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Phuket Updating Digest With the Bangkok bombing linked to human trafficking, Thailand must do more; Boat show set for Phuket show No. 13; Five die in nightclub blaze; Thailand scores 22-in World Cup game.

Around the Region Five women are dead in a fire that broke out before a Cambodian nightclub opened; An Aussie gets 20 years for drugs in Vietnam; Burma’s election run begins; Singapore vote nears.

FORMULA 1: Hopes that controversy surrounding Pirelli and its tyres would be left at the last round in Belgium evaporated spectacularly during at the end of the race with the embroiling of Mercedes in yet another tyre-related scandal.

PHUKET: Tiger Group CEO Piya Isaramalai and Sara Entertainment Co Ltd have been found guilty of all charges against them for the lethal blaze at the busy Tiger Discotheque nightclub on Soi Bangla, Patong, that killed four people and injured 11 others in the early hours of August 17, 2012.

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PHUKET: Governor Nisit Jansomwong today (Sept 8) confirmed to The Phuket News that he expects to be transferred out of the province, effective Oct 1.

PHUKET: Emergency teams at Phuket International Airport will stage a full-scale drill at 1am on Sept 10 by using a real Airbus 320 to simulate an aircraft crash landing in Phuket.

PATTAYA: A stray dog which was found with a piece of PVC pipe stuck around its neck has been rescued in Pattaya.

PHUKET: Despite being told on August 24 that papers would be filed at Phuket Provincial Court against the developers of the Ace 1 Condominium project, which has never materialised, no later than September 3, the papers have still not been filed.