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PHUKET: Residents in Yala municipality were scrambling yesterday to erect flood defences as authorities continued discharging water from nearby Bang Lang Dam.

SINGAPORE: An AirAsia flight, originating from the Indonesian city of Surabaya and due to land in Singapore early this morning has disappeared into oblivion.

The most common way full-time teachers supplement their income is by teaching private lessons on a freelance basis.

Tsunami 10 Years On A Phuket journalist recalls the day of the big wave and how the media, international and local, reacted to the story of a lifetime.

Latest A flight with 162 people on board has vanished in Southeast Asia at the conclusion of a tragic year in the skies for the airlines of the region.

Latest The driver of a car that struck a motorcycle carrying three women did not stop and drove on for several hundred metres with one of the injured women on the bonnet, say police.

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PHUKET: Foreigners who possess a valid work permit and pay tax to the Royal Thai Government through a Tax [payer] Identification Number (TIN) have no legal entitlement to the “local rate” at any of the National Parks throughout the kingdom, a National Parks tourism promotion officer has confirmed.

One of the worst floods in the Thailand-Malaysia border area in recent history is about to get worse.