independent.co.uk Rolf Harris has been arrested by police investigating historical allegations of sexual offences. He was named today as the ”veteran entertainer” questioned by police in November as part of ongoing investigations into sexual abuse in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
bbc.co.uk The 83-year-old entertainer and artist was interviewed under caution after attending police premises in south London by appointment in November. On March 28, Mr Harris, from Berkshire, was arrested and bailed until May.
smh.com.au Police are scouring Watertown near Boston for one of two suspects from this week’s marathon bombings. The other suspect was killed during a dramatic police pursuit, which involved gunfire and explosives, following the shooting of a police officer earlier in the night at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
bbc.co.uk Two suspects stole a car and threw bombs and traded gunfire with police chasing them. An officer was wounded. After a car chase, witnesses in Watertown heard several explosions and a gun-battle lasting 10 minutes.
bbc.co.uk Pakistani police have arrested former President Pervez Musharraf and presented him in court. A district court judge ordered General Musharraf to be held under house arrest for two days.
foxbusiness.com George Soros would like the world to know he’s still alive. Thomson Reuters accidentally published a templated version of an obituary of the legendary investor, who is 82, remains involved in his firm, travels regularly to give speeches and is active in philanthropy.
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PHUKET: The daily wrap of Thailand news, with a Phuket perspective, plus relevant reports from national and international media. Beware of inconsistent imitations.
bangkokpost.com The influx of Chinese travellers to Thailand is making a huge impact on the passenger traffic outlook for Thai AirAsia, which expects their cumulative numbers to hit the five-million mark in 2018. CEO Tassapon Bijleveld said clear signage in Mandarin is needed while hotels ”need to change their mindset.”
nationmultimedia.com Most Chinese have chosen Chiang Mai, where ‘Lost in Thailand’ was filmed, for their first destination before travelling to other places such as Phuket, Krabi and Trang. They also enjoy shopping sprees, despite flying with a low-cost carrier.
nationmultimedia.com Bangkok Dusit Medical Services plans to launch a brand of hospitals to capture medium-income earners and social-security members. President Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth said the first three hospitals will open in Phuket, Pattaya and Rayong this year.
bangkokpost.com Three out of four road crashes during the Songkran festival involved motorcycles, with drunk driving the biggest single cause of crashes, according to the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department.
nationmultimedia.com Plus Property, a real-estate management and brokerage company, will focus on training its 1400 people to tap prospective foreign customers, such as Russians, Britons, Chinese and Scandinavians and expand into high-demand provinces such as Phuket.
bbc.co.uk A US Navy ship has arrived in Singapore as part of US plans to increase its military presence in the region. The USS Freedom will be stationed in South East Asia for 10 months. By 2020, 60 percent of the US Navy’s assets will be deployed to the Asia-Pacific.
independent.co.uk A surfer has survived for more than 27 hours in the Indian Ocean despite being stung by jellyfish, bitten by fish and attacked by seagulls trying to peck out his eyes after falling overboard from a private charter boat. South African Brett Archibald tumbled into the sea off the coast of Sumatra near Pedang in northern Indonesia.
usatoday.com About 35 people, including 10 first responders, were killed in the Texas fertiliser company explosion Wednesday night, West Mayor Tommy Muska said in an interview with USA TODAY. [Other reports put the toll between five and 15.]
AP A suicide bomber detonated explosives at a Baghdad cafe crowded with young people late Thursday, killing at least 26 and wounding dozens ahead of provincial elections scheduled for the weekend.
bbc.co.uk The FBI has released photos of two suspects it wants to identify as part of the investigation into Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings. CCTV captured the two men, one wearing a dark-coloured baseball cap and the other a white cap, near the scene.
afp Frenchman Vincent Roger Petrone, 43, appeared in an Indonesian court charged with trying to smuggle 69g of hashish into the resort island of Bali, an offence punishable by death.
thejakartapost.com Bali provincial administration is preparing to issue four major policies related to the island’s tourism development: ”The issuance of any permits concerning the development of tourist facilities will be tightened and closely monitored.”
aap The Great Barrier Reef has been snubbed in Lonely Planet’s list of top dive spots but remote caves under the Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia have made the grade. The Great Blue Hole in Belize took top spot. [Malaysia makes it, Thailand misses.]
guardian.co.uk The increasing openness of Burma, which was once tightly controlled under a military junta, has seen a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment spread across the 60 million-strong Buddhist majority – and a monk named Wirathu is behind much of it.
arabnews.com In Tokyo, Burma (Myanmar) democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has lamented restrictions and estrangement of Muslims: ”It’s very sad because none of them had ever known any other country except for this one, except for Burma. We must learn to accommodate those with different views from ours.”
Bangkok Update Human Rights Watch will release its report, ‘All You Can Do is Pray’: Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Arakan State, at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand on Monday from 10.30am to noon. Featured speakers will be: Phil Robertson, Deputy Director, Asia Division, Human Rights Watch, Matt Smith, report author and consultant, Human Rights Watch. The event is free and open to the public.
bangkokpost.com Thailand’s motor vehicle production and sales remained robust in March, with production rising by 34.3pc year-on-year and vehicle shipments by 14.4pc.
rfa.com Hundreds of residents protested against a China-backed petroleum pipeline project in western Burma’s Rakhine state over inadequate compensation and demands that the project developer provide better transportation infrastructure and higher salaries for local workers.
bloomberg North Korea said the US must remove all its nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula and end joint military exercises with South Korea before it will agree to talks, laying out conditions the US has already rejected.
smh.com.au Singapore’s Changi Airport has been voted the World’s Best Airport at the 2013 World Airport Awards held in Geneva earlier this month. It’s the fourth time the airport has won the top prize, last claiming victory in 2010. The awards, by votes of global travellers conducted by research firm Skytrax, this year had 12.1 million responses from across 395 airports.
Slate In Iceland, an island nation of just 300,000 people, sleeping with distant relatives may be inevitable. Sleeping with close relatives, however, remains something most would prefer to avoid. Now there’s an app for that.
huffingtonpost.com On that first trip to Phuket my resort offered massage, and it seemed like a good thing to do on a tropical island. Basic by today’s spa standards, I lay on a mat on a deck and this small woman prodded muscles and used her full body weight to swing me around like a gibbon she’d found in the rainforest canopy.
indiatimes.com Wanderlust: Daizo Ito, President, Panasonic India. Phuket Islands in Thailand and Manor House in England are the most wonderful places to visit. I have spent a lot of time with my family in these places
independent.co.uk Britain’s most successful Olympian, Sir Chris Hoy, 37, bade an emotional and tearful farewell to competitive cycling having exhausted ”every last ounce of effort and energy” winning at last year’s Olympic Games.
Until April 21 Phuket Bike Week
April 22-28 Phuket Pride Week, with the theme ”Same Same Not Different.” Grand Parade 4pm April 27.
April 27 Island Bliss and Trisara are holding a Ready-to-Wear Collection Fashion Show 2013 5pm-7pm on at Trisara, 800 baht admission or 1200 baht with post-runway dinner, goes to the Good Shepherd Phuket. rsvp sales@trisara.com
April 28 Kata-Karon Mini-Marathon, Karon Park
May 1 National Labor Day
June 9 Laguna Phuket International Marathon
July 17-21 Cape Panwa Hotel Phuket Raceweek
October 5-13 Phuket Vegetarian Festival
November 9 Asian Cup Triathlon Sprint, Patong
November 10 ITU Long Distance Series triathlon, Patong
November 17 Loy Kratong Day
November 24-December 1 Challenge Laguna Phuket Tri-Fest. Laguna Phuket
December 5 HM The King’s birthday
November 14-21 Fourth Asia Beach Games, Phuket
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