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BANGKOK: The government is likely to demand tens of billions of baht in compensation for the loss-ridden rice-pledging programme of the previous Yingluck Shinawatra government, Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said yesterday (Sept 4).

Phuket Updating Digest Australia’s government is urged to take more refugees following Europe’s lead; Doubts arise over whether suspects are the Erawan bomber; Phuket taxi drivers pressured to perform.

Around the Region Indonesia drops high speed rail plan; Malaysian boat capsize claims 24; Indonesia offers democracy example to Asean neighbors; Cambodian tourism from Thailand drops.

LISBON: Britain will take in thousands more Syrian refugees, Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday (Sept 4) amid growing pressure at home and abroad to address the crisis.

PHUKET: People in Phuket are divided in their opinions on whether or not shopping mega-malls are worth the expense, effort and cost to the community, according to the latest poll conducted by The Phuket News.

BANGKOK: DNA tests show a foreign man arrested near the Cambodia border Tuesday is not the yellow-shirted Erawan shrine bomber, but was “definitely involved in the bombing”, police said.

BANGKOK: A team of Khon Kaen University researchers inspired by the unrest in the far South has developed the worlds first bullet-proof vest made from natural silk.

PHUKET: Local residents turning down two flyovers at the final public hearing last month may cost the province B200 million in road-improvement funds, the director of the Phuket Highways Office has revealed.

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