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  • Phuket etiquette course in wake of Chinese tourist prawn gorging [video] | Thaiger

    Phuket etiquette course in wake of Chinese tourist prawn gorging [video]

    PHUKET: Following Chinese tourists’ chaotic stampede and subsequent gluttonous gorging of piles of prawns at a buffet in Thailand, Phuket will be holding an etiquette course for guides working with Chinese tour companies. The internet was ablaze with vehement criticism of Chinese tourists this weekend after Chinese media company Shanghaiist published a 33 second video clip showing tourists in a…

  • Last toothfish poaching vessel of ‘Bandit 6’ sunk

    Last toothfish poaching vessel of ‘Bandit 6’ sunk

    PHUKET: Authorities in Indonesia have sunk the last of the ‘Bandit 6’ toothfish-poaching vessels, the Viking. Sea Shepherd representatives were on the ground to film the sinking of Viking, which marked the end of over a decade of toothfish poaching in the Southern Ocean at the hands of the Bandit 6, and the conclusion of Sea Shepherd’s Operation Icefish 2015-16.…