BANGKOK: The Royal Thai Navy has released a nine-page white paper on the urgent need to purchase submarines to safeguard lucrative national maritime interests and maintain security during maritime conflicts.
PHUKET: Fear of reprisal by adults prevented a group of boys reporting that one of their friends had trouble swimming and had disappeared underwater at a beach on Koh Sirey, east of Phuket Town, yesterday afternoon (July 30).
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PHUKET: Luo Baoming, the provincial Communist Party chief for Hainan province, is seeking to launch direct flights from the Chinese tourism island of Hainan to Phuket.
PHUKET: The relocation of the Provincial Police Region 8 headquarters from Surat Thani to Phuket, the most important of the seven provinces in the region, had been decided seven years ago, national police chief Gen Somyot Poompanmuang said on Thursday, after funding for the shift came under heavy criticism.
Latest A prominent group of lawyers in Canada urges Thainad to ensure all charges are dropped against human rights defender Any Hall by a pineapple processor using controversial criminal defamation laws.
Latest An 11-year-old boy has drowned while swimming with friends at a ‘‘safe’’ beach on Phuket’s east coast. The friends noticed the boy was in trouble but a frantic search failed to find him.
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