dpa Thailand’s Constitutional Court annulled the February 2 general election for failing to hold nationwide voting in every constituency on the same day, court officials said.
AP The court ordered that new elections take place.
pattayamail.com Iranian Alireza Kolmohammadi, 39, who booked two tickets in Pattaya for countrymen using stolen passports to board an ill-fated Malaysian Airlines jetliner, has been placed on Thailand’s criminal watch list.
pattayaone.com On Thursday Afternoon, Pattaya Police, who have jurisdiction over Larn Island which is off the coast of Pattaya, received a report of a British Tourist who had died following a Jet Ski Accident. The incident occurred on Thursday Morning off the coast of Tawaen Beach on Larn Island and resulted in the eventual death of Mr. Stephen David Campbell aged 38 from Blackpool, England.
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nnt The Fisheries Department announced the annual three-month closing of the Andaman coast to fishing activities for the protection of juvenile marine life. In Krabi, Phuket and Trang, several types of fishing equipment, such as mechanised trawling nets and fishing nets with small openings, are banned.
huffingtonpost.com 21 Signs You’ve Spent Too Much Time In Thailand: You prefer motorbikes to minivans; You’re counting the days till the next full moon; Your favorite drink comes in a bucket; Wearing shoes inside seems so last hemisphere.
bangkokpost.com The ”popcorn gunman” confesses he was a shooter at Laksi intersection on the eve of the Feb 2 election and that he was paid 300 baht a day to work as a PDRC guard.
economist.com Thailand’s politicians like to think of their country as the natural engine for growth in mainland South-East Asia. This year, it is acting as a brake.
bangkokpost.com The Tourism Authority of Thailand has set plans to woo back tourists from Hong Kong after the territory relaxed its travel alert for Thailand
globalpost.com Fretting over civil war in Thailand was previously reserved for hyperventilating pundits. That fear has since gone mainstream. The implications are huge: Thailand is mainland Southeast Asia’s largest economy and America’s oldest Asian ally.
AP A freighter used searchlights to scan rough seas in one of the remotest places on Earth after satellite images detected possible pieces from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the southern Indian Ocean.
scmp.com Satellite images which could show debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane floating in the Indian Ocean are the first ”credible” leads in the investigation, officials said.
smh.com.au In the Australian hierarchy, ”Malaysia has the primary claim on this because it’s their plane,” said an official, ”then China because of the number of Chinese passengers, then the US because it’s a Boeing.”
nytimes.com Perhaps the audience lost some interest when the CNN anchor Don Lemon asked one expert if it was really preposterous, after all, to ask if Flight 370, which vanished on March 8, may have been swallowed by a black hole.
nzherald.co.nz Media critic Michael Wolff divined in the coverage ”the new anti-journalism – all data, no real facts, endless theories”.
travelweekly.com.au A group of Australian agents have been introduced to COMO’s new hotel, Point Yamu, located on the east coast of Phuket in Thailand.
bangkokpost.com Budget carrier Nok Air and Siam General Aviation have ended their alliance of more than four years, with the latter offering itself for sale to arch-rival Thai AirAsia.
dailymail.co.uk Oscar Pistorius is to sell the luxury mansion house where he killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp to raise money for his legal bills.
afp Google said its popular Gmail service would use encryption to thwart snooping, in the latest move by the tech sector reassuring customers following revelations about US surveillance programs.
smh.com.au Toyota has reached a deal with the US Justice Department to settle a four-year criminal investigation into whether the company misled investigators and the public about a sudden-acceleration defect that has caused injuries and deaths, US federal authorities said. The settlement – for $US1.2 billion ($1.3 billion), among the largest ever paid by a car maker – included an unusual admission of wrongdoing by the company.
nationmultimedia.com While Phuket, Samui and other resort destinations rely very much on high seasons, Pattaya seems to be able to sell all year around with different groups of visitors.
stuff.co.nz The cheapest NZ flights to Asia will disappear from July, when Jetstar cuts its direct flights between Auckland and Singapore. The low-cost carrier had indicated it would use its much-hyped Boeing 787 Dreamliner on the route, but has instead scrapped the thrice-weekly service.
reuters Scientists studying the breadth of people’s sense of smell said the human nose can discern far more than the 10,000 different odors long cited as the outer limit of our olfactory abilities. They concluded that the human nose can differentiate an almost infinite number of smells – more than a trillion.
eurosport.com Tottenham’s hopes of winning a trophy are over for another season yet they will return from Portugal with renewed optimism after Nacer Chadli’s brace ended a three-match losing streak in a compelling 2-2 Europa League clash. Benfica won 5-3 on aggregate.
boxscorenews.com The duration of the FIVB Beach Volleyball U21 World Championship in Larnaca (Cyprus) and the FIVB Phuket Open have been changed with the former scheduled to place from July 23 to 27 (instead of July 22 to 27) and the latter from October 15 to 19 (originally October 14 to 19).
March 22 Krabi FC v Phuket FC
April 10-20 Phuket International Cricket, Republic Ground, Chalong
April 11-19 Phuket Bike Week
April 13-16 Songkran New Year Water Festival
April 20-27 Phuket Pride Week
August 12 Queen’s Birthday
September 24-October 2 Vegetarian Festival, Phuket
October 14-20 Phuket Open beach volleyball, Karon
November 14-21 Fourth Asia Beach Games, Phuket
December 5 King’s Birthday
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