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The sea breeze that flows onto Nai Yang Beach carries delicious smells once it gets to Dewa Phuket Resort. A short drive from the airport, Dewa’s 100-seat cornerstone restaurant, the Terrace Grill, brings a western – or Italian, more appropriately – sensibility to dining.

FORMULA 1: The FIA World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) met in Mexico last week to ratify a number of proposed changes to the operation of Formula One. Its decisions, combined with those of the strategy group meeting prior to the British Grand Prix, suggest the sport may slowly be emerging from its regulatory torpor of the last 18 months.

Sleep disorders are a universal problem. In Thailand, up to 40 per cent of the population are reported to have suffered insomnia at some point, according to the Department of Mental Health.

Breeze Spa is set on a lush tropical hillside overlooking Patong Bay. It is located at the glorious Amari Phuket Resort and offers rejuvenating Thai and luxurious treatments. The Phuket News recently paid this delightful spa a visit to find out more about what they have to offer.

PHUKET: Four taxi drivers were arrested for gambling yesterday (July 16) in part an anti-firearm and crime campaign aimed at suspicious groups in the Patong area being held by Kathu police from July 15-19.

The grand opening of Roadhouse Bar and Grill took place last Tuesday (July 7) in Karon and The Phuket News went down to find out more about what the new bar and restaurant has to offer.

CHINA: Chinese Communist authorities have said the distribution of a sex tape purportedly shot in a fitting room in one of Beijings trendiest shopping malls is against socialist core values, after the footage went viral.

Farmers in several drought-stricken provinces in the Chao Phraya River basin have spurned the governments calls to halt pumping water for agricultural use.

Latest The Computer Crimes Act is being misused in the prosecution of two Phuketwan journalists by the Royal Thai navy, experts tell a criminal defamation trial on Phuket.