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Are you ready for 2015? Here are the lists of what people around the world will be doing on New Years Eve.

PHUKET: This past Christmas, hundreds of poor kids in Rawai received some special surprises from charity Santa..

Latest Two Chinese and a Thai shop proprietor scammed banks using fake ATM transactions to tot up 700,000 baht in fraudulent bank fees, say Phuket City police.

Latest ‘‘Santi Clause’’ came calling at an island off Phuket to shut down a Chinese dive company using Burmese laborers as instructors to train Chinese package tourists.

Latest The driver of a Mercedes was allegedly drunk when he crashed into a motorcycle and killed the female rider on the spot, the first death in Phuket’s Seven days of danger.

Latest Twins born to a gibbon at Phuket’s remarkable Gibbon Rehabilitation Project centre face a battle to survive because in the wild, one twin would probably perish quickly.

Phuket Updating Digest Hunt on for crashed flight’s black box; Phuket police treat teen shooting as murder; Andaman Heritage recognition considered unlikely; Man ate three tigers; Phuket events.

As ever, it has been an eventful year in Phuket, featuring the good, the bad and the downright ugly, criminals, giant snakes, deadly fires and deadly accidents on land, on the water and under it. All human life is here. Here are the highlights, month by month.

PHUKET: Vachira Phuket Hospital has issued a call for donations of O+ blood for the driver of the Ford Fiesta car involved in this morning’s crash in which a tour bus full of Russians tumbled off the road near the Thavorn Beach Village.