smh.com.au Three leading Indian cricketers have been arrested and charged with spot-fixing in the Premier League cricket competition. Rajasthan Royals players, Sreesanth, 30, who has played 27 Tests and 53 one-dayers for India, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan were arrested in a late-night swoop in Mumbai, after the Royals’ loss to the Mumbai Indians.
ttrweekly.com Bangkok Airways will introduce a new service to Mandalay, the second largest city in Burma, in September offering four flights weekly.
theage.com.au Singapore’s fast-growing Christian community has been shaken by the trial of six evangelical church leaders accused of embezzling more than $40.5 million to fund the career of US-based pop star Sun Ho. Ms Ho’s beautiful voice and daring dance moves propelled her to the top of US charts.
reuters At least six people died when a shoe factory collapsed in Cambodia on Thursday and many were injured, a member of the trade union at the plant said. The plant is west of Phnom Phen. Some people are believed trapped.
bangkokpost.com Sunny Bajaj, the managing director of Amburaya Hotels Resorts, which owns the BelAire Bangkok, Sheraton Pattaya, W Koh Samui and Holiday Inn Express hotels, said his company is looking for a chance to invest more in popular destinations such as Phuket.
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crikey.com.au The captain of the brand new Lion Air 737-800 that crashed into the sea near Bali’s airport in April took control of the jet at an altitude of 150 feet after the junior pilot repeatedly complained he could not see the runway, according to a preliminary report by Indonesia’s air safety authority. The captain then attempted a ”go around” from an altitude of only 20 feet.
reuters A spokesman for Lion Air, which has had six landing accidents in the past decade, said the airline had not ”received the report yet”. The crash has implications for the reputation of one of the world’s fastest-growing airlines, which is fighting to be removed from a European Union safety blacklist as it buys record volumes of Airbus and Boeing jets.
bangkokpost.com Thailand is to invite Laos to sign up to a single-visa scheme for foreign tourists when the country’s leaders meet at a summit in Chiang Mai on Sunday, a government source said.
nationmultimedia.com Thailand was voted the most attractive nation in Southeast Asia for investment in the hospitality industry at the Asia Pacific Hotel Investment Conference, thanks to the country’s strong infrastructure and ongoing tourism boom.
brw.com.au Twenty years ago, Michael Ma moved from the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta, where he spent most of his childhood, to Singapore. The move, he says, was the best thing he ever did. Ma, once a refugee from Laos, is now one of Asia’s [and Phuket"s] best-known entrepreneurs: ”I always felt in Australia we were still second-class citizens.” Ma has managed to secure the only Singapore supertree with space for a restaurant-bar. His luxury resort in Phuket is going well, he says.
wsj.com House of the Day: Owner Philipp Liholm is a former hedge fund manager and investment banker who worked in New York and London. He bought this villa in 2007, when he was traveling in Phuket. It has a soundproof disco. Now it’s on offer at $1.2m.
bangkokpost.com Police in Hua Hin arrested five Africans who were allegedly holding fake passports of various countries. Officers suspect that the men planned to use fake bank passbooks for other frauds or business con games.
pattayapeople.com Tourists’ complaints about men inducing Thai and foreign tourists to view live porn shows led to police acting in Pattaya’s Walking Street. Eight men accused of offering pornographic brochures to tourists were taken back to the police station for legal proceedings.
designbuldsource.com.au Ten Spectacular Swimming Pools Worth the Plunge: 7. Paresa Resort Phuket, Thailand. Overlooking the cliff face of the tranquil Anadaman Sea is the 15-metre Energy Pool housed within the Paresa Resort in Phuket.
bangkokpost.com The Corrections Department will unshackle all prisoners serving maximum jail terms in prisons across Thailand within three months, department chief Suchart Wonganantachai promised as Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra made her first-ever visit to a jail. ”Prisoners are not animals,” one man said.
guardian.co.uk A massive evacuation to clear low-lying camps ahead of a cyclone has run into a potentially deadly snag: many members of the displaced Rohingya minority living in the camps have refused to leave because they are distrustful of Burmese authorities.
thephuketinsider.com Thai property developer Raimon Land is undergoing significant changes in the first half of this year with the appointment of a new Chief Executive Officer, Johnson Tan. Raimon had been a significant player in Phuket as developer of Kata Heights and Kata Gardens.
andrew-drummond.com Scots confidence trickster Brian Goudie, who aimed to build a handsome portfolio of properties in Thailand by posing as a well to do barrister and Afghanistan war hero was a fraud, a court heard.
radioaustralia.net.au The luxury yacht, Phocea, the centre of a major political controversy in Vanuatu, has been forced to return to Noumea after its main generator broke down. The yacht was sailing to Phuket to undergo extensive repairs after its 10 months detention in Port Vila.
nationmultimedia.com Bowing to public uproar and opposition from civic groups and critics of a policy to close small-sized government schools, the Education Ministry has agreed to set up a joint committee, which would include representatives from civic organisations, to look into the issue.
wsj.com Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak unveiled a new Cabinet with a mix of technocrats, including the chief executive of the largest local bank, and career politicians, as he sought to balance experience with new ideas and vowed to fight graft.
smh.com.au A small group of asylum seekers decamped from their boat in a virtually uninhabited peninsula in Australia’s Northern Territory, and were only discovered a day later at a nearby airstrip. It is believed the group is Vietnamese.
afp Ariel Castro, accused of holding three young US women captive for around a decade in a house in Cleveland, will plead innocent to charges of rape and kidnapping, one of his lawyers said.
bloomberg One of the six men accused of gang raping and murdering a physiotherapy student in New Delhi last year is in a critical condition after being assaulted by fellow inmates, according to his lawyer. Vinay Sharma was attacked on May 13 in the country’s top- security prison and is in hospital recovering from his injuries, his lawyer said.
scmp.com Fiji’s national carrier has been accused by activists of hypocrisy for backing conservation in a public relations exercise while flying shark fins to Hong Kong.
wsj.com Mary Todd, mother of an American engineer found dead in Singapore in June 2012, again accused local investigators of refusing to look at material she says shows that her son Shane was murdered and didn’t commit suicide.
bbc.co.uk Rescue work is continuing at a major US-owned gold and copper mine in Papua after a tunnel collapsed, trapping more than 20 workers.
smh.com.au A Chinese airline staffer has been filmed attempting to throw a steel chair at a passenger during a fiery altercation at Beijing airport. Rapid growth of air travel in China has lead to regular problems with delays and diversions of flights.
cnn.com Three Chinese airlines received ”false bomb threats” that caused disruption to five different domestic flights destined for the southern city of Shenzhen, state-run media reported.
nationmultimedia.com Restaurant diners in Asia’s emerging markets are more likely to leave a tip than their more developed counterparts, according to a survey across the Asia-Pacific region.
bbc.co.uk Rafael Benitez’s reign as Chelsea’s interim manager will end in triumph after Branislav Ivanovic’s injury-time header won the Europa League final 2-1 against Benfica in Amsterdam.
bangkokpost.com Fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was trying to hoodwink the public by comparing Thai politics and the sportsmanship of English football, Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva said. Thaksin, former owner of Manchester City football club, wrote on his Facebook page that there is hometown rivalry between Man United and Man City fans in Manchester, but they do not publicly show dissent.
May 24 Visakha Bucha Day
May 24-26 International Rugby 10s, Thanyapura
June 9 Laguna Phuket International Marathon
July 6-7 Phuket Air Show and Family Picnic, Phuket Air Park
July 17-21 Cape Panwa Hotel Phuket Raceweek
July 22 Arsarnha Bucha Day
August 12 HM The Queen’s Birthday
October 5-13 Phuket Vegetarian Festival
October 23 Chulalongkorn Memorial Day
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
January 9-12 Phuket International Boat Show, Royal Phuket Marina
November 14-21 Fourth Asia Beach Games, Phuket
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