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PHUKET: Further details about Phuket̕s Light Rail System (LRS) have been revealed, including the fact that trains are expected to run every five minutes in Phuket Town.

PHUKET: Police in Phuket are keeping an eye on teenagers who have been posting pictures of themselves on Facebook, describing themselves as gang members and in some cases posing with guns.

PHUKET: The Phuket Fisheries Office is scrambling to fix irregularities in the island’s fishing industry bythe end of this month, following a warning by the European Union (EU) of trade sanctions if illegal fishing is not curbed.

Indonesian divers Monday retrieved the flight data recorder of the AirAsia plane that went down in the Java Sea with 162 people on board, a potential breakthrough in efforts to discover what caused the crash. 

PHUKET: Following the riot between Burmese and Cambodian construction workers in the work camp at Phuket International Airport on New Year’s Day, Governor Nisit Jansomwong is to set up a team to check conditions in all work camps around the island.

A Rohingya woman has died after suffocating in a truck packed with migrants from the Myanmar Muslim minority group as they travelled through southern Thailand, police said toady (January 12).