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Latest Allowing tour companies to package holidays with pre-paid elements is what’s killing Phuket tourism. Here’s a vital clue to how the money is being creamed off.

HUKET: The 10th Laguna Phuket International Marathon™ will take place on Sunday, June 7 2015.

The ultimate finale to this season’s Saturday Sunset Sessions’ this Saturday, 30th May from 3-6PM only at Kata Rocks. Accompanied by the beats of resident international DJs, our special drinks promotions will set the tone for a truly chic …

A deep tenderness pervades Cattleya Jaruthavee’s new photographic series, ‘A Paused Dream’. This is an indescribable portrait of youth: to be so young and already overhung with the sour smell of disappointed hopes; a sprightly old dance record, full of impossible yearning, forever stuck on a melancholy groove.

PHUKET: Thanyapura Phukets top swimming stars are hoping to bring home a bounty of medals from the Southeast Asian Games next week.

PHUKET: A man from Surat Thani was arrested at a rented room in Rassada yesterday (May 27) when he was found in possession of crystal meth (ya ice), kratom leaves, a gun and ammunition.

Barbed wire and a human jawbone hinted at the brutality in suspected people-smuggling camps in Malaysia as police yesterday (May 26) began the grisly task of exhuming dozens of graves along the Thai border.

Latest Fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been unable to resist an opportunity to criticise Thailand and has suffered the consequences, losing his two passports.

Latest A couple of big chickens labelled ‘‘self-interest’’ and ‘‘oversupply’’ are flapping home to roost on Phuket despite the efforts of boosters and investment banks to shoo them away.