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Latest A woman from north of Phuket is one of two people wanted by police after a raid on a Bangkok apartment produced small robots capable of carrying explosivers.

AUSTRIA: Three Syrian children hospitalised with severe dehydration after being rescued in Austria from a van packed with migrants have “vanished” with their parents, police said yesterday (August 30).

PHUKET: Wyndham Hotel Group today (August 31) announced the opening of the billion-baht 206-room Ramada Phuket Deevana in the heart of Patong.

BANGKOK: Authorities are hunting for a Thai woman after materials believed to be used for bomb-making were seized from her room at an apartment in Bangkokʼs Min Buri district.

Latest Reuters has distanced itself from a reporter after using her years of work and contacts to win a Pulitzer - only for her to be sued over the news agency’s prize-winning paragraph, then denied help.

News Analysis Phuketwan welcomes the creation of a ‘‘beach authority’’ to ensure the future of the holiday island’s beaches - and recommends that jet-skis now be banned from Patong beach.

Latest Australia’s much-criticised bid to resettle would-be refugees in the poor nation of Cambodia appears to have failed with just four people resettled at a cost of many millions of dollars.

Phuket Updating Digest Malaysians mass over PM’s scandal; Former PM Yingluck to face court; What tourism brings Phuket; Samui’s deadly offroad enterprise; Latest football results; Aussie golfer tops.

Around the Region Thailand’s bombing suspect reveals nothing; Cambodia four benefit from Aussie millions; Lost iPod feastures deeds of Laos monks; Malaysia pressure mounts on PM.