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BANGKOK: The foundry owners contracted to cast the statues of former kings at Rajabhakti Park will next week clarify the “commission fees” issue, an army source has revealed.

Latest A Frenchman was arrested by Phuket police in the departure lounge at Phuket airport after he picked up a mobile telephone belonging to an Italian as the pair passed through scanners.

News Analysis Bringing back tourists to Phuket’s beaches can be done effectively with a simple two-point plan, whispered to Phuketwan journalists by one of the few surviving local starfish.

Latest Divers and doctors are piecing together the circumstances of the tragic last dive of a young Chinese tourist whose body was found at the 11-metre mark off the Similans, north of Phuket.

Phuket Updating Digest Protest outside US embassy; Call for deputy defence minister to resign; New GM for COMO; Miss Canada turned back by China; Ikea opens on Phuket.

Around the Region Hot petitions gather pace for and against gay US singer Adam Lambert; Australia turns back boatpeople again; Thailand ‘likely’ to join TPP; Vietnam lessens death penalties.

ZIMBABWE: A 42-year-old unemployed man was crowned Zimbabwe’s ugliest man at a pub pageant in Harare – but the contest turned ugly when the runner-up accused judges of bias.

FRANCE: A fireman of Algerian origin, Faisal helped evacuate thousands from the Stade de France during the Paris attacks, guiding panicked football fans to safety as suicide bombers blew themselves up outside.

MYANMAR: Armed with batons and the bible, church-backed vigilantes are taking the fight against northern Myanmar’s heroin epidemic into their own hands – deepening the fallout from a drugs trade already feeding conflict and corruption in the region.