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Along with paying for your beer, mobile top-up card, toasted sandwich and utility bill, 7-Eleven stores will now let you book airline tickets on Thai Smile Airways.

Latest Phuket rates a respectable third among top beaches in Asia in the annual TripAdvisor 2015 Travellers’ Choice Awards. Five of the top islands in Asia are in Thailand. Ko Tao tops the list.

Latest A young Syrian, one of six held at Phuket International Airport for about 80 days when their escape plans went haywire, has found a new life in Canada and a shot at happiness.

PHOTO ALBUM After kangaroo-hopping from South America, an Indonesian attempted to smuggle 5.2 kilos of cocaine to Phuket by catching a Silk Air flight from Singapore.

Phuket Updating Digest Tourist industry admires changes; Two held over deaths of hundreds at sea; Thailand’s credit binge a problem; EU deadline on fishing; Ivory crackdown; Phuket events.

Kata Rocks is setting up a giant outdoor movie theatre on its poolside terrace - how cool is that? The American surf crime movie, Point Break (1991) starring Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves will launch the series on Friday 1 May at 7:0…

Around the Region Australia’s Navy returns Vietnamese and seeks ‘‘volunteers’’ for Cambodia; Blind go untreated thanks to budget cuts; Brunei selling sharks; Malaysia rejects stress ball.

PHUKET: A woman from Pakistan died at Thalang Hospital in the early hours of this morning after slashing her wrist and falling into the swimming pool of a five-star resort in Mai Khao.

Friends of the Kangaroo Bar in Soi Bangla made a real difference to the life of one of the streets regular vendors. And then they did what???