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PHOTO ALBUM Cars were being set alight in the car park of a Phuket police station with fire trucks unable to reach the blazes and police and Army reinforcements due on the scene before midnight.

PHOTO ALBUM An ugly scene was developing on Phuket close to midnight as hundreds of soldiers and police were being called onto the holiday island to deal with protesters surrounding a police station.

PHUKET: A man was arrested last night (October 9) when police busted him at Tha Chatchai police checkpoint in Mai Khao with 3,921 meth pills and four grams of crystal meth hidden inside his van.

YANGON: More unseasonal heavy rainfall is threatening some vulnerable areas in Myanmar including the Sagaing region that was badly hit by floods two months ago, local media said today (October 10).

Latest Two boys were killed in a crash involving a police vehicle so about 100 angry family and friends have surrounded a Phuket police station.

THAILAND: Random checkpoint, flying checkpoint, mobile checkpoint, temporary roadblock, call it what you will, they all serve just one purpose – to squeeze money from road users, and motorcyclists in particular.

Latest A 12-year-old girl has become the third victim of a horror inferno on a scheduled bus that left the passengers trapped as smoke filled the vehicle.

THAILAND: Somchai Suwanban, who was sacked on Friday (October 9) as Thai PBS director-general, is seeking an Administrative Court injunction against the Thai PBS board of governors’ decision to abruptly dismiss him from office. He denies the board’s allegation of mismanagement.

Latest A nightclub on Phuket where Australian tourists were bashed by security guards has been closed for a week as one victim says they were deceived by UNLIMITED DRINKS vouchers.