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PHUKET: More than 1,000 cycling enthusiasts in Phuket helped Thailand roll into the record books yesterday (August 16) as they joined the nationwide Bike for Mom rally held to honour HM Queen Sirikit for her 83rd birthday on August 12.

PHUKET: The Consular Services section of the Australian Embassy in Bangkok will conduct a Consular outreach visit to Phuket on Friday, September 11.

INDONESIA: Rescuers today (August 17) headed to the site in remote eastern Indonesia where debris has been spotted after a plane crashed with 54 people aboard at the weekend, the latest accident to hit the countryʼs aviation sector. 

BANGKOK: University freshmen nationwide are expected to join hazing rituals or rab nongceremonies on the first day of the 2015 school semester Monday (August 17), but a growing number of students and authorities are vowing to reform the half-century old ceremony rife with incidents of violence and abuse.

CHINA: Hundreds of tonnes of highly poisonous cyanide were being stored at the warehouse devastated by two giant explosions in the Chinese port city of Tianjin which killed 112, a senior military officer said yesterday (August 16).

Hundreds of thousands of blue-clad people nationwide have affirmed their respect, love and loyalty for Her Majesty the Queen and the monarchy with their largest ever bicycle parade which set a new world record yesterday (August 16).

PHUKET: For many years, expatriate Australians who invested internationally enjoyed limited benefits, mainly because their money would only grow tax-free during those years they actually resided abroad.

Phuket Updating Digest Record numbers of riders turn out to cycle for HM The Queen; European divers missing off Indonesia; Plane goes down in Papua highlands; Brazil turns out over Dilma.

Around the Region Have Burmese soldiers escaped murder-rape?; Four European divers missing off Borneo; Little hope for passengers in highlands plane crash; No Escape banned in Cambodia.