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lack taxi “gangs” and foreign-owned companies with nominee Thai shareholders will be the targets when officers from Thailand’s élite Department of Special Investigation (DSI) – often referred to as the “FBI of Thailand” – descend on Phuket again next Thursday (July 25) to begin another crime-busting drive.

Arriving with them will be the Minister of Tourism & Sports, Somsak Pureesrisak, who has already declared that security for tourists is one of his top priorities.

Thus the DSI crimebusters will take on one of the island’s thornier issues – black taxi “gangs” who behave “like mafia”, threatening tourists.

They will also continue their drive to root out foreign-

Minister of Tourism & Sports, Somsak Pureesrisak, pictured in Phuket last month with Phuket Govenor Maitree Intusut. owned companies with nominee Thai shareholders, and have a list of around 50 firms they will be checking.

The DSI team will be led

by Pol Lt Col Somboon Sarasit, head of the department’s Third Office for Special Criminal

Cases.

He told The Phuket News that at a meeting on Wednesday (July 17) between the DSI and Mr Somsak it had been made very clear that gangsterism in Phuket was being taken very seriously by the government.

The main focus of the meeting was on illegal taxi drivers who behave like gangsters towards tourists. He added, “Tourists have sent letters to the Minister of Tourism. The meeting was held to discuss solutions [because] this prob-

lem really is having an effect on Phuket’s image.”

Although the Phuket Department of Land Transport has made a major effort recently to convert unlicensed “black” taxis into licensed “green plate” cabs that can be monitored more effectively, problems continue to occur.

On July 25, Mr Somsak will come to Phuket, and lead DSI, Department of Land Transport, the Phuket office of the Tourism Authority of Thailand and other related sections on a tour of the island looking at hotspots of black taxi gangsterism.

The DSI team will also tackle the issue of foreign individuals operating businesses with Thai nominee shareholders, “a practice that robs the country’s taxation system of huge tourism income” according to the National News Bureau of Thailand (NNT).

Today ‘D Day’ for new bus service Naraporn Tuarob reporter1@classactmedia.co.th

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he new and much-debated bus service from Phuket International Airport to Patong was due to launch today (July 19) at 9am, with some lingering doubt as to whether there will be a negative reaction from some of Patong’s highly territorial tuk-tuk and taxi drivers.

The service was originally announced by government officials as starting on July 1, but the bus company said that it needed another month for marketing. Today was a

compromise.

On March 25, Patong Mayor Pian Keesin put his official seal of approval on the service, saying “It is right that people should have a choice,” and agreeing to speak with the main Patong tuk-tuk club, the Phuket Taxi Federation (PTF), whose chairman is his own son, Phrap Keesin.

On Tuesday, a representative of the PTF, Anun Pleumjit, told The Phuket News, “I think this [bus service] is a good idea. It signifies that Phuket is moving forward to another level.

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we understand … Phuket is an international destination, therefore we need to embrace the idea and provide a choice for tourists and customers.

“Also, we understand that the target group of the airport bus is different [from the tuktuks’ customer base] so it won’t take much [custom from us].”

There have been suggestions from local press that some of Patong’s tuk-tuk drivers may not agree with him at all; the PTF represents only tuk-tuk drivers from Phuket, not those from other provinces.

Asked about this Mr Anun

said, “In Patong there are lots of taxi and tuk-tuk groups. Most of us know each other and I have talked with my fellows [in the other groups] and they all agree with the idea.

“There will be some groups who are not local people, who might disagree, but they will not do anything [against the bus service] because the majority of the groups won’t join them in any action.”

The hope is that if all goes smoothly today that satisfaction will be communicated to the taxi and tuk-tuk drivers of Karon and Kata.

Those two towns were originally planned for inclusion in the bus service but the local drivers have said that they will not tolerate the buses coming into their territory.

The buses will leave the airport for Patong at 8:15, 9:30, 10:15, 11:30, 12:30, 14:15, 15:30, 19:30 and 20:45, and from Patong headed for the airport at 8:00, 10:00, 11:00, 13:00, 14:30, 15:30, 17:00, 18:00 and 19:00.

The buses will stop at Muang Mai, Thalang, TescoLotus Thalang, Heroines Monument, Boat Lagoon, TescoLotus Bypass and Kathu.

IN BRIEF Heavy rain, floods alert for Phuket The Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department on Tuesday afternoon issued a warning for people in the Central Plains, East and western parts of the South, including Phuket, to prepare for heavy rain until Monday (July 22).

People living near hillsides and waterways should prepare for possible flash flooding and mudslides until Monday (July 22), it warned.

There would also be strong waves in the Andaman Sea. Bangkok Post

Public holiday on Monday Monday (July 22) will be a public holiday to mark Asarnha Puja Day, which marks the official birth of Buddhism.

Although there is officially no ban on sales of alcohol for the day, some local powers may see it as their duty to enforce an unofficial ban.

Tuesday (July 23) will be Khao Pansa Day, the beginning of the annual Rains Retreat. Most private businesses will close for Asarnha Puja Day, and government offices will be closed for both days.

Swiss expat in bike smash A Swiss expat was taken to hospital on Thursday (July 11) with a broken left leg after a motorbike crash near the Heroines’ Monument.

He was taken to Vachira Hospital, and later transferred to Bangkok Hospital Phuket.

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Nareubate is attended by volunteers after stabbing himself in a jealous rage.

‘Plawan’ axeman stabs himself in bizarre story THE TEENAGER WHO put Sri Panwa boss Vorasit “Plawan” Issara in hospital in a vicious attack in January last year is now himself in hospital, with self-inflicted wounds to his left leg.

Nareubate “Ko” Tednok, 19, hacked Mr Vorasit with a home-made battleaxe, almost severing his shoulder during the early-morning attack in the Rachada Pub in Poonphol Night Plaza, where Nareubate was working.

On Saturday (July 14) Phuket City police received a call from Waraporn Boonreusri, 29, to say that her boyfriend – Nareubate – had stabbed himself in the left leg, severing the artery.

Ms Waraporn, who works as a waitress, told officers she and Nareubate had argued after he found SMSs from another man on her phone.

Nareubate turned his jealous rage on himself, stabbing himself repeatedly in the leg.

Mum held for selling daughter, 14, for sex WICHIT POLICE HAVE arrested a Phuket woman on charges of pimping her own child and human trafficking after it was alleged she allowed her 14-year-old daughter to work as a prostitute at her karaoke bar.

The mother, the owner of a karaoke bar in Wichit area, was arrested after police went undercover to see what was going on in the karaoke shop, following a tip off.

Pol Lt Col Passakor n Sondhikul, Deputy Superintendent of Wichit Police Station, told The Phuket News that the police had sent undercover officers to the venue after getting a tip-off that a young girl was involved in offering sexual services there.

Lt Col Passakorn said, “We

Timeshare firms get official visit KATHU DISTRICT CHIEF Veera Kerdsirimongkol on Monday (July 15) visited two timeshare firms in Patong, after receiving a written complaint from “representatives of entrepreneurs in Taweewong, Rat-U Thit 200 Pi, and Bangla roads”.

Ten officials went to the offices of Pisona, which sells timeshares at the Patong Bay Garden Resort, and Absolute Destinations, which does the same for the Absolute Sea Pearl Resort but could find no sign that either was breaking the law.

sent our two officers to buy two women at the karaoke bar, one of whom was the 14-year-old daughter of the karaoke bar owner; the other was a 19-year-old female. We agreed on a price of B1,500 for each girl. After the agreement, our officers brought both girls to a hotel, where police were waiting.

“After this, other members of the police went to arrest the owner, who admitted getting her daughter to work as a prostitute because she was short of money – she owed B6,000 rent on their house.”

The mother is now at Wichit Police Station and her 14-year-old daughter has been sent to the Juvenile Observation and Protection House in Phuket Town.

AN AMERICAN GUEST staying at the Naka Island resort has become the first person recorded as having swum the six kilometres around the entire island, in a time of two hours, 50 minutes.

Last Friday (July 12) competitive swimmer Fiona O’Donnell-McCarthy, on the last day of her two-week Thailand holiday, arrived at the island by speedboat.

“I had the strongest urge to just jump in the water and swim,” she said.

When told by staff that one of the activities she could

do was to kayak around the island, she asked if she could swim it. Staff told her that no one had done that before, and she replied, “Well, I’ll be the first. If you can kayak around the island, I can certainly swim it!”

Fiona was cheered on by a hotel team and plans to return again next year, bringing her swim team with her.

“I’m not comfor table swimming in cold water and the temperature in Phuket is perfect for open water distance swimming.”

Fiona O’Donnell-McCarthy with a certificate of her swim made specially by the resort.

Hoteliers ignore report briefing Naraporn Tuarob reporter1@classactmedia.co.th

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huket police on Thursday (July 11) again stressed the importance for hotels, resorts, and other accommodation providers, including owners of villas for rent, to report details of foreigners staying with them.

Kathu Police hosted a meeting in collaboration with Phuket Immigration Police to try and promote the importance of the law and the reasons behind it, but only 24 accommodation owners on the island attended the meeting.

Immigration Police Capt Angkarn Yasanop explained the importance of the law, which requires the owner of a residence or hotel manager with foreign guests staying must report to the local Immigration Office within 24 hours. It is also Royal Thai Police policy to enforce this.

This includes owners of private homes when they have foreign friends or relatives staying with them, whether the guests pay for accom-

modation or not.

Capt Angkarn explained to the audience that owners of hotels, guesthouses and rented houses played a “key role” in helping. If accommodation owners were caught not reporting guests, they may be fined B8,000 per unreported guest.

“Problems occur when police need to find someone who has a criminal record, and we can’t find them. Also, when people go missing, we don’t know where to look.

“W hen guests ar rive, please be the eyes of the police,” Capt Angkarn told those at the meeting.

“To register, log on to immigration.go.th and click on accommodation information.

The officer will approve your registration and send you a user name and email address to your email account. You can then use these details to log on to phuketimmigration.go.th “You can also send a form via the post, but I suggest people use the internet because it is easier and quicker.

Informing Immigration must be done within 24 hours after

the guest checks in.”

Homeowners were only required to fill out a form once a guest arrives. For example, if a guest arrives and stays for a week continuously, only one form is required. However, if they leave the accommodation provider, then return, another form must be submitted.

Accommodation owners should check the foreigner’s passport photo matches the person’s face, because sometimes there are issues with a person using a fake passport, Capt Angkarn said. Also required in the reporting form is the type and number of the visa, their arrival date to Thailand, the issue date and expiry date of the visa, and the number of entries to the

country available (single or multiple).

In the meeting, Police Colonel Jirapat Pohchanapant, Superintendent of Kathu Police Station, also mentioned the continued crackdown on drugs across the island.

“We have invited the owners of pubs, bars and restaurants in Patong to meet with us regularly, and they were advised to do regular urine tests on their staff members to check for drugs. We want to ask for their help to make Patong a “white zone” for drugs (drug-free).

Listed in Capt Angkarn’s Powerpoint presentation were details of foreign countries and the visas that were required to visit Thailand.

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amily and friends of Phuket-based British woman Andrea Woodmansey are rallying to raise funds for her medical care after she was left seriously injured in a motorbike crash.

Miss Woodmansey, who has lived on and off in Phuket for the last four years after moving from England, is currently in Vachira Hospital after a motorbike crash on July 6.

Details of the crash are sketchy as Miss Woodmansey cannot remember anything before or after the crash, but it

is understood she lost control of her bike on a wet road on her way home to Chalong, and may have crashed into a vehicle.

Miss Woodmansey was left with a dislocated hip (her leg is currently in traction to help with the healing), a broken left femur, a fractured left kneecap, a fractured right arm, a torn liver, a skull fracture, a collapsed lung, as well as her right knee tearing open.

But the most concerning injury is the severe nerve damage to Miss Woodmansey’s right arm leaving her with no feeling or function.

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Miss Woodmansey’s mother Rachel Sharp flew over from the UK straight away when she heard the news.

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Phuket and with increasing medical costs, family and friends are trying to raise the more than B1 million required to get her back to the UK to get specialist treatment for her arm. As of Wednesday, around B845,000 had been raised.

“I’ve got family there and it’s free, at home we have NHS (the National Health Service),” Miss Woodmansey said.

“I’ve got no feeling in my arm and I could lose it. Once I’m rehabilitated I will return to continue my life here. I have spent the last couple of years building the foundations and securing initial funding to launch Nulife Nutrition, a

Nong Pin, in a photo taken shortly before her disappearance 18 months ago.

THE MOTHER OF PHUKET schoolgirl Samudchaya “Pin” Yanpunya, who went missing 18 months ago, has made another plea to the public for help in finding her.

Samruay Saenthaweesuk said there had still been no sightings of 12-year-old Pin, who disappeared after going to an internet café in Soi Loa Rong in Phuket Town on December 6, 2011.

CCTV camera footage from the shop showed her entering and leaving a couple of times.

She then left the café a final

time, apparently behaving perfectly normally, and has not been seen since.

But one and a half years on, Ms Samruay told The Phuket News she still had no information about Pin. “We have searched for her in so many ways,” she said.

“Nong Pin is a good girl, and I forgive her for everything she’s done to me. I just want to see my daughter. I am still waiting for news about her, even though there is little hope left of finding her.

Anyone with information can call Mrs Samruay on 087284-8380 or the Phuket City Police on 076-212-115.

Phuket police are searching for a man who stole 20 items of women’s underwear from a clothes line at the Chalermlap apartment building in Phuket Town on July 2.

The apartment building’s owner, Kularp Somjai, 61, reported the incident to police after she saw a stranger walk into the ground floor area around 10pm.

CCTV footage shows the man, who looks to be between 25 and 35 years old, enter the room smoking a cigarette, and then taking the underwear from the clothes line. He spent about 30 minutes onsite.

3 bikes destroyed in arson attack Three motorbikes were deliberately set alight early on Tuesday morning (July 16) in Soi Nanai 8 in Patong.

Police were called after the owners of other bikes parked alongside the three that were targeted frantically moved their machines away from the blazing bikes.

Officers discovered that one of the burned bikes belonged to Tip Keawprom, 28, who works in the Jungceylon Shopping Mall. The owners of the other two were not immediately identified.

The island suffered a spate of bike burnings earlier this year, and one man was arrested.

Island rocked by Sumatra quake Phuket was shaken by a 5.3 Richter earthquake, with its epicentre situated 30km below the seabed off Sumatra, Indonesia, at around 6.40am on Wednesday morning (July 17).

The quake was felt widely across Phuket but Sant Jantarawong, the chief of the Phuket Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation in Phuket, said it did not trigger a tsunami alert for the island.

A quake of 9.1 on the Richter scale in the same area triggered the Asian tsunami of December 24, 2004, which killed about 250,000 people around the edges of the Bay of Bengal.

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he Phuket Bodybuilding Club (PBC) announced on Saturday (July 13) that its Phuket Classic 2013 competition will be staged at Central Festival Phuket on September 8. It will be the club’s second such competition in Phuket – the last time was in November last year.

At the Vijit Resort on Saturday organisers explained that there will be 11 contests in the event – men’s junior bodybuilding (open), men’s bodybuilding (up to 65 kgs, up to 70 kg, up to 80 kg and open), men’s athletic physique (height not over 170 cm and open), men’s model physique (height not over 170 cm and open), women’s athletic physique (open), foreign men (Open, not Thai); and a prize for popular vote from any category.

Wilaiporn Wannaklang, president of the PBC and a member of the Thai team that took part in the World Bodybuilding Championships last year, said, “Bodybuilding is not yet popular in Thai society.

But I want to promote it because it is not just a competitive sport; it’s also a healthy way of life.

“We expect about 100 participants from around Thailand, including 20 from Phuket. I want to present this activity to the [Tourism Authority of Thailand] as another way to support Phuket tourism.

“We have attracted many sponsors including Muscletech Thailand, The Vijitt Resort Phuket, Central Festival Phuket, Naiharn Gym and Smart Gym.” Entry forms may be downloaded here, or would-be competitors may contact Miss Wilaiporn by calling 085 366 5275.

A member of the Phuket Bodybuilding Club pumps up at the press launch.

5 foreigners caught with drugs FIVE FOREIGNERS AND six Thais were arrested by police from Kathu Police Station during a two-week special push against crime ordered

by Bangkok, which ended on Monday (July 15).

All were arrested for drug offences during the drive.

The biggest fish caught in the police net was Fidelis Vaboomaronanna, 25, from Nigeria, caught in possession of 51 bags of crystal methamphetamine (ya ice), the largest haul of ice in Phuket this year; Five Thais, both men and women, were caught with

varying amounts of ya ice or methamphetamine pills.

Four Burmese, named as Tong, 24, Star, 36, Selip, 36, and Ola, 27, all found in possession of small bottles containing the makings for the drink “4x100”, which includes kratom, a restricted drug.

Irish tourist decides to drop rape complaint A 22-YEAR-OLD IRISH woman who reported to Krabi Police that she had been raped while on Phi Phi island on Friday night (July 12) has, since arriving on Phuket, dropped the case.

She had originally told police that while she was intoxicated she had been raped by a foreign stranger and feared that she might have caught a disease or become pregnant.

The police subsequently arranged for her to be taken to Vachira Hospital in Phuket for medical tests.

Police said that the Irish woman had since decided to drop her rape complaint.

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Woman, 43, survives Sarasin death leap A WOMAN FROM PHANG Nga tried to commit suicide on Friday around 10pm (July 12) by jumping off Sarasin Bridge, the bridge connecting Phuket to Phang Nga. Locals reported to police that they saw someone jump from the bridge, so police went to the area to search.

Around midnight fisherman found her floating on the surface of the water, still alive. She was identified as Nisaphat Phetkhao, 43, a Phang Nga local.

Police found her abandoned Honda car on the side of the bridge – inside was her handbag containing a suicide letter.

Miss Nisaphat was taken to Takua Pa Hospital.

The Sarasin Bridge has a sad association with romantic suicide after a young couple tied themselves together and jumped from it after their parents forbade them to see each other.

That was in the 1960s, and the suicide sparked a hit song and later a well-known film.

Because of this, Thai tourists often make a point of visiting the bridge when in Phuket.

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Karon beach surf during the monsoon season.

SAVING LIVES A lifeguard on Karon beach advises tourists.

The new Phuket beach initiative keeping our waters safe

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n Thursday last week (July 11), around 30 Thai lifeguards and hotel staff attended a surf lifesaving training day at Le Méridien Phuket Beach Resort, between Patong and Karon, as part of a new initiative by the Phuket Lifeguard Club and Surf Life Saving Australia.

In March this year, the Phuket Lifeguard Club (PLC) joined with Surf Life Saving Australia (SLSA) to develop a public education programme and resource that aims to reduce drownings and improve water safety in Phuket.

Six senior lifeguard train-

ers from Phuket beaches and resorts joined with Anthony Bradstreet, the Community Education Manager from SLSA to adapt the successful Australian surf safety programme “SURF ED” to local Phuket conditions.

This programme is one of a series of initiatives from the new Phuket Lifesaving Education Unit. The programme’s coordinator in Phuket said the objective was to provide a sustainable programme with Thai people having ownership of the water safety initiatives.

The PLC has had a long association with Surf Life Saving in Australia and this program is the latest step in that partnership.

And it’s a much needed step in the right direction for the island. Between June 28 and July 14 this monsoon season, 78 people were rescued by the PLC lifesavers. Of this number, 43 were successfully rescued from Kata Beach, 26 from Karon, six from Naiharn and three from Patong.

Sadly, five died in the same period. That’s one death per 16.6 rescues.

The PLC’s head lifeguard at Karon and Kata beaches, Utain Singsom, told The Phuket News that he helps set up his team (eight lifeguards in Karon and three in Kata) every day in locations across the two beaches, and people always need saving.

“But I cannot stop people [from going in the water]. I can only warn them.”

During the interview, The Phuket News met Belgian tourist Miguel Castro, who was relaxing on Karon Beach.

“I saw the red flags, but I didn’t know the meaning,” he said.

When it was explained to him about the red warning flags and the danger signs, Mr Castro didn’t seem too concerned.

“It’s alright, because I came here with my friends. I enjoy the waves. If something happens to me, my friends will help me.” Then off he ran into the water again.

Mr Utain said, “See? This is the problem for us. I understand that tourists come to Phuket for the beach, but they should listen to us. Otherwise they put themselves at risk. If they go into the water, they might be swept far down the beach, or out to sea, and they might not be strong enough to

Phuket Lifesaving Education Unit project manager Jayne MacDougall, based on the island. get back.”

Phuket Lifesaving Education Unit project manager Jayne MacDougall, who also doubles as the Director of Risk Management for Le Méridien, spoke to The Phuket News during the surf lifesaving exercise at the hotel on July 11.

While the majority of the people attending the courses are trained lifeguards improving their skills, Mrs MacDougall said there an increasing number of regular hotel staff also attended the programmes.

“We are training 50 people this year, with many of them working in different positions in hotels. Some are cooks, some are waitresses, and some are sport and recreation staff.

But the hotels are very concerned about water safety because there are so many drownings and rescues in Phuket. They send their staff here to be retrained by specialist trainers.

“We have had so much interest in our programmes that we are thinking about doing another one in August because there are so many people who want to learn – and that’s a good sign. It means Phuket hotels and businesses are very aware, and think that water

safety is an important issue.

“Our group this week ranges from basic to intermediate level. Some people can swim a little bit, and some are confident swimmers. There are four different levels in the lifeguard training programme, and if they pass a level, they get a certificate for that level.”

But Mrs MacDougall says passing a level doesn’t mean the end of gaining experience.

“We hope they will keep training and keep improving their skills, so that [the waters around] Phuket become a safe place for everybody.”

Training is based around levels, from beginner to advanced. Also included in a lot of the training are hotel restaurant staff who work around their hotels’ swimming pools – who learn how to use lifesaving rescue devices such as buoyancy aids, without putting themselves in danger.

“That’s another very important part,” Mrs MacDougall explains, “Because you don’t want someone to get rescued and then their rescuers drown.”

One very important element for lifeguards is respect, says David Field, the Surf Life Saving Australia Assessor at Le Meridien.

One of the main differences between beach behaviour in Phuket and Australia is that many foreign tourists don’t respect Thai lifeguards – for whatever reason.

“In Australia, if you try to swim outside the flags, or go swimming when there’s a red flag, the lifeguard will tell you to stop,” Mr Field said.

“And if you disobey the lifeguard, the lifeguard can call the police, and the police will come and speak to you and say you must follow the lifeguard’s directions.”

It is not the same in Phuket, with lifeguards often having no power to enforce regulations.

In the past there has been talk about getting Phuket’s police to patrol the beaches and offer their assistance to lifeguards trying to get swimmers out of the water, but these plans have not come to anything.

Another problem is the language barrier between the Thai lifeguards and the foreign visitors.

“In Phuket you have guests that don’t understand the ocean and they don’t understand that the Thai lifeguards are trained to keep them safe,” Mr Field said.

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David Field, the Surf Life Saving Australia Assessor at Le Meridien.

The training programme takes place at Le Meridien on Thursday last week (July 11).

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Phuket International Airport; when tourists step off the plane and into the terminal, they are met with a sign that says in a variety of languages, “Enjoy our beautiful beaches but follow the lifeguard’s directions, and swim only between the flags [the ones with both red and yellow on them].

“This is what we do in Australia and this has helped reduce the number of drownings. We still get drownings in Australia but many of these are accidents where people drink alcohol and swim at night when there’s no lifeguard on duty,” Mr Field said.

“Sometimes they go to

quiet beaches and there is no lifeguard around and they go for a swim. But in Phuket, we have people who drown because they don’t understand they must swim between the safety flags.”

He lists one example where a Thai lifeguard came up to a group of Russian tourists who were swimming. The lifeguard told them, “Please don’t swim here.”

“But the Russian guests did not get out of the water, and they didn’t speak English so they didn’t understand the lifeguard. There are warning signs on the beaches in Thai, English, Russian and

Mandarin, but people sometimes don’t see these. And also, sometimes people just ignore the signs – that’s also a problem.”

Mrs MacDougall agrees.

“We have trained our lifeguards in how to deal with the tourists, and what to say to them. Also important is body language because if they can’t communicate in English or Thai, then the lifeguards need to be able to communicate with body language.

“So we train them how to use body language and other signals to stop people from going in the water. That doesn’t work all the time, but most of

the time it does.

“Most people don’t like somebody standing on the beach blowing a whistle at them, and making signs at them to move to certain areas.

So they often don’t co-operate when the lifeguards try to move them on.”

Mr Field said, “The five who drowned recently … some made mistakes before they drowned. Sometimes people just don’t understand how dangerous the ocean can be.

“Another thing is often they don’t know what to do when they are drowning. We teach people that if you are in trouble you should float, put

your arms up in the air, call for help. Don’t panic, try to wave out and someone will come and save you.

“There are more than 100 lifeguards employed by the [Phuket Provincial Administration Organisation] to work on Phuket’s beaches. These should be safer if people follow the lifeguard’s directions.”

Mrs MacDougall explains that as well as the language barrier, lifeguards in Phuket are also dealing with many tourists who have not experienced the water before – either in swimming pools or in the sea.

“I think a lot of people

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don’t understand that the sea conditions in Phuket can be very dangerous. They are on holiday and they think ‘Okay, I’ll go swimming,’ without thinking too much about it.

“Some people mix alcohol with swimming, or they go swimming alone, outside the flags, and beyond their own capabilities. This is why we need lifeguards, and we need them all the time and they will continue to save many lives.”

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TAKING THE RISK

he issue of travel insurance for international travellers coming to Thailand has again reared its ugly head with the case of uninsured British woman Andrea Woodmansey.

Ms Woodmansey (see page 4 for the full story) has based herself in Phuket for a number of years but did not have medical or travel insurance.

She was seriously injured in a motorbike crash and now friends are raising funds to help get her back to the UK where she will, it is hoped, receive free care under the National Health Service.

Her situation is, sadly, not a rare one. Many people living on the island will likely know, or know of, someone who has been in a similar bind. Then there are all the cases of tourists who get into trouble, who don’t have a large circle of friends on the island to help out.

Indeed, so common are

cases of uninsured foreigners ending up in hospital that Thailand’s Public Health Ministry has complained that they are putting an increasing, and unfair, burden on government hospital finances (see page 13 for more).

The ministry has a point.

Why should taxpayers in Thailand have to foot the bill for people who arrive here with no insurance?

Not having medical insurance is a gamble, as many people stuck in Vachira with serious crash injuries or medical problems would no doubt acknowledge – in rueful hindsight.

But implementing a compulsory insurance system would be very difficult. For those tourists who have to apply to the embassy for a visa before coming to Thailand, maybe insurance could be included in an increased visa fee. But for people from

“visa-free” countries, would the price be included in the airfare? Or would tourists pay at an Immigration point when entering the country?

And what about all the foreigners who come here with no international driver’s licence and get in a crash.

Would they be covered? Would a government-run scheme cover care at state hospitals only, or also at expensive private hospitals?

The plan is a long way from being implemented – or even approved. Package tourists are generally covered by insurance, and many FITs – free independent travellers – also buy cover before going on holiday.

It’s the uninsured minority – a growing minority – who have sparked the debate and who, if this Health Ministry scheme is implemented, risk making every other tourist pay for their own neglect of sensible personal precautions.

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Getting a purchase on justice Time for Darwinism to prevail in the law

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hai ire at a traffic cop’s nonchalant acceptance of passing motorists’ bribes a couple of months ago, as revealed in a widely disseminated video clip (tinyurl.com/bribecop), has spilled over to the foreign community, it seems.

“Look at him!” said a Finnish expat, viewing the telltale clip with friends. “He acts as if it’s part of his job.”

“He’s just doing business as usual,” observed a Thai woman.

“The number on his helmet is plain enough,” said the Finn.

“Oh yes,” said another viewer, “his superiors are well-aware of his identity.” “How can they allow this sort of thing?” wondered the Finn. “I should think that, after seeing this, the public’s demand for police reform could not be denied … y’know, otherwise it would become like the ‘Arab Spring’.

“But, instead, the public appears resigned in face of open corruption. What’s wrong with this country?” Nothing, in my opinion. In fact, I dare say that

the boldly blasé public servant was behaving as he should and in consonance with Darwin’s laws: he was helping himself to survive, giving the strong (eg, those who can afford bribes) their due, while putting the weak (the poor) where they belong, in jail.

But, instead, the cop, identified as Pol Senior Sgt Maj Niphon Sok-hai of the Bang Na station in metropolitan Bangkok, was given a ‘non-final expulsion’ order.

His superiors, a police lieutenant colonel and a police major, were transferred to other stations – which is punishment about as serious as civil service regulations allow until full investigations are performed (which happens rarely).

Now, I ask you, is that just?

SS Maj Niphon, in my opinion, was only being practical. Moreover, he clearly rides the crest of a neo-liberalist wave rapidly transforming nations round the world – and it’s about time!

Let’s face it, mankind is special: dogs don’t need passports; birds fly whither they will sans visa and control tower – and never pay landing fees. Why, not only the animals, but the plants, too,

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Cracking down on timeshare

[Re. Phuket timeshare firms get official visits] All the checked companies and the resort belong to powerful people and it will be hard to crack down on them unless the DSI or other government agencies from Bangkok are involved.

Whistle Blower

The perils of no medical insurance [Re. British woman in Phuket hospital after bike crash] I totally agree with the person who first posted, and I am sure there are many others!

Life presents us with the ability to make choices; taking out suitable insurance is one of them. If it is a case of cannot afford insurance then reduce the risk by living in a way that does so. Riding a motorbike in Phuket is not one of them (I’ve also seen photos on her Facebook site not wearing a helmet).

I cannot afford insurance but I have it. I also think

going back to UK is more about the money and using the NHS (a system that’s already struggling) than the specialist treatment. All this while saying she now calls Phuket home – double standards.

Take responsibility for your life and your own actions, don’t expect others to do it for you. I wish you well in your recovery and hope that common sense prevails.

Guest Not everyone can afford medical insurance whilst trying to eke out a living here – before the doom and gloom merchants jump on this story. That said, if she’d had a Bupa (or other) policy for expats, there’d be no need for repatriation – the entire cost of treatment would have been covered.

Best of luck with the fund raising and get well soon, Andrea.

Agogohome Can anyone explain this to me? People come to Thailand with a lack of knowledge about Thailand and its roads.

People think nothing will happen. Many travellers have

are able to subsist without earning a single satang.

How they do it boggles human minds – because we have to pay.

First, we created belief-systems called institutions, themselves incapable of thought or action, that transcend the generations of Mankind; then we created a purely imaginary commodity, money, and insisted the institutions (government, businesses, religious bodies, courts, etc.) be paid with it.

Thus have we made land – something all other creatures possess in common and without benefit of title – a luxury item.

If we can commodify that – a necessity that surely must be adduced as fundamental to existence – we can commodify its adjuncts, air and water; and, indeed, in the form of privatised water distribution and carbon taxes, that is being swiftly accomplished.

Soon, no one will drink a glass of water or take a gulp of air without paying for it first.

That sort of thing is what sets us apart from the beasts.

If that’s as it should be – and it is – I see nothing strange in (in

fact, I applaud) commodifying distribution of justice. Let them have it who can afford it; let injustice be the lot of them that can’t.

To the winners go the spoils. I think that’s only fair. Don’t you?

If you consider that justice as it is meted out at present is at best haphazard, you cannot but be persuaded. Those among the readers of this column who are legal scholars will recall that justice unevenly applied is no justice at all.

It has long been recognised that hardly anything can be more unjust than uncertainty, and it was for that reason that the framers of the American Constitution inserted an amendment mandating speedy arraignment and trial of offenders, a feature imitated in constitutions round the world since.

In Thailand, too, law demands justice be swift and sure. But ask the person who’s been through it how many years, indeed, how many decades, it took before his case was finally closed.

But Thailand in this regard is hardly different than anywhere else. Constitutional mandates for swift and speedy justice in whatever country are usually honoured

HAVE YOUR SAY a low income and travel with no insurance. Then once a crash happens, once again Facebook becomes the world centre of welfare. If you have an accident and you do not have the funds to cover the cost, it is not our problem.

Be responsible for yourself and stop acting like an idiot.

Immigration should not let people enter unless they have travel insurance – you never know what can happen.

Guest You can get around B200,000 accident insurance, per accident, for 12 months for around B4,000. There is no excuse for not having accident insurance if you live here. As “Agogo” said, there are many great expat insurance options available. Hopefully this will serve as a lesson for others.

Get well soon Andrea, and best of luck with the recovery.

Global_Saffer

to learn when riding a motorcycle. I’ve ridden since 1964 and have taught motorcycle safety courses.

1. Always assume others are actually out to hit you.

Paranoid? Yes. But, it breeds a defensive attitude.

2. Never apply the front brake hard when not vertical i.e. in a turn.

3. Always ride with two fingers on the brake lever. The milliseconds saved in reaction time could save your life.

Jim

Zero stars

[Re. Film Review: The Lone Ranger – Just shoot me] Superman Man of Steel was another horrible disappointment. Johnny Depp, however, made the Lone Ranger worst.

There are actually talented Native American actors. It’s 2013. Al Jolson should have died a long time ago.

Dave Williams

Things to think about on your bike A big no to eating [Re. Swiss expat in Phuket shark fin motorbike smash] There are a few basic things

[Re. Phuket hotels say no to shark fin soup]

only in the breach.

That is to say nothing of the cost, to which the epithet ‘astronomical’ is typically appended.

It seems to me matters could be simplified greatly, and uncertainty about the outcome reduced to nil, if what is now called ‘corruption’ became the law of the land.

Say a loan company from which you received the cash to buy your big-screen TV and Home Theatre screws up in the paperwork and demands 10 times the agreed amount in monthly payments, then sues for non-payment.

In a truly Darwinian justice system, whoever pays most wins the case: if you haven’t got the cash, don’t bother going to court, just change your name and flee.

See what I mean? Speedy justice, and sure; in line, moreover, with imperatives deduced by modern evolutionary biologists who tell us that life, after all, is a zero-sum game.

That being so, justice cannot and should not be any different, and Pol Sgt Maj Niphon ought, manifestly, after paying an appropriate bribe, to be re-instated.

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Shark fin soup is nothing but a useless, cruel, shameful waste. To be part of this is bad karma. Good initiative from worldly-minded people who know this is bad.

Pauline Hodson

Support for our pachyderms

[Re. Elephant dies at Phuket trekking camp] Where are my words for this?

I have none. A regal, beautiful, innocent, social, wondrous creature, tortured and used and disregarded. Lost to the world but hopefully in a better place where she is free of greed and cruelty. My head hurts. Glass of wine, pill, glance out the window at SF Bay – nothing changes this.

There is a hole, another one, in our universe, in the picture that is our “humanity” and my heart. I honour you, beautiful Wasana. I honour your beautiful heart and mourn the life forced on you. May you be free now to live as life intended.

Tangledvine Anyone who reads this story and then still rides an elephant,

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swims with dolphins or pays to see killer whales “perform” should have a chair strapped to their back and be forced to give rides to morons willing to pay for it. Who do we think we are? Disgusting and shameful.

MAV58

The tuk-tuk files continue

[Re. Thuggish Phuket taxis targeted after 12 hotels complain] Why do the officials not just make the laws so the can force them out of work? Why do the police not check the tuk-tuk and taxis at their check points!

I have seen a tuk-tuk driver’s car at a car wash, where the washer-worker showed me a “knife” with a blade more than 30 cm long. Why does he need that in his tuktuk? I have had problems with tuktuks/taxis in Karon and I have seen many kind of weapons in their vehicles.

Why not increase the penalties, like in Malaysia, where just for parking wrong the fee is B3,000?

Thomas

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Chulalongkorn University ‘sorry’ for its Hitler mural O

ne of Thailand’s most prestigious universities apologised Monday after students created a large mural depicting Adolf Hitler among a host of comic book superheroes during graduation celebrations.

Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University expressed its “deep regret” over the painting, which appeared last week and featured Superman, Batman and the Incredible Hulk as well as the genocidal Nazi leader.

In a letter to the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which had complained about the poster, the university said the students who created it were “unaware

of its significance” and had received a verbal warning.

A picture posted on the Simon Wiesenthal Centre website shows a young woman in a graduation gown giving a Nazi salute in front of the giant mural, which reads “Congratulation”.

“Hitler as a superhero?” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Jewish human rights and Holocaust memorial organisation, in comments on the website.

He questioned whether “a genocidal hate monger” was an appropriate role model for young Thai people.

“The Simon Wiesenthal

The mural in question. Photo: Simon Wiesenthal Center Center is outraged and disgusted by this public display at Thailand’s leading school of higher education,” he said,

adding that the mural had been displayed for days near the university’s history faculty.

Chulalongkorn, whose

alumni include academics, politicians and other public figures, posted apologies in Thai and English on its Facebook page and vowed to make sure such incidents never occur again.

“I will explain to the students involved and this will be a lesson for others that this man caused tragedy in the world,” said Suppakorn Disatapundhu, dean of the faculty of fine arts, where the painting was produced.

The Nazi swastika, Hitler and other images apparently glorifying the World War II regime have caused controversy in Thailand in the past. AFP

Disrobed Thai monk faces arrest for underage sex A THAI MONK WHO WAS disrobed after a videotaped private jet trip unleashed allegations of improper conduct will face arrest for sex with a minor, authorities said Monday.

Wiraphon Sukphon, who is believed to be abroad, is being sought in Thailand on suspicion of having sex with an

underage girl around a decade ago while he was a monk, and of fathering a child with her.

“We will seek a warrant from a court Wednesday,” Department of Special Investigation chief Tarit Pengdith said, adding that the woman is now seeking court action to prove that the former monk

is the father of her son, who is now 11.

Footage of Wiraphon, 33, and two other monks travelling in a private jet, wearing sunglasses and carrying a Louis Vuitton luxury bag, caused a scandal recently in the country.

He has since been investigated on suspicion of an ar-

ray of offences including tax evasion, drug possession and money-laundering.

Wiraphon as a cleric went by the name Luang Pu Nen Kham to bolster his claims to be the reincarnation of a famous miracle-performing monk. He has 41 bank accounts, according to the Department of Special Investigation.

The authorities will now seek to have those accounts and other assets frozen and to have the former monk’s passport revoked after the clergy disrobed him.

“The evidence shows Wiraphon violated Buddhist regulations by having sex with a woman. He ceased to

be a monk at that time,” Phra Khru Wacharasittikhun of the monastic disciplinary team in the eastern province of Sisaket said on Saturday.

“The authorities can now carry out their duties, the monks have ended their role in the issue,” he added.

Thai monks have been hit by a series of scandals, with local media reporting cases of drug-taking, drinking, gambling and visiting prostitutes.

More than 30 Thai monks were defrocked earlier this month for use of the illegal drug methamphetamine. An abbot was also charged with narcotics trafficking over the incident in Saraburi province.

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IN BRIEF Teenager assaults Thai monk A 16-year-old boy used a one metre long wood log to attack and rob a monk at the Khon Kaen train station on July 13. At the train station, police found 65-year-old Phra (Monk) Wanchai Jittasiwaro of Anthawan Temple, Nongkhai province. He was reported to have been assaulted by a teenager using a wood log, and then mugged of his B1,800 he had in his possession. Pattaya Daily News

Man murders best friend over affair Banglamung Police arrested a 23-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing his former friend who he caught having an affair with his girlfriend on July 12. The suspect, named as Mr Boonlert, is accused of stabbing his friend and colleague Mr Leeder, aged 42, at the port after he discovered the secret relationship between him and his girlfriend was taking place.

He then stole the victim’s mobile phone and motorbike before leaving for Nakhon Sawan province. PDN

Russian duo helped by temple A well-known temple in Chiang Rai helped a Russian mother and daughter after the mother’s husband had to ‘hurry back to Russia’, leaving the pair with no money on July 12. In exchange for board and food, the Huay Plakang Temple therefore offered the mother a job at the almshouse. The husband has since contacted them and transfer red money to her bank account allowing them to ret ur n to their homeland. PDN

Father sought for kidnapping son Police are searching for a father in Lopburi province who kidnapped his own 5-year-old son and then requested a ransom of B1.5 million from his former father-in-law on July 12.

PDN

Thief falls asleep during attempted burglary A thief from Phisanulok province was arrested by police officers after the owner of the house returned to find the thief asleep in his property on July 15.

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Rare tourism boom in scenic Pakistan valley

School shows Afghani girls ways to S say no DAH YAYA IS AN AFGHAN village set in stony hills and steeped in traditions that limit women to second-class status in this desperately poor country ravaged by Taliban insurgency.

But in a school set up by an Afghan-American woman named a 2012 top 10 hero by TV network CNN, girls are learning to dream of a different future, of saying “no” to the dictats of their elders.

Just a 40-minute drive from Kabul, the village feels as if it’s in the middle of nowhere.

The road winds through the arid, dusty hills that encircle the Afghan capital, past mudbrick homes.

Women and girls wear burqas. Only once they are safely behind the gates of the Zabuli Education Center, do school girls take them off and leave them hanging on a banister.

Founded by Razia Jan as part of her battle to educate girls in rural Afghanistan, the school wants to exact change in a country notorious for dreadful women’s rights.

“I have 400 girls,” says Jan, who founded the school in 2008.

Funded by private donors, it offers a free education to pupils.

“We made these girls speak for themselves, so that if something terrible happens in their life and they don’t want it, they fight it, they have the force to say no, no, no,” she added.

“The more education there is, the more doors open for them.”

A massive increase in the number of girls going to school since the fall of the repressive Taliban regime in 2001 is touted as one of the biggest achievements of Western intervention in the country.

From 1996 to 2001, the Taliban banned girls from going out to school. According to the Afghan education ministry, 42 per cent of children in school are girls.

But poor attendance and absenteeism are major problems. Regular, high-profile cases of abuse, intimidation and violence underscore that for many women in parts of the country, little has changed.

At the Zabuli Education Centee, girls learn English as young as four, and they also have access to computers and to the internet. AFP

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uccess stories can be rare in Pakistan, but business is booming in one Kashmir tourist spot as the region rebuilds after a devastating earthquake and shrugs off associations with violence.

Hundreds of thousands of Pakistani tourists drawn to the lakes and glaciers of the Neelum valley are injecting desperately needed money into one of the poorest parts of the country.

Westerners stopped coming to the Himalayas of PakistaniKashmir years ago, put off by its reputation as a training ground for Islamist militant groups and the risk of sporadic conflict with India.

But with a new road built by the Chinese after the 2005 earthquake killed 73,000 people and a ceasefire holding with India, Pakistanis are discovering the snow-capped peaks, glaciers, lakes and lush-green meadows of the Neelum valley.

Known locally as “Paradise on Earth,” the valley is 114 kilometres east of the base camp where gunmen shot dead American, Chinese, Lithuanian, Slovakian and Ukranian climbers in June.

It was the worst attack on foreigners in Pakistan for a decade, but in neighbouring Kashmir, few Pakistanis are worried.

“There is a bit of fear there, but overall we are enjoying ourselves and we will stay according to our plan,” said

Mohammad Amir, a lawyer on holiday with his family from southern Punjab.

Munazza Tariq, a university student from Karachi, agrees.

“This was carried out by enemies of Pakistan. After it happened, we received a lot of calls from our relatives from Karachi, but we are safe and enjoying ourselves,” said Munazza.

Local tourism ministry official Shehla Waqar says 600,000 people visited Neelum last year compared to 130,000 in 2010, before the Chinese built a road linking the area to Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-administered Kashmir.

“There is an influx of tourists in the area because we have a very beautiful road from Muzaffarabad to the Neelum Valley,” she said The nearby Line of Control slices apart the Indian and Pakistani-held zones of the Himalayan region where a ceasefire has held since November 2003.

“This area is very peaceful and there is no fear of terrorism,” said Waqar.

India and Pakistan have fought two wars over Kashmir, a Muslim-majority region claimed in full by both sides.

Sporadic clashes killed six soldiers in January and February, but officials on both sides have kept tensions in check and Pakistan’s newly elected prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, has put improving relations

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By contrast, Taliban attacks in the northwest – where mountain resorts have in the past sucked domestic tourism away from Kashmir – and the impact of crippling power cuts pushing people towards balmier climes is also driving visitor numbers higher, Waqar said.

There are now 115 reg-

istered guest houses in the Neelum valley, local deputy commissioner Mohammad Farid said compared to none in 2010.

The authorities say they have stepped up security after the climbers were killed in Gilgit-Baltistan, but because tourists in Kashmir are Pakistani rather than foreign, they are not braced for a serious

knock-on effect.

“We have strict instructions that all government and private guest houses are to close their main gates at 10 pm,” Kashmir tourism minister Abdul Salam Butt said.

The boom is welcome in a region where many men have traditionally left behind their families to work in Pakistan’s largest cities. AFP

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Ivory Coast uses brute force to protect forest area IT WAS A BRUTAL END to a long-term problem.

Faced with the dilemma of trying to save a protected forest, which had become home to thousands of people, the Ivory Coast government turned to force.

Soldiers, some armed with rocket launchers, and bulldozers were sent in to reclaim the southwestern forest of Niegre.

In a swift operation last month, the army completely razed the small town of Baleko-Niegre, tucked away in the tropical forest of the Sassandra region, about 360 kilometres west of the commercial capital Abidjan.

Little was spared: brick houses and clay huts were flattened, and the local school, church and marketplace were demolished.

Camps deeper into the forest were also destroyed.

The government says the operation was to preserve Ivory Coast’s woodland from illegal exploitation by people, often farmers, who squat the land.

“The government has decided to take back control of its protected forests, which slipped away from it for 10 years,” Minister of Water and Forestry Mathieu Babaud Darret said.

The June evacuation is believed to have left at least 20,000 people who had been living on the land for years bereft of homes and employment.

“We had occupied the protected forest in search of food,” local farmer Raymond N’Dri Kouadio said.

Those who had moved to the forest had done so to grow cocoa, of which Ivory Coast is the world’s leading producer.

Leon Koffi N’Goran, a man in his 80s who lived in the Niegre forest for 28 years, acknowledged that the villagers were engaged in “clandestine” activity.

But the evacuation was “brutal and surprising”, he said.

Many of those who were forced to flee complain of more sinister abuses.

The soldiers “even raped girls and they took away from me two motorbikes, 800,000 CFA francs (B49,000)”, one resident said. AFP

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Syria death toll hits 5,000 a month: UN F

ive thousand people a month are dying in Syria’s war, which has now generated the worst refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide, UN officials said Tuesday.

A host of top officials called on the divided UN Security Council to take stronger action to deal with the fallout from the two-year-old conflict, in which up to 100,000 people are believed to have died.

“The extremely high rate of killings nowadays – approximately 5,000 a month – demonstrates the drastic deterioration of the conflict,” UN assistant secretary general for human rights Ivan Simonovic told a council meeting.

“In Syria today, serious human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity are the rule,” Simonovic declared.

UN officials say 5,000 people are dying a month in Syria. Photo: Freedom House.

Nearly 1.8 million people are now registered with the United Nations in countries around Syria and an average of 6,000 people a day are now fleeing, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio

Guterres said.

“We have not seen a refugee outflow escalate at such a frightening rate since the Rwandan genocide almost 20 years ago,” Guterres added.

More than two million

Rwandans fled the 1994 genocide, in which radical Hutus killed some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in a period of about three months.

Guterres said the acceptance of refugees by Lebanon,

Iraq, Jordan and other countries was “saving hundreds of thousands of lives”.

UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said the international community may have to consider cross-border operations to get aid into Syria.

Amos added that $3.1 billion (B9.6 billion) was still needed for operations in and around Syria for the rest of the year.

She said four million people inside Syria need assistance and “considerable restraints” have been imposed on aid agencies by the government and rebel groups.

Amos highlighted the Old City in Homs, where the government has stepped up a siege in the past month. The United Nations estimates that 2,500 civilians are trapped there. AFP

Bono receives France’s highest cultural honour

Bono was made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters on Tuesday. Photo: HDS

FRANCE ON TUESDAY bestowed its highest cultural honour on U2 singer Bono at a ceremony in Paris.

The Irish singer was made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters, receiving the medal from French Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti.

Bono, whose real name is Paul Hewson, is a leading

advocate of aid for Africa.

He founded the global antipoverty group ONE to help fight poverty and disease on the continent.

The U2 lead singer has received numerous awards and honours for both his humanitarian work and services to music including France’s Legion d’Honneur and an honorary knighthood from Britain. AFP

British lawmakers pass gay marriage bill BRITISH LAWMAKERS ON Tuesday passed a bill legalising same-sex marriage in England and Wales, paving the way for the first gay weddings in 2014.

MPs in the House of Commons decided not to oppose a number of minor amendments to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill proposed by the House of Lords, the upper parliamentary chamber.

The legislation is now expected to receive official assent from Queen Elizabeth II later this week after MPs agreed to changes such as ensuring protections for transgender couples.

Already on Monday night, jubilant gay rights activists danced outside parliament as the government-backed bill

passed unopposed through the House of Lords. Some members there wore pink carnations.

A spokesman for the culture ministry, which is overseeing the new law, told AFP the bill was due to receive royal assent on Wednesday or Thursday.

“But we are looking at seeing the first gay weddings in the middle of 2014 because there are various issues to sort out, such as its impact on pensions,” the spokesman added.

Government computer systems also need to be updated to allow same-sex marriages to be registered, at an estimated cost of £2 million (B9.3 million) But the government hopes legalising gay marriage will

bring an overall boost to the economy, estimating that the change could bring in up to £14.4 million a year for caterers, hotels and the rest of the wedding industry.

The bill survived a stormy passage through parliament, with dozens of members of Prime Minister David Cameron’s own Conservative party voting against it.

Tor y minister Gerald Howarth criticised the way the government had backed the bill.

“I have to say that it is astonishing that a bill for which there is absolutely no mandate, against which a majority of Conservatives voted against, has been bulldozed through both Houses and just

two hours of debate tonight is an absolute parliamentary disgrace,” he said.

“I think the government should think very carefully in future if they want the support of these benches. Offending large swathes of the Conservative Party is not a good way of going about it.”

An attempt in the Lords last month to kill off the legislation with a “wrecking amendment” failed.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who leads Cameron’s junior coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, said the new law would ensure that gay couples felt “recognised and valued, not excluded”.

Gay rights activists have vowed to press on for equal

marriage in the United Kingdom’s other two nations, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

But opponents of gay marriage have warned that the legislation will “come back to bite” Cameron.

The Coalition for Marriage campaign group said it would mobilise a 700,000-strong support base ahead of next year’s European elections and the general election in 2015.

“They are passionate, motivated and determined to fight on against a law that renders terms like ‘husband and wife’ meaningless,” said the group’s chairman Colin Hart.

Civil partnerships for gay couples have been legal in Britain since 2005. AFP

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BIG PLANS TAT reveals ‘tourism strategy’ for 2014

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he Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has set a target for next year of 28.1 million international arrivals, it was announced last week.

The international tourists will bring in B1.326 trillion, the TAT estimates, a rise of 13 per cent on predictions for this year.

For the domestic market, the TAT has set a target of 136.8 million trips, which it says will push another B700 billion – an increase of 9 per cent – into the economy.

T he a n nou ncement, made yesterday, confirms the magical target figure for total tourism revenue in 2014 – already widely bandied about – of just over B2 trillion.

The figures were revealed as part of the TAT’s revelation of its action plan for 2014. All the big wheels on the government were at the presentation at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre in Bangkok: Somsak Pureesrisak, Minister of Tourism and Sports; TAT Governor Suraphon Svetasreni and the six TAT Deputy Governors.

Mr Suraphon said that “Thainess” and “balance” will be the key words driving strategies in the future.

This will apply to target customer segments, source markets, earnings and sustainability. In his speech he identified key points of the

Taiwan and China likely to emulate Japan’s lead on visas CHINA AND TAIWAN WILL probably be the next countries after Japan to relax visa rules in order to woo foreign tourists, especially Thais, say industry experts.

Visa facilitation has become a new marketing tool for the tourism industry, said Charoen Wangananont, a former president of the Thai Travel Agents Association (TTAA) and now an adviser to the association.

Japan’s recent visa waiver for Thais will definitely put pressure on China and Taiwan, the other two markets favoured

by Thai travellers, he said.

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The TAT will “attract tourists with the charm of Thainess”.

TAT plan: To focus on the core theme of “Higher Revenue through Thainess.” The TAT “will attract tourists with the Charm of Thainess, which include Thai Experience, Thai Way of Life, and Thai Culture”.

To e m p h a s i s e “Thainess” – Thainess to the World, Thainess Through Celebrities, Thainess Connected.

To raise awareness of Thailand as a “Quality Destination” with a broad diversity of experiences that contribute to visitors’ “happiness”.

To balance source markets and refocus customer segments to high-end markets.

To reduce visitor congestion in the popular destinations by better balance

in distribution of visitors nationwide and by boosting connectivity with other Asean countries.

To “balance” the tourism season by promoting travel in the low season and promoting Green Tourism in order to lower the environmental impact of high visitor arrivals.

To use new technology “to develop the TAT’s social customer relationship as a marketing tool to boost opportunities for visitors to network and share the experience of Thainess”.

To use travel and tourism “as a means of creating awareness of love for Thailand”.

Thailand received just over 22 million international tourists in 2012. The figure for this year is predicted at 24.5 million.

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Critics blast tourist insurance proposal THAILAND SHOULD NOT make it compulsory for international travellers coming to the country to buy travel insurance either as part of the visa fee or as part of the price of an air ticket, senior figure in the tourism industry say.

The Public Health Ministry has complained that uninsured foreigners getting ill or being injured while in Thailand are putting an increasing, and unfair, burden on government hospital finances.

But commenting on the Health Ministry proposal that travellers should be obliged to buy insurance cover as a condition for entering the country, the vice president of the Association of Thai Travel Agents, Anek Srishevachart, said this week that foreign travellers should have the freedom to make the choice.

“Thailand should be flexible and not force travellers to buy insurance … it should depend on each traveller’s requirements,” he said.

He added: “Some travel agents already offer travel insurance for tourists who have bought one of their packages, while other tourists buy

Gareth Harnett was on holiday in Phuket with no health insurance when he had a heart attack, leaving friends to find hundreds of thousands of baht to cover his hospital bills. their own travel insurance, particularly the Chinese and Japanese. The policy will only duplicate what is already in place or add a burden for tourists.”

He also raised a question, as yet unanswered: “We don’t know who would get the real benefit from this policy or how the travel insurance firms would be chosen.”

T he t ravel i nsu rance measure was proposed at the meeting late last month, with various agencies agreeing in principle, but noting that implementing the scheme could be costly and would face opposition from airlines and airports.

One well-known UK tour

operator, which won the prestigious Friends of Thailand award earlier this year, suggested there were merits in the idea, but noted that most UK tourists would be covered anyway.

In Thailand, veteran tour operator, Luzi Matzig, said he doubted the scheme would get off the ground.

Health Minister Pradit Sinthawanarong hinted that the insurance cover could be included in visa fees, while visa-on-arrival tourists might have to pay for their health insurance cover at immigration desks. Alternatively the fees could be added to the cost of air or train tickets. TTR Weekly

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Happy Days will undergo sea trials in the Mediterranean before being shipped to Phuket.

Superyacht biggest hit yet for Phuket broker AT A TRADITIONAL CHAMpagne ceremony last week in Ancona, Italy, Phuket ship broker Lee Marine witnessed the launch of its biggest sale yet, a 34-metre Ferretti superyacht destined for ownership and cruising out of Phuket.

Powered by t win 2,800-horsepower engines and capable of 28 knots, the yacht, Happy Days, has five large en-suite guest cabins and

a distinctive raised pilothouse to separate owner and guests from the operational side.

It will undergo sea trials in Croatia, Montenegro and along the Italian coast before being transported by ship to Phuket.

Mr Lee said, “In a short period the shipyard have worked wonders. I’m proud to be a Ferretti Group distributor.

The production team are mo-

tivated and friendly. This has resulted in a first class [yacht being delivered] on time and [to] the highest quality. I am very impressed .”

Alessandro Tirelli, Ferretti Group Asia Pacific Sales Director, who also attended the launch said the launch “represents a big goal for us, a confirmation that the effort and hard work of Lee Marine is reaping rewards.”

he orga n iser s of the Singapore Yacht Show have confirmed the launch of a new Asian “charter yacht show” in midDecember next year, to be hosted annually at Yacht Haven marina.

The show looks set to go head-to-head with the island’s main boat show, the Phuket International Boat Show, commonly known as Pimex, which this year marked 10 years, and which will be held in January next year. The date for the 2015 show has not yet been announced, but looks likely to be in January, a month after the Yacht Haven event.

In a press release the organisers, Singapore Yacht

Events (SYE), said the inaugural show “will combine the best aspects of yacht charter, boating industry and luxury lifestyle events” – much the same formula as Pimex, which has had stands for property developments and luxury cars as well as boats and boating equipment.

It quoted managing director Andy Treadwell as saying, “After several years of really focused promotion, the numbers of yachts visiting Asia is at last becoming significant, and is growing rapidly.

“T his event is bei ng launched with the support of all the local industry, and will help to showcase everything the Asia Pacific region has to offer as a stunning charter and

cruising destination.”

The release continued, “The show will serve as the perfect opener to the peak cruising season in west Thailand, which begins in December, and will take advantage of the large numbers of yachts in the Asia Pacific waters at that time of year.

“A particular objective is to showcase yachting generally and available charter yachts to potential clients, and the organisers will directly market the show to high-net-worth individuals in the region and internationally.”

For enquiries contact Andy Treadwell by email to info@singaporeyachtshow. com.

A Thai company with no Thai shareholders Weeraya Imchai Associate Partner

THAILAND’S FOREIGN Business Act (1999) generally restricts foreigners from engaging in most business activities in Thailand, without special permission as provided by the Act. Serious violations of the Act by a foreigner or facilitated by a Thai carry significant criminal penalties.

In the case of a Thai limited company, Section 4 of the Act provides that if 50 per cent or more of its share capital is owned by a non-Thai, then that company is a “foreigner” for purposes of the Act. This means that any foreigner who wants to conduct business in Thailand legally must generally find a Thai willing to actually invest in and own more than half of the company – not always easy.

However, Section 10 of the Act does provide for a significant exception to the restrictions on business by foreigners in Thailand.

The exception is for foreigners whose home country is party to a treaty with Thailand that states, basically, that each country’s citizens may operate businesses in the other country’s borders under the same conditions as their own citizens.

Currently, Thailand has such a bilateral treaty with just one country: the United States.

Under the Treaty of Am-

ity and Economic Relations between the United States and Thailand (1968), citizens of the US and Thailand are granted reciprocal national treatment with regard to, among other things, ownership of businesses in the other’s country.

Thus, a Thai company of which 50 per cent or more of the share capital is majority American-owned, a majority of the directors are also American and which obtains formal permission under the Treaty (known as an “Amity Company”) is permitted, without any Thai ownership or management, to engage in virtually any business activity in Thailand in which a Thaimajority-owned company is permitted to engage.

In order for a Thai limited company to qualify as an Amity Company it must meet the following conditions: More than half of company’s capital must be held by an American(s); More than half of the company’s shareholders must comprise Americans, or Americans and Thais; More than half of the authorized directors of the company must be American(s) or Thai(s) and; If the authorized director is from a third country, he must be required to act for the company jointly with another authorized director who is either American or Thai.

To complete the administrative requirements, the Amity Company must then also obtain a “Foreign Busi-

ness Certificate” (FBC) as provided for under Section 11 of the Act. Because of the Treaty, obtaining the FBC for an Amity Company is a relatively certain and expeditious process, as long as the other legal and administrative requirements are met during the application process.

Note that although under the Treaty Americans have the right to own and control their Thai limited company, the Act does not grant Americans unrestricted freedoms to stay or work in Thailand.

In other words, Americans must obtain the same visas, permits to stay and work permits as citizens of other countries.

It should also be noted that the right to own land in not granted by the Treaty. Thus, although under American law foreigners of good standing may own land in the United States, under current Thai law, with few exceptions, foreigners, including Americans and Amity Companies, may not own land in Thailand.

Finally, although the Treaty would permit an Amity Company to engage in most businesses in Thailand including most generally restricted by the FBA, the Treaty itself stipulates that an Amity Company may not engage in communications, transport, fiduciary functions, banking involving depository functions, exploitation of land or natural resources and domestic trade in indigenous agricultural products.

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Domestic tourists ‘are big spenders’ THAILAND’S DOMESTIC travellers are now spending almost the same amount as international travellers according to the latest Tourism Authority of Thailand estimates.

The assessment was made by the TAT’s deputy governor, Thawatchai Arunyik, who will take over as governor this December.

“Domestic tourism is very important and we calculate that revenue is as high as international travel,” he said.

The important difference is that international tourism brings in foreign currency gives it an “invisible” export value for the country, while domestic spend distributes mainly local cash to poorer provinces to fuel expansion and create jobs.

Mr Thawatchai said one of the priorities for 2014 will be to raise awareness and create demand for Thais to explore their own country.

“We will build business partnerships and encourage domestic tourists to share their travel experience through social media networks,” he said.

The advantage of social media is, generally speaking, the uncluttered truth of travel statements. Unlike the travel media, which are constrained by advertising revenue and therefore tend to paint a pretty picture, real-time travellers tell it as it is, warts and all, on social media channels. They can make or break a destination.

Thai travel comments on social channels are ever bit as acerbic as any found on English language networks.

They pull no punches and sink a destination or travel product into the abyss as fast as you can say paradise lost.

That’s the downside. Domestic destinations will need to improve dramatically or Thai travellers will ship out in their thousands to overseas destinations that are competitively priced and provide excellent service. Japan is an example of where that exodus could go now that Thais can enjoy visa-free entry.

The deputy governor believes, however, that there are enough projects in the pipeline to improve the domestic travel experience.

“There are at least 500 projects to develop the country’s tourism by region. We will use creative tourism to boost tourism in the northern region, art and culture in the northeast and way of life for the central plains,” he said. TTR Weekly

Sansiri moves into Patong Tanyaluk Sakoot reporter4@classactmedia.co.th

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angkok developer Sansiri, which has so far concentrated mostly on the “non-tourist” parts of Phuket, last week launched its latest project, The Deck, a “grade A” condominium in the middle of Patong.

The project, which will cost an estimated B1.4 billion to complete, will go up on just over five rai of land on Rat-U-Thit 200 Pi Rd, near the Patong Post Office.

The seven-floor building will contain 270 units. Prices start from B2.9 million for a 29-sqm studio apartment to B11.4 million for a 75-sqm two-bedroom flat.

Common facilities will include a swimming pool, CCTV, security guards and a gym.

Uthai Uthaisangsuk, senior executive vice president for condominium business and project development, said the project is aimed at “premium

foreigners and Thais – because they have funds to buy.

“The condominiums will be sold completely furnished.

Sansiri is confident the project will be a success because of the good response we have

received for previous projects.”

Asked whether he was worried about the project being affected by Patong’s annual floods – which usually inundate parts of Rat-U-Thit Rd, he said, “Yes, I’ve heard

Low-end Bangkok condo prices surge PRICES FOR ALL RESIdential buildings in Bangkok and the vicinity surged in the first half of the year due to rising wages and const r uction mater ial costs, with Bangkok condos priced below B50,000 per square metre seeing the greatest increase.

The Real Estate Information Center (REIC) reported the price index for lower-end condos priced below B50,000/sqm rose 8.1 per cent from the first half last year. Districts where lower-end condo prices increased notably

included Wang Thonglang, Kannayao, Prawet and Huai Khwang.

The price index for condos priced between B50,000 and B79,999/sqm rose 7.2 per cent, with the highest increase seen on Ratchadaphisek Road, Chatuchak, Bang Kapi and Rat Burana.

Units priced B80,000 and above increased 5.5 per cent, with the highest increases in Pathumwan, Ratchathewi, Watthana, Phra Khanong and Sathon districts.

The price index for single houses and townhouses in Greater Bangkok rose 5.1

per cent and 5.9 per cent, respectively. Single houses in Bangkok rose 5.3 per cent while those in Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani and Samut Prakan rose 5 per cent.

Townhouses in Bangkok and the three provinces increased 5.8 per cent and 5.9 per cent, respectively.

REIC started the condo price index survey in the first half of 2010 and that for townhouses and single houses the following year.

It uses the price index in the second half of 2009 as the base year for the three housing types. Bangkok Post

about that but there is no way The Deck will be affected because we are building up the land before we start.

“Sansiri’s projects in Bangkok have never been flooded.”

Work on The Deck will

begin in early 2014 and is expected to be completed by the middle of 2015. Pre-sales bookings can be made at the sale gallery on Rat-U-Thit 200 Pi Rd. For more information call 1685 or visit sansiri.com

‘New’ Central open C E N T R A L F E ST I VA L Phuket has now officially opened its new annex across the bypass road from the original mall, and called Central Festival Phuket East (CFPE).

The annex occupies the ground floor of what used to be the Homeworks building.

Homeworks, Central’s home materials and décor arm, still occupies the upper floor.

But the lower floor failed for a long time to attract customers

for the variety of businesses that rented space there. Hence the decision to extend Central Festival across the road.

The 16,000 sqm CFPE complex has 1,000 spaces for cars. The cornerstone business is Tops supermarket, echoing the existing Tops in the main mall across the road.

The two used to be linked by a pedestrian bridge across the bypass road until earlier this year.

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Professor Pranee Sakulpipatana, or Ajarn Pranee as she is known, is the founder of the Thai Peranakan Association of Phuket an d an ac t ive an d prominent member of the Baba community.

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his month I would like to talk about the incredible contributions to Phuket and the Andaman region by Khaw Sim Bee. Mr Khaw was the governor of Trang in 1890 and became the governor of Phuket in 1902, which is a position he held until his death in 1913.

He was also known as Phraya Rasda, which is a title that was bestowed upon him by King Rama V. Among the people of Thailand, he was further known as the father of Thailand’s rubber industry, as he introduced rubber cultivation in Trang in the 20th century.

His Majesty King Chulalongkorn’s half brother Prince Damrong loved and trusted Mr Khaw for his honesty. He was therefore entrusted with overseeing the development of the six provinces of the Andaman region.

At that time many of Phuket’s neighbouring countries were colonised by European powers. For example, Penang, had become, comparatively speaking, a very civilized city under British rule.

Mr Kaw made a visit and as he was a man with vision, he learned all about this new world with its new technology to bring it back to Phuket. He brought all the know-how and innovation back with the aim of helping those who lived in remote places throughout the southern part of the western coast of Siam.

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There is a letter that exists written by Mr Kaw that warns his people to invest more in agriculture as the price of tin was too unpredictable. He therefore began to promote the precious tree of para rubber for the economy of his people in the southern part of Thailand.

This year was the 100th anniversary of Mr Khaw Sim Bee’s death. He had a huge impact, not only for southerners, but for eastern, northern and northeastern people too. Para rubber is now an economic staple of Thailand and Thailand is now the biggest country in the world for para rubber production.

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new stamp emblazoned with the face of Marianne, France’s revolutionary symbol, has caused a stir after its creator said it was inspired by a Ukrainian feminist known for topless protests.

The stamp, unveiled by President Francois Hollande on Sunday’s national day, shows the face of a youthful, dewy-eyed Marianne from the shoulders up, her long hair flowing down and her hand raised.

“For all those who ask who the model was for Marianne, it’s a mix of several women, but particularly Inna Shevchenko,” Olivier Ciappa, one of the stamp’s designers, said on his Twitter account.

The 23-year-old Shevchenko, a Ukrainian who has been granted political asylum in France, is the leader of the French branch of Femen, a self-declared “radical feminist” group known for its topless protests against sexual exploitation of women, sexism and religious in-

French President Francois Hollande and Marianne, during Bastille Day celebrations.

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Speaking on Monday after his Twitter comment caused a stir among France’s conservatives – with the right-wing Christian Democratic Party calling for a boycott of the new stamp – Ciappa reiterated that the Marianne portrait was inspired by ‘a mix of real people’. AFP

KATHU’S FAMOUS STREET FESTIVAL RETURNS Wichit Songkram Road will be closed from Monday through Wednesday (July 22-24) in the evenings to host the fifth annual Kathu Street Festival event, which will include spectacular processions and cultural performances and contemporary arts from famous artists. There will also be an Iron Chef cooking competition. The highlight of the festival is the opening parade, which will begin on July 22 at 5.30pm at the new Kathu market area. The opening ceremony of the festival will follow at 7pm. Class Act Media is a proud media sponsor of this popular event.

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Lending a helping hand Jody Houton meets Region 8 Volunteer founder Wal Brown Jody Houton editor3@classactmedia.co.th

I try to have two to three people patrolling every night. Sometimes I try and get up to six people on the streets just to be seen. That’s important – it helps make the tourists feel safe

Top right: founder and coordinator of the Region 8 Volunteers Walter ‘Wal’ Brown; Right: L-R: Fellow Region 8 volunteers Brad Bailey, VJ Khumar, and Billy Duif.

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s well as running a busy Patong restaurant, Walter ‘Wal’ Brown, founder and coordinator of the Region 8 Volunteers, spends much of his day ‘on the beat’.

He makes rosters and coordinates between the Patong police force and the 22 foreign men and women currently volunteering on the island.

He does it because he wants to give something back to Phuket.

“The history of the Region 8 Volunteers began when the tsunami hit Phuket in 2004 and a group of local expats assisted the police and the hospital with injured tourists.

Shortly after that they were annexed under the Thai Tourist Police,” explains Wal. “In March 2007, a group of the volunteers began working for the Thai Immigration Police and officially became ‘Immigration Police Volunteers’, who also assisted in the Patong Immigration Office.”

However, that all changed in 2010 when, for a variety of reasons, that group disbanded. Wal, along with four others, then founded a new group – the Region 8 Volunteers, which refers to the southern region of the Royal Thai Police, which has its headquarters in Surat Thani.

The Region 8 Volunteers don’t actually have an office – Wal coordinates everything from his Patong restaurant – but he is intent on opening one, before he can consider taking a more back seat role.

“We need another 30 volunteers at least, and also be able to offer the benefit of a long term visa for applicants.

“We do a lot of good, but I think if they [Thai Police] want to have a real programme they should arrange for volunteers at least to have visas – that’s the least they could do.

“We don’t receive any payment and we even have to buy our own uniform... I’d say I spend around B20,000 a month on things. If a tourist needs to make a phone call back to his country, then we pay for that. If they need to get away from an area or go to hospital, then we pay for the tuk-tuk.”

Wal is currently appealing for more volunteers, but adds that the cost of becoming a volunteer is relatively low. They are only required to buy their uniform – a couple of shirts, which will set them back a few thousand baht at most.

Many of the current 22 volunteers, who hail from 12 different countries, are long term Phuket residents who have worked as volunteers as long as Wal (seven years), though there are others have been volunteering for just one year, and a few who are planning on doing it for around three months.

“Three months is the minimum really, I

don’t really want to train them and introduce them to everybody for them just to leave,” says Wal. “Maybe if we could offer volunteers a visa this would be incentive for them to stay. Then we could build up a good strong team.”

The training to become a volunteer is all done on the job. On the first few night patrols, Wal walks the new volunteer around the streets of Patong and introduces them to various people.

However he emphasises the importance of volunteers building up their own networks, in their own areas, so that ideally people will call up wanting help from a particular volunteer.

“There is camaraderie in what we do and it keeps you fit. It also keeps you out of the pub, with a typical patrol lasting around 2-3 hours every night, from 9pm onwards. You also get to help people, of course.”

Wal is quick to stress that there are other roles to perform besides walking down Bangla Road, with some volunteers assisting in Patong Police Station, and others doing translation work over the phone.

“I try to have two to three people patrolling every night. Sometimes I try and get up to six people on the streets just to be seen.

That’s important – it helps make the tourists feel safe.”

And at the end of the day, Wal and the volunteers act as go-betweens, “Our objec-

tive is to be a link between the tourists and the Thai community. We are a neutral when someone has a problem.

“As we are not involved in the conflict or particular issue we are able to be rational when explaining a problem that a tourist may have with the police, a Thai national, another tourist or any other government body.”

Wal said that rather than get involved in the fracas, the volunteer will merely provide information to the tourist so that they can make an informed decision.

The Sydney native doesn’t really have a typical day, but his current life now is a far cry from any of his 35 years spent in the education sector as an Australian Technical College director.

It’s even further from the 13 years he spent post-retirement living on a 40 ft boat on the Great Barrier Reef, but he wouldn’t have it any other way.

Soon after moving to Phuket in 2007, a life dealing with jet ski scams, confiscated passports and drunken and injured tourists became Wal’s reality.

A reality that unless he can enlist more volunteers, open an official Region 8 Volunteer Office and broker an extended visa benefit for volunteers, is unlikely to change any time soon.

If you would like to help, contact Wal at 084 447 1978 or at skipperwal@yahoo.com.

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Opinion: Thai education and interdiscipline Ramon Bencharitiwong editor@classactmedia.co.th

I School’s out for summer Patrick du Preez editor@classactmedia.co.th

Above: Summer Camp Director Patrick du Preez with school kids; Above right: BISP kids take part in a spot of sumo wrestling.

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t’s all been fun and games at the 15th annual July Summer Holiday Camp at the British International School Phuket.

More than 180 students from countries including Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Russia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, China and further afield are attending the camp and being accommodated in four boarding houses on campus.

The Summer Camp offers two programmes and is run over a four week period.

The English Summer Camp programme offers daily English lessons that include a variety of activities such as art, IT, drama and swimming. In addition, there are numerous indoor and outdoor sporting activities including off-campus activities and field excursions. Classes are taught by experienced international teachers.

The Sports and Adventure programme offers a greater variety of action-packed activities on and off the island of Phuket. Activities include cable ski rides, surfing, flow rider, Splash Jungle, ATV, elephant trekking, Quest Adventure, go karting, horse riding, banana boating, rock climbing, kayaking, bamboo rafting, Extreme Adventure, Flying Hanuman and trapeze.

In addition there are numerous sporting activities and evening social activities.

Weekly, three-day overnight excursions have included trips to Khao Lak, Coral Island and Krabi.

Weekend activities have further included inflatable games, cultural trips, shopping, movies, talent and fashion shows including canoe and beach trips.

Full programme details may be viewed at bisphuket.ac.th

believe that education as well as AIDS, global warming and corruption requires understanding of diverse disciplines to solve neglected problems in Thailand.

We need interdisciplinarity which involves the combining of two or more disciplines into one activity for a better education system.

I learned multiple disciplines as an Associate Researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City for many years.

Interprofessional education (IPE) is becoming increasingly popular in Science Education in America, as it is viewed as a means of reducing medical errors and improving the health care system. It is wonderful to see students and doctors from two or more professions in health and social care work together during their professional collaborative practice for providing patient-centered health care.

A reasoning strategy or technique from one discipline to another, and those bringing ideas from two separate disciplines together is a must-do in Thai education.

The collaboration between health, science, education and social care could help guide interdisciplinary task creation and revision.

It is my opinion therefore that Interprofessional education should become a more common component in the curriculum for better education.

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A new form of Thai massage

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Tanyaluk Sakoot reporter4@classactmedia.co.th

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spa in Chalong has hit upon the novel idea of combining Nora dance – a traditional Thai form of dancing, native to the South of Thailand – with massage to create the unique Thai Nora Therapy experience.

In 2011, it was Tarn Tara Spa’s Spa Developer Termsak Sara’s love of the dance, and belief that its movements should not be restricted to just dance, that started the idea rolling.

“So, I went to get more information about Nora at Baan Ka-neang, in Thalang district. Then, my team and I went to Phatthalung, which is widely considered as the centre of traditional culture in the south,” she says.

“I discovered that Nora teachers give traditional Thai herbs, like khaosung-yod, to Nora students to heal them when they are tired from training and dancing. We therefore decided to incorporate those Thai herbs in our therapy.”

The Tarn Tara Spa researched 16 Nora dance moves that could apply to their Nora therapy. Interestingly, two therapists are used for the massage therapy, in order to provide ‘balance’ and ease both sides simultaneously.

Sanhathai Sara, Spa Manager at Tarn Tara Spa said each session lasts three hours. At first, the customer is scrubbed with sang-yod rice for about

Two therapists at Tarn Tara Spa in Chalong join forces to massage the client.

30 minutes. Then they are wrapped in cooling herbs for a further 30 minutes.

Then the two therapists begin their treatment to gently ‘warm up’ the customer. Then, the therapists perform the Thai Nora massage for about 45

Discount card for Phuket expats

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angkok Hospital Phuket has made huge strides in recent months to provide state-of-the-art technology and facilities to those seeking medical healthcare of an international standard on the island and reinforce its dedication to expatriate communities in Phuket.

Part of this commitment is to present every individual with an ‘Expat Card’ free of charge, which offers a wide range of discounts and benefits. These include a 50 per cent discount on ward rooms, and 20 per cent discount on medication for inpatients, and a 15 per cent discount on medication for outpatients.

As 2013 marks Bangkok Hospital Phuket’s 18th anniversary, the hospital has introduced a wide range of new technology and facilities, including:

Snails face: Japan beauty treatment offers slime power

Brand new Wellness Centre on the 4th floor for health check-ups, along with Phuket’s edition of Royal Life AntiAging Centre Brand new Bangkok Phuket Institute of Cosmetic Surgery (BPICS) on the 5th floor Anti-Gravity Treadmill (Alter-G), revolutionary workout at the Rehabilitation Center Da Vinci, changing the experience of surgery. An effective, minimally invasive robotic surgery with the Da Vinci surgical system, the first and only one in South of Thailand Phuket’s First International Symposium in Colorectal Disease on 8 – 10 December 2013 For further details, visit www.phuket hospital.com or call 1719.

mins. As a final step, the customer is given either an aloe facial treatment or have their hair washed and blow dried for 30 mins.

For more information visit tarntara spa.com.

aving live snails crawling on your face sounds like the thing of nightmares, but in Japan one company is hoping people will be prepared to pay for it.

Starting Monday, women who want to slough off dead skin, clear their pores or roll back the years can submit themselves to five minutes of molluscs.

“Slime from snails helps remove old cells, heal the skin after sun burn and moisturise it,” said Manami Takamura, a spokeswoman for Tokyo-based beauty salon Ci:z.Labo, as she placed three gastropods on a woman’s face.

‘In this way, you can have 100 per cent pure snail essence directly on the skin.”

Snail slime is believed to have an anti-ageing effect on human skin, and some cosmetics are already sold with essence of escargot.

But Ci:z.Labo beauty salon is going one step further in what it says is the first live snail treatment in Japan.

As part of the salon’s ‘Celebrity Escargot Course’ customers will get five minutes of snail therapy, along with massage and other facial treatments.

The snails alone cost 10,500 yen (B3,200). Sayaka Ito said she had found the treatment so relaxing that she had almost fallen asleep.

“You can feel the snails moving on your face. At first, it is surprising, but it’s actually rather nice,” she said.

“My skin really does feel smooth and moist.” AFP

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Are our hotels doing enough?

GOING GREEN

Nick Anthony editor@classactmedia.co.th

Firstly the GM had no time for this [beach clean]. He had a ‘resort to run’ and had staff on ‘the payroll’ to handle it, anyway his hotel did ‘more than enough’ and it took a ‘month to organise’

Follow Nick Anthony on twitter at indigonick and listen to his Going Green Show on Live 89.5FM from 3 to 5pm on Saturday for beach cleaning updates and schedules, local and international green news and interviews with people who are part of the change.

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ecently I had an email dialogue with a west coast GM who was asked by a student to support her beach clean campaign with data collection and community awareness. A few things transpired that are lessons to all of us.

First the GM had no time for this. He had a ‘resort to run’ and had staff on ‘the payroll’ to handle it, anyway his hotel did ‘more than enough’ and it took a ‘month to organise’.

His comments were a window into his thinking. While a nice photo and getting it in the paper lends positive support, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is not done to further one’s publicity alone.

On a recent Saturday Going Green radio show (2pm, 89.5) I talked with environmental educator Peter Harris about the changing nature of CSR and how it has become much more community-focused and more about walking the walk, not just talking the talk.

I was not pointing a finger at this particular hotel for not doing enough. It’s just that in light of the current litter and beach waste crisis we are in, well co-ordinated daily clean-ups are required.

I have been personally helping to clean this GM’s beach for four years and have tried hard also to introduce this clean up programme with NGOs and other hotel support to bring the campaign back into the village. This is because stinking ponds, polluted klongs, dumped garbage, local picnic littering and lack of consistent co-ordination has in the past been a major problem and a health risk for the whole community, not just the Andaman Sea marine life who eat plastic in the ocean thinking it is food.

A few days after the conversation, two dead turtles washed up on this GM’s beach, strangled and co-joined by fishing net ropes, another sad day for our marine life. Really, “Doing more than enough?”.

They say if you want to travel fast, go it solo, but if you want to travel far, work as a group. In this case getting daily cleaned

‘In light of the current litter and beach waste crisis we are in, well co-ordinated daily clean-ups are required.’ beaches is taking a well co-ordinated community effort including hotels, businesses, NGOs, local community and local government – a real partnership.

The Kamala Green Club, made up of concerned residents and members from the local public and private sector, is the island’s best example of real community spirit, where over the last four years a programme has evolved that includes: Scheduled cleaning of the beach in zones with almost every major hotel involved Data collection of trash picked up using ICC data cards Collection of debris for art projects, reducing waste to landfill/incineration by as much as 50 per cent Private sector financial support that has put nine recycling stations throughout the community with signage, as a start Initiation of the “magic eyes” litter campaign Design of a trash boom to go across the klong, reducing village litter flow into the ocean

Hiring of two full time staff from the Kamala Or Bor Tor that are a combination beach cleaner (with support from private sector as scheduled) and educators (teaching recycling, composting, litter reduction and environmental protection), and paid for by the hotels/private sector.

The Green Club programme is now being taken up by Mai Khao, Nai Yang, Naiton, Bangtao, Surin, Patong, Karon, Kata and South Phuket (Chalong, Rawai, Nai Harn).

With up to 2,000 boats some nights off Phuket’s west coast, and perhaps a full garbage bag of bottles/bags/caps and ropes being dumped per boat it is possibly the source of 50-plus per cent of Phuket’s beach debris.

The Department of Marine Conservation Resources (DMCR) are working with Phuket-based environmental group SEEK to design and implement a fishing fleet waste management campaign that will include recycling stations at ports and a boat education programme available in Thai, Burmese and Cambodian.

For more information visit myseek.org

Radioactive Swiss lake found near nuclear plant

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cientists have discovered a radioactive substance in sediment under a Swiss lake used for drinking water and situated near a nuclear plant, the Le Matin Dimanche weekly reported on July 14.

While scientists cited in the report stressed there was no danger to human health, the discovery raises concerns about safety practices and a lack of transparency at the Muehleberg nuclear plant in northwestern Switzerland.

The plant is believed to have caused a spike in cesium 137 (a radioactive isotop) found in the sediment of Lake Biel and dating back to 2000 through the discharge of contaminated waste water into the Aar river that feeds into the lake, about 20 kilometres downstream, the weekly reported.

Geologists from Geneva University happened upon the spike while working on an unrelated research project in 2010, and chemists in the northern canton of Basel recently verified the findings, it said.

The Muehleberg plant is permitted to discharge water with very low levels of radioactivity subject to strict controls several times a year, according to Le Matin Dimanche.

Environmental group Greenpeace voiced dismay at the news, urging the public prosecutor in the canton of Bern, where Biel and the Muehleberg plant are located, to investigate.

In the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan, the Swiss parliament approved a phaseout for the country’s five atomic power plants by 2034. AFP

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THE BIG LIST Weird Deaths Life is a great game, but it’s one that everyone loses in the end. But it seems that the Grim Reaper does have a sense of humour sometimes, and here are a few of the weirder deaths from his ledger.

Man dons ‘Iron Mask’ to try to stop smoking

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Winning move: In 564 BC, the Greek athlete Arrhichion of Phigalia caused his own death in order to win honours at the Olympic games. While he was held in a wrestling stranglehold and unable to free himself, his trainer shouted “What a fine funeral if you do not submit at Olympia!” Arrichion then kicked his opponent with his right foot while throwing his body to the left, causing so much pain to his opponent that he signalled defeat to the judges. The move broke Arrichion’s neck, but he was posthumously proclaimed the victor.

The man they couldn’t kill: Russian monk and Tsarist sexgod Grigori Rasputin earned so many enemies that they then teamed up to murder him. One freezing December night in 1916, five conspirators invited Rasputin to dinner, where they fed him cakes and wine laced with cyanide. Although he ate enough poison to kill several people, he stayed at the table drinking, so they shot him with a pistol. But Rasputin fought back, so they shot him a second time and clubbed him into submission. They then rolled him in a carpet and dumped him in an icy river – an autopsy revealed that in the end he’d died from drowning.

Final stretch: In 1923, a 35-year-old jockey named Frank Hayes died of a heart attack during his f irst race, being run at Belmont Park, New York. His horse – named Sweet Kiss – was a 20-1 outsider, but it finished and won the race with his lifeless body still sitting in the saddle. The jockey remained upright and clinging to the reins and was found only to be dead when the horse’s owner went to congratulate him. Hayes remains the only jockey to have won a race after his death.

Fatal hilarity: In 1975, a 50-year-old English man died laughing while watching The Goodies comedy television show, featuring a kilt-clad Scotsman with bagpipes battling a master of the Lancastrian martial art “Eckythump”, armed with a black pudding. After 25 minutes of uncontrollable laughter, Mitchell suddenly slumped on the sofa, dead from heart failure. His widow later sent a letter to the Goodies comedy team, thanking them for making her husband’s last moments so pleasurable.

Dying on stage: The legendary British comedian and magician, Tommy Cooper, known for his surreal humour and iconic fez, died while giving a televised live performance at a London theatre in 1984. He collapsed while his assistant helped him put on a cloak. She smiled as he fell, thinking it was a joke, and the audience roared with laughter until it became apparent he was being serious. But the show must go on: after Cooper’s death under the limelights, two other comedians followed him on stage with their routines.

Ibrahim Yücel takes a stroll around his neighbourhood, much to the amusement of locals: Photo: OĞUZHAN KILIÇ.

Turkish man who’s desperate to stop smoking has locked his head in a metal cage to fight his addiction.

Ibrahim Yücel, a 42-year-old technician from Kütahya, Yücel has been smoking for the last 26 years.

Despite several attempts to quit he couldn’t break his two-packs-a-day habit.

After losing his father to lung cancer a few months ago, he said he realised he couldn’t put his family through the same hardship.

But he also knew he didn’t have the willpower to just quit, so he took inspiration from a motorcycle helmet and built a metal cage that fits around his head and prevents him from lighting up.

The cage or mask has narrow grid of copper wires enclosing his face, which prevents him from pushing a cigarette through.

It has two locks – his wife has one key and his 14year old daughter has the other. Mr Yucel takes the mask off in the house, but locks it on whenever he leaves home, including for work.

So far Mr Yucel has lasted about a week behind the mask, and says he’ll keep going until his urge to smoke is well and truly over.

Falling cow kills man in bed

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Brazilian man died after being crushed by a cow that fell through his roof and landed on his bed.

The large cow was grazing on a hillside above a small house in the town of Caratingo, when it wandered onto the tin roof, which collapsed under its weight.

The householder, Joao Maria de Souza, 45, was lying in bed beside his wife when the animal came crashing through the roof.

Mrs de Souza escaped unhurt, but Mr de Souza was crushed by the falling animal.

He was conscious after the accident and was treated at a local hospital.

But his family said he had to wait too long to be seen by a doctor, and died of his injuries some hours later.

Local news reports says the latest cow falling incident is the third in the region in recent years, although it’s the first fatal one.

One cow fell through the roof of an empty house, while the other fell into a room where a baby and a small child were sleeping. They were

“It’s not my fault. I should’ve been in a field.” Photo: Zemlinki unhurt, but the incident was hailed as a miraculous escape.

Caratinga is in the mountainous central Minas Gerais of Brazil, an areas famed for its cattle industry. AFP

Female secretaries banned over affairs

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he governor of an Indonesian province on Saturday said he had ordered his top staff to replace their female secretaries with men following a string of extra-marital affairs.

“I received inputs that many government office heads here are involved in extra-marital affairs with their female secretaries,” Rusli Habibie, the governor of Gorontalo province on northern Sulawesi island said.

“They treat them much better than their own wives. They bring them presents from official trips like perfumes or branded bags while their poor wives get nothing,” he said.

Above: “Take this down for me my dear.”

“For these reasons, I ordered them to replace their female secretaries with male assistants or with old women who are no longer

attractive,” he added.

Habibie is convinced that his subordinates will follow his instructions, though there won’t be any punishment for those who don’t comply.

“This is a moral sanction. I’m pretty sure they will follow my order, and all of them will get a male secretary soon,” he said, adding that there were about 50 senior officials in the province who had hired female secretaries.

Last year, the Gorontalo administration demanded 3,200 male civil servants to transfer their monthly pay to their wives’ bank accounts in order to limit the number of affairs. AFP

8 DINING

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Stop for the perfect brew Uncovering a delightful coffee shop in Kamala township

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ext time you are barrelling up or down the raceway that is Kamala’s main thoroughfare between the hills to Surin or Patong, stop!

Doi Chaang Coffee Kamala, right next to the market site and beneath a huge blue billboard, is an oasis of calm where the coffee is superb; the service quintessentially low key, polite, Thai; the furniture and décor 1950s retro cool.

Manager Songyot ‘Yot” Kumthat and his assistants Ploy and Nill prepare one of the best – if not the best – coffee experiences on Phuket. It is personal, friendly, quick and unobtrusive, capturing the spirit of the original Doi Chaang coffee, produced by villagers in the former Golden Triangle region of Thailand’s north-east around Chiang Rai. Their coffee is cultivated by hundreds of farmers, committed to sustainable agriculture and minimal impact on the habitat.

The company was started in the early 1980s after His Majesty the King began the Royal Initiatives to encourage crop substitutions to eliminate opium cultivation. Piko Saedoo, head of the Akha community’s most prominent family in the region and the founding father of the original Doi Chaang Coffee Company, encouraged the King’s directive. Today

Doi Chaang Coffee Kamala has only been open two years but is already proving popular with locals. his image is incorporated into the Doi Chaang logo.

Eventually the villagers joined forces with a Canadian group of coffee enthusiasts, led by co-founder of Doi Chaang Coffee Company, John M Darch, a successful entrepreneur with close ties to Thailand, who took Doi Chaang coffee international. Doi Chaang Coffee has dozens of outlets in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and Thailand. It is a 50-50 ownership partnership between

Canadian and Thai growers.

The Kamala Doi Chaang premium, single-estate, organic Arabica coffee has an extra “bite” that distinguishes it from many other coffee shops on Phuket.

Originally from Isarn, ‘Yot’ trained as a barista in Bangkok and now uses Peaberry coffee beans, a premium bean with minimum breakage. It is understood to roast more evenly than the normal “flat” coffee berries because their rounder shape minimises sharp edges and allows the berries to roll about the roasting chamber more easily.

Kamala’s Doi Chaang is owned by Nira Chalewkran, who initially just opened a small coffee shop to service Kamala locals. But she also wanted the shop to be different from others in service and atmosphere. Hence her liking for 1950s retro furniture that gives the shop a uniquely bright, slightly nostalgic for a by-gone era feel, but in a modern setting. She also wanted customers to “stay a while,” and enjoy the ambience, rather than buying coffees “to go”.

After just two years the shop has been so successful, Nira has recently doubled its size by opening one wall out onto a pleasant lawn where regulars and visitors alike can enjoy either air conditioned comfort or al fresco sipping while observing a kaleidoscope of large lawn, street vendors, the fresh market [Wednesdays and Saturdays] and the usual motorbike “races” along Kamala’s

Doi Chaang manager Songyot ‘Yot’ Khumthat, centre, with staff members Nill, left, and Ploy, right. main road.

Yot is a great salesman for his coffee, yet, ironically, he doesn’t drink coffee at all. Instead, his philosophy is, “I like to see people smile and get something good; that they are happy.” Regarding the retro décor, Yot emphasised Chalewkran wanted the shop to be “something different” from others.

Customers range from regular foreigners getting their daily morning fix of strong, hot coffee [Americano café rawn] to many local Thais from surrounding banks, offices and other businesses who prefer iced coffees in the afternoon.

Tourists are finding Doi Chaang as well, with American, Australian, European and Russian accents quite common. Four Russian women regularly have their late afternoon coffee there, and one morning a gentleman sits in iPad-accompanied comfort for hours.

The lineup of motorbikes outside the shop testifies to its popularity.

All this soaks up 60-80, 250g bags of coffee beans per week in the low season and around 100 in the high season. Doi Chaang Kamala also offers a wide range of smoothies and fruit juices, teas, cakes and chocolates as well as prepared a la carte meals.

Doi Chaang Coffee is located in Kamala’s, just before the hill to Patong. facebook.com/doichaangphuket

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INTERNATIONAL

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SEAFOOD

Bodega & Grill

Irish Times

Navrang Mahal

Trisara Seafood

A rustic, homely atmosphere serving North and South Indian dishes, freshly prepared by hereditary chefs and served in brass Katoris in the Royal Mughal style of bygone Emperors of India. Many mouth-watering dishes prepared exactly to your liking. Open from 12.30pm - 3pm and 6.30pm 11pm daily. Karon Sea Sand Resorts & Spa, Karon Beach. Also in Patong Soi Bangla. 076 286 464

The first truly world-class destination seafood dining experience on Phuket. A private entrance leads guests either to an outdoor, beachfront deck or to the cool, relaxed interior. The menu is a balance between local and imported seafood prepared and served in a Mediterranean way.

Lunch 12.30pm-3pm, Dinner 7pm-10.30pm (Closed Sundays). Trisara, 076 310 100

Bodega & Grill is situated on a picturesque patio by the lagoon. The restaurant serves premium char-grilled steaks and seafood from a wood-fired oven, as well as authentic homemade pastas, risottos and paellas. Bodega’s generous steaks are available in portions of up to 1.2 kilogram. Angsana Laguna Phuket, Cherngtalay; 076 324 101

The only Irish owned and managed Irish Pub in Phuket. A real Irish Pub at the heart of Phuket’s world famous nightlife. In this traditionally styled Irish pub you will find a very warm welcome from the Management and their fantastic staff. All your favourite Irish food and beverages. Jungceylon, Patong Beach; irishtimespub-phuket.com

Ceramic Kitchen Mom Tri’s Villa Royale

ITALIAN

RE KÁ TA Beach Club

Acqua

Enjoy fine dining with panoramic sea views in sensually indulgent setting. Delicious Thai and European creations are served on the open-air terrace. Mom Tri’s Villa Royale is the winner of the Wine Spectators Award of Excellence. Situated on the only road into to Kata Noi Beach.

Reservations recommended. momtriphuket .com; 076 333 568

Enjoy a unique dining and shopping experience at Ceramic Kitchen. We offer a wide range of beverages as well as the chance to shop for ceramic after your lunch or dinner, while every Sunday we do a traditional roast all day. We’re also experts for special events, wedding ceremonies, staff parties, birthday parties and more.

185/5 Moo 7, Srisoonthorn Rd., T. Srisoonthorn, Thalang district. 076 272151-2, 082 153 3163

FRENCH

Connoisseurs of fine cuisine can revel in Acqua’s experiential concept. The Acqua restaurant experience promises to deliver only the freshest of ingredients, sourced from only the best producers both local and international. Taste explosions from the portfolio of Chef Alessandro Frau, of both traditional & contemporary are offered. Kalim Bay-Patong, 076 618 127

The beachfront restaurant off­ers modern innovative cuisine with a strong focus on seafood.

In the evening RE KÁ TA transforms with Kata’s magical sunsets and cool sounds along with the delicious drinks and tapas, right on the beach.

Open daily 6.30am-11pm; Kata Beach (next to Boathouse); info@rekataphuket.com, rekata phuket.com, 076 330 421

Baan Kalim Restaurant & Seafood KEE Kitchen

DaVinci

Fill up on mouthwatering Mongolian dishes at the KEE Kitchen this Wednesday. Tuck in to the all-you-can-eat Mongolian Express Buffet by the poolside at The KEE Resort & Spa, Patong from 6.30pm. Only Bt299 per person includes a free smoothie of your choice, plus Free parking at the KEE Resort car park! Call 076 335 888. www.thekeeresort.com

Great food and people you know! Authentic Italian cuisine in Nai Harn area. Three different dining areas, cocktail lounge, children’s play area, Delicatessen, live music....DaVinci is not just a meal, it is an experience of taste, atmosphere and more. Restaurant open daily 5pm-11.30pm; Deli open 11am-6pm; Sunday close; Naiharn 076 289 574. davinciphuket.com

Weaves Restaurant

Diavolo

La Boucherie

La Boucherie is a French steakhouse located on Soi Sansabai in Patong, next to Jungceylon and just a short walk from Bangla road. You’ll find a varied menu of wonderful and reasonably priced food that includes perfectly cooked steaks and dishes from France, all with friendly and efficient service that guarantees you a very pleasant and satisfying experience. Open daily 11am-6am. 076 344 581. laboucherie-asia.com

THAI Baan Vijitt Restaurant

Breeze Restaurant

Phuket’s most exciting new restaurant is situated on the waterfront at Cape Yamu. Chef Cheryl Johnson is providing diners with her innovative modern French interpretations of local ingredients. Open from Tuesday to Saturday for dinner, and from Wednesday to Saturday for lunch. Our menus change frequently. Cape Yamu, Paklok, 081 271 2320

Watch the evening sunlit ocean in the lavish and contemporary ambient atmosphere that is the Weaves restaurant. With its intimate low lit private dining, Weaves serves a variety of delectable Asian and International fusion cuisine, rich enticing desserts and tropical blended refreshments. Manathai Resort Phuket, Surin Beach, 076 270 900

A menu of modern Mediterranean influences created by Chef Ryan to tantalize the senses in a modern ambience. Offering everything from fresh seafood pastas to simple good pizzas. An impressive selection of well priced beverages and stunning sea views complete the experience. Open daily for lunch or dinner. Paresa Resort, Kamala Beach; 076 302 000

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An array of culinary experiences is offered to tempt and intrigue in Tre - the exclusive contemporary French Vietnamese restaurant set among the superb surroundings of the DoublePool Villas. Tre’s signatures dishes include scallops and green apples and tartar with pan-fried foie gras. Banyan Tree Phuket, Cherngtalay; banyantree.com

Start your evening with delicious food and fine wine. Pick the perfect spot to take in stunning views of Patong bay, as the evening breeze surrounds you. Relax and enjoy live music to make your evening into that truly wonderful and unforgettable dining experience. Open daily 11am-Midnight. Patong; baankalim.com; baankalimrestaurant@hotmail.com, 076 618 125

A half-century old Sino-Portuguese style house at The Vijitt Resort Phuket offers a unique authentic experience of Thai cuisine with a focus on regional specialties. Thai Select Premium Award certifies the quality and standard of product and service here. The Vijitt Resort Phuket, Rawai; fb@vijittresort.com, 076 363 600

Talung Thai Tamarind Restaurant

Find all the Italian traditions in one location, and savor and experience the real Mama style dishes serving only the traditional taste of Italia.

The Bistro is at Impiana Resort Patong Phuket.

Happy Hours 50 per cent off for selected beverages, soft drinks, juices from 3pm-5pm & 10pm11pm daily. Open 3pm-12am. Impiana Resort Patong Phuket, Patong Beach, 076 340 138.

To complement an already distinctive cuisine, Tamarind is bringing to the island high quality authentic Japanese cuisine, courtesy of Master Chef Shiraishi. Gracing our Japanese menu will be fresh sushi, sashimi, healthy salads, yakitori and tempura and much more. Tamarind is your ultimate destination to savour the best Japanese cuisine in Phuket. Cherngtalay; banyantree.com

The restaurant has a stunning sunset location, offering views of the Andaman Sea. The menu of southern Thai specialties and true local dishes, are not seen on many other restaurant menus in Phuket. Chill with a cocktail from our award wining mixologist at sunset and then relax with authentic Thai cuisine. Open daily for lunch and dinner. Paresa Resort, Kamala; 076 302 000

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BORNEO BOUNTY

Claire Connell explores the highlights of Sabah state Claire Connell editor1@classactmedia.co.th

Those with a love of the outdoors, nature and wildlife are due to get the best experience out of visiting the state, as it prides itself on its natural environment

Top, clockwise: The amazing Mt Kinabalu. Photo: johnjodeery; climbers on the summit. Photo: Robert Nyman; and a “warrior” at the Mari Mari cultural village in Sabah.

Opposite page top, clockwise; a “villager” at Mari Mari prepares rice wine; Manukan Island, Photo: Sabah Tourism Board; the city mosque at Kota Kinabalu; and one of the animals at the Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre Photo: Pedro Alonso.

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abah, one of two states of Malaysian Borneo, is so rich in treasures it is easy to be overwhelmed when planning a trip there – wildlife, culture, jungle and national parks both in land and on water entice thousands of visitors to the area every year.

The capital Kota Kinabalu is a great base, and will likely be the first point of contact for arriving visitors. It has a charm of its own, particularly down on the waterfront area which has been developed to include many bars, restaurants and nightmarkets.

Sites of interest include the Sabah Museum, both the City and State Mosques, the Atkinson clocktower and the handicraft and Filipino markets. There’s also the North Borneo railway, where passengers can experience the sights of Sabah via a vintage steam train, which has been refurbished to recreate the bygone era of British North Borneo.

The city of Kota Kinabalu, or KK as it is commonly known, is home to around 452,000 people, of which the largest majority are non-Malaysians. KK is the gateway to the Sabah region, which can only be described as a travellers delight, because there are so many diverse things to do.

Those with a love of the outdoors, nature and wildlife are due to get the best experience out of visiting the state, as it prides itself on its natural environment – with the majestic Mount Kinabalu being the main attraction for many visitors who come to the area on holiday.

But rest assured, even if you’re not enthusiastic about a three-day hike up the mountain, there is more than enough to keep you occupied as you explore Sabah and all its beauty. You’ll likely fall in love with the area so much you won’t want to leave.

Here’s a list of highlights we recommend.

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Mount Kinabalu Standing at 4,095 metres tall, Mt Kinabalu is one of the highest mountains in South East Asia and the main reason many tourists visit Sabah. Mt Kinabalu is situated in the Kinabalu National Park, which is a relatively easy and scenic drive from Kota Kinabalu.

While the three day Mt Kinabalu climb (two if you’re super fast) to the peak of Borneo is the real challenge, the Kinabalu National Park also has a number of other walks available, plus the option of not going all the way to the top of the mountain.

The mountain park’s impressive flora and fauna over four climate zones also attracts nature lovers, and the mountain is home to the famous Rafflesia, which has the largest single flower in the world (nearly one metre in diametre).

There are various legends surrounding the history of the mountain, but the main one tells the story of a Chinese prince who fought with his family, so the king chased

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him away from the palace. So he sailed until he reached the sea near Borneo. His ship sank and everybody on board died, except him. The prince was found on the beach by local villagers, alive, and they took him into their community.

Eventually he married a local woman at the village. He subsequently confessed to his wife about his family troubles, and said he must return home to China to heal the rift. He sailed back to China and was welcomed by his parents, and told them he married a local girl. The father asked him how could he marry a woman of such low status. Meanwhile, every day the man’s wife climbed up Mt Kinabalu and would gaze out to the ocean to look for any ships coming in, in the hope it was her husband. Eventually she became sick and died on the mountain, where she was buried.

After his father forgave him, the prince returned to Borneo, where he found out his wife had died, and he climbed the mountain to visit the gravesite and mourn the death of his wife. Legend says he also died on the mountain.

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updates on their animal’s progress. orangutan-appeal. org.uk

The mountain is also host to the Mt Kinabalu International Climbathon every year – dubbed the world’s toughest mountain race. The event started in 1987 as a search and rescue exercise for the staff who worked at the park, and has since developed into a world class mountain running event.

Currently the record holder for the run to the summit and back is Italian Marco De Gasperi in 2 hrs 36 minutes and 59 seconds – not bad considering it usually takes most three days to walk.

Northeast of the park is the Poring Hot Springs, the word “Poring” the Kadazandusun (Sabah’s largest ethnic community) word for the bamboo species which grows in the area. A great spot to relax after a hard day’s trekking and explore the jungle.

Sabah Tea plantation Located near the Poring Rd Junction, the Sabah Tea plantation is more than 2,500 hectares in size and produces both regular and certified organic tea. Sabah Tea is the only organic tea farm in Borneo and one of the few in the world.

Visitors can see Mt Kinabalu from the tea house, and enjoy a guided tour of the processing factory and plantation. Also on site is obstacle-crossing in the Sapaon Recreational Area, batik making, trekking along the trails to the peak of Kamunsu Hill or going on a nighttime walk to see unique insect life. There is also accommodation available and a restaurant on site. sabahtea.net/

Mari Mari Cultural Village Mari Mari Cultural Village is recommended to those interested in Borneo’s ethnic tribes. Tour guides are well informed and tourists are given an insight into traditional life in the villages of Sabah in a scenic jungle setting.

Traditional homes from five ethnic communities – Bajau, Lundayeh, Murut, Rungus and Dusun – have been recreated and tourists have the chance to enjoy local specialities such as rice wine, fried snacks and honey on their trip, plus a spectacular authentic ceremony to end the tour. Tours are three times daily at 10am, 2pm and 6pm and include a meal. marimari culturalvillage.com

Sipadan island

Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre One of Sabah’s top tourist attractions is the Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre, located 25km north of central Sandakan, on Sabah’s east coast.

It was set up by an English woman around 50 years ago and was the first centre in the world to dedicate itself to the rehabilitation of orphaned orangutans. Today it is the largest orangutan sanctuary – home to at least 80 orangutans.

The facility provides medical care for orphaned and confiscated orangutans as well as dozens of other wildlife species. Some of the other animals which have been treated at the centre include; sun bears, gibbons, Sumatran rhinos and the occasional injured elephant.

The rehab centre cares for young orangutans orphaned as a result of illegal logging and deforestation and those who have been illegally caught and kept as pets. When they first arrive at Sepilok, animals are given a health check and then the journey of rehabilitation begins – it can take up to seven years.

Rehab for a return to the wild requires huge dedication and commitment by everyone involved, as the baby orangutans require care 24 hours a day.

Rangers feed the orangutans twice a day, and this is when visitors get the chance to see the animals if they’re lucky.

The centre also runs a popular volunteer programme, and there’s a sponsor-a-baby orangutan programme. For around B1400 per year sponsors receive

Sipadan island is one of the world’s top diving spots, and probably the most famous island in Borneo. It is part of the Tun Sakaran Marine Park on Sabah’s east coast.

Sipadan’s geographical position in the heart of the Indo-Pacific basin puts it in the centre of the richest marine habitat in the world. More than 3,000 species of fish and hundreds of coral species have been classified in the area, and Sipadan is home to the green and hawksbill turtles, which gather there to mate. If you’re lucky, you’ll get to see enormous schools of barracuda in tornado-like formations. Also of interest is the turtle tomb, an underwater limestone cave full of many skeletal remains of turtles that have become lost or drowned while trying to get out of the cave’s many tunnels and chambers.

Claire Connell was hosted by Tourism Malaysia as part of the “Tadau Kaamatan Open House 2013” familiarisation trip to Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. For more details visit tourism.gov.my/

GETTING THERE: Malaysia Airlines offers four connecting flight routes from Phuket-Kuala Lumpur-Kota Kinabalu daily, starting from B10,070 return. For more details visit malaysiaairlines.com

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IN BRIEF Radiohead singer scraps Spotify

Radiohead singer Thom Yorke has pulled some of his albums from musicstreaming service Spotify in protest at how much it pays recording artists.

Yorke tweeted: “Make no mistake new artists you discover on #Spotify will no[t] get paid. Meanwhile shareholders will shortly being rolling in it. Simple.” Yorke withdrew his solo album The Eraser and a joint project with producer Nigel Godrich, Atoms for Peace, but some Radiohead albums are still available on the service. Spotify has an estimated 24 million active users, with around six million paying a monthly fee for added features.

Pro gamers get US ‘athlete’ visas

Non-US Players in League of Legends have been be awarded “professional athlete” visas by the United States so they can play in the game’s Season 3 Championship Finals tournament that will take place in October in Los Angeles, California. The tournament will be held in the city’s Staples Centre.

“This is groundbreaking for eSports; now we can start looking at international players when they come over. It’s a much easier process because they’re actually recognised by the government,” said Riot Games eSports Manager Nick A llen.

Capcom to stage tournament

Game publishers Capcom are launching a tournament for Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and Street Fighter X Tekken.The main event will be held in December in San Francisco, California. Eight players will compete in each of the games, and some qualifying events will be held outside the United States. For more details, visit www.WCG. com.

Shenmue BLAST FROM THE PAST Photo: Aerovelo

Human-powered helicopter finally wins 33 year-old prize

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Canadian-built helicopter that is powered by a human riding a bicycle has become the winner of a decades-old $250,000 engineering prize, the US awarder said on July 12.

The American Helicopter Society had never given out its Igor Sikorsky HumanPowered Helicopter Award – initiated 33 years ago – until the team from the University of Toronto snatched it this week.

The challenge was to create a flying machine that would be able to reach a height of three metres, fly for 60 seconds by human power alone, and stay in a 10 by 10 metre area.

“It was long seen as impossible to win this,” AHS International executive director Mike Hirschberg said.

The winning vehicle is called the Atlas, and was designed by a team of about 20 students and young professionals.

Originally funded through the Kickstarter crowdsourcing website, the Atlas features a singlewheeled, modified bicycle attached to a lightweight frame featuring four spindly blades.

The aircraft is extremely light – just 121.4 pounds (55 kilograms) – but it spans a sprawling 162 feet (49.4 metres).

It’s also extremely fragile, and flights often result in a broken helicopter.

“This is not about creating a practical machine,” said Hirschberg.

“This is to set a challenge for young engineers, to harness their creativity and technical skills and to experience working as a team against really, extremely challenging requirements,” he added.

“It is sort of like climbing Mount Everest for the first time – to prove it can be done.”

The winning June 13 flight was pedalled by team leader Todd Reichert, 31, an aerodynamics expert and competitive speed skater.

AeroVelo co-founder Cameron Robertson, 26, said the aircraft is designed to be ridden by someone 160 pounds or less.

It also requires a fairly strong pedaller, requiring about one horsepower to operate, when the average person could probably manage a half horsepower, he said.

Robertson said the team was motivated by the prospect of “showing people that impossible is nothing.”

The $250,000 prize, (B7.8 million) which was formally awarded on July 11 after about a month of technical review of the winning flight, was also a key factor.

For the winning University of Toronto AeroVelo team, Robertson said the next lofty challenge is building an extremely lightweight bicycle that can reach human-pedalled speeds of 75 miles per hour (120 kilometres per hour). AFP

Laser clock yields split-second success

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new type of laser clock technology has passed a key accuracy test – proving accurate to within one second every 300 million years, three times more precise than rival atomic clocks.

The new device offers better accuracy in applications like global positioning satellites, and in high-end physics experiments such as measurements of cosmic distances and the predictions of Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

The scientific standard “atomic clock” introduced in 1955 measures time by using microwaves to probe atoms as they oscillate between two energy levels, trillions of times a second.

The accuracy of atomic clocks lies behind the success of the Global Positioning System (GPS),

which measures changes in the signals of orbiting satellites to triangulated the receiver’s location on the earth’s surface.

But microwave radiation operates at a much higher frequency than the atomic oscillation, the new clock uses a laser frequency that is 40,000 times higher than microwave radiation.

As a result, the laser-based clock can “tick” much faster and give much higher accuracy.

In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, the research team led by Jerome Lodewyck of the Paris Observatory describe the performance of the new ‘optical lattice clock, which features 10,000 atoms of the radioactive element strontium trapped and measured by laser light. AFP

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D

o you remember Shen­mue? When it was released in 1999, Shenmue broke new ground as one of the true open-world adventure games that had real-time elements such as weather, daylight/sundown, and fully voiced non-player characters. At the time, it was the most expensive video game every produced, costing Sega US$47 million (B1.4 billion).

Shenmue was re leased specifically for the Sega Dreamcast, and might have been just a tad ahead of its time. Gamers at the time were still clinging to the Final Fantasy and Mario games, with forays into sports titles and Crazy Taxi-esque mission-based stories. Shenmue was as close to the modern incarnation of Grand Theft Auto as games would get until GTA III was released just two years later.

The story revolved around the protagonist, Ryo Hazuki, on a quest that takes so many twists and turns that it follows a modern TV cop drama. The player has to find leads by talking to random people, scope out the land, and defeat enemies through traditional Chinese and Japanese martial arts.

What’s interesting about Shenmue was the fact that everything in the storyline paid very close attention to the time period – the late 1980’s. From the music to the clothes, the game placed an emphasis on allowing the setting to envelope the gamer.

Shenmue is consistently in the top five of best Dreamcast games, and in the top 20 gaming titles of all-time. Gaming Target gave the game a 10 out of 10 ranking upon its release.

Do you have a Blast from the Past? Let us know at editor@ classactmedia.co.th

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Pacific Rim

Monster Mash-up

FILM REVIEW Tom Metcalfe editor@classactmedia.co.th

Pacific Rim is not a serious movie, even by the low measure set by many other Hollywood action sci-fi films of late. The core concept of fighting giant machines and monsters is deliberately unoriginal, and most of what takes place is easy to predict

DIRECTOR: Guillermo del Toro STARS: Idris Elba Charlie Hunnam Rinko Kikuchi Ron Perlman RUNS: 133 minutes

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exican filmaker Guillermo del Toro is a gifted writer, producer and director of fantasy and supernatural movies, including the acclaimed Pan’s Labyrinth and the popular Hellboy comic book adaptations. His latest, Pacific Rim, is a $180 million summer blockbuster – part a love-letter to classic Japanese monster movies, part a wartime fly-boy film, it’s a Del Toro spectacular on steroids. The director says he was inspired by the movies he used to see on family outings, and he dedicated the new movie to the early special effects filmmaker Ray Harryhausen and Ishiro Honda, who made many of the Japanese monster movies of the 1950s, notably Godzilla.

The setting is sometime in the not very far future, more than a decade after a rift parted in the floor of the Pacific Ocean and opened a wormhole into another dimension, through which an army of giant monsters called Kaiju – the Japanese term for city-smashing monsters like Godzilla – emerge to attack human cities.

At first, the world’s armies built giant mechanized fighting machines, named Jaegers, to fight the Kaiju. They’re controlled by pairs of pilots linked by a “neural bridge” mind-to-mind connection, known as “The Drift”, which allows them to know each others’ thoughts and coordinate their skills. But the Jaegers proved too difficult to control, and for years humanity has relied on a giant sea wall for protection from the monsters of the deep – the Pacific Rim of the title.

Now the wall is crumbling, and the former commander of the Jaeger unit, the quizzicallynamed General Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba), has scrapped together one last attempt to defeat the intruders with a showdown at Hong Kong, as a new new phase of the monster invasion threatens to wipe out mankind.

His international team of Jaeger aces include a father and son co-pilot team from Australia (Robert Kazinsky and Max Martini), Chinese pilot Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi), and an American, Raleigh Becket (Charlie Hunnam) who’s already lost his brother in action against the Kaiju. The Jaeger teams’ comic foils are a pair of nutty scientists (Charlie Day, and Burn Gorman as the limping German scientist Gottleib, a take on Dr Strangelove) and a shady businessman named Hannibal Chau (Hellboy star Ron Perlman), who profits by collecting the remains of the dead Kaiju and sells them to black market clients.

Pacific Rim is not a serious movie, even by

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The Lone Ranger (D / E) [13 +] 12:40, 15:40, 18:40, 21:40.

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the low measure set by many other Hollywood action sci-fi films of late. The core concept of fighting giant machines and monsters is deliberately unoriginal, and most of what takes place is easy to predict.

Del Toro’s detailed visual style is seen in almost every shot, from the features of the Kaiju monsters to the gritty Hong Kong street scenes. As in his earlier movies, his script for Pacific Rim, co-written with Travis Beacheam, weaves an original mythology into the film, with details like the idea that earth’s dinosaurs originated in the Kaiju dimensions, and “The Drift” mind-link between Jaeger co-pilots that gives them access to each others memories and hidden thoughts.

The action sequences are massive, prolonged and almost deafening.

The destruction wrought by the epic battles is distinguished from other recent citysmashing blockbusters like Man of Steel and Transformers. Fortunately Del Toro spares us any overlong 9/11-esque shots of crumbling skyscrapers, and keeps the focus of the action on the Kaiju and the Jaegers, in a style again somewhere on the spectrum between classic monster movies and modern “maximum force” 3D blockbusters.

If some of the acting is a little uneven, it hardly matters, and Idris Elba steals the show as the hell-for-leather Jaeger general Stringer – excuse me – Stacker Pentecost, from a rallying speech that recalls Henry V at Agincourt, to his catchline for the movie, “Today we are cancelling the apocalypse.”

Pacific Rim might easily have been just one more mostly forgettable, over-the-top action blockbuster, like the last Transformers, but Del Toro’s deft touch steers it through with a sort of post-ironic glory, thanks to sheer creativity and attention to detail, especially in the use of CGI effects. Like George Lucas’ first Star Wars movie, it uses state of the art film technology to pump up a somewhat jaded film genre to blockbuster levels.

Although it’s a war movie, Del Toro generally manages to keep triumphalism at bay and avoids sentimental solemnity. And while it’s made in clear homage to the family monster movies of yesteryear, Pacific Rim is also notable this summer as the first sci-fi movie of the year that isn’t a sequel, remake or reboot.

Hopefully it’s success will send a message to Hollywood that new movies are still feasible, given enough care and creativity.

Daniel Craig back as Bond in 2015

The next James Bond film will be released in late 2015, with Daniel Craig reprising his role as the suave British spy and Sam Mendes returning as director after dramatically reversing his decision to quit. A few teasing details of the unnamed 24th official Bond adventure were announced in a picture posted on Agent 007’s official Twitter feed, emblazoned with the words “BOND 24” in large letters.

“Daniel Craig is 007, Sam Mendes back as director,” the tweet said, adding that the film would be released in Britain on October 23, 2015, and in the United States two weeks later.

The screenplay will be written by John Logan, who penned the last Bond film Skyfall, as well as other hit movies including Gladiator and The Last Samurai. Mendes, 47, directed Skyfall, which became Britain’s highestgrossing film ever and took more than $1 billion at box offices worldwide when it was released in 2012. AFP

‘Despicable Me 2’ tops US box office for a second week

Despicable Me 2, a sequel to the 2010 animated blockbuster, led the US box office for a second straight weekend.

The comedy, with Steve Carell voicing villain-turned-doting-father Gru, earned an anticipated $44.8 million (B1.34 billion) between Friday and Sunday, according to industry tracker Exhibitor Relations. That means the film has earned $229.2 million (B6.9 billion) since its US release on July 2. In second place was the sequel Grownups 2 about a group of middle aged men who reunite after the death of their basketball coach and spend the summer together reconnecting. The film, a star vehicle for comedians Adam Sandler and Chris Rock, earned $42.5 million (B1.3 billion). AFP

US BOX OFFICE TOP 10 Film

Gross

1

Despicable Me 2

$43.9M

$228M

2

Grown Ups 2

$41.5M

$41.5M

3

Pacific Rim

$37.3M

$37.3M

4

The Heat

$14M

$112M

5

The Lone Ranger

$11.5M

$71.5M

6

Monsters University

$10.6M

$238M

7

World War Z

$9.31M

$177M

8

White House Down

$6.16M

$63M

9

Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain

$4.75M

$26.1M

$4.72M

$281M

10 Man of Steel

SFC Jungceylon Phuket (Patong) Byzantium (D / E) [18 +] Despicable Me 2 (3D / E) [G] The Lone Ranger (E) [13 +] Man of Steel (E) [13 +] Pacific Rim (E) [G] World War Z (E) [13 +]

Weekend gross

12:00, 14:30, 20:00, 22:30.

12:10, 14:20, 17:00, 19:10, 21:20.

12:40, 15:40, 18:40, 21:40.

17:00 11:30, 13:10, 16:00, 18:50, 19:40, 21:40.

14:20, 17:15, 22:30.

As some movies and movie times change every Thursday morning, after The Phuket News has gone to press, the accuracy of the following information cannot be guaranteed.

For up-to-date information, visit sfcinemacity.com, or call the cinemas directly: SFX Coliseum Phuket 076-209000 and SFC Jungceylon Phuket 076-600-555.

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A star full of fight and fun David Brook editor@classactmedia.co.th

Sadly in April 2012, Duncan suffered a stroke and was left paralysed. But Duncan is a ferocious competitor, he has fought back, made excellent progress, and his mobility continues to improve

From left, David Brook, Duncan Norvelle, Gran Rogers, and John Lowe formed a great golf team.

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n a summer’s day, June 1995, I stood with two great friends on a cliff top in Normandy during a round of golf at the spectacular Omaha Beach Golf Club. Nearby were remnants of World War 2 – concrete bunkers and defence ramparts, whist in the sea the remains of Mulberry Harbours, used so successfully by the Allied Forces, were visible.

In the peace and quiet, almost eerie surroundings, it was hard to imagine the ferocity which must have greeted a June morning some 51 years earlier. In the early hours of June 6, 1944, the invasion of Normandy began, Omaha Beach being one of the five sectors of the Allied Invasion.

After a fearsome struggle the beachhead was eventually secured and Omaha Beach became the key landing point of men, equipment and supplies. Just four days later General Montgomery visited the local small village of Port en Bessin.

Our expedition had a rather different quest. It did prove rather noisy – but with laughter and shouts of encore in a small restaurant in Port en Bessin; an enjoyable dinner, a cognac and then a totally unpredicted cabaret by one of my golfing friends.

Duncan Norvelle had decided it was time for fun – some John Cleese funny walks and impressions, some stories and a selection of songs followed. The French locals loved it.

Norvelle shot to fame in the early 1980s.

After a tough apprenticeship in Working Men’s Clubs he became one of the UK’s most

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sought-after entertainers. His catch phrase “Chase Me” shot him to TV stardom with appearances on The Des O’Connor Show, Wogan, Celebrity Squares, Bullseye, The Royal Variety Show, Summertime Special, Comedy Night Out, and Through the Keyhole; he appeared in UK theatre tours, did extensive summer seasons and winter pantomimes – his rendition of Buttons just had to be seen.

He even hosted a pilot dating show It’s a Hoot in 1985 which eventually became Cilla Black’s Blind Date; compered the Darts Legends Show in 2009 with John Lowe, Eric Bristow and Bobby George; and as recently as December 2011 appeared on Celebrity Come Dine with Me. Not only a great comic and impressionist, but also an outstanding singer.

But it was on the golf course he really

ho is mad enough to wake up as early as 4.30am to entertain you from 7am every weekday morning?

Sam and Kirsty of course. Phuket’s Live 89.5 Breakfast Show is on Monday to Friday and is sponsored by Bliss Beach Club Bang Tao. It even has Pepe’s chat up lines which are hilarious. Other features include ‘Battle Of The Sexes’ from 7 until 8am where the duo often call upon your help to get them the points they need.

With live local and international news every 30 minutes, they keep you up to date with what’s happening in the world as well as making you smile for the full four hours. If you have not heard them yet, be sure to tune in from 7am every weekday morning.

Did you know that Class Act Media are the official English media sponsors for Phuket FC? We have a show on Live 89.5 every Friday on Lifestyle with Steve between 2 and 3pm called ‘Totally Football’, where Kazira from The Islanders comes in and gives us the lowdown and the gossip on the team and all the updated transfer news.

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enjoyed himself, and that’s how we met – during celebrity events. From that developed one of the most feared golf teams in the North of England. The team, comprising Duncan (with his John Dalystyle swing, he could hit the ball enormous distances), John Lowe (steady aim with every shot, just like his darts), Gran Rogers (ex-Warrington Rugby League and agent for Gary Player Golf Club), and yours truly.

Sadly in April 2012, Duncan suffered a stroke and was left paralysed. But he is a ferocious competitor. He has fought back, made excellent progress, and his mobility continues to improve. He is on Facebook and I know he would appreciate support from fans and friends. He’s definitely one star who chased and found stardom.

ome really diverse topics for Phuket News TV on KPP and Phuket Cable this week.

First, Kirsty met up with Australian sport and TV personality Andrew ‘ET’ Etinghousen. He may not be well known outside Australia but it is an engaging and interesting story about a successful sportsperson who made the transition to media.

We also had some fun with some of the music from the movie Despicable Me 2, currently playing at Central Festival and Jungceylon cinemas – see what YOU do when we take the cameras to the streets and get you to clap along. Try not to laugh.

Beach clean-ups are popular these days and we took the Phuket News TV crew to Bang Tao Beach last weekend to join in with the regular beach patrols keeping the west coast beaches as clean as possible. Is it the job of Phuket’s citizens or should the local administrators be doing more? Watch and tell us what you think.

You can always become involved with our programs by commenting on Facebook. Visit thephuketnews. com and click ‘TV’.

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CELEBRATING THE FRENCH Phuket’s French community turned out in force on Sunday evening (July 14) for the Bastille Day (French National Day) celebrations at the Royal Phawadee Village in Patong.

Rose gets into the spirit of things with her French balloon hat.

From left, Niphatcha “Aom” Wichainbun, Laphasrada “Jib” Ketmalee, Claude de Crissey, Preawprawlin “Yin” Inchomchuen and Peter Smith.

From left, UFE de Phuket President Christian Chevrier; French honorary consul and Royal Phawadee Village owner Claude de Crissey; and Deputy Governor Sommai Preechasilpa.

Caroline Laleta Ballini of Le Paris Phuket magazine with Frank Chaudron.

American Bill Dunlap has lived in Phuket for three years but before that lived in France for 35 years.

Annie and Olivier enjoy the night.

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CLEANING THE BEACH The Bang Tao Beach Cleanup, organised by Tropical Properties, was held on July 14.

A HELPING HAND The “Inspiration 4 Life” charity event, organised by Aleenta Resort & Spa Phuket, was held at Baan Khao Pilai School, just north of Phuket, on July 12-13.

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FUN FOR KIDS The Laguna Phuket Summer Family Festival continues on the island until August, with a host of activities and events for kids in Phuket. For the full schedule visit lagunaphuket.com

Kwanlapha “Mandy” Tongsom from the Boathouse and Ann Suriyong.

CREATIVITY IN THE KITCHEN The Boathouse hosted consultant Ann C. Suriyong who held a cooking class on July 13.

DJs Jichet “Mong” Lorprasertchai and Sarit Narukatpichai.

BEACH PARTY

Iguana bar in Kalim held a “Bikinis Sunset Session” event on Saturday, July 13.

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July 28th 2013 THE LIONS GO-KART TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS At Phuket Kart Racing, Patak Rd., Chalong 6.00pm - 8.30pm Organised by Lions Club of Patong Beach in aid of Eyesight Improvement Programme for children at 3 schools 5 drivers + Team Manager Entry Fee: 6,000 Baht

MISS GO-KARTS 2013 Beauty competition Entry Fee: Baht 250 Cash prizes for first three winners

Details at www.lions-club-patong.org/activities.html or K. Jum on 081 374 2088

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You can also find exquisite arts and craft created by local residents. Pre-loved items include books, clothes and toys. Handicraft items are made by the disadvantaged members of society that The Good Shepherd strives to empower. All proceeds go directly to The Good Shepherd mission.

See thegoodshepherd.info.

ing stations, refreshing drinks and good company. Balloon artists entertain the little ones with face painting and kid activities.

Every Sunday at 12pm - 3 pm. B1,400++ per adult, B700++ per child (Ages 5-12).

Call 076 396 433.

Pool Competition at Expat Hotel

MONDAY JUL 22 Asalaha Bucha Day It celebrates the first sermon given by the Lord Buddha on the full moon day of the Asalaha (the eighth lunar month). On that day, all Three of the Triple Gem, The Buddha, The Dhamma and The Sangha, had established. It became the day that honoured the Sangha, or the community of the monks.

Pool Competition at 9pm. Expat Sports Bar, Expat Hotel, Soi Taipan, Patong. www. expatsportsbar.com.

BBQ at Expat Hotel 8pm, Expat Sports Bar, Expat Hotel, Soi Taipan, Patong. www.expatsportsbar.com.

Curry Fridays at Navrang Mahal Every Friday, all-you-can-eat authentic Indian curry buffet, B449 net per person.

7pm-11.30pm. Call 076 286 464.

SUNDAY JUL 21

SATURDAY JUL 20

Traditional Sunday Roast Angus O’Tool’s Karon Beach Lunch or dinner served from 2pm. Your choice of either roast beef, chicken, loin of pork or leg of lamb served with roast & boiled potatoes, three fresh vegetables, Yorkshire pudding & gravy. Only 320 Baht, which includes a free glass of house red or white. Opposite Centara Karon Resort. See: www.otools-phuket.com

BBQ All You Can Eat at Shakers Mondays and Thursdays. BBQ all you can eat: pork, chicken, beef, prawns, fish and squid with salad buffet, cold and hot sauces, garlic bread, baked potatoes, potato salad and more for B325 per person.

7pm-11pm. Located in Patong on Rat-U-Tit 200 Pee Road next to Hotel Mercure.

TUESDAY JUL 23

Sunday Chillout Session Electric Beach Bingo Inspired by the youth bingo movement spreading across the world, Electric Beach Bingo will combine getting your groove on with unleashing a guilty pleasure! Music will be provided by DJ Nemo Cools who will spin tunes between rounds of bingo and prizes. Admission is free and on arrival you will be given a pack with rules and bingo cards to get you started.

It’s bingo but not as you know it! www. xanabeachclub.com.

Live Seafood & Jazz Sunday Brunch at Banyan Tree Join Banyan Tree’s indulgent LIVE Seafood Sunday brunch featuring lots of LIVE Canadian Lobsters, Tiger prawns, freshly shucked Oysters, Wagyu rump and Foie Gras. Meander from one live cooking station to the next, and don’t forget to leave room for cheese and dessert. With live Jazz music and a kids club, starting at B2,500++ per person including free flow of selected beverages. Advance bookings are highly recommended. Contact 076 372 400. Email: fb-phuket@banyantree.com.

Sunsets Bar & Gusthouse (Patong). Chillout session every Sunday. Live music. Free Bar/B/Q from 4pm. Free pool table. Happy hour 12pm-6pm. Karaoke. Everybody welcome. 62 Hasib Pee Road, Patong. Call Khun Joon for more info 082 286 5171.

MON - WED JUL 22 - 24

Every Wednesdays and Saturdays. Plaza Del Mar, Laguna (Behind Bake). Time: 10am to 1pm every Wednesday and 9am to noon every Saturday. We have a wide and wonderful selection of handicrafts such as toys, greeting cards, ornaments, lanterns, bags, purses and many more.

Sunday Brunch at Sails, Hilton Enjoy our lavish international buffet with friends and family each sunday at Sails!

Our live band sets the mood for a relaxing afternoon with delicious food, live cook-

Tuesdays and Saturdays: Half chicken spit roast with french fries, salad buffet, potato salad & gravy sauce for B225 per person.

7pm-11pm. Located in Patong on Rat-U-Tit 200 Pee Road next to Hotel Mercure.

WEDNESDAY JUL 24

The 5th Kathu Cultural Street Festival The Good Shepherd Merchandise Shop Open

Half Chicken Spit Roast

The cultural street festival of Kathu District.

Kathu Municipality has organised the project to preserve traditions and culture and to promote tourism. See a parade from the Kathu community, a light and sound show, contemporary art displays from leading artists, Mi-Hokkien competition, Iron chef, Kathu culture shows including food, costumes and local life. The event will start from 5.30 onwards daily.

Wednesday Ribs The ribs are dry rubbed and smoked for 6 hours then massaged with Kentucky Bourbon BBQ sauce. Full rack set: 3 course set with corn chowder and bread pudding souffle: B1,500++ per person. Must reserve.

For residents order one kg full rack on Friday for takeaway on Wednesday. Pick up and pay at SALA Beach Bar 5pm-6.30pm (Happy hour) B750 net. Sorry, you must take away. Make a reservation or book your ribs with events@salaphuket.com, no phone calls please.

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RBFC Thailand 2014 Classic Sport Fishing Tournament Offshore The Similan Islands

25th

27th February 2014

Proudly organised by the Rawai Beach Fishing Club, (RBFC) Phuket, Thailand.

Huge cash and other prizes to be won!!

57 hours of non-stop fishing!

Huge media coverage!

For further details please contact Warren Crowe or Andy Bright info@rawaibeachfishingclub.com Warren tel: +66 (0) 812604291 Andy tel: +66 (0) 862739948 Website: www.rawaibeachfishingclub.com

Prizes include fishing trips, tackle, limited edition prints, and much more!

Rawai Beach Fishing Club is an official Sponsor Club of the International Game Fishing Association. RBFC supports recreational fishing

Enjoy Wednesday Night Free BBQ, fish and chips or buffet every other Wednesday night 8pm at the Black Dog Bar, Soi C&N, off Rat-u-thit road, Patong. Meet all the regular ex-pats and ladies for lots of fun. Please call Joon on 082 286 5171.

tion. Welcome to the best exhibition in Phuket and Andaman coastline for construction tools and materials and architectural design & décor items comprising a wide range of products and technology.

This is a great opportunity to introduce construction materials and decorative items to the Phuket and Andaman area.

Venue: Second floor, Royal Phuket City Hotel. For more information contact 076 217 199, e-mail: info@pic-phuket.com, See pic-phuket.com.

Tor Kong is a God of evil. The seventh lunar month in the Chinese calendar is believed to be the period when spirits are released.

The gates are opened and spirits released to wander or revisit homes.During the festival, people bring food and nicely-decorated fruits to make offerings to Por Tor Kong to pass onto those spirits. An essential offering for the festival is a red turtle-shaped cake, large or small. They believe that turtles symbolise longevity.

and more. And a popular return attraction for the youngsters at this year’s Festival will be the Kidz Fun Zone, serving up afternoons of sports skills, cooking lessons, adventure and educational activities, golf excursions and outings to local amusement parks, from just B200 per session. For more information see lagunaphuket.com/events/ family-festival.

SUNDAY JULY 28

Red Hot Jazz Phuket Racing Go-Karts Circuit 2013 Live Jazz Trio at Mom Tri's Enjoy live Jazz at Mom Tri’s Kitchen. Every Wednesday and Sunday Night in the Sea Shell Bar. Sunset Happy Hour daily from 6-7pm including selected beverages by the glass and 50% off drinks. Great live music, gorgeous sunset views and Thai and international cuisine. See momtriphuket.com.

BBQ Ribs All You Can Eat Wednesdays and Fridays. BBQ ribs all you can eat with salad buffet and potato salad for B295 per person. 7pm-11pm. Located in Patong on Rat-U-Tit 200 Pee Road next to Hotel Mercure.

UPCOMING EVENTS THU JUL 25 - SUN JUL 28

Organised by Lions Clubs of Patong Beach in aid of an eyesight improvement programme for the children. Team entries welcome. For more information contact Jum on 081 374 2088 or jumak@ksc.th.com.

TUE JULY 30 - THU AUG 1

On 13 Sept. from 7:30pm till late enjoy jazz, dancing & art at ‘Red Hot Jazz’ at Boathouse. Entry donation of 3,500 baht inc. cocktails, free flow wine & four courses of French cuisine. To book please contact Phuket Has Been Good To Us 076 278 146 info@phukethasbeengoodtous.org or Boathouse 076 330 015 events@boathousephuket.com. Proceeds go towards helping underprivileged children in Phuket.

EVERY DAY

Social Media Marketing Workshop Social Media Marketing - make it Work for YOU! Join this informative workshop to get started with the basics of Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, etc) for promoting your business online. Held at the Book Cafe, Rawai, 9-12pm, July 30 and August 1, only B2500 per person. Places are limited, book now! Contact Oasis ed. Phuket about this & other great workshops (arts, cooking, computers and more!), via info@oasisedphuket. com or 084 946 2171.

Watch live sports with our five large screen choices of sports. Two pool tables and pool competition every Friday at 9pm and enjoy BBQ every Saturday from 8pm onwards. Rock music, good food and much more. Soi Tai pan near the top of Soi Bangla, Patong.

Art Exhibition at Phuket Art Village Exhibition runs until July 31. Artwork includes pieces from artists from Thailand, Philippines, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia and South Korea. For more information, visit facebook.com/phuket.artvillage or call Pui on 089 4715 653.

MONDAY AUGUST 12 Commemorates the birthday of Queen Sirikit, also observed as National Mother’s Day (Wan Mae Haeng Chart). It is a public holiday.

Building, Construction and Décor Exhibi-

Exhibition runs until October 13. VR Gallery has asked local and resident artist to display some of their favourite works. The exhibition features three local Phuket Thai artists and two resident artists. Pieces are combinations of oil on canvas, mixed media and wood. Themes range from nature, nautical, nude and abstract creating a fascinating and multifaceted display of art work. http://www.momtriphuket.com.

Enjoy Daily at Expat Hotel

HM the Queen’s Birthday

Architect & Engineering Exhibition 2013

Phuket Artists on Show

WED AUG 21 - TUE AUG 27 Por Tor Festival Ethnic Chinese in Phuket believe that Por

Laguna Summer Family Festival Right through until 31 August, Latitude Marquee is transformed into a carnival playground. Enjoy the bouncy castle, and games in the Kidz Lounge. Festival attractions planned include art classes with Artist-in-Residence, Zumba fitness sessions in Latitude Marquee, theme parties

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This week in history

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■■ July 19, 64

26,253

Number of words in the European Union’s rules governing the sale of cabbages

179

Number of words in the Ten Commandments

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The vital statistics of Popeye’s girlfriend Olive Oyl.

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Percentage of lost TV remotes that are eventually found in the fridge.

The first rocket takes off from US Airforce base at Cape Canaveral. Photo: NASA/US Army

The Great Fire Of Rome destroys a large part of the city. The Emperor Nero is accused of starting the fire to clear land for a new palace, and of playing the lyre as the flames grew.

■■ July 20, 1592 An invading Japanese army takes the capital of Korea, Pyongyang.

The Korean king appeals to China for help. Chinese forces take the city a year later.

■■ July 21, 1861 Confederate forces win the First Battle of Bull Run in Virginia, the first major battle of the American Civil War. ■■ July 22, 1933 Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world. It takes him just under eight days.

■■ July 23, 1903 The Ford Motor Company sells its first car, the Model A. Ford’s output is initially only two or three cars a day.

■■ July 24, 1950 The first rocket takes off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

The rocket is a Bumper 8, based on the German World War II rocket, the V2.

■■ July 25, 1965 Backed by the Butterfield Blues Band, Bob Dylan plugs his guitar into the power at the Newport Folk Festival.

He is booed by the crowd.

Crossword by Myles Mellor & Sally York

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45. Tracks 46. Caribbean cruise stop 47. Units of work 48. Protestant denom.

51. Place to find pennies?

54. European language 55. Dead to the world 56. Consequently 57. Home improvement network 58. Rather than 59. Dated oath

16. Urges onward 17. Give off, as light 21. Admittance 23. 1922 Physics Nobelist 24. Jack-in-the-pulpit, e.g.

25. Pilgrim’s journey 26. School org.

27. African antelope 28. Decorative jugs 29. Hymn of praise: var.

30. Cutlass, e.g.

31. Arch 33. Salt shaker?

34. Joyful exclamation 35. Threat ender Down 39. Bindle bearer 1. 27, to 3 40. French 2. University in existentialist Pakistan 41. Cheap 3. Make over 42. Native New 4. “___ Boot” Zealander 5. More high-spirited 43.

Dilettantish 6. Mischievous 44. Adorable 7. Sleep-disturbing 45. Allude legume?

48. Floater 8. ___ of Vicksburg 49. Chlorella, e.g.

9. Apportion 50. Slog 10. Mil. rank 12. French commune 51. Twin, e.g.

52. Undivided 13. ___ Columbia 53. ___ bit 14. Q-Tip

Answers to this week’s Pop Quiz: 1. Squirrel fur; 2. A figure of speech; 3. Tempera; 4. Mariner IV; 5. Lamphun.

1. What is a camel’s hair brush made from?

2. Zeugma: A plant? A throat disease? A figure of speech?

3. What kind of paint is a mixture of pigment and egg?

4. Which NASA mission took the first close-up pictures of Mars?

5. Which modern Thai city was the capital of the kingdom of Haripanchai?

Answers at the foot of the page.

Across 1. Credit or tarot follower 5. Dash 8. Bladder, e.g.

11. Organic compound 12. People person, briefly 14. Fodder holder 15. Takes his leave of a lady 18. Nigerian language 19. City in Italy 20. Adult insect 21. Big Bertha’s birthplace 22. Lhasa’s land 23. Raillery 25. Best seller 26. ___-cochere (carriage entrance) 27. Krypton, e.g.

28. Group of poems 32. TV castaway 36. ___ brat 37. College in Ashland (abbr.)

38. ___-made 39. “Come again?”

40. Rears 42. Birthplace of Little Richard

Solutions to last week’s puzzles:

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Seaview Pool Villa for Rent: The Courtyard: Upper floor 10 m

showroom frontage floor area 100 s m with air/cons. Contact Khun Siriporn 081 691 0213, siriporn@islandfurni ture-phuket.com, www.thecourtyardphuket.com.

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Luxury 3 Bedroom Pool Villa: Located 4 km from Layan Beach, just outside Laguna, this new villa is available for long term rent. www.baanboosakorn.com

Luxury Villa for Rent: Magnificent 4 bedroom pool villa on the west coast of Phuket, above prestigious Kata Beach. Exceptional opulence throughout. Long & short term rental.

Enquiries on 087 283 8884 or 080 690 5248.

Beach Condo, Beach 3 Min. Walk: Spacious 2-bedroom apartment for rent, long or short term, fully furnished, kitchen, 2 bathrooms. Pool, large gardens, parking, a mere 3 minute stroll to scenic Nai Harn beach. resortgm@gmail.com.

Kata Beach Apartment Sea Views: Western 1,2&3 bedroom

units fully furnished, parking fully fitted teak kitchens. Granite tops Western baths, sat.TV&internet included.

Masterbed with ensuite bath starting 20,000/m longterm. No party people.

084 840 1262, north8east98@yahoo. com.

3 Rai Chanote Mangosteen Land: Beautiful square land plot

+ Study or 4 BDR, 4 bathroom, maid’s quarters, full AC + hot water, pool, 2 car garage, western kitchen + extra storage. A must see. Was B21million reduced to B17million including Laguna family golf membership. Call 081 737 5001.

next to Mangosteen Resort, 3-0-38 Rai, Chanote title, light slope, great access to Soi Saiyuan, show villa can be completed, ideal for villa or condo development. 081 536 5846.

Bungalow for rent B8,000: Nice one bedroom bungalow for rent, B8,000 per month, Mission Hills, on 1/2 Rai of land with Air Con & Internet. Call 081 892 4804 or 081 125 1873.

Patong Loft Rent: Beautiful 2 bedrooms 2 bathrooms Condo, Fully furnished complete with kitchen utensils, microwave, coffee machine, toaster etc, bed sheets, towels for 4 people, internet, tv etc.

Available Nov. onwards. Call 081 4326587, 081 8915602

Vassana Residence. 2 Bedroom: Luxury 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment. Sea view, swimming pool, whirlpool. Wi-Fi, cable TV. Only 3 apartments in complex. Call Eng. 087 882 9604, Rus. 084 443 6811 artlpmj@ yahoo.com.

3 Bedroom House for rent: Kathu Anuphas Golf Ville, fully furnished, 15 min to Patong, 15 min to Phuket Town, 20 min to Intern. School.

THB 30,000/month long term. Available immediately. Contact 087 892 6899.

Beautiful home in Phuket 5.9m: Spacious open plan home - 4 ACG Cricket Ground:

5 Rai raw land behind ACG clubhouse on long lease for compatible sporting facility. alan@acgphuket.com.

Beach House & Beach Condo For Rent: Beach house in Cape Kalim Sea View, Freehold Condo for Sale/Rent: B11.9 million, 2 minutes walk to beach, big balcony and sunset view, 180 sqm, 2 ensuite bedrooms, big living space.

PhuketAREA.com, search V146.

Panwa. 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 1 living room, kitchen and dining room for 8-12 people, outdoor relaxroom for sunset meetings (no pool, in repair) and 2-rooms condo. See phuketbeach living.com.

Refreshing 2BDs Phuket Town: Newly built apartment of 72 sqm. For rent, colorful and boutique design in Phuket Town. Fully furnished, kitchenette. Good location, Mae-Laun Road. Call Zhu at 089 668 3639; zhunaumann@gmail.com, see Baan PhitakTaweep-phuket.com.

bedrooms,granite top kitchen,outdoor seating,100" home cinema, LED Lighting system,Tvs,LAN & Audio every room,alarm,3 phase electric. close to Laguna. Call 086 266 2786.

2Shophouse for lease in Patong: Low Rent! 2 Shophouse - 2 flrs.

Can make business ground floor. Huge 2nd floor fully furnished as 2 bed apartment with private bathrooms. Includes furniture. Big kitchen and living area.

084 189 7696.

RPM Marina Condo: Luxury 3 beds 3 baths stunning condo. 179 SQM. Foreign freehold. Views to sea, marina, lake and mountains. 2 balconies. B16.9 million. Call: 082 493 8526.

Email: flakes010@hotmail.com

Long Term Rental: Accommodation Available: Patong Tower apartment for long term rent. Fully furnished with kitchenette, security, parking etc. Right in the middle of Patong.

More info call 076 344 922 or visit bluewaterphuket.com.

Three bedroom modern home available for long Term Rental. This pool villa is close to B.I.S. Central private location. Please check out website for more details. Contact Dianne 089 469 810. https://smore.com/r5ts.

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House and Business for sale: 3 storey, 5 bedrooms, good

location, off road parking, busy road.

Contact Thai 084 630 6920, English 082 534 7410, jeedyvcd@hotmail.com, davidweath@yahoo.com.

Freehold Condo For Sale:

45 Sq.m Freehold. 2 balconies (great view). 1 bedroom. 1 livingroom. 2 air conditioners. Full furniture. Internet. Cable TV. Laundry.

Fresh market. Swimming pool.

Gym. Restaurant. Call 080 040 9077.

Beautiful Karon Villa: 3 Bed Pool Villa Pa Khlok:

3 Beds, 2 Bath 6x3m pool. Full aircon and funishings. Ready for occupation and rental. Secure estate, private parking. 6km from Heroines monument. Close to PIA, BCS and shops. 081 737 0722.

Freehold House for sale:

Freehold house for sale in estate in Cherng Talay. Land 735m2, floor area 230m2, 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom.

Many upgrades incl new carpor t included. Price B11 million. Call 083 509 8797 for info or viewing.

Modern open living villa has it all, fully furnished, private secure estate close to beach. Enjoy the private salt water pool and undercover parking, 3 large bedrooms freehold investment. 081 719 4688.

Investment Proper t y for sale!: New, modern waterfront town-

Studio condo on 4th floor 50s/m.

Huge swimming pool, beautiful gardens, completly renovated new tiles, light, painting, new furniture, kitchen, shower and toilet. B2.5 million, Eng 085 471 9246, Thai 087 621 3405.

Sales Down Payment Dcondo Mine: 7th floor. with

Seaview Townhouse Patong: Bet ween the c it y and

Budget Bungalows: Two Bun-

galows in Chalong.2-3 bedrooms.

Close to all amenities.One has room for a pool,the other is like a rain forest. From only B2,300,000. Call 081 270 4291. Email: thailandmls @gmail.com.

the jungle at the northern edge of Patong. 70m alt. 10mn walk to the beach. 4 storey + 290 sqm, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1 toilet.

4 aircon, partly furnished. Email: andamanhills@gmail.com.

A nice foreign freehold condominium for sale in Patong is located in a recently complete development of one & two bedrooms condominiums. Located on the fourth floor of a total of five. 080 052 8082.

Patong Condo for sale:

When only the best will do! 4 bed/pool villa in Phuket’s best-kept gated community. 410 sq.mtr villa. 812 sq.mtr land.

Overlooking lagoon. Beautiful. Call 081 270 4291. Email: thailandmls@ gmail.c om, w w w.phuketpremium realestate.com.

Nai Harn Baan Bua:

pool & lake view. Fully furnished, near Kajonkiet International School, Tesco Lotus, Big C. 10 mins to Patong. Move in Mar 2014. Only B99k. Contact: 081 694 4144, 081 307 7247, email: suthipow@yahoo.com

FOR SALE RAWAI BEACH

Singl e H ou se Sp eci al Price Rent/Sale: Nice house

fully furnished with teakwood furniture, ready to move in. 240 sqm. 4 bed 4 bath, close to Kathu waterfall and market. Near Loch Palms, major stores, BIS and KIS. B45,000 per month. Call Oranwan 086 883 3169.

Home Office Near Thanyapura: New 2-storey home

Pool villa for sale or rent:

Hillside setting. Luxurious 6 bedroom, 5 bathroom pool villa for sale or rent. Sale 20M Baht. Rent Low season Daily 6k, Weekly 36k, Monthly 80k. High season Daily 7k, Weekly 42k, Monthly 100k.

One complete year 85k per month. Call 087 078 6379.

SPECIAL T WIN VILL AS. 3 O R 4 B ED RO O M S, 4 B AT H R O O M S . P O O L , LARGE TERRACE, SMALL GARDEN. LIVING SPACE 400 SQM, LUXURY FURNISHED. PRICE B8,500,000. FREEHOLD.

Five Bed Luxury Villa For Sale: NEW. Beautiful lakeside villa

1 Rai Land QUICK Sale in Rawai: Beautiful land with Cha-

note for sale, concrete access road, Land plot, electric & facilities ready to build your home. Direct contact Thai owner K.Dallas (Poy) 089 472 9870 or dchaibut@gmail.com.

in Surin Beach. Private estate. 5 bedroom en-suite. Unique architectural style. Private pool. THB 35.7m. To view call 083 636 0245 or villasurin7@ gmail.com.

Luxury Villa in Chalong: Perfect condition, 660 sqm on 3 levels, 1,600 sqm land, 5 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, swimming pool 12.5m x 6m with jacuzzi, large sala, double garage. Top quality construction. Reduced price: B25.5 million www.tamata-phuket.com crishausb@hotmail.com. 086 271 3260 or 086 273 4149.

Laguna/Layan Beach Luxury 13M Salt-Water Pool Villa For Sale (Or Rent): Three large

Urgent-3 Bedroom House for sale: 3 Bed, 3 Bath, 4 aircon,

Rawai Great Buying: Lovely

bedrooms with bathrooms in tastefully re-decorated bungalow set in mature garden plot of 550m2 within secure development for ownership and/or investment. B15.5 million. Email: irynain@gmail.com.

Rawai Soi Saliga Land for Sale: Land 1 rai + 81 T/W total

1924 sqm. Does not need landscaping sale by owner land location on the top of the Soi. Tel: 084 745 4132, chanote title.

INFO: 081 788 8280. EMAIL: thewhitehousekata@gmail. com.

Villa with Pool for Sale: Free-

Land Close to Thanyapura/PIA: Half Rai 1.3MB, 1

Seaview Land Patong: Two parcels of superior land 11 rai. Inc seaview. Main road frontage. Ideal for resor t or condominiums. B150 M . N e g o t i a b l e . ( T h a i ) 0 81 3 7 0 8114 or (Ger) 081 892 1108. Email: davidgem98@hotmail.com.

N ew Condo Kat hu For Sale/Rent: Sansiri D Condo

hold 3/4 Bedroom Villa. 3 Air Con. 4k. to Ao Makarm Beach. 10x5m pool with 4th bedroom / office on other side. Plot size 104SqWah. 416Sqm. Reasonable offers. Call 089 831 4703/084 304 6723.

office near Academy for sale, 280 sq metres, Chanote title, 2 beds 3 baths, nature mountain view. Main street, multiple entrances and exits. 10 minutes to Airport. Only B4.95 million. Call: 086 948 2294.

This beautiful 2 storey villa has wrap around balconies, 5 bed, 5 bath, swimming pool, office and child play area, movie room, dining room for 8, maids room and laundry, Sala. Internal area: 472 sq. m. Total area: 1,920 sq. m. Call 081 892 0534.

portunity! 7 studio apartments within beach front development. All 7 apartments, being offered at a discounted price to a total of 18 million baht for all of them. Call: 089 83 98 255. Email: info@lantaestate.net

home at the Boat Lagoon for sale.

Rented out long term at B570,000 per year. 3 bed/4 bath, 2 balconies, terrace at canal, 6 m berth in front of house.

250 sqm living space. Top condition.

Luxury finishings. Brokers welcome.

B9.9 million. 086 747 9292 (English) or 081 970 5204 (Thai/English).

Patong Free Hold Condo:

Villa in Cherng Talay:

Outstanding investment Lanta: Outstanding investment op-

Rai is 2.5 MB, total 3 Rai of Land, Mountain View, Chanote, 3 Mins drive to Thanyapura/PIA School, 15 Mins to Airport. Contact Marisa 084 305 6667 or marisar1978@ hotmail.com.

Building 3 storey for sale: THB 26,000,000. Only 300 m. from Kata Beach. 236.25 sqm. 2 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. For more information call K.Chavarin 089 911 8833/081 866 9253 or email: wkongkeaw@hotmail.com

Kathu, Fully furnished Studio type 29.7 sq.m. on 6th floor, good facilities with fitness gym and large swimming pool. Only 5 minute to Patong, Lotus, Big C, Central. By owner. Call 086 105 8144.

3 Gorgeous Lots, Clean Titles: For sale or long lease.

2 lots on island-beachfront (bungalow-/housing-estate) and 1 big mainland-mountain property all in very quiet, safe, well maintained locations near Krabi. 089 291 4671.

Guesthouse for Lease in Patong: 12 rooms, good location Nanai Road.9 year lease: very low rent,strong starting, easy to manage and good return on investment. Price 1MLN. Take this opportunity. Thamad17@yahoo. com. 089 728 4005.

Rawai Seaview Condo for sale: Seaview condo, freehold, 2

bedroom, 2 bathroom, 120sqm. B7.8 million, fully furnished. For more pictures and information please contact: adrian_troy@yahoo.com

2 Pool Villas next to PIA:

Ready to move in, villa 1 on 1,100 sqm. land, for sale 15.9 mil and villa 2 on 2,200 sqm. land, for sale 19.9 mil baht. Brand new, each with 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 12 metre swimming pool, guest bungalow with 1 bedroom 1 bathroom. Perfectly located in a development with underground electricity and security, only 800 metres from Mission Hills golf course, less than 10 mins to airpor t, Phuket International Academy and Ao Por Grand Marina. Call 081 343 0777. Email: montha_phuket@yahoo.com.

fullly furnished with Chanote title, mini office 4x4, living room, European kitchen, CCTV, internet, garden. Permsap Villa Manik, 436sqm.

15min from airport. B6.8 million. Call 089 871 4172.

house with 2 bedrooms or separate SC flat downstairs.Well ventilated with natural light, in pristine condition. Distant sea views. B5,500,000.

Call 081 270 4291 or thailandmls@ gmail.com. See phuketpremium realestate.com.

Af fordable 3 Bedroom House: Single floor, 3 bedroom,

kitchen/dining area, living room, 2 toilets/showers. Aircon in each bedroom. Water tank+pump. External covered area. Chanote title: 256 sqm Quiet developed village near Heroines Monument B3.2 million.

Call 087 276 0529 .

B e a u t i f ul V i l l a R awa i: Beautiful 2 bed pool villa with sep maid’s room or 3rd b/room. Great outdoor entertaining area. 5 minutes to all conveniences. Reduced to B9,500,000. Call 081 270 4291 or thailandmls@gmail.com.

Patong Apartment Reduced Price: Condo 4 years old. Swimming

pool, security 24/7, cafeteria. Studio 46sqm fully furnished. Freehold for foreigners. Price: 2.6MLN. Urgent sale, no agent. Tel: 089 728 4005. Email: thamad17@yahoo.com.

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House for Sale - Chalong: Land area 500m2, House area 164m2. 3 bed, 4 bath, fully furnished, aircon in all rooms, fans, Internet, satellite TV, swimming pool, independent water supply wells. Finish work December 2012. B8.5 million. Call 088 838 3242.

Mission Heights:

Luxury 3 Bed Villa For Sale:

This luxury three bedroom home is located in a secure estate with security and office. It is only five minutes from Bangtao Beach and Laguna Phuket including the Laguna Phuket Golf Club and 20 minutes from Blue Canyon Country Club and Phuket International Airport. The villa comes fully furnished with luxury leather lounge suites and quality furniture, all bedding, kitchen utensils and cooking facilities.

For details and inspection, see www. phuketselect.com or contact graham@ phuketselect.com or call 081 897 0225.

Quiet stand alone villa, 3 bed, 2 - 5 star baths, 5 aircon, full furn, garden dining lush green, 50 Wah, quality new paint, excellent condition, B3.5 mil lion, f irm. Contact: peterb@inter globalau.com, 084 843 3492.

Beach Land on Koh Yao Yai:

3 & 4 Bed Pool Villas:

Laguna/Layan. Luxury private pool villas in secure development.

Available now. All beds ensuite.

Fully furnished. Rental programme available. B12-20 million. Contact owner: 085 549 7110.

6.26 rai direct beachfront, power, water, road, unobstructed views, chanote title, white sand, peaceful. Only 5.8 mil baht per rai. Doesn't get much better than this! Beautiful beach land. 081 649 3557.

Pool Villa Rawai: 4 Bedroom/ 4 Bathroom European style single storey house with self contained guest house and pool in Rawai on 736m2 plot. Large master bedroom with en-suite, walk in wardrobe. Modern western style kitchen with granite tops, built-ins throughout. Established 7 years. Plenty of outdoor living area with several verandahs and under cover car park, air-conditioning in all bedrooms and lounge. Situated about 2km from Chalong circle in a quiet lane 1km from Viset Road. House & Guest house 180 sqm Land area 736sqm (184TW). 3 bedrooms Master ensuite, 4 Bathrooms 7x3.5m salt water pool.

Electric gate. Well water. Concrete road access. Call 087 891 9349.

New House for Sales low price than Project, Phanason Villages at Bang Joe for 50 Sqm, 3bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, Free contract. Contact: 089 729 9503.

New House for Sales:

Luxur y Villa 3 Bedroom Pool for Rent: New villa 320sqm

fully furnished. 4 bathrooms, 12m long pool, 5 min. by car to PIA, situated between Naithon and Naiyang beaches. Longterm rent B80,000 include maid and gardener service.

Call 08 0 143 529 4, email: alain terrat@hotmail.com.

(Manthana Zone) Land area = 440 sqm. Home area: 300 sqm. 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 1 living room and kitchen, 1 swimming pool (3m*10m) out door jacuzzi and pavilion. Sales: from B9.9 - B12 million. Rent: from B85,000 - B120,000 per month. 088 751 2389.

House on The Corner for Sale: Quiet location and only 500m

from the main road. Thepkrasattri, Heroines Monument. 70sqw x 280sqm, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, big living room with open - plan kitchen (9x9m), 1 separated kitchen, carpark for 3 cars and a small storehouse, 2 aircons, cable TV, 1 phone line TT&T. Price: B2,995,000 including furniture. Must see! Email: jochenschmitz16@gmail.com. Call 081 607 8000.

The Aqua pool villa-sales/ rent: In Land & House Park Phuket

3 Bdrm House for sale Thalang: House for sale. 3 bedrooms and 2 baths, large living and dining room, 4 X aircons, 2 X car ports and garage.

House 7 yrs 1 owner, well maintained with 135sqm living area. Land Chanote 92tw. 081 737 3116.

Rawai Condo Sale/Rent:

Sell 1.1MB, Full ownership foreverbeyond the financing plan of 10 years. Rent 9,000B/Month. Studio room renovated with furniture. A/C, WiFi, kitchen, 200m to beach. 084 242 8914. Rawai4@yahoo.com.

Nice Villa for Sale: Near Naiyang Beach, 3 bed & 4 bath, jacuzzi, open dining/living room, kitchen, fully furnished, aircon, garden, Sala, swimming pool, car park.

Only 8.9MB. 087 091 8331 K. Nah, chiangmaibeltrade@hotmail.com, dreamhousephuket.com.

400m from Naiyang Beach. 3 Rai 1 Tarangwah.

6.5MB per Rai. Call 087 091 8331 or email chiangmaibeltrade@hotmail. com for more information.

Land for Sale:

372 m2 Ideal for office or apartment / office.

All floors with air condition, bathrooms, phone lines, local phone network, internet, cable TV and office furniture.

Sell by owner direct. Call 081 958 3310.

3-storey Shophouse: 12 Rai Chanote to sell: One of the last pieces of beautiful sea view land between Ao Makham and Ao Yon Road. Infrastructure done B210 million.

Call 081 917 0377, 10am-5pm.

Resort for Sale: Resort 2 rai, with

chanote. 22 double villas with kitchens, large pool and big coconut garden with own well. Restaurant and bar with satellite TV and Adsl. Opened for 15 years, with lots of repeat customers, parking, quiet. 086 940 1860.

Sea-View Chalong-Residence: Dream pool villa with 5

bedrooms all with ensuite on 1 rai of land. Big hall, office, maid’s room.

Brand-new construction opposite Wat Chalong on the way up to the hill. A huge 685 sq.m of living area, fully furnished. Modern Europeandesigned kitchen. Big sea view pool terraces incl sala and attractive bar area. Security alarm system. Selling price on request. By owner directly.

Call 085 654 4011 or 089 404 0737.

Email: schulz.th@gmx.de.

Comfortable 4 bedrooms villa, plus maid room. Approx. 450Sq.M building, corner plot, energy saving, management service available for investor.

Located in secured gate community, near British International school. info@ mindproperties.net.

F O R S A L E - K ATA BEACH CENTRE

Urgent Sales! Beach front 2 Commercial buildings (3 storeys), 14 bedrooms, 16 bathrooms Klong Dow beach, Koh Lanta - Krabi. Contact owner directly - negotiable price: 081 270 8622, 084 841 5635.

NEW Studio Apt in Kathu:

30 sqm, 1 bedroom, kitchen, washing machine, aircon, balcony, fully furnished. Condo with gym, 24hr security, car park. 5 mins to Patong, Loch Palm golf. Good view. B1.25 million. Call 086 947 1273.

Mai Khao Prime Location Land: I will sell my piece of land next to the new tourist attraction in Mai Khao. Perfect for investment in future like shops, guesthouse. Please email for mobile number and more details. ohmidzi@gmail.com.

INFO: 081 788 8280.

EMAIL; thewhite housekata @gmail. com.

in Kathu close to international schools. Views over Loch Palm. All bedrooms with aircon and ensuite bathrooms. Two car garage and secluded garden. Chanote title. Call 084 844 0991

Free Hold Condo For Sale: PATONG condos for sale:

Beautiful, modern Condos/Apartments, furnished, best/quiet locations, garden, s-pool, from 36-67sq metre, sea-city-mountain views, from B2,375. Call 087 819 2162 or caltirol@hotmail.com.

And for rent. Sea view and mountain views. Freehold from 64 to 448 sq metres. Phone no: 080 692 6114. Email: orsoreal estate@hotmail.com.

43 Sq. Free hold. 1 balcony (Great view). 1 bed room. 1 living room. 2 air conditioners. Full furniture. Internet.

Swimming pool. Gym.Automated door lock and key card. Call 080 040 9077.

For Sale Rawai Beach Special Twin Villa.

4 suites/studios, 4 bathrooms, pool, large terrace, small garden, living space 400 sqm. Include luxury furnishing

Villa and farmland for sale:

A big beautiful house with 7 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, fully furnished. Located in stunning panoramic hilltop scenery in Takuapa, Phang Nga, covering an area of 127 rai. Surrounded by fertile farmland with fruit trees. Price 132MB. Contact K. Peerawat: 084 308 8484. Email: peerawat200310@hot mail.com

Sea View Land for Sale: Ao Makham. 5.5 rai, B10 million per rai.

Contact Siriporn 089 649 9939, email: siri_phuket@changrunner.com

Patong Tower for Sale:

F O R S A L E - K ATA BEACH CENTRE LUXURY 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT 60 SQM. PRICE B2,700,000.

LEASEHOLD. INFO: 084 843 8720.

E M A I L; t h e w h i t e housekata@gmail. com.

2 Storeys single house in Rock Garden 5 Village - By Pass Road. Near town, quiet and safe. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms & housekeeper's room. 2 cars parking. Nice English & German neighbours. Call 089 159 3239.

House for sale near Loch Palm: Three bedroom pool villa

LUXURY 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT 60 SQM. PRICE B3,400,000.

LEASEHOLD. INCLUDE FURNISHINGS.

Beachfront Building - Lanta:

Seaview Land For Sale: Land located right in the heart of Chalong with panorama view of Chalong pier.

Close to a number of sandy beaches; Naihan Rawai Kata and Karon. Easy access to major department stores.

Surrounded by public facilities including education institutes and hospitals.

You will benefit from a perfect location that's rapidly increasing in value. 3 rai and 1 Ngan with Chanote title.

B22 millions per rai. Call 087 278 7206, 089 215 5041 e-mail: kubesjoy@ hotmail.com.

Price Reduced, 4beds Villa:

Sales - House near By Pass:

Sea View Off Plan Condominiums: 65m2 Condominium. 1

Bedroom, 1 en suite bathroom, living room, kitchen, pool, large balcony and terrace space, parking. Excellent investment opportunity. See property forsalephuket.co.uk.

Price B8.5 mllion.

SMS for info: 081 788 8280 Email: thewhitehousekata@gmail.com For Russian contact Oxana 080 529 0726 or Email: phuket.lux@gmail.com

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Modern Family House for sale: Beautiful 3 bedrooms villa in New Luxury Villa For Sale: 3 Luxurious Golf Villa @ Laguna Village: MUST BE SOLD !

Surplus to family invest needs. 3-bed, plus maid's qtrs. This home has been lovingly cared for. Leasehold/freehold.

BVI status. POA. Ph 082 810 4184, phuketres@gmail.com

bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, living room, kitchen, private swimming pool (12 metre). House area of 600 sq.m., land 1.5 rai (2400 sq metre). Located on the shore of the ocean on the Koh Kho Khao. Email: larion2555@ gmail.com.

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Rawai. 160sqm indoor. 400sqm outdoor. Shared swimming pool. Modern villa renovated in 2011-2012. Fully furnished. For more info: phuketvilla jasmine@gmail.com

Beautiful Naiharn Pool Villa:

Secure private hillside by Naiharn Beach. Quality furnished throughout. 3 big bedrooms, office, 4 baths, 230 sm plus carport etc. 1050 sm land. New condition. 15x4.6m pool. Freehold.

Nice. 089 727 5407.

Sea-View Contemporary Pool Villla: Located near Phuket

town. L and: 8 5 5 sq.m. H ouse: 650sq.m. Furnished. 3 beds, 2 offices, 2 staff quarters, 1 free room.

2 car parks. Price B54.9 mill.Tel: 081 895 3628 E-mail: jin_koy@ yahoo.com.

F O R S A L E - K ATA BEACH CENTRE 2 BEDROOMS LUXE APARTMENT 135 SQM. P R I C E B 7, 9 0 0 , 0 0 0 .

LEASEHOLD. INFO: 084 843 8720.

EMAIL; thewhitehouse kata@gmail.com.

Surin Beach Office For Sale: Prime location sales office/ Hot Price Sale-PuriAnda Villas: New Pool Villa in Rawai 2 Bed/3 Bath, Built-In & Partial fur. Private pool & jacuzzi, sala, 500 m.to beach Price 7.9 mil.Baht with Chanote title Tel.081 691 3029, E: kris.silanachai@ yahoo.com.

Mansion in Town for Sale:

359.7 sq. 43 rooms. 15 air-conditioners, 28 fans. balcony, hi-speed internet, parking, CCTV and sentry box. In & out with finger scan. Near shopping centre.

B32 million. Call: 090 167 9816 (Eng), 086 300 5052(Thai).

shop. Internal 144 m2, back garden 60 m2, 4 car parks, kitchen, internet, phone/ fax, TV, 5 AC. 6 yrs lease then 3 years rolling, rent B35,000, sale B1.5 million. Call 085 060 0033.

1.5 Rai Private Land Cape Yamu: 1.5 Rai flat land at Cape

Yamu. 2 x 0.75 Rai adjoining plots.

OrBorTor road access to quiet end of soi location. Sale direct from the owner.

B3.75 Million per rai negotiable. Call 081 087 9237.

Cheapest Seaview land for Sale: Panorama view of sea view

golf course view mountain view land for sale. Near Mission Hills Golf course.

6 rai chanote title. B3 million per rai.

087 675 9555, email: pee_bang56@ hotmail.com.

Beaut i ful L and L aguna Cherngtalay: Chanote title, yel-

low zoned, safe area. Nearly 4 rai, direct from owner. Subdivided in 6 plots each ca. 1,000sqm. ready to build. Only B6.75 million per rai. Call 081 367 7683, chanchira.panpaen@googlemail.com.

Seaview 1 BDRM New Condo Patong: Stunning seaview,

Double your money in 5 years!: New Year special promotion: Studio in brand new, world class, eastcoast development. Never seen on Phuket; amazing luxury at real prices.

Call 080 882 1377, email: beachpro jects1@gmail.com.

city view 1 bdrm condo on hill 500m from Patong beach. Fitness centre, roof top pool, security, car park, freehold. Only B4,400,000. Keith 084 628 3430, keithb025@gmail.com.

Lovely 6 bedroom/office.Inc: 2 bedroom SC disable flat. Pool, garden, garage, storage. Opp.Tesco in well established area. Priced to sell at B9,000,000. Call 081 270 4291.

Email:thailandmls@gmail.com.

Condo At The Heights, Kata: Immaculate 2-bed foreign-

Rawai 6 Bedrooms: Rawai Beachfront Pool Villa for Rent/Sale: Rawai

Beach front pool villa for sale. 3 bedrooms, furnished. Contact Siriporn on 089 649 9939.

FO R S A L E - K ATA BEACH CENTRE LUXURY 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT 60 SQM. PRICE B2,900,000.

LEASEHOLD. INFO: 084 843 8720.

EMAIL; thewhite housekata@gmail.com.

Sea View Land for Sale:

Ao-Yon, 13.5 rai, chanode title.10m/ rai.Call Siri 089 649 9939, email: siri_phuket@changrunner.com.

Furnished House for Sale Phuket Villa 5: 3 bedroom Patong Bangla Building for Sale: B28 million, Chanote, 4

floors 6m x 14m. 1st & 2nd tenanted.

Flr 3-staff accom, bath, kitchen.

Separate office with access to lower floor. 4th flr private penthouse one bed. 087 881 7600.

4 plots (3 connecting, 1 separate) 1km north of Airport, along the road to MaiKhao Beach. Sea view towards south east.

NorSor3Gor. 4.5 Rai in total. B4 million per Rai. Contact owner: 081 893 6630.

SeaView near Airport:

furnished house near Kajonkiet School. Secure area, Cul De Sac. Nic e gardens, t wo bathrooms.

B3.5M negotiable. Call 081 370 8114 (Thai) 087 889 3838 (Eng), email:davidgem98@hotmail.com.

Amazing 3 Bedroom Villa With Swimming Pool: Guarded

compound Kokyang Estate Phase II, 3 min to Nai Harn beach, modern interior design, garage, developed infrastructure. For more information: phuketbuyhouse.com/1644. Call Elena 084 305 0634.

2 Bed Thai Style House, Rawai: 110m2 Thai style house, 2

Urgent 6.1 Rai Land for Sale: 6.1 rai (10,000sq metre). - 5

minutes to Naithon Beach. 10 minutes to Naiyang Beach. 10 minutes to Airport. 7 minutes to New Tesco Lotus. - Roadside land and Chanote title. Call 085 793 2718.

freehold unit in award-winning project. 195 sqm, sea view, near gym & pool. Quality furnishing throughout.

Designer kitchen with utility-store. phuket.pn@gmail.com.

bedroom, 2 bathroom, living room, kitchen, dining room, office/study, upstairs balcony, large car park, high walls & electric security gate. MUST SEE! See propertyforsalephuket.co.uk.

N i c e H o u s e + Po o l Fo r Sale: House with pool for sale at

Land & House area 119 sqm. Sale for B13,000,000. Contact 086 036 3944 and 086 282 7457 Khun Touch.

Very Spacious European From Owner: Villa in peace3 - Bed House - Sale or Rent: Sun Palm Village, Chalong.

Nai Harn / Rawai, Balinese Pool Villa, 2 years old, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, price reduced for quick sale. Please call our agent 082 420 70 52 or send email to stayonphuket@yahoo.com.

Balinese Pool Villa:

Happy Home Apartment for sale: Nice apartment, fully

furnished at Rawai. The apar tment is set in a private compound with pool. It is located only 5 minutes from beach and convenient to Phuket Town. Only B15 million.

Tel: 081 893 2165 www.happyho meapartmentphuket.webiz.co.th.

Allamanda (Laguna) Residences/Phuket Sale/Rent: One condo unit, half of a deluxe twin house, fully furnished and equipped, set direct on the picturesque lagoon with balcony right over it. 3 bedrooms each with shower/bathroom, roof terrace. Long term rent or sale. 090 487 8084, utaipan@yahoo.com.

Spac ious one bed room apar tment with ocean view, nor th of Patong. Floor area 96m2 internal and 72m2 terrace including water feature with sala and jacuz zi. Per fect bachelor pad with rental income. Email for info: bart duykers@mac.com.

For sale:

Lounge, dining kitchen, 3 beds and 2 baths. Private swimming pool and easily maintained grounds. All furniture with fitted kitchen included.

Ideal for small family or as rental investment. Contact 081 273 7326, Email: keithmarshall747@gmail.com

Reduced for Quick Sale:

Studio condo at The Point near Lotus, Big C, Central. Fully furnished. Great views 6th floor. Cost B2.8M. Reduced to B2.25M. Call 087 889 3838 or 081 370 8114.

Email: davidgem98@hotmail.com

Land for Sale Cherngtalay: Beautiful 2,400sqm (1.5RAI) Chanote titled land plot in Pasak 8, located on the highest point of a gentle slope.

Quiet and safe area. Only 8.5MB. Agents welcome. Phuketlandvilla@ hotmail.com, 089 875 9609.

Donsak Beachfront Land 3 Rai: 67 metres absolute beach

frontage, fully infrastructured, ready to build. Close to ferry going to Koh Samui. Chanote title. 4.5 MB for all.

Email: nhoj0512@hotmail.com.

Royal Kamala Condo-Sale & Rent: In Kamala. Freehold 1, 2, 3 Bedroom apartment with kitchen, living room, balcony, swimming pool, fitness, security guard, parking. Ready to move. 085-368-3009, salesdirector@ royalkamala.com

Kamala 3 bed pool villa reduced: Expat owner must sell health reasons. Beautiful home, plot size 892sqm, B20 million. Additional plot 1,372sqm, price B3 million. Best buy in Kamala. No question! Call 0862695108, 0807447625 Thai.

ful place in Rawai. Large living area and terrace. 3 bedrooms, 4 aircon, 3 bathrooms, 1 guest toilet.

Western kitchen, garage, laundry, beautiful garden, swimming pool.

612 sqm plot, chanote title. Price B9.5 million. Contact Tanya 083 506 8345, geta909@gmail.com.

Absolute Beachfront: Set on the beachfront, the ff villa offers uninterrupted sea and island views of the south east coast of Phuket.

Situated between two 5 star resorts: Vijitt and EVASON near Laem Kanoi. 081 480 3834, http://www. facebook.com/Phuket.Beachfront.

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List your classified now at thephuketnews.com Luxury Four Bed House In Laguna

RPM Owner Direct Unique luxury condo 2 bed, 2 bath, 155sqm. Foreign FREE HOLD. Recent architect remodel. New Jacuzzi. Views to lake, mountain, marina, pool etc.

Completely furnished to very high standard. Motivated owner leaving.

Beautiful luxury four bedroom house over looking the lake and golf course in Laguna.

Sale: B33.5 million / Rent: B170,000 per month.

Call Mick: 084 818 6045 - Email: mick_bat@hotmail.com or www. silkwind.net/laguna.

Reduced by 600,000B. ONLY 16.9MB.

Contact Brian (Owner) 089 054 4354, +632 906 435 7146, Alan 087 999 6174, bggvirgo@gmail.com.

See RoyalPhuketMarinaCondos.com for complete details.

PROPERTY FOR SALE CONT. Land At Kathu For Sale: Only 2 , 2 0 0 L and , N ai H a r n -B10.9 million for Sale: Condominium for SALE in Patong: Freehold title, Studio type, Sales - down payment 250,000 B D Condo Mine Phuket Town by Sansiri. Finished in March 2014.Corner room on the 7th floor with nice view. 2 Bedrooms Call:089 159 3239.

Sales - D Condo Mine:

32 sqm. of the living area, Furnished, 1 Bathroom, Fitted kitchen with dining area, Swimming pool, Restaurant. Call 083 103 3801 (English and Thai).

Located in Sai Yaun 9, at the back of Mangosteen hotel. Very good access , road, electric, water. Size approximately 30 by 70 metres.

Chanote. Contact 087 897 0501. aleksa@thai-evagroup.com

15 min to Patong and only 10 min to Phuket Town, located at Kathu, total 141 sqw or 564 sqm with ready public utility. Call 081 892 0610, 081 472 0770, tan_ohio@hotmail.com.

Great Investment Opportunity: Completed show house and infrastructure seven further plots for development. 1.5km from Mission Hills Golf Club. Please call 087 888 1761 (Aom) for details.

Waterfront Villa in Boatlagoon: Modern style spacious townhouse. 3 large beds/4 baths. 250 Sqm. one office area and 2 balconies. One private birth for a boat up to 6 meters behind the house. freehold/leasehold.

B9.9 million. Call 082 493 8526. Email: flakes010@hotmail.com.

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Apartment for sale in Patong: Apartment for SALE in

World Class Sea Views:

4 Bedroom British Colonial style house, Cape Yamu, Phuket. Amazing views spanning over 100km, as far as Krabi. Price reduced from B35 to B28 million. 086 279 6283, email: kdesmond59@yahoo.co.uk.

Patong; 50 sqm of the living area, sea-view /mountain view, furnished, Pool, 24hr security, for SALE B2.8M B3.3M. Contact +66 (0) 83 103 3801, 081 415 7774.

Last 1 Studio of The Cleat condo (Phase 1) in Krabi Boat Lagoon, low-rise waterfront Condo built around the lagoon with Mangrove, Sea and Marina view and full facilities. Call +66(0)76 238 948.

Condo in Marina:

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Condos, 1 per floor C/W lift. Located on the 15th fairway 275 M3 per floor total.Common Pool and Sundeck.

Underground parking 1/unit, Floor 3 show unit complete Floors 1&2 are unfinished, waiting for owners choice of flooring and kitchens. Could still develop into one very large private home. Floors 1&2 could be offices star ting from B10 million. Or B32 million for project Partial financing available. Info contact 084 840 1262, north8east98@yahoo.com

Mission Hills.

One rai. Very quiet and private, close to all services, 10 min to school, airport, beach, golf, Tesco. B3.4M. 087 276 0529 for info.

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Superb Ocean View Lux Penhouse: B148,000 per sqm, 288 sqm of heaven plunge pool, 3 bed, 4 bath overlooking perfect panoramic ocean views. Beach shops, fabulous restaurants, nightlife all a 3 minutes walk. B42,624,000. Contact: 088 761 4030 or imgphuket@gmail.com.

Prime Location 35M Lake Front: Fantastic views over the Chanote title at Cherng Talay / Pasak7 (Phuket - Surin Beach area) Phone 090 487 8084. Email: utaipan@yahoo.com.

Land Plot for Sale:

BEST SEAVIEW LANDEVER! Seaview Chalong land price B27.5 million for 2 rai. www.phuket-land-sale.com

lake and Loch Palm. Very quiet, secluded plot but with all facilities ready to go. 1551 sqm plot, freehold leasehold with full Chanote title. 081 273 6959.

Makes a good condo deal now. 1-bedroom, fully furnished, 67 sqm living area. Only B2.99 mil. Big swimming pool. Normal price B3.7 mil. Call 089 872 6895.

Email: jospeder@live.no.

Patong Loft Condo:

Urgent Sale: 6 rai Hilltop Land for sale, near Mission Hills golf club, was B4.2 million per rai now only B2.99 million per rai, full chanote, water/ elec. sea/mountain views. 087 978 5804 (Eng).

Apartment on Golf Course:

Golf View, Kathu. Tastefully renovated large (83m2) apar tment in Phuket Country Club. Golf view. 1 bed but easily converted to 2. Store, large Western kitchen and all furniture included. Ideal (holiday) home.

Contact 081 273 7326, Email: keith marshall747@gmail.com.

Land For Sale: Mission Hills. 3/4 of rai in small community, very quiet and private, close to all services, 10 min to school, airport, beach, golf, Tesco. Was B2.5M. 087 276 0529 for info.

A b so lu t e B e ac h Fro n t Land: Songkla district near new

deep sea port. 4.5 Rai divided into 7 Chanote plots. Reluctant sale.

B4.9M the lot. Email: jmic chia@ yahoo.com or call 087 276 0529.

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Opposite Wat Chalong on the way up to the hill, Chanote, ca. 36 m x 45 m, sophisticated hillside project, proratable, B8.5 mil direct to owner: 085 65 44 0 11 or 089 40 40 737.

Rawai Half Rai for Sale: Land plot 100 metres to Rawai Beach, about 850 sq.metre. Chanote title deed, private road with sewer, 3 phases electricity and wall around the land.

Email: rawai.steen@gmail.com, call 080 530 6880.

Hill Land for Sale: Very nice location hill land by the Bangwat Dam, total 60 rai, 96,000 square metre. Contact: Attapong 081 892 0610 (Thai), Jantiwa 081 890 8268 (Eng). e-mail: jantiwa_ j@ hotmail.com.

REAL ESTATE SERVICES 7 rai with 185 metres of sea frontage. Water, electricity, road and boat access, located 800 metres from Yacht Haven marina, perfect site for small beach front development. For quick sale only B5 million per rai. Tel 081 343 0777 Email: montha_phuket@ yahoo.com.

Ocean Front Land: 3 Bedroom Pool Villa, Rawai: 160m2 Private Pool Villa. 3 Bedroom, 4 Bathroom (3 En Suite), Kitchen, Dining Room, Living Room, Large Balconies & Terrace, Carport. Freehold, Chanote title. 2 minutes from beach! See proper tyforsalephuket.co.uk.

Land & House for sale: 2.5 rai (N.S.-3 K document) near Kathu waterfall. 2 houses, 1 small house & 2 pools, big garage. 3 way Entrance. B28 million. Call 081 893 0540, 076 385 775 email: anong540@hotmail.com.

Paklok Land Only B7,999/ Sqwah: Only B7,999/Sq wah at

Paklok, Chanote, Mountain View, 200m from main road, 11 km from monument and 4 km to Mission Hill.

Interested or want a larger size?

CALL 084 305 6667, email: mari sar1978@hotmail.com

Zion Proper ty CO., Ltd.:

Whether you are selling, buying or renting we offer a wide selection of high quality properties, land and businesses located in the south of Thailand. Please contact us for further information. Call 080 087 1772. See zionproperty.com.

East Coast Sea View Land

Modern Villa in Marina:

A spacious family home in Boat Lagoon.

Modern contemporary style with 4+1 beds, 4 bathrooms. Large dining area, private swimming pool and fully furnished. Size 616 Sq.M. Call 076 238 948.

Patong Condo for Sale: My condo is ready for immediate sale located at Lotus Residence, a small 3-storey boutique condo of only 12 apartments total. It is located on a southern hillside above Patong Bay. Call 084 436 2540.

Total 1.5 rai (2,450sq metre) on gently sloping land with sea view of Phang Nga Bay.

Beautiful Beachfront Land:

Absolute beach front land only 4 to 5 hours from Phuket. Why pay 30-50 million baht per Rai when you can have the best from B1.1 to B2.9 Million Baht per Rai!!! Email: thailandmls@ gmail.com.

206.4 sqm, Chanote title in Phanason residence(next to Makro). 1 min to Central festival, 5 min to town. Call 084 061 4314, 076 393 965.

Land for sale:

2 separate Chanote titles each about 1,200 sq metres (4.5 and 5.5M), or will sell as one lot.

Underground services. 081 273 7326, email: kmar74@hotmail.com.

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F e m a l e C o o k / H o m e m a ke r Wa n t e d: Exceptional conditions for live-in cook /homemaker for semi-retired UK/Canadian businessman.

Separate high quality room with shower & T V in high - end re sor t style surroundings. Must speak English. Send resume to bggvirgo@gmail.com.

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We are now seeking to fill in the following positions: - F&B Manager.

Design Studio - Admin Wanted: Design Studio looking for an ambitious and organised person to join our team. Successful applicant will help with general office administration and the planning of photography shoot.

Applicant must have an excellent command of English. Email: photomorphic images@gmail.com.

- VJ / Light technician.

- Promotions Manager.

- IT Technician.

- Head Chef.

- Graphic Designer.

- Assistant Head Chef.

- Assistant / Secretary / Accountant.

- Flair Bartender.

- Head of Security.

- Singer / Dancer / Performer (female).

Fluent command of English (speaking / writing). Experience in the field required. Must be hard working, flexible, professional, fun & talented. Thai applicants only.

WE OFFER SOME OF THE BEST SALARIES IN PHUKET…HOWEVER WE ONLY HIRE THE BEST PEOPLE…SO HAVE YOU GOT WHAT IT TAKES? Please send updated resume with photo to: clubrecruitmentpatongbeach@gmail.com

HR Manager:

SGS Looking for Thai Female English Teacher age not over 35 must be with English speaking and translating skills. Salary start 17,000-20,000B. Call 081 607 6637.

Personal Assistant Couple Wanted: Thai couple, house & pet care, work and stay at foreigner villa, speak English, no smoking, husband as driver, wife as housekeeper. Contact: aoaphuket@ gmail.com 076 203 010.

Guest Service Supervisor:

Staff wanted:

2 Thai nannies/ teachers. 1 Thai cook/cleaner. Must be able to speak English. Contact 084 442 3671.

Good command in English, customer service skills, knowledge in F&B, HK, front office, Knowledge of computer basic skills, own car with driving license, working in Phang Nga -Natai Beach. Candidate send resume to: hr@luxuryvillasandhomes.com. Office: 6/84 Srisoonthorn Rd, Cherngtalay, Thalang Phuket 83110. Call 076 527 633, 087 881 0003.

Sales Staff Wanted:

Phuket.

Looking for experienced sales staff for new condo project in Surin. Must be able to communicate in English written and verbally. Being available on short notice is a must. Thai nationals only. Email: luc@phuket-tropicalrealestate.com.

Document Control Officer: Development Management Group Co., Ltd is searching for a Document Control Officer for our Patong Beach site. This administrative position controls documents and drawings for a construction site and is open for Thai Nationals only. Successful applicants will hold at least a vocational degree or certificate and have a minimum of 3 years of experience in office work.

Need proven ability to use MS Office and good English communication skills. Knowledge of engineering or construction is a plus. Call 076 617 763, email: tum@dmg-thailand.com.

Headteacher/Coordinator wanted: Phuket International is looking for an experienced headteacher / teacher's coordinator. If you have worked in this position before please contact us for more information. Phuket International Kindergarden and School, Chalong. Email: becky201077@gmail. com.

P.E. / Swim teacher wanted: Phuket International Kindergarden is looking for a experienced P.E. / Swimming teacher for our primary students.

If you are certified in this field and Thai/ Philippine national please apply. Email: becky201077@gmail.com.

A s si st ant Sal e s M an ager: • Thai- Male/Female, 25-

Fulltime, flexible, strong leadership and a good team player. The restaurant has an extensive menu with a focus on pizza, burgers and authentic Thai dishes. See phuket adventureminigolf.com.

Chef Wanted:

Class Act Media is southern Thailand's most comprehensive media company, incorporating Phuket’s leading English newspaper ‘The Phuket News’, Russian language newspaper 'Novosti Phuketa', Phuket’s leading English radio station ‘Live 89.5’, Phuket English TV 'Phuket News TV' and a a host of publications & services including ‘The Phuket Colouring book’ & ‘Phuket Ticket Master’.

SALES REPRESENTATIVES Qualifications: ● Thai or Expat. ● Excellent communication and negotiation skills in Thai and English. ● Highly motivated self-starter with a positive attitude. ● Works well under pressure and has a will to succeed.

We offer: ● Competitive salary, bonuses and travel expenses. ● A friendly work environment. ● Social security paid by the company. ● Excellent career progress opportunities.

Interested applicants are invited to apply in person or send application with full resume indicating qualifications and experience, expected salary and recent photo to: adminmgr@thephuketnews.com Tel: 076 612 550-2 ext 101

Class Act Media Co., Ltd. 99/7 Moo 1 T. Kathu A. Kathu Phuket 83120 Tel: 076 612 550-2 Fax: 076 612 553

35 years • Bachelor's Degree • 2 Years related sales experience • Good command of English • Good computer & communication skills • Own a car & driver license Salary + Commission + Benefits Send CV to : cj@searasports.com

looking for experienced Managers, TO’s & Liners for the expansion of our successful operation in Phuket and Samui. Great product and huge growth potential. 084 847 1320 or salesbt@clubtropicallifestyle.com.

in Bangtao is looking to hire enthusiastic staff - come and join our happy and healthy environment!

Thai English speaking receptionist with basic accounting skills (B20k basic per month) and a customer services assistant to operate the juice bar (B15k basic per month) are required. We are also looking to hire cleaners. Please send CVs with photos to peterantonioni@ gmail.com.

Class Act Media is southern Thailand's most comprehensive media company, incorporating Phuket’s leading English newspaper ‘The Phuket News’, Russian language newspaper 'Novosti Phuketa', Phuket’s leading English radio station ‘Live 89.5’, Phuket English TV 'Phuket News TV' and a a host of publications & services including ‘The Phuket Colouring book’ & ‘Phuket Ticket Master’.

S w i s s S e r vic e / Phon e Operator: Swiss Ser vice / Telephone Operator .Good level of English. Ability to work under pressure. Good in communication and organisation. Responsible and reliable. Minimum one year experience. Contact: HR Department, email: Humanresources.phuket@ swissotel.com or call 076 303 000.

Native English Teacher: Need experienced preschool teacher, 10 -14 children. Start immediately, Chalong, 40 hour a week. Send resume to phuketteacher@yahoo.com.

Sales Consultants Wanted: GB Automobiles is New Hot Yoga Studio In Bangtao: New hot yoga studio

Sales Managers And Reps Wanted: Club Tropical Asia is

Thai Male/Female, 25-40 years, fluent in English, good computer & communication skills, self motivated, background in marketing/Real Estate/ Travel Agency is a must. Please send CV: helena@phuketabc.com

looking for Thai nationals that are fluent in English, self motivated, with a postive attitude and desire to make above average income.

Sales experience preferred but not necessary as full training provided.

Contact shoongiat@landrovergroup.net or call 081 938 8693.

Graphic Designer:

We are seeking a graphic designer /web developer/photographer. Fluent English/ full time/afternoon & evening. Someone with their own material is preferred.

M/F Thai nationals only. Email: vincent@gossippatong.com.

JV Opportunity: JV Partner with a commercial focus sought for Phuket based company. New startup delivering a well-established world know building related system licensed exclusively for design, production and installation in Thailand.

This is an exciting opportunity for the right partner: Chris on 081 956 2966 or Chrisnphuket@ gmail.com.

Looking for people who love animals: and would like to do some volunteer work looking after sick, injured and homeless dogs in Thalang area. Contact: Sherin.peace@gmail.com

Class Act Media is southern Thailand's most comprehensive media company, incorporating Phuket’s leading English newspaper ‘The Phuket News’, Russian language newspaper 'Novosti Phuketa', Phuket’s leading English radio station ‘Live 89.5’, Phuket English TV 'Phuket News TV' and a a host of publications & services including ‘The Phuket Colouring book’ & ‘Phuket Ticket Master’.

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THAI REPORTER WANTED

Phuket’s leading English newspaper is seeking a section editor

The Phuket News is looking for a Thai reporter to join the news desk. This is an exciting position that offers great career prospects for the right candidate

● You will be one of three section editors, covering the areas of Film, Weird World, Technology and Sport ● The role involves a mix of writing original content, sourcing from agencies, liaising with freelancers, and working with graphic designers on page layout ● In addition to interviews and reviews, you’ll be expected to attend events on behalf of the company – these could variously be sporting, social, and advertising-related ● Applicants should have a minimum of three years’ editorial experience at magazines or newspapers ● The role is open to both Thai and foreign nationals Applications will only be accepted by email.

Please send your resume, clippings and salary expectations to: Simon Ostheimer

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99/7 Moo 1 T. Kathu A. Kathu Phuket 83120 Tel: 076 612 550-2 ext 100 Fax: 076 612 553

The successful candidate must: ● Be a Thai national ● Be a proficient photographer ● Have good English writing skills ● Be a strong communicator

● Have a hunger for the news ● Have a willingness to learn ● Be willing to work to deadlines

We offer:

● Competitive salary & bonuses depending ● 5 day work week – (Monday – Friday 8.30 am – 6 pm) ● Friendly work environment & excellent progress opportunities ● Time in lieu policy for any overtime hours worked Interested applicants are invited to apply in person or send application with full resume indicating qualifications and experience, expected salary and recent photo to: adminmgr@classactmedia.co.th.com Tel: 076 612 550-2 ext 101

Class Act Media Co., Ltd. 99/7 Moo 1 T. Kathu A. Kathu Phuket 83120 Tel: 076 612 550-2 Fax: 076 612 553

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A Steal For A Quick Sale: Charter Boat:

62ft Hatteras Style yacht, 35 + 4 crew, large upper deck includes website: www. char terboatsphuket.com, price B5,370,000 or best offer. email: eastcoastefi@aol.com or 087 889 8044.

Speed boat for sale! Now B290,000: 6 metre body Bayliner, 200 HP (EFI) Mercury engine, Yamaha 5 HP back up engine. Blue book. Including: trailer, 2 anchors, and cover, Garmin deep sounder and fish finder brand new. Call 081 477 5637 THAI; 086 283 0082 ENG, RUS.

2007 Italian demo yacht Cranchi 47ft Hard Top. Fully loaded with Tropical air con, genset, Electrical winches, garage, roof, Raymarine Premium Navy, BBQ, Ice Maker, 3 Fridges, “Bose” Sound, Neon light, Twin 570HP with reliable shaft drive, under 300 hours, Brand New Condition. Euro385,000. Call: 089 971 0278, eddyelan@yahoo.com.

13 Metre Wooden Hull Cruiser: Cap. 17 PAX. Wooden hull, 3.5 meters W, draws 1.5 meters, diesel engine generates 123 KW. Perfect for fishing or day tours. Fitted w Fish Finder and GPS. Was B1,500,000 now only B500,000. Call 082 414 6931, email: phil@krabikonnect.com.

Need to sell my SAILBOAT 2 mast 17 meter (50 c.v. Yanmar engine) excellent condition Fully equipped located in Chalong/Phuket valuated price B12 million

Now for quick sale B5.5 million include dinghy Call French: 080 035 1626 English: 081 788 8280 Email: maurice.phuket@gmail.com currently working as a snorkel and sunset tour boat. For sale or long-term rental. Price negotiable for quick sale. dragonheartthailand@gmail.com.

Kawasaki 750Sxi Jet Ski Pro: Stand up. Trick conversion kit, R&D ride plate, Race bars with finger throttle, Hydro-turf floor mat with foot-holds, Very reliable, fast, and great fun. Very good condition. B150,000. Contact: garysmith436@btinternet.com.

Yacht sale 36-ft Searay:

A very good condition with bedding for 5, air-con, generator, kitchenette, BBQ grill, twin propulsion, Mercruiser 5.0L bravo III DTS, raymarine chartplotter, GPS and depth sounder. B4.5 million.

Call 089 647 5204.

Krabi Boat Lagoon: New marina

Speedboat for sale - Hull Only: Excellent condition, 12.18m

sister of Phuket Boat Lagoon, ready to berthing now with marina charge 50% off and long term berth available.

Well protect by sea condition and full facilities provided.Contact Khun Choo 086 281 0330.

Fiberglass Bowrider, 12mm thick hull, 600ltr fuel tank, 150ltr water tank, licensed for 25 passengers, storage area, manual head, 5 years old, B1.4 million o.n.o, contact 076 362 300 Ext.1801.

40FT Steel Cutter Sloop: Ready to cruise. Centrecockpit.

Safe, strong German design. New Sails, 44HP Yanmar Engine, 6 Berths, solar, wind generator, BBQ, dinghy&outboard. AUD$110K. 085 378 0498, yacht.antaia@gmail. com.

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S a l e N e w B o a t S R-18 Finished: SR.Marine, We are professional boat builders. Our showroom in Phuket. This model is SR-18, finished. Price B295,000.

“This price exclude only engine”.

Email: samranmarine@live.com / 081 782 0921.

S a l e N e w B o a t S R- 21 Finished: SR.Marine. We are professional boat builders. Our showroom in Phuket. This model is SR-21, finished. Price B375,000.

“This price exclude only engine”.

Email: samranmarine@live.com/ 081 782 0921.

Luxury Yacht for Sale: For sale 2002 Bertram 510 Flybridge luxury yacht. Reduced to only USD675,000.

Contact Marcus on marcus@leema rine.net.

Fa n t a s t i c B a r g a i n: 2 2 m . I n d o n e s i a n Pi n i s i Ketch: Licensed and registered in Thailand. She is in good condition and

Fu l l y equipped 10m cruiser ready to sail away. Lots of gear & electronics.

Sleeps 4. Volvo diesel. Aries windvane.

Solar panels. Liferaft. GRP dinghy.

ONLY B750,000. kmdelfina@yahoo. com.

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6.5M RIB: New Hypalon tubing and blue cover. On a fiber glass V shaped hull. 240HP Mercury Giving comfortable cruise at 25-30Kts and 40 Kts Max Ideal for family day trips to beach skiing etc. 081 273 6959.

Steppa Fiberglass 32 feet Flybridge two 200 hp Yamaha outboard engines. Ideal for diving and tours. B850,000. Call 081 8942124.

Speed Boat For Sale:

+66 81 892 4804, gordon_asia@hotmail.com

www.phukettransport.com CONTACT PETER: peterb@interglobalau.com PHONE: 0848433492

Boutique Guesthouse & Bar: Boutique Guesthouse, Bar /

Restaurant business for sale. Fully equipped rooms and bar, website and facebook page established.

Well situated only three minutes walk from both Kamala beach and main road with all their amenities.

B1,500,000. Contact: 084 442 7015.

25 year lease for sale. Well situated in fast developing and sought after area close to Laguna. Some fixed rent applies. Contact 087 884 0644 for more info.

Unique Rawai Investment Oppor tunity: We

run a business in Chalong that has paid back 50% of its cash investment in the first year of operation. An opportunity for a similar business exists in Rawai.

This is not a hotel, guest house, restaurant, dive shop, car rental or real estate. This business benefits Thai society as a whole and is environmentally neutral.

We are looking for 1-3 equity investors to make a total 20 million Baht investment. E-mail: tayana55islandgirl@yahoo.com

2 Rai, Cherngtalay:

URGENT Boutique Hotel for Lease: A small boutique Patong Beach hotel offer for long term lease. Location: Patong beach front ocean panoramic view. 18 rooms, aircon. internet, cable TV, telephone, safe, full furnished. Contact: 076 342 197-8, K.Thanin,K.Tum.

5 In 1 Business For Sale:

Good location, 1 1/4 Rai. 1) Jungle bar, 3 TVs, 2 pool tables, seating: 65 pax, parking: 15-16 vehicles, good business. 2) Beauty salon: fully equipped. 3) Massage pallor.

4) Restaurant. 5) Indoor pub: fully equipped, stage, seating: 70 pax.

Lease for 8 years+6 months left on lease. Sale: 5.7 MB. Negotiable!

Contact: five.business@yahoo. com, 091 654 1720, 087 892 6204, (Russian) 085 709 9191 (Thai) (English) 091 654 1720.

Guest house & Business: For

sale / rent long term. 400 sq m. (N.S.-3 K document) next to Swissotel Kamala.

500 m from Kamala beach. B32 million.

Call 081 893 0540, 076 385 775 email: anong540@hotmail.com.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

Sale Bar, Hotel + 1 Shop Rawai Beach: Land plot 700 sq

metre+building+10 bed+10 bath+2 restaurants. Newly renovated. Private financing by owner. Down B2 million + 13 yearly payment of 1MB. Own forever title land. 100 metres to Rawai landing pier. 084 242 8914, rawai4@ yahoo.com.

CARS FOR SALE

For Sale: Nissan Tida year 2010 in excellent condition, full options, low kilometers, first class insurance and registratuion till Jun 2014. First to see will buy. B399,000 O.N.O. Call 082 279 9370.

Boat Sales and Charters: Want to build or charter your own boat to get out among Phuket’s many islands for fishing or pleasure? Then please contact the experts on 081 270 4291 or go to www. fishingboatingthailand.com.

Tile I t: Thalang.

Wana Park on Srisoonthor n Rd. Phuket ’s quality tile boutique.

Tiles for interior, exterior, residential, commercial.

Contact 076 620 168 or 081 424 2828. Email info@ tile-asia.com.

Pa t o n g N ew H o t e l f o r Longterm Lease: 40 rooms with full furnished, TV, fridge, aircon, hot water, swimming pool, restaurant and spa. Located in Soi Nanai villa.

Contact 086 300 9406.

G u e s t h o u se Ca f e B a r Karon Beach: Easily managed

Bar for sale on Soi Bangla:

Located mid-soi on Bangla, Patong Beach. Contact now for best units & special offers on pre-sales. 3 year contract. Price starting B1.7million.

Call 08 5887 7414.

Restaurant/Pub: For sale in Bang Tao Beach Road. Get 10 year contract, great location 50m from Best Western Hotel & Beach. Full furniture and equipment. Price B2.5 million. Call 087 893 8590, Email: somtom_landandhouse@yahoo.de

profitable business lease 5.2M. Fully refurbished, 6 year contract(fully pre-paid). Low rent. Busy Soi 2minutes from the beach. 5 beautiful en-suite rooms. Sports bar, fully fitted kitchen and restaurant area.

Account available. Call 081 891 9461 / livingroom-phuket.com.

Restaurant / Guesthouse: Established restaurant covering two shop houses with private terrace and owners apartment or 8 room guesthouse. Freehold (no lease/rent). Includes all equipment and newly renovated kitchen. Contact for details. Projected ROI 4 years. Call 081 956 3166.

Restaurant/Guesthouse for sale: Located in Kamala.

40 metres to the beach. 10 rooms with full furnishings. Restaurant 54 seats. Price B8 million. For more information call 081 396 0033.

Honda CR-V for Sale: Honda CR-V top model year 2010 for sale, engine 2400cc, 4WD White colour, black leather interior, one owner used only 43280km, very excellent condition. Contact Cat: Tel 084 744 4304 for info.

2 Business For Sale: Good location, Rawai Area -1) Restaurant – 40 pax - leased out 2) Indoor pub: fully equipped, disco - stage, seating:70 pax. Lease - 8 years+6 months left on lease.Sale:2.9 MB Negotiable. 087 892 6204, 087 244 1322, 091 654 1720.

Toyota Vios For Sale: 2007 lady

Business for sale Sport Club for Sale by Owner: Set on 4 rai land with

2 Language & TEFL Schools: The schools are very

successful due to the high de mand of people wishing to learn English as A sia deve l o ps and plays a larger par t in world affairs every day. These 2 schools are lic ensed wit h t he M inist r y of Edu c at i o n a n d t h e C h a - a m branch also holds a TEFL license.

As part of a franchise group, you will always have on-going support for sales and training. The selling price is calculated at 5 times the net profit and with sales growth averaging over 20% year on year, your breakeven point is within 4 years. As all truly profitable business there is no negative cash f l o w. C a l l 0 81 8 4 6 919 3 . S e e insightenglish-huahin.com.

Cement Production Plant:

Ready Mixed Concrete Company’s factory. 446.92 Horse power. Output of workers in the production of 22 people per day at an average yield of about 100 Q/Day (B1,800/Q) average revenue per day for about B180,000. Manufacture of ready-mixed concrete. Can continue immediately. Just buy a cement truck then start delivery.

Ready water source to be used for production. Address: Moo. 4 T. Maikhao Thalang Dist. Phuket 83110. Land Size: 20 rai 2 Ngan and 56 talang wah. Price: B130 Million. Contact: Mr. Lee, mobile: 081 803 7189.

full chanote title. Include tennis court, volleyball court, fishing lake, game room, restaurant and bar and separate guest bungalow for sale or long term lease. Call +66 81 569 6026, +61 498 248 656 (English & Thai) Email:patbittersweet@gmail. com. See www.phuketsport.com.

Business only or business and property. Est 2003. Repeat business from big data base, non-tourist related soft furnising manufacturing and retail business. Genuine enquires only, no tyre kickers.

For further info email samos1941@gmail.com.

BUSINESS SERVICES

Patong Massage Shop For Sale: Cosy renovated shop. Shop is located inside a hotel on a busy street directly leading to Patong Beach. Business from hotel customers as well as from many tourists going to/from Patong Beach. Email: chumpo26@hotmail.com.

3 Business For Sale: Good location, Rawai Area. 1) Big Bar, 3 TVs, 2 pool tables, seating: 60 pax, parking: 10 vehicles, good business.

2) Massage parlor – leased out 3) Beauty salon: fully equipped. Lease 8 years+6 months left on lease - Have owned business for 8 years - Sale: 2.9 MB. Negotiable! 087 892 6204, 091 654 1720.

Bar for sale: Very Busy Mushroom

bar for sale in Soi Bel Air. Wally Bar, all stock, T.V. sound system, beer boxes and fridges included in sale, rent, only B10,000 monthly. Only B600,000 ono. 086 725 0771.

Your specialist of imported food and drinks in Phuket. Visit our shop at the Billion Plaza, opposite Tesco Lotus. Contact: 076 612 733, 076 248 900 or visit: www.phuketfood.com.

Farang Food Paradise:

owner perfect condition B359,000. Tel 081 125 1873, gordon_asia@hotmail. com.

Commuter Van For Sale: 2012 Toyota Commuter Van – Low mileage 13,500 kilometers. Loaded, leather seats, back up camera, video system. Only B900,000. Contact via email: martin@phuketfish boat.com.

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Per fect condition, 20 0 6, manual, 17,500 km, 218 hp supercharged, high end hifi, Recaro seats, Book Service, Ultimate Mini. Collectors item. B1.6m, 089 866 3756 (Eng/Th) frankdreist@ hotmail.com.

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CARS FOR SALE CONT.

Mini Cooper S JCW GP for sale: Only 2000 made worldwide.

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Toyota Hilux VIGO 4 x4 Auto: Toyota Hilux VIGO, 4 door,

4x4, 3.0 Diesel, model 2007, mileage 87,000 km only, first owner, all service by Toyota, new tires, beige interior, Alpha Canopy/front Bull bar.

Call 086 943 8989 Chalong.

Phuket’s oldest international childcare facility.

High-quality, time-proven schedule and curriculum. Now in brand-new purpose-built school. Experienced native English teachers to teach ages 1 1/2-8. Mon-Fri 8am-5pm.

Bus service available from Patong, Karon, Kata, Phuket, Rawai and Chalong. Tel: 076 384 638, 080 624 7060. Website: www.budsphuket.com.

Buds Nursery:

CLUBS & MEMBERSHIPS Phuket Country Club Membership: Lifetime full family memNissan NV 1.6 Pick up:

Had car for 6 years, no problems, excellent condition engine, body, automatic, overnight lock, very good ride. B150,000. Pure Honda rotary mower, like new. Call English 082 516 8717, Thai 086 079 0890.

HONDA CIT Y '03 1.5AT, 118XXXkm: Very reliable and

user-friendly car, carefully used for last 3 years. Good condition with some wears. Clean interior, good car audio, fresh tires. Best choice for young family. Honda serviced only.

Price B218,000. Call 083 102 0070.

Isuzu Dmax 2006, 105,000km, one owner, 4x2, silver automatic, double cab, good condition. Contact 087 079 0650 or 080 073 5371.

Isuzu Dmax:

H o n d a C R- V 2 0 0 2 / G o l d 64,000 Km: Used cars -Honda

CR-V 2.0E (i-VTEC) with clean condition and no bad accidents. Top and full option with complete book service and manual. Year:2002,Engine Size: 2000 cc.,Fuel: Petrol.081 818 9696.

CHILDREN’S CLUB Mercedes E220 For Sale:

Mercedes E220 Year 1995 for urgent sale, great condition, always ser viced on time, drives like a dream. Price: B370,000 negotiable.

Contact: Mr. Lee on 081 803 7189.

PERSONAL SERVICES

Family sports and leisure club. Swimming/golf/ playcentre/ gaming arcade. Contact 076 203 185, 087 882 5544. See funstartphuket. com.

FunStart:

POOL TABLES

PUBLIC NOTICES GENNEWA GOLD MEMBERS: Attention Gennewa Gold members. Please contact urgently. randyalltime@gmail.com

Blue Canyon Golf Membership: Blue Canyon Golf Lifetime

membership for sale! Excellent saving!

B89,500 Call 084 052 2277.

SPORTING GOODS & EXERCISE

Golf Membership for Sale: Loch Palm 500,000 Baht.

Buyer pays for transfer. 083 388 5566. Email borst.jg@gmail.com

Best buy / Best Price!: Phuket Pool Tables offer you the best deals on 2 models of our pool tables, 4’x8’, slate bed, full accessories included, free installation and advise. Come, try, and play before you buy it. Call 081 823 4627.

COOKING CLASS

Nissan NV 1.6 Pick Up, 2006:

One hand, private. Only 96,000 km.

Looks like new. The car is totally revised for B100,000. Fast and agile.

B220,000. Contact Yupin English and Thai: 081 817 4805.

bership (man, wife and limitless kids) at Phuket Country Club. Seller leaving Phuket hence only B570,000 ono.

Transfer fees and this years subscription included. Call 081 273 7326.

Phuket Cooking Academy:

Cooking and baking classes have never been more fun using our topclass professional facilities. With complimentary transport from around the island, head to the best Masterchef kitchen on the island. Learn the tricks of the trade from international award winning Chef, Lionel Raiffort. Learn how to cook, from Thai & European cuisines, to the art of baking. Get involved and make a day of it, groups are welcome. For more information, visit www.phuket-cooking-academy. com or call 081 821 4064.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS FOR SALE Online health food in Thailand. Good karma, all natural, healthy, and organic products. Please contact 082 276 1675, w w w.good karmathailand.com.

Health Food:

Kite Surf Equipment for Sale: 2 new boards, never used.

2 Kites, used 2-3 times. New price was more then 200,000 Baht. Sell altogether for 100,000 Baht. For single items please call: 086 747 9292 (English) or 081 970 520.

Backgammon: Play-

ers Wanted. Tel: 081 577 8443, email: phuketcon nection@yahoo.com

Looking for a VISA Service?

Visa to China, India or Shenzen & no need to fly to Bangkok. Check all procedures by email to jryjariya@ gmail.com or contact 080 887 4431.

PET ADOPTION

SOVEREIGN “Centur y” American Pool Table: Call

us about Special Discount or Low season Rent Rate for Coin-operated Bar table or Profit sharing at PATANAK ARN BILLIARDS Phuket Showroom Opening. Call 081 171 2121, 076 521 211.

Custom Trek MTB HardTail: Trek 8 Series Alu Frame,

20.5 inch (180 cm+) pimped in white.

Fuji/ XT/ Deore drive train. XT SIS disk Brakes, Custom Alex/ Veulta wheels, Sock Shox SID Team front shox. SuperFly bike. Call 081 737 0722.

7th Floor Suites (Hotel) Building For Sale Kata Beach Center 9 apar tments and a 300 sqm Penthouse on the roof plus fully equipped restaurant and pool with terrace are free of rent and now available.

Motorbike Trailer with Tow bar: Professionally built motorbike trailer, with tow bar and coupling.

Cost B45,000 to build, will sell for B25,000. Ideal for dog caring or shopping. Very stable. Please ring 084 858 1917.

MOVING & STORAGE

We Sell Boxes & Moving Supplies: At MY STORAGE Self

Storage you can buy quality moving and packing supplies like individual boxes, bubble wrap, packing tapes & knives plus secure padlocks. We also help you to move and store. Call 076 292 909.

Price total 38 million Baht (9.50.000.euro) include chanote and Thai company.

Mum & Puppy Need a Home Lady & Yam-Lai are abandoned and in desperate need of a loving home. Mum 1.5 years & Puppy 4 Months old female.

I have boarded them at Surin Beach Pet Hospital.

For serious interest email: thewhitehousekata@gmail.com for RUSSIAN; Ms. Oxana Email: phuket.lux@gmail.com

WE ARE LOOKING FOR A NEW HOME

But this is not a long term solution and the dogs can not just be put out on the street as they need an owner. They are both the most beautiful girls who want nothing more than you to love them.

Wonderful with other dogs and great with children. Beautiful loving well mannered girls. They can go together or separately. Call 081 271 3211, email: sonyaklapko@yahoo. com.

Several rescued dogs, cute, cuddly & groomed ready to be loved. For more photos visit ww.doggieheaven.net Or contact: Sherin.peace@gmail.com ***Vaccinated & sterilised

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PC&H hold the fort FOOTBALL

I We’re all still kids SURF SPOT Tim Campbell editor@classactmedia.co.th

REMEMBER THE DAYS OF learning to ride a bicycle. If you were lucky it was probably by your dad holding the back of the seat keeping you balanced while he ran behind you, or you may have had some kind friends who peer-pressured you on and pushed you down the steepest hill in town.

All of us have had incidents in life that have built up or lowered our confidence.

Having your pants pulled down in front of the girl you like in the school canteen line was, ahh, definitely not helpful.

It’s epic to see how kids react when they attempt their first surf lesson. Most kids have this no fear attitude, even though they’re squealing like a girl as they take off on that first wave.

The adrenaline of shooting down the wave becomes very addictive and whether they know it or not their confidence has increased, with their brain having learned, “Wow, I can do it”.

Each and every time their response to the question “Do you want to get another wave?” is always “Yeeahhhh!”

It amazes me how people when they get older – even though they are bigger and stronger – seem to gain more fear of things, or fall into this “Oh, I’m too old for that now.”

Bah, rubbish: to overcome those fears, continue to build your confidence and bring life back to that no-fear inner child that we all have.

A couple I know started surfing when they turned 50 years old and now surf everyday, saying it makes them feel young again.

You only have to sit and watch those who learn to surf and take wave after wave to see their confidence grow. And this then spills out onto the rest of their life and whatever that brings.

Are you ready to jump on the wave?

Tim’s Tip: No matter the size of the wave, keep low.

This will help your balance and set you up for your turns.

For more, email me: info@ skylaphuket.com Surf’s Up Phuket!

Tim Campbell www. skylaphuket.com

Hash House Harriers

t’s now halfway through the fifth season of the Phuket Super Six football league, and the spread in Division 1 stretched further in the Round 8 games as the top teams continued to win and the bottom teams continued to lose. The competition in Division 2 is staying close, with several teams still in the race.

Division 1 Joy Dive FC v Seduction: 3–0 Joy Dive managed to grab a victory against table-jumbos Seduction, after a goalless first half.

Phuket Condos & Homes v Pita Bar Phuketeers: 6 – 2 Phuket Condos & Homes have returned to winning ways, ensuring they stay at the top of the table with this solid win against Pita Bar.

TT Boys in yellow stayed on target with a 4-0 victory against Irish Times. table-toppers PC&H. This week TT Boys showed their experience in Division 1 to stay in third place.

Shakers FC v Great Bangkok: 2 – 1 Shakers gained a valuable win in this match against Great Bangkok, who have changed

Irish Times v TT Boys: 0–4 Irish Times were pulled back down to earth again after their amazing win last week against

Phuket Super Six League Division 1

Team

MP

W

D

L

F

GD

Pts

1

Phuket Condos & Homes

7

6

0

1

45

33

18

2

Joy Dive FC

7

5

0

2

26

11

15

3

TT Boys

7

5

0

2

23

3

15

4

Pita Bar Phuketeers

6

3

1

2

17

-2

10

5

Great Bangkok

8

3

1

4

20

-4

10

6

Shakers FC

8

3

1

4

17

-5

10

7

Irish Times

8

1

1

6

15

-20

4

8

Seduction

7

0

2

5

13

-16

2

Division 2

MP

W

D

L

F

GD

Pts

1

Team Big Apple & Pita

9

5

1

3

30

6

16

2

KTM Phuket

8

5

1

2

29

2

16

3

Gang Junior

8

4

3

1

25

2

15

4

Phuket Serenity Villas

9

4

2

3

36

1

14

5

Rose United

8

4

1

3

35

5

13

6

Mr. Moo

8

4

1

3

32

5

13

7

Sovrana Lounge Bar

9

2

1

6

35

-3

7

8

9th Floor

9

0

2

7

19

-18

2

Pts

their team slightly from the original lineup. Great BKK took an early lead, but Shakers pulled one goal back before the break and were rewarded with a win in the final minutes.

Division 3

Division 2

Nong Ice FC v Two Chefs: 4–6 Two Chefs were down by 4 goals to 1 early in this game, but came back to win the game by the final whistle.

Mr Moo v Sovrana Lounge Bar: 4 – 2 Mr Moo continued their strong form with their third consecutive win in as many games, this time against Sovrana Bar.

Grizzly’s FC v Mew FC: 1–2 An even game tipped in favour of Thai team Mew FC after Grizzly’s lost a player to red card and suspension.

Phuket Serenity Villas v 9th Floor: 5 – 4 PSV inched out a narrow win against still-struggling 9th Floor, who just can’t seem to keep a lead.

Banana FC v Daohang FC: 2–9 There seems to be no stopping Daohang FC, who took down Banana FC with this decisive win.

Big Apple & Pita v Gang Junior: 5 – 2 Big Apple & Pita jumped to the top of the table after with this win against contenders Gang Junior.

Bat Fire v Raum-pheun Coffee Club: 2 – 3 Raum-Pheun were the victors in this close match between two mid-table teams, lifting them into the top half of the table.

Division 3

MP

W

D

L

F

GD

1

Team Daohang FC

8

8

0

0

65

50

24

2

Grizzly’s FC

8

5

1

2

28

4

16

3

Mew FC

8

4

2

2

21

-1

14

4

Raum-pheun Coffee Club

8

3

1

4

26

-8

10

5

Two Chefs

8

3

1

4

31

-10

10

5

Bat Fire

8

2

2

4

21

-7

8

7

Nong Ice FC

8

1

2

5

25

-11

5

8

Banana FC

8

1

1

6

21

-17

4

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Village go top in T20

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n another action-packed Outrigger T20 league double-header at the Alan Cooke Ground on July 14, the Village took on Patong while the second match saw ICC take on the Phuket Youth Development team.

With overcast skies, Patong put the Village into bat, hoping to take advantage of the humid conditions.

They achieved early success, removing the captain, Paul Stamp (7) in the 6th Over with the score on 20.

But Craig Murphy (20) and Simon Wetherell (40) then combined for a 42-run partnership, setting a solid platform for the innings before Murphy fell with the score on 62.

Diwan Mydeen (14) and Wetherell then combined but their partnership came to an end with the total on 98 in the 16th over.

However, a great attacking performance by Mark Whetton (32 not out off just 16 balls) in the final overs enabled the Village to reach a solid total of 145-6.

After the break, Patong set about their chase but lost opener Mike Khan early with only 2 runs on the board.

The Australian National Swim Team, L-R: Bronte Barratt, Grant Irvine, Meagan Nay, Edward McKendry, Brittany Elmslie and Mitch Larkin

A big hit from Craig Murphy for the Village. Photo: Michael Way

Outrigger T20 Cricket Team

MP

W

L

Pts

1

Village

2

2

0

4

2

Laguna

1

1

0

2

3

ICC

2

1

1

2

4

Patong

2

0

2

0

5

Youth

1

0

1

0

However, Seemant Raju (50) and U Kanaja (14) steadied the course and put on a 67-run partnership before Kunaja fell in the 10th Over just before the drinks break.

The Village picked up another wicket a few balls later as Patong headed back to the clubhouse at the break on 74-3.

Paddy Morton (32) then combined with Raju and captain Anthony Van Blerk for a succession of handy partnerships

to take the score along to 126-5 before he fell.

Patong were still well ahead on run rate at the same stage of the innings and needed just 20 runs from 5 Overs to secure a victory.

But a great spell of bowling

by Tom Gordon (4 for 22) saw him clean up the Patong tail-end to deny them victory, and their innings fizzled out to 136-9, just short of the target. The victory puts the Village atop the table,

undefeated after two games.

In the afternoon session, the Phuket Youth Development team took on ICC. The Youth Development team, comprising mainly local Thai youth players with some expat mentors, were put in to bat first and got off to a great start with a 51run partnership between the experienced Bill Stahmer (29) and young Thai lad Best (17), before Best was bowled in the 8th over.

Their innings totalled 137-6 after 20 Overs.

ICC also got off to a quick start with openers Surender Kumar (6) and Balesh Dessai (15) putting on 32 for the first wicket, before young Thai bowler Jay claimed the wicket of Kumar.

In the end a swashbuckling innings from Malik (45 runs from just 22 balls) eventually saw ICC claim victory by reaching 140-6 with 14 balls to spare.

The victory by ICC saw them get a valuable 2 points, but the Youth Development team demonstrated they will be a competitive force in the league capable of beating the other teams.

Another double-header of T20 cricketing action will be held at the ACG in Thalang district on July 21, when the Village take on Patong and ICC take on the Phuket youth team.

Play begins at 10.30 am, and all are welcome to come along to the ACG and watch Phuket’s growing cricket scene.

For more information, visit www.phuketcricketgroup.com

Australian swimming stars visit Thanyapura SWIMMING PHUKET’S THANYAPURA sports complex is providing high performance tune-ups this week and next for some of Australia’s best medal hopes at the 15th FINA World Championships beginning July 19, 2013 in Barcelona in Spain.

Many of the top names in Australian swimming arrived at the Thanyapura Sports and Leisure Club in Thalang district last week, including London Olympic gold medallist Brittany Elmslie, Beijing Olympic gold medallist Bronte Barratt, Australia’s ‘first couple’ of backstroke, Meagan Nay and Mitch Larkin, Grant ‘Grunzo’ Irvine, who clocked the fastest 200m butterfly time in the world this year at Australia’s national world championship trials in Adelaide in April, and Ned McKendry, a member of the fifth-placed men’s 200m relay team in London.

The Australian National Women’s coach Micheal Bohl will be presiding over the specially targeted sessions aiming to wring the last ounce of performance from athletes during the crucial tapering period ahead of the world titles. The visiting swimmers are key members of a legendary national team nursing wounded pride following a sub-par performance by their own world-beating standards at the London Olympics last year.

Ms Elmslie, a 19-year-old

from Nambour, Queensland, held Australia transfixed when she swam the key leg of the women’s 200m freestyle relay at the London Olympics to win Australia its only gold medal in the pool.

Last week she blew away her competition in the women’s 200m freestyle at the TYR Fran Crippen Memorial Swim Meet of Champions in Mission Viejo, a milestone meet ahead of the World Championships, and also took the women’s 50m and 100m freestyle crowns comfortably.

Ms Nay is another swimmer who has captured press headlines and imaginations – her father, Robbie Nay, was a freestyle relay finalist at the 1972 Munich Olympics and tragically died in a car crash when Ms Nay was just four. Mr Irvine, meanwhile, missed a place on the 2012 Olympic team by just 0.27 of a second, and is out to atone for last year’s disappointment.

Bronte Barratt was part of the Australian gold medalwinning 200m freestyle relay team at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. A year before that, Ms Barratt burst onto the scene by breaking one of the oldest records in swimming set in the women’s 400m freestyle by Tracey Wickham 30 years ago.

The visiting swimmers all train with legendary Australian coach Michael Bohl in Brisbane, and took part in the high performance tune-up clinic at Thanyapura until July 14 2013.

SPIRIT OF DRAGONS

The Phuket Dragons’ dragonboat club hosted a group of young Australian and Phuket rugby players out on the waves of Ao Yon Bay last week.

About 25 young rugby players from the touring Joondalup Brothers Rugby Club in Perth and 15 local players from their host team, The Phuket Lomas, were taught paddling and safety skills by Phuket Dragons’ volunteers at the Sail in Asia Training Centre at Ao Yon in beautiful weather last Wednesday (July 10).

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Reprise match lifts Phuket FC FOOTBALL

Thai Division 1 Team

Kazira Hans editor@classactmedia.co.th

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ith the Thai Premier League and Yamaha League-1 matches making way for the Singha All Stars to play Manchester United last weekend (Singha All Stars won 1-0), most teams decided to take a much-needed break. But Phuket FC and PTT Rayong FC agreed to play the remaining 40 minutes of their game from June 9, that was abandoned with the score on nil-all due to heavy rain and flooding.

The reprise game kicked off at 5pm. Both teams were required to field their original players from June 9. Since some now transferred players like Watcharapong Jun-ngam and Poramut Krongborisut played in the first game, Phuket FC’s player choices for the second fixture were very limited, leaving them just 11 players and 2 substitutes.

PTT Rayong greeted the host with an attack early on when Joseph Tirer curled a free kick in towards Phuket’s goal.

The ball slipped from the grasp of Phuket keeper Ninuruddin Nideha when he leaped

Phuket’s Eak-artit Somjit (left) and PTT Rayong’s Terukazu Tanaka. Photo: Kazira Hans to catch the ball, but “SpiderMing” was quick enough to recover it before the PTT footballers got there.

The home side attacked strongly throughout the short 40 minutes game, with Chana Sonwiset and Giorgi Tsimakuridze at the sharp end, trying attacks on the ground and in the air.

Giorgi played in a different style than usual. The tall man was a big help along the right sideline, running to assist his teammates both in defence and attack.

His few close attempts on goal were blocked by PTT Rayong’s keeper Noguchi Pinto, who basically snatched one ball moments before Giorgi’s head made contact with it.

In the last 10 minutes of the game PTT attempted two attacks that were close enough to cause uneasiness in Phuket’s defence, but both shots went over the crossbar.

By the time two minutes additional time was called both teams seemed to be content with sharing the points from a draw.

When Referee Manop Pan-

sakorn blew his whistle to end the short game, some fans left the stadium with mixed feelings, while some were happy that that the one league point moved Phuket FC back to 5th place on the league table.

Phuket now has 27 points, which is a good 16 points behind the top team Air Force Avia FC, and some Phuket FC fans are starting to ask if their hopes of promotion to the Thai Premier League are now an unrealistic dream. But others still believe that they will be able to catch up in their next 16

MP W

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F

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Air Force United FC

8

13

4

1

23

12

43

2

PTT Rayong FC

18

10

8

0

21

14

38

3

Bangkok FC

18

9

5

4

40

10

32

4

Singh Tarua FC

18

9

4

5

28

8

31

5

Phuket FC

18

6

9

3

22

5

27

6

Trat FC

18

7

6

5

33

4

27

7

Nakon Rachasima FC

18

6

8

4

22

6

26

8

Nakhon Pathom United 18

6

8

4

25

5

26

9

BBCU FC

18

6

8

4

20

1

26

10

Saraburi FC

18

6

7

5

21

4

25

11

Ayutthaya FC

18

4

7

7

16

-4

19

12

Khon Kaen FC

18

4

7

7

20

-7

19

13

Krabi FC

18

5

3

10

19

-8

18

14

Sri Racha FC

18

4

4

10

21

-9

16

15

Siam Navy

18

4

4

10

21

-9

16

16

TTM FC

18

3

7

8

13

-10

16

17

Rayong FC

18

2

8

8

24

-11

14

18

1Rayong United

18

3

3

12

21

-11

12

games and make the top-three promotion berths.

There has been some renewed pressure for Phuket FC coach Paniphol Kerdyaem to resign over the team’s peformance over the first half of the season, but a day after the game Phuket FC President Pamuke Atchariyachai wrote a letter to fans on their Facebook page, and it seems “The Boss” is backing “Coach Tuu” 100 per cent.

“We need your support.

Please don’t boo the coach,

don’t throw things at referees or into the stadium. Doing that will only get us fined and Phuket FC will only appear ‘uncivilized’. It won’t worth your momentarily release of frustration. We have to focus, stick together and fight for our goal.”

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Kiwis crush Italians in Louis Vuitton Cup race SAILING

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mirates Team New Zealand won the first real race of the America’s Cup challenger series, easily beating Italy’s Luna Rossa in San Francisco Bay Saturday.

New Zealand skipper Dean Barker’s catamaran came out on top against a familiar foe in the first two-boat race of the Louis Vuitton Cup which serves as the challenger series of the America’s Cup event.

The Kiwis completed the course in 43 minutes, 52 seconds as they sailed away to win by nearly five and a half minutes on the 15.5 nautical mile course.

New Zealand recorded a top speed of 42.33 knots (77 kilometres per hour), compared to Luna Rossa’s 39.95 knots.

“There was a really nice public turnout today, good to have two boats out there on the racecourse,” said the 40-year-old Barker.

“It can only make you better because you put yourself in different positions; you get to find out what’s go-

Emirates Team New Zealand near the Bay Bridge in the first day of racing in San Francisco: Photo: AFP/Josh Edelson ing on around the start line and the first reach. That’s all paramount to how the race plays out.”

Luna Rossa helmsman Chris Draper said, “We ended up almost where we thought we’d be, probably a little bit worse off.

“I think the majority of the losses were in boat-handling and a little bit in upwind boat-

speed. But it’s all fixable and we knew that was there, so no massive surprise.”

On the racecourse, the Kiwi crew dominated the race with Barker steadily increasing his team’s advantage at each mark rounding, especially on the upwind legs.

The next scheduled race is on Sunday and also features Emirates Team New Zealand,

who are favoured to win the 2013 Louis Vuitton Cup. The final round of the Louis Vuitton Cup is scheduled for August 17-30.

Sunday’s race went ahead after a threatened boycott of the opener by the Luna Rossa team over rudder design changes imposed in the name of safety.

The two teams had argued that regatta director Iain Murray exceeded his authority when he made wider, heavier rudder wings part of the package of safety rules he issued in May, a fortnight after British sailor Andrew Simpson was killed when the AC72 catamaran of Swedish team Artemis Racing capsized in training on San Francisco Bay. The change was among 37 safety recommendations made by Murray, but the “Ruddergate” protest was spawned when Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa argued that such a change was a performance rather than a safety issue - and that it gave an unfair advantage to defending America’s Cup champions Oracle Team USA owned by billionaire Larry Ellison. AFP

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Thongchai hopes to inspire new players GOLF T HONG C H A I JA I DE E hopes the strong presence of Thai golfers at this week’s British Open will inspire the new generation of professionals in Asia to shoot for the stars.

Thongchai, who holds an unprecedented three Asian Tour Order of Merit titles, will be joined by current money leader Kiradech Aphibarnrat and reigning Asian Tour No.1 Thaworn Wiratchant at Muirfield.

“Hopefully, the three of us playing in the Open will encourage more people to play golf in Thailand,” he said.

“One day we hope to have a major winner.”

The Thai, who will make his fifth straight appearance at the year’s third major courtesy of his rankings on the European

Tour, hopes to better his tied 13th result at the 2009 edition at Turnberry.

“I think the great thing about golf is you never stop learning,” said Thongchai, a 13-time Asian Tour winner.

“Even more so at the Open, with the possible changes in weather you need to able to adapt quickly. The most important thing is not to get carried away in the moment.

“Take each shot at a time, make the cut and then see where you are at the weekend.

“It’s hard though, not only can the wind and rain make it tough but it’s such an exciting tournament to be part of.”

Ranked No.58 in the world, Thongchai hopes to reproduce his sensational form which resulted in seven top-10s on the Asian Tour and the European Tour earlier this year.

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Sunday 28 July

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Chiefs top tables as Bulls crash to Stormers 30-13 RUGBY UNION NEW ZEALAND TITLE holders Waikato Chiefs finished top of rugby’s Super 15 final season standings after surprise defeats for title rivals Northern Bulls and ACT Brumbies last weekend.

The Chiefs improved their chances of hosting this season’s final next month with a 26-16 bonus-point win over a 14-man Auckland Blues at Eden Park on Saturday.

The Waikato team stayed top on 66 points after the Bulls crashed 30-13 to the Western Stormers in Cape Town to finish second, three points adrift.

Both teams will have a bye when the first phase of the playoffs get underway next weekend.

The Brumbies botched their chance of a top-two finish in a shock 21-15 loss to the lowly Western Force in Perth and they will host South Africa’s Central Cheetahs in Canberra in next Sunday’s qualifier.

Seven-time champion Canterbury Crusaders will have home advantage in the other playoff when they take on the

2011 winners Queensland Reds next Saturday.

The Crusaders ensured a home playoff with a nervy 2517 victory over the Wellington Hurricanes in Christchurch on Friday.

The Reds clung on for a 14-12 win over the New South Wales Waratahs on Saturday to finish fifth ahead of the Cheetahs, who had a final round bye.

The Chiefs bounced back from their 15-43 defeat to the Crusaders the previous week, but they were made to struggle against an understrength Blues.

As if the long flight home from South Africa during the week was not enough of a handicap for the Aucklanders, they were further hamstrung in the 22nd minute when Kane Barrett was red-carded for stamping as they trailed 3-8.

With their season already over, the Blues could have given up but they increased the pressure on the New Zealand Conference winners to the final whistle.

The Bulls were fortunate that the Brumbies had lost to the Force hours earlier. AFP

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Australia’s Ashes bid rocked by Arthur row CRICKET

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fter just a three-day break since England’s thrilling 14-run win over Australia in the first Test at Trent Bridge, the Ashes rivals will meet for the second of a five-match series at Lord’s on Thursday.

But the manner in which Australia competed in Nottingham suggests Ashes holders England will not have things all their own way.

However, just when Australia thought they’d put the departure of sacked former coach Mickey Arthur behind them, the row over the South African’s controversial exit has been reignited in spectacular fashion.

Arthur, fired just 16 days before the Ashes, is taking legal action against Cricket Australia.

He is seeking up to AU$4 million (US$3.69 million) in compensation, claiming he was discriminated against because he was South African and “didn’t understand the Australian way”.

According to Australian

Mi c key A r thur. Photo: Blnguyen broadcaster Channel Seven, the legal documents also reveal a major rift in the team between captain Michael Clarke and former vice-captain Shane Watson.

Clarke allegedly described the role of Watson, one of four players dropped by Arthur for the third Test in Mohali in March, as a “cancer”. The South African called himself the “meat in the sandwich” between the conflicting camps.

Arthur, sacked two years before his contract was due to expire, claimed Clarke embraced the need for discipline, while Watson did not, Channel Seven said.

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Watson has since been replaced as vice-captain by Brad Haddin but the all-rounder remains in the side as an opening batsman.

Wicketkeeper Haddin, whose second innings 71 so nearly led Australia to victory in Nottingham, insisted on Tuesday that all was well with the side.

“The Australian dressing room is fine. I don’t know how many times we need to answer this,” Haddin said.

“All the other stuff that we can talk about is white noise so it’s not something that has affected the side at all.”

Key among the things that cost Australia victory at Nottingham was their top-order batting.

Whether new coach Darren Lehmann can do much to improve it is doubtful, although struggling No 3 Ed Cowan could yet find himself dropped and replaced by Usman Khawaja.

Australia’s tenth-wicket pair were responsible for 228 runs at Trent Bridge, including a world record stand of 163 in the first innings that

featured teenage debutant Ashton Agar’s 98 – the highest score by a Test No 11.

“Our tail has done really well over a period of time now but it’s time for the batters to make sure they’re making the runs,” said Lehmann.

England’s 115-run win in the last Ashes Test at Lord’s four years ago was their first Test success at the ‘home of cricket’ in 75 years against Australia.

The steep slope that runs across the ground can prove challenging for bowlers and batsmen alike unfamiliar with Lord’s but Australia opener Chris Rogers has had the advantage of playing there for Middlesex.

So too does England fast bowler Steven Finn and, despite finding a slow pitch at Trent Bridge not to his liking, Finn’s local knowledge is likely to see him retain his place.

By contrast, Australia may be tempted to give paceman Jackson Bird a run at Lord’s in place of the wayward Mitchell Starc. AFP

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L

F

D

L

1

Team Hawthorn

15

13

0

2

1769 1246

52

2

Geelong Cats

15

13

0

2

1654 1246

52

3

Essendon

15

12

0

3

1604 1232

4

4

Sydney Swans

15

11

1

3

1550 1090

46

5

Fremantle

15

11

1

3

1322 1047

46

1440 1234

40

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MP W

F

A

Pts

1

Chiefs

16

12

0

4

458

94

66

2

Bulls

16

12

0

4

448

118

63

Qualifying Final

3

ACT Brumbies

16

10

2

4

430

135

60

Open Championship

Day 2, Muirfield, East Lothian, Scotland

4

Crusaders

16

11

0

5

446

139

60

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Tour de France

Stage 19: Bourg d Oisans - Le Grand Bornand

5

Queensland Reds

16

10

2

4

321

25

58

6

Richmond

15

10

0

5

Aussie Rules

AFL Toyota Premiership

6

Cheetahs

16

10

0

6

382

24

54

7

Collingwood

15

10

0

5

1432 1309

40

7

Stormers

16

9

0

7

346

54

50

8

Port Adelaide

15

8

0

7

1396 1282

32

8

Sharks

16

8

0

8

384

79

48

9

Carlton

15

7

0

8

1441 1293

28

9

NSW Waratahs

16

8

0

8

411

40

45

10

West Coast Eagles

15

7

0

8

1497 1398

28

10

Blues

16

6

0

10

347

-17

44

11

North Melbourne

15

6

0

9

1540 1327

24

12

Adelaide Crows

15

6

0

9

1372 1339

24

13

Brisbane Lions

15

6

0

9

1250 1556

24

14

Gold Coast Suns

15

5

0

10

1241 1394

20

15

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13:00

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Hurricanes

16

6

0

10

386

-71

41

14:30

16:30

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Super 15

Qualifying Final

12

Melbourne Rebels

16

5

0

11

382

-133

37

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18:30

Aussie Rules

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St Kilda v Port Adelaide

13

Western Force

16

4

1

11

267

-99

31

Western Bulldogs

15

4

0

11

1192 1554

16

16:30

18:30

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NRL

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Highlanders

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3

0

13

374

-122

29

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St Kilda

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3

0

12

1203 1447

12

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01:00

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Southern Kings

16

3

1

12

298

-266

24

17

Melbourne

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2

0

13

1011 1873

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19:30

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B r i t a i n’s C h r i s t o p h e r Fr o o m e approaches the end of the 15th stage of the Tour de France in Mont Ventoux this week. Photo: AFP/Pascal Guyot

‘I’M NO CHEAT’ CYCLING

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our de France leader Chris Froome on Monday hit out at critics who believe he could be following in the footsteps of shamed drugs cheat Lance Armstrong after his stunning win on Mont Ventoux.

Froome hit out at critics who believe he could be following in the footsteps of shamed drugs cheat Lance Armstrong after his stunning win on Mont Ventoux.

“To compare me with Lance... Lance cheated, I’m not cheating. End of story,” the British rider said on the race’s second and final rest day Monday.

Froome reinforced his grip on the race leader’s yellow jersey, with an impressive

win on the fabled climb on Sunday to claim his second mountaintop stage victory of this year’s 100th edition.

But the Kenyan-bor n Briton’s performance, which featured several short but remarkable attacks on the 20.8 km climb to the summit, raised suspicions -- and prompted comparisons with Armstrong, who saw his record seven Tour titles removed for doping.

Froome, who now leads Dutchman Bauke Mollema by 4min 14sec and former twotime winner Alberto Contador of Spain by 4:25, has claimed since the start of the race that he is “100 percent clean” and that his titles would never be stripped in the future.

The 28-year-old reiterated those claims at his team hotel in Avignon on Monday but

indicated he has had enough of being made to feel he is a cheat.

“I just think it’s quite sad that we’re sitting here the day after the biggest victory of my life talking about doping,” Froome said.

“Quite frankly... my teammates and I have spent months away from home, slept (at high altitude) on volcanoes to get ready for this race... training together, just working our arses off.

“And here I am, sitting here being accused of being a cheat and a liar. That’s just not cool.”

Froome finished runner-up in the race last year when Sky teammate Bradley Wiggins, absent this time round after illnees and injury, became the first Briton to win the world’s biggest bike race.

But since then, cycling’s long and sordid history with doping has taken a significant turn, following Armstrong’s confession, after years of denial, that he cheated his way to glory.

Froome’s accelerations on the Mont Ventoux on Sunday caused a flurry of accusations and counter-accusations, notably on Twitter.

Frenchman Antoine Vayer, a former coach of the disgraced Festina cycling team, has been an outspoken critic of Sky and Froome on the micro-blogging site, and regularly posts messages questioning the authenticity of the British outfit.

His counterpart, coach and sports scientist Frederic Grappe, meanwhile, regularly analyses the performances of top cyclists taking into account

several key parameters including V02Max -- the maximum amount of oxygen the body can consume while competing at the very top level.

In an article on www.rtl.fr on Monday, Grappe concluded: “Intellectually speaking, it would be wide of the mark to attribute the performances (of Froome) to doping.”

Sky team chief Dave Brailsford said he believes that making his riders’ power data public, as some critics have suggested should happen, would still not be enough to convince their detractors.

“The latest craze is analysing power data to try and prove beyond reasonable doubt we are not doping. People seem to think releasing that data will provide the proof. I’m not so sure,” said Brailsford.

“Biological passports are not just about (analysing) blood, it should be the whole picture of that individual. We would encourage maybe WADA (the World Anti-Doping Agency) to come and live with us, see all of our data, have access to every training file, compare them to blood data, weight, all that info they could capture on regular basis.”

Froome said there is little else he can do to prove he is not cheating.

“I can only be open. I know within myself I’ve trained very hard to get here,” he added.

“It’s been a long battle to get where I am now. I’ve had the support of a fantastic team.

I can’t talk about anything outside of that.

“I know what I’ve done to get here. AFP