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PHANG NGA: Power in most of Phang Nga’s Muang district this morning was abruptly shut down after a petrol tanker smashed into an electrical pole and burst into flames just outside of Phang Nga Town.

PHUKET: More people continue to be killed on Phukets dangerous roads. Something needs to be done.

TIANJIN: Thailand’s women volleyball squad have impressed, having won all of their 12 sets in four matches so far in the 2015 Asian Women’s Volleyball Championship being contested May 20-28 in China.

BANGKOK: Adisak may start up front ahead of Teerasil while playmaker Chanathip will orchestrate hosts attack against Vietnam

Latest Malaysia has found mass graves containing ‘‘hundreds’’ of boatpeople but chosen not to reveal the fact, according to a newspaper.

Latest Two Phuket reporters who say they have been falsely accused of criminal defamation want live tv coverage of their trial because of the huge level of international interest.

Phuket Updating Digest The irish vote for same-sex marriage; Airlines want Thailand open skies; Kasit urges Thailand to allow Rohingya refuges; Thailand calmer, but lacking some things.

Latest A petrol tanker crashed into a pole, sparking a spectacular blaze and blacking out hundreds of homes north of Phuket. The driver and two people in a car than ran off the road escaped.

Latest Doctors will examine the body of a man who was found near-naked in scrub near a beach at a secluded Phuket resort with some kind of bite mark on a leg.