – or the lack of people wearing them – is an issue which has been touched on so many times in the past and of which has been the focus of many a campaign.
NATIONWIDE: Cigarette prices will face the highest increases under the new excise tax law that took effect on Saturday, with tax rates now at 20% and 40%, followed by imported wine.
PHUKET: Electricity supply will be temporarily shut down in Koh Kaew as workers plan to upgrade high-voltage power lines next Tuesday (Sept 19), the Phuket Provincial Electricity Authority (PPEA) announced yesterday (Sept 16).
PHUKET: There will be no official memorial service in Phuket to remember the 90 people who died in the crash of One-Two-Go flight on this day 10 years ago.
BRAZIL: He went by the name Eduardo Martins and portrayed himself as a Brazilian war photographer who worked for the UN, liked to help people and who had a fondness for surfing.
PHUKET: Thalang police called for motorists to avoid both routes to Bang Rong Pier (from Heroines Monument and from Muang Mai) as two bridges collapsed on the main road in Pa Khlok.
Sitting in the lovely little cafe called Coffee Cycle, in the strangely-named Click Plaza, just off the Chalong Pier Road, as I am right now while writing this, you could be forgiven for thinking you’d found the perfect cyclists’ breakfasting spot in all of Phuket.