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Phuket Navy Choppers Make Dramatic Rescue to Airlift Crew from Wrecked Cargo Ship

Latest Royal Thai Navy helicopters were plucking desperate crew from the deck of a cargo vessel being pounded by waves onto rocks on an island off Phuket.

Cargo Ship Hits Rocks Off Phuket: Six More Missing on Distress Call Fishing Boat

Latest Six people were missing feared lost on a fishing boat as monssoon storms wreaked havoc off Phuket, with a cargo vessel carrying as many as 10 or 11 crew washed onto rocks.

Journalists Facing Jail in Thailand Need More Help, Says Rights Group

Latest Liberty Victoria, one of Australia’s oldest and most respected human rights organisations, has urged the Federal Government to act on ‘‘a harsh media crackdown’’ in Thailand.

PhuketWATCH EU in Crisis; Thai Tourism's Three Rs for Quality; Brits' Murder Case Begins

Phuket Updating Digest Bangkok running short of water; Emergency landing over bomb scare; Phuketwan pair face court; Uighurs sent to Turkey; Student activists go free; Six missing off Phuket.

Asean Today: Fighting Reported in Burma; Bank Accounts Frozen; Military Spending to Be Boosted; ...

Around the Region Philippines to ramp up military spending; Six bank accounts frozen in Malaysia; Trial of Burmese to begin over murders of tourists; British man died in Phnom Penh.

Weather hampers search for missing Phuket crew

PHUKET: Royal Thai Navy search-and-rescue teams have yet to find the missing six crewmen who escaped a sinking barge off Koh Racha Yai, south of Phuket, before dawn this morning (July 7).

Phuket’s Ace 1 condo developer faces fraud, Computer Crime charges

PHUKET: The developers of the Ace 1 Condominium project in Patong are lined up to face a slew of charges, including fraud and contravention of the Computer Crime Act, Col Angkul Klaiklueng of the Royal Thai Police Consumer Protection Division warned yesterday (July 6).

Enter the Underground Circus at Sri Panwa

Enter the Underground Circus at Sri Panwa for a night of deep house, awesome drinks and cool company on Saturday the 1st of August 2015. The DJ duo SUNJU HARGUN and DAN BURI are bringing the sound that has given them a loyal following in the Undergroun…

Mayweather stripped of WBO boxing title

Floyd Mayweather was stripped by the World Boxing Organisation of the welterweight world title he won by beating Manny Pacquiao two months ago.

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