SAMUI: The renowned Phuket-based animal welfare organisation Soi Dog Foundation has launched canine sterilisation and vaccination programs on Koh Samui, Koh Tao and Koh Pha-ngan.
PHUKET: The first known turtle to hatch on Koh Racha Island, south of Phuket, in 10 years broke through its shell at about 2am today (Sept 8), raising hopes of a return of turtles to Phuket and the surrounding islands.
PHUKET: The debate among marine wildlife and conservation experts is afoot about what should be done with “Leypang”, the saltwater crocodile caught on Phuket’s west coast last week.
Grouchy, greedy and constipated: nobody could accuse Stephen Frears of kowtowing with his portrayal of Queen Victoria in his new film Victoria & Abdul, which premiered in Venice on Sunday.
UNITED STATES: With Hurricane Irma aiming squarely at south Florida, officials ordered hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate on Thursday (Sept 7), amid worries that fuel shortages and traffic bottlenecks could thwart the mass exodus.
BANGKOK: Crime suppression police have arrested the woman who allegedly married at least 12 men and ran off with the dowries in Nakhon Pathom province with one of her husbands while they were allegedly trying to escape.
PHUKET: A total of 68 people died on Phuket’s roads from January through April this year, with more statistics to be tabled indicating that Phuket is on track to match – or even exceed – last year’s road death toll of 174.
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POLAND: A Polish grandfather last Sunday (Sept 3) completed his third solo trans-Atlantic kayak crossing, arriving on the French coast 111 days after dipping his paddle into the waters off the US state of New Jersey.