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Siam Paragon, in collaboration with KASIKORNBANK, is hosting a spectacular Lunar New Year celebration, Siam Paragon A Prosperous Chinese New Year 2025, from today until February 2, at Parc Paragon. This year’s event is inspired by the rich heritage of Dunhuang,...
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Phuket Gazette World News: China’s Xi in Russia; Myanmar riot; Damascus blast; Sarkozy probe; US poll for migrants; Gillard survives
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Curfew in Myanmar town after 10 killed in riots Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: A central Myanmar town declared a curfew for a second night yesterday after clashes killed 10 people, including a Buddhist monk, and injured at least 20, authorities said.Riots erupted in Meikhtila, 540km north of…
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‘Deep Throat’ porn star Harry Reems dies
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community ‘Deep Throat’ porn star Harry Reems dies at 65 Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: Harry Reems, who earned just $100 to have sex with Linda Lovelace in the enormously successful 1972 hardcore pornography film “Deep Throat,” died in Salt Lake City this week after a…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Cyprus crisis; Aus PM Gillard in leadership battle; Killer bees attack SA school
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Cyprus scrambles to avert meltdown, EU threatens cut-off Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Cyprus considered nationalising pension funds and ordered banks to stay shut till next week to avert financial chaos after it rejected the terms of a European Union bailout and turned to Russia for aid.Crisis talks…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Polish mine collapse; Congo up in arms; Pakistani schoolgirl shot by Taliban starts school in UK
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Seventeen workers trapped underground at Polish mine Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Seventeen miners are trapped underground in a Polish copper mine after an earthquake caused a cave-in, a spokesman for mine operator KGHM said this morning.The miners were trapped 600 metres below ground at the Rudna mine,…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Kenyan president and war crimes; Damascus under siege; 17 jailed for cop bomb plot; Budapest up in arms; Somali rape reporter freed
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Kenyatta lawyers push international court to drop case Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Lawyers for Kenya’s president-elect, Uhuru Kenyatta, will push the International Criminal Court today to drop charges against him after the case against his co-accused collapsed. The case against Kenyatta, on charges of crimes…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Swiss tourist gang-raped in India
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Swiss tourist gang-raped while camping in India – police Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Four men raped a 39-year-old Swiss woman camping with her husband in an Indian forest, police said yesterday, turning the spotlight anew on the security of women in the world’s largest democracy.…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Vatican denies Pope silent during ‘dirty war’ dictatorship
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Vatican denies Pope silent during ‘dirty war’ dictatorship Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: The Vatican has strongly denied accusations by some critics in Argentina that Pope Francis stayed silent during systematic human rights abuses by the former military dictatorship.Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi on Friday told reporters the…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Syria warns Lebanon; Myanmar in democracy drive; UN damns drones; Spain retirees hit
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Syria threatens to strike at rebels in Lebanon Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Syria has warned it may strike at rebels hiding in neighbouring Lebanon if the Lebanese army does not act, as its patience “is not unlimited”, the state news agency SANA said yesterday.Syria’s Foreign Ministry told…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Li voted China premier; Italy election gridlock; Pope cited in ‘dirty war’ book
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community China’s Li formally picked for premier Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: China’s legislature elected Li Keqiang as premier today, installing an English-speaking bureaucrat as the man to lead the world’s second-largest economy and combat pressing woes like a frothy housing market and an over-reliance on investment.The largely rubber-stamp…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Khmer Rouge Ieng Sary dead
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Ieng Sary, minister for Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, dies in hospital Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Ieng Sary, who was standing trial for crimes against humanity during his time as the Khmer Rouge’s foreign minister in Cambodia in the 1970s, died this morning, the court said.Ieng Sary’s death will…
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Phuket Gazette World News: ‘Habemus Papam’
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Argentina’s Bergoglio elected as new Pope Francis Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected in a surprise choice to be the new leader of the troubled Roman Catholic Church yesterday, taking the name Francis I and becoming the first non-European pontiff in nearly…
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Phuket Gazette World News: No Pope as black smoke rises over Sistine Chapel
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Cardinals begin voting in earnest for new pope to face Church crisis Phuket GazettePHUKET: Cardinals begin the process of choosing a new pope in earnest today, holding their first full day of voting for a leader to face a major crisis in the Roman Catholic Church.The 115…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Syria rebels breach Homs; Pope vote begins; PNG quake; China land protests; Khmer war crimes
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Syrian rebels pierce Assad’s siege lines in Homs – opposition Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET:Syrian rebels broke through government lines to ease a siege of their positions in the strategic central city of Homs yesterday despite coming under fierce aerial bombardment, opposition campaigners said. The communally…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Brazil nightclub fire toll climbs; 31 militants slain on Borneo; China land grab
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Victim from Brazil nightclub fire dies, 16 still hospitalized Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: A young woman died yesterday from injuries sustained during a January 27 fire at the Kiss nightclub in southern Brazil, bringing the death toll from the college town tragedy to 241, Brazil’s health ministry…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Chavez to be embalmed; Bin Laden son in law arrested; Rohingya crisis spreads
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Bin Laden son-in-law arrested in Jordan, taken to New York Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: U.S. prosecutors unsealed an indictment against a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden yesterday that charged him with conspiracy to kill Americans, after U.S. government sources said he was arrested overseas and brought to…
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Phuket Gazette World News: FBI probe launched after drone spotted at JFK airport
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Feds checking pilot’s report of drone sighting during JFK landing Phuket Gazette / News wiresPHUKET: Federal authorities launched an investigation on Tuesday after the pilot of a commercial plane reported seeing a remote-controlled drone near his plane while preparing to land at New York’s John F. Kennedy…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Venezeula’s Hugo Chavez loses battle with cancer
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Obituary: Hugo Chavez – socialist showman who transformed Venezuela Reuters/ Phuket Gazette PHUKET: At two defining moments of his rule, Venezuela’s theatrical leader Hugo Chavez took a small silver crucifix from his pocket and held it above his head. Both marked a quasi-religious “return” for the…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Baby cured of HIV; Girl miraculously survives plane crash; UK Queen leaves hospital
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community US baby’s cure from HIV raises hope, new questions Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The remarkable case of a baby being cured of HIV infection in the United States using readily available drugs has raised new hope for eradicating the infection in infants worldwide, but scientists…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Kenya elections; Pope vote; Borneo violence; QEII cancels Welsh appearances
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Kenyans to vote in tense head-to-head presidential race Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Kenyans vote today in a presidential election that will test whether the east African nation can restore its reputation as one of Africa’s more stable democracies after a lethal ethnic rampage erupted following the 2007…
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Phuket Gazette World News: China execution parade; Italy unravels; Syrian scuds; Cardinals pick new Pope
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community ‘Execution parade’ of four behind Mekong murders angers Chinese Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: An “execution parade” on China’s state television of four foreign men sentenced to death for killing 13 sailors on the Mekong River caused anger in China on Friday, with many people saying it was…
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Phuket Gazette World News: India looks to head off junk status
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community India budget increases spending, taxes the rich Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: India unveiled higher-than-expected spending for fiscal 2013/14 today, aiming to fund it with higher revenues – including new taxes on the rich and large companies – in a budget aimed at reviving growth amid…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Pope leaves quietly as cardinals plan future
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Low-key departure as pope steps down and hides away Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Pope Benedict slipped quietly from the world stage today after a private last goodbye to his cardinals and a short flight to a country palace to enter the final phase of his life “hidden…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Egypt balloon crash kills 19; Vatican scrambles in Pope vote; Iran nuclear talks
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Egypt balloon crash kills 19, mostly foreign tourists Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: At least 19 people, most of them Asian and European tourists, died yesterday when a hot air balloon crashed near the ancient Egyptian town of Luxor after a mid-air gas explosion, officials said.The balloon came…
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Phuket Lifestyle: Day-Lewis makes history as Oscars shared around
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Argo wins best picture Oscar, Ang Lee takes best director Phuket Gazette / The Nation / DPA PHUKET: The political hostage drama Argo won the Oscar for Best Picture on Sunday as the Academy Awards were spread among a wealth of nominees. Life of Pi picked…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Japanese Prime Minister sees bright future
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Abe vows to revive Japanese economy, sees no escalation with China Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told Americans yesterday “I am back and so is Japan” and vowed to get the world’s third biggest economy growing again and to do more…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Fierce fight in Mali – Photo special
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community French, Malian forces fight Islamist rebels in Gao Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: French and Malian troops fought Islamists on the streets of Gao and a car bomb exploded in Kidal yesterday, as fighting showed little sign of abating weeks before France plans to start withdrawing…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Sin city shooting leaves 3 dead
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Three die in shooting, fiery crash on Las Vegas Strip Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Three people died in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip yesterday when one or more gunmen in a Range Rover sport utility vehicle opened fire on a Maserati, killing the…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Japanese whalers accused of ramming during protest
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Protesters clash with Japanese whalers, call for naval intervention Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Anti-whaling activists today called for Australia to send a naval vessel to the Southern Ocean after a confrontation in which they said a Japanese whaling ship collided with two of their protest vessels,…
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Phuket Gazette World News: 6-year-old girl raped in northern India
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community 6-year-old girl violently raped, dumped on street in northern India Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: A six-year-old girl was raped and physically brutalized last week before being dumped on the side of a street in northern India, local media reported yesterday. It is the latest incident in…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Meteorite shower in Russia – 400 injured; Asteroid passing-by
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Meteorite hits central Russia, 400 hurt Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: About 400 people were injured when a meteorite shot across the sky in central Russia today sending fireballs crashing to Earth, smashing windows and setting off car alarms. Residents on their way to work in…
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