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JAVA SEA: Recovery teams have found two big parts of AirAsia Flight 8501, which crashed into the sea last weekend with 162 people on board, Indonesias top search official said today (January 3).

CHIANG MAI: A New Year hot-air lantern sucked into the engine of a Bangkok Airways jet at Chiang Mai airport forced authorities to cancel a flight on Thursday (January 1).

PHOTOS Singer Beyonce could cause a stir in Thailand by riding with no helmet on a motorcycle while the country tries to reduce its massive road toll during its Seven Days of Danger over New Year.

Latest A small fire at a Patong hotel in the early hours generates a lot of smoke and is doused in 20 minutes but not before one tourist is injured.

Latest Crowds of tourists in Patong’s Soi Bangla walking street were forced to go with the flow to the beach for the midnight New Year fireworks in a dangerous manner, say residents.

Phuket Updating Digest A guide to transgender help; Petrol price going lower; Firefly offers discounts; Bono may never play again; Cancer, the best killer; Elvis’s planes for sale; Gerrard for LA.

Around the Region An MAS flight overshoots a runway because of a flap; Burma rebel flag hunt; Indonesia’s tough female fishing boss; Singapore finds AirAsia piece; China’s new regional bank.

PHUKET The Public Health Ministry has confirmed at least 190 fatalities caused from traffic accidents between December 30 and January 1.

PHUKET: Some leading hospitality and tourism agencies have predicted that Phuket, Hua Hin and the popular Northern Thai province Chiang Mai would become even more popular foreign tourists this year thanks to the birth of new attractions and the growth of budget airlines.