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Phuket to get Organised ‘Russian probe’ targets Crime Centre – DSI boss 24 firms Prapaporn Jitmaneeyaphan reporter2@classactmedia.co.th

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huket, along with Pattaya, is to get a Centre for Control of Organised Crime, the Director of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) – often described as Thailand’s equivalent of the FBI – announced yesterday morning (July 25).

The Director, Tarit Pengdith, said that the centre would open within two weeks, initially at the airport and then at a venue in Phuket Town, yet to be decided. It will be staffed by officials from the Ministry of Tourism and Sports; the DSI; the National Police Office; and Phuket Provincial authorities.

Contact details are not yet available, but once the Centre is open, it will be open to receive information and complaints 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Mr Tarit was one of the leaders of a heavy-hitting crew of about 40 officials who arrived in Phuket to begin an attempt to bring lawlessness among taxis and tuk-tuks to an end, and to crack down on companies with nominee shareholders, starting with Russian-invested firms. Also heading the team was Somsak

Minister of Tourism and Sports Somsak Pureesrisak (centre) and DSI Director Tarit Pengdith (right) accept a petition from a representative of legal taxi and tuk-tuk drivers at yesterday’s meeting at Phuket Provincial Hall.

Pureesrisak, Minister of Tourism & Sports.

The DSI boss said, “The DSI has two main responsibilities [in Phuket], cracking down on ‘mafia’ activities and on foreign-run companies with nominee Thai shareholders.”

He denied there was duplication of work being done by other departments. “We haven’t tried to grab cases from other departments such as the National Police or the Tourist

Police. This is not duplication; it is work in which all departments should help one another.”

After breakfast at the airport, the officials, along with Vice-Governor Jamroen Tippayapongtada listened to a briefing from airport officials on future development of the airport and on problems with unlicensed “black” taxis.

The delegation then headed for Phuket Provincial Hall for discussions about black

taxis and illegally incorporated companies. They were met by a delegation from the island’s registered taxi and tuk-tuk drivers, reinforcing the message that they are fed up with black operators encroaching on their territory and “stealing” their customers.

The high profile visit has ruffled feathers in the province.

On Wednesday (July 24) Governor Maitree Intusut said in a conversation with The Phuket

News that there seemed to be a lack of communication between Bangkok and his office.

Gov Maitree was unable to join yesterday’s meeting because he had another in Bangkok, after being originally informed that the meeting in Phuket would be today (July 26). By the time the date for the Phuket visit was moved forward, he was already committed to the Bangkok meeting.

“The DSI should talk with us and have the same information base,” the Governor said.

“I realise they may have more in-depth information, but they should talk with me.

“And, if the DSI or the Ministry of Tourism & Sport get complaints about Phuket, they should contact Phuket officials.

“Actually, we should all be working together.”

Asked whether the establishment of the new Centre for Control of Organised Crime meant that Bangkok was worried that the Phuket provincial authorities could not handle the growing criminality on the island, Mr Tarit said, “No. But the DSI is able to apply the law more rigorously than the provincial officials.”

‘Bottom smacking’ teens nabbed

A GROUP OF EIGHT TEENage hooligans were caught on Wednesday (July 24) after causing trouble by smacking the bottoms and heads of locals.

Pol Col Sermpan Sirikong, Superintendent of Phuket City Police told the Phuket News

on Wednesday that acting on a complaint from a local, they went to find the gang of teens.

“They were acting silly towards other people, including the cleaners from the Municipality. The cleaners were sweeping the road and the

teens rode their bikes along in a group and hit the bottom or heads of the workers, and upturned a trash can on their heads and laughed,” he said.“We have charged them with stealing motorcycles, physical assault and larceny.”

THE PHUKET BUSINESS Development Office (BDO) has been ploughing through a list of 153 companies registered on the island that were believed to have Russian investors, looking for irregularities, and has zeroed in on 24 particular firms.

By July 17, according to documents obtained by The Phuket News, 97 had already been checked and removed from the list for investigation.

Of these, seven were found to be 100 per cent Thai-owned companies and 44 companies were doing no business. Another 43 were waiting for cancellation of registration to be confirmed, one record was a duplicate, and two companies had been closed and their registration already cancelled.

Another 24 companies had already been registered but had not yet supplied financial records.

Nineteen more companies, the BDO documents show, cannot be checked at present. In 11 cases, registered mail from the BDO was returned by the Post Office, undelivered. Of these, only three companies could be located. These will be checked further. The other eight unfound companies will be deregistered by the BDO. Of the 19, the other eight companies did receive mail from the BDO but did not respond. They are now on a list to be investigated by the DSI. Another 13 firms are on a separate list to be investigated by the BDO over doubts about their shareholders.

These include four retail or souvenir businesses and two in food and beverage, and one each of the following: tour company, property rental company, payment service company, consultancy and management form, dive operator, property developer, and a website design firm.

Once the BDO has finished checking firms with Russian shareholders it will move on to others with Chinese and Korean investors.

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NO PROBLEM Smooth start for Airport-Patong buses Tanyaluk Sakoot reporter4@classactmedia.co.th

T Andrea Woodmansey and her mother Rachel Sharp.

Injured Andrea goes back home Claire Connell editor1@classactmedia.co.th

BRITISH EXPATRIATE Andrea Woodmansey, seriously injured in a motorbike crash earlier this month, was due to head back to the United Kingdom on Wednesday night – but still faces a long road to recovery.

Through a personal loan and donations, family and friends have been able to collect the more than B1 million required to get her back to the UK for medical care.

After the crash on July 6, Miss Woodmansey was taken to Vachira Hospital with a dislocated hip, a broken left femur, a fractured left kneecap, a fractured right arm, a torn liver, a skull fracture, a collapsed lung, and her right knee tearing open.

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ance and urgent medical care is required because she has no movement or sensation in her right arm.

Miss Woodmansey’s mother, Rachel Sharp, posted on the ‘Help Save Andrea’ Facebook page that her daughter was due to fly to the UK accompanied by a doctor, and would arrive yesterday (July 25).

She will then go to the West Middlesex Hospital, where she will be assessed by her former doctor.

However, donations are still required because the personal loan needs to be paid back.

Family have set up an option for people to be a “Warrior for Andrea”, where people have the option of donating £10 a month for 10 months to help meet the costs.

For more details on how to donate, visit helpsaveandrea. com

Duo caught with 1,000 ya ba pills TWO YOUNG MEN WERE arrested at a Wichit Police checkpoint just after midnight on Saturday morning (July 20) after being found in possession of 1,000 methamphetamine (ya ba) pills.

As the duo – Aphitchart “Jack” Galaket, 26, and Surasak “Golf” Thanyaudon, 22 – approached the checkpoint

on Chao Fa East Rd, Surasak, the passenger, was seen to throw something away. As the bike slowed he jumped off and made a run for it.

Apichart tried to ride the bike away from the checkpoint but both were caught and the bag of pills was retrieved.

Both admitted charges of dealing in drugs.

he island’s new bus service made its first run from Phuket International Airport to Patong last Friday (July 19), and it went off without a hitch.

Apart from receiving a few hard stares from some tuk-tuk drivers along the route into Banzaan Market, the first bus, which left the airport at 9:30 am carrying four paying passengers along with a bunch of journalists and bus company officials, encountered no problems.

Among the paying passengers were husband and wife Ben and Kim Webb, from the UK. He is 24 and she is 25. Mr Webb told The Phuket News, “This is the first time for us in Thailand.

“As soon as we stepped out of the airport, we were bombarded by all the taxi drivers. “Pay this, go there” but we wanted to get on the bus. The sign was easy to read and it was exactly what we wanted, and cheaper as well.”

Mrs Webb said, “We just came from Malaysia. It is okay for us because it is cheap, even though it takes about an hour and a half to go [to Patong].

The couple said they were spending three days in Phuket before travelling on to Bangkok.

The airport bus, driven

by Rungphet Parmanee, 41, arrived at its stop outside the JJ Market on Pang Muang Sai Kor Rd at 11 am without incident. Local people were curious – they had not heard about the service.

They quizzed The Phuket News staff. “Is it true?” one asked. When told it was, the locals were delighted. Said one, “It is so good to have a bus to the airport. Now we can go to Thalang or other places

Governor Maitree (left) rides the new bus to Patong. Photo: Veera Kerdsirimongkol more easily.”

No paying passengers climbed aboard before the bus left again for its route back to the airport, down through Jungceylon to Rat-U-Thit 200 Pi Rd to the south end of Patong and then along the beach road, collecting stares from tuk-tuk drivers, and thence out of Patong.

On Tuesday (July 23) it was the turn of Phuket Governor Maitree Intusut to ride the bus.

He climbed aboard with little fanfare, not notifying the press that he was making the trip.

Prakob Panyawai, owner of the service, said, “Governor Maitree took the bus from the airport at 12:30 pm with about 10 of his team, and with some tourists. The Governor really wanted to know how the airport bus service works.

He talked with the driver and other passengers.”

The Governor went only one way, however. When he reached Patong his driver and limo were waiting to whisk him back to work at Provincial Hall.

On Wednesday (July 24) the Governor told The Phuket News, “The airport bus service is a general service for the people, allowing them to save

money.”

The service was originally supposed to travel on from Patong to Karon and Kata but tough opposition from taxi and tuk-tuk operators in the two towns has meant that part of the service was postponed.

The Governor said, “I don’t believe it will affect taxis or tuk-tuks because it is a different target market. They should understand that local people and backpacker want to make their money go further.

“Taxis and limousines will attract high-class tourists because they have the money and want more privacy.

“The buses all look fine.

I did tell the owner that the buses must be kept clean. Also, there are no traps for standing passengers. But the driver and the ticket collector and very polite and good-mannered.

“I believe that the taxi and tuk-tuk drivers will eventually understand that the airport bus is not ‘snatching’ money or customers. Airport buses are an ordinary service that every province should provide.”

Before the bus service was launched on Friday (July 19) there were lingering worries about whether some of Patong’s tuk-tuk drivers might object

to the buses coming into their “territory”, but Mr Prakob told The Phuket News last Friday, “We have had no problem.

Plus, the airport bus is really useful for local people.

“At first, it may be not be as well known as other forms of transport. I do hope that the media will help to raise awareness of it. The number of passengers travelling from the airport has been okay but we haven’t had many travelling the other way so far.

“Sometimes the taxi drivers mutter when the bus passes them. But Phuket people are happy and they want to use the airport bus.”

The buses 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.

In between, the buses stop at Muang Mai, Thalang Town, Tesco-Lotus Thalang, the Heroines Monument, Boat Lagoon, Tesco-Lotus Bypass and Kathu Town.

The service uses eight buses at the moment, each with 22 passenger seats. If the service is popular, more buses may be added.

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Tourist Police budget B190m for CCTV cams T

hailand’s Tourist Police Division says it will spend B190 million during its 2014 fiscal year (starting October 1) to install CCTV cameras in Phuket and four other popular tourist destinations.

It is part of the department’s response to a decline in safety at resort areas, threatening the country’s status as one of Asia’s most popular destinations.

Tourist Police Division commander Pol Maj Gen Roy Inkapairoj said the division is preparing to install CCTV cameras in Phuket, Samui, Pattaya, Hua Hin and Chiang Mai, where the largest numbers of crimes against foreign visitors are committed.

“CCTV surveillance will play a vital role in Thailand’s efforts to improve safety for tourists … it will help to increase tourists’ confidence, both Thais and foreigners.”

Cameras will help police to combat violent crimes in tourist districts and also possibly reducing theft and bag snatching.

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Security cameras will play a vital role in Thailand’s efforts to improve safety for tourists, says the head of the Tourist Police. Photo: Pierre-Alain Dorange der of Australian tour agent Michelle Smith in Kata, in June last year.

He said the project will help to get around the acute shortage of tourist police officers.

“We have around 800 tourist police officers, nationwide, which is not enough when compared with the influx of

tourists today.”

The division will also use a License Plate Recognition Camera system, which is a mass surveillance method that uses optical character recognition to read vehicle registration plates.

“This technology will be first introduced to tourism and

improve security standards ahead of the Asean Economic Community (AEC) 2015,” Gen Roy said.

There are concerns that with the relaxing of travel rules in Asean following implementation of the AEC, cross border crime, too, could increase. TTR Weekly

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Visitor dies after ignoring ‘don’t swim here’ warning A TOURIST BELIEVED TO be Russian drowned off Karon beach on Monday afternoon (July 22). Lifeguards said they had already warned him not to go into the water, but he ignored them.

After he was knocked over by a large wave, the lifeguards went in to try to help him out but he died before they were able to reach him.

The lifeguards said they had warned him not to go into the water not once, but twice, but still he went alone into the sea.

His body, retrieved, was sent to Vachira Phuket Hospital.

Karon police are visiting hotels trying to identify the man.

He brought no possessions to the beach with him apart from a bottle of water. Lifeguards said they thought from his accent that he was Russian.

Karon Beach Chief Lifeguard Uten Singsom told The Phuket News, “We have to be on high alert this week because the weather is pushing the waves to greater heights.

“I am very sad that the tourist drowned after we warned him, and set out warning signs and red flag. It makes no sense to go into dangerous waters.”

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Brett Bean’s mother Lynne displays photos of her son in November when he went missing.

THE CASE OF DISAPPEARing American Brett Bean has been laid to rest with his family calling off the search this week and cancelling the B50,000 reward for information after receiving “several” calls from him.

His mother Lynne emailed local news organisations to say, “Brett has been in contact with us several times. We are most grateful to the Karon Police department, the US Embassy, the news media and the many friends whom we have met in Phuket.

“Their concern for our family has been greatly appreciated.”

It appears that she hoped the media would spread the word to others involved in looking for Brett, who was reported missing after he failed to get on a flight he had booked to the US in November

last year.

Pol Lt Col Chana Suthimas, Karon Police Station Deputy Superintendent for Inquiries, told The Phuket News that the family had not notified him.

“Last month, there was a newspaper report that he had gone home but we didn’t ask the family about that. He left no traces but we have always believed there was nothing sinister – no fights of conflicts – that caused him to disappear.

Local US Embassy Warden Denny Bowman, too, said the family had not told him they had called off the search. The first he knew of it, he said, was when The Phuket News called him on Wednesday morning (July 24).

The American Embassy’s US Citizens Service declined to comment, citing policy that it does not discuss individual cases.

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GET TO WORK! Officials under pressure to sort out beaches Prapaporn Jitmaneeyaphan reporter2@classactmedia.co.th

overnment officials came together last week to try to come up with a formula to bring some sort of order to Phuket’s chaotic beach businesses.

Vice-Governor Jamroen Tippayapongtada, chairing the meeting of Patong and Kamala officials, suggested that owners of businesses on beaches should each be allocated an area of sand. They would not be allowed to build anything on it, nor extend it without permission, but it would be “theirs”.

Everyone working on a beach – masseuses, vendors, beach beds and umbrella renters, and jet ski operators – or on the edges, such as taxi drivers, should have uniforms, the colours of which would indicate their jobs. They should also be issued with ID cards with unique numbers.

This would help tourists to understand who does what, and also identify those who do good things for tourists – or

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Vice-Governor Jamroen Tippayapongtada: Do your jobs or Bangkok will hear about it. bad things to them.

V/Gov Jamroen said he felt the Phuket authorities should help people such as black taxi drivers to get the required permits and licenses to become legal.

That way they would not feel the same necessity to bully others, or threaten other people such as hotel operators. “We should give people the right power to do the right thing,”

he said.

He suggested that officials should set up systems for such people, such as “clubs” which would make it easier to “support” them. “It is better than letting them work illegally,” he said.

He had a suggestion about tourists who don’t listen to warnings by lifeguards: The lifeguard should take a video and send the video to govern-

ment officials or to V/Gov Jamroen himself, so that the footage can be show to the ambassadors of the countries the tourists come from.

“Please inspect the area you are responsible for, and if you find the illegal buildings that should be demolished, don’t just let it go. Officials have a duty to report to the police, and if the business owners still don’t comply with

regulations, officials must take other steps to rectify things.”

He warned, “If you don’t do your job and enforce the law then we will have to refer the problem to Bangkok, who will then send someone down to look at how you are working – and that’s going to embarrass you.

“If we don’t all do our jobs then we may as well all go away and hand over the island to the gangsters.”

He told police representatives at the meeting, “Don’t be scared of the bad guys. Just keep stamping out all evil to do the right thing for the public. Bad guys should be scared of the law; then law enforcement will work and be beneficial.”

The Vice Governor gave local officials 30 days to draw up action plans to resolve beach problems affecting Phuket.

He added, “At the next meeting I would like to see real action plans – not just plans that people draw up and then never carry out.”

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Five hurt as 2 bikes collide

FIVE PEOPLE WER E hurt on Saturday evening (July 20) when two motorbikes collided in Cherng Talay.

Arriving at the scene, police and Khusondharm Foundation volunteers found a blue Honda Click and a red Honda MSX lying in the road badly damaged.

Also lying in the road were the five victims – two women and a nine-year-old girl who had been riding on the Click, and two young men, who had been on the MSX. All five were taken to Thalang Hospital.

The three on the Click were named as Mrs Chalao Ruangrit, 52, Ms Araya Ruangrit, 21, and Kamonnet Ruangrit, 9.

The two young men on the MSX were named as Akadech Duangtien, 20 and Narawit Manabut, 16.

From their initial investigation, police believe that the driver of the Click did a sudden U-turn in front of the MSX, causing the accident, but the five are to be questioned about the crash once they are sufficiently recovered.

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Phuket Drum Circle marks anniversary DRUMMERS, PERCUSsionists, musicians and music lovers are invited to the first anniversary of the Phuket Drum Circle, to be held on Sunday (July 28) at Karon Beach.

For one year now, Phuket drummers and percussionists have been meeting regularly at the northern end of Karon Beach (near the dirt road) to make and appreciate music.

The idea is that the musicians sit in a circle formation and dancers can join in if

they want.

On the group’s website, phuketdrumcircle.weebly. com, it says that the aim is to provide a place where “anyone can groove and have fun” in Phuket.

“The deep groove of the drum circle offers a unique oppor t u nit y to d r u m or dance.”

Sunday’s event runs from 4.30pm until 8pm and is free to attend.

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Awesome: 6 minutes from theft to arrest

Members of the drum circle jump for joy. Photo: Phuket Drum Circle Facebook page

B5m in pirate goods seized O

fficers from Kathu Police Station and the Tourist Police arrested a man in Patong last Friday morning (July 19) after finding pirated branded goods with an estimated street value of B5 million in a townhouse which was being used as a distribution centre for local street dealers.

Following a tip-off the of-

ficers raided the townhouse in Charoensuk village on Phang Muang Sai Kor Rd and found a number of large plastic bags containing more than 2,000 pirate items.

The pirated items included sunglasses, caps, shoes and flipflops, all with the names of qwell known brands including RayBan, Harley Davidson, Red Bull and others.

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Officers also encountered Anukchit Buithasep, 43, the owner of the townhouse. He admitted that he bought all these items to sell on to small shops in Patong. He added that he had only recently started in the piracy business.

He was charged with having pirated products for sale and was taken to Kathu Police Station for further questioning.

Officers go through the bags, itemising the fake products found. Photo: Golf Thairath

POLICE TOOK JUST SIX minutes to catch a snatch-andgo thief who grabbed a Russian woman’s handbag at HomePro, Chalong, on Saturday evening (July 20) at 7.12pm.

Thirty-two-year-old Daria Vladimirovna Kurtova, from Krasnoyarsk, was in the car park in front of HomePro when a man grabbed her bag and ran off with it.

Spotting the theft, a security man at HomePro used his walkie-talkie to alert Chalong Police Station, on the other side of the road.

Officers led by Pol Sub Lt Porwaris Panajinaporn piled out of the police station, armed with a description of the thief – blue top and shorts – and spotted him in Soi Mae Umphan.

They chased and collared him.

A body search of the thief, Atidech Yodwicha, 24, from Maha Sarakham, turned up cash totalling B4,780 but no bag.

Atidech admitted the theft and told officers that he had hidden Ms Kurtova’s bag in bushes nearby. When they went there, police found not only the bag but nine other items including purses, bank books and ATM cards, cached in the foliage.

Atidech admitted these were from previous snatch-andrun robberies he had carried out in the area.

Within an hour Ms Kurtova had her belongings returned to her.

Oil slick from truck flips car A WOMAN DRIVING along Thepkrassattri Rd had a lucky escape on the night of July 17 when she hit an oil slick on the road and crashed, flipping her car onto its side.

Thanasikan Kitikulyothin, 25, was found shaken but only slightly injured when police and rescue volunteers arrived at the scene of the 11:45 pm crash, near the green Dar Ul Itihad Mosque.

After closing the lane so that sand could be dumped on the oil, police tracked down the culprit, a cement pump truck. The driver admitted that as he drove it home, a differential had broken, leaking gear oil onto the road.

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From left, Dr Chamniern Vorratnchaiphan, Senior Director of Thailand Environment Institute; Kittipan Sabkhoon, Mai Khao Marine Turtle Foundation Coordinator; Noppasorn Siripakdee, Director of Human Resources; Dr Ukkrit Satapoomin, Director of the Phuket Marine Biological Center; Kewalin Sukumjittanon, Senior Marketing Communications Manager; and Sean Panton, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility .

Funds raised to help turtles German honorary consul in Chiang Mai, Hagen Dirksen, left, hands over a cheque to Dr Jessada Jongpaiboonpattana, Director of Vachira Phuket Hospital, watched by Methawee Maneesri of the hospital’s International Services Department.

Germans give to meet unpaid hospital bills H

agen Dirksen, German Honorar y Consul in Chiang Mai and member of the Board of the German Help Association, on Wednesday (July 24) presented a donation of B100,000 to the Vachira Phuket Hospital in gratitude “for their untiring efforts over the years in helping German patients and cooperating with German organisations operating in Thailand”.

The money came from the German Help Association of Thailand.

“This association, funded by the German business sector and private donors in Thailand, has been helping Germans who get into some kinds of difficulty, in particular, those who have health problems and accidents,” Mr Dirksen explained.

“We work very closely

with the Germany Embassy, and can act quickly when help is needed. We know that this hospital [Vachira] has been assisting German patients for many years and there have been German patients who were unable to pay, so the hospital has many unpaid bills.”

Mr Dirksen also stressed the excellent cooperation between the Hospital and the German Consulate in Phuket, as well as Dr Gerhard Melcher who works as orthopaedic surgeon in the Vachira Hospital and Olaf Taenzer, a German citizen, who is working as volunteer in the Phuket Immigration Office.

“We also gave similar donations to hospitals in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, and Pattaya.”

Methawee Maneesri of the International Services Department of Vachira Hospital told

The Phuket News, “It’s so nice that the German consular team came today. It feels like it’s like giving us the power to move forward in taking care of people.

“It shows they understand how much we care about their people and how hard we work.”

JW MARRIOTT PHUKET Resort & Spa, on behalf of the Mai Khao Marine Turtle Foundation, donated B100,000 to the Phuket Marine Biological Center (PMBC) to the Injured Turtle Rehabilitation and the Sea Turtle Nursery Conservation Programme.

Staff from the Mai Khao Marine Turtle Foundation Coordinator and JW Marriott visited the PMBC at Phuket’s Cape Panwa to make the dona-

tion. The funds will be used to support the Injured Sea Turtle Rescue Project and the Sea Turtle Nursery.

JW Marriott Phuket Resort & Spa and the Mai Khao Marine Turtle Foundation raised funds and awareness of the protected sea turtles and the preservation of the Mai Khao area which is facing multiple threats.

The number of sea turtles has been severely depleted

in recent years. Commercial fishing kills thousands of them every year, while many more die from eating or becoming trapped in plastic debris littering the ocean.

The Mai Khao Marine Turtle Foundation’s efforts have included a beach and reef clean up, fundraising mini marathon, an educational project for Mai Khao students and releasing turtles back into the Andaman Sea.

A HELPING HAND As part of its ongoing Corporate Social Responsibility project, the executive management team from Dusit Thani Laguna Phuket, led by GM Peter Komposch, hosted 55 underprivileged children for a luncheon at The Holland House child care centre in Phuket Town on July 12.

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It’s time to move on

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he long awaited new airport bus service for the island, which many people thought would never happen, made its first run from the Phuket International Airport to Patong last Friday (July 19). And here’s the remarkable thing – it went without a hitch.

The hope is that if all goes smoothly, and transport groups in Patong seem to be satisfied that their interests are not being badly damaged by the bus service, that satisfaction will be communicated to the taxi and tuk-tuk drivers of Karon and Kata.

These two beach districts were originally planned for inclusion in the bus service, but the drivers in both – defending their patch with more than a hint of aggression – have stated in no uncertain terms that they will absolutely not tolerate the buses coming into their territory.

The taxi drivers have vo-

ciferously voiced concerns that they will miss out on income, but with growing numbers of tourist arrivals in Phuket, and even higher figures predicted for 2014, their piece of the pie is already growing substantially. They don’t need to worry about losing out.

There will always be tourists willing to pay the exorbitant tuk-tuk and taxis fares the drivers charge – people who don’t want to drive themselves on the island, or for whom the price is still cheaper than back home. In other words, the bus should be seen as a complimentary not competitive service.

The taxi and tuk-tuk drivers can only benefit by having tourists delivered to their part of their island. They should think of the bus as a feeder service, from which they can only profit.

Overall, the launch of the bus route is extremely good news for both tourists and

locals. While it doesn’t yet go to Karon and Kata, it covers Patong, the main tourist city on the island. This is still very helpful for tourists, and the other stop-offs along the way are useful to locals.

If the price remains low and the service is efficient, word will no doubt spread amongst tourists and online travel forums that this bus is recommended.

The bus is already well promoted at the airport, however tourists still have to fend off the taxi drivers, who are loath to miss out on a fare.

It is easy to whine and moan about how long it has taken Phuket to get up to international speed with public transport, but at least we are finally making a start. Congratulations must go to the Governor and local authorities for pushing this through for the greater good of islanders.

The bus is going ahead, and there can be no turning back.

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Disgusting! Outrageous! Nuts!

Voranai Vanijaka voranaiv@bangkokpost.co.th

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ach society has its own hang ups and baggage specific to each cultural psyche as determined by their respective historical evolution. But one thing we all share in common is that we tend to see faults only in others and rarely in ourselves. That’s why Thais often whine, “Those farangs %&!@*” – while westerners often cry, “Those Thais *&%#!!”.

I’m not sure what the Thai people’s fascination with Adolf Hitler is all about. Although I do remember that when young we would do the Nazi salute just for fun, having next to no idea who Hitler was or what the Nazi salute stood for.

Following international condemnation, led by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Chulalongkorn University offered apologies for a large mural painted by students that displayed Hitler looming over comic book superheroes at this month’s arts faculty graduation ceremony.

In 2007 and 2011, two Thai schools were also embroiled in controversy for allowing students to conduct Nazi-themed parades.

But apologies or not, people continue to condemn the supposed “best and brightest” of one of Thai-

land’s top universities, as well as the university itself for failing to prevent the incident in the first place.

The truth is, the students responsible might be among the supposed best and brightest, but they would have never been taught history in primary or secondary school.

As such, while they might have a general idea of who Hitler was, they would be clueless as to his affect on the psyche of western society, and thereby at a loss as to why painting a mural that includes his portrait among superheroes should be considered scandalous.

As well, while Chulalongkorn no doubt is a centre for educational excellence, staffed by brilliant academics and students of international standard, saying an institution is “one of the top in Thailand” is like saying Peregrin Touk is one of the tallest hobbits in the shire. He’s still only four-and-a-half foot tall.

So education is the usual suspect.

But also, the frailty of human nature helps to explain it.

It is easy to blame the incident on the ignorance, xenophobia and insensitivity of the Thai people, but that doesn’t tell an entire story.

Ignorance, xenophobia and insensitivity are the plague of every society, with a wide ranging manifestation specific to each culture. This latest

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Competition hots up for the global tourist dollar [Re. Many tourism problems for Thailand to fix – Skal president] Thailand is already losing the battle in attracting more of a wider variety of tourists, especially those from Europe who are choosing cheaper destinations, mostly due to their economic situation.

In terms of putting your eggs in one basket, it is true that an export driven economy like China will not last forever, and indeed we are starting to see cracks appear as the economy starts to dramatically slow down due to the lack of demand from other markets, hence a slowdown in tourists coming from this country is inevitable.

In addition, xenophobic rhetoric in particular is driving many long term expats to look elsewhere, including myself, tired of being treated like a cash-cow purely on the basis of race.

Another example is Bulgaria – a country once thought

to be void of tourists is starting to roll out the red carpet.

Prices being charged are at a fraction of what they are in Thailand, making this place an ideal holiday destination.

Myanmar, another country which is realising its potential, will dramatically affect tourists numbers.

There are indeed many other countries prepared to go the extra mile to accommodate tourists. This leaves Thailand in a very precarious place, where competition is extremely fierce.

If Thailand wants tourists, then hard decisions must be made to make them more welcome. If the government continues to ignore these demands, then I’m afraid the country will lose out.

Reader

CCTV not the only solution for police [Re. Tourist Police to spend B190m on security cams] CCTV cameras do not prevent crime. They “may” assist in identifying the criminals, but what should be happening is

episode is just a Thai one.

I would argue that while this is not the same, it is also not so dissimilar to western media making fun of the Islamic prophet, leading to radical Muslims calling for a jihad. Or somebody insulting or drawing a caricature of the Thai royal institution, which would cause conservative Thais to scream for a three-to-15-year prison sentence.

It is important here to recognise that when it comes to cultural insensitivity, western society does not react to offences as violently or insanely as most other societies. The explanation is because western society is more democratically evolved, and therefore tolerance and freedom of speech is more valued. Hence, we have the context of historical evolution.

Again, we all have our hang ups and baggage, sensitive spots in our cultural psyche, specific to our historical makeup. This sensitivity of course makes little or no sense to those who do not share our cultural heritage, those who do not live and breathe our psyche.

And so the Thais would wonder, clueless, what in Buddha’s green earth is the big deal about displaying a historical figure and symbol that are Adolf Hitler and the Nazi salute?

While a typical westerner would

be gritting and spitting, wanting to throw the big book of World War II at them.

At the same time, westerners would wonder, clueless, what in God and Yahweh’s green earth is the big deal about the Thai King and royal institution to make it so untouchable? While a typical Thai would be gritting and spitting, wanting to throw the big book of royal protocol at them.

But while western society may not react to cultural offences as strongly as other societies, citywide riots, looting, burning and pillaging is a normal occurrence if their favourite hockey, basketball or soccer team win or lose a championship or an important game. So there you go. We all have reasons to go nuts.

In this, the Thai people have always thought such behaviour uncivilised and downright stupid. That is, until recently. We now have a proper and successful soccer league of our own, complete with loyal fans. With all the rioting and fighting done by Thai Premier League fans, we now realise that uncivilised and downright stupid behaviour surrounding a sporting event is not exclusive to any one society.

Some countries obsess over democracy, oil, weapons of mass destruction, pre-emptive strikes,

HAVE YOUR SAY for the police to be proactive in crime prevention.

This means removing many existing problems, for example the tuk-tuk/taxi hoodlums from outside hotels and resorts, walking the streets and arresting those that refuse a “move on” order.

By walking the streets, this will deter muggers as well as make locals and tourist feel safer, CCTV cameras will not do this alone.

Laurie Howells

Not just the fault of the students [Re. Apologies for Hitler mural, says Chulalongkorn University] So why didn’t any of the teachers inform the kids while they where creating the mural in the first place?

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Spread the word about the bus [Re. Phuket airport bus service starts with no problems] I’m not surprised in the least that locals didn’t know about

religious supremacy and defending one’s nation against farmers and shepherds halfway across the world. Other countries obsess over feudal institutions, medieval religious doctrines, shirt colours and skin-whitening technology.

Such obsessions make you see the bogeyman everywhere. Every society has things they are just too eager to go nuts about, which makes little or no sense to other societies.

But if we only see the faults in others, then we have human frailty plus a side dish of hypocrisy.

The point of the article is human failings exist everywhere, and are stupid everywhere. But when stupidity rears its ugly head, then too often we choose to fight it only with anger, disgust and outrage that lead to more stupidity. Then it’s stupidity on stupidity, which simple arithmetic proves is doubly stupid.

So when cultural insensitivity occurs, don’t just express disgust and outrage, even though it’s perhaps the first instinct to kick in.

Also take a deep breath, and then, with generosity and magnanimity, express the need to educate.

Voranai Vanijaka is Political and Social Commentator for the Bangkok Post.

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the service. Maybe The Phuket News should consider printing a Thai version, so they’re made aware of what actually happens on their island.

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all your cash, and then if you are on a high hotel floor, toss you out the window and the local cops call it a suicide.

It’s happening every week, especially in Pattaya. You better watch your drink.

Peter

Do you see many locals reading newspapers? As I have noticed most of them prefer to watch soap operas or comedy shows.

If they read newspapers, the island would have more developed civil society and problems with corruption and everything stemming from it would have been solved a long time ago.

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Thailand not a safe place for tourists?

[Re. US scientist suggests new theory for Canadian sisters’ deaths] Tourists are being robbed and murdered in Thailand like hotcakes. Here’s how they do it.

They spike your drink when you’re not looking, take you back to your room, take

[Re. Young Russian busted in Phuket] Funny I never hear about illegal Nepalese, Laos, Cambodian or Indians getting arrested for working as salespeople in these stores, as this is a job reserved for Thais.

They even work in the big shopping malls like Jungceylon selling knock off merchandise on the basement floor.

Good luck finding a Thai in OTOP – all you will find are extremely rude illegal workers.

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Put pants on, for your own sake [Re. Top Phuket tipster takes scooter prize] Hopefully he’ll at least be

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wearing some proper pants when he rides his nice new bike – riding any kind of twowheeled motorised vehicle without pants is just plain dumb in my opinion, even if it is hot here.

While I don’t expect tourists to go out and buy them – they shouldn’t be on any kind of motorcycle anyway in my opinion, unless perhaps they are properly licensed back home and experienced to ride in a country where many others don’t follow traffic regulations or common sense practices – resident expats here who ride bikes might consider to drop a little cash on some Kevlar riding jeans that a couple of big bike shops sell here (about B5,000 a pair; they’re heavier and not cheap but neither is your skin or hospital bills).

Otherwise a regular pair of jeans is your best bet and certainly offer more protection than shorts.

Please, for your own safety and best interest use some common sense and wear decent pants while riding!

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Thai Police experiment with methods of catching hitmen

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hai Police are experimenting with a new approach in their detection and arrest of hitmen.

From preparing lists of the “most wanted”, to making “criminal suspect calendars” which feature photos of wanted suspects, their approach demonstrates that police are desperate to cut down the number of hitmen who bring violent and, in many cases, shocking scenes to society.

Yet their attempts have not been fruitful.

The number of killings by hitmen remains at a disturbing level.

As a result, police are trying to find more efficient methods to deal with the problem and one among them stands out: Systematically categorising them.

The idea has been initiated by the Crime Suppression Division which believes dividing suspects into four groups and checking their relations and movements with close associates – parents, relatives, and friends – will enable investigators to know how to more effectively approach their targets.

The CSD divides the hit-

Well-known Phuket journalist ‘Ae’ Inside was murdered in a professional hit in January 2012. men based on experience in killing, their life patterns and bio-information, deputy CSD commander Pol Col Akkaradet Phimonsri said. Under the CSD’s four categories, hitman level 1 refers to those who are professional gunmen, no matter whether they are wanted under arrest warrants or not.

Convicted hitmen who have been released from jail

are included in this group.

The level 2 hitmen are newcomers.

The CSD believes this group is the most dangerous because they are not shy to take orders to kill anyone to add their “successes” to their profiles and hope to eventually be upgraded to the first group.

Suspects in level 3 are those who come under the umbrella

of influential figures or mafia.

Most of them have not been the subject of arrest warrants.

The level 4 of criminal suspects are those who are not hitmen by career but have murdered people during conflicts.

Still, about 30% of the suspects in the fourth level tend to have contacts with people in the third group.

Pol Col Akkaradet said people in this category will eventually be lured by money into becoming professional hitmen.

A key to the arrest of these hitmen and their masterminds is that police need to know their background and what they will do next, Pol Col Akkaradet said.

For example, officers must block suspects in the second group from promoting themselves up to the first group.

The CSD has compiled two “most wanted” lists – the 2011 list has 75 suspects and the 2013 list has 100 suspects.

For the 2011 list, police have arrested 22 of those named, and two on the list have died.

As for the 2013 list, four have been arrested and two have died. Bangkok Post

19 dead in massive Saraburi bus smash NINETEEN PEOPLE DIED and 23 were injured Tuesday when a double-decker coach collided with a truck in central Thailand and burst into flames, authorities said.

Police in the central province of Saraburi said a fouryear-old boy was among the dead.

The inter-province bus, which was travelling from Bangkok to Roi Et in the northeast of the country, caught fire after the incident.

Images from Thai television news showed the extent of the damage to the vehicle, which appeared to have been completely incinerated and reduced to its metal shell.

“Altogether there are 19 dead – 18 died at the scene and another one died at the hospital,” an official from the national institute for emergency medicine in Bangkok, who asked not to be named, said.

Authorities said three vehicles were involved in the crash.

Police have arrested the driver of the cement truck, who they said appeared to have lost control of his vehicle just before the incident.

“The truck crossed from

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the opposite lane of traffic and hit the bus,” said local police officer Lieutenant Colonel Assavathep Janthanari, adding that a pickup truck behind the bus had also been involved.

He said the dead and injured were from the coach and the pickup truck.

It was not immediately clear how many people had been travelling in the coach.

Witthichart Kallayanamitr, director of the company under the ministry of transport which owns the bus, said its normal capacity would have been 32 people.

Safety standards are often poor in Thailand and transport accidents are relatively common.

Earlier this month an over night sleeper train travelling from Bangkok to the northern city of Chiang Mai derailed and injured 23 people, including 18 foreign tourists.

In April at least five people were killed, including a seven-month-old baby and a Belgian woman, and 53 were injured when a Thai tour bus plummeted off a hillside in the northern province of Phitsanulok after its brakes failed. AFP

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IN BRIEF Shocking rape, torture claims at Australian asylumseeker camp Australian Immigration M i n ist e r Tony Bu rke Wednesday described as “horrific” explosive claims that asylum-seekers at one of its processing camps in Papua New Guinea are being raped and tortured.

A former senior official at the Manus Island facility also detailed “almost daily” self-harm and attempted suicides while warning weapons were being accumulated in readiness for a break-out attempt.

“I’ve never seen human beings so destitute, so helpless and so hopeless before,” Rod St George, the former head of occupational health and safety at the centre, told SBS television.

Myanmar frees dozens of political prisoners Myanmar has agreed to release some 70 political prisoners, an official said Tuesday, after President Thein Sein vowed to free all dissidents by the end of the year.

The move, the latest gesture of reform by the former general who has ushered in a period of sweeping change in the country, was greeted with caution by activists concerned that authorities are continuing to prosecute dissidents. The president signed an amnesty for about 70 political prisoners. AFP

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Bollywood films keep up the gangster fascination

string of Bollywood releases this year show the Indian film industry’s ongoing fascination with Mumbai’s underworld, following a murky history of links between the mafia and the movie business.

Spy thriller D-Day, which opened in Indian cinemas on Friday, is one of three new Hindi films that appear to draw inspiration from the lives of Mumbai’s notorious gangsters.

Directed by Nikhil Advani, D-Day tells the story of Indian intelligence agents trying to capture “India’s most wanted man” from Pakistan, known in the film as “Iqbal” or “Goldman”.

The character, played by veteran star Rishi Kapoor, bears a striking resemblance to former Mumbai mafia don Dawood Ibrahim, one of India’s real-life most-wanted men.

Like the film’s antihero, Ibrahim is known for donning a thick moustache and sunglasses, is thought to be in Pakistan and is the alleged mastermind behind the 1993 bomb blasts in Mumbai, which killed 257 people.

“We have used real life events as triggers to create a public enemy and tell a story with fictionalised situations, without going into the main character’s back story,” the director said.

When asked about the likenesses to Ibrahim, he

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Indian Bollywood actress Maryam Zakaria performs in Mumbai in March. Photo: AFP/STR said “a hint is enough for the intelligent”.

Any real-life basis to gangster films is rarely openly stated by filmmakers to avoid any legal or personal backlash.

The upcoming thriller Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai Dobara (Again) looks at a love triangle involving a gangster called Shoaib Khan, who is also widely thought to be inspired by Ibrahim.

“The characters are based on research and references.

But unlike real world dons, our cinematic dons sing on rooftops and are flamboyant.

Ours is a work of fiction,” said the film’s director Milan

More than 100 rescued after Indonesia boat sinking: official MORE THAN 100 ASYlum seekers who were feared dead have been rescued after their boat sank off the coast of Indonesia’s Java island, an official said Wednesday, confirming that one child had died.

Indonesia’s rescue agency was alerted by Australian authorities on Tuesday evening.

“We don’t know exactly how many were on board, so we’re focusing on searching for any more that may be out there,” Bandung search and rescue chief Rochmali said early Wednesday, adding the figure would likely be between 100 and 200.

“We don’t know where these people are from. We will just focus on ensuring they’re well and making

sure no one else is still at sea,” he said.

The boat sank in heavy seas off the fishing town of Cidaun in western Java, from where rescuers set out in their own boats and in vessels lent by the police and fishermen.

Survivors would be taken to hospital, Rochmali said, adding the body of one child, the only confirmed dead, had been recovered.

Reports in Australia said the asylum seekers were mostly from Sri Lanka and Iran.

Australia has struggled to stem an influx of asylumseekers arriving by boat, with record numbers turning up in 2012 and more than 15,000 so far in 2013.

Hundreds have drowned

making the journey – as recently as last week a boat sank, killing four people – with the latest disaster coming just days after Canberra announced a hardline new plan to send all unauthorised arrivals to Papua New Guinea (PNG).

Asylum-seekers arriving in Australian waters will now be sent to the Manus Island processing centre on PNG and elsewhere in the Pacific nation for assessment, with no cap on the number that can be transferred.

Even if found to be “genuine refugees” they will have no chance of being settled in Australia, instead having to remain in PNG, be sent back home or to third countries. AFP

Luthria.

Its 2010 prequel Once Upon a Time in Mumbai told the story of Sultan, rumoured to be based on late gangster Haji Mastan, but the filmmakers released a statement denying this after Mastan’s family took the matter to court.

It is a scenario Sanjay

Gupta was keen to avoid in his film Shootout at Wadala, released in May, about the rise of a gangster called Manya Surve who was killed in 1982 by the Mumbai police.

While Surve’s name stays the same in the film, those of several other principal characters were changed just before

the release.

Gupta said there were grey areas in the law and that it was difficult to know exactly who would be angered by any perceived likenesses.

“My wife was most relieved when we decided to change the names,” he said.

Shootout at Wadala is based on a chapter from the book Dongri to Dubai: Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia by crime reporter S. Hussain Zaidi, who has written about the underworld’s links to the Hindi-language movie business.

The connections ran deep in the 1980s and 1990s, when the film industry depended on the underworld for funding.

Extortion, kidnapping, threats and shootings were signs of how the two worlds appeared to collide.

Before he fled India in the early 1990s, Ibrahim himself was photographed alongside various Bollywood stars at social events, underlining the once-extensive connection between the worlds of glamour and guns. AFP

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William and Kate show off royal baby BRITAIN’S PRINCE WILliam, his wife Kate and their newborn baby son were spending their first day at home as a family Wednesday, a day after the royal couple showed off the future monarch to the world.

A smiling Kate told the massed ranks of international media on Tuesday that motherhood was “very emotional”, while William said they were still choosing a name and revealed that he had already changed the baby’s nappy.

The new third-in-line to the throne raised a tiny hand above his white blankets but remained peaceful, despite deafening cheers from wellwishers and the shouts of photographers outside St Mary’s Hospital in London.

“It’s a special time,” said the 31-year-old Duchess of Cambridge. “I think any new parent would know what this feeling feels like.”

The duke, also 31, told reporters that “he’s got her looks, thankfully” as Kate playfully demurred, then added: “He’s got a good pair of lungs on him, that’s for sure”.

The royal baby’s birth at 4.24pm on Monday sparked a global media frenzy, fuelled by the fascination that has surrounded the couple ever since they married in April 2011.

The first photographs of Britain’s new prince dominated newspaper front pages on Wednesday, with the sapphire ring formerly belonging to William’s late mother Diana conspicuous on the hand of Kate.

Many of the papers, including the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail, carried a picture of the day-old baby apparently waving to the throng of photographers and well-wishers on Tuesday.

“Baby’s first royal wave” said the Daily Mail’s “magical picture souvenir” edition, while the Daily Mirror ran a similar headline: “Royal wave? I’ve cracked it mum”.

The Daily Telegraph argued that the birth had secured the monarchy “for another century at least”. AFP

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Somali refugees nervous as Kenya eyes their return R

ow after row of tin shacks and shelters made of plastic and branches stretch almost as far as the eye can see in the world’s largest refugee camp, home to over 427,000 Somalis who fled war.

Dadaab, in northeast Kenya, is a grim place few would choose to call home, but many here are nervous about the growing pressure to leave this camp and return to their unstable homeland some last saw two decades ago.

Kenya, which hosts more than 600,000 Somali refugees, has made clear its ambition to send them back, and is in talks with the government in Mogadishu to start the move.

“I don’t know of a stable place in Somalia” to return to, said Abdi Arte, leader of the Kambios section in the sprawling camp, set in arid bushland some 100 kilometres inside Kenya.

“But the government is insisting to have refugees relocated back home.”

Last month, Kenya and Somalia signed a deal for “voluntary repatriation”, with plans under way to work out

Abukar Ibrahim helps his five-year-old daughter to sip medicine at a local hospital in Mogadishu. The famine in Somalia was caused by a severe drought, worsened by conflict between rival groups fighting for power. Photo: AFP how people can start moving back.

Kenya’s new government has steered clear of strong-arm statements made last year when Nairobi ordered more than 30,000 refugees living in urban areas to return to remote and overcrowded camps.

But based on past experiences, refugees are worried.

Rights groups have accused Kenyan police of a brutal campaign against Somali refugees, following a string of grenade attacks or shoot-

ings inside Kenya blamed on supporters or members of Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents.

Human Rights Watch, in a report released in May, documented multiple cases of police rape of Somali refugees.

“The police held the detainees – sometimes for many days in inhuman and degrading conditions – while threatening to charge them, without any evidence, with terrorism or public order offences,” the report said.

Somali refugees say they are eyed with suspicion by police, even though many of those actually charged for attacks have not been ethnic Somalis.

Impoverished Somalia spiralled into repeated rounds of bloody civil war beginning in 1991, allowing piracy, militia armies and extremist rebels to flourish.

Last year an internationally-backed government took power in Mogadishu, defended by a 17,700-strong African

Union force – including Kenyan troops – but its control beyond the capital remains fragile at best.

There is no doubt that many refugees long to be able to return to a safe home in Somalia.

The problem is whether that is available.

“I want to go back home,” said Amina Yussuf, who lives in Dadaab’s Ifo 2, a crowded camp, insecure and beset by violence and abductions.

“I fear being raped here in the camp,” she added.

More than a million Somalis are refugees in regional nations, the most from a single country after Afghanistan and Iraq.

But another million people are displaced inside the country, a sign that Somalia is still very far from the stability needed for large scale return.

Many of the youth were born in the camps – or were too young to remember Somalia when they fled – and have little knowledge of life back in their home nation.

In the first six months of this year, 21,000 new Somali refugees were reported arriving in neighbouring nations. AFP

King Philippe, defender of a united Belgium PHILIPPE TAKES OVER as Belgium’s seventh sovereign facing the challenge of maintaining the unity of the linguistically-divided nation.

During 20 years on the throne, his father king Albert II’s main task was to bridge the growing gap between Belgium’s French-speaking south and Flemish-speaking north.

Criticised in some quarters as being too shy and diffident, Philippe said on taking the oath as king that he would rise to the same challenge.

“I begin my reign with the will to put myself at the service of all Belgians,” Philippe told parliament.

Speaking in the country’s three official languages – French, Flemish and German – he pledged to respect the constitution and maintain Belgium’s “independence and

King Philippe of Belgium with his wife Queen Mathilde on July 21. Photo: AFP/Belga Photo territorial integrity”.

“Some parties ... want to rip our country up. They’ll have me to deal with – I can be fearsome, I won’t take anything lying down,” he had said more bluntly in 2004.

Born in Brussels on April 15, 1960, the 53-year-old is the eldest son of Albert II who came to the throne on the

death in 1993 of his brother king Baudouin, who had no children.

In 1999, Philippe married Mathilde d’Udekem d’Acoz, a charming Belgian aristocrat 13 years his junior, who brought a touch of glamour to the otherwise staid Belgian monarchy.

Philippe and the popular

Mathilde have four children, including Princess Elisabeth who was born in 2001 and who is in line to be Belgium’s first female head of state after the Salic succession law was changed to end the automatic right of the eldest male heir to take the throne.

Philippe has two siblings – Astrid who is married to Archduke Lorenz of AustriaEste and Laurent, the “enfant terrible” of the Belgian royal family.

But he may also have a half-sister, Delphine, an artist who insists she is Albert’s illegitimate daughter.

In the 1960s and 1970s, when relations between Albert – then crown prince – and Paola were at their worst, the couple paid little attention to their children, more often than not leaving them in the hands

of friends or with staff among the royal household.

As a youngster Philippe was timid and had a Roman Catholic education in Brussels and in Flanders without ever shining particularly.

He went on to military school, training as a fighter pilot and paratrooper before going to Oxford and Stanford but as a young man remained introverted and apparently ill at ease in public.

In 1993 when his mentor king Baudouin died, some had expected that the then 33-year-old would succeed but it was felt Philippe was “not ready” and instead Albert stepped onto the throne.

In the years since, Philippe has gained in assurance and headed dozens of economic missions for Belgium across the globe. AFP

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TRADE BOOST?

Proposal sees new Phuket triangular RoRo route Janet McNab.

New GM for Westin Siray STARWOOD HOTELS & Resorts have appointed Australian Janet McNab as Area General Manager for South Thailand and General Manager of The Westin Siray Bay Resort & Spa, Phuket.

Building on a successful role as General Manager of The Four Points by Sheraton, Sukhumvit 15 in Bangkok, Ms McNab brings a wealth of knowledge and professional experience gained over 25 years with Starwood Hotels & Resorts, the company says.

Ms McNab said, “I am delighted to be in Phuket and to be working closely with the Westin team to support them to reach their full potential.”

Ms McNab is Australian and joined Starwood at the Sheraton Brisbane Hotel and Towers. After completing an MBA in Australia, she began an international career by moving to China.

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proposal to open a new shipping route linking Phuket with Penang in Malaysia and Belawan in Indonesia is being studied by a working group under the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT).

The proposal would see using roll-on, roll-off (RoRo) vessels used “to enhance trading activities within the triangle”.

RoRo ships are similar to drive-on-drive off car ferries, but much larger. They are typically used for delivering vehicles from one country to another. Many RoRo vessels also have space on deck for shipping containers and other cargo.

Backed with funding from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and conducted by the Japan International Cooperation Agency, the study covers the size of vessels, jetty requirements and guidelines for the vessels.

IMT-GT Joint Business Council (JBC) Malaysia chair-

If the plan comes to fruition, Phuket might see ships like this calling at the Deep Sea Port. man Datuk Faudzi Naim Noh was quoted by the Sun Daily newspaper in Malaysia as saying that the existing Penang-Belawan-Phuket route currently sees the transport of some 10,000 TEUs (20-foot equivalent units) of containers a month.

“A RoRo vessel can carry 70 lorries and 200 passengers,” he told a press conference following a recent briefing session by the ADB. The new service is still a

long way off. Faudzi Naim said the adoption of RoRo vessels, which are widely used in Indonesia and the North Sea area, will depend on the upcoming privatisation of Penang Port and infrastructure requirements.

Business Times of Malaysia quoted him as saying, “It has been a year since we heard that Seaport Terminal (Johore) Sdn Bhd was the successful bidder of the privatisation of Penang Port, but nothing has moved

since then.

“Those from the shipping and logistics industry are holding back on investments and business decisions as we continue to wait for the latest on this development and what plans Seaport Terminal has for Penang,” he added.

“The first part of the survey will be presented to Penang shippers before year-end,” Faudzi Naim said.

He warned, “There are currently enough flights being

served by various carriers to Indonesia and Thailand from Penang and ferries take cargo, so the RoRo operations may not be feasible.”

Peter Bricknell of local shipping company Phuket Universal Services hopes that it will happen.

“It’s a very positive idea,” he told The Phuket News.

“There’s a rapidly expanding market in Phuket.”

He does not see the service being used in Phuket primarily for vehicles, but for boats on trailers. “It would be a fantastic service for that,” he said. “And any move involving the use of Phuket as a port of call would bring better facilities and better infrastructure.

“The question is whether [Chaophraya Terminal International Co, the operators of Phuket Deep Sea Port] will support such action, given their dedication to passenger ships.

“It will be exciting news if it happens. That said, we’ve done a number of studies on Phuket port for ship operators and they’ve always ended up in the ‘too hard’ basket.”

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AirAsia for Siem Reap Many tourism problems need A fixing – Skal

irAsia will soon begin flights from Bangkok to Siem Reap, a route that has long been dominated

by Bangkok Airways.

The budget airline’s entry into this market comes with an impressive promotional one-way fare of B999, which will likely kick off a price war between the low-cost carrier and its more established competition.

Technically AirAsia is advertising a B79 fare, but as you’ve probably surmised that’s simply too good a deal to exist. In addition to the fare itself, there’s a fuel surcharge of B220 and airport tax of B700.

The extra taxes aside, B999 is still a great deal for a Bangkok-Siem Reap flight and far more reasonable than a comparable Bangkok Airlines flight, which currently runs at B6600.

AirAsia said that the pro-

Thai president

Siem Reap is on the edge of the ancient Khmer capital that includes the spectacular Angkor Wat temple, Cambodia’s most popular tourist sight. Photo: David Sim motion is available only for the first 8,000 seats. Once the promotion is over tickets will cost about B3,000.

For years the high cost of this route made it prohibitively expensive for many backpackers, but the Cambodian government seems to have woken up

to the financial incentives and finally invited low-cost carriers into the fray.

Last year Siem Reap attracted 1.5 million foreign visitors, while Cambodia as a whole was visited by 3.5 million foreigners, who contributed more than US$2 billion (B60

billion) to its economy.

Thailand’s AirAsia chief executive Tassapon Bijleveld said it took the airline five years to obtain permission. AirAsia will be the first budget carrier and third airline to operate the Bangkok-Siem Reap route, the Bangkok Post reported.

Bangkok Tourist Court ‘to open Sept’ THE MINISTRY OF TOURism and Sports believes it can have a tourist court up and running in Bangkok by September – less than two months from now – with similar institutions to follow in Phuket, Pattaya, Chiang Mai and Samui.

At the end of last week Tourism & Sports Minister Somsak Pureesrisak said that the ministry will sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Justice next month and hopes to see tourist courts established the following month.

“The tourist courts are making good progress... the courts will be set up at popular tourist destinations... and the Ministry of Justice has a budget to fund intensive training courses in France for judges,” he explained.

The courts will operate at existing district courts, but in the evenings, so they can handle tourist-related cases quickly and not disrupt the all ready crowded daily schedule of court sessions.

“We are opening the court to protect the rights of tour-

ists and provide fairness to those who may have been the targets of unfair treatment from [people such as] tour agencies.”

Trials in the tourist courts will be for civil cases such as disputes over prices and scams and not criminal cases.

The courts will operate from 4.30 to 8.30 pm in Bangkok at first and then be extended to district courts in the other four places.

However, he noted, there are complications, as existing regulations will need to be

changed and new legislation will be required. He admitted these factors might slow implementation.

No timetable was given for the start of tourist courts outside the capital.

Mr Somsak is pushing for the tourist courts because the current court system, in which quite simple cases may drag on for months, is not a practical avenue for justice for tourists, who need to return home to their jobs and cannot afford to see their cases through the system. TTR Weekly

THAILAND HAS MANY tourism problems that need fixing, the Skål Thailand President, Andrew J Wood, said in a speech last week.

He warned that Thailand risks losing tourists to other destinations if it cannot improve its infrastructure. In particular, he warned that Malaysia will take away lucrative retirees because of its more welcoming attitude to them.

Speaking at an industry function in Pattaya, Mr Wood – who has been in Thailand for 22 years and is director of Worldwide Destinations Asia – recalled a recent visit he made to China, which now provides the largest number of tourists to Thailand.

Much of what he said has direct implications for Phuket’s tourism industry.

“During my recent visit to Shanghai I was briefed by the tourism office that Thailand expects to welcome 6.09 million Chinese visitors in 2014.

“During a meeting in Bangkok with TAT Governor Suraphon Svetasreni I asked if this figure was a problem being such a high proportion of 28 million arrivals next year?

“Like me, he was worried about [having] too many eggs in one basket, and whether it was sustainable both statistically and environmentally.

“My personal observation … is that we need more infrastructure development … fast trains, efficient public transportation – buses, trams, bicycle lanes, subways.

“In Bangkok we have to bite the bullet and introduce car-free areas and charge for bringing private cars into the CBD. Reducing traffic in this area of the metropolis is essential if we are ever to tackle chronic congestion.

“It’s not just transport – [it’s] tourist safety too; at every touch-point it is vital; safe taxis; fire fighting equipment

Andrew Wood. in hotels and guest houses; 3rd-party insurance for tourists and comprehensive hospital/ medical care, especially in up-country locations.

“In addition [we should] eliminate double pricing; provide efficient high speed free WiFi; increase policing to control scams by jet-ski operators, jewellery shops, taxis, tuk-tuks and mafia controlled businesses.

“Malaysia has an excellent attitude to retirees including Malaysia My Second Home.

MM2H is an initiative promoted and supported by the government to allow long stays with a multiple entry visa.

The MM2H visa is initially for a period of 10 years and is renewable.

“Thailand could learn from this programme for visitors who wish to retire or semi-retire.

MM2H allows applicants many benefits currently not available in Thailand. As a result Thailand is losing out to this lucrative niche.

“Tackling the shortage of tourism personnel has to be a national agenda item.

The industry needs 10,000 hospitality graduates per year, however our universities and colleges are pumping out less than half of that.”

He saw one bright spot among all the criticisms: “We have seen medical tourism grow from almost nothing to an industry that adds millions of visitors per annum. Thailand will attract 2.4m foreign patients this year.”

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Laguna launches Shores Phase 2 T he second and final phase of the Laguna Shores waterside development in Laguna Phuket has been launched, following the success of Phase 1.

Laguna Shores is in the middle of the Laguna complex, and will be managed by a new hotel brand under the Banyan Tree Group.

Almost 60 per cent of the 229 units in the six-storey U-shaped Phase 1 building are already reserved, Laguna says, and Phase 2 offers an additional 105 units in another six-storey building aimed at a mix of Thai and international buyers.

The development’s one-and twobedroom apartments start from B4.5 million and range in size from 40 to 88 sqm, in various layouts that include a number of apartments with mezzanines that increase the living area floor space.

The apartments look out across one of the lagoons in the Laguna complex,

with a view further out of the Andaman Sea – the classic sea view premium demanded by so many buyers of property in Phuket.

Owners will also get a Laguna Resident’s Privilege Card providing benefits and discounts of up to 50 per cent at selected Laguna Phuket five-star hotels and facilities.

Payment plans of up to five years are available for the apartments with furniture and fittings packages available. Investment and lifestyle rental programmes will also, Laguna says, “provide maximum flexibility and choice to investors”.

Laguna Property has sold nearly 800 homes to date, with numerous phases of developments sell-out successes. Its other branded luxury properties include Banyan Tree Residences, Dusit Thani Pool Villas, and Laguna Village.

For information visit lagunaproperty. com or email info@lagunaproperty.com

Laguna Shores. Phase 1 is the U-shaped building, which Laguna says is almost 60-per-cent reserved. Phase 2 is on the left.

Try doing this on a rainy beach in Britain... Photo: Coral Seekers

TAT aiming to boost UK wedding tourists A ROMANCE-AND-WEDding theme will be the main strategy for luring British tourists to Thailand in the coming few years, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has decided.

It plans to use the theme for its booth at the World Travel Mart 2013 in London, in November.

Britons are among the top five highest-spending tourists in Thailand, and the TAT sees potential to increase the weddings and honeymoons segment.

It found that 300,000 British couples had weddings last year and 80,000 couples chose to hold ceremonies or take their honeymoon trips abroad.

Siripakorn Cheawsamoot, director of the TAT’s London office, said the agency is promoting Thailand as the first romance destination for British citizens, with beautiful beaches and luxury pool villas.

A TAT study showed 755,691 tourists visited Thailand from April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013 for honeymoon and wedding purposes, generating revenue of B29.9 billion.

“Thailand is one of the most popular long-haul honeymoon and wedding destinations for Britons,” Mr Siripakorn said.

The TAT plans to attract first-time visitors, families and honeymoon and wedding couples as well as travellers aged 50 and above, who account for two-thirds of Britain’s population.

Although European economies are still in trouble and outbound tourism from Britain dropped by 5 per cent last year, British visitors to Thailand grew by 3 per cent to 873,053 in 2012.

Mr Siripakorn said British travellers, especially retirees and honeymooners, are interested in doing voluntary work on their travels. Many

like to visit South Africa, and Thailand should promote this segment.

Big British travel agents are opening concept stores and promoting products through social media. Mr Siripakorn suggested the TAT use more social media and high-definition video file uploads to promote tourist destinations.

According to GfK Martketwise Ltd, couples from North Asia made up 29 per cent of Thai tourism’s wedding segment from April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013, led by South Korea (11 per cent), China (8 per cent) and Hong Kong (6 per cent). Following closely were those from Europe, at 28 per cent, led by the United Kingdom (5 per cent), France and Germany (3 per cent each).

Third in the ranking were couples from Asean, at 15 per cent, led by Singapore (5 per cent), Malaysia (4 per cent) and Indonesia (2 per cent).

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BITE OF THE GOLD BUG How did something intrinsically so useless become so valuable to us?

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s the price of gold goes ever lower, my friends, the masses have begun to reject it as a form of investment.

Gold Bugs shrug off such short-sightedness because they, together with your humble Bonobo, view the recent lull as an forthcoming buying opportunity.

The loose monetary policies that prevail today, and the tenuous global economic mess they have left in their wake, could mean that gold is a safer bet than cash over the next few years.

The Gold Bugs love gold for what is: It has been around for millennia, much of that time serving as the basis of one monetary system or another; it can be held in the hand and massaged; it cannot be created

Try eating one of these, or putting it in your gas tank. Of course, when it comes to attracting a mate... Photo: Kotivalo out of thin air (like a fiat currency); nor can it be destroyed (err, also like a fiat currency).

Present-day gold bugs aside, mankind has had a love affair with gold which has endured throughout the millennia.

Only a handful of other creatures on this fair planet are so instinctively attracted to gold, metals or other shiny objects. Jays, Magpies and Jackdaws have all been known

to steal rings and other jewellery – abandoned by their owners on window sills – and to abscond back to their nests with their new-found booty (as if they also know something the rest of the animal kingdom doesn’t).

A nd some mam mals, predominantly your fellow primates, share the same attraction … but why? Where, my friends, does this love of

all that glitters come from?

One of the main evolutionary drivers for survival in humans was the need to be able to find adequate water and food supplies.

This suggests that early man was probably attracted to the reflection of the sun on water and to the bright colours of fruit in the trees. Those ancestors, especially during long migrations, who could reliably detect either of these from a distance had a greater chance of survival, and they passed on their genes.

Like birds that are attracted to and eat only certain fruit, humans were once exclusively fruit eaters (way back in the days when your genetic ancestors were tree dwellers).

Nearly every fruit in the world is magnificent in colour, so the development of the human perception of colour was integral to the survival of your species.

So as mankind evolved it developed a penchant for anything shiny or colourful.

As humans began to twig the effect that shiny and colourful things had on other humans (that it both attracted and held their focus) they began to wear shiny objects on their persons.

Just a small glint from the object could create a dramatic effect on others, and the shinier the object the greater the effect.

The early humans who realised this could see the power that they had over others, most importantly the opposite sex, and thus jewellery was born.

Shortly thereafter, giving the opposite sex a gift of jewellery became a part of the courtship process, and even today a man can win over the heart of woman with a “shiny” gift that she can display to the world on her person (although from the Bonobo’s experience, Louis Vuitton handbags hold more

sway today than jewellery).

In some cultures jewellery may also have been a sign that a woman was “taken”, in much the same way that an engagement or wedding ring today indicates the same thing.

But just how long have human beings been trying to draw attention to themselves?

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of jewellery used in Cro-Magnon times (ca. 40,000 BC), primarily mother-of-pearl, ivory, teeth or bones – all of which could be polished to a bright shine.

Shells and beads are thought to have been in use far longer than that – about 100,000 years ago in Africa, around the same time that the first Homo Sapiens ventured up out of the Great Rift Valley to reach the Eastern Mediterranean.

As with other pack animals, humans like to stand out in the crowd, so people began to wear jewelry to make a statement, sometimes symbolising that that person had power which exceeded their physical prowess, thus creating a completely different breed of alpha male (a metrosexual tribal chieftain, of sorts).

But all humans crave recognition, not just the overlords, so the wearing of jewellery provided a much desired form of self-identification, and enhanced self-esteem. As in much of the animal world, the male would adorn himself in such a way as to attract females, and the more flamboyant the male was in his display, the more chance he had of winning over the females.

But the true love of all things shiny did not take its current form until the discovery of gold (at the same time the concepts of “value” and “wealth” also entered the hu-

man consciousness).

When man first began working in gold, a new era in jewellery was born. Gold was beautiful, shiny and malleable, while being virtually indestructible.

That combination of permanence and beauty made gold desirable and valuable, and as time progressed, no matter how the fashion of the day may have changed, people’s love of “bling” grew even stronger.

Over the ages, gold has been hoarded by kings, governments, dictators and holy men, all of whom viewing it as a symbol of their wealth and status.

Some humans have no love of gold whatsoever. One such individual is Warren Buffet, who has his own views on the shiny stuff. In his words, “Gold gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace, then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it and pay someone to stand around guarding it. It has no utility.”

Mr Buffet has a point, I suppose. We look at the strange habits of other animals with which we share the planet, and ponder their quirks and behaviour.

What possesses a magpie to search out shiny objects and make off with them, like a jewellery thief fleeing back to his lair? Mr Buffet sees the similar strange obsession in humans, and adds, “Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head”.

But the Mike Myers character Goldmember gives us the other side of the argument.

As he says to his arch enemy, “You see, Mr Powers, I love GOLD! The look of it, the taste of it, the smell of it, the texture...” And maybe it is just that simple: we can’t explain why … we just love it.

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Phuket artists impress at Krabi awards

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All the fun of the fair at the Kathu Festival

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A statue of a mythical “naga” snake on the waterfront at Samila beach. Photo: Prapaporn Jitmaneeyaphan

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Phuket entrants win big at Andaman Painting Contest Ramon Bencharitiwong editor3@classactmedia.co.th

We are proud to be an organisation that has helped to find future art superstars and create meeting places for artists and provide cultural programmes for the community

Clockwise from top left: Winning entries from Patima Kanjansakorn, Sawat Junrayanot and another Phuket artist.

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wo Phuket entrants in the Andaman Painting Contest scooped up prizes galore at the inaugural arts competition held in Krabi on July 7.

Sawat Junrayanont won first prize in the adult section, while 10-year-old Patima Kanjanaaksorn took out the top prize in the 10-12 year old age group.

They each won a cash prize of B5,000, art accessories and two pairs of domestic round-trip airline tickets.

Paramee Chamsat, Project Creative Coordinator for the Krabi Art and Culture Centre, where the event was held, said, “We are proud to be an organisation that has helped to find future art superstars and create meeting places for artists and provide cultural programmes for the community.

She added that it wasn’t a lack of ambition or talent on the children’s part that was proving to be an obstacle for Andaman art to flourish.

“Many children are so eager to learn, however, we do not have enough teachers to teach them.”

The Krabi Art and Culture Cen-

tre will officially open in February next year, which is where all the artwork from the event can be seen.

There were also six other contestants from Phuket who won cash prizes in their categories.

Last chance to experience ‘50-50 So Every Thing is 50/50’ show Jody Houton editor3@classactmedia.co.th

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he Phuket Art Village’s weird and wonderful 50-50 Every Thing is 5050 art exhibition comes to an end this weekend.

Art enthusiasts, hipsters and young families are recommended to drop by and see some of the fascinating exhibits.

Event organiser and village resident Pui told The Phuket News that he hit upon the idea of hosting an international art exhibition because he wanted to help his fellow artist friends.

“I know a lot of artists from around Southeast Asia,” says Pui. “I wanted to help my Filipino artist friends showcase their work here [in Phuket]”.

As well as artists from the Philippines, there were also representatives from Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, and South Korea, as well as many Thai artists in attendance who turned up on the one day workshop on June 8.

One artist in attendance was PG Zoluaga (above right), who was the creator of the exceptionally intriguing ‘How Can We Sleep’ installation – a makeshift hanging cot, complete with baby, made from completely reclaimed materials.

“So we were all asked to create something different to the other and I saw these materials in the backyard and I first saw this and though that this is perfect material for a crib.

“I also used a fishing floater for the face.”

How Can We Sleep is just one piece of around 30 pieces that can be viewed until this weekend.

But fear not, the international arts exhibition will be back soon.

“I think it was a great success and want to do the same thing next year, even bigger and better in fact,” Pui says.

The Phuket Art Village is located in Nai Harn. Heading towards the lake, it’s the first right after Da Vinci restaurant.

For more information, visit facebook. com/phuket.artvillage

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Tracking down Phuket’s highest point Marque A Rome editor@classactmedia.co.th

It was about 4pm and I was bushwhacking when this monkey attacked me from above. He first came down and took my hat. Then he jumped down again and grabbed my watch and broke it, then jumped on my backpack and started pulling my hair, and trying to grab my arm

Clockwise from top, A wonderful view from a Phuket peak; Glenn Fleagle mid-trek; Glenn’s GPS tells him he’s found the highest point on the island.

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lenn Fleagle finished hacking a trail north-to-south across the mountain ranges of Phuket on the first day of summer (June 2), a project that spanned five years.

His trek led him into territory still so wild and difficult to access most people – not even natives – have ever seen it.

He also discovered that the island’s highest peak is not Mt Mai Thao Sip Song above Patong, as usually adduced, but another, apparently nameless, peak in the Kamala range.

Fleagle, a 62-year-old professional musician from rural Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, is known in Phuket for his many performances at the Phuket Blues Festival, but less well-known for his love of outdoor pursuits, especially hiking.

Fleagle is one of only 155 ‘triple crowners’ certified by the American Long Distance Hiking Association-West as having hiked the Appalachian (3,515 km), Continental Divide (5,000 km) and Pacific Crest (4,270 km) trails, the former two on multiple occasions. Each such adventure – which follows the ranges’ spurs and ridges – takes the better part of a year to complete. The whole requires hikers to traverse more than a million feet (304 km) of vertical gain.

He has also hiked across the Iberian Peninsula’s Pyrenees range, from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean; and in the Himalayas, going four times to Mt Everest and twice round Anapurna. Fleagle has trekked over 20 thousand miles (36,000 kilometers).

“For 15 years that’s all I did,” he says. “I lived to hike.”

To such as he, Phuket must seem small potatoes; right? Wrong. The other trails he’s been on, though often difficult, were known.

Though the island is only 48 kilometres long, ‘as the crow flies’, his route through rubber plantations and trackless jungle covered some 143 kilometres. “I spent at least 60 days, probably more, finding the route. I probably could have hiked it in five days if there had been a trail.”

In travelling across the mountain ridges from Cape Promthep in the south to the Sarasin Bridge at Phuket’s north end, Fleagle had to find, frequently to cut, his own trail, because, as far as is known, no one else has done it.

He started by using Google Earth to mark a preferred route across the mountains, zooming in “as close as possible” to find the spurs and ridges, and determine whether it was practicable. This he loaded into a GPS device that he used on the trail.

“My goal is to create a downloadable track anyone with a handheld GPS can go out and hike,” he explained.

With home-made machete in one hand

and GPS in the other, Fleagle began trailblazing from Cape Promthep, Phuket’s southern-most point, in March of 2008. Through rubber plantations, the route is easy. But through jungle, he had to hack his way: “It is thick with thorn bushes,” he said, and thus hard-going.

Fleagle estimates he cut his own path along 10 per cent of the whole route, but perhaps 50 per cent of his time along that section, which, through hill and dale, spans 25 kilometres.

Unanticipated obstacles were a constant feature of his trekking: “I saw just three snakes in all those times; and each time they were going away from me. What I didn’t see is what those snakes might be eating – I rarely saw lizards, and rarely saw mice.

“When I was at a water-hole [northeast of the Heroines’ Monument] – after falling down the steep bank surrounding it – I heard a noise and looked up to see the biggest, fattest, and fastest wild boar I’ve ever seen charging around the top of the ridge, and coming my way. I started screaming and waving my machete when he charged. Luckily, he then veered off. Whoo! Talk about an adrenaline rush!”

Then there was the time he was attacked by a gibbon.

“It was about 4pm and I was bushwhacking when this monkey attacked me from above. He first came down and took my hat.

Then he jumped down again and grabbed my watch and broke it, then jumped on my backpack and started pulling my hair, and trying to grab my arm.

“I was freaking out. I had my machete and would have killed him, but he was too fast. He pulled the tent stakes out of my side pocket, took my big water bottle and threw it.

“He was big, maybe three-and-a-half feet high.

“A lot of bamboo was nearby, so whenever I could take my eyes off him I’d chop a big piece and throw it at him. But even if I had a great throw, he’d dodge it. Finally, after a good 10 minutes – it felt like an hour – he slowly left.

“I gathered my stuff, found another trail – and got the hell outta there.

“Another 15 or 20 minutes on, I found a beautiful swimming hole on a good trail. A sign explained about the Gibbon Project and said the animals can be aggressive. Unfortunately, I didn’t see any signs before then.

“In all my 20-plus years of backpacking, I was never attacked by a wild animal – well, I was false-charged by a bear once in Virginia – and, let me tell you, it is scary. That gibbon could have bitten me, or even killed me if he wanted. He was that fast.”

His trekking also had rewards – such as finding Phuket’s highest point. “Mai Thao Sip Song mountain was [reputed to be] the island’s highest.” It frowns over Patong and has “a big golfball-looking structure on top (actually a radar station).

“But, I discovered that, according to Google Earth, there is a higher peak. Of course, this is only computer-generated from satellite images and could be in error. So, I went to the beach and set the altimeter on my Garmin 60 CSX GPS.” Then he went up the mountain.

“I put my GPS onto the altimeter page and took a picture – 545 metres. I was pretty excited as I knew Mai Thao Sip Song was around 500 metres. I sat a while, enjoying the quiet.”

Two hours later, he drove to Mai Thao Sip Song to check the elevation. The high point is about 10 metres east of [the radar station] gate.

“My altimeter read 482 metres. Google Earth has it at 512 metres to the west of the gate but I don’t trust Google Earth as much as I trust my new barometric pressure altimeter. Either way, Mai Thao Sip Song is the second highest point in Phuket and the newly discovered highest point has no name, no access, and no one knows.” Its only distinguishing characteristic is a property marker.

In five years of trekking Phuket, Fleagle met no other hikers. His encounters were mostly with rubber plantation workers.

“They probably thought I was a little crazy.

Many do when I go out on these excursions.”

It’s not only rubber workers who wonder at his sanity: “My wife thinks I’m nuts,” he explained.

“I usually come back full of cuts and scratches – very dirty, hungry, and dehydrated. But I’ve learned so much about this island and people who work rubber plantations and farms.” He finds them – despite terrible poverty (“They hunt frogs and geckos and grubs. The women collect wild edible plants”) – remarkably hospitable.

“It’s not for everyone,” he said about hiking. “You gotta love it.”

Glenn Fleagle’s blog is fiddlehead.word press.com. For his route, go to tinyurl.com/ phuketroute

4 MOTORING

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Easy riders: Honda’s new 500 range ADVERTORIAL

The “naked” CB500F with its stress-free seating position and flat-type handlebars, is designed as an ideal bike for the cut-and-thrust of urban riding but without sacrificing the ability to tackle back roads, compete on a track day or head off on a thrilling holiday adventure

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onda BigWing in Phuket Town now has the full range of Honda CB500 bikes in stock, which combine a trio of three pluses: they are easy and fun to ride; they are easy on fuel, and they are very easy on the wallet – prices start at only B205,000.

The three versions are the CB500F, described by one reviewer as the “no-frills naked version”, the fully faired CBR500R, and the “adventure-themed” CB500X. All are basically the same under the skin, with a fresh parallel-twin 470cc engine featuring a 180º crank configuration and a counterbalancer to quell vibration.

Fuel-injected and liquid-cooled, the twincam, eight-valve engine feeds power through a wet clutch, six-speed transmission, and an O-ring chain.

But “outside the skin”, the three different models cater to three different styles of riding. While the CBR500R is designed more for the race track, the 500F is more upright, more of a road bike, and the 500X has a more offroad feel to it, with adventure-style seating making for unrestricted maneuvering.

The “naked” CB500F with its stress-free seating position and flat-type handlebars, is designed as an ideal bike for the cut-andthrust of urban riding but without sacrificing the ability to tackle back roads, compete on a track day or head off on a thrilling holiday adventure.

The CB500X is a versatile bike that features an upright and relaxed adventure-style riding position making it an ideal commuter,

From left, the CB500X, the CBR500R and the CB500F bikes, available at Honda BigWing in Phuket Town. weekend explorer or daily errand runner.

It has wide, upright handlebars, an adjustable windscreen and a pair of Scorpion Trail Pirelli tires, great for enduro riding style.

The CBR500R has lower, shorter handlebars than the F and full fairing. Despite this it is just 2 kilos heavier, and the fairing makes a big difference to air buffeting, making it more comfortable to ride at high speed.

All three models have anti-lock brake systems, Pro-Link rear suspension for a smoother ride, digital instrumentation, and a smart ignition security system which ignites only with the genuine microchip key.

Honda BigWing Phuket throws in a number of privileges for buyers of the 500 series:

free emergency roadside assisntace any time of day or night for the first year; a free safety riding course, emphasizing the importance of the safety riding culture, and the chance to join riding trips to various parts of the country.

To see the 500 series or any of Honda BigWing’s other, larger models (right up to the B1.65 million, 1,800cc Goldwing), visit the Honda BigWing showroom near the intersection of Thepkrasattri Rd and Komarapat Rd, or visit bigwingphuket.com or the photos page at facebook.com/bigwingphuket.

For more information, call 076-212-000 or 085-069-3755. The showroom is open from 8am to 5pm, Monday to Saturday.

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Yoga Republic launches

New hot yoga to have the island’s first infrared heating system ADVERTORIAL Yoga Republic will be the only hot yoga studio in Phuket to have an infrared heating system.

This clean, ecofriendly and nonallergenic heat therapy system has been making waves in the health world

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oga Republic, Phuket’s most contemporary hot yoga studio, is launching in Bangtao Place in the middle of August.

Its mission is to provide Hot Yoga and Power Yoga in a green and clean contemporary environment, with state of the art infrared heating and internationally certified teachers.

Yoga Republic will be the only hot yoga studio in Phuket to have an infrared heating system. This clean, eco-friendly and non-allergenic heat therapy system has been making waves in the health world, as not only does the infrared create an ideal environment for practising yoga, but it also stimulates an antiinflammatory response that can improve arthritis, decrease pain and speed up the process of soft muscle tissue repair.

Two forms of yoga will be offered, Hot Hatha Yoga, which is heated to approximately 38 degrees, as well as Power/Vinyasa Yoga, which is a more moderate 30-32 degrees. In the coming months, Kids’ Yoga will also be offered by Yoga Republic.

in 2008. Originally from Australia, he now brings his passion, tremendous energy and vast experience to the island of Phuket.

In addition to offering hot yoga, Yoga Republic will also be opening Bangtao’s first juice bar, which will use local fruit and vegetables to help replenish the body.

It will also launch a hip and affordable yoga clothing range called ‘Figa Lifestyle’.

The classes will be available for dropins or through various packages designed for Phuket residents and tourists visiting the island. In addition to regular classes, Jack will be holding special two-10 day yoga, transformation and meditation retreats. The retreats will include wholesome healthy Thai meals, beautiful accommodation and the opportunity to connect with fellow yogis in a stunning beach environment.

For more information on what Yoga Republic can offer and for further news, visit: www.yogarepublic.co or ‘Like’ us on Facebook: Yoga Republic.

The concept is being led by Jack Farras, who opened the very first Bikram Yoga studio in Bali

Men who skip breakfast face heart attack risk, study says

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en who skip breakfast may face a higher risk of heart attack or deadly heart disease, according to US research published on Monday.

A study of nearly 27,000 men found that those who failed to eat in the morning had a 27 per cent higher risk of heart attack or death from coronary heart disease than those who did.

The men, ranging in age from 45 to 82, took part in a survey about food that tracked health outcomes

from 1992-2008.

Those who did not eat breakfast tended to be on the younger side and were “more likely to be smokers, employed full time, unmarried, less physically active and drank more alcohol.”

“Skipping breakfast may lead to one or more risk factors, including obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes, which may in turn lead to a heart attack over time,” said Leah Cahill, lead study author and a researcher

at the Harvard School of Public Health.

The men who said they ate breakfast also appeared to eat one more time per day than those who did not, suggesting that those who skipped breakfast did not make up for the lack of food later.

Ninety-seven percent of men in the study were white and of European descent, but researchers said the results should apply to those of other backgrounds as well. AFP

For more further press info, or if you’d like to speak to Jack Farras, please contact Annabel Fox on annabeljanefoxpr@gmail. com, or on 081 583 1442.

6 ENVIRONMENT

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Phuket’s Wetland: visit while it’s still there THAI EYE

Kanokwan Homcha-aim editor3@classactmedia.co.th

Mai Khao Wetland is the last and only wetland of Phuket. It covers around 0.8 square kilometres. The area was categorised as National Importance wetland and is currently identified as a priority site for restoration by the Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning

Kanokwan Homcha-aim is the southern coordinator for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). She is also a member of Phuketbased environmental organisation SEEK.

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hat do you think people expect to see when they visit Phuket in 2013? Beaches, warm blue sea and mangroves or bars, girls and crime?

Well I recently visited the north of the island and found a unique ecosystem – the Baan Mai Khao Wetland, which is the last and the only wetland left in Phuket.

What is a wetland?

A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem. Primarily, the factor that distinguishes wetlands from other land forms or water bodies is the characteristic vegetation that is adapted to its unique soil conditions.

The water found in wetlands can be saltwater, freshwater, or brackish. Main wetland types include peat swamps, marshes, bogs and fens.

Baan Mai Khao is located in the north of the island. Its long beach lays from the top end of the island and passes the airport down to Nai Yang beach. This beach is under control by Sirinat National park.

Mai Khao beach is well-known because the beach is very pristine, there’s no beach chairs or jet-skis allowed on the beach and most importantly, sea turtles come every year for nesting.

Just inland from the beach is the Mai Khao Wetland. The Mai Khao Wetland occurred naturally when geomorphic processes of the shoreline created sand dunes that were parallel to the beach and locked sea water inside. After the sand dune was completely closed thenit was filled in with rainfall, surface runoff and ground water.

The result was the water in the wetlands turned into brackish water and finally became totally fresh water. Vegetation adapted to these changes and created the wetland ecosystem that we see nowadays.

Now the bad news... in the past, the Mai Khao Wetland covered a large patch of area.

However, owing to the development in the last decade, the wetland has fragmented into 10 small wetlands (Pru). Three of them, Pru Yairat, Pru Pednam and Pru Tubkeay were filled in for the construction of the airport.

Pru Tungtien, Pru Yao, and Pru Jae San were turned into a water restoration pond and the other wetlands, Pru Lang Wat Mai Khao, Pru Jood, Pru Lam Yud, and Pru Jig are kept in their natural conditions. Common plant species in this area are Paper bark tree, Governor plum, Banyan Tree, Winter Cherry, Pong Pong, String Fern, and Tropical Pitcher Plant.

What is so special about Mai Khao Wetland?

Mai Khao wetland is the last and only wetland of Phuket. It covers around 0.8 square kilometres. The area was categorised as National Importance wetland and is currently identified as a priority site for restoration by the Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning (ONEP).

This special ecosystem is very important for local livelihood. It is a source of food, herbs, fuel, wood products and building materials. It provides water for local agriculture and a place for local fishery. It also plays a number of roles in the environment, mainly water purification, flood control, and shoreline stability. In addition, it is considered the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems, serving as home to a wide range of plant and animal life. Many research papers reported that rare and endemic species were found in Mai Khao wetland.

Learning about nature adds further value to the area. Mammals that are often seen here include Flying Lemur, Fishing cat, Civet and Otter. Reptiles include Bengal monitor, Snail-eating turtle, Asian box turtle, Burmese Python and Naja. There are also 23 fish species that have been reported, for example, Walking catfish, Common snakehead, Nile tilapia.

Mai Khao Wetland is also heaven for bird watching. Seventy-seven bird species have been found including endangered species such as Purple Heron, River Lapwing, Grey Heron, and Shikra.

Another positive is the social aspect, as it is one of the few public areas that have been left untouched in Phuket, local people feel pride in the area.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) who I now work for as their southern coordinator is currently involved in working to protect this area and develop a programme of integrated coastal management. They have also just been asked by JW Marriott to pursue this plan as part of the recent partnership between IUCN and Marriott Thailand. I have also organised meetings between the government, NGOs, national parks office, researchers, community representatives and other relevant parties to discuss the future of this amazing natural environment.

Our ultimate hope is to prevent over development in the area like has happened in other areas of Phuket and save it while we still have time.

European grassland butterflies in decline

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ore than half of Europe’s main species of grassland butterf lies are in sharp decline as a result of habitat loss, the European Environment Agency (EAA) warned on Tuesday.

“Butterfly populations have declined by almost 50 per cent, indicating a dramatic loss of grassland biodiversity,” it said.

O ut of 17 sp e c ie s monitored in 19 countries from 1990 to 2011, eight

shrank in population, two remained stable and one increased. The trend was uncertain for the other six, the EAA said.

T he repor t blames intensified agriculture, where monoculture of cereals and pesticides are destructive for biodiversity.

But it also points the finger at the abandonment of meadowland in mountains and marshy regions, especially in eastern and southern Europe. These

lands become sw iftly overgrown by scrub and woodland, sidelining the plants on which the butterflies depend.

Butterflies are a bellwether of environmental health, as they play a key role in pollination.

“The dramatic decline in grassland butterflies should ring alarm bells,” said Hans Bruyninckx, the Copenhagen-based agency’s executive director. AFP

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THE BIG LIST Bottom’s Up Mixing unusual drinks seems to be an art as old as civilisation, and yet strange new varieties are being created all the time.

Here are a few of the weirdest tipples from the world’s drink cabinet.

Bootleg beverages: Necessity is the mother of invention, and for some people their thirst knows no limits. Some of the ad-hoc alcoholic drinks devised over the years by the thirsty and desperate include “Pruno” – a prison wine made from ketchup, fruit, sugar and bread, which is said to taste like rotten garbage – and the “torpedo juice” mixed by US Navy seaman in World War II from pineapples and the grain alcohol used by as fuel in their warship torpedoes.

Breast is best: There was outrage in China this month when it was revealed that rich adults are paying thousands of dollars to hire wet nurses so they can drink their breast milk. The nurses are provided by an agency, which scouts for new mothers willing to part with their milk for a few days to a month, with prices varying from $2,000 to $4,000. “Clients can drink it directly through breastfeeding, or they can always drink it from a breast pump if they feel embarrassed,” said an agency spokesman.

Cow water: Some years ago, India’s Hindu nationalist movement announced it was developing a new soft drink made from cow urine, considered by some a traditional health remedy. Spokesman Om Prakash said the drink – called gau jal or “cow water” – would soon be launched on the mass market to compete with the likes of Coca Cola and Pepsi. “Don’t worry, it won’t smell like urine and will be tasty too,” he said. “It won’t be like carbonated drinks and would be devoid of any toxins.”

Placenta pop: The popular health obsession in Asia with health tonics made of everything from birds’ nests to frog fallopian tubes may have reached a new nadir in Placenta 10000, a chic Japanese jelly drink that contains more than 10,000 milligrams of powdered pig placenta in every serving. Placenta is traditionally rumoured to have regenerative health and beauty properties, and if the $8 dollar a drink (B250) servings aren’t enough you can get Placenta 400,0000 concentrate as well.

Chateau seag ull: Weird cuisine connoisseurs reliably report that the most disgusting drink in the world is “seagull wine,” which is prepared by the Inuit people of the Arctic by shoving a dead seagull inside a bottle with some water and leaving it in the sun for a few weeks to ferment. One intrepid adventurer likened the taste to car oil and reported “it goes down hard and settles in even worse. But I must say it sure gets people inebriated in a hurry.”

Yakuza sued for racket refund

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woman is suing the head of Japan’s biggest yakuza organised crime group, seeking a refund of protection money paid to gangsters threatening to torch her bar.

The plaintiff is claiming that Kenichi Shinoda bears “employer’s liability” as the don of the Yamaguchi-gumi because the mobsters were affiliated to his syndicate, broadcaster TBS said, in what is thought to be the first case of its kind.

She is demanding around 17 million yen (B5.2 million) in compensation and reimbursement for payments she was forced to make to protect her bar in the central city of Nagoya, the report said.

The woman says she paid 30,000-100,000 yen per month between 1998 and 2010 to a member of Inabaji Ikka, a local yakuza group connected to the Yamaguchigumi, Kyodo News said.

On one occasion in 2008 when she tried to refuse to pay, she was warned that her bar could be burned down, Kyodo said.

The Yamaguchi-gumi makes up more than 40 percent of the nation’s organised criminals, with about 27,700 members, according to the National Police Agency.

The plaintiff, whose name has not been made public, argues Shi-

Yakuza at the Sanja Matsuri festival in Tokyo, the only time they are legally allowed to show their gang tattoos in public. Photo: ApesAbroad noda bears ultimate responsibility for her losses as head of the nationwide umbrella organisation of gangster groups, the reports said.

The lawsuit was encouraged by revisions to the historically weak anti-organised crime law in 2008, which pave the way for complainants to sue senior gangsters over their footsoldiers’ racketeering.

Lawyers say it is the first case of someone demanding recompense for protection money from a senior yakuza figure.

The yakuza are heavily mythologised in Japan, with films, television dramas and fan maga-

zines glamorising lives of stylised violence that are governed by a code of honour handed down from the samurai of yore.

But observers say the reality of the criminal underworld is one of brutishness and thuggery, where only a very few achieve the wealth and standing to which they aspire.

It was reported earlier this month that the Yamaguchi-gumi has published a magazine for its members that includes a poetry page and fishing diaries of senior gangsters, as part of efforts to strengthen solidarity in the face of growing societal animosity. AFP

‘New Cola’ to woo French hipsters

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rench fermented grape juice connoisseurs have been shocked by an announcement that a new Bordeaux beverage will be flavoured with cola, in an effort to attract a new generation of drinkers to the ancient beverage.

Bordeaux-based drink maker Haussmann Famille has announced that its newest drink, Rouge Sucette, (“Red Lollipop”), is made from 75 per cent grape juice and 25 per cent water, with added sugar and cola flavouring.

Reportedly it is best serve chilled.

The firm has had some success with alternative drinks in recent years, including grapefruit-and passionfruit-flavoured beverages.

In 1980, more than half of adults consumed the popular French beverage almost

daily, but a recent study found that just 17 per cent did today.

“The cola flavour is to answer a new kind of need and a market demand,” Mme Lacombe told National Public Radio. “Tastes evolve in time and we have to adapt.”

Cola flavoured fermented grape juice may seem out of step with French ways, but in fact, the fermented grape juice and cola mix has roots in the Basque region on the border of France and Spain, where it’s called kalimotxo, and calls for equal parts of each one.

Lacombe says market research indicates fast-growing demand for such drinks.

Of the different flavours that Haussmann Famille tested, “cola was the best mix,” she says. “That intrigued many people, and they were curious to taste it.”

Kiwis cough up for zombie accidents

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ompensation authorities in New Zealand have paid out thousands of dollars to people injured in ghost, zombie and vampire related accidents in the past five years, new figures have revealed.

The New Zealand Accident Compensation Commission reported it had paid out a total of NZ$24, 834 (B613,000) to 20 people who had suffered various “paranormal” accidents over the five years until 2012.

The explanations for the injuries included: crashing

Photo: Andrew Braithwaite into a pole while playing zombies at school; accidentally putting arm through

window while telling a ghost story; hitting head while crawling under bed to find

ghost; fell off stage during ghost tour; banged forehead on door frame wearing a blanket pretending to be a ghost.

One incident that perhaps deserved further investigation recorded the victim had been knocked over by a vampire.

An ACC spokeswoman told a local newspaper that many of the unearthly injuries were actually the result of preventable accidents.

“The safest place in your house for a zombie is the living room,” she said.

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Serving up a great meal STREET EATS

Tanyaluk Sakoot reporter4@classactmedia.co.th

My daughter gave me the idea to open up an omelette stall when she studied at University in Bangkok. She said omelette with rice was very popular in the capital, so I decided to open up my own stall

Top right, Somsri “Sri” Thongwan runs her omelette stall every day except Sundays. Inset: the famous omelette.

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melet, or kai jiew in Thai, is a popular meal option for both Thai and foreigners alike in Phuket.

One incredibly popular stall is near Phuket Rajabhat University, and attracts large numbers of students. It has been open for the last 10 years.

Omelet maker, Somsri “Sri” Thongwan, aged 62, used to work at Rajabhat University before opening up the stall.

Known by locals as “Aunty Sri’s Omelet” the stall is open every afternoon, and closed on Sundays.

Mrs Somsri says, “My daughter gave me the idea to open up an omelette stall when she studied at University in Bangkok. She said omelette with rice was very popular there, so I decided to open up my own stall.

“And it is very popular here too, mostly because I sell it at a cheap price. I think of all my customers (more than 100 a day) as part of my family.”

Mrs Somsri’s husband prepares all the ingredients for the busy day ahead in the morning. Then Mrs Somsri takes over, and starts selling from 2pm to 8pm.

The delicious yet simple meal is priced at B15 for one egg and B20 for two eggs. The customer can choose the desired ingredients, such as chilli, onion, long bean, carrot and crabmeat. There’s also the option to purchase extras such as shrimp paste, chicken curry paste and vegetables, which are B10 per container.

Omelette is such a simple meal, and is

recommended to be eaten hot and fresh, with warm rice. Sauces and other extras are a nice touch too, and make the dish tastier.

One of Mrs Somsri’s regular customers is Gap, a young student at Phuket Rajabhat University, who also works part time nearby.

“This is a very popular meal option for me,” she says with a friendly smile.

“But not only for myself, it is very popular with others too. Many students come here every day, because it is inexpensive and yummy.”

Mrs Somsri’s omelette stall is located outside the Phuket Rajabhat University on Prawat Rd in Phuket Town. For more details contact Mrs Somsri on 084 035 2037.

‘Cronut’ food frenzy makes waves in busy New York

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ome hungry customers began queueing outside the pastry shop around 3.30 am. Others managed to keep their taste buds at bay for a few more hours, arriving at the patisserie around 6.00 am.

They were all united by a desire to sample the food craze that has gripped New York since its debut a month ago.

Half-doughnut, half croissant: the ‘cronut’ has left the Big Apple’s gourmets in a frenzy.

By the time the Dominique Ansel Bakery in the heart of trendy Soho opened its doors to the public at 8.00 am, the slavering customers were at breaking point. Within the hour, every single

cronut available has been sold.

The bakery’s owner, Dominique Ansel, says the crowd reflected the typical pattern since the May 18 launch of the cronut, a food sensation powered by social media. On the first day, 50 were sold. The next day 100 flew off the shelves, within 15 to 20 minutes.

Since then the bemused pastry chef has become accustomed to queues of 150 to 200 people winding down the street before the bakery has opened.

Ansel settled upon the idea of the cronut after deciding he wanted to create a hybrid pastry that would be instantly recognizable as a marriage of French and American food cultures. AFP

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

The Bistro Restaurant

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Tre by DoublePool Villas

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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Prapaporn Jitmaneeyaphan explores the delights of the southern province Prapaporn Jitmaneeyaphan reporter2@classactmedia.co.th

The province is home to around 1.3 million people, and the capital goes by the same name. However the most exciting city – and the largest – is surely Haad Yai, a long time favourite spot for travellers.

But the city and its surrounds offers a great selection of activities

From top clockwise, the view from the Haad Yai Cable Car; inside the ice dome; the view from Koh Yo, a small island in the middle of Lake Songkhla; and Ton Nga Chang (Elephant Tusks) waterfall in Ton Nga Chang Wildlife Sanctuary.

Opposite page clockwise; Samila Beach is one of the best beaches in Songkhla province; Songkhla seen from Khao Tang Kuan; and the tram bus that offers free city tours of Songkhla.

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ongkhla province is at least six hours drive from Phuket, but don’t let the distance stop you – the province is well worth a visit.

Songkhla is one of Thailand’s southernmost provinces, but is largely free of the unrest that plagues neighbouring provinces Yala and Pattani.

The history of civilisation in Songkhla goes back centuries; it was an outpost of the Sumatra-based Srivijaya Empire that controlled much of the region from the 7th to 11th centuries, Songkhla served as a port and a coastal trading post where Indian, Persian and Arabian merchants came to exchange their products.

The city was named “Sing Lha” after the two lion-shape islands at the mouth of the city’s lake. Today, these two islands are called Koh Noo (Rat Island) and Koh Maew (Cat Island).

The province is home to around 1.3 million people, and the capital goes by the same name. However the most exciting city – and the largest – is surely Haad Yai, a long time favourite spot for travellers.

But the city and its surrounds offers a great selection of activities.

First up in the capital Songkhla, one of the recommended tourist activities is jumping on the Singara bus city tour for a real local experience. An experienced guide will inform you of the interesting history of Songkhla, as well as some unique traditions and culture of the area.

The tour on the tram-shaped bus is free, and goes along the three main streets in the town and along the beaches. There’s also the option of hiring the driver and bus for the day for B1,400 per day if you’d like to plan your own route (Tel 074-311-015, ext 106 and 074- 314-444 for more info.)

If you’re a history buff or generally interested in finding out more information about the area, you’ll want to make a stop at the

highly regarded national museum, built in 1878 in delightful Thai-Chinese architecture design.

The house is a protected national monument, and has a valuable collection representing many different aspects of the cultural heritage of Thailand’s south and the whole country. It is open daily except Monday and Tuesday, from 8am to 4pm and costs B40 to enter.

One of the charms of Songkhla is that because of its location near the Malaysian border, it is home to a wide range of cultures, including Thai, Chinese and Malaysian and a lot of unique traditions, dialects and forms of entertainment can be found in the region.

The main religion in the area is Buddhism, and there are many Buddhist temples in the area. One of the most famous in the area is Wat Muchimawas on Saiburee Rd in Songkhla city. It is the largest temple, and the most important in the province.

Wat Muchimawas was established around 400 years old, and used to go by the name Wat Yai Sri Chan, Sri Chan being the name of a wealthy elderly woman who donated the money to build the temple.

Songkhla is also a good area to visit if

you like nature. One of the natural highlights of the area is the Ton Nga Chang (Elephant Tusks) waterfall in Ton Nga Chang Wildlife Sanctuary, about 26 kilometres from Haad Yai, and known as one of the most beautiful waterfalls in Southern Thailand.

It’s a bold claim, but it really is justifiable. The waterfall has seven levels, with the third said to be the most beautiful. Here, the stream separates into two, resembling an elephant’s tusks – giving the falls their name.

For more adventurous tourists, treks are available, but the majority of people just go to visit the beautiful sight of the water cascading down the rocks.

Another great outdoor activity is to visit Koh Yo, a small island in the middle of Lake Songkhla, near the capital. You can get there by a longtail boat, and can witness a lot of local life, such as fishermen on the water. There is also the option to stay in homestays to really experience the way the locals of Songkhla live.

Around the lake are many stalls that form a market, and it is here you can find the famous hand woven fabric called pa tor Koh Yo, which is similar to batik. If you don’t want to go by boat, you can drive there across the Tinsulanonda Bridge.

The Haad Yai Cable Car is also another good tourist attraction, taking people high up on the hill from which one can see the whole of Haad Yai city laid out below.

The cable car was opened in 2011 and goes up from the Haad Yai Municipal Park.

Tickets for foreigners are B300; B150 for children. Thai price is B200, and B100 for children.

If you’re into exploring more heights, another recommended attraction is located at Laem Samila is Khao Tang Kuan. This is the site of the famous Sala Vihan Daeng, the royal pavilion built during the reign of King Rama V.

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An additional attraction is a hill-top Dvaravati chedi housing relics of the Lord Buddha. It was built during the time of the Nakhon Sri Thammarat Empire.

From the top of this hill, there’s a fine panoramic view of Songkhla city and Songkhla Lake. Every year in October, there is a festival to drape the chedi with a cloth and to offer alms to monks who descend to the foot of the mountain to receive alms.

In addition, monks travelling by boat from other temples in Songkhla go in procession along the waterfront so that local residents can offer alms and pull their boats, which is believed to bring great merit.

To reach the top of the mountain, jump on the cable lift (B30) or climb 305 steps.

Something of a novel attraction in such a warm climate has got to be the Haad Yai Ice Dome, located at the Nakhon Haad Yai Municipal park, on Kanchanawanich Road (between Haad Yai

and Songkhla).

During this visit to the ice dome, the interior was filled with many handcarved ice lanterns, made by ice carvers in Harbin, China.

Warm clothing is available for hire, as temperatures inside are around 15ºC below zero in order to keep the ice sculptures intact. This is a fun activity and both children and adults will love it.

Like any province in Thailand, food in Songkhla is unique, diverse and delicious. There are some great desserts in the area, such as kanom khao-fang, kanom bok, and I Dim Ong, a Songkhla ice cream. These treats can be found on Nang Ngam Rd in Songkhla city. Some of these desserts are rare, and hard to find in other provinces because they are elaborately cooked and made from old techniques and styles, and also use special ingredients.

Khanom khao fang, for example, is made from three main ingredients: millet, coconut milk, and coconut sugar or jaggery.

This may sound simple, but cooking it takes great care. It has to be stirred for a while and it is easily burned, so the cook has to play close attention all the while it is being made.

If you love noodles, you’ll want to check out the area’s famous noodle stall, situated under the Chinese theatre.

The story of Pa (Aunty) Lek, who runs the stall, has been related many times in the media and she has become very popular through this coverage.

The family have sold noodles at the stall for almost 100 years. You will never forget the taste of these noodles – simply delicious.

If you’re not full already from the noodle feast, consider taking a trip to Gim Yong Market, in Haad Yai. There are many consumer products available for sale such as snacks, dried fruit, canned foods, fresh fruit and vegetables, and clothes.

Nearby is Santisuk market, where people can buy various appliances, homewares, utensils, DVDs and videos.

The main customers here are Thai, Malaysian and Singaporean tourists, and everything is very cheap.

Songkhla is an undeniably historic province endowed with ancient ruins, places of cultural importance and delightful natural scenery, and well worth a visit.

The Phuket News was hosted by the Tourism Authority of Thailand.

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IN BRIEF Crowdfunding quest for Ubuntu smartphone

British software developer Canonical are looking to raise $32 million (B1 billion) in the next 30 days on the crowdfunding site Indiegogo.com to launch the Ubuntu Edge first smartphone – the largest target yet for a crowdfunded campaign.

The dual-boot Ubuntu Edge features Canonical’s open-source Ubuntu Touch software as well as Google’s Android operating system.

Among the campaign perks are the first 40,000 models of the new phone, available to supporters who pledge $830 (B26,0000).

But the pledgers will have to wait until May 2014 to receive the phone.

Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!

Internet billionaire unveils new ultrasonic train plans

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nternet billionaire and commercial space pioneer Elon Musk is to publish details next month of a design for a superfast train that could travel the 8000 kilometres from London to Beijing in just two hours.

Musk revealed more about the new train system in social media postings this week, and said that details of the project, dubbed “The Hyperloop,” would be published on August 12.

So far details are scant, but Musk has said that the new train technology would feature a passenger pod travelling through an elevated giant vacuum tube at speeds of more than 6000 kilometres an hour.

By using a vacuum tube and the magnetic drive technology already used on some bullet trains, the train would encounter almost no friction and could quickly reach massive speeds.

Musk has described the Hyperloop as a major “tent pole” for future transportation needs, “This system I have in mind, how would you like something that can never crash, is immune to weather, it

Tom Metcalfe editor2@classactmedia.co.th

Comic hints at Assassin’s future

A ssassin’s Creed I V: Black Flag will be the last gaming title in the franchise’ series before the upcoming comic book is released.

The comic Assassin’s Creed: Brahman is due for released in October this year and will be set in India in 1839, according to an interview with writer Brendan Fletcher at San Diego Comic Con. The comic is set during the time of Colonial British Rule, and features an all-new assassin character named Arbaaz Mir.

New Street Fighter game announced

Capcom announced they will release a new Street Fighter IV game in early 2014.

The game will introduce five new characters to the Street Fighter world and all the existing characters will be adjusted to level the playing field.

Six new stages will be added.

A trailer for the game has already been released online.

Above left: Internet billionaire and commercial space pioneer Elon Musk; Above right: Could the future of travel look like this?

goes three or four times faster than the bullet train… it goes an average speed of twice what an aircraft would do,” Musk told Pando Daily in an interview.

“You would go from downtown LA to downtown San Francisco in under 30 minutes.”

He also says it could be possible for the Hyperloop to be self-powered with solar energy stations along the route.

“There’s a way to store the power so it would run 24/7 without using batteries,” he added. “Yes, this is possible, absolutely.”

Musk, who is now worth an estimated $2.7 billion dollars (B83 billion), made his first fortune when he sold his internet payment gateway Paypal to eBay in 2002.

He has since founded the Tesla electric car company, and last year pioneered a new commercial space age when his SpaceX company successfully launched its first rocket and put its Dragon spacecraft into orbit.

Musk said on Twitter that he would be looking for “critical feedback” and “improvements” for the initial design of the Hyperloop train once it’s revealed to the world next month.

Wetsuit signals “don’t eat me” to sharks

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n Australian research firm has launched what it says is the world’s first anti-shark wetsuit that uses new discoveries about the predators’ eyesight to stave off or evade an attack.

Working in conjunction with the University of Western Australia’s (UWA) Oceans Institute, entrepreneurs Hamish Jolly and Craig Anderson have developed two lines of wetsuit designed to protect divers and surfers from sharks.

“It’s based on new breakthrough science which is all about visionary systems for predatory sharks,” Anderson says.

“We’ve been able to interpret

Photo: Hermanus that science and convert that into, basically, materials that create some confusion for sharks’ visual systems.”

The blue-and-white “Elude” range, designed for divers and snorkellers, uses research about sharks’ perceptions of light and their colour blindness to essen-

tially “hide you in the water column”, Anderson said.

The “Diverter” – mainly for surfers – is based on what sharks perceive as danger signs in nature, with a bold black and white banding patten to imitate an “unpalatable food item”, according to UWA researcher Shaun Collin.

“Many animals in biology are repelled by noxious animals – prey that provide a signal that somehow says ‘Don’t eat me’ and that has been manifest in a striped pattern,” said Collin.

Of the wetsuits, he added: “It’s safe, it’s natural and gives the animals no harm at all.”

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BLAST FROM THE PAST Jean-Pierre Mestanza editor@classactmedia.co.th

D

o you remember M i ke T y s on’s Punch-Out!!

One of the earliest addictive sports titles, Mike Tyson’s PunchOut!! (just Punch-Out!! outside of North America) was originally released in 1987 for the Nintendo Entertainment System and was ported from the arcade game of the same name.

The game’s storyline was simple: move up the ranks of professional boxing, facing a series of cartoonish and colourful fictional fighters on the way to a World Heav y weight Championship fight against Mike Tyson himself. The limited movement that the graphics of the day provided made the game a lot more of a puzzle game than a fighting game.

The user had to get use to several patterns for each opponent, incorporating timing and button-smashing on their way to victory. Moving up the ranks of the professional boxing circuit, players always had a chance for a rematch once they lost. Three losses in a storyline and the game was over.

T he game is also noted for their clever use of graphics, where one opponent is bigger than the title character (or so it seems) in order for the gamer to see the action.

Mike Tyson’s PunchOut!! was a critical success and is ranked as one of the top five Nintendo Entertainment System games of all time. It was even rated 17th best Nintendo game by Nintendo Power in 2008.

Critics praised the game for putting arcadestyle fun over realism, a wise decision given the limited technology available at the time.

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

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Superman, Batman to team up

Karma Town

FILM REVIEW Kong Rithdee editor@classactmedia.co.th

Seeing Only God Forgives, unsuspecting foreigners would change their destination to Pyongyang

DIRECTOR: Nicolas Winding Refn.

STARRING: Ryan Gosling Kristin Scott Thomas Vithaya Pansringarm Ratha Pho-ngarm.

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andcuffed to Ryan Gosling in the nightmare that’s my home city, let me walk you through the checklist.

Elephant: Yes. Eastern mysticism: Yes. Muay Thai: Yes. Monks or monk-like figures: Yes. Nocturnal Bangkok in the claws of neon light: Yes. Flummoxed foreigners lost in a labyrinth: Certainly yes. Prostitution: Naturally yes. Tawdry bars (in this case twinkling little karaoke bars): Morbidly, yes.

We can probably count a few more. Never mind that these “exciting” qualities – I’m avoiding “exotic”, as perhaps director Nicolas Winding Refn was, too, to peculiar effect – are not very exciting to anyone who lives in this sticky Third World Lost Angel-is, it’s always instructive to watch ourselves being watched by visiting filmmakers, parachuting in to soak up the dripping sweat and unleash the demons in their characters.

Of course I’m referring to Refn’s Only God Forgives, which was hated at its Cannes premiere, but I could also be talking about Todd Phillips’ moronic The Hangover Part II, which was hated everywhere.

And while all the flak over Refn’s Oedipal gore-fest may not be far off the mark, there’s a perverse fascination in the way Refn pushes the catalogue of Orientalist fantasies to its hellish extreme. Despite the debacle of Hangover II, the film is still a tourism brochure with a promise of splendid squalor. Seeing Only God Forgives, unsuspecting foreigners would change their destination to Pyongyang.

Following the bloody exploits of an American man, Julian (Ryan Gosling), out for revenge after his brother is murdered by an ex-cop who wields a samurai sword, Only God Forgives fully exploits those simplistic dualities that appeal to Western writers/filmmakers who dive into the riddle of Southeast Asia: mysticism versus carnality, spiritual fatalism versus aphrodisiacal seduction, “Buddhist” serenity versus infernal criminality.

This view of Thailand in particular and Southeast Asia in general as a homicidal siren, a hellish amusement park full of writhing bodies, is of course skin-deep in the way most Third World titillation is, or in the way tourism is.

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Only God Forgives

By making Bangkok a surreal nightmare, Refn portrays the city as a hole where wounded foreigners come to nurse their guilt, only to find that it is in fact a penal colony in which the punishment meted out, by gods or demons or any other brand of supernatural being, is not as forgiving as in the Western religion, or as these rice-eating Buddhists are supposed to be.

God forgives, karma doesn’t - or Bangkok doesn’t. Julian and his carnivorous mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) set themselves up against Chang (“Elephant,” played by kendo instructor Vithaya Pansringarm), a violent Buddhist who, instead of converting runaway bandits as in Buddhist lore, subjects them to blood-soaked damnation and digs up their buried skeletons. In Chang, Refn conflates that enchanting Asian duality of nihilism and tranquillity in one figure.

Cutting across this conceptual literalism are the movies maddening visual extravagance; the zombie-chic Gosling, his interminable slow motion, the phantasmagoric red colour, the warped spatial composition. Refn’s early films are as tough as nails, but his drift towards spacey head-trips in his recent films has yielded mixed results.

With his palms still sweating from his portrait of Los Angeles in Drive, the Danish director turns Bangkok into an hallucinatory dungeon because, I suspect, he somehow wasn’t confident about his ability to give the place the same kind of tangible reality he achieved with that other angelic city in California.

That it is superficial is a given. It’s clear that Refn’s plan is to drug us into transcendence, into the eerie plains of his Norse parable Valhalla Rising. He wants this film to levitate, but it doesn’t. Instead, it’s the subterranean hum and pervading sense of dread, and most of all, the director’s delirious idea Bangkok is a torture chamber running on karma, that keep the film’s motor running.

The irony is plain. If Bangkok specifically or Southeast Asia in general is where Western arrogance ends, is Refn unwittingly putting his neck in the noose too? He may have done a lot of things wrong, but Refn is right about one: Bangkok is hell. Foreign filmmakers beware. Bangkok Post

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Superman and Batman will meet up in a new superhero movie due for release in 2015. The new film was announced by director Zack Snyder, who rebooted the Superman franchise last month as “Man of Steel”, with British actor Henry Cavil in the title role.

Batman has yet to be cast, since Christian Bale hung up his cape after the ‘Dark Knight’ movie last year.

The superhero double-act could be seen as an attempt by studio giant Warner Bros to emulate the recordbreaking success of last year’s “Avengers” superhero ensemble hit, featuring Marvel characters.

“Let’s face it, it’s beyond mythological to have Superman and our new Batman facing off, since they are the greatest Super Heroes in the world,” Snyder said, cited by industry journal Variety.

Filming on the new movie is due to start next year, for a release in the middle of 2015.AFP

‘The Conjuring’ scares up box office winnings

Horror flick The Conjuring was a hit at the North American box office this weekend, scaring its way to the top, industry estimates showed Sunday.

The creepy production about paranormal investigators, starring Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, took in $41.4 million (B1.2 billion), according to industry tracker Exhibitor Relations.

The newcomer ousted Despicable Me 2 from pole position and into second place, after earning $25.1 million (B751 million) in its third weekend.

Another new animated film Turbo came in third with $21.5 million (B645 million).

It was followed by Grown Ups 2, a star vehicle for comedians Adam Sandler and Chris Rock, which brought in $20 million (B600 million). AFP

US BOX OFFICE TOP 10 Film

Weekend gross

Gross

1

The Conjuring

$41.5M

$41.5M

2

Despicable Me 2

$25.1M

$276M

3

Turbo

$21.5M

$31.2M

4

Grown Ups 2

$20M

$79.5M

5

Red 2

$18.5M

$18.5M

6

Pacific Rim

$16M

$68.2M

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R.I.P.D.

$12.8M

$12.8M

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The Heat

$9.32M

$129M

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$5.2M

$187M

$5M

$249M

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15:30, 21:20.

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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It’s tee time for the island’s kids

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ids are in the swing of things and getting “snagged” on golf at this year’s Laguna Phuket Summer Family Festival, with a unique golf teaching system that’s both fun and effective.

Snag (Starting New At Golf) is being offered at Laguna Phuket for the first time in Thailand, after the eye-catching equipment was specially imported for the Summer Family Festival.

The free Snag lessons at Latitude Marquee on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings from 10am are led by local aspiring professional golfer Pawat “Golf” Prachumsrisakul, from the Andy Combe Golf School at Laguna Phuket Golf Club.

And the simple, fun system which teaches the basics of golf has already proved a hit with youngsters and parents alike.

Snag was devised in 1995 by two PGA Tour professionals, Terry Anton and Wally Armstrong, and has since become popular all over the world – there are even Snag tournaments staged in the USA. Instead of a full set of 14 clubs for a vast range of shots, Snag breaks down the game into just two clubs and four disciplines – driving, pitching, chipping and putting.

The clubs are a “Launcher” – used for driving, pitching and chipping – and

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A group of keen young Snag players at Laguna Phuket’s Latitude Marquee with instructor Pawat “Golf” Prachumsrisakul, standing left, and Chamnarn “Narn” Phosiri, Recreation Supervisor of Angsana. a “Roller” used for putting. They’re both oversized and have colour-coded handles for easily-understood golf grips.

To learn the basics of swings for different shots, kids stand inside a hoop with coloured markers indicating the limit of the swing for each shot.

And instead of golf balls, Snag players use small tennis balls, which are played towards sticky targets that catch

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our lucky winners have won tickets to see Liverpool FC take on Thailand in Bangkok on Sunday, July 28, courtesy of Honda BigWing Phuket and Live 89.5.

Thanks to Khun Pop at Honda BigWing, we are giving you the chance to win four more tickets to see the mighty Barcelona FC play in the Champions Cup in Bangkok on Wednesday, August 7. All you have to do is listen to Live 89.5 for your cue to call and then ring 076-612-895 and you are in the draw – it is a simple as that.

Our very own eco-friendly show, ‘Going Green’ goes out every Saturday afternoon between 3 and 5pm with Nick Anthony. If you miss it you can listen anytime on our Playback feature, on our website.

Come and say hello to the team when we do our next ‘live’ outside broadcast which will take place at Laguna Summer Family Festival in the Latitude Marquee on Saturday, August 10. There will be many prizes to give away so put this date in your diary.

Thanks for listening!

the balls.

There’s even a sticky suit that can be worn and used as a “human target” for even more fun.

So it’s easy to get bitten by the golf bug – or “snagged” – with this fun system.

And for those who do, conventional golf lessons for kids and parents with PGA professional Andy Combe are

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here is always so much happening around the island and this week is no exception.

Our stories on KPP and Phuket Cable this week will include the Kathu Street Festival.

It’s not amongst the better know annual events but the traditions of this small community come to life and we have all the fun in a full report.

Also Sash took his camera to the Toyota One Make Motorsport Weekend.

A lot of noise and an exclusive interview with Thai singing superstar Chin Chinawut who was in concert on the Sunday afternoon.

The developers of the Boat Lagoon have just launched their newest project, the ‘Bypass Biz Town’.

Tim met up with them at the launch and we have an interview with the affable and highly successful Khun Boon.

‘Bypass Biz Town’ is a collection of villas, shop-houses, retail spaces and home offices.

Of course we also include a list of upcoming events – we always promise to ‘put you in the picture’.

available at Laguna Phuket Golf Club on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons during the Summer Family Festival, at a special discounted rate of B2,000 per head.

Class Act Media is a sponsor of the Summer Family Festival, which runs until August. For a full schedule visit the Laguna website, tinyurl.com/lagu nafamily

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Brasserie owner Alain Tabruyn and wife Lin.

Belgian men Herman and Arnaud Verstraete.

Fritzie and Frederic.

CELEBRATIONS Belgians from around Phuket celebrated their national holiday on Sunday (July 21) with free food and drink at the Brasserie bar and restaurant in Phuket Town.

From left, Kaew, Nancy, Boy, Jern, Maew and Hmuy enjoy the party.

Natalie Ward, Hannah Pearce, Amy Bensema and May May Lau.

Lek, left, and BJ.

Ann, Aon and Ning had a good time.

GRAND OPENING Twinpalms celebrated the grand opening of its new Bake, Flame and Pasta restaurants on Friday (July 18), located at Sino@Bypass, near Central Festival.

Twinpalms Sales and Events Manager Supaluck Klongsamut and Twinpalms Group Executive Manager Somjai Tungkoo.

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Family times: From left, Mile, Sarah, Thomas and Ronald.

HAPPY 40TH THOMAS From left, Lin Prachakrich, Thomas Corley, Jaspal Singh and Simon Samaan.n

Thomas Corley from the Irish Times pub and restaurant in Jungceylon celebrated his 40th birthday on the weekend with a party at the venue. Photos: AngelEyes

BEACH FUN Xana Beach Club hosted a fun night of Electric Beach Bingo on Saturday night (July 20). Photos: AngelEyes

RAISING CASH Phuket woman Thirapan “Bella” Narongkool celebrated her birthday this year by holding a charity event at Phuket Panyanukul School, a special education school, raising around B30,000 for the school. Bella’s friends organised a lunch and fun activities for the children. Photos: danmilesmedia

KIND DONATION On July 13, members of the Phuket Loves You Club (PLU) visited the Life Home Project Foundation in Phuket to present a cheque for B115,369.31 – around 50 per cent of the money raised during Phuket Pride Week 2013.

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FESTIVAL FUN The annual Kathu Street Cultural Festival was held earlier this week from Monday-Wednesday.

The impressive opening parade was held on Monday evening, followed by two more days of festivities.

Class Act Media was a media sponsor of this event.

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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

UNTIL SUN JUL 28

Architect & Engineering Exhibition 2013 Building, Construction and Décor Exhibition. 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.

FRIDAY JUL 26

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.

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.

B2,500++ per person including free flow of selected beverages. Advance bookings are highly recommended. Contact 076 372 400. Email: fb-phuket@banyantree.com.

BBQ All You Can Eat at Shakers

Sunday Brunch at Sails, Hilton

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

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MONDAY JUL 29

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 cooking 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.

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.

TUE JULY 30 - THU AUG 1

Social Media Marketing Workshop

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

Phuket Racing Go-Karts Circuit 2013 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.

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.

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 and boiled potatoes, three fresh vegetables, Yorkshire pudding and gravy. Only B320 per person which includes a free glass of house red or white. Opposite Centara Karon Resort. See www.otools-phuket. com.

Half Chicken Spit Roast

Live Seafood & Jazz Sunday Brunch at Banyan Tree

Every Wednesdays and Saturdays. Plaza

TUESDAY JUL 30

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.

SATURDAY JUL 27

The Good Shepherd Merchandise Shop Open

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.

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

Sunday Chillout Session 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.

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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

WEDNESDAY JUL 31

in Patong on Rat-U-Tit 200 Pee Road next to Hotel Mercure.

TUESDAY AUGUST 13

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EVERY DAY

THURSDAY AUGUST 1 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 5pm6.30pm (Happy hour) B750 net. Sorry, you must take away. Make a reservation or book your ribs with events@salaphuket. com, no phone calls please.

Southern Phuket Pool League

Go Eco Phuket Clean Up 2013

Fixtures - Pita bar, Laguna, Rawai vs Buddha bar, Laguna, Rawai - Mad Mohallys, Rawai vs No name bar, Karon - Roxannes bar, Rawai vs Australia bar & grill, Kata Solutions bar Kata vs Allstar sports bar, Kata - The white hart , Rawai vs Ying Yang bar, Rawai - The islander bar, Rawai vs Walkabout A, Karon. For more info visit www.southernphuketpool.com.

Join us for Thailand’s largest cleanup event. It is going to be huge cleaning Islands of Racha Yai, Racha Noi and Phi Phi Island. Book before August 12. Register at Chalong pier 7.30am - 8am on August 13. If you would rather be on land, there are simultaneous beach cleanups Island wide. Meeting point is Chalong Pier at 7.30am for all cleanups. Return to Chalong Pier 5pm. Don’t miss out! Help us to help Phuket. See facebook.com/GoEcoPhuket or email goecophuket@gmail.com for more information. You can also contact your local dive centre in Phuket for them to reserve you a place.

UPCOMING EVENTS FRIDAY AUGUST 9

Laguna Summer Family Festival Right through until 24 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 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.

SATURDAY AUGUST 31

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.

SILENT AUCTION

LATiN PASS iON

1 SURPRISE CELEBRITY INTERNATIONAL GUEST CHEF ...1 STUNNING VENUE 6 REMARKABLE LATIN DRINKS...6 EXTRAORDINARY COURSES

THB 4,400 NET PER PERSON - SAT. 31 AUGUST - 7 PM ONWARDS RESERVATION RECOMMENDED. LIMITED SEATS.

ALCOHOL MAY BE A HEALTH HAZARD!

EMAIL: EVENTS@MAIKHAODREAM.COM

CALL: 089 725 6994 / 076 371 371

Latin Passion

Live Jazz Trio at Mom Tri's

IBAP - Same Same But Different

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.

Our August meeting will feature Thailand media expert Tim Shaw talking about how branding, media, and promotion can enhance tourist-based business in Phuket.

“SAME SAME but DIFFERENT”. Tim Shaw has over twenty years’ experience in television and radio broadcasting as a highly respected Host, Presenter, Journalist and Producer. All welcome. Doors open at 6:15pm. More info at http://ibap-phuket.org/

MONDAY AUGUST 12 HM the Queen’s Birthday 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

Commemorates the birthday of Queen Sirikit, also observed as National Mother’s Day (Wan Mae Haeng Chart). It is a public holiday.

One surprise celebrity international guest chef, one stunning venue. Six remarkable Latin drinks, six extraordinary courses.

B4,400 net per person. Time: 7 pm onwards. Reservation recommended, limited seats. Alchol may be a health hazard!

Contact email: events@maikhaodream. com, 089 725 6994 / 076 371 371.

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13

Phuket Artists on Show 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.

Red Hot Jazz From 7.30pm till late enjoy jazz, dancing and art at ‘Red Hot Jazz’ at Boathouse. Entry donation of B3,500 include cocktails, free flow selected beverage and 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@boat housephuket.com. Proceeds go towards helping underprivileged children in Phuket.

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.

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This week in history

GOT YOUR NUMBER

■■ July 26, 1803

100

Lifespan in years of the longest-lived shark, the spiny dogfish.

30.35

Hectares of pizza eaten in the US every day.

28

Weights in grams of the average human eyeball.

2

Number of emails sent by Bill Clinton in the eight years of his presidency of the USA. The apotheosis of the Nazis’ ‘final solution’ to the Jewish ‘question’: The death camp at Auschwitz. Photo Pimke.

The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world’s first public railway, opens in south London.

It used horses to pull goods wagons.

■■ July 27, 1880 Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand – Afghan forces led by Mohammad Ayub Khan defeat the British Army near Maiwand, Afghanistan.

■■ July 28, 1914 World War I begins when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Serbia rejects the conditions of an ultimatum sent by Austria five days before, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

■■ July 29, 1907 Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour, England.

The camp is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.

■■ July 30, 1975 With the FBI closing in on him, Mafia-linked US labour union boss Jimmy Hoffa disappears. He is never seen or heard from again.

■■ July 31, 1941 Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to “submit to me as soon as possible a general plan … for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question”.

■■ August 1, 1981 MTV begins broadcasting in the United States. The first video it airs is Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles.

Crossword by Myles Mellor & Sally York

Answers at the foot of the page.

SUDOKU

48. Chutzpah 49. Scandinavian currency 52. Greek letter 53. ___ de deux 56. Con escapes from resort peninsula?

60. Drone, e.g.

61. Tyrone ___, American boxer 62. American record label 63. Snoop Dogg song 64. Sock fabric 65. Kid brother, e.g.

Down 1. Pack (down) 2. Medley 3. Common contraction 4. Down and dirty 5. Works 6. Libertines 7. Chafes 8. Squeeze out 9. Police, with “the” 10. Addled 11. Owlish?

12. Bone-dry 13. Cravings 18. Bee, to Opie 19. Flip 23. ___ probandi 24. “___ Lunch”

25. Auricular 26. Safely distant 27. Deep valley 28. “The Hippopotamus” poet 29. Marriage announcement 30. English race place 31. ___ draft 32. Student getting oneon-one help 34. Kin 37. Dig 38. Powerful cartel 39. Romantic interlude (var.)

45. Shiny fabric 46. Attack with nails 47. Dickey 48. Bananas 49. Dole’s running mate, 1996 50. Shag rugs 51. Bribes 52. Murti 53. Corn ___ 54. Song and dance, e.g.

55. “Laugh-In” segment 57. ___ system (re: blood) 58. Neither’s partner 59. Western Pacific island

Answers to this week’s Pop Quiz: 1. Dogs; 2. They were conjoined twins; 3. Comedian Spike Milligan; 4.Nakhon Ratchassima; 5. Spear of Strength.

1. The Canary Islands get their name from what animal?

2. What were Chang and Eng Bunker famous for?

3. Whose gravestone reads, in Gaelic, ‘I told you I was ill’?

4. What is the correct name of Korat?

5. What does the name Gertrude mean?

Across 1. Donkeywork 5. Window type 10. “Love Will Find ___” 14. Puente ___ 15. Winter wear 16. Radial, e.g.

17. Con escapes from the “City of Festivals”?

20. Demagogue, for short 21. Plays mind games 22. Exigencies 23. Aces, sometimes 24. ___ lox 26. Some are secret 29. Diminish 30. Carney, to pals 33. Medicinal balsam 34. Daring Sufi 35. Former French coin 36. Con escapes from the home of ESPN? 40. Before now 41. Defeat 42. Italian magistrate 43. Nevertheless 44. British cape 45. Grim Reaper prop 47. 2.54 centimeters

Solutions to last week’s puzzles:

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galow 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.

Luxury Condo Rent/Sale: Luxury Condo Rent/Sale Phuket Villa Patong Beach beside Jungceylon.

Fully furnished 43sqm on the 6th floor with balcony, bedroom, living room, kitchen, cable & internet, pool, gym, laundry. Rent Long Term B30,000. Contact Nus 081 893 2330, seadream@loxinfo.co.th

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Luxury Condo Rent / Sale: 2 B e d r o o m , L- r o o m a n d f u l l y equipped kitchen, 160-212sqm. Very high standard with a nice view. Big balcony, swimming pool, gym. Location: Kathu, 10 min. Patong Beach, 5 min. Phuket Town and all department stores and international hospitals.

Rent Long term: B45,000 – B63,500 Buy: B8,500,000 – B11,500,000.

Contact 086 268 7901 or send email to: condophuket@yahoo.com.

renovated & decorated, large living room, fully furnished, shower & jacuzzi, mature gardens with waterfall, security.

Because of sickness NOW 3.25 MB. Call: 087 877 2320, 084 854 9889.

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.

Seaview Pool Villa for Rent: 2 Bed villa with lovely garden, koi pond, pool with sala/ 3rd bed and seaview.

Fully furnished, True visions on 42" screen, WiFi, new ACs. Private, quiet area but near all amenities. Call 086 279 6283.

Ur g e n t 2 N ew A p a r tments For Sale: Because of divorce URGENT RE-SALE 2 brand new apartments. Welcome real buyers No agents. Call on +66 (0) 87 269 2274, Chrismar.

Business for Sale: Located in a prime area just 50 meters from the north end of Patong Beach (close to Graceland Hotel & the roundabout on beach road) there are two commercial townhouse buildings incorporated into this sale. They are offer on a freehold basis which comes complete with a Chanote land title deed. The two 3 storey buildings sits on land measuring over 30 sq.wah.

This prime real estate has been prepared for total refurbishment and is a perfect business investments for a property developer for resell potential or a business person who wants the freedom to create their own business design concept. Plans have been drawn-up to develop the property into either a 8 room or a 14 room guesthouse/apartments. 081 893 2330.

Ocean Front Villa for Sale: Luxury brand new villa, fully furnished and ready to move in, 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms with infinity 10 metre long swimming pool and truly beautiful sea view. Located in a small development, only 50 metres from the sea and 3 mins from Ao Po Grand Marina. For sale B19.9 million or for long term rent B150,000 per month. Call 081 343 0777, email: montha_phuket@ yahoo.com.

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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.

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.

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.

Laguna/Layan Beach Luxury 13M Salt-Water Pool Villa For Sale (Or Rent): Three large

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.

Urgent-3 Bedroom House for sale: 3 Bed, 3 Bath, 4 aircon,

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.

Af fordable 3 Bedroom House: Single floor, 3 bedroom, Rawai Great Buying: Lovely

house with 2 bedrooms or separate SC flat downstairs.Well ventilated with natural light in pristine condition.

Distant sea views.B5,500,000. 089 652 1951 or thailandmls@gmail. com.

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 .

Beautiful Villa Rawai: Beautiful 2 bed pool villa with separate maids room or third bedroom. Great entertaining area. Five minutes to all conveniences. Drastically reduced to B8,600,000. 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:

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.

Mission Heights: 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.

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: 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.

3 & 4 Bed Pool Villas:

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

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.

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.

3 Rai Chanote Mangosteen Land: Beautiful square land plot 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.

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.

Price Reduced, 4beds Villa:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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:

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.

Rawai Beachfront Pool Villa for Rent/Sale: Rawai

Beach front pool villa for sale. 3 bedrooms, furnished. Contact Siriporn on 089 649 9939.

F O 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.

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.

Condo At The Heights, Kata: Immaculate 2-bed foreign-

Commercial Building For Sale: 5M. x 18.30M.,3 floors, located Sea View Land for Sale:

Ao-Yon, 13.5 rai, chanode title.10m/ rai.Call Siri 089 649 9939, email: siri_phuket@changrunner.com.

close by Condo at Saiyuan, 2 big halls, 2 bedrooms,4 bathrooms,clean&new building. Price negotiable. Tel:087 881 7979, 081 472 0770, ss.kijrungruang@ gmail.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.

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.

2 Bed Thai Style House, Rawai: 110m2 Thai style house, 2 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.

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.

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.

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. 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

A b so lu t e B e ac h Fro n t Land: Songkla district near new

East Coast Sea View Land

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.

Total 1.5 rai (2,450sq metre) on gently sloping land with sea view of Phang Nga Bay. 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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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:

Ur 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:

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.

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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

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.

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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).

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.

Land for Sale:

Great Investment Opportunity: Completed show house

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.

Superb Ocean View Lux Penthouse: B148,000 per sqm,

and infrastructure seven further plots for development. 1.5km from Mission Hills Golf Club. Please call 087 888 1761 (Aom) for details.

288 sqm of heaven. Plunge pool, 3 bed, 4 bath overlooking perfect panoramic ocean views. Beach shops, fabulous restaurants, nightlife all a 3 minute walk. B42,624,000. Contact: 088 761 4030 or imgphuket@gmail.com.

Waterfront Villa in Boatlagoon: Modern style spacious town-

BEST SEAVIEW LANDEVER! Seaview Chalong land price B27.5 million for 2 rai. www.phuket-land-sale.com

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:

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.

Amazing Sea View Penthouse: Panoramic sea view,

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.

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: 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.

mountain view and Big Buddha.

310 sq metre, 2 beds, 2 baths with option to convert in 3 beds. Contact: Izzy +66(0)86 278 8300 or izzy. serenitygroup@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:

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

house. 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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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 phuke tteacher@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: vin cent@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 Chrisinphuket@ 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

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Speed Boat For Sale:

Steppa Fiberglass 32 feet Flybridge two 200 hp Yamaha outboard engines. Ideal for diving and tours. B850,000. Call 081 8942124.

13 M et re Wooden Hull Cruiser: Cap. 17 PAX. Wooden

22m. Indonesian Pinisi Ketch: Licensed and registered

S a l e N e w B o a t S R- 21 Finished: SR.Marine. We are

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.

in Thailand. She is in good condition and currently working as a snorkel and sunset tour boat. For sale or long-term rental. Price negotiable for quick sale. dragonheartthailand@ gmail.com.

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.

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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

S a l e N e w B o a t S R-18 Finished: SR.Marine, We are 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.

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.

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.

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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

40FT Steel Cutter Sloop: 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.

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.

successful due to the high de mand of people wishing to learn Engli sh as A sia devel o ps and plays a larger par t in world affairs every day. These 2 schools are lic ensed w it h t he M inist r y of Edu c at i o n an d t h e C h a - am 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.

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List your classified now at thephuketnews.com BUSINESS OPP. CONT.

PHUKET ICON BUSINESS FOR SALE

COMPANY FOR SALE

PHUKET INTERNATIONAL LOGISTICS COMPANY FOR SALE …

ICES CO LTD ERSAL SERV IV N ORLD U W T E E H K T U PH N WITH IO T C E N N O HT C PANDS YOUR FREIG S PHUKET EX A G IN W O R G

PHUKET, THAILAND SELF STORAGE, POTRA COM, PRE-FAB 470,000 USD

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.

WWW.SAFEWAYASIA.COM

 20 YEAR PROFITABLE OPERATION  50 MB PLUS TURNOVER 2012 CALANDAR YEAR

+66 81 892 4804, gordon_asia@hotmail.com

www.phukettransport.com CONTACT PETER: peterb@interglobalau.com PHONE: 0848433492

BUSINESS SERVICES Farang Food Paradise:

Unique Rawai Investment Oppor tunity: We

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.

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.

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

5 In 1 Business For Sale:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

CARS FOR SALE

Pa t o n g N ew H o t e l f o r Longterm Lease: 40 rooms

Honda CR-V 2002/Gold 64,000 Km: Used cars -Honda

with full furnished, TV, fridge, aircon, hot water, swimming pool, restaurant and spa. Located in Soi Nanai villa.

Contact 086 300 9406.

Isuzu D-max super platinum 3.0L: Bought on 04/2010. Check up every each 59,000 km. Stero sound, navigator, many extras. Norbert 080 878 3542 GER/ENG Price : B690,000.

Email: norberts923@gmail.com

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

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.

Sport Club for Sale by Owner: Set on 4 rai land with

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.

CR-V 2.0E (i-VTEC) with clean condition and no bad accidents.

Top and full option with com plete book service and manual.

Year:20 02,Engine Size: 20 0 0 cc.,Fuel: Petrol.081 818 9696.

G u e s t h o u s e Ca f e B a r Karon Beach: Easily managed 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.

Business for sale

Cement Production Plant:

For Sale: Nissan Tida year 2010 in excellent condition, full options, low kilometers, first class insurance and registration till Jun 2014. First to see will buy. B399,000 O.N.O. Call 082 279 9370.

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.

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.

For further info email samos1941@gmail.com.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mini Cooper S JCW GP for sale: Only 2000 made worldwide.

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.

Toyota Vios For Sale:

2007 lady owner perfect condition B359,000. Tel 081 125 1873, gordon_asia@hotmail.com.

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Nissan NV 1.6 Pick up:

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.

List your classified now at thephuketnews.com CHILDCARE

CARS FOR SALE CONT.

Toyota Hilux VIGO 4 x4 Auto: Toyota Hilux VIGO, 4 door,

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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.

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 Isuzu Dmax 2006, 105,000km, one owner, 4x2, silver automatic, double cab, good condition. Contact 087 079 0650 or 080 073 5371.

Isuzu Dmax:

Phuket Country Club Membership: Lifetime full family mem-

HONDA CITY '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.

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.

PERSONAL SERVICES

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

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.

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 Phuket Cooking Academy: 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.

Honda CR-V for Sale:

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.

Family sports and leisure club. Swimming/golf/ playcentre/ gaming arcade. Contact 076 203 185, 087 882 5544. See funstartphuket.com.

FunStart:

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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FRIDAY, JULY 26, 2013

PC&H bounce back FOOTBALL

P

huket Condos & Homes kept their grip on the top of the Division 1 table in the round 9 games of the fifth season of the Phuket Super Six soccer league last week. Meanwhile the competition remains close in Division 2, with only three points difference between the top six teams.

Division 1 Seduction v Shakers FC: 0–6 In-form team Shakers FC had no problems overcoming the struggling Seduction team with this decisive win.

Irish Times v Phuket Condos & Homes: 1 – 8 Although Irish Times surprisingly won the previous encounter between these two teams, PC&H were ready this time and did not intend on making the same mistake.

High pressure by Irish Times initially made it seem like an even game, but PC&H starting picking the goals one by one and ended winning the game 8-1.

Joy Dive FC v Pita Bar Phuketeers: 6 – 4 A very tight game that bobbed back and forth, with both teams in the lead at different times. But Joy Dive showed the benefits of their experience at the end, with a 6-4 win that keeps them in striking distance of PC&H in the top spot.

Division 2 Rose United v Mr Moo: 8–9 In a game that included a

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record number of goals, Mr Moo continued their strong form to overcome division leaders Rose United.

Sovrana Lounge Bar v Phuket Serenity Villas: 3–5 Pita Bar Phuketeers returned to winning with this victory against Sovrana Lounge Bar, who now find themselves second to bottom in the division.

Island’s surfers are natural lifeguards

Big Apple & Pita v KTM Phuket: 3 – 5 Another win from in-form team KTM Phuket, lifting them alongside their opponents Big Apple & Pita at the top of the division.

Gang Junior v 9th Floor: 2–1 Gang JR stayed on target with this narrow win against 9th Floor, who suffered yet another single-goal losses.

Division 3 Raum-pheun Coffee Club v Nong Ice FC: 2 – 2 An exciting match between two skilled Thai teams that resulted in a 2-all draw.

Two Chefs v Banana FC: 1–6 Banana FC started to show signs of a return to form with this solid 6-1 win against Two Chefs.

Mew FC v Daohang FC: 5–5 Daohang FC let slip points for the first time of the season after this high-scoring draw against Mew FC. For more information on the latest fixtures and how you can get involved or even start your own team, visit: phuketfootball.com

SURF SPOT Tim Campbell editor@classactmedia.co.th

Phuket Super Six League Division 1

Team

MP

W

D

L

F

GD

1

Phuket Condos & Homes

8

7

0

1

53

40

Pts 21

2

Joy Dive FC

8

6

0

2

32

13

18

3

TT Boys

7

5

0

2

23

3

15

4

Shakers FC

9

4

1

4

23

1

13

5

Pita Bar Phuketeers

7

3

1

3

21

-4

10

6

Sarnfan FC

8

3

1

4

20

-4

10

7

Irish Times

9

1

1

7

16

-27

4

8

Seduction

8

0

2

6

13

-22

2

Division 2

Team

MP

W

D

L

F

GD

Pts

1

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

Division 3

Team

MP

W

D

L

F

GD

Pts

1

Daohang FC

9

8

1

0

70

50

25

2

Grizzly’s FC

8

5

1

2

28

4

16

3

Mew FC

9

4

3

2

26

-1

15

4

Raum-pheun Coffee Club

9

3

2

4

28

-8

11

5

Two Chefs

9

3

1

5

32

-15

10

5

Bat Fire

8

2

2

4

21

-7

8

7

Banana FC

9

2

1

6

27

-12

7

8

Nong Ice FC

9

1

3

5

27

-11

6

Hash House Harriers Run 1431: 4pm Saturday, July 27 Hares: JC, BS, President and King Klong Directions: Mosquito Lake. Go south from Heroines Monument towards Phuket Town. Take the first u-turn at Wat Ta Rua and turn immediately left at the temple (HHH sign). Continue approximately 2.5 km and turn right at HHH sign. Continue 300 metres to laager.

Several Phuket Hashers on last weekend’s run, on a hot afternoon in the hills above Kathu. Photo: Katie Wellington

The most active club in Phuket with monthly events.

Retail outlet at Wana Park, Cherng Talay (Manik).

To join the club or see our products visit andaman-wine-club.com

More info: phuket-hhh.com

T H E OCEA N CA N BE dangerous, but so is crossing the road. Just as your mum taught you to look both ways before crossing, there are things that you can learn about the ocean that will make your time at the beach more enjoyable and safer.

First of all, recreational swimmers should not be swimming where surfers are. That’s why there are red and yellow flags set up to mark out a safe, supervised area for swimmers.

While the management of Phuket’s lifeguards could definitely be improved, the main reasons why people get themselves into trouble are that they’re not educated about the dangers, they’re not following the lifeguards’ instructions, or they’re not competent swimmers. These are all more reasons to swim between the flags.

It’s easy to lose sight of a swimmer, especially if they have found themselves sucked

out in a rip current.

In many cases the best person to help them out will be a surfer, as they’re already in the water. Surfers are always looking around for the next wave and watching everything going on in the water.

If you find yourself in trouble in the water, remember: Don’t panic! relax and let the ocean take you with it, might seem crazy but you can’t fight the ocean. Many people end up drowning because they have no energy left to stay afloat.

‘Raise your arm’ high out of the water and wave from side to side – the signal that you need help. If surfers are in the water they can quickly paddle over to you and help you with their board to shore.

Surfers understand the ocean just as well as many lifeguards and can be more help than you think.

Tim’s Tip: Always check with lifeguards before going swimming and listen to their advice.

Surf’s up Phuket!

Tim Campbell skylaphuket.com

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Islanders lock horns with Bangkok Bulls FOOTBALL Kazira Hans editor@classactmedia.co.th

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huket FC seemed to slide a little deeper into the rut on Saturday (July 20) when they managed only a 1-1 draw in an away game against Bangkok FC. The game kicked off at 5pm at Bangmod Stadium.

Bangkok FC’s “Iron Bulls”, ranked third on the League 1 table, fielded their best players: Olof Watson, Samuel Kwaku to run rampage along the sideline, and the attacking duo of Lee Tuck and former Phuket player Thawin Butsombat duo at the attacking front.

The Islanders, who went into the game at fifth place on the table, were looking for a win. But they missed Yuseke Sato, who remains injured since the Thai Com FA game against SCG Muang Thong United earlier this month.

Instead Phuket’s new transfer from Rayong United, Chatchai Mokkasem, took centre-back duty alongside Nene Bi Tra Sylvestre in this game, while Sukree E-tae and Ludovick Takam were put in at the front.

Fans were surprised that

Dudu Purcino wasn’t on Coach Tuu’s roster for the second week in a row, giving weight to rumours that the Brazilian may soon be moving to former Phuket striker Watcharapong Jun-ngam at Samut Songkram FC. Phuket FC scored very early on when Geoffrey Doumeng passed the ball to Sukree E-tae , who poked it towards the goal his right foot. he ball hit the far post and went into the goal, giving the Islanders Phuket FC’s Jakkrapong Somboon in action against to a one goal lead after only the Bangkok ‘Iron Bulls’. seven minutes.

The Islanders were able to keeper Ninuruddin’s Nideiha’s hold off the Bulls for nearly reach, scoring an equalizer for half an hour. Watson and Tuck The Bulls.

With renewed hope, the were kept away from the play, while Kwaku spent most of his Bulls continued their attacks, but they couldn’t convert their time chasing the ball.

While they held the lead, attempts into goals.

Phuket’s got another opPhuket FC played a strong defence, hoping to stay ahead portunity again near the end until the final whistle. But at of first half, when Doumeng times their defence wavered intercepted the ball and it and gave Bangkok FC more rolled towards Sukree, who had clear line in front of the space to play.

When Phuket’s Chatchai goal. But as the striker charged Mokkasem was unable to in, he sent what could have quickly clear a Bangkok pass been an easy goal up high from Phuket’s penalty area, over the crossbar, and then fell Kwaku took the ball and evad- to his knees with frustration.

In the second half, Phuket’s ed Nene Bi and Thongchai Kuenkuntod, who rushed mid field game seemed to in to block him. But Kwaku shut down. Tuck and Thawin then the ball into the goal past hovered around Phuket’s goal

Thai Division 1 D

L

F

1

Team Air Force United FC

MP W 19

13

4

2

23

GD Pts 11

43

2

PTT Rayong FC

19

11

8

0

22

15

41

3

Singh Tarua FC

19

10

4

5

31

11

34

4

Bangkok FC

19

9

6

4

41

10

33

5

Saraburi FC

19

7

7

5

23

6

28

6

Phuket FC

19

6

10

3

23

5

28

7

Trat FC

19

7

6

6

33

1

27

8

Nakon Rachasima FC

19

6

8

5

22

5

26

9

Nakhon Pathom United

19

6

8

5

25

4

26

10

BBCU FC

19

6

8

5

20

-3

26

11

Krabi FC

19

6

3

10

20

-7

21

12

Ayutthaya FC

19

4

8

7

16

-4

20

13

Sri Racha FC

19

5

4

10

25

-5

19

14

Khon Kaen FC

19

4

7

8

20

-9

19

15

TTM FC

19

4

7

8

14

-9

19

16

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area, while Watson and Kwaku ran around and occasionally challenged keeper Ninuruddin.

The Bulls closest opportunity came from a 25 yards shot by Tuck that slipped through Ninuruddin’s hold.

Kwaku sped forward for the execution, but the flag went up and saved Phuket from a fall to disgrace.

At nearly 70 minutes, Nene Bi also had a chance to be a hero, but his shot too went over the bar.

The last 20 minutes, Bang-

kok FC coach Reuter Moreira ordered a full-scale attack on Phuket FC. As the game heated up the footballers got physical: in one encounter, Phuket’s Tossapol Karnpluk had to jump off the ground to avoid a charge by Lee Tuck and ended putting his foot straight to Tuck’s gut, sending the Brit rolling on the ground in pain. The referee let Tossapol go with a warning, but the upset Bulligans – Bangkok FC’s visiting fans – were shouting for him to be carded.

At this point Coach Paniphol seemed to be content with taking one point from a draw, and ordered his footballers to try and maintain the score until the end of the game, and the final whistle blew with the score on 1-all.

The result saw Phuket move to sixth in the league, thanks to losses by Nakhon Ratchasima, Nakhon Pathom and Trat over the weekend.

After the game, Phuket FC president Pamuke Atchairiyachai admitted that the Islanders would now need some sort miracle to make it to Top 3 and promotion to the Thai Premier League in 2014.

Phuket FC now have 15 more games to play, and will have to win at least 14 of those to make the promotion berths, all the while praying for the top seeders like Air Force Avia, PTT Rayong and Singh Tharua to trip up in their games. This will be a tough task. But if they can pull it off, it would be one of the greatest comebacks in Thai football history.

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Triathletes impress in Germany TRIATHLON

THANYAPURA’S TRIATHlon Academy Senior Head Coach Juergen Zack notched up a second place finish in his age group as over 6,000 racers and 250,000 spectators turned out on a warm, sunny Sunday (19 July) for the 2013 DATEV Challenge Roth in southern Germany, one of the sport’s annual highlights.

Zack’s sensational showing led a charge by Thanyapura triathletes, which resulted in a string of personal bests and podium places, including a Thai record for Jaray Jearanai, best-ever times for Arnd Hill,

Michael Lindinger, Stefan Scherer, Johannes Rabl, JoeyLynn Musselman and Kathrin Puff, who came third in her age group.

The women’s race winner, Caroline Steffen, will arrive at Thanyapura next month as part of the inaugural Thanyapura’s Month of Women campaign, to team up with another legend of the sport, who was racing her last Challenge Roth, Australian Belinda Granger.

“It was a great showing for Thanyapura in front of the whole triathlon world,’’ Zack said. “There was a lot of visibility for us, a lot of buzz and interest in Phuket as the hot

emerging triathlon destination for racing and training.

“Personally, I wasn’t planning to race again. When I hung up my bike and running shoes, I didn’t even train for five years. But the work we do at Thanyapura got me back to a place where racing again looked feasible. It feels great to perform on one of the sport’s big stages again.”

Challenge Roth is unique in the gruelling three-legged world of triathlon racing. It’s the sport’s version of the Tour de France, with crowds lining the shaded, charming streets of the historical Bavarian village and a carnival atmosphere.

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Joondalup Bros wrap up island tour RUGBY

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youth team from the Joondalup Brothers Rugby Club are heading home from Phuket to Australia after a week-long rugby and cultural tour of the island, hosted by local youth team the Phuket Lomas.

The Joondalup team played two 15-a-side games against the Lomas (results below), and rounded off the tour with a 10-a-side tournament (see sidebar) held on Saturday, which also featured a team from Krabi.

Between games they did some charity work at the Asia Centre Foundation, went dragon-boating with the Phuket Dragons team from Rawai, sailing with Sail in Asia at Ao Yon, and Muay Thai training at the Maximum Gym in Patong.

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In the first game of the tour, the bigger and well-drilled Australian side used their forwards to set up a half time score of 29-0 and it looked like a hiding was on the cards for the Lomas.

The second half was a turnaround as the Thai lads realised that they could compete and some great drives by Fair from the base of the scrum gave the Lomas a chance to go forward.

That allowed Captain Lek to get the backs into action, which led to tries for Troy and Sombat.

Joondalup finished off the scoring with a great break from the half-way line by captain Conrad to win 39-12.

Phuket Lomas Uner 16s captain Charin ‘Lek’ Dawtong takes the ball in a match against the touring Joondalup Brothers FC youth team.

Sombat was voted the Lomas’ best player by the Joondalup coaches.

Lomas organiser Pat Cotter said the game was a a huge step up in class for the Lomas, who will have learned a lot from the encounter.

Phuket Lomas 12 Joondalup Brothers 57 The second full game was an altogether different affair, with the Joondalup lads taking a more serious approach to the match in a hard hitting and feisty encounter which saw players from both sides leave the pitch due

to injuries.

Things were pretty even with the Joondalup side up 14-12 at the 20 minute mark, and they had stretched their lead out to 26 - 12 by half time.

By now the Joondalup lads had worked out to keep the ball tight in the forwards, to deny the Lomas any quick ball to utilise their quicker backs.

The tactic worked and the Joondalup side kept the Lomas scoreless in the second half, while adding to their score to win 57-12.

Sombat was once again voted Lomas player of the day.

Yacht ‘Sansiri’ makes history SAILING THE FIRST-EVER THAI entry in the TRANSPAC ocean race, co-skippered by Thai sailor Patinyakorn “Ging” Buranrom and Australian Michael Spies, has written a new chapter in Thailand’s history books claiming third place in Division 7 on the yacht “Sansiri”.

The Phuket-based yacht crossed the finish line at 00:39:13 Hawaii time on July 21 – 12 days, 14 hours and 30 minutes after leaving the start line at Los Angeles, after racing for 4100 kilometres across the eastern Pacific Ocean and recording an average speed of 7.6 knots over the race.

The Transpac race from Point Fermin in Los Angeles to Diamond Head, east of Honolulu, is one of the world’s great ocean races, and attracts the world’s most talented offshore sailors.

Sansiri, entered under the banner of Patinyakorn’s home club in Phuket, the Ao Chalong Yacht Club, set sail from Los Angeles on July 8.

Their goal was a podium place in their division, and from early in the race, Sansiri was consistently in the top three of Division 7.

The Sansiri had to contend with poor weather and debris in the water during the ocean race. Photo: Doug Gifford “The toughest day in the race was the first day,” said co-skipper Patinyakorn.

“All five of us were on deck sailing at high speed and we had no time to sleep or eat, we were focused solely on the race. We did very well in the early stages.”

“It has been challenging, the toughest ever challenge for myself. I have had a fantastic experience, indeed it’s been the experience of a lifetime.”

Michael Spies, the yacht’s owner and co-skipper, explained the yachts tactics: “Our aim was to keep south of the rhumb line [the direct great circle route between the start and the finish] as much as possible. This was a good tactic for most of the race, but

towards the end a number of boats appeared to make better progress north of us, possibly getting some localised weather, and that made the difference.”

Sansiri faced many challenges during the race, including loosing the use of their communications equipment early on when they took onboard a lot of water from rain and strong winds.

Like many many other boats the Sansiri also had to contend with debris.

“Over the last few days, the winds died and we lost time. We sailed well, our tactics were sound and pulling on everyone’s experience we finished third in our division, and we are all very happy with that,” said Patinyakorn.

The final 10-a-side tournament was held at the Thanyapura Sports and Leisure Club, featuring teams from the touring Joondalup side, the Phuket Lomas, and Krabi.

In the first game Krabi surprised the Joondalup A side with a fast expansive game to win 22-10.

In game 2, the Lomas turned on the style against the Joondalup B team to win 29-5.

This was the Joondalup boys first introduction to 10s rugby and they were struggling with the pace and heat of the day.

Next up Lomas played Krabi and ran up a 19-0 score line at half time.

They scored again after the break to make it 24-0, but the Lomas then took their foot off the peddle and three converted tries from Krabi made for a tense last few minutes.

An all Joondalup game fast saw the A team take bragging rights over the B team in a game that ended 15-5, and in the final round of group games the Lomas were able to hold off a determined Joondalup A side 19-10, while Krabi saw off the Joonodalup B team in a feisty game that 22-5.

The tournament final was an all Thailand Affair and gave the Lomas the opportunity to gain revenge over their recent loss in

the Krabi national 7s final.

All started well with the Lomas scoring a converted try, but the following kick off didn’t go the distance, and from the resulting free kick Krabi ran through the Lomas defence to score under the posts.

With the score on 7-7 the Lomas went back on the attack and scored again under the posts, only for Krabi to hit back just before half time to make it 14 all.

The game was still wide open and Krabi scored out wide but missed the conversion, putting the score at 19-14.

The Lomas under pressure but wouldn’t be denied and scored again under the posts, 21-19.

As the clock ticked down Krabi upped their game but couldn’t break down the Lomas, and with the last play of the game an intercept by the Lomas saw them race away to score under the posts for a final score of 28-19 final score.

Lomas Captain Lek was voted player of the tournament, and was presented with the Joondalup Brothers Challenge Trophy.

It’s hoped the tour and tournament will become a regular event between the two clubs.

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anchester United stumbled to a 3-2 defeat against Japan’s Yokohama Marinos Tuesday in their second loss in three games under new manager David Moyes.

The English champions fell behind after only a minute but they recovered to lead 2-1 heading into the second half thanks to Jesse Lindgard’s strike and a Yokohama own goal.

However, Fabio Aguiar headed the scores level before Yoshihito Fujita’s winner three minutes from time removed further gloss from United’s pre-season Asian tour.

“We had a chance to finish off the game at 2-1 and had a great chance to make it 3-1, and we thought we had chances after that as well but we didn’t take them. So it was a tough game,” said Moyes.

Moyes also ad mit ted United had “a couple of wee worries” over strikers Robin van Persie, who was withdrawn with a minor thigh problem, and Danny Welbeck, who had a groin twinge.

But he said unsettled striker Wayne Rooney, whose

Manchester United’s Danny Welbeck (right) and Yokohama Marinos’ Fabio fight for the ball. Photo: AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi departure from the tour with a hamstring injury heightened speculation over his future, was recovering – and that he would not be leaving the club.

“So far as I know, he is coming back, he is jogging,” Moyes said. “We are not going to lose him.”

So far under Moyes, United have lost 1-0 in Bangkok and won 5-1 in Melbourne, and they got off to a horror start in hot and humid conditions in Yokohama.

The game was just a minute old when Brazilian striker

Marquinhos latched on to a poor clearance from United custodian David de Gea to fire the hosts in front from inside the box.

The setback stung the Premier League champions and talented Belgian teenager Adnan Januzaj nearly put them level with a crisp strike which was just off-target.

Januzaj, 18, then got back to head a chance off the line but it was new signing Wilfried Zaha who orchestrated United’s opener when he drifted past his man into the box.

The ex-Crystal Palace man’s low cross caused mayhem and it was Lindgard on hand to net his third goal in two games, after Saturday’s brace against the A-League All-Stars.

Yokohama handed United the lead when Januzaj, United’s reserve team player of last season, fired a free-kick which came off the unfortunate Masakazu Tashiro and over the line.

But the hosts were back on terms after the break when de Gea failed to deal with a corner and Brazilian defender Fabio Aguiar’s header moved the score to 2-2.

Shinji Kagawa drew a huge cheer when he came on just after the hour-mark, and United’s Japanese playmaker nearly raised the roof when he got clear – but his shot failed to beat the ‘keeper.

Ashley Young hit one into the side-netting but it was Yokohama who had the final word when Fujita swept home the winning goal in the 87th minute.

Moyes, facing the stiff challenge of following Alex Ferguson’s 27-year, trophyladen reign, now leads his team west for a game against Japan’s Cerezo Osaka on Friday. AFP

FRIDAY, JULY 26, 2013

Wimbledon winner Andy Murray. Photo: AFP/Peter Parks

Murray confirmed for Thailand Open TENNIS NEWLY-CROWNED WIMbledon champion Andy Murray will return to thrill fans here at the 2013 ATP Thailand Open, organisers said yesterday.

The world No.2 will be joined by No.6 Tomas Berdych and defending champion and No.9 Richard Gasquet at the Sept 21-29 tournament at Impact Arena, Muang Thong Thani.

Murray, the first British player in 77 years to win the men’s title at Wimbledon, will be making his fourth appearance at the Thailand Open.

He reached the final on his Bangkok debut in 2005 and was crowned champion in 2011.

“I wasn’t able to come and defend my title last year so it will be great to be back this

year,” Murray said in a statement. “I am looking forward to seeing all the fans again.”

Thailand may be an auspicious place for the Scot.

Since his Bangkok triumph in 2011, the 26-year-old has won two Grand Slam titles at the 2012 US Open and 2013 Wimbledon, as well as gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

“With three of the world’s top 10 players already confirmed including Andy Murray, we are going to enjoy some tremendous tennis,” said Thai tennis chief Suwat Liptapanlop.

“We are lucky to be able to bring Murray to the Thailand Open this year.

“We approached him two or three month ago and he has agreed to come here.”

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ustralia’s ACT Brumbies survived a last-gasp conversion attempt to cling on for a tense 15-13 win over South Africa’s Central Cheetahs on Sunday to reach the Super Rugby semi-finals.

The two-time winners will now travel to South Africa to take on triple champions Northern Bulls next Saturday, while holders Waikato Chiefs host the Canterbury Crusaders in the other all-New Zealand semi-final.

Meanwhile, seven-time champions Canterbury Crusaders dominated the Queensland Reds 38-9 in the other qualifier in Christchurch on Saturday, which means that title holders Waikato Chiefs will host the Crusaders in an all-New Zealand semi-final in Hamilton.

The Cheetahs came desperately close to taking the Canberra playoff into extra time when substitute winger Rayno Benjamin crossed in the left corner, giving Smit a kick from the sideline to level the scores after the full-time siren.

But Smit’s kick swerved into the left upright to end the Cheetahs’ Super 15 campaign, while the Brumbies lived on to fight for another week.

It was further heartbreak for the Bloemfontein-based Cheetahs, who have still to win after six trips to Canberra, but they have lost their last two games

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in the national capital by a point and now two points.

The Cheetahs scored the only tries of a gruelling battle through centre Johann Sadie and Benjamin, while Smit landed just one penalty from four kicks at goal.

The Brumbies’ points all came from penalties, with Wallaby back Christian Lealiifano landing four from six and scrum-half Nic White succeeding with a long-range attempt.

Meanwhile, the formidable Crusaders stormed into the last four with a commanding four-try victory over the 2011 winners Queensland Reds.

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12

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11

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355

88

27

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10

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6

385

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25

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0

8

341

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9

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288

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9

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314

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17

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367

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F U L L B AC K B R E T T Stewart surpassed rugby league great Bob Fulton as the Sea Eagles’ all-time leading tryscorer in Manly’s stylish win over Gold Coast in Australia’s National Rugby League on Sunday.

Stewar t crossed for his 130th career try in 171 games before delivering the final pass for three others as Manly cemented their position in the NRL top four with a 38-20 win over the Titans at Brookvale.

Stewart’s tryscoring haul is second only to Manly legend Steve Menzies’ 151 from 280 games. Given he has the best strike rate in the league, the 28-year-old is on track to break the club record some time next season.

Skipper Jamie Lyon also celebrated his 100th career try as the Sea Eagles chalked up their third straight win to move into fourth spot behind NRL leaders South Sydney.

Scrum-half Mitchell Pearce rebounded from his State of Origin flop for New South Wales in midweek to steer the Sydney Roosters

to a crushing 40-0 win over Cronulla on July 17.

Craig Gower enjoyed the perfect homecoming with the former Penrith skipper producing the crucial try in Newcastle’s 32-14 win over the Panthers at Penrith Stadium on Sunday.

Canberra won their 12th straight home game with a 14-0 victory over Parramatta at rain-lashed Canberra Stadium on Saturday, condemning Parramatta to their eighth consecutive loss.

Benji Marshall’s heir apparent stole his thunder to fire the New Zealand Warriors to a 24-14 comeback win over Wests Tigers at Leichhardt Oval on July 16.

Playing his last game at the Tigers’ spiritual home after requesting an early release from the club at season’s end, Marshall was unable to match the brilliance of his young New Zealand Test teammate Shaun Johnson.

Johnson delivered a second-half masterclass to haul the Warriors back from an eight-point deficit and all but extinguish the Tigers’ f lickering finals hopes. AFP

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skipper Richie McCaw returning from a rugby sabbatical for his first game of the season, scored two tries in each half as they stepped up their drive for an eighth Super crown and shattered the Reds hopes of a second.

They made no secret in the build up to the game they were still hurting from their 18-13 final defeat to the Reds two years ago and their determination for revenge was evident from the start.

Their all-All Blacks forward pack gained dominance early in the set piece, holes were found in the Reds midfield and a blitz opening had the Crusaders up 10-0 within 10 minutes. AFP

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Australia’s Shane Watson on the fourth day of the second Ashes cricket test match at Lord’s cricket ground in London. Photo: AFP/Ian Kingston

ASHES BATSMEN ‘EMBARRASS’ OZ CRICKET

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ormer Australia captain Allan Border took aim at the national teams hapless batting during the Ashes series, saying the top order should be embarrassed while telling Shane Watson to sort himself out.

Border, known as “Captain Grumpy” during his playing days, said the team needed to “stand up and be counted” if they are to turn around the five Test series, which England are leading 2-0.

Australia lost the second Test at Lord’s on Sunday by a

massive 347 runs, putting them on a six-Test losing streak, their worst run in 30 years.

“Our major concern right now is the performance of the top six,” said Border, who played 156 Test matches for Australia, captaining the side 93 times as it rebuilt in the mid-1980s, laying the foundations for a long period of dominance.

“Watching, I could honestly say the nine, 10 and jack looked more competent than our one, two and three.

“If that was me in the top three I’d be embarrassed.”

While Usman Khawaja managed to knock 54 in the

second innings coming in as number three at Lord’s, Chris Rogers and Watson again failed to fire and Border suggested Watson was living on borrowed time.

“We all know what a wonderful player Shane Watson is.

He looks like a million bucks when he’s firing,” he said in a comment piece to Cricket Australia subscribers.

“What is worrying though is that he keeps getting out in the same fashion. Now who is to blame here? Is it Watson for not adapting? What about the coaches?”

Watson has fallen lbw three times in four innings in the

series so far as an opener and has not scored a Test century in 43 innings.

“In an era where we’ve got a thousand coaches and psychoanalysts and dieticians and sport scientists it defies belief that a player can be making the same mistakes. Whether it is a technical thing or a mental thing I don’t know,” said Border.

“Our batting was seen as our Achilles heel heading into the series and right now it’s turning into a reality. If we can find the right formula for the top six I’m confident our luck can turnaround in Manchester,” added Border,

who scored 11,174 Test runs.

Australia’s thrashing was greeted with resignation back home, with The Australian newspaper calling it: “A shabby and public humbling at Lord’s.”

In an opinion piece, the newspaper’s cricket writer Gideon Haigh said Usman Khawaja’s 54 was the only saving grace by the team’s underperforming batsmen, with the top order again failing to deliver sufficient runs.

“Otherwise, events were another stark repudiation of the prevailing Cricket Australia wisdom that fortunes can be revived simply by appointing

as coach a wily old stager who tells everyone to go express themselves,” he said.

“It would be an astonishing feat for this Australian team, which has now lost six Tests in a row, to emulate such an achievement, given the depths to which it has sunk,” the Sydney Morning Herald’s cricket writer Chloe Saltau said.

“Australia has 11 days to regroup in mind and body before the third Test at Old Trafford. But the gulf in class is greater than anyone imagined when the Australians embarked on this Ashes tour,” he wrote. AFP

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EMIRATES TEAM NEW Zealand posted their thirdstraight victory over Italy’s Luna Rossa Tuesday to win the round robin portion of the Louis Vuitton Cup. The win in San Francisco Bay also moves the Kiwis another step closer to taking on the defending America’s

Cup champion Oracle Team USA in September.

New Zealand completed the 15.43-nautical-mile course in 46 minutes, 53 seconds and won the race by a DNF after the Italians failed to finish within five minutes.

New Zealand’s 22-metre catamaran reached a maximum speed of 76.2 km/h (41.16 knots) in a race held

in a southwest wind of 15 to 17 knots.

Luna Rossa finished seven minutes, 14 seconds adrift of the Kiwis. They had been steadily closing the gap against Team New Zealand, but Luna Rossa seemed to struggle at times on Tuesday.

Even before the race began, the Italians were forced to fix a damaged rudder.

New Zealand has earned the right to choose whether they advance directly to the Louis Vuitton Cup final or pick their opponent for the semi-finals. The team has not yet revealed which way it will choose.

The semi-finals will take place August 6-15 with the final to be held August 1730. AFP