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Phuket Gazette World News: Smuggling, fraud cost Philippines US$25.8 billion in 2011, study says
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Smuggling, fraud cost Philippines $25.8 billion in 2011, study says Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: More than $410 billion in illicit money crossed the borders of the Philippines from 1960 to 2011, with customs fraud related to imported goods surging in recent years, according to a study released…
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Phuket Gazette World News: France’s Hollande retreats on family policy after protests
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community France’s Hollande retreats on family policy after protests Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: France’s Socialist government dropped plans on Monday to update family law this year after huge weekend protests by conservatives against gay-friendly reforms they say harm traditional families.The government tried on Monday to reassure the protesters,…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman dead of suspected drug overdose
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman dead of suspected drug overdose Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of the leading actors of his generation, who won an Academy Award for his title role in the film “Capote,” was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Sunday in…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Diver dies during Costa Concordia salvage works
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Diver dies during Costa Concordia salvage works Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: A Spanish diver died on Saturday during work to salvage the Costa Concordia cruise liner, which capsized off the Italian island of Giglio two years ago, the company in charge of the salvage work said.The diver…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Ukraine frees tortured activist as president returns to work
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Ukraine frees tortured activist as president returns to work Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: The Ukrainian government bowed to intense Western pressure on Sunday to let an opposition activist fly abroad for treatment after his abduction, torture and then attempted arrest by police outraged critics of President Viktor…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Syrian forces raze thousands of homes [Video]
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Syria peace talks take a break as rivals dig in Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Syrian authorities have flattened seven residential districts for no apparent military objective but to punish civilians living among rebels who had already fled, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.The New York-based advocacy group…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Amanda Knox convicted again of Briton’s 2007 murder
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Knox and Sollecito convicted again of Briton’s 2007 murder Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: American student Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty on Thursday for the second time of the 2007 murder of Briton Meredith Kercher, in a retrial that reversed an…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Congo’s poachers threatened with U.N. sanctions
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Congo’s poachers threatened with U.N. sanctions Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: The U.N. Security Council warned on Thursday that it would sanction individuals and entities supporting militants in the Democratic Republic of the Congo through illegal wildlife trafficking.The council’s unanimously adopted resolution on Congo extended the arms embargo…
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Phuket Gazette World News: High stakes in Paris race to be first Madame Mayor
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community High stakes in Paris race to be first Madame Mayor Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Wanted: Chief executive to run city of two million, seat of government, top global tourist destination and fashion capital. Relevant experience appreciated. Men need not apply.Paris elects a new mayor this spring who…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Malta agrees to curtail plans to sell EU citizenship
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Malta agrees to curtail plans to sell EU citizenship Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Anyone wishing to buy an EU passport from Malta must first live in the island nation for a year, the European Commission and Malta agreed on Wednesday, curtailing its contentious plan to sell EU…
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Phuket Gazette World News: U.S. readies financial sanctions against Ukraine
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community U.S. readies financial sanctions against Ukraine Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: The Obama administration is preparing financial sanctions that could be imposed on Ukrainian officials and protest leaders if violence escalates in the political crisis gripping Ukraine, congressional aides said on Wednesday.Congressional aides, who asked not to be…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Ukraine PM resigns amid unrest, parliament revokes anti-protest laws
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Ukraine PM resigns amid unrest, parliament revokes anti-protest laws Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov resigned on Tuesday while deputies loyal to President Viktor Yanukovich, acting to calm violent street protests, back-tracked and overturned anti-protest laws they rammed through parliament 12 days ago.The first…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Sri Lanka says international war crimes probe would bring chaos
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Sri Lanka says international war crimes probe would bring ‘chaos’ Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: An international inquiry into war crimes in Sri Lanka would bring “chaos,” and the government’s national reconciliation process must be given several more years to work, a top aide to Sri Lanka’s president…
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Phuket Gazette World News: World Bank warns Myanmar on corruption as it unveils $2bn in aid
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community World Bank warns Myanmar on corruption as it unveils $2 billion in aid Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: The World Bank on Monday warned Myanmar against corruption as it unveiled a $2 billion aid package designed to provide better health care and improve supplies of electricity.Despite the country’s…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Syrian government to allow women, children to exit war zone
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Syria talks bring offer of exit from siege of Homs Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: The Syrian government offered to let women and children leave the besieged city of Homs on Sunday as negotiators from the warring sides discussed humanitarian gestures on a second day of face-to-face talks…
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Phuket Gazette World News: At least 21 people dead after Indian tourist boat capsizes
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community At least 21 people dead after Indian tourist boat capsizes Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: At least 21 people died after a boat carrying Indian tourists capsized off India’s Andaman Islands, officials said on Sunday.“A boat with some 40 odd people sank earlier today,” Anand Prakash, Chief Secretary…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Tunisia approves new constitution, appoints government
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Tunisia approves new constitution, appoints government Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Tunisia’s national assembly approved the country’s new constitution on Sunday in one of the final steps to full democracy three years after protests erupted into an uprising that toppled autocrat Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.Just before the constitution’s…
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Phuket Gazette World News: U.S. carries out air strike in Somalia
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community U.S. carries out air strike in Somalia targeting militant suspect Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: The U.S. military carried out a missile strike in Somalia on Sunday targeting a suspected militant leader with ties to al Qaeda and al Shabaab, a U.S. military official told Reuters, speaking on…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Quebec premier vows ‘never again’ after 32 die in senior residence fire
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Quebec premier vows ‘never again’ after 32 die in senior residence fire Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Quebec Premier Pauline Marois on Sunday said a fatal fire in a seniors’ residence was “unacceptable” but stopped short of saying her government would make sprinklers mandatory in homes for the…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Peru clears former government leaders after probe of forced sterilizations
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Peru clears former government leaders after probe of forced sterilizations Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Peru has closed an inquiry into whether former president Alberto Fujimori and his cabinet members forcibly sterilized thousands of indigenous women as part of a birth control campaign that targeted the rural poor.Prosecutor…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Rights group says Muslims massacred in Myanmar amid official denials
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Rights group says Muslims massacred in Myanmar amid official denials Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Security forces in western Myanmar massacred at least 40 Rohingya Muslims last week, including women and children, a human rights group said on Thursday, quoting witness accounts, despite official denials of the killings.Bangkok-based…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Indian woman gang-raped on orders of village court
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Indian woman gang-raped on orders of village court Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: A 20-year-old woman in eastern India was gang-raped by 13 men on the orders of a village court as punishment for having a relationship with a man from a different community, a senior police officer…
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Phuket Gazette World News: South Sudan government and rebels sign ceasefire
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community South Sudan government and rebels sign ceasefire deal Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: South Sudan’s government and rebel troops loyal to sacked Vice President Riek Machar signed a deal on Thursday to end fighting that has lasted more than a month and killed thousands.The leader of President Salva…
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Phuket Gazette world News: Italy issues 90 mafia arrest warrants, seizes pizza restaurants
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Italy issues 90 mafia arrest warrants, seizes pizza restaurants Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Italian police on Wednesday issued arrest warrants for 90 suspected members of a Naples mafia clan and seized assets worth millions of euros, including dozens of well-known pizza restaurants in Rome.One suspect, a 42-year-old…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Central African Republic children forced to commit atrocities – U.N.
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Central African Republic children forced to commit atrocities – U.N. Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: As many as 6,000 children in Central African Republic have been recruited by armed groups and forced to commit atrocities along religious lines in a conflict that is at high risk of spiralling…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Obama, Putin unite for Olympics security
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Obama, Putin discuss Olympics security in call Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed in a phone call on Tuesday how best to have a “safe and secure” Winter Olympics in Sochi, the White House said.Amid rising concerns about threats from…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Militant Islamist video threatens Winter Olympics
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Militant Islamist video threatens Winter Olympics Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Two men said by Islamist militants to have carried out suicide attacks in south Russia appeared in a video donning explosive belts and warning Vladimir Putin to expect a “present” at the Sochi Winter Olympics from fighters…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Central African Republic names new leader, EU to send troops
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Central African Republic names new leader, EU to send troops Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Central African Republic lawmakers chose their capital’s mayor to become interim president on Monday and lead the country out of months of sectarian killings, as the European Union agreed to send in 500…
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Phuket Gazette World News: UN chief invites Iran to Geneva 2, Syria opposition threatens to withdraw
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community UN chief invites Iran to Geneva 2, Syria opposition threatens to withdraw Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Syria’s political opposition said on Monday it will withdraw from international peace talks scheduled this week unless United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon retracts an invitation to Iran, President Bashar al-Assad’s main…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Quake measuring 6.3 strikes NZ’s north island
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Quake measuring 6.3 strikes NZ’s north island Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: An earthquake measuring 6.3 magnitude struck New Zealand’s north island on Monday, 63 km (40 miles) southeast of the town of Palmerston, the U.S. Geological Society said.The quake, at a depth of 29 km (18 miles),…
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