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OrBorTor moves to keep Koh Maphrao clean
 
 
Local villagers on Koh Maphrao have asked for public trash cans to be posted at their beaches in order to keep them clean.
 
Friday, July 25, 2008
KOH MAPHRAO: In a move to keep Koh Maphrao clean, Koh Kaew Tambon Administration Organization (OrBorTor), the local authority responsible for Koh Maphrao, will place trash cans ar...
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Yo!2 finds Raceweek plain sailing
Friday, Jul 25, 2008
AO CHALONG: Peter Ahern’s crew aboard Yo2! have maintained their lead in the IRC 1 class of this year’s Six Senses Phuket Raceweek with two more wins today, leaving them with four wins from four races so far in the series.

Other provisional results posted this afternoon show that Ben Copely’s Swan 42 Katsu, racing in her first Raceweek regatta, scored a second and a third place today to move into second place overall in the series.

John Vause and his crew on Ruby Tuesday moved into third place overall in the cl...
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Yo!2 blows into first place in Raceweek opener
Friday, July 25, 2008
AO CHALONG: After torrential downpours delayed the start of the first race yesterday morning, crews racing in the Six Senses Phuket Raceweek regatta were blessed with steady winds of more than 10 knots pushing the record fleet around the courses.

The fleet of 44 yachts, competing in se...
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‘Death truck’ families to receive B35k per victim
Thursday, July 24, 2008
BANGKOK (TNA): Relatives of the 54 Burmese migrant workers who suffocated in the back of a seafood truck in Ranong on April 9 will receive 35,000 baht compensation for each relative who died while being illegally transported to Phuket, Suwanna Suwanjutha, director-general of the Rights and Liberties...
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Vandals slash Patong election campaign posters
Thursday, July 24, 2008
PATONG: Ahead of the Patong municipal election on Sunday, many of the campaign posters of mayoral candidate Somkiet Kuru, of the Patong Gao Na (Progress) party, posted throughout the resort town, have been slashed by vandals.

Khun Somkiet is the only mayoral candidate opposing Pian Keesin, wh...
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Queer News
   
 
A disarming mystery
BANGKOK: As the international media has been puzzling recently over the mystery of why five dismembered human feet have washed up on the beaches of British Columbia over the past year – the most recen...
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Rogue monk defrocks self
NONG KHAI: As every good clergyman knows, improper sexual conduct is a quick way to get defrocked – cast out of the Buddhist clergy.

Perhaps sensing that his own defrockment was inevitable, one...
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Runaway bride
SAPHAN BURI: Being forced into a loveless marriage is an unhappy fate for any girl to endure, but not everyone takes the situation lying down.

After being forced to marry the son of a wealthy l...
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Issues & Answers
   
 
Rawai Tesco runs afoul
I have the misfortune of living near the building site for the new Tesco store in Rawai, just south of Chalong Circle. In addition to the constant noise from early morning to late at night, we now hav...
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Kathu road below par
I have lived at Loch Palm for nearly two years and the condition of the stretch of Wichit Songkhram Rd that borders the the golf course has been steadily deteriorating during this time. It is now so b...
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How much for a night at Bangkok Hospital Phuket?
My Thai wife just stayed at Bangkok Hospital Phuket for one night due to having a severe migraine. When she arrived at the hospital she was told that the charge for the room would be 2,900 baht, but w...
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Can we invite the mayor to our wedding?