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Freed from captivity in tiny metal cages, seven long-suffering Asiatic moon bears have been rescued from bile farms in northern Vietnam, as efforts to end the illegal trade are boosted.

The best exhibition in Phuket and Andaman coastline for construction tools and materials and architectural design and décor items comprising a wide range of products and technology. Phuket, Phang Nga, Karbi and other provinces in Andaman regio…

BANGKOK: The Customs Department will integrate more government agencies’ databases into the National Single Window (NSW) to create a full one-stop service to traders, to be further linked to similar systems in other Asean countries.

A 20-year-old partygoer died yesterday (June 29) after suffering 90 per cent burns from a fireball that injured nearly 500 people at a Taiwan colour party, with organisers facing charges after plumes of decorative powder ignited.

The Tourism Department and the Transport Ministry will install direction signs in Chinese next year in a bid to ease the number of car accidents caused by tourists travelling from China into Thailand, especially around Chiang Mai.

Latest A man who confessed to slashing the throat of a chief prosecutor has been arrested by a two man team sent from north of Phuket to arrest the man.

Editor’s Comment Phuketwan’s future is on the line at a trial so the editor is giving up responses to comments from July 1 to devote more time to saving the popular online news site.

Latest Government of Laos goes soft on human rights reforms that ‘‘did not enjoy full support.’’ These include inadequate responses on forced disappearances.

Phuket Updating Digest Wrecked yacht removed from Phuket beach; Six foreign fugitives nabbed; Intolerance in Thailand; Deaths on Phi Phi island; Cracked tarmac win for reporter.