bbc.com Manager David Moyes took responsibility for Manchester United’s dramatic decline this season after a dismal 0-3 home defeat to Manchester City.
nytimes.com ”Any search and rescue attempt will be hampered by untold quantities of debris,” said Charles Moore, a sailor who studies marine debris at the Algalita Marine Research Institute. ;;You are going to be confounded by the detritus of civilization.”
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straitstimes.com There will be no water pistol fights, celebrity dunk stations, or really, any kind of water fun at Singapore’s first Songkran water festival on April 12 and 13. The organisers of Celebrate Songkran 2014 at the Padang have taken heed of the national campaign to conserve water and nixed the water-based activities.
bangkokpost.com .The news of the forthcoming ”duelling protests” is surely not designed to make anyone happy. Only the most partisan members of the most fervent political groups can find satisfaction in a race to see which faction can organise the bigger march.
nationmultimedia.com Political parties plan to hold talks and send representatives to People’s Democratic Reform Committee chief Suthep Thaugsuban to resolve the political deadlock. They fear internal conflict could even lead to Thailand’s suspension from Asean.
ibtimes.com Thailand’s current political mess took a turn for the worse when the Constitutional Court nullified last month’s general election. With no end to the turmoil in sight, it’s possible the country will have less than 2.7 percent gross domestic product growth.
bangkokpost.com The caretaker government has pledged to find additional funds of nearly 20 billion baht to pay suffering rice farmers by April, a senior official said after a Cabinet meeting in Bangkok.
smh.com.au The hunt for wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 will resume on Wednesday morning in the southern Indian Ocean. ”We’re not searching for a needle in a haystack,” said Mark Binskin, vice chief of the Australian Defence Force. ”We’re still trying to define where the haystack is.”
bbc.com Angry relatives of passengers on board the missing Malaysia Airlines plane have clashed with police outside Malaysia’s embassy in the Chinese capital, Beijing.
foxnews.com Nearly 100 Chinese relatives of the missing marched, wearing white T-shirts that read ”Let’s pray for MH370” as they held banners and chanted, ”Liars! Tell the truth! Return our relatives!”
abc.net.au A clear indication of the hostility that the Chinese feel towards Malaysia over the disappearance of Flight MH370 can be heard in the questions directed by Chinese journalists at officials from both the government and Malaysia Airlines during the daily press briefings.
foxnews.com Malaysia Airlines officials defended their decision to notify relatives of missing passengers of Flight 370′s presumed fate via text message.
nvonews.com In view of the latest developments, President Xi Jianping instructed that a special envoy be sent to Kuala Lumpur to consult with the Malaysian side, learn about the situation, and ask the Malaysian side to properly handle related issues.
thephuketnews.com Governor Maitree Intrusud has hit back at those who keep pointing out the bad things happening on Phuket, blaming the island and its authorities, without also boosting its good points and recognising the efforts that are being made to tackle the problems.
nst.com.my In the spirit of Asean cooperation, the Royal Thai Police handed to the Malaysian Embassy five cars that were stolen in Malaysia and smuggled into Thailand. They are part of more than 100 cars identified as stolen in Malaysia and taken to Thailand, and then recovered by the local authorities.
scmp.com A baby has died after being born prematurely on a Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong to New York in a medical emergency that forced the plane, with 279 people on board, to divert to Japan.
irrawaddy.org Tom Andrews, president of the US-based activist group United to End Genocide and a former US congressman, visited camps housing tens of thousands of people displaced by communal violence in western Burma is warning that minority Rohingya Muslims face a life-threatening lack of medical care and live in fear of attack.
He said that according to camp inmates, guards turn a blind eye if they choose to flee by sea but inmates wanting to reach Sittwe general hospital must pay bribes for their security. He said acutely sick people were running out of medicine, and some had resigned themselves to dying.
projectcensored.org One Rohingya, Ismail, attests that Thai immigration officials had sold him outright. Others claim officials aided in their sale to human traffickers. ”It seemed so official at first,” said Ismail. ”They took our photographs. They took our fingerprints. And then once in the boats, about 20 minutes out at sea, we were told we had been sold.”
rfa.org Global advocacy group Human Rights Watch has slammed a proposed Burma (Myanmar) law restricting interfaith marriage as ”discriminatory,” warning it would deepen sectarian divides in the Buddhist-majority country as well as threaten religious freedom and women’s rights.
time.com Indonesia has banned the release of the Hollywood blockbuster Noah, saying the biblical epic contradicts the teachings of the Koran and may mislead people.
nationmultimedia.com A massive fire at a garbage dump has prompted pollution-control agencies to revise their designation of pollution-control zones in 23 provinces. On Phuket, Governor Maitree Intrusud has ordered his officials to keep a watch out for any accidents likely to take place at garbage dumping sites.
traveldailynews.asia Eight of Thailand’s spectacular beaches have been voted by international visitors to be among the top 25 beaches in Asia, according to TripAdvisor’s latest poll, the 2014 Travellers’ Choice Awards. Phuket’s Nai Harn Beach (No. 5) ranked highest.
moodiereport.com The decline in international passenger numbers at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport hit double digits in February as political protests continue to plague the Thai capital. According to Airports of Thailand, international passenger traffic at Suvarnabhumi fell by 12.73 percent to 3.09 million in February 2014. Including domestic passengers, total passenger figures reached 3.88 million, down 10.11pc.
nationmultimedia.com The Hermitage, a new stylish resort in Phuket, is to join the Unique Collection of Hotels and Resorts – a Thailand-based hotel management group. The eco-friendly property, which offers both freehold and leasehold options for purchase, is located in the Kata Beach section of Phuket.
independent.co.uk A zoo in Denmark that was met with an international outcry after it killed a healthy giraffe because of its breeding procedures has put down a pair of adult lions and two cubs to make way for a new male lion.
thephuketinsider.com The organisers of the Thailand Tourism 2014 have announced that the event will be held Monday April 21 at the InterContinental Hotel Bangkok.
telegraph.co.uk Aside from one dramatic second-half minute when they scored both their goals, Arsene Wenger’s players performed more like traumatised passengers as their season continued to veer further off direction. Arsenal 2-2 Swansea.
goal.com Bayern’s detractors will point to its economic superiority as the determining factor in its domestic dominance. The brilliant Bavarians have broken many of the records they set just one season ago and will statistically be remembered as the German league’s best ever side.
March 30 Vote for Thailand senators, alcohol sales banned from 6pm March 29 to midnight March 30
April 6 Chakri Memorial Day
April 7 Substitute holiday for Chakri day
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
April 26 Vote for mayor in Patong, alcohol sales banned in election area from 6pm April 25 to midnight April 26
May 24 Visakha Bucha Day
July 11 Arsanha Bucha Day
August 12 Queen’s Birthday
September 24-October 2 Vegetarian Festival, Phuket
October 23 Chulalongkorn Memorial Day
November 6 Loy Kratong
November 14-21 Fourth Asia Beach Games, Phuket
December 5 King’s Birthday
December 10 Constitution Day
December 25 Christmas Day
December 26 10th Anniversary, 2004 Tsunami
December 31 New Year’s Eve
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