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Phuket Governor warns of Storm Pakhar’s heavy rains

PHUKET: Phuket Governor Nopparat Plodthong has said that the Department of Meteorology has issued a warning No.8 for Storm ‘Pakhar’ currently covering the upper South China Sea.

South Korea’s ‘Poop School’ to change name

SOUTH KOREA: A South Korean Elementary school whose name means “shit” has decided to adopt a more fragrant moniker, school officials said last week.

First in, best served: Holiday Inn Phuket marks more than a generation serving guests in Patong

PHUKET: The Holiday Inn Resort Phuket at Patong Beach last month marked the opening of its celebrations of 30 years of serving guests in what has become one the best-known island-vacation towns on the planet.

Street joints and empires

HONG KONG: From decades-old holes in the wall to multi-million dollar businesses, Hong Kong’s noodle scene is a money spinner in a city that runs on quick and affordable comfort food.

Phuket History: The lost wilderness of Phuket

Until the late 19th century, a thick cloak of jungle, often quite impenetrable, almost universally covered Phuket and the whole region.

Phuket Opinion: Always a pleasant experience

PHUKET: With the Thai Immigration Bureau’s online 90-day reporting option being offline, not for the first time we should add, those of us who have to make these regular reports, have the lucky opportunity to visit the happy faces of the staff at immigration.

Phuket Meteorological Dept confirms rain to continue, no floods likely

PHUKET: Heavy rain is forecast throughout this weekend and into Monday (Aug 26-27), an official from the Thai Meteorological Department (TMD) has confirmed, following periodic heavy rain today (Aug 26).

Four things we learned from English Premier League

FOOTBALL: As we enter week three of Premier League action there are five teams who remain pointless at the bottom of the table, while up at the top there are three teams who have picked up maximum points so far, the most surprising of them being Huddersfield Town. Here we look back on four things we learned from the English Premier League last weekend:

Fugitive Thai ex-PM Yingluck in Dubai, aims for UK asylum: govt source

BANGKOK: Fugitive former Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra is in Dubai and may try to seek asylum in the UK, a junta source said today (Aug 26), after she fled the country to avoid a court ruling in a vanishing act that stunned many Thais.

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