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Ao Phuket project given top-level green light
 
 
A computer generated illustration of what Ao Phuket will look like after a 100-billion baht in investment.
 
Friday, May 09, 2008
PHUKET: The government of Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej has given the green light to the Ao Phuket development plan, a 100-billion-baht megaproject on 3,000 rai of reclaimed land that would include ...
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Phuket City elections on Sunday
Friday, May 9, 2008
PHUKET CITY: Despite intermittent downpours throughout the day, sound trucks carrying political hopefuls plied the streets of Phuket City today in a last-minute bid to drum up support for their candidates in the hotly-contested Phuket City Municipality election to be held on Sunday.

The mayoral race pits incumbent Somjai Suwannasuppana of the Khon Noom (Young Turks) party against her former deputy Ayuth Tansiriroj and his Chao Baan Sarng San (Creative Village People) party.

There are 24 city council seats up for grabs. Each party has fielded six candidates in ea...
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Thai AirAsia sets up Myanmar donation stations
Friday, May 9, 2008
BANGKOK: Thai AirAsia announced this afternoon that it is offering aid to cyclone victims in Myanmar by carrying public donations to Yangon.

The airline has set up collection points in all the destinations it flies to, including Phuket.

Tassapo...
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Police hunt suspected tsunami coffin thieves
Friday, May 9, 2008
PHANG NGA (Kom Chad Luek): Takuapa District Police are on the lookout for two former cemetery workers who confessed to stealing 11 70-kilogram coffins worth an estimated 400,000 baht from a storage facility at...
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Tour guide, 31, dies of ‘heart attack’
Friday, May 9, 2008
RASSADA: Police have cited heart failure as the probable cause of death of a man found dead in his Rassada apartment on May 2.

Phuket City Police duty officer Lt Salan Reedeng said his station was alerted after security staff at Building 3 of the Rassada National Housing Authority apartment c...
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Queer News
   
 
Little larvae, powerful performance
KALASIN: Aphrodisiacs and sex aids come in many forms. The Chinese have rhino horns and tiger penis, while Viagra has spread from America to become a worldwide craze allowing a generation of aging lot...
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Snake wife makes grand eggs-it
UDON THANI: The peculiar story of a man who married a python said to be a 600-year-old spirit from his past has taken yet another bizarre twist.

Satien Kenkudlung’s python wife (pictured, right...
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Monk cops out royally
TAK: While impersonating a policeman for personal gain is nothing new in Thailand, one monk in Mae Sot who thought he may have picked the wrong career took it one step further over the Songkran holida...
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Issues & Answers
   
 
Where can I dispose of my UPS?
I have an old UPS (uninterruptible power supply) unit which no longer works because the lead-acid battery has died. Is there any place or shop on the island that takes dead UPS units, or do I just thr...
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Helping the Khun Poom Foundation
I have been trying to find the street and email addresses for the Khun Poom Foundation, which was founded HRH Princess Ubol Ratana Rajakanya. The foundation is responsible for building some new facili...
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Are children exempt from visa runs?
I have a two-year-old child who entered Thailand on a 12-month multiple-entry “O” visa. I was told by Immigration that he doesn’t need to leave Thailand every 90 days as they don’t charge children und...
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Visa for Laotian ‘spouse’
I am staying in Thailand on a non-immigrant “B” visa. My partner, a Lao citizen to whom I am not married, is currently having to do a “visa run” every 30 days. We have a child who was born in Thailand...
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Visa for foreign nanny
I am here on a retirement visa with a one-year permit-to-stay. I have a three-year-old daughter to whom I am sole parent. She was born in the Philippines and, like me, she has a Norwegian passport.
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