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Phuket Updating Digest British family wants to rescue ill traveller; Korean plunges off building; Indian suspect nabbed in Pattaya; Woman seeks new Bali companion; Better planets found.

Around the Region Aussies warn of terror threats in Indonesia; Floods victims bothered by Malaysian tourists; Cambodia must lift for Asean EC; Fence considered to stop Rohingya.

PATTAYA: Police and military officers have captured a fugitive Indian terrorist hiding out in Pattaya wanted after he escaped 10 years ago from a jail where he was doing time for a 1995 bombing in India that killed 18 people, including the head of Punjab state.

PHUKET: A Russian woman was arrested today (January 6) at the Karon Viewpoint for acting as an illegal tour guide and running an unregistered tour company.

PHUKET: A months-long battle over the filling of a tin lake close to the bypass road is now before the provincial court – but the outcome is far from certain, The Phuket News has learned.

Get me out of here! We bet you probably never considered Bandung, Indonesia as a holiday location. You should.

BANGKOK: Road fatalities nationally during the New Year’s holiday fell 7 per cent from a year ago, with 341 killed in the “seven dangerous days,” Interior permanent secretary Wiboon Sanguanpong said today (January 6).

PHUKET: The report card for the island during the annual Seven Days of Danger is mixed.

PHUKET: A French resident of Phuket escaped without a scratch yesterday (January 5) after the car he was driving burst into flames on Patong Hill.