smh.com.au Two Australians and a New Zealander are feared dead after a helicopter issued a mayday call and disappeared in Papua New Guinea. Searching has continued after the aircraft, a Bell 206 LongRanger, was reported missing.
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nationmultimedia.com Police in Bangkok have arrested 15 foreigners for allegedly running a call-centre scam and duping several people into wiring more than 320 million baht into their accounts. Of the suspects, six are British, two American, two Romanians, three from the Philippines, one German and one South African.
bangkokpost.com Hong Kong customs officers said they had made the city's largest ever cocaine bust, after finding almost 650 kilogrammes of the drug - with a street value of about US$98 million - in a shipping container.The shipment was due to be broken up and moved to Bangkok and other Southeast Asian cities.
nationmultimedia.com Asean and its key partners Japan, South Korea and China jointly decided to make universal health coverage an essential provision for the more than two billion people living in the region. This joint statement was made at the 5th Asean Plus 3 Health Ministers Meeting on Phuket.
property-report.com In a meeting chaired by Vice-Governor Dr Sommai Preechasin to discuss the 300 baht minimum day wage, former president of the Phuket Human Resources Management Club, Prasert Monprasit cited the sale by the Banyan Tree Group of two hotels in Laguna Phuket as an example of Phuket's loss of investment. The selling off of the Dusit Thani and the Laguna Beach Resort in addition to Banyan Tree's investment of 27 billion baht (US$900 million) in its luxury resorts and property project in the central Vietnamese town of Hue led Mr Prasert to express concern.
nationmultimedia.com Letter: Look at the market in Bangkok, Phuket and a few other resorts and tell me that the inflated prices were not caused by wealthy Thais speculating. Why would you want to cause that to happen across Thailand?
bangkokpost.com Thai government proposals to deport pregnant migrant workers will heighten discrimination rather than boost the fight against human trafficking, Human Rights Watch said.
scmp.com Police in China arrested 802 people and rescued 181 infants this week in one of the largest crackdowns on baby trafficking, busting two syndicates operating across 15 provinces.
cnn.com About 10 aid workers, some of them from the UN, are being held by authorities in an area of western Burma (Myanmar) where sectarian clashes killed scores of people last month, the UN office in the country said.
bangkokpost.com Tourism operators have called on the government to clarify policies and measures aimed at achieving the target of boosting industry revenues to two trillion baht per year in 2015.
abc.net.au Charity groups in Bali are calling for more money from the booming tourism industry to go towards tackling poverty in remote parts of the island. Recent government figures show the number of underprivileged Balinese has risen, leaving Bali with the second highest percentage of poor people in Indonesia, behind Jakarta.
nytimes.com Mitt Romney is said to respect Rupert Murdoch as a visionary business mind and deeply admire the way he built the company he inherited from his father into a US$60 billion global media power. But a teetotal Mormon from the midwest and a thrice-married Australian who publishes photos of topless women in one of his British newspapers are bound to have very different world views.
pti In an appalling incident, a 16-year-old Malaysian schoolgirl kept a classmate's schoolbag for 17 hours without realising that there was a dead newborn inside. The classmate was handed the bag by the girl shortly after giving birth to the baby girl in the school.
nytimes.com Burma or Myanmar? This week, a local newspaper editor suggested on his Facebook page using the word ''Myanmbamar.''
property-report.com An email has just arrived in my inbox from the ever entertaining Thai Visa website screaming the headline: BREAKING: New draconian property laws to deport foreigners who ''owns'' land illegally. As ever with the good folks at Thai Visa, they are expert at taking dully-headlined news from the Bangkok Post or the Nation, giving it a quick tabloid makeover and presenting it with a Daily Mail style urgency to its readers.
thejakartapost.com The Australian government plans to strengthen Bali's disaster management system, which deals with natural and man-made disasters on the island, by helping to arrange and design effective contingency plans.
todayonline.com Singapore and China have agreed to allow greater access to each other's banks as part of a free trade agreement between the two nations.
etravelblackboardasia.com Luxury hospitality developer and operator Banyan Tree Hotels and Resorts announces that to date, the group has garnered 844 awards and accolades since flagship resort Banyan Tree Phuket opened in 1994.Banyan Tree Spa Phuket received a Best Spa in the World award from the UK Daily Telegraph ULTRAS Awards 2012.
smh.com.au At last. After 74 years. At last. Britain has a men's finalist at Wimbledon for the first time since Bunny Austin lost in 1937, after Andy Murray tamed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 to reach his fourth grand slam decider.
theage.com.au Roger Federer has never lost a semi-final at Wimbledon. Not in the seven glorious years from 2003-2009 that delivered six titles. Not against top seed and defending champion Novak Djokovic, when a vintage Federer performance earned a famous 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory.
July 18-22 Phuket Raceweek
July 21-22 Toyota motor racing at Saphan
Hin, Phuket City
July 29 Health International Phuket Marathon
August 2 Asarnha Bucha public holiday
August 3 Buddhist Lent Day
August 12 HM The Queen's Birthday
September 12-15 Quiksilver Thailand Surf
Competition, Patong
September 24 Mahidol Day
October 14-23 Vegetarian Festival
November 24 Laguna Phuket Triathlon
November 28 Loy Kratong Day
December 1 World AIDs Day
December 1-8 King's Cup Regatta
December 5 HM The King's Birthday
December 10 Constitution Day
December 15-20 Patong carnival
December 25 Christmas Day
November 14-21 Fourth Asia Beach Games,
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