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PHUKET: Shoppers in Patong might have witnessed the quiet arrest of a man wanted for accomplice to murder as undercover officers served a warrant at the Jungceylon shopping mall last night (June 8).

PHUKET: About 500 people, including students, hotel workers and local residents, took part in the tsunami-evacuation drill in Patong this morning (June 9).

PHUKET: Eleven people were taken to hospital this afternoon (June 9) when a delivery truck collided with a Phuket-Had Yai tour bus at the Na Neur junction in Ao leuk, Krabi. Police have blamed the incident on traffic lights which were not in service.

Billed as the ‘fight of the century’ or the ‘battle for greatness,’ sports enthusiasts agree that the recent hyped to the hilt title fight between Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Manny Pacquiao was a predictable and disappointing spectacle.

PHUKET: Those wanting to get a new motorbike or car licence in Phuket will have to wait longer than than they probably expected, as a reporter at The Phuket News found out today (June 9).

Latest With nitrous oxide alias laughing gas about to be banned in Britain, locals on Phi Phi and other holiday islands in Thailand see travellers getting high and wonder whether its legal in the land of zero drugs.

Latest Eight people were injured when a scheduled Phuket to Hat Yai bus collided with a truck at an intersection where the traffic lights were out at Nuea in Krabi, flipping the bus on its side.