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Rohingya policy lack a strain on Immigration THE LACK OF CLEAR government policy on Rohingya refugees who land in Phuket and other parts of Thailand is causing strains on local official facilities, says a representative of the Immigration Police.

“The government still has no plan for us to deal with them,” said Capt Angkhan Yasanop of Phuket Immigration Police on Tuesday (March 26).

“Also, there is no plan for public donations to Rohingya people being held in the Immigration Police Station.”

The 102 Rohingya people who landed on Phuket on Saturday (March 23) have been separated into three groups because there is not enough space in the cells at Phuket Immigration Police.

“There are 38 men left in the Immigration cells. Another 35 were sent to Ranong Immigration Police and 29 women and children are staying at the [Department of Social Development and Welfare’s] Phuket Shelter for Children & Families, on Koh Siray,” he said.

He said food, water and clothing for the Rohingya people in Phuket are being paid for by Phuket Immigration Police. The central government has no plan for handling the Rohingya, and has allocated no budget for looking after them, he said.

“We still do not know how long they will have to spend in Thailand, or where we will have to send them to after this,” said Capt Angkhan.

“We have to keep them with us until Bangkok comes up with a policy for them.”

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Patong Mayor to ‘talk to taxi club’ about bus GOVERNOR MAITREE Intusut on Monday asked Patong Mayor Pian Keesin to talk to “his” taxi club to encourage them to allow the proposed new bus service from Phuket International Airport to Kata.

Gov Maitree was speaking at a meeting at Provincial Hall, attended by Jaturong Keawkasi of the Phuket Land Transportation Office, Kathu District Officer Veera Kerdsirimongkol and – most significantly – Mayor Pian of Patong, a town that is likely to see some of the

fiercest opposition to the new bus service.

Mayor Pian’s son, Preechawut “Prap” Keesin, is president of the Patong Taxi Federation, which includes a large number of the town’s tuk-tuks.

Governor Maitree said, “I am happy that we are discussing this topic. The bus service is a very good idea.

The bus will stop at only six points along the way. This is not snatching customers [from taxi drivers]. The bus will be

relatively slow, so foreigners will not ride on it.”

Turning to the Patong Mayor, Gov Maitree said, “Brother Pian, could you please talk with your taxi club and explain this to them. We should all be happy [about the bus service]. If [the taxi club] can understand that, then everyone can be happy.”

Mayor Pian laughed out loud, then said, “I would like to tell you officers that you have to understand the way the Taxi Federation works.

But I will talk to them and take care of this.”

“It is right that people should have a choice,” he said.

“I’ll talk to them. After all, the bus will not be able to accommodate passengers who have large amounts of luggage.”

Gov Maitree agreed. “The bus service will not be ‘snatching’ foreigner customers [from the taxis and tuk-tuks] because most foreigners like to ride in comfort with their luggage.

“Have you ever taken the

bus?” he asked the assembled officials, “One day, we will all go together to promote the bus service.”

Mr Jaturong explained some details of the service.

“We have set a timetable.

There will be a bus stopping at each bus stop once an hour, for just three minutes. The last bus from the airport will depart at 9 pm.”

Initially there will be four buses used on the run, with the aim of increasing this to eight within six months.

Four complete ocean record Anton Makhrov editor@thephuketnews.com

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our Russians finally reached Phuket on Monday (March 25) after an epic first-of-its-kind voyage around the world on an inflatable catamaran, battling storms, broken equipment and, on one occasion, a shark that mistook one of the air-filled hulls for a whale.

“Sorry we’re late. An hour late...” said one of the four as they stepped ashore after their five-year odyssey.

The team, under skipper Anatoly Kulik, 59, left Phuket in February 2008. They sailed some 60,000 kilometres, made landfall in 38 countries and spent a total of 13 months at sea.

Kulik explains that the crazy idea of circumnavigating the globe on an inflatable catamaran of his own design came to him a quarter of a century ago.

It was not until 2008 that he could turn the idea into reality, though the team did first make a lengthy trip around the Pacific

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Skipper Anatoly Kulik and crew members are greeted on arrival with hugs and flowers. from Alaska to Japan, thereby proving that it was possible to cross the ocean on a shallowdraught inflatable vessel.

The global journey was divided into four stages. Having started from Phuket in February 2008, the sailors headed for the United Arab Emirates. In the Maldives, however, they were forbidden to continue because their route would have taken them into Somali pirate

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territory. Instead they headed across the India Ocean to the Seychelles.

The third stage of the trip was more arduous, crossing 12,500 kilometers of ocean.

The Russians had chosen the route considered by many to be the most dangerous – from the Seychelles to the the African coast, down around the Cape of Good Hope, and then across the Atlantic to Brazil.

For this run the crew were listed in the Guinness Book of World Records, but the longest and hardest part of the journey was still ahead – 30,000 kilometres from Brazil to Phuket.

At the end of March last year, they sailed from Fortaleza in northeast Brazil to conquer the last leg of the route, sailing up the coast to Mexico, where the boat was taken apart and trucked from the east coast to the west.

From there it was a long haul across the Pacific to Papua New Guinea, skirting Sulawesi and then along the coast of Java and Sumatra, past Malacca then north to Phuket.

Comfort was never at a premium. They shared a 12-square-metre tent-like structure erected above the hulls, which also served as a kitchen, and a warehouse for boxes of supplies, drinking water tanks, communication equipment and everything necessary for the voyage.

On each stage of the trip Kulik’s team of four were joined by additional crew, usually specialists of some kind.

For example, while sailing in French Polynesia Kulik wanted someone on board who could speak French.

But the core members were: Kulik himself, a master of boatborne water sportand a member of the Russian Geographical Society (RGS). Responsibilities on the expedition: team leader, ship’s captain and cook; Evgeny Kovalevsky, 56, twice Russian champion and silver prize-winner in boatborne water sports, the crew’s “chief diplomat” (responsible for establishing rapport with local authorities and the community), interpreter, videogra-

pher and photographer; Evgeny Tashkin, another champion in boat-borne water sports, acting as video and camera operator, chronicler of the voyage and in charge of Internet connectivity; and Stanislav Beryozkin, Russian champion in long-distance sailing, the expedition’s navigator and communications chief.

Almost every stage of the round-the-world trip had its frightening incidents. On the deep ocean, in heavy weather, there was the constant worry of capsize – though this never happened. On the final leg up the coast of Malaysia one of the stays holding up the mast snapped. Luckily there were two stays on each side, and the remaining one held up.

The most scary incident was when a shark decided one of the hulls looked edible. It nosed up alongside, then sank its teeth into it.

They chased the shark away but then had to tackle underwater patching of the hull – there was no scuba gear on board – never knowing when the shark would come back for another bite.

Captain Kulik admits the trip was no cake-walk. “The Ocean is an alien environment for people. From the shore it looks romantic, but being out on the open ocean you realize that you’re a speck of sand.”

All the crew confessed the trip was a kind of “internal record” for them. Beryozkin adds, “We finished the trip having become different people, not the ones who started.”

The team now plan to take a couple of months off for rehabilitation and recovery.

But Anatoly Kulik’s crew have no doubt that after that a new challenge lies in wait.

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House fires were ‘arson’ says owner TWO OLD TIN HOUSES IN a poor part of Chalong, originally built as storage sheds, were completely destroyed by fire in the early hours of Tuesday (March 26) in what the owner of one of them claims was arson.

No one was hurt in the fire – the people living inside managed to escape in time.

A spokesman for Chalong Municipality said that the ownership of the land under the homes is in dispute, with both those living there and a local business person claiming ownership.

Chalong police are therefore investigating whether the

fire was set deliberately as a way to get the occupants off the land.

Sombat Suwit, one of the house owners, told officials he was certain that the fire was caused by arson in an attempt to evict him.

He said that before the blaze broke out he had seen two strange men walking around the area.

Governor Maitree Intusut visited the families after the fire and promised a thorough investigation. The local authorities have given the two families affected B2,000 each in initial aid.

Missing Russian diver found dead THE BODY OF A RUSSIAN tourist who went missing while diving last Friday (March 22) was found floating on Monday morning off Kata beach, apparently drowned.

Oleg Udaloi, 44, who was spending his holidays in Karon, went spearfishing with his wife at Koh Poo, the island off Kata Beach.

“It appears from his scuba

suit and equipment that he was an experienced diver.

“We know that he had dived in the area before,” said Pol Lt Col Pachai Mattayan of Karon Police.

“It looks as though he dived deep, because some of the fish [he brought back up to the boat before he disappeared] live at least 10 metres below the surface.”

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Search for oil spill blame Nattha Thepbamrung reporter2@thephuketnews.com

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he person responsible for the boat which sank and leaked 10,000 litres of fuel into waters off Koh Siray may face charges, the Phuket Marine Office has said.

But it is not yet known who exactly that is. The boat’s owner has been identified as Somsak Homsap, who has yet to be questioned by officials, but officials say he may not be responsible as it is believed the boat was hired out to transport fuel.

The fishing boat Pemika sank in the mouth of the Klong Tah Chin, off Koh Siray, on Friday (March 22).

It leaked what was first thought to be about 2,000 litres of fuel. However officials later said the actual amount that leaked was almost five times that.

“We underestimated it,” Puripat Teerakulpisut, Phuket Marine Office Director, told The Phuket News.

“We initially estimated the leaked fuel was about 2,000 litres. But there was almost 10,000 litres, so it took three days to clean it up – we finished on Sunday.”

“We removed 20 tanks of heavy fuel-oil from the water.

The Pemika sits on the bottom of Klong Tah Chin, releasing a steady stream of oil.

We went as fast as we could because we know that fuel-oil coagulates faster than other types of oil.

“If we were any slower it would have affected the environment. But I have not seen any fish or other marine life that died from this spill,” Mr Puripat said.

“There were many areas that the fuel drifted into. We put booms in the klong on the first day of the spill, but during the night, when boats tried to

moor, some hit the boom and fuel spilled out. This made our job tougher and it took a lot of time.”

However he said all the fuel that could affect the environment and marine life had been removed. All that remained was a thin film on the water’s surface, which would disappear soon, he said.

Meanwhile, Regional Environment Office 15, Phuket, Environmental Specialist Pakin Boon-On went to the affected

area on Monday (March 25) to collect water samples to check the level of contamination.

“I saw one or two small crabs that were covered by a small amount of fuel, but I did not see any other fish or birds that had fuel on them. Also, the people living there do not use the water in the klong,” Mr Pakin said.

He said the water samples, sent to the Pollution Control Department in Bangkok, are due back in 15 days.

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said. “So, we went to ask her to arrange a tour for us, and then arrested her.”

Unable to produce any paperwork, Tikhomirova told the police that she is Russian, and had worked for the tour company for a year. She told police that she believed the company had obtained a work permit for her, but did not know where it was.

Police will also investigate her employers to see whether they had contravened either the Immigration Act, by harbouring an illegal alien, or the Alien Working Act, by employing a foreigner without a work permit.

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A RUS SI A N WOM A N working at a tour company in Patong was arrested by Immigration Police on March 20 after she was unable to produce either a work permit or her passport.

The 34-year-old woman, who police said gave her name as Oleg Tikhomirova (though Oleg is a man’s name) was found working for Leong Speedy Travel on Phrabaramee Rd. “Illegal Russian workers in Phuket are now a focus of our policy, and we check all tourism areas at least once a week,” said Capt Angkhan Yasanop of the Immigration Police.

“We found her while she was trying to sell a tour package to some tourists,” Capt Angkarn

amed forensic pathologist K hunying Dr Porntip Rojanasunan – almost as famous for her brightly coloured hair as for her forthright honesty – is to send a team to Phuket next Thursday (April 4) to examine a bone dug up by Sea Gypsies in Rawai.

Villagers believe the 17-cm-long bone may be from an ancestor, but so far no tests have been done to confirm this.

The bone was found on March 20 by Wak Lakkoh, 62. She and neighbours were digging a hole to replace one of the wooden uprights supporting her house when she found the 17-cm-long bone, believed to be a part of a human arm.

Nirun Yangpan, Rawai Sea Gypsy representative said that, 30 years ago, Mrs Wak found an almost complete human skeleton underground near her house, along with some antique pottery, but threw them into the sea because she believed that having a skeleton under her house would bring bad fortune.

“It was unfortunate; at that time she didn’t realise that the bones might be important evidence,” Mr Nirun said.

“However, after we had been fighting [the legal battle] for the land for a while, we started thinking about finding some proof of our long-term

occupation of the land.

“An elder told me there might be as many as 10 skeletons here so we have kept on digging the whole day.”

Speaking with The Phuket News last Friday (March 22), Pol Lt Col Prawut Wongseenil, Special Case Specialist with the Department of Special Investigation (DSI), said he had already contacted Dr Porntip’s Central Institute of Forensic Science Thailand (CIFS).

Both the DSI and the CIFS both come under the Ministry of Justice.

“I have contacted her, and she said that a team will go to the village to get the bone soon,”Col Prawut said.

In addition to dating the bone, the CIFS might extract DNA from it, which could be compared with that of living Sea Gypsies to see if there is a genetic link that backs their claim to have lived in the area for a long time.

The Rights and Liberties Protection Department (RLPD) and the DSI visited the Rawai Sea Gypsy village on March 15 and are putting their weight behind the villagers’ efforts to prove that their claim to the land under the village predates the claims of local businesspeople who have obtained chanote titles to the land.

“The main problems the Sea Gypsies told us about are the land papers and being arrested for fishing in national park areas,” Col Prawut told

Wak Lakkoh with the bone. Inset, Dr Porntip Rojanasunan. Photo: Thai Government The Phuket News.

“We [the DSI] are working with the RLPD to gather evidence to prove whether the Sea Gypsies have lived on the land as long as they claim. I believe that we can provide enough proof to help them.”

He said that the work has just started but already the DSI has collected aerial photographs and “other evidence”,

which he said the DSI will reveal after the information gathering process is complete.

As for the nine fishermen who were arrested for fishing inside the Similans National Park, Col Prawut said that the RLPD will discuss the matter with the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) because Sea Gypsy fishermen

are by law allowed to fish in national parks and reserves, using traditional methods.

“The villagers have fought [the land and fishing issues] to the best of their abilities but they might not have access to the kind of evidence and information that officials can easily get hold of. From now on, we will carry out this role for them,” he said.

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Dengue ‘not a big worry’ in Phuket – health office PHUKET PEOPLE DON’T need to worry about an outbreak of dengue fever on the island at this stage, but should still remain vigilant, says the Provincial Public Health Office (PPHO).

A spokesperson for the PPHO’s Disease Control Group told The Phuket News that during 2012, 355 people reportedly caught the disease, with one person dying from it.

“So far this year, from January to March 15, there have been 63 reported cases in Phuket, but no deaths,” the spokesperson said.

But she said dengue fever was not a major problem in Phuket because there are not so many cases.

Earlier this week, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) warned that the number of dengue fever cases is on the rise in the capital, and the spread of the tropical disease is likely to be more serious this year than previously.

The BMA’s health department has issued a statement saying that generally dengue fever tends to spread during the rainy season, but Bangkok has recently seen rising numbers of dengue infections during other seasons.

According to a report by the Disease Control Department (DCD), more than 2,000 people have been infected with the disease since the beginning of this year in Bangkok.

Last year, a total of 10,081 cases were reported, with six fatalities.

The PPHO spokesperson said the DCD focuses on providing helpful, educational resources to people about the correct ways to keep their community dengue-free.

“There are easy ways to kill the mosquito larvae. First, family members need to encourage each other to check around the home for standing water, which is usually where mosquitoes lay eggs. The water should be thrown out or drained.

“Mosquitoes have a life cycle of seven days so you need to check at least once a week.

“Mosquitoes can also be killed by spraying the flying adults with detergent or soapy water. As a last resort you can call your local Municipality to spray chemicals inside and around the house, which will kill any larvae.”

Anyone who has a problem with mosquito larvae should contact the tambon health office in their area.

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Officials probe cleared land Nattha Thepbamrung reporter2@thephuketnews.com

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large, steep piece of land in Kamala, across the road from Laem Singh Beach, was visited on Monday (March 25) by officials after a complaint that it was too steep to be in private hands and was possibly in a forestry reserve – yet had been encroached on by “a businessman”.

V/Gov Somkiet Sangkhaosuthirak, who led the inspection party, remarked after the visit, “The land is very steep and the vegetation and topsoil have been removed. Whenever it rains it is very dangerous [because of the possibility of landslides].”

He said that an official from the Phuket Office of Natural Resources and Environment had already surveyed the land and proved that it is too steep to build on legally; in

V/Gov Somkiet Sangkhaosuthirak (red shirt) leads officials inspecting the land.

Thailand, land steeper than 40 per cent (21.8º from horizontal) may not be built upon.

Yet the land has all the appearance of having been cleared in preparation for development.

A complaint about the land was initially made to the Prime Minister’s Office in Bangkok, which sent it back to the Damrongtham Centre in Phuket. The centre’s director, Prapan Kanprasang,

said yesterday (March 25), “I am not sure how many rai this piece of land covers, but it’s big.

“We saw, as was mentioned in the complaint, that the land had been cleared and a con-

crete road built where there used to be a small stream.”

He added that V/Gov Somkiet had ordered the relevant departments to investigate the case.

Narunart Supataraprateep, the Thalang District Officer, will attempt to track down who was responsible for ripping out the vegetation and topsoil, while the Phuket Forestry Office will check whether the land is in a protected area.

The Thalang Land Office will check land documents.

“However, we know that two offences have been committed – clearing land on a steep hillside and building over a public stream, so whoever did this will be prosecuted,” Mr Prapan said.

Others who joined the inspection party included Ma Ann Samran, Director of Cherngtalay OrBorTor and a local village chief.

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Bangwad Reservoir looks fine when it is full, but the dry season swiftly drains it.

Phuket City ‘ready to meet water shortages’ T H AVO R N J I R A PATtanasopon, Deputy Mayor of Phuket City, says the city will be able to handle water shortages expected hit if there is no rain soon, and has a plan in place to solve any shortages.

Mr Thavorn said that the city’s water processing capability – the inhabitants use 30,000 cubic metres of water a day – is adequate. The problem is with the raw water sources.

“We have three main sources of raw water: Bangwad Reservoir, with ponds in Soi Paniang and in Soi Roongrawee as back-up.

“The area that is at most risk of water shortages is around Suan Luang Park and along Chaofa Rd and Sakdidet Rd, but we are prepared for this; we already have an agreement with the Provincial

Waterworks Authority (PWA) to supply us with around 1,000 cubic metres a day.”

The potential for shortage has been exacerbated by work being done by the Royal Irrigation Department in Suan Luang, draining and cleaning the lakes in the park. This will be finished soon but it will take a while for the lakes to fill up again and for sediment in the water to settle to the point where it can be used for domestic supply.

“For neighbouring areas [outside the city] such as Wichit and Rassada, we also provide water supply. If we don’t have enough, then we will need to buy more from the PWA. “Right now, Phuket City produces 70 per cent of the water required, which comes

from Bangwad Reservoir.

Then we buy 20 per cent from the private sector and 10 per cent from the Provincial Waterworks Authority.

“I think we still can handle demand, but we have also talked with the fire brigade about delivering water to people’s homes if necessary.

“In the worst case, if the water shortage continues until May then we will need to buy supplies from the PWA and use the back-up water resources in Soi Paniang and Soi Roongrawee, which will extend the water supply for 15 days.”

There are no shortages expected in other parts of the island, said a spokesperson from the Phuket Provincial Waterworks Authority.

SERIAL SNATCHER SATtawat “Pae” Settaraksa, 30, from Songkhla was arrested by police on Tuesday (March 26) in Phuket Town after he snatched property in ride-by robberies from more than 10 victims in the past two months.

Police noticed that the robberies always took place in the same area – just north of the Phuket Town Police Station – with the robber fleeing in the direction of Soi Paniang in Tambon Rassada.

Finally police caught a sighting of Sattawat on CCTV and tracked him down to the

place where he lived, on Soi Paniang.

Sattawat confessed carrying out the robberies, saying that he always targeted women riding alone who had put their valuables in the basket at the front of their motorbike.

He would mark his target, ride up alongside and snatch everything from the basket.

Each time he would borrow a different motorbike to carry out his robberies.

Since his arrest, six of the women victims have come forward to accuse Sattawat of robbing them.

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Bayonets go through to Battle of Bands final he third and final heat of the Battle of the Young Bands on Saturday (March 23) saw three groups take to the stage to fight it out for a spot in the final on May 4.

The first band up was Sticky Rice and the Nuggets, a young group from HeadStart International School.

Their perfor mance of Cranberries classic Zombie was rock solid, and while all the members performed exceptionally well, it was eightyear-old Nutcha Phaisamsan who won the hearts of the audience and judges with her confident vocal performance.

The second of the three bands performing was HeadStruck, the older band from HeadStart. Playing on the

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vocal strengths of their lead singer Masha Prikhodko, the band covered two Evanescence songs. Their strong performance, musical ability and image saw them end the day as runners up.

The third and final act on the day was a new band from British International School, The Bayonets. Their off-thewall look and inspired song choices were overshadowed only by their sheer talent and stage performance.

Shannon Smith’s oddly cool stage presence was refreshing to witness, and he led his battle-ready troops to win the final heat and put The Bayonets through to the finals.

Despite this being the band’s first real performance

in front of an audience, they played together like a band of brothers.

With bands Notorious, Sicma and The Bayonets through to the finals, it is now down to online votes and views for the rest of the bands to see which two will join the first round winners in the finals on May 4.

To vote for bands, visit the Hard Rock Café Phuket Facebook site, find the videos posted in the timeline, watch the video and “like” the posting that you think is best.

You can also “like” the video on YouTube. The two bands with the most likes and YouTube views will join Notorious, Sicma and The Bayonets in the finals.

A cool stage presence refreshing to witness: Shannon Smith fronts up The Bayonets.

Shootout mystery as survivors keep cops in suspense Tanyaluk Sakoot reporter4@thephuketnews.com

THE TWO SURVIVORS from the March 20 boarding house shootout, in which two others were shot dead, are recovering, police say, but are not yet well enough to tell police what happened in the house in Sam Kong.

Tourist Police officer, Sen Sgt Maj Pinchai Piyadilok, was charged on March 21, as a “precautionary measure” with two counts of murder and one of attempted murder.

He, too, was wounded in the shooting, and is currently in hospital in Haad Yai where his leg was amputated blow the knee.

Sgt Maj Pinchai’s wife Warankana Wichien said, “Right now, he is recovering

from the amputation. He is not available to talk with the media but he has been greatly encouraged by visits from relatives and friends.

“I do not know when he will get out of the hospital because he is waiting for doctors to graft skin [over the stump of his leg].

Meanwhile, the other survivor of the mayhem, Natthapong Keawkuanchum, 25, has been operated on at Vachira Phuket Hospital, to repair bullet wounds to his stomach.

A hospital official said, “Mr Natthapong was operated on on March 20. At the moment he cannot eat but he is recovering now.”

Muang Phu ket Police Superintendent Sermphan Sirikong told The Phuket

News, “We have already collected evidence f rom the crime scene. We have also talked with both of the wounded men, but neither were in a condition for full interviews with investigators. “[Mr Natthapong] appears not to remember very well; he seems confused and nervous when investigators ask him about what happened.

“We asked him what the shooter looked like but he seemed confused and his descriptions varied from one time to the next. I do not want put too much pressure on him right now.

“Sgt Maj Pinchai does not want to talk at the moment.

But we will continue to visit them both until they are well enough to talk.”

A forlorn Brian Skyum with his reward offer – no questions asked.

Photographer puts up B100,000 reward for return of his stolen gear

A PHUKET PHOTOGRApher is offering a B100,000 reward for the return of his missing laptop and external hard drive containing more than 200,000 photos.

Brian Skyum, who is also the Managing Director of Coco Palace resort in Rawai, believes the items were stolen by a former staff member and associates.

He returned from the Philippines in early March to discover the laptop and external hard drive, along with a Canon camera, two lenses, a flash, another pocket camera, a tripod and a camcorder missing from his room at the resort.

There were CCTV cameras in the room, but they did not work because were not properly installed.

Mr Skyum, originally from Denmark but resident in Phuket for 13 years, has been a photographer since he was 20 years

old and is hoping to recover the two most important items – the laptop and hard drive.

“They are everything to me. It is 36 years of work. I have a back-up in Denmark, but only about two thirds of the database. But all that backup is raw data without any Photoshop editing.”

He estimates there are around 200,000 photos on the laptop alone, with about 2 terabytes of photos on the hard drive. The laptop has a distinctive Danish keyboard, which Mr Skyum says is rare, and is missing three rubber “feet”.

“If I get the laptop back it’s B50,000, if I get the hard drive back, it’s B50,000. There are additional rewards for the other items, or for information leading to their recovery. No questions asked, I don’t care – I just want my stuff back.”

The photos on the missing items are from 170 countries

he has travelled to over more than three decades, including Papua New Guinea, Nepal, Namibia, Mali, and Mongolia.

He has already spoken with Chalong Police, who told him there was nothing they could do until the person Mr Skyum suspects committed the crime comes to the police station to be questioned.

The Phuket News was unable to contact anyone at Chalong Police for comment.

The details of the most important missing items are: Macbook Pro 17” laptop, 2009 model, with Danish keyboard. Serial number SW891603Y2QP A two-terabyte external mini hard drive WD 2TB My Passport Studio Anyone who has any information can contact Mr Skyum on 080 8831040 or skyumpix@ gmail.com

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Tourist Svetlana Makovskaya tackles yet another slice.

A piece of cake for Russian girl RUSSIAN TOURIST SVETlana Makovskaya, 27, won the Royal Phuket City Hotel’s cake eating competition on Sunday (March 24) by eating 12 pieces of cake.

She fought off competition from Thai Kanit Yingpitpor, who won last year’s competition but managed to eat only 10 pieces of cake this year.

Altogether 16 participants took part – seven foreigners and nine Thais.

Ms Makovskaya won B10,000 prize money and vouchers for the hotel’s Café 154 coffee shop.

Tourist Police app for public A NEW PHONE APPLICAtion will be helpful for both tourists and expats in Phuket, says a representative of the Phuket Tourist Police.

I n spector Pol Maj Urumporn Koondejsumrit said the mobile phone app, called “Tourist Buddy” was being rolled out across Thailand.

The free app includes an emergency call button, a “send location” option, important phone numbers, and dos and don’ts about Thai culture.

At the moment the app is available only for iPhones (from the App Store), but a version for other smartphones will be released soon.

wo Russians in wheelchairs have met with Gover nor Maitree Intusut and Rawai Mayor Aroon Sorot to discuss a plan they have to make Nai Harn Beach more accessible to people who have limited mobility.

Gov Maitree said the project to build a ramp was interesting and would be of benefit to Phuket, and asked Rawai Mayor Aroon to handle the permit for it.

The Russians will now work with Rawai Municipality, which must survey the site and any environmental considerations, and draw up construction plans.

Kseniya Bezuglova and Artem Moiseenko, both of whom became wheelchairbound after car smashes – she four years ago and he 18 years ago – were accompanied by Mr Moiseenko’s wife Tatiana for the meeting on March 20.

M rs Moiseen ko told The Phuket News that they had been to several other countries and seen beaches equipped with ramps and other facilities such as a plat-

No way down: Kseniya Bezuglova (left) and Artem Moiseenko at Nai Harn Beach. form to help people in and out of wheelchairs, and buoyancy aids for the disabled.

B30k stolen during restaurant robbery STAFF OF THE NINE REStaurant in Royal Place, at the Tesco-Lotus lights on the bypass road, arrived on Sunday morning (March 24) to find that the cash box and a phone belonging to the restaurant had been stolen.

Thungtong Police Chief Superintendent Lt Col Yodsapad Suwannasit said, “We were alerted at about 8.50

am. The thief took the cash box which contained about B30,000 and a Nokia mobile.”

Police work was hampered because the thief also took the precaution of stealing the recording from the CCTV camera in the restaurant.

“We have found some other CCTV cameras nearby.

We will follow up on this,” he said.

WILL YOU MARRY ME? An Australian tourist proposed to his girlfriend in front of 1,000 people in the audience at Phuket FantaSea on March 20. With a bit of help from Phuket FantaSea staff, Dam Nguyen, visiting from Australia, got up on stage with a ring during the middle of the show and surprised his girlfriend by asking her to marry him. Luckily for him, she said yes.

Even though their wheelchairs could not be used easily on the sand, the ramp

would allow other equipment to be set up to lift the disabled person out of the chair and

carry them to the sea.

The friends told the Governor that they had noted that although Phuket is one of the world’s best-known tourist destinations, it still lacks facilities to help the disabled.

So, they said, they would like to start by first building a ramp down to the beach at Nai Harn.

They explained that they felt that the ramp would not only be practical in its own right, but would also help raise awareness of the need for other places around the island to install similar facilities to help the disabled.

Mr Moiseenko is a highprofile member of the Rotary Club in Russia, and said that, through that organisation, there will be plenty of support from wealthy people for the project.

The ramp will also increase the number of disabled people – not only Russians but from elsewhere on the globe – who want to come to Phuket, they believe.

Kseniya Bezuglova, too, is widely known in Russia.

Last year she was the winner of the disabled beauty contest Models on Wheels.

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It’s a funny old world

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s the saying goes, it’s a funny old world.

That is, if your idea of humour is dark, twisted and at its core, wholly unjust.

Last weekend, a boatload of Rohingya people bound for Malaysia, where they hoped to claim political asylum, landed in Phuket instead. So close, but yet so far.

Their boat broke down on their 45th day at sea, since setting sail from the Arakan (Rakhine) state of Burma.

Denied citizenship in their ‘homeland’, and refused entry to neighbouring Bangladesh, the Rohingya people are widely perceived as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.

With the central Thai government lacking any specific policy or plan to deal with the people – as we reported this week – their time in Phuket is likely to be fleeting.

Whether they will be, as has happened in the past,

‘helped on their way’ by the Thai Navy or sent back to Burma remains to be seen.

One thing is for sure, for them their journey is far from over.

Meanwhile, a plucky group of four Russians also arrived on the island this week on a rickety marine vessel.

Their journey however was not to escape religious persecution, nor was it a matter of life or death. Over the course of their exceptionally long, five year journey, no passenger had died or had to be thrown overboard.

Admittedly facing their own kind of hardships, albeit by choice, the Russian men had decided to embark on this peculiar journey as a feat of endurance and for an adventure.

What the Rohingya people currently in detention centres around Phuket and Thailand would think about such a juxtaposition of societal fortunes is baffling.

This dual treatment of earth’s citizens is, surely by anybody’s reasoning, hard to accept as right.

The ‘human race’ feels more than aptly named at times. Is life ever not a competition? When are humans going to stop trying to beat, to dominate and to win againt others?

Aren’t we, as earth citizens, too old for this now?

This is a world where people of wealth indulge in extreme sports and simulations of war in order to access pools of adrenaline and feelings otherwise inaccessible via their sedentary lives.

This is also a world where people with nothing risk all to find a place where they will be allowed to live in peace, and be given fundamental human rights.

It’s a world where the two co-exist and live on the same piece of earth.

It’s a funny old world.

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The Ammart’s counter offensive Voranai Vanijaka

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rade Yingluck Shinawatra for Yaowapa Wongsawat, and what do we get? First, let’s speculate. Let’s connect the dots.

A series of events may be coincidental, having little or nothing at all to do with one another. Or they may be designed to accomplish a certain goal.

Depending on how surrounding circumstances unfold, a series of events may take a different turn, or might not need to be pursued further, or simply come to naught on its own.

In a world where chaos and order are locked in an eternal battle, political analysis is always a subjective art of educated guesses.

The Bangkok gubernatorial election ended with a victory for the Democrats. The rice pledging scheme has proven to be a dud. The first-time automobile buyer scheme now faces ridicule as buyers find themselves unable to pay off their car loans.

The two trillion baht loan to revamp the country’s infrastructure will take 50 years to pay off, and if the revamping is in any way similar to the rice

pledging or the first car buyer schemes, then we should all scratch our heads and stock up on Mama noodles.

Things are not going well for the Pheu Thai government.

Thaksin Shinawatra spoke out, demanding his party push harder for amnesty, and again we must stress that he insisted it was not for himself but for the good of the people, truly.

Meanwhile, pundits speculate that the resignation of Pheu Thai MP Kasem Nimmonrat was designed to make way for someone who can get ‘’the job’’ done.

Not Mr Kasem’s job, but Ms Yingluck’s.

Thaksin’s other sister, Ms Yaowapa, has been selected by the party to run in the April 21 by-election for the vacant seat in Chiang Mai’s constituency 3.

This is Chiang Mai, the stronghold of the Thaksin political machine, where he could nominate any electricity pole, even a real one, and the by-election would still be money in the bank. Why was Ms Yaowapa selected?

Perhaps to eventually replace Ms Yingluck? The National Anti-Corruption Commission is investigating ‘’inconsistencies’’ in Ms

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. Photo: Gerd Seidel Yingluck’s assets declaration when she became an MP and prime minister.

If we recall the late former prime minister Samak Sundaravej being stripped of his rank because of a cooking show, then we realise that if they really want to get you, and the situation is ripe for getting you, then they will get you.

Gotham City has Batman.

Thailand has the Invisible Hand. Be entertained by the

former. Be afraid of the latter.

Is the situation ripe for going after Ms Yingluck? Well, that’s for the Invisible Hand to answer.

But to speculate, the Pheu Thai government is now at a vulnerable period. This is not simply because its economic policies have not fared well, and the loss in the Bangkok governor election, but also because the push for constitutional amendment and amnesty has, thus far, failed.

In the eye of the ammart, the old elite establishment, perhaps the time is ripe for a counter offensive.

Meanwhile, let us also speculate that Thaksin is getting ever so impatient. While the populist economic policies are not faring well, they are not exactly disastrous or catastrophic to the Thai economy as a whole, yet. That might take a couple more years, so be patient folks.

And while there is little, if any, progress on constitutional amendment and amnesty, other than some complaining and petitioning, the red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) are not making a big issue out of it either.

At the same time, the economy is doing, not great, but fine.

This means, things are stable.

Uncomfortably stable, because stability invites complacency and forgetfulness. The man in Dubai wields a lot of power yes, but he is becoming less relevant to the conscience of the people on both sides of the political divide.

His greatest fear may be that one day the people of Thailand wake up and wonder,

“Thaksin who?’’

The average member of the UDD loves and is very happy with Ms Yingluck. The anti-Thaksin brigade puts up with her, as long as they can make crude jokes and insults.

It’s therapeutic.

On top of which, Ms Yingluck may be the calming influence that Thailand needs.

She may be the bridge of reconciliation with men like Privy Council president Gen Prem Tinsulanonda and army chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha.

Again, the status quo is too stable.

For her big brother, it has been nearly two years, and she simply is not getting the job done. Looking into the near future, it’s unlikely that she will get the job done then either. She’s just too nice.

What’s the job? Bringing her brother back home in triumph.

The score is 0-0 in the second half, what do you do?

It’s time to bring in the super sub! Ms Yaowapa.

Voranai Vanijaka is Political and Social Commentator for the Bangkok Post. He can be contacted at voranaiv@ bangkokpost.co.th

Just out of interest why was the CCTV solution not working?

If this was working the police would have to assist this poor guy who has now lost 30 years of work.

I install CCTV both analogue and IP based solutions and would never leave the customer site without showing them how it works, that it is working and how they can view it on a smart phone or tablet.

Personally I would put in an insurance claim to the “bodgit and scarper” company who installed the CCTV solution and add extra for them assisting in the loss of 30 years (a lifetime’s) worth or work.

Nathyn Morley

big impact on reducing mosquitoes.

Phuket should be proud of this first step and continue to work hard to clean and green the island, initiating curbside recycling and tackling water pollution.

Nick Anthony

HAVE YOUR SAY The business of Russians [Re. Why Phuket needs the Russians] Excellent article.

I can only confirm from my personal and daily observations that the absolute majority of Russian guests in Phuket spend considerable monies on the island.

Every Russian (same as any other law abiding guest) should be more than welcome to Phuket. I can further confirm that the Russians are also more than happy to buy goods and services from non-Russian speaking (Thai and farang) business owners.

Nevertheless, the Thai people who are prepared to learn (some) Russian will have unlimited business opportunities in all Thai tourist destinations in the future.

Let’s make something out of it rather than seeing only negatives (if any).

Mike More money won’t improve our island. In a recent study, in spite of Phuket being one of the most prosperous provinces

in Thailand, it was pointed out that we’re generally one of the most unhappy.

More money would likely have a negative effect.

What I’d love to see is some actual sustainability and environmental protection. In the long run, Phuket is going to turn into a horrible place to live if the current path is promoted.

Dave Williams “Ninety per cent of them don’t speak any English. The highend ones do; they’re educated” LOL... So you insinuate that if an individual doesn’t speak English then they’re not educated?

Chalongresident “Thailand will end up becoming like Egypt and Turkey where all you see is Russian signs.”

So what’s the problem?

A long time ago there was not even one sign in English.

Now there are plenty. That’s the process of language acquisition.

This is how Spanish became an official language throughout South America,

and why Malaysians speak good English. Native people have always been learning the language of “invaders”.

Shoshanna Karenina What Phuket actually needs is to target cashed-up customers from everywhere, not just Russians.

Alan Alan, agreed, but you overlook an important point. Most of the other (original) i.e. European visitors may not return to Phuket for various reasons.

Georgi I personally don’t have a problem with Russian tourists, but I often feel as though they don’t get the authentic taste of Thailand.

Even with ones in their 20s, I’ve never seen a single one backpacking or in a hostel.

Just big resorts.

However, if that’s how they want to spend their money, go for it.

Benjamin Reed Morally I think the tourist bodies are selling out.

Thailand will end up becoming like Egypt and Turkey where all you see are Russian signs.

I have just returned from Phi Phi after a 16 year gap and was disgusted to see a pristine island destroyed. European backpackers getting high and as drunk as quickly as possible.

Johnny Murray

Takeaway tablets [Re. Phuket News: Thai students set for mass tablet computer handout] My 7 year old, who attends a school in Srisoontorn, received his about six months ago.

He was only allowed to take it home for the weekend, and then only after I’d signed for it. We managed this on just one occasion, after which it mysteriously disappeared whilst in the teachers possession. What a waste of time and money. agogohome

Not caught on camera [Re. Phuket: B100k reward offered for return of laptop and hard drive]

Down with dengue [Re. Dengue fever ‘not a large problem’ in Phuket] Well done Dr Wow and the PPHO team working with Khun Paitoon at the OrBorJor for cleaning up Phuket and reducing roadside trash and reducing littering.

Sitting plastic collects water and breeds mosquitoes, so a clean environment has a

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No laughing matter [Re. Phuket News: Thai comedian caught selling crystal meth] Nothing funny about that... justaskdan

She will be missed [Re. Popular Phuket restaurant owner killed in car crash] A genuinely lovely lady, she always had a lovely smile for everyone.

Arch will be sadly missed by this world. RIP and good luck to her two sons.

Mickey Oh no. So sorry to hear this.

Such a nice lady.

Condolences to her family.

Rebecca

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Thai court acquits two Red Shirts of torching BKK mall T

wo supporters of Thailand’s “Red Shirt” protest movement were acquitted Monday of setting fire to a huge shopping mall during mass anti-government rallies that rocked Bangkok in 2010.

A court in Bangkok freed the pair because there were no witnesses to the arson attack on Central World, Thailand’s biggest shopping mall, which was gutted by the blaze.

Saichon Paebua – one of the Red Shirts’ own security guards – and co-defendant Pinit Chanarong both denied the charges.

Central World was one of dozens of buildings torched after a crackdown by armed troops firing live rounds and backed by armoured vehicles brought an end to the two months of demonstrations on May 19, 2010.

The Red Shirts – who are broadly loyal to fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra – have always denied responsibility for the fire.

“Today’s ruling proves that Red Shirt protesters did not burn down Central World,”

Red Shirt defendant Pinit Chanarong is escorted by a police officer as he leaves criminal court in Bangkok on March 25. Photo: Pornchai Kittiwongsakul/AFP said one of their leaders, Weng Tojirakarn.

The two defendants were freed as they have already served jail terms for violating an emergency decree imposed

by the authorities to deal with the protests, which paralysed parts of Bangkok.

Two teenagers were cleared of involvement in the arson attack by a juvenile court in

December due to a lack of witnesses.

About 90 people were killed and nearly 1,900 were wounded in a series of street clashes between demonstra-

tors and security forces during the rallies.

The trial of 24 Red Shirt leaders on terrorism charges began in December but five of them enjoy immunity as they are now lawmakers, so the case is expected to take years to complete during breaks in the parliamentary session.

Abhisit Vejjajiva, who was prime minister at the time, was charged with murder in December along with his then-deputy Suthep Thaugsuban over the death of a taxi driver shot by soldiers during the violence.

The Red Shirts were demanding immediate elections, accusing Abhisit’s government of coming to power unfairly in 2008 through a parliamentary vote after a court stripped Thaksin’s allies of power.

Thaksin was ousted by royalist generals in a coup in 2006. He now lives in Dubai to avoid a jail sentence for corruption that he contends is politically motivated.

In 2011 his sister Yingluck Shinawatra was elected as premier. AFP

Convict tags ‘need more time’ Teen gang peddles drugs, I N M AT E S W H O A R E eligible for early release under an electronic monitoring programme will have to wait until the scheme has been launched properly, Justice Minister Pracha Promnok says.

The Justice Ministry has yet to establish guidelines and criteria for the electronic monitoring of offenders as an alternative to imprisonment, he said on March 26.

A law which allows inmates who meet certain requirements to serve the rest of their terms outside prison

has taken effect.

Released inmates would wear electronic tagging devices to allow authorities to monitor them. However, officials still have to address certain concerns before the electronic monitoring programme can be implemented, Pol Gen Pracha said.

Some people were concerned the programme will cover drug offenders or convicts who committed serious crimes.

He insisted the issue will be widely discussed before a decision is made.

Pol Gen Pracha dismissed criticism the programme was designed to accommodate political offenders.

Offenders eligible for the programme include those who may die if they remain imprisoned; those who need to take care of family members; those suffering from chronic illness and who require continuous medical treatment; and those who have grounds for a reduced punishment such as childbirth or a mental disorder, Pol Gen Pracha said.

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guns on Facebook page

A 16-YEAR-OLD TEEN was arrested in Ang Thong province for advertising meth pills and guns for sale on a Facebook page on March 21.

The arrest resulted from the police being informed that a Facebook page had opened that was selling illegal products. The police followed up and checked the page of the Wor Tor Sor gang, and found that the information was true.

One of the police officers then disguised himself as a Facebook user to follow them,

later discovering enough information to arrest one of the page administrators.

The boy who belonged to the teen gang, well-known in the area, told police the Facebook page had only attracted a few customers. Pattaya Daily News

Guns seized in Phetchaburi slain elephant raids

Seized guns will be tested to find whether they were used to kill the elephant. Photo: Chaiwat Satyaem/Bangkok Post

PROV I NCI A L POLICE Region 7 officers backed by special units of the Royal Thai Army have seized a large quantity of hunting weapons as the investigation continues into the killing of a female elephant with a calf in Kaeng Krachan National Park in Phetchaburi.

A 375-strong force drawn from the police and the army launched raids on Monday morning in four tambons in Hua Hin district, Prachuap Khiri Khan province, and Kaeng Krachan district, Phetchaburi province, Pol Lt Gen Harnpol Nitwibul, com-

missioner of Provincial Police Region 7, said.

The team searched 111 locations, seizing 82 .22 rifles, eight long-barrel shotguns, and several hand-held hunting weapons.

Pol Lt Gen Harnpol said the investigation team contacted the local registry offices and obtained a list of potential suspects based on the information provided by investigators.

The police say the elephant was killed either by poachers, farmers or local hunters. The weapon used was possibly a

CZ .22LR rifle.

The seized firearms will be tested to determine whether bullets found in the elephant’s carcass were fired from any of these weapons. Investigators will also take DNA samples from hand-held weapons as evidence.

Investigators suspect poachers killed the elephant and took away its calf for sale to a client.

The gathered evidence will be archived and could be used for other investigations in the future, Pol Lt Gen Harnpol said. Bangkok Post

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IN BRIEF Violent Thai husband knifed by abused wife A 32-year-old man was seriously injured after being stabbed by his 43-year-old wife during a violent fight on March 26 in Pattaya. According to the landlord, the couple argued all the time, and the man beat his wife.

Pattaya Daily News

Bar girl claims touchy-feely ladies robbed her A 26-year-old bar girl reported a bizarre theft by two Thai ladies she encountered on a bus on the way back to Pattaya on March 25.

The victim said the ladies kept touching her body to apply a hypnotic-type drug, causing her to withdraw B90,000 from two ATMs to give to them.

She subsequently made two transactions: one for B20,000 and the other for B70,000. PDN

Teen construction worker falls 33 floors to his death A 16-year-old construction worker was killed in a fatal fall after stepping on a plywood plank that broke under him on the 33rd floor of a luxury condominium on March 25.

The construction site is near Wongamat beach in north Pattaya. Police are investigating whether safety regulations were violated.

PDN .

Vietnamese shoplifters target Bangkok mall

A 34-year-old Vietnamese man was arrested in front of the Central World department store with several bags containing nearly 200 stolen items of expensive clothes on March 25.

Two other alleged Vietnamese shoplifters escaped.

The thieves had intended to sell the stolen merchandise in Vietnam. PDN

Pistol-waving music lover busted

by Pattaya cops A 22-year-old man was arrested for flashing a pistol at a concert near the Hard Rock Hotel during the Pattaya Music Festival on March 24.

Security officers had searched concertgoers upon arrival, but had not found his gun.

The Thai man said he was only showing off the gun because he was drunk and feeling happy. PDN

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India’s billionaire club slow to share wealth

hey may build skyscraper mansions, travel by private jet and throw sumptuous wedding parties, but it seems India’s super-rich are much slower at opening their wallets for charity.

India now has 55 dollar billionaires, the fifth-biggest number in the world, according to a Forbes ranking this month.

But like other emerging economies such as China, its charitable giving still lags markedly behind that in the West where the tradition of wealthy businessmen donating chunks of their fortunes is much more deeply ingrained.

High net worth Indians gave up an average 3.1 per cent of their income to charitable causes in 2011 – up from 2010 but far behind the 9.1 per cent average in the United States, according to global consultancy Bain & Company.

But analysts say the upturn in giving as more Indians get seriously rich is going at a snail’s pace.

“The pace for corporate India and especially the new rich giving up its wealth is excruciatingly slow,” said Manjeet Kripalani, executive director at Gateway House, a Mumbai-based think tank.

“Corporate philanthropy needs to look at a thoughtful

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SLUM-LIFE India’s richest are reportedly not so charitable. Photo: ToGa Wanderings way of scaling up giving,” she told AFP. While impressive growth in the past decade has created a swathe of Indian tycoons, the more recent economic slowdown has compounded the slow take-up of philanthropy, despite a pressing need to tackle widespread poverty.

“Giving is impacted by sentiment, which remains weak

at the moment. It is likely to be flat or extremely moderate in terms of growth,” said Arpan Sheth, author of Bain’s annual Indian study.

The latest report released this month did not give fresh statistics, but said donors were “putting a higher bar on understanding the impact of their giving, before they commit to causes” in the tough business

environment.

India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani, chief of Reliance Industries and owner of a billion-dollar, 27-storey family home, has criticised Western corporate charity as a “disempowering tool” that “increases dependency”.

India does not lack a culture of giving.

Reliance has followed the

lead of large industrial groups such as Tata and Aditya Birla, which donate heavily to charity through their own trusts, with projects ranging from healthcare and education to rural infrastructure.

Azim Premji, chief of software giant Wipro, last month gave US$2.3 billion from his own pocket to the education charity he controls, and he is now considered “Asia’s most generous man” by Forbes.

He was the first Indian to join the “Giving Pledge” club, set up by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffet to encourage the world’s wealthiest to donate at least half their fortunes to charity.

India currently ranks a lowly 133rd out of 146 countries in the latest World Giving Index – down from 91st position in 2011 – based on surveys of charitable behaviour around the globe.

Its far poorer neighbours Pakistan and Bangladesh came in respectively at 85 and 109 in the same survey.

Analysts say a major barrier to giving is not knowing whether donations will produce sustainable results, given the lack of accountability, transparency and impact assessments. AFP

Web revolution awaits Google chief in Myanmar FOR Y E A R S M YA N M A R’S paranoid junta blocked websites such as Gmail and YouTube. However, when Google chairman Eric Schmidt visits this week, he will find a small but flourishing internet community.

Long cut off from the rest of the world by sanctions and repressive laws imposed by the generals who ruled it for decades, Myanmar still has poor internet penetration – and connections are painfully slow.

But those who do manage to surf the net have witnessed a dramatic transformation, with once-blocked exile media websites such as the Democratic Voice of Burma now accessible along with social networking sites, which have become wildly popular, particularly among young Burmese.

In stark contrast to the past, nowadays almost all websites are freely available, said Ye Min Oo, 28, a tech-

nician at an internet cafe in Yangon.

“Even governmental officials use Gmail,” he said.

In another sign of the rapid changes afoot, Schmidt will speak at a Yangon technology park on Friday as part of a tour of Asia, according to Google, following a controversial trip to communist North Korea in January.

Website owners expressed hope that Schmidt’s visit would herald further change, noting that services

Cameras to track tigers BA NGL A DE SH I S T O launch a census of tigers next month living in the world’s largest mangrove forest in a bid to determine the full extent of the threat to their survival, scientists said on Tuesday.

Yunus Ali, head of the forestry department, said conservationists would fan out across the Bangladeshi side of the Sundarbans to install cameras on trees to obtain a more accurate estimate of tiger numbers since the last

census in 2004.

That survey estimated that 440 Royal Bengal Tigers were on the Bangladeshi side.

The forest, which includes parts of India’s West Bengal state, spans a total of 10,000 square kilometres.

But some experts have criticised the methodology used last time around, which relied on the tracking of footprints and, together with a real decline blamed on poachers, believe the current figure could be less than half that

amount.

Scientists hope the cameras will help them compile a more accurate figure over the next two years.

There are around 1,850 Bengal tigers living in the wild, according to the WWF conservation group, including around 1,300 tigers in India.

The WWF says tigers worldwide are in serious danger of becoming extinct – their numbers have fallen from 100,000 in 1900 to around 3,200 now. AFP

such as Google Wallet and Play Store cannot be used by Myanmar’s internet users.

“There is much more freedom than before in Myanmar but some things are still blocked,” said internet cafe owner Hein Htet Aung.

A report published by Reporters Without Borders said that internet cafe owners were no longer getting police visits and did not need to keep logs of the computers used by clients. AFP

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IN BRIEF China plays down boat shooting accusations China has said it was “legitimate and necessary” for it to take action against Vietnamese vessels that entered its waters illegally, after Hanoi accused it of attacking a fishing boat.

A Vietnamese boat was fishing near the contested Paracel Islands last week when it was “chased and shot at by a Chinese vessel” setting the cabin on fire, Hanoi’s foreign ministry said Monday. It “strongly” protested over the incident it called a “serious violation” of its sovereignty.

Travel warning for Myanmar Communal riots in Myanmar have spread closer to the main city Yangon, police said Tuesday as the United States warned against travelling to parts of the country in the wake of unrest that has left 40 dead.

Fresh Buddhist-Muslim violence broke out late Monday and again on Tuesday in villages in the Bago region roughly 150 kilometres north of Yangon, with several mosques and dozens of homes reported to have been destroyed. In a statement on its website, the US Embassy “strongly advised” citizens to avoid travel to the Mandalay region.

North Korea threatens US North Korea’s military has put rocket units on a war footing with a fresh threat to strike US targets as well as South Korea, as Washington said it was ready to respond to “any contingency”.

The move came as South Korea marked the third anniversary of the sinking of its naval vessel Cheonan by what Seoul insists was a North Korean submarine.

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IN BRIEF Immigrant wins $338mn lottery The immigrant owner of a US convenience store claimed a US$338.3 million (B100m) lottery jackpot Tuesday and said that, despite being catapulted into the ranks of the super rich, his heart won’t change.

Pedro Quezada, 44, celebrated the golden ticket with a televised press conference at the New Jersey lottery headquarters.

The Dominican-born man faced 175-million-toone odds when he bought a “quick pick” ticket with the correct five numbers and a Powerball.

Gates says world must push to eradicate polio Bill Gates said Tuesday that the world must commit to wiping out the remaining cases of polio and finally eradicate the disease despite squeezed aid budgets and violence plaguing vaccination efforts.

Gates, speaking in an interview with AFP during a visit to Ghana, fended off criticism from those who have argued that the effort and money could be better spent on other causes, arguing forcefully against a reversal of course.

The number of worldwide polio infections was down to 223 in 2012 compared to 360,000 in 1988.

Judge bans girl from Facebook A Canadian judge banned a 12-year-old Manitoba schoolgirl from the Facebook social network for a year after she threatened two teenagers, local media reported Tuesday.

According to local radio station CJOB the accused posted messages online saying she wanted to strangle her two 13-year-old former friends, after a falling out over a boy.

She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to probation, community work, and had to delete her Facebook account.

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BACK IN THE DOCK Is Amanda Knox a ‘she-devil’ or girl-next-door?

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rom seductive “shedevil” to naive girlnext-door, the mystery over American Amanda Knox’s true character was key to a gruesome murder case which appeared far from over on Tuesday.

In a dramatic twist, the country’s supreme court in Rome overturned her acquittal for murder and ordered Knox and a co-defendant to face a retrial.

With her fresh-faced good looks, blue-eyed Knox seemed an unlikely suspect for the brutal murder of her housemate Meredith Kercher in 2007, but from the start her accusers said the 24-yearold’s demure nature hid a “demonic” soul.

Prosecutors depicted her as lascivious and slovenly – a drug-using party goer who regularly brought strange men back to her room for sex and exasperated housemates by leaving vibrators and erotic underwear on display.

They said Kercher was murdered after refusing to take part in a drug-fuelled sex game with Knox, her then boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and immigrant Rudy Guede.

Kercher, 21, was found naked in a pool of blood with her throat slit.

Knox was convicted in December 2009 and sentenced to 26 years in prison but acquitted in October 2011.

Knox’s family presented a completely different picture of a loving, sporty girl who

spoke proudly to her mother of her friendship with Kercher.

A New York Times editorial in 2009 called her: “An Innocent Abroad”.

During her appeal, Knox herself asked: “How is it possible that I could be capable of such violence? How could I commit evil against a friend of mine?”

Pleading before the court in her final appeal statement she said: “I did not kill, I did not rape, I did not steal. I wasn’t there.”

Overnight, the case become a media sensation, a whodunnit starring “Foxy Knoxy” – the nickname Knox herself used on the social network MySpace, though she maintains it referred to her childhood football skills.

Her “Angel Face” – the title of a book about the case – hit front pages across the world and prompted an upswell of support in the United States.

The glaring media spotlight, combined with leaks to scoop-hungry tabloids during the investigation and stories about her racy past from former friends, prompted fears that the Seattle native may not have been given a fair trial.

Friends of Amanda Knox groups sprang up in her hometown and on the internet, with messages of support deploring the “warped image” created in the press.

Her defence fiercely ridiculed the portrayal of Knox as a dominatrix “Venus in

HAPPIER TIMES A tearful Amanda Knox, pictured in October 2011, after she was acquitted, ending a four-year ordeal in an Italian jail. Photo: AFP Furs” or a femme fatale who preys on weaker men, like the fictional “Jessica Rabbit” in the cartoon film “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”

Speaking in her own defence during the trial, Knox said she was innocent and had lied to police at the start because she had been subjected to “a steady crescendo” of abuse during long periods of questioning without a lawyer.

Though she was convicted in 2009 and sentenced to 26 years in prison, Knox protested her innocence and her supporters slammed the Italian justice system and called vociferously for her release as the appeal got underway.

Behind bars, the University of Washington student

wiled away four years reading Dostoyevsky and Hemingway and praying, according to a member of the Italian parliament who has published a book based on numerous talks with Knox.

In the collection of interviews, Knox dreamt of freedom and talked about her hopes of being an interpreter or a writer, her love for nature, her longing for motherhood as well as her interest in Buddhism and Christianity.

Sobbing wildly as the appeal verdict was read, Knox returned to Seattle, from where she thanked “everyone who’s believed in me, who’s defended me, who has supported my family.”

She has since resumed

her studies in languages at the University of Washington, according to her family spokesman, and her memoir titled “Waiting to be Heard” – “a full and unflinching account of the events” – is due out next month.

Sollecito’s 2012 memoir, “Honor Bound: My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox,” which draws heavily on diaries, casts doubt over where Knox was the night of the murder and accuses her of “bizarre behaviour”.

He says he and Knox had smoked marijuana, clouding his memory of whether she stayed the night or left – throwing her alibi into question – and said her odd behaviour was unfathomable. AFP

Bathing corpses to solve crimes MEXICAN FORENSIC EXpert Alejandro Hernandez dips dry, yellowish cadavers in a see-through bath, hoping his technique to rehydrate mummified bodies will solve murders in crime-infested Ciudad Juarez.

The city bordering Texas has endured drug-related violence and a wave of murders

of women in recent years, with bodies dumped anywhere and drying up quickly in the desert climate, complicating the task of identifying victims and their cause of death.

With his special solution, whose recipe he keeps secret, Hernandez can rehydrate bodies, making facial features as well as gunshot or stab wounds reappear.

“It is common with the climate in Ciudad Juarez … for bodies to mummify or stiffen, with the skin stretched like drums,” Hernandez, an expert at the Chihuahua state prosecutor’s office, told AFP. “It has always been a great satisfaction every time we were able to identify or determine the cause of death in the 150 cases that we participated in.”

The scientist has plenty of work on his hands.

Juarez became infamous

in the 1990s when hundreds of women were killed in an inexplicable homicidal binge that cast a dark shadow over the city.

The “femicides” were followed by a surge of violence between powerful drug cartels that left more than 10,500 people dead in the past six years.

Sometimes, victims are discovered in a mummified state years after they were buried, often making it impossible to identify them. This is where Hernandez comes in.

Techniques to rehydrate fingers in order to get fingerprints have existed for more than a decade, but Hernandez began using his method to restore entire bodies in 2008.

He is currently seeking a patent to protect his secret method.

Elizabeth Gardner, a forensic science professor at the Uni-

versity of Alabama who saw a body treated by Hernandez, said that the “process works, the corpse was restored and looked like it could be identified from its facial features”.

“To the extent of my knowledge, this is the only method for rehydrating a corpse,” she said. “This technique will be most useful in dry areas, like Juarez. It’s labour – and materials – intensive, but it will be useful when other techniques fail.”

With the help of assistants in a lab that smells of death and chemicals, a cadaver is raised in a harness, gingerly lowered into the hermetically sealed bath, and left to soak for four to seven days. Sometimes, technicians just dip a body part.

“We spin [the body] around the whole time until the human parts or the cadaver regain a

more natural aspect,” Hernandez said.

“Then you can observe moles, scars, blemishes, pathological or traumatic characteristics, which allow you to find the cause of death.”

Hernandez freezes decomposing bodies until they dry up, and then he soaks them in his special bath.

“We are only doing this here in Ciudad Juarez,” he said, adding that the process is inexpensive.

The brutal drug war between the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels has waned in the past year, dramatically lowering the homicide rate in the city that was once the murder capital of Mexico.

But bodies continue to pile up, with women still disappearing and human remains being discovered around the desert city of 1.3 million people. AFP

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Tourism boom means shortage of buses, guides WITH PHUKET’S ROADS clogged with tour buses, it may be hard to believe, but Thailand’s tourism associations fear the boom in tourism to Thailand will result in a shortage of tour buses and drivers.

They also worry that hotel personnel service standards will decline and there will be a glaring shortfall in tour guides.

The president of the Association of Thai Travel Agents (ATTA), Sisdivachr Cheewarattanaporn, said there was already a shortage of tour buses and professionally trained bus drivers to serve the increase in travellers to Thailand.

“Last week, the association proposed to the Ministry of Tourism and Sports that it would work with the Department of Land Transport to organise training programmes for drivers.” he said.

“It will help to tighten bus driver competence and improve the country’s tourism image. If tour bus drivers are of a low standard, we will lose competitive opportunity to neighbouring countries

once the Asean Economic Community starts in 2015.”

Thai Hotels Association (THA) president Surapong Techaruvichit, added that there was a shortage of hotel staff now as more hotels open throughout the country.

“There is a lack of personnel at all levels and this is impacting on the industry’s performance.” He suggested there should be intensive training courses for lower position such as housekeepers, waiters and waitresses.

“The association is now in talks with the Executive Housekeeper Association of Thailand to organise a weeklong training course that would qualify attendants to work in housekeeping.”

Professional Tourist Guide Association of Thailand’s honourary president, Wiroj Sitprasertnant, agreed with the ATTA and THA presidents, saying that training programmes were urgently needed at all levels.

“We are running short of tour guides, especially for Chinese and Indonesian markets,” he said. TTR Weekly

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PM says sheer numbers may not be the answer

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he prime minister has urged the Tourism Authority of Thailand to attract more “high-end” – that is to say, bigger-spending – tourists into the country.

According to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, only 20 per cent of foreign tourists last year were from “high-end” markets. She urged the TAT to introduce measures to increase the proportion to 30 per cent.

She also asked the TAT to introduce measures to persuade the average tourist to stay in Thailand six days rather than the current five, and to keep the total number of tourists to an appropriate level in order to prevent deterioration of environmental resources and overcrowding at Suvarnabhumi international airport.

Last year, Thailand saw a record number 22.4 million tourists arriving. The number makes the country the 11th most popular destination in the world, and the third in Asia, behind China and Malaysia.

However, the average spending of a tourist is only

Singapore comes top for Burmese tourists T R AV E L L E R S F RO M Myanmar have selected Singapore as the ultimate destination of choice, a new survey shows.

The new MasterCard Worldwide survey listed Singapore, ahead of other popular cities like Bangkok, Paris, New York and Seoul, as the most popular destination for Myanmar’s outbound tourists.

Singapore was selected for its shopping, sightseeing, and diverse cuisine offerings.

While less than one in five Myanmar residents travelled

abroad for leisure in the past 12 months, four out of five of those who did travel overseas intend to do so again within the next year.

Time and financial constraints were highlighted as the main obstacles for international travel.

Domestic travel seemed the more popular options, with 73 per cent of those surveyed having travelled within Myanmar within the past 12 months and 80 per cent planning on repeat travel within a year.

The top three local cities of choice were Taunggyi, Mandalay and Pathein.

Cash is the dominant form of payment for Myanmar travellers, spending just over US$230 (B6,800) per person on average for domestic leisure trips and about six times more on international trips.

Inbound visitation to Myanmar exceeded one million in 2012, with figures expected to increase a further 30 per cent this year.

Pimex ‘attracts 4,000’

T H E FOU R-DAY 10T H Phuket International Boat Show (Pimex) finished on Sunday at Royal Phuket Marina.

Apart from luxury boats in the water, the show featured trailerable boats, marine products and services, real estate and more.

The organisers said the show had attracted more than 4,000 visitors this year, from 22 nationalities, led by Russians.

“The marine leisure lifestyle is still relatively new to Thai people, but the level of

interest is growing and its great to see a year-on-year increase

by Thai visitors to the Show,” said Andy Dowden, Pimex Show Director.

“We’re proud to have contributed to the growth of the marine industry in Phuket and the region through Pimex over the past 10 years, and look forward to the next 10 years.

“With the traditional boating markets of Europe and the Americas facing hard times, all eyes are on Asia for future growth, and Phuket is posi-

tioned at the region’s heart to lead that growth.”

One exhibitor, Wachiraporn Putrakul, Thailand Director of Sales & Marketing, Shin Woo Ind. Co, which sells SPLO Yachts, said he was happy with the results of the show.

“We’ve been attending Pimex for five years and each year we see a growing interest in our business and products.

We’ve had a lot of interest from Thais, and from overseas we see interest from Swiss, Russian and American clients.”

Tourist numbers versus revenue: The revenue side needs a push, says PM Yingluck.

B3,000 a day.

It has long been a criticism of the TAT that its sole criterion for success is the number of tourists that come into Thailand.

That attitude was reinforced at the end of 2004, when tourist numbers hit 12 million and then-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra set a goal of 20 million tourists

by 2008.

Now it appears his sister has been advised that sheer numbers may not be an unmitigated blessing for the country. NNT/Phuket News

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B2tn plan ‘sure to be corrupt’ but many still back it: poll

Indonesian airline Lion orders 234 Airbuses INDONESIA’S LION AIR has placed a firm order for a massive 234 Airbus A320 family aircraft, comprising 109 A320neo, 65 A321neo and 60 A320ceo. The 18.4-billionEuro (B695 billion) deal was finalised at a special ceremony last week in Paris, France.

Lion already has orders with Boeing for 309 aircraft – 13 B737-800s, 90 737-900ERs, 201 Boeing 737 MAX 9s, and five Boeing 787-8s.

By the tim e all the aircraft have been delivered, Lion’s fleet will have grown from the current 83 aircraft to more than 600. Currently, the commercial airline with the world’s largest fleet is Delta of the US, which has 722 aircraft.

In a single-class layout the A320 family of aircraft can seat up to 180 passengers, while the A321 can carry up to 236 with the latest cabin configuration options.

Lion Air Group will use the aircraft to meet growth requirements on its expanding domestic and regional route network. The carrier will announce engine selections for the aircraft in the near future.

“The fuel-efficient A320 Family will enable Lion Air to achieve the lowest possible operating costs and continue to offer the most competitive fares in the Asian region,” said Rusdi Kirana, Co-Founder and CEO of Lion Air Group.

“This landmark order will ensure that the Lion Air Group will continue its expansion with one of the most modern and advanced fleets in the world.” e-Travel Blackboard

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ON YOUR BIKE TAT to give push to bicycle tourism A bicycle tourist pedals through a rare quiet street in downtown Bangkok. Photo: David McKelvey

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he Tourism Authority of Thailand will market bicycle tourism to try to build length of stay and tourismrelated revenue at destinations beyond Bangkok.

Speaking at the pre-launch event for the first-ever bicycle show in Bangkok, scheduled for May, the TAT’s deputy governor for tourism products and business, Vilaiwan Twichasri, said: “Bicycle tourism is a global trend that is capturing the attention of more people and it is an important additional product that boosts the country’s tourism industry.

“The trend will help to boost tourism and create more revenue at local community and provincial level,” she said.

There are numerous cycle tour companies in Thailand and Ms Vilaiwan claims the market has grown by 20 per cent. The domestic cycle market is booming with shops opening in most towns led by some heavyweight stores packed with racing bicycles selling for as much as B200,000.

“Records show the bicycle travel sector earned as much as B900 million in tourism revenue last year,” she added.

She did not elaborate on where she got the figures.

Cycle tourism has been around for decades in Thailand, but was mainly led by groups from the Netherlands.

Most of the tours start outside Bangkok and head north or to

neighbouring Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

The B30-million budget Bangkok Bike 2013 event will run from May 2 to 5 at Muang Thong Thani, Nonthaburi.

The fair will promote itself under theme “Let’s go green” with an emphasis on recreational cycling and routes including presentations by travel gurus who have taken up cycling. The TAT predicts the show will see a turnover of B200 million.

The Thai government recently said it was reviving the cycle license to improve safety and road sense. Previously the license was issued by the Land Transport Department, but was largely ignored by the cycling

community.

Safety is a genuine concern, mainly due to poor vehicle driving standards. Two English people, Peter Root and Mary Thompson, who had cycled through Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and China, were hit by a truck and killed on February 13 in Chachoengsao.

On March 21 another cyclist was killed on the same stretch of road, and run over by so many vehicles it was impossible even to tell whether the cyclist was male or female, let alone make an identification.

On the positive side, cycle tourists are generally treated with courtesy and hospitality when travelling through Thai provinces. TTR Weekly

Pantip Plaza ‘to clean up piracy’

HIGH PRAISE FOR STRONG ETHICS Kanokkorn Pruksakit, Sales Manager of Vijitt Paisarn Co, received the Thai Chamber of Commerce Business Ethics Standard Test Award, presented by Dr Sumet Tantivejkul, Secretary General to Chaipattana Foundation, at the Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok on March 18.

SHOPS IN BANGKOK’S Pantip Plaza that sell illegal software and pirated music and movie VCDs and DVDs will see their leases expire in September, says the operator.

This will radically change the image of the 20-year-old Bangkok mall, long known as the place to buy pirated goods.

The operator is also investing B300 million in renovating the plaza as a digital lifestyle centre, focusing on mobile devices. It aims to be an IT gateway for the Mekong subregion within five years.

Yongyuth Chaichana, managing director of Thippatana Arcade, which operates Pantip Plaza, said the renovation began in the fourth quarter of

last year and is expected to be finished by the end of 2014.

After completion, the plaza will adjust the space given to each product category to serve changing customer behaviour.

This year it will double the number of smartphone and tablet shops to 20 per cent of total saleable space, while space for notebooks will drop from 40 to 30 per cent, desktops from 35 to 30 per cent and gadgets and accessories remaining at 15 per cent.

Thailand has come under increasing pressure from other countries, particularly the US, because of its open sales of pirated products, including software. Bangkok Post

THREE-QUARTERS OF people polled on the government’s B2.2-trillion plan for infrastructure development expect there to be corruption, but more than half still approved of the plan, the National Institution of Development Administration (NIDA) announced after completing a poll last week.

Asked about the government’s huge investment plan, 51.56 per cent of respondents said they supported it because it would further develop the country and they wanted better transport systems.

However, 35.07 per cent of them disagreed, given that the plan involved huge loans that would substantially increase public debt, and might open loopholes for corruption. 13.37 per cent had no opinion.

On the possibility of corruption in these development projects, 74.78 per cent of the respondents said it was a possibility because of the huge budget involved. Corruption was endemic and there were hidden benefits in the projects, they said.

A small number, 6.41 per cent, did not expect such problems to occur, believing the government would come up with measures to prevent corruption and to monitor the projects regularly, while 18.82 per cent said they didn’t know.

Adis Issarangkul Na Ayutthaya, a lecturer at Nida, said the survey’s outcome was much as he had expected.

Most people, he said, supported the megaprojects because they want investment in projects that have value-added economic benefits, rather than the measures to stimulate domestic consumption that the Yingluck administration has taken so far.

Those who disagreed with the huge investment plan said they were worried about the burden of additional public debt stemming from the loans, which could become a key problem for the country in the future. The government has already admitted it may take as long as 50 years to repay the debt.

The high 74.78 per cent who believed there would be corruption in these investment projects ref lected the fact that people do not trust this government, Mr Adis said.

The B2.2 trillion plan was due to be debated in parliament this week. Bangkok Post

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GOING ‘COLLECTIVE’ Does it fix your lease renewal problem?

Y ou may have read a recent article in a local publication, which stated, “Collective leasehold structures provide owners in villa developments the legal means to have a greater say in their villa projects.

“Importantly, this means that owners have increased control over the renewal of their leases, thus mitigating a major risk associated with long-term leases in villa developments.”

The so-called “collective leasehold” structure, also referred to as “secured leasehold”, is quite commonly marketed to foreigners wishing to invest in a villa or apartment here in Thailand.

Essentially, the buyers of property get a 90-year lease contract (30 years plus two promised rollovers of 30 years each), plus shares in the Thai company that owns the land.

However, the article’s main assertion – that the structure mitigates the risk that your 30-year lease may not be renewed – should be treated with extreme caution.

The article also contained several errors with regard to applicable Thai law.

So, in part one of this two-part article, we will first address and correct the incorrect statements regarding applicable Thai law.

In the second part we will explain why the article’s contention that “collective leasehold” structures “mitigate a major risk associated with long-term leases” is misleading at best – or at worst is simply incorrect.

Long-term leaseholds are a popular mode of investing in Thai real estate. This is due largely to the fact that Thai law, with some limited exceptions, prohibits foreign freehold ownership of real estate in Thailand.

However, under current Thai law, the maximum lease term that can be officially registered is 30 years.

Thus, it has become quite common for developers who are marketing to foreigners to offer a long-term lease of 30 years with two additional rollovers of 30 years each, for a total of 90 years.

However, according to Section 540 of the Civil and Commercial Code (CCC) any such additional term is not an “extension” of the lease; it is a “renewal” of the lease.

This means the new term is

Got the villa, got the pool, got the view. But the land? Not so easy. Photo: Zenubud essentially a new contract.

The result of this is that if the owner of the land changes during the first lease term, the new owner will not be obliged to honour the renewal of the lease, even if the lessee has already pre-paid the original owner for the renewal term.

This is because the new owner never offered to renew the lease and the law does not oblige the new owner to honour an offer made by the original owner and lessor.

In an effort to address this insecurity, many developers offer what the article referred to as a “collective leasehold” structure.

We will look into what that is, and why it usually does not succeed in doing what it is supposed to, in part two of this article.

However, in order to understand the legal issues surrounding this lease structure we first need to address some fundamental legal errors in the article.

The article states that a “lease may be renewed together by the lessor (the landowner) and lessee (the buyer)...” That is correct. However, the article completes that same sentence by saying, “but such a renewal agreement is by contract only, not pre-registration at the land office”.

The article then concludes that this means that your lease may not be renewed because

the lessor may not honour the contract.

The implication – that if you had pre-registered your renewal term “at the land office” you would have something more than a mere contract with your lessor, and your renewal term would then be enforceable regardless of your agreement with the lessor – misunderstands the law and is, therefore, incorrect.

We have explained why this is so in an earlier article, which you can find online at tinyurl.com/tpnleases.

In summary, if the land ownership changes during your first lease term, the new owner is not bound by the original owner’s promise to renew your lease when it expires – and registration of that promise does not contractually bind the new owner to a promise he or she never made.

The article’s second legal fallacy regarding leases is contained in its following statement: “The likelihood of a lessor breaking a contractual promise to renew a lease increases when the land is transferred to a third party, as is likely during a 30-year term, since such a third party may (incorrectly) conclude that it is not under the same obligations as its predecessor.”

It is true that a lease contract is not terminated by a change in lessor as provided

by Section 568 of the CCC. However, an option to renew the lease is legally a one-sided promise, or “offer”, to renew the lease upon expiration of the prior term; it does not form a new lease contract for the additional term.

Thus, the original lessor’s promise is not binding on the new owner of the land.

Again, this is the main insecurity issue with regard to lease renewals in Thailand. The new owner would correctly – not incorrectly – conclude that he is not under any obligation to honour his predecessor’s promise to renew the lease.

You will find the article’s last major legal error contained in the following statement: “What is more, a lessee’s

remedies are limited in the event of a lessor’s breach of a contractual obligation to renew a lease term.

“To compel renewal, a court action must be initiated. However, the damages that are available regarding a breach of a renewal clause are restricted to damages, and a lessee cannot ‘force’ a renewal.”

The article states that if your contractual – that is, the original – lessor fails to honour your renewal option, your only remedy would be to obtain monetary compensation for this damage in court.

This is incorrect. Under Section 213 of the CCC such a lessee can request the court to order “compulsory performance” of his obligation. And,

in fact, our firm has sought and received such orders for our clients.

Thus, we can confirm that, not only as a legal matter, but also in real terms, this remedy is available under Thai law.

Unfortunately the reality is that the “collective leasehold” does little if anything to address the very real insecurity that your long-term lease will not be renewed – we will explain why in part two of this article.

Fortunately, however, there are far better legal means than the “collective leasehold” that do provide actual long-term lease security and without any downside to the developer.

This can be achieved by securing the pre-paid renewal terms with a mortgage over the land plot in question.

It is a simple and straightforward legal structure that provides security for the investor and, therefore, a marketing opportunity for the developer.

But, you should first engage competent legal and tax counsel in order to successfully implement this long-term leasehold security structure.

Duensing Kippen is a multiservice boutique law firm specializing in property and corporate/commercial matters and arbitration and litigation proceedings arising therefrom.

It is the only firm in Thailand with three members (MCIArb) of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. It is also the only such firm in Thailand that compliments its property and corporate/commercial legal expertise with a core tax law practice. Duensing Kippen can be contacted by email to phuket@duensingkippen.com.

For more information visit duensingkippen.com

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angkok giant Sansiri on Monday (March 25) launched yet another development in Phuket, Burasiri Koh-Kaew.

Unlike previous developments by the company in Phuket, which have all been multi-storey apartment blocks, the B1-billion Burasiri KohKaew will consist of 156, two-storey, stand-alone homes.

The project will be on just under 39 rai of land immediately to the east of the British International School.

There will be two designs: Burabukit, with internal space totalling 179 square metres, and Burarata, with 149 sqm.

Price range from B5.9 million to B10 million.

Burasiri is suitable for those who seek privacy and nature-lovers, said Suriya Wannabutr, executive vice president of marketing and project administration. “Burasiri was inspired by the lines of the surrounding hills, and is perfect for those who want to escape from town.

The show houses at the new Burasiri Koh-Kaew development by Sansiri.

“We provide resort-style private living. The houses will be built in clusters since we don’t want you to feel cramped in one area; we have designed the project to be comfortable with not too many neighbours around.”

Common facilities include a rai of green area, a club house with swimming pool, children’s pool, and fitness centre.

Security will include CCTV cameras in every important

area, along with a double gate at the entrance to the project, with electronic key cards.

Show homes have already been built at the site and Burasiri will open for reservations this weekend (March 29-31).

Anyone making a booking this weekend will receive an Apple MacBookAir and a Blu-ray Home Theatre system, together worth B120,000.

Meanwhile, Sansir i’s higher-end Baan Mai Khao

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development, launched just two weeks ago, has taken off strongly.

Spokesperson Kamonwan Prasitwuttivech told The Phuket News this week that all six of the six-room penthouses at its higher-end Baan Mai Khao beachfront condo development – priced at B53 million each – have been booked by Thai buyers.

For more information visit sansiri.com or call 1685.

KASIKORN RESEARCH Center (KResearch) has raised a red flag over growing levels of outstanding mortgages in Thailand.

KResearch forecasts the country’s outstanding mortgages will set a new record equivalent to 21-22 per cent of Thailand’s gross domestic product (GDP) over the next two years, which could heighten pressure on rising household debt.

Overall housing loans stand at 19.9 per cent of GDP now, up from 16.8 per cent during the 1997 financial crisis.

KResearch Managing Director Charl Kengchon attributed the loan growth to several factors: rising purchasing power, easier access to funding sources, the proximity of real estate developments to mass transit systems, and low interest rates.

“With a lot of residential projects in the pipeline over the next two years, it could increase the mortgage-to-GDP ratio by 0.5 to one percentage point a year. Even though a

property bubble isn’t a concern now, the rising ratio of household debt to GDP is worrisome,” he said.

The recent warning by the Bank of Thailand about rising household debt has rattled the markets.

There has not been a rise in non-performing loans, but this is due to the time lag between new loan extensions and the point at which loans are classified as nonperforming.

Low interest rates can make mortgages look reasonable now, but when the rate increases it could stretch family budgets, Mr Charl warned.

KResearch predicts the policy rate will be raised in a few years, after excessive liquidity from foreign investment inflows starts to decline.

The government’s planned infrastructure project investment worth a combined B2 trillion, and a potential exodus of funds when the US Federal Reserve stops its quantitative easing could tame liquidity, he said.

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or lovers of boutique fashion, good coffee, watercolour paintings and bluesy piano lounge sessions, it can be hard to find all of them in the same place. At least it was until the opening of Baan Sea Nam. Last December, the vision of local businessman Mongkol Hongsyok – aided by a creative design by Adirake Masosod – for a hybrid cafe, lounge, gallery and shop became a reality.

“Mr Mongkol told me what he wanted to do and I helped him bring it to reality,” says Mr Adirake.

“He wanted to open a piano lounge in Phuket and I thought it would be a great idea.”

Baan Sea Nam currently has live music every night, provided by a roster of talented musicians who play a mixture of jazz, blues and Bossa Nova, as well as song requests by patrons.

“We’re still in the initial stages, so we’re trying to see what works,” says Mr Adirake.

Given its many different guises, the venue is able to appeal to many different types, but Mr Adirake says the target market is much like the overall ambience of the place – classy.

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Much like the clothes that he designs, “I get the material from Bangkok, I design it myself and get it made here. They’re all very unique pieces – resort style, casual, classic and attractive. The clothes I design for women are all very sexy and attractive, and make women feel good.”

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op Russian artist, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe, who painstakingly transformed himself to resemble Adolf Hitler, Marilyn Monroe and Vladimir Putin for avant-garde photo performances, has died at 43.

Mamyshev-Monroe drowned in a hotel swimming pool in Bali on March 16, Russian news agencies reported, citing the Russian embassy in Jakarta.

Born in Leningrad, he was part of the city’s exuberant avant-garde scene in the 1980s, mixing with cult figures such as artist Timur Novikov and musician Sergei Kuryokhin.

He began to experiment with dressing up and alternative personas while doing military service at Baikonur cosmodrome, where he ran children’s art clubs, the state RIA Novosti news agency reported.

In 1995, he had his first major exhibition at a Moscow gallery, portraying fig-

ures including Hitler and Monroe, whose surname he took as a pseudonym.

In 2003, he was one of the artists to take part in a controversial group exhibition at Moscow’s Sakharov Centre called “Caution, Religion,” which was attacked by a group of religious fundamentalists, and had his photo-collage daubed in paint.

In one of his most ambitious performances in 2006, he took on the role of Soviet superstar Lyubov Orlova in a fulllength “remake” of her 1930s-era comedy “Volga, Volga,” where his head replaced hers in all the scenes and he also voiced her dialogue and sang her songs.

He won a prestigious Kandinsky prize for the film in 2007. He also had personal exhibitions at top galleries including the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg.

During his career, he transformed himself into dozens of famous figures,

ranging from Buddha and Leo Tolstoy to pop star Madonna and a Barbie doll. He also performed several times as Russian President Vladimir Putin.

He took great care in his imitations of famous figures, even when there was no natural resemblance, and said he felt he genuinely took on their personalities, at least for a moment.

“First I copy the face of the person from photographs, change my clothes and stand in front of the camera... And then – click!

And for a few seconds, the essence enters my body,” he told Moskovsky Komsomolets daily this month.

“He made no distinction between his private life and his life as an artist,” curator and gallerist Marat Guelman told Izvestia daily.

“Mamyshev-Monroe was one of the first to make his own life into a work of art.”

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ou are widely credited as being the original kayak explorer and operator in Phuket and Phang Nga. How did it all begin?

Armed with four years of research I departed Ao Po on January 20, 1989 in a longtail boat. The captain completely bypassed Koh Panak so I made him stop in Koh Hong. The double-hong was magic, and I knew we had a winner.

Volcanic sea caves were a highlight in Hawaii so I knew limestone caves could be a big attraction once they were marketed properly.

Even so, when I came back 11 months later with two groups of repeat customers, the money never came from Hawaii.

I ended up bahtless on Koh Samui, borrowed B200 to return to Phuket and started the entire industry on B700 and four inflatables.

I inhaled Acetone while scrubbing the kayaks clean with steel wool in February and March, 1990 and slept on a concrete floor with no sleeping pads.

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hat motivated you to stick with it?

My entire motivation is environmental awareness “Natural History By Sea Kayak Since 1983”.

Most people measure their value by their bank account, but I got over that early in life – I make my living doing things that Bill Gates will never know.

For me, a person’s value is measured by the good they do for others and the planet.

It takes money to make that happen, but my company John Gray Sea Canoe (JGSC) is really about the good deeds we do. My formula is education, environmental awareness, top quality (after all, it’s my name) and job security for locals.

A lead guide just told me how happy he is working with us. “Thanks to you I’ve got a house, a car, and my kids are in a special school. All my old company did was destroy my credit rating.” Then he gave me a big hug. That’s true ‘profit’.

And it’s our guests’ hugs and tears of happiness at a trips’ end that keep me going. Turning people onto nature, wellness and environmental awareness is what our experience is all about.

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ave you always been interested in the outdoor life?

I was lucky enough to be born into an environmental family. They expected me to be a doctor without realising they created an environmental warrior – in the late 1940s!

In the first grade in 1950, I befriended a white pigeon named Junior. It flew to school with me and sat on my shoulder in class – the world’s most educated pigeon.

One day my teacher walked me home and told my mother, “Little Johnny is the most remarkable student I’ve had in my 30 year career.”

My mom didn’t want to give me a big head so that night she walked me outside, pointed up at the full moon and said: “Little Johnny, you are remarkable. You are a human being, the most remarkable machine we know in the universe. As a human being you have the capability to do anything you want. One day – if you really want – you can even fly to the moon...

“As long as you never forget you are nothing but an overgrown monkey!”

I’ve never forgotten that. All life is connected, and the human overgrown monkey is responsible for our planet.

So I’ve always been interested in the outdoor life. Call me a treehugger if you wish, but without trees, where would monkeys frolic?

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o you actually take canoes out to sea?

It’s really kayaking. I invented the word “Sea Canoe” as a joke on those who I knew would eventu-

ally copy me. Except for Hawaiian outriggers, what we paddle are sea kayaks.

My imitators don’t even know the real name of their activity.

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believe you used to be a campaigner for surfer’s rights in the US? I grew up bodysurfing The Wedge in Newport Beach, an extremely huge and radical break that maims and kills people.

The city closed it down for liability purposes, so the Wedge Head Society went all the way to the US Supreme court for the right to die. We won.

But the bigger victory was “Keep the Country COUNTRY” on the North Shore of O’ahu. I came up with the name and the final solution, but basically our carpool of surfers/executives designed a tourism master plan that makes so much sense it’s still in effect today.

Most developers are only in it for the money, but we protected the North Shore by coming up with a plan that made sense – and money – for the tourism industry.

Today, the giant Green Sea Turtle colony on the North Shore is a must stop on the Circle island tour, and the Circle island tour itself – the entire back side of O’ahu – is the #1 visitor experience.

When there is no corruption, meaningful compromise can be beautiful.

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ow do you see the state of the environment in Phuket and Phang Nga? Unfortunately, both are environmental horror stories.

For example, thanks to speedboat tours there are no more kingfishers in Phang Nga Bay. Speedboats love to come close to the islands and run slow under the cliffs. Their exhaust kills the small fish that kingfishers predate.

I have arthritic thumbs from collecting 8,899 bags of rubbish from the Bay in my solo kayak. That doesn’t include the organised clean-ups with PSUPhuket or IBAP. We collect a lot of rubbish from our competitors, but they never bother. The James Bond crowd is even worse. Without effective leaders who take it seriously, our environment declines rapidly – and geometrically.

In Puerto Princesa in the Philippines, one leader – Mayor Edward Hagedorn – proves that all it takes is commitment and passionate leadership.

In 18 years I’ve never seen a cigarette butt, bottle cap or candy wrapper on Princesa’s Filipino streets.

Hagedorn proves that passionate environmental leadership does work.

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our nickname is Ling Yai. What does that mean exactly?

“Ling Yai” is Thai for “Big Monkey”. Our staff gave me the name.

I am very proud of the camaraderie that allows

this to happen – especially in a society where billionaires pay their staff minimum wage and complain about the profit line.

They wonder why staff – even GMs – run away as soon as they can find a new job.

My first member of staff from June 1990 is still with us. Our core senior staff have been around since the mid 90s. They are happy, confident, make their own decisions and have the humorous spirit to call the Boss “Ling Yai”.

What the knee-jerk Old Guard don’t understand is that a loyal, low-turnover, well-paid happy staff is the path to profitability. And a dictatorial style is not only bad for business, but bad for karma as well.

But what do I know? I live in a small cabin and walk a lot.

I don’t hit the nightclubs or beer bars, don’t drink, smoke, eat meat or do drugs.

I’m nothing but an overgrown monkey!

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The pros and cons of Multiple Intelligence TEACH BY DESIGN

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Learning is best accomplished by presenting information in multiple manners to stimulate the brain in as many ways as reasonably possible

For more information about brain-based learning and teaching you can contact Jason Stanely at drjasonstanley@gmail. com. He looks forward to your questions.

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his article will briefly review how and why the Multiple Intelligence (MI) theory has not been very successfully implemented in the classrooms of the world, as well as look at how Active Brain Based Learning (ABBLAT) can integrate with or supplant MI in the classroom.

The basic MI theory is that previously considered talents were ‘upgraded’ to the category of intelligences. These intelligences come in nine clearly defined areas that ever person has. Everyone is better at some and less capable in others.

The intelligences are: Verbal / Linguistic: Explanation and understanding through the use of language Visual / Spatial: Explanation and comprehension through the use of images Body / Kinaesthetic: Ability to use the body to learn, express ideas, and accomplish tasks Interpersonal: Ability to accurately detect and respond to the motivations and desires of others Logical / Mathematical: Ability to think conceptually, abstractly and linearly Musical: Ability to recognise, produce and communicate using melody, rhythm, pitch, timber and harmony Intrapersonal: Ability for self-evaluation leading to understanding motives, goals, beliefs, strengths and weaknesses Naturalist / Environmental: Ability to recognise and categorise natural elements and discern their use Existential: Ability to tackle deep questions about human existence The basic theory of ABBLAT is that the brain learns in multiple ways simultaneously.

Therefore learning is best accomplished by presenting information in multiple manners to stimulate the brain in as many ways as reasonably possible. There are a few important questions concerning MI and ABBLAT. Here I will attempt to answer them.

Is ABBLAT compatible with MI theory and practices?

The simple answer is yes. But really, so what?

MI indicates what to teach, not how to teach it.

The ABBLAT system can be used equally well. ABBLAT equally integrates with teaching music, language, mathematics or any topic where memory and thought are required.

How does implementation of MI compare to ABBLAT? At the application level, where it really counts, using MI increases teacher workload significantly. There are three ways to implement MI.

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IN BRIEF Study: top UK universities discriminate

Ethnic minorities and state school-attending students have to achieve at least one grade higher than white public school-attending students to be accepted into the top 24 universities in the UK, according to a recent study.

As a further barrier, the research, conducted

by Durham University, also found that good students at state schools had not studied the subjects required for the relevant university courses.

Will Aussie kids be poor white trash of Asia?

Create unique daily lesson plans for each student based on the abilities and attitudes of that particular student.

Create independent learning stations for each intelligence method. Students spend time in each station focusing on a thematic curriculum.

Create different lesson plans for the entire class that is founded in the basis of one type of intelligence (11 per cent of learning is optimised while 89 per cent is not optimised at any given time).

Each of the three methods require some part or combination of multiple additional lesson plans and multiple teaching methods to be learned and supported. All of these issues fall directly on the teacher.

ABBLAT requires teachers to use an easy to learn methodology that can be implemented within one or two class periods.

Are there clear cut steps to reasonably use MI and ABBLAT in the classroom?

Effectively with MI there is no clear cut set of steps that can address the many learning processes that supports each type of identified intelligence.

The ABBLAT methodology meanwhile is a clear step-by-step process with easy to follow guidelines.

There are clear 1,2,3 type steps to integrate ABBLAT into existing lessons and lectures in virtually all subjects.

Is it worth it? Are the results proportionate with the effort to implement MI and ABBLAT? With MI I don’t think so. Even after 30 years since the introduction of MI there is very little data supporting clearly defined better results. If it worked well, we would know.

In my personal experience with ABBLAT at an international school in Vietnam, the overall grades improved by over 20 per cent. Most improvements are measured in the tenths of per cents. This level of improvement is phenomenal.

Former leader of the Labour party in Australia has said that Australian kids will soon be the poor white trash of Asia.

His controversial comments form part of an essay released this week that suggests that Englishspeaking parents should take their lead from Asian parents in how they focus and encourage their children with education.

While many second generation immigrant families are steadily moving into the upper middle classes, the trend among suburban dwelling whites is of a downwards spiral, he believes.

Ministry: Thailand has too many teachers

Thai students continues to perform poorly in academic study compared to their regional counterparts, but not apparently due to a lack of teaching staff.

According to the Education Ministry, there are “far too many” teachers working in the sector today, many graduating with substandard skills.

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HILTON HELPS SUNSHINE Thirty Hilton staff members visited the Phuket Sunshine Village Orphanage on March 24, to play games, serve food and make donations. One hundred pillows along with numerous games were donated. Hilton’s Worldwide Blue Energy Committee also donated B9,000 to the orphanage.

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Walking in the air

Jody Houton steps into the unknown on an anti-gravity treadmill Jody Houton editor3@thephuketnews.com

Once in, the interface and dashboard very much resemble a normal running machine, apart from the buttons that control how much air pressure or gravity you would like to ‘assist’ you

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here was a period during my childhood where I had the recurring dream of being thrown from one mountain top to the other and back again. Always at high speed, and always to ‘Got The Time’ by heavy metal band Anthrax.

Most people have had dreams where they are flying or walking on the moon. Things like that. But rarely are rock ‘n’ roll giants involved in these aerial acrobatics.

I got to live out a childhood dream, albeit, not mine, a few weeks ago when I was invited to try the Anti-Gravity Treadmill at Bangkok Hospital Phuket.

The machine has only been at the hospital for a little over a month, and is one of only two in Thailand and the only one in the south of the country.

It’s used first and foremost as a rehabilitation device for those who have suffered leg and lower body injuries, utilising adjustable weight-bearing technology by controlling air pressure in a chamber to gently lift the user.

My experience started with selecting a pair of skin tight neoprene pants (maybe there was to be a rock influence to this after all) and then stepping into the treadmill. I write ‘into’ because once you are on/in the treadmill, you are zipped within the chamber (the pants carry a zip around the waist).

Once in, the interface and dashboard very much resemble a normal running machine, apart from the buttons that control how much air pressure or gravity you would like to ‘assist’ you.

Right: The Anti-Gravity Treadmill makes walking feel like running and running feel like sprinting. Above right: Jody Houton listens to Dr Kanyarat Jiambanjong, the head of the Physical Therapy Department at Bangkok Hospital Phuket in preparation for lift-off.

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You can control it in per cent increments and reduce the amount of gravity all the way down to 20 per cent. Any lower than that, explains Dr Kanyarat Jiambanjong, the head of the Physical Therapy Department at Bangkok Hospital Phuket, can have an adverse affect on the muscles and actually impair the healing process that many use the machine for.

Dr Kanyarat says that they have already had a few patients making regular visits to the hospital to use the machine. “We have a 69-year-old patient who has a knee problem who comes every morning for walking and running. He does around a 20 minute session. We also have patients with broken legs.”

However it is not just for those with walking difficulties, or muscle and bone damage. “The antigravity machine can also be used by athletes and by those who wish to improve their general speed and running. This is because the air supports them and you can sort of float without falling.”

Having experienced it first hand, it really is a curious and exhilarating feeling, where running feels like gliding and simple skips feel like striding.

All I need now is a little heavy metal.

HEALTH 5 IN BRIEF Disparity in mental, physical health treatments

Despite those who suffer from mental illness dying up to 20 years sooner than those without, patients in need still do not enjoy the same level of access as those with physical difficulties.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists in the UK has hit out at what it sees as a long-standing disparity between mental and physical health, but admits that much has improved in the last 10 years.

More people use phones than clean toilets

According to figures released by the United Nations, there are 6 billion people with access to mobile telephones, and only 4.5 billion people with access to clean, sanitary bathrooms.

Around 1,800 children die every day due to diseases that could have been avoided with access to clean toilets.

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Magic eyes that no longer see Jody Houton editor3@thephuketnews.com

That campaign worked because it was based on the principals of Thainess and Buddhisim. There was one advert, where we showed the sun setting behind the sea, to rise in the morning full of trash, dirty and unsmiling

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curious thing happened during last month’s SEEK meeting.

At one point in the very formal proceedings, between interested business parties, government officials, environmental experts and environmental groups, where it was discussed how we could hypothetically reduce pollution on the island, a previously quiet Australian lady raised her hand and rose to her feet.

“I’m sorry, I’ve just arrived on the island, so I don’t know who any of you are, but I do know I love Phuket and am devastated by what I am seeing.”

Debra Mierczak (far right), proceeded to command the room’s attention for around ten minutes, describing how she had been going around her local area leafleting children, adults and anyone who would read her various anti-littering messages translated into Thai.

If, and more importantly, where the leaflets were later discarded is up for debate, but the act was recognised as simple, effective and obvious. It was then that the Magic Eyes (above right) campaign was brought up – a nationwide television, radio and billboard marketing strategy employed in the 1990s to raise awareness of the dangers and damage that littering and pollution can cause.

Despite that being over 20 years ago, nothing of that ilk exists in today’s Thailand. Sure, you can still see the faded, yellowing signs in various public areas around the kingdom, but they are no longer getting the message across.

People have become blind to the Magic Eyes.

Robert Steele, founder and director of Systainability Asia, was part of the original team that put that campaign together. He explained

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to The Phuket News that the key to the success of the campaign was its effectiveness in relating to Thai people. This, he believes, is paramount and core to any sucessful positive change that will affect Phuket and Thailand.

“That campaign worked because it was based on the principals of Thainess and Buddhisim. There was one advert, where we showed the sun setting behind the sea, to rise in the morning full of trash, dirty and unsmiling.”

The themes of Magic Eyes also hinged upon ideas of respecting the elders and nature, which in the adverts, were considered one and the same.

Once the topic of Magic Eyes was brought up, a small group of Thai women in their 20s and 30s in attendance began to sing the theme song – testament indeed to the campaign’s success.

For Ms Mierczak though, it is anger and incredulity that she feels in equal measure.

“As a foreigner, I feel that we shouldn’t constantly try and reinvent the wheel and say to Thais that this is what should be done from our perspective.

“Why can’t we restart this obviously successful campaign? This Thai campaign?”

Mr Steele revealed that the reason the Magic Eyes anti-littering campaign began to gain less and less coverage was two-fold.

The first was that when a new political party came into power, Magic Eyes was seen as an initiative of the previous leadership and therefore immediately dropped.

The second was the 1997 financial crisis, when free TV advertising space was no longer doled out.

Still, Ms Mierczak’s act of leafleting has symbolic ramifications for the the future of campaigns for a environmentally sound Phuket: They don’t have to be complicated, and can start at grassroots level.

Maybe we just need to open our eyes.

Green groups kick trash to the kerb

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t’s been a long, hard and painfullyproblematic slog, but it looks like Phuket will finally have roadside recycling stations from as early as the end of next month.

A meeting was held at the Kamala Administration Office on March 22, attended by representatives from hotels in the area, environmental groups, volunteer agencies and – importantly – government representation in the form of the Phuket Provincial Environment Office.

Nick Anthony, a member of the Kamala Green Club environmental group said, “Today is all about agreeing upon the budget and seeing who can help.

“It’s great because this is one of the first times that volunteers, the OrBorTor and Kamala Green Club have come together, as it’s hard to get a dialogue between the three factions.”

Discussed during the meeting was costing, funding, and division of labour.

The initial six recycle bins – to be dotted around the Kamala coastline – will be funded by the private sector at a total cost of B50,000.

The collection of the trash will be done by the OrBorTor, after which it will be transported and sold to fund and maintain the recycling programme.

At the meeting, Supasima Sangwan, representative co-ordinator of The Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Volunteer Network (NevNewt), spoke of how she promised to continue helping to educate locals and

communities about recycling and the environment, to ensure the programme’s success.

Although curbside recycling stations will only initially be available in Kamala, there are hopes that this could be the start of something much bigger across Phuket.

Speaking candidly, Chat Sampon, an officer from the Phuket Provincial Environment Office, expressed his concerns that the programme could be dropped after a few months after the initial excitement.

For Nick Anthony and many of the other enthusiastic attendees however, this is unlikely to happen, “Firstly, we have the momentum now. Secondly we have been doing regular beach cleanups for a long time and thirdly, we now have the assistance of the OrBorTor.”

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THE BIG LIST WEIRD MUSICAL NOTES The story of the heavy metal group who were banned from playing the Royal Albert Hall sounds suspiciously like the Douglas Adams’ tale about “the loudest band in the universe” – Disaster Area – whose audience were forced to listen from a concrete bunker located several miles from the speakers. Here are a few more strange musical interludes.

Most boring: The prize here might go to the John Cage composition 4’33, which consists of no notes, not played for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. But at least it’s over quickly. The longest musical composition is Vexations, by Erik Satie, which consists of a 180-note composition repeated 840 times, for a total duration of 18 hours 40 minutes.

When it was first performed in New York in 1963 by a relay team of 10 pianists, only six members of the audience stayed until the end: one stood up at the end and demanded “Encore!”

Epic anthems: The longest national anthem in the world is the Greek anthem, with 158 verses, while the shortest is the Japanese anthem, just four lines long. The longest performance of a national anthem was Britain’s God Save the King, which was played 17 times in a row by a German military band on a train platform in 1909, as the visiting King Edward VII struggled to change into a ceremonial uniform inside his train carriage.

Early electronica: One of the earliest electronic instruments, developed by Russian inventor Léon Theremin in 1919, the Theremin remains one of the strangest. The performer plays without touching the instrument, but by moving their arms and hands between its two radio antennas. The twangy, twisting sound became popular as a “futuristic” effect in sci-fi movies, and Jimmy Page used a Theremin in several Led Zeppelin songs.

Goat pipes: Today bagpipes are associated with Scotland, but it’s thought they originated in the Middle East: A 2,000 year old set of bagpipes was recently unearthed in Greece. In parts of south-eastern Europe, bagpipes may still be found in the form of gaida, which are made from the skin of a goat or a sheep – often with the hooves and head of the unfortunate animal still attached.

Real rock music: The largest musical instrument in the world is the Great Stalacpipe Organ, which covers several square kilometres of limestone caverns in the US state of Virginia. The stalactites of the caverns resonate when stuck by rubber-tipped mallets, which are controlled electronically by a central keyboard and console. First played in the 1950s, the Stalacpipe Organ was restored in 2011.

Sick Brit fired for shark attack

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British man hailed as a hero for wrestling a shark away from an Australian beach has been sacked after it emerged that he was on sick leave at the time.

Paul Marshallsea, a 62-year-old charity worker from Wales, won praise in January when he ran into the sea near Brisbane to grapple with the 1.8 metre shark, fearing it would attack paddling children.

A television crew caught the incident and images of Mr Marshallsea pulling the shark away from the beach were seen around the world.

But they caught the eye of his employers, a children’s charity – who had been told that Mr Marshallsea was on sick leave with stress.

Mr Marshallsea says he and his wife Wendy – who also worked for the charity and was also on sick leave when they went on holiday – returned to their home in the town of Merthyr Tydfil to find letters informing them that they had been fired.

The charity’s letter to Marshallsea said: “Whilst unfit to work you were well enough to travel to Australia and, according to recent news footage of yourself in Queensland, you allegedly grabbed a shark by the tail and narrowly missed being bitten by quickly jumping out of the way.”

The father-of-three said he was “disgusted” by how the charity has treated them, arguing that doctors had advised the couple to go on holiday to cope with

A video image of Mr Marshallsea and other beachgoers tackling the shark. stress.

“Where do I now get a job? There’s not much call for shark wrestlers in Merthyr Tydfil,” Marshallsea told the WalesOnline website.

“If I hadn’t gone in to save the kids on that beach that day my wife and I would still have a job,” he said.

“You think being in charge and running a children’s charity, they would have tapped me on the back.”

Marshallsea worked as a project manager for the charity while his wife was a senior youth worker.

Both had been on sick leave with work-related stress since last April. AFP

Museum rocked by Heavy Metal threat

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ritain’s prestigious Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has cancelled a concert by “grind” metal band Napalm Death because of fears that the music will literally bring the house down.

The British band was scheduled to play a concert at the museum last week through a ceramic sculpture designed to explode under the force of their music.

But the museum has decided that the noise levels threatened the safety of the 150-year-old building.

“It is with regret that we have taken the decision to cancel the one-off Napalm Death performance in collaboration with our ceramic artist-in-residence Keith Harrison,” it said in a statement.

“A further safety inspection has revealed concerns that the high level of decibels generated by the concert would damage the historic fabric of the building.”

The band, whose albums include titles such as “From Enslavement to Obliteration”, were not available for comment.

Vocalist Mark “Barney” Greenway had said before

the cancellation that the band liked to explore the concept of “sound as a weapon”.

“The noise element of music should never be understated,” he said. AFP (Photo: Sonia Waterfield)

Kiwis toast end of ‘Marmageddon’

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tores across New Zealand stocked up with Marmite for the first time in more than a year, as a shortage of the breakfast spread caused by an earthquake came to an end.

In a culinary crisis dubbed “Marmageddon”, the country’s only Marmite factory closed it was damaged in the 2011 Christchurch quake, halting production of the thick, black concoction.

The factory was supposed to re-open last year but the work ran behind schedule, leaving Kiwis including Prime Minister John Key complaining about missing their breakfast treat.

Jars of the black spread, likened by critics

to axle grease laced with salt, sold for up to NZ$80 (B1,950) on internet sites during the shortages.

By quirk of brand name history, the New Zealand version of Marmite is unique to the country, more like Australian Vegemite than brown English Marmite.

A few consumers were able to tolerate a move to Vegemite on their toast, but many waited stoically for the supplies of their breakfast staple to resume.

Driverless truck smashes along German motorway

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40-tonne articulated truck cruised for more than 10 kilometres along a German autobahn after its driver collapsed with a heart attack.

Police tried to flag the truck down after it was seen swerving between motorway lanes near the town of Sinsheim, but discovered that the truck’s driver was unconscious.

Other cars on the road were held back by police

vans as the truck was left to run its course, smashing off the crash barriers at the side of the autobahn several times, until its emergency braking system activated and brought the truck to a halt.

The police say the Czech driver had suffered a serious heart attack, and was in hospital fighting for his life. Luckily no-one was hurt by the runaway truck.

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Aussie chef prepares to fire up Xana BBQ

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ngus Adams is a travelling chef from New South Wales, Australia. This Easter Sunday from 12.30pm (March 31) he will be joining Xana with Attica’s Executive Chef Mirko Cappa to prepare an Aussie barbecue with a modern twist for the launch of the beach club’s new Lazy Sundayz.

What brings you to Phuket?

To experience what Thai culture and food is about. I have always wanted to learn more about Thai cuisine.

What do you think of Thai food?

I love Thai food – the aromatic blending of fresh products result in vibrant and refreshing dishes, perfect for hot days.

What dishes are you getting excited about cooking this weekend?

I’m going to be giving some traditional dishes great modern twists.

On the seafood bar we will be serving up oyster shots with Bloody Mary. We are also preparing a great potato salad with capers, bacon and horseradish aioli and a cured salmon salad with toasted almonds and dill yoghurt.

We will have a sashimi counter and a full barbecue with loads of flavoured meat and seafood on skewers.

We are also doing some great condiments – tomato chutney, whisky barbecue sauces and onions marinated in beer. And to finish it off, some fantastic deserts as well – including smashed pavlova and trifle.

What’s next for you after Phuket?

From here I continue my journey to Europe. I’m currently working on a photo book which will detail my travels and what cuisines have been the most influential, alongside recipes I have created during my stay in each country.

The Aussie BBQ is B1,490 per person. To book tables, email xana-lagunaphuket@angsana.com. For more information visit Xana’s Facebook page.

It’s all a dream

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hose wanting to escape Phuket without having to board a plane or drive for hours are in for a treat with the Mai Khao Dream Resort & Spa Natai Beach’s beachfront brunch.

However, you’ll need to get in quick because it finishes up this Sunday.

Overlooking the beautiful Natai Beach in Phang Nga, just across the Sarasin Bridge, with tables and chairs almost on the sand, the brunch is very reasonably priced.

For B1,650++ per person, you get unlimited soft drinks and local beverages. Or for B1,950++ per person, you enjoy unlimited soft drinks, local beverages, and cocktails for the duration.

The brunch includes a great selection of imported meats, cheese and breads, sushi and sashimi, oysters and prawns, salads, mini beef burgers and pasta. There’s also an impressive selection of desserts.

Overseeing the brunch is Executive Chef Jacobo Astray Tudela, from the north-west of Spain. He has been in Phuket for one year – before that he was in Bangkok working at the Imperial Queens Park.

He says the brunch is light with Mediterranean style touches, and the ideal type of food to relax by the beach with. His signature dish is paella, which he cooks volumes of for brunch diners.

“Sunday, for most people, is a day off to do something different. We are trying to get people out of Phuket, away from the traffic and the business, and we are only one hour’s drive north.”

Brunch guests have free access to the pool and beach loungers for the afternoon. Children under 5 dine free, and children aged between 5 and 12 are half price.

The brunch runs 12pm-3pm. After this weekend, the Sunday brunch will be replaced by other culinary events the resort is planning.

For more details visit maikhaodream.com

Bangkok Beer & Beverages, island's largest wholesaler of 500+ premium beverages from 12 countries.

Ask for our extensive portfolio: bart@bbb.co.th and visit www.bbb.co.th for more info.

Tel: 076-200751-3, Fax: 076-200754

Executive Chef Jacobo Astray Tudela.

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EUROPEAN

INTERNATIONAL

ITALIAN

SEAFOOD

Bodega & Grill

Weaves Restaurant

Acqua

Trisara Seafood

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

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

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

The 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

Mom Tri’s Villa Royale

Irish Times

Art Caffè

RE KÁ TA Beach Club

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

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

The idea of Art Caffè comes from the need to have a place to stop and enjoy something different. Meet friends, exchange ideas, propose initiatives, organizing events or reflect only reading, watching and perhaps enjoying a good cup of coffee. The exhibition space is an affront to the repetitiveness of the artistic culture of the island. Naiharn-Saiyuan Road, 076 388 546

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

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

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

Tablespoon Salad & Grill

Super Natural

DaVinci

Baan Kalim Restaurant & Seafood

Discover newest stylish restaurant in modern vintage setting. Creative and unique salad and grill menus are served while you experience a delectable dining in romantic and intimate atmosphere with a reasonable price tag.

Open 11am-10pm. 2nd Floor, HomePro Village, Chalong; 076 383 244

Super Food deserves a Super Location. SuperNatural and more. The only waterfront restaurant in Phuket serving exciting raw vegetarian cuisine in addition to our delicious seafood, Thai and International menu. Great selection of fresh to order juices & smoothies, as well as great wines and chilled beers.

Open 365 days a year. Facebook Supernatural -Phuket, 2.5km south of Chalong Circle.

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

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

FRENCH

The Bistro Restaurant

Diavolo

THAI

Breeze Restaurant

Baan Vijitt Restaurant

All the Italian traditions in our bit, 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% off for selected beverages, soft drinks, juices from 3pm-5pm & 10pm-11pm daily. Opening hours: 3pm-12am Patong Beach, 076 340 138.

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

INDIAN

JAPANESE

Tre by DoublePool Villas

Navrang Mahal

Tamarind Restaurant

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

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. 076 286 464

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

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

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

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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IN BRIEF ‘Psycho Pack’ for ‘Borderlands 2’

The developers of sci-fi shooter Borderlands 2 are releasing a downloadable content (DLC) pack that includes a new playable character.

The US$10 (B310) “Psycho Pack” DLC will be available in May. The new character, Krieg, is described as a melee mauler with “psychotic multiple personalities” who wields a “buzz axe”.

Borderlands 2 players can also increase their level cap to 61 after April 2 with the ‘Ultimate Vault Hunter Upgrade Pack’, which is included in the title’s US$30 (B966) downloadable content season pass.

‘Final Fantasy’ bundle for PS3

Both Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 HD remakes will be available on one disc for the PlayStation 3 remake, makers Square Enix announced.

The games, which were released over a decade ago for the PlayStation 2, will be sold separately for the PS Vita. The remake will be released in HD. Square Enix have not revealed a release date or price tag for the games.

Game to screen at film festival

The Tribeca Film Festival in New York as selected Quantic Dream’s Beyond: Two Souls to feature at the independent movie event.

A one-hour scene from the game will be screened at the festival on April 27, followed by interviews with actress Ellen Page and director David Cage.

Pa g e pl ay s Jo d ie Holmes, who has been connected to a mysterious entity since birth.

The game also stars actor Willem Defoe.

This is the second game to become an official selection for the Tribeca festival: L.A. Noire was chosen in 2011.

Scientists study ‘positive’ aspects of digital games

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ven as as videogames come under scrutiny for potential harmful impacts, researchers and developers are touting digital games for positive effects on health, learning and other social goals.

The immersive power of games is being used to encourage kids to develop healthy eating, help seniors maintain brain functions and even to tackle problems like poverty and climate change.

Many researchers say there is little evidence that playing games can cause users to become violent, and point to numerous positive impacts.

“Games can have a positive impact, particularly with psychological functions,” said Jason Allaire of North Carolina State University’s Gains Through Gaming Lab. “We focus on cognition and learning, trying to understand the exact mechanisms, such as the impact on reaction time and memory.”

Allaire led a recent study that found seniors who played digital games showed higher levels of emotional well-being than non-players.

Although the research did not offer a clear cause and effect, Allaire expressed confidence that the research would eventually find such a relationship.

Digital games “get a bad rap because often they are played to excess” but blaming games for societal ills is “simplistic,” Allaire said.

Big game companies and independent developers have created many games aimed at positive skills and habits.

Jive Health, a startup founded by Northwestern University student Dennis Ai, produced a mobile game that encourages children to eat more fruits and vegetables, with the goal of curbing childhood obesity.

In the game, kids must find apples or other fruits for their animal characters and take a picture of real-

life foods to advance to the next level.

“Kids, they really do enjoy playing the game, it’s looking very promising,” said Ai. “You can’t teach kids healthy eating habits by just preaching to them.”

Even the oft-criticised “shooter games” can have an upside: one university study found that playing shooting or driving videogames, even for a short time, improves the ability to search for a hidden target.

And Boston Children’s Hospital researchers reported that a game can help children with anger problems regulate their emotions.

The game involves shooting at enemy spaceships while avoiding shooting at friendly ones.

When their heart rate goes above a certain level, players lose their ability to shoot, teaching them skills to keep calm, according to a study published in the journal Adolescent Psychiatry.

Another game, “Darfur is Dying,” was created by University of Southern California students to raise awareness about the region’s humanitarian crisis.

And a 2004 study showed that surgeons who played videogames made fewer errors, possibly helped by learning focus and coordination.

So-called serious games experts are stepping up their efforts to harness the power of games. The topic is likely to be part of the discussion at the Game Developers Conference this month in San Francisco.

Academic experts gathered last year to discuss the topic in a session organized by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

“There are so many ways games can be used to have this kind of an impact, and clearly one of the big ways is awareness learning,” said Carrie Heeter, of the University of Michigan’s Games for Entertainment and Learning Lab. But there are often unintended results: “We have a student from China who was motivated to learn English by playing ‘Tomb Raider,’” Heeter said. AFP

Windows Blue screenshots leaked

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creenshots of Microsoft’s next big computing release have leaked online, showing several new tweaks.

Windows Blue, the successor to Windows 8, will have a start screen that looks similar with both larger and smaller Live Tile setups.

The desktop version seems to cater to tablet users since many of the changes reflect a tablet-view style.

The operating system is also expected to have improved power efficiency across all devices.

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TOP CONSOLE GAMES THIS WEEK 1

Tomb Raider (18+)

Xbox 360, PS3, PC

6

Fifa 13

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1

2

God Of War: Ascension (18+)

PS3

7

Far Cry 3 (18+)

Xbox 360, PS3, PC

2

3

Starcraft II: Heart Of The Swarm

PC

8

Crysis 3

Xbox 360, PS3

3

4

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 (18+)

Xbox 360, PS3, PC

9

Call Of Duty: Black Ops Ii (18+)

Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Wii U

4

5

SimCity

PC

10 The Sims 3: University Life

PC

5

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Final Fantasy VII BLAST FROM THE PAST Jean-Pierre Mestanza editor@thephuketnews.com

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o you remember Final Fantasy VII? Of course you do, it was only the greatest game ever made in the 20th century. Any self-respecting gamer remembers how they felt when they saw Aerith die at the hand of Sephiroth.

– a seminal moment in gaming history, when the gloves came off and the story got personal.

Final Fantasy VII taught every developer how to make a true roleplaying game.

T he g raphics and game engine were way ahead of their time, but it was Aerith’s death scene that many point to as the iconic moment in the franchise.

It was released in 1997 for the original PlayStation and was an immediate commercial and critical success, and won “game of the year” awards from almost every gaming publication.

Considered by many to be the best title of all 14 games in the franchise, the incredibly deep story was part melodrama and part sci-fi western that pulled at the heart strings.

The cut scenes were some of the most welldone in gaming at that time, especially towards the end when the protagonist Cloud finally fights the real Sephiroth.

Final Fantasy VII was a milestone for RPGs thanks to its emphasis on character development, personal relationships, and storyline.

The music from the game also featured in a synchronised swimming routine at the 2004 Olympics that give Alison Bartosik and Anna Kozlova of the United States a bronze medal.

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Falling short

IN BRIEF Pro-fracking filmmaker accuses IMF of censorship

Olympus Has Fallen FILM REVIEW Tom Metcalfe editor2@thephuketnews.com

DIRECTOR: Antoine Fuqua STARS: Gerard Butler Aaron Eckhardt Morgan Freeman RUNS: 120 minutes

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t’s always the same, you wait around for ages for one to arrive, and then two come along at once.

There will be two movies released this year about terrorists attacking the White House: in a few months you’ll be able to see how Roland “Independence Day” Emmerich handles the idea, in White House Down – until then there’s this, the portentously titled Olympus Has Fallen.

Directed by Antoine “Training Day” Fuqua and produced by its Scottish action star, Gerard “This is Sparta” Butler, after the relative flop of this year’s genuine “Die Hard” movie, Olympus Has Fallen is being pushed as the next big action flick.

Butler plays Secret Service agent Mike Banning, confined to a desk job for failing to prevent the US First Lady falling off a bridge – as we learn from a prologue with one of those car-on-the-edge teeter-totter scenes that happen so often in the movies.

When a ruthless troop of North Korean terrorists (Hollywood’s new go-to bad guys, as seen in Red Dawn) assault DC and take the President (Aaron Eckhart) and his aides hostage in the White House, Banning charges in to save, first: the president’s missing son, and then: the leaders of the free world.

Butler plays a gritty and humourless hero, prone to dashing superficial injuries and occasional one-liners: too obviously like Bruce Willis as John McClane, except with more hair and less charm.

As he infiltrates the White House, Banning is guided over the phone by a crisis group of political leaders, including Morgan Freeman as the Speaker of the House and Angela Basset as the Secret Service director.

Unfortunately, these capable actors are squandered by spending the whole movie in a darkened control centre, peering ominously into computer screens at the bloody results of Banning fighting his way in. The usually likeable Aaron Eckhart as POTUS isn’t given room for much of a performance either: he’s chained to a railing most of the time.

On the one hand, Olympus Has Fallen is a po-faced rendition of “what it might be like if” foreign terrorists invaded the White House; and on the other hand it is stocked with action movie nonsense, like a bullet-proof hero taking down dozens of heavily-armed goons using only a handgun.

And any pretensions to realism in Olympus Has Fallen are critically undermined right at the beginning, by some of the nastiest special effects seen since George Lucas was a stoker. The attack by an enemy warplane on the US capitol seems calculated to echo the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington – the White House in ruins, the Washington Monument crumbling like the Twin Towers – but it looks so fake that there’s little danger of being offended by it.

All that’s left is the director’s shameless appeal to popular iconography, which pretty well sums up the entire movie. Next!

Five jailed in Britain for fake movie scam

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ive people were jailed for more than 20 years in the UK this week for concocting a fake Hollywood blockbuster film to obtain millions of pounds in tax breaks.

The five had told tax inspectors that their purported film, Landscape of Lives, had a budget of £19.6 million (B873 million) and involved veteran actor Jeremy Irons. and Omar Sharif.

To lend credibility to the scam, an innocent writer was hired to pen the script. He was told part of the movie would be made in Egypt and would star Sharif, prosecutors said..

But only seven minutes of the movie was ever shot and the footage, filmed in a flat at a cost of just several thousand pounds, was of “completely unusable quality”, the court heard.

Irons, Sharif, not in movie. Photos: Georges Biard The fraudsters used fake documents to apply for film industry tax breaks for the film industry, worth up to £2.78 million (B120 million), although they only received £800,000 (B36 million).

When they were arrested, the team hastily made another film on a shoestring in an attempt to cover their scam. It was released on DVD in 2011.

SFX Coliseum Phuket (Central Festival) 21 And Over (E) [18+] Django Unchained (E) [18+] The Haunting In Connecticut 2 (E) [15+] Jack The Giant Slayer (E) [G] Jack The Giant Slayer (T) [G] Olympus Has Fallen (E) [18+] Olympus Has Fallen (E/F) [18+] Oz The Great And Powerful (E/3D) [G] Panya Renu 3 (T/E sub) [G]

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“This was an extraordinary scheme created to attack the public purse,” said Sue Patten, head of fraud at the Crown Prosecution Service.

“The defendants put in claims on a ghost film called Landscape of Lives with the sole intention of criminally exploiting a tax relief system designed to support the UK film industry.”

There was no suggestion that Irons or Sharif were involved, or that actors who took part knew about the fraud.

Bashar Al-Issa, a 34-year-old former Iraqi national who is now British, was sentenced to six and a half years in jail for orchestrating the scam.

Aoife Madden, a 31-year-old British and Irish actress, was sentenced to four years and eight months in jail.

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The maker of a documentary in support of oil and gas fracking accused the International Monetary Fund Thursday of censorship after it declined to show a key clip from his film at a conference.

Phelim McAleer, whose film FrackNation argues in support of the controversial oil exploitation method, said the IMF was afraid of offending Russia by showing the clip at the conference.

The clip suggests that allowing fracking in Eastern European countries like Poland would ease regional dependence on imported energy – and that powerful gas exporter Russia was financing the anti-fracking movement to protect its sales.

“They’re trying to force people not to say terrible things because it could offend one of their senior members,” McAleer said. “They didn’t want to offend Russia.”

YouTube passes billion user mark

More than a billion people use YouTube each month, with viewing on smartphones helping drive growth, the Google-owned company have reported.

In a blog post, the YouTube team noted that nearly one out of every two people on the internet visits the website, which launched in 2005.

“If YouTube were a country, we’d be the third largest in the world after China and India,” the team said.

Google bought YouTube in 2006 for US$1.65 billion (B48 billion) and has yet to say if the service has turned a profit.

YouTube confirmed early this year that its next developments could include subscriptions for pay-to-watch content.

‘Croods’ bashes rivals at N America box office

Family friendly stone-age cartoon The Croods opened at the top of North America’s box office this weekend. The DreamWorks film about a pre-historic family battling with fire and other innovations took US$44.7 million (B1.3 billion) on its debut.

Action thriller Olympus Has Fallen took second place, with US$30.5 (B900 million) in earnings. In third place =was 3D fantasy flick Oz The Great And Powerful, which made US$21.6 million (B650 million) in its third week. AFP

US BOX OFFICE TOP 10 Film

Gross

1

The Croods

$44.7M

$44.7M

2

Olympus Has Fallen

$30.5M

$30.5M

3

Oz The Great And Powerful

$22M

$178M

4

The Call

$8.7M

$30.9M

5

Admission

$6.45M

$6.45M

6

Spring Breakers

$5M

$5.41M

7

Incredible Burt Wonderstone

$4.28M

$17.4M

8

Jack the Giant Slayer

$2.96M

$59.1M

9

Identity Thief

$2.55M

$128M

$1.93M

$40.3M

10 Snitch

SFC Jungceylon Phuket (Patong) 21 And Over (E) [18+] A Good Day To Die Hard (E) [15+] Flight (E) [20-] The Haunting In Connecticut 2 (E) [15+] Jack The Giant Slayer (E) [G] Olympus Has Fallen (E) [18+] Oz The Great And Powerful (E/3D) [G]

Weekend gross

14:50, 19:35 15:00, 19:40 12:00, 16:50, 21:35 12:15, 14:30, 16:45, 19:00, 21:15 12:30, 17:10, 21:50 12:20, 14:50, 17:20, 19:50, 22:15 12:45, 15:30, 18:15, 21:00

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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LIGHTS OUT! Earth Hour was celebrated at venues all around the island on Saturday night, including Xana at Angsana Laguna Phuket, Dusit Thani Laguna Phuket, and the Hilton Phuket Arcadia Resort and Spa.

An impressive fire show at Xana. Photo: Jessi Cotterill

Staff enjoy the night at Xana. Photo: Jessi Cotterill

Dusit Thani Laguna Phuket staff hold candles during their dinner on Earth Hour evening.

The Hilton’s Earth Hour superheroes: Beer (Pool Manager) and Yindee (Assistant Housekeeper Manager).

A KIWI VICTORY

Simon and Merrie Beasley, left, and Paresa GM Scot Toon.

New Zealand took out the honours in the fourth New Zealand versus Australia dinner, held every year at Paresa resort. New Zealand won 3-2 on the night, meaning the overall score is now 2-2. The competition, in its fourth year, always attracts a good crowd keen to sample some of the best Australasian beverages and food.

Irish Times manager and co-owner, Thomas Corley, centre.

HERE’S TO THE IRISH

A jubilant crowd turned up for St Patrick’s Day celebrations held at both the Irish Times and Angus O’Tools on March 17.

Staff at Angus O’Tool’s at Karon Beach had a great night celebrating.

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THE BATTLE GOES ON The Bayonets (right) came out top in the third heat of the Battle of the Young Bands competition, held at the Hard Rock Cafe on March 23. The band now joins Notorious and Sicma in the final of the competition, being held on May 4.

Prim, the event organiser.

GREAT NIGHT OUT Debbie Taylor Crause and Siobhan McGovern.

Norbert Wittinrich and Jui Thongsanoe.

Around 300 people turned up for the Big Night Out music festival, held at the Alan Cooke Ground (ACG) on Saturday night (March 23).

Richard Wright, lead singer of Black and Blue.

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Lek Karnjana, Tanya Artemeva, Chawalit Ratanachinakorn, performance artist Romadon Suriyan and Elena Orlova.

Jana Sasikova co-owner and restaurant manager of DaVinci, with her husband Claudio Pivotto, DaVinci deli manager.

A BLACK OUT IN NAI HARN DaVinci restaurant in Nai Harn hosted the Black is Back charity event on March 24. The event featured a fashion show and live art from Thailand’s Got Talent finalist Romadon. All proceeds went to the Phuket Has Been Good To Us Foundation. Photos: Adriano Trapani

Jason Beavan, left, with Tourism Malaysia Deputy Director General (Marketing) Chong Yoke Har, centre, and Phuket Jet Tour Managing Director Charn Wongsatayanont.

Jason Beavan with Tourism Malaysia Director General Dato’ Mirza Mohammad Taiyab.

CLASS ACT MEDIA AT MALAYSIAN F1 Jason Beavan with two keen fans at the 2012 Formula 1 Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix.

Jason Beavan, the General Manager of Class Act Media, owners of The Phuket News, was hosted by Tourism Malaysia’s Corporate Hospitality Programme in Kuala Lumpur March 21-25.

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Shipwrecked!

The Party that will rock your boat... and make a difference for 124 children from the Phuket Sunshine Village - Child Care Center.

Buffet Dinner, Live Entertainment Salsa, Pop & Dance Music DJ Ω, Raffle, Silent Auction Best Costume Award . . .

Venue: The Green Man, Chalong Date: 30.03.2013 - 7:30 pm till late Dress Code: As you were when your ship sank Tickets: 999 THB; includes Buffet Dinner and 3 Drink Coupons - available @ the door

All proceeds will be donated to the PSV foundation

www.phuketsunshinevillage.org

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formers, coming together to bring a night of entertainment, delicious Thai Buffet and great fun. The Lost Legends band. All performed on a unique built stage at the Underwood Art Factory. For booking call 088 762 4505.

SUNDAY MAR 31

MONDAY APR 1

Schnitzel Day Kokosnuss Restaurant - Every Monday, Schnitzel, fried potatoes and salad buffet B190 per person. Starts 5.30pm. For more info please visit phuketkokosnuss.com.

HeadStart Celebrates International Day 4pm-8pm at FunStart. This is an event involving all the parents, students and staff from Preschool to Year 12. This special event is a time for us all to come together to share a little of our own cultural backgrounds with other members of the community, as well as a chance for us all to learn lots of exciting and interesting things about the world. Please contact us if you have any questions. Primary contact point is Miki Edouard, Activities and Events co ordinator, at miki@headstartphuket.com or call at 076 612 876.

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

SATURDAY MAR 30

A day of Stand Up Paddle for the whole family with elite and fun races, kid’s games, food and drink, DJ’s all at beautiful Bliss Beach Club, Bangtao Beach. Entry cost is B200 per person per race with their own paddle board or B500 per person without paddle board.

Contact: info@standupprojects.com, 085 476 9096. All profits of this day go to building phuket’s first community skatepark. The idea of this day is to bring the Phuket community together promoting community spirit, healthy lifestyle and fun spirited competition.

BBQ All You Can Eat Mondays and Thursdays. BBQ all you can eat: Pork, Chicken, Beef, Prawns, Fish and Squid with salad buffet, cold and hot sauces, Garlic Bread, baked potatoes, potato salad and more for B325 per person.

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

TUESDAY APR 2

Fish and Chips Friday Night B250 per person. At Irish Times Pub, Jungceylon Patong.

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.

The Good Shepherd Merchandise Shop Open Every Wednesdays and Saturdays. Plaza Del Mar, Laguna (Behind Bake). Time: 10am to 1pm every Wednesday and 9am to noon every Saturday. We have a wide and wonderful selection of handicrafts such as toys, greeting cards, ornaments, lanterns, bags, purses and many more. 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 thegood shepherd.info.

Sunday Roast Pork at Expat Hotel Sunday roast pork or beef dinner every Sunday 2pm onwards at Expat Hotel, Soi Taipan, Patong. B290 per person. See www.expathotel.com.

Sunday Carvery Live Music at Underwood Art Factory

BBQ at Expat Hotel

Every Friday and first Saturday of every month. The home of Phuket’s finest per-

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

B399 per person all you can eat. Roast beef, BBQ ham, chicken, pork, fresh vegetables, Yorkshire pudding and a glass of selected beverage. At Irish Times Pub, Junceylon Patong.

Quiz Night at Grizzly’s Every Tuesday night. Snacks available.

Registration 7.45pm. 1,000 Baht voucher to winners. Grizzly’s Sports Bar and Restaurant, located between Loch Palm Golf Course and Kathu Waterfall. Contact 086 951 4962.

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Half Chicken Spit Roast 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.

was originally a religious holiday. Songkran begins with early morning merit-making, by offering food to the monks. Paying respect to elders and ancestors is also an important custom of Songkran.

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the year. The government has marked May 1 as a public holiday. You will find most private companies closed, including banks. However, all government offices will remain open.

Pork Roast and Roast Chicken

SUNDAY MAY 5

Every Thursday. Buffet includes salads, soups, mashed potatoes, bread dumplings.

ALL YOU CAN EAT B190. www.phuketko kosnuss.com.

Coronation Day (Wan Chat tra Mongkhon) Commemorates the coronation of King Bhumibol Adulyadej in 1950. It’s a public holiday. May 5 falls on a Sunday this year so May 6 will be the substitute day.

FRIDAY APR 5

THURSDAY MAY 9

Pool Competition at Expat Guesthouse Pool Competition every Tuesday 9pm Expat Guesthouse Sports Bar, Patong. See map at www.expatguesthouse.com.

WEDNESDAY APR 3

Phuket’s First Audio Video Interactive Pub Quiz B99 per drinks and selected beverages buy 1 get 1 free. Quiz master DJ Doris, from 91.5FM. Bar Tabs: 1 Prize B1,500.

2 Prize B1,000. Every Wednesday Night From 8 pm. Free entry. Maximum 4 people per team. At Irish Times Pub, Jungceylon Patong.

IBAP-News Media in Crisis A Question of Trust. The fallout from the phone-hacking scandal in Britain is the most spectacular example of the media’s abuse of trust. Advertising dollars once shared by a finite number of newspapers are now spread out over an almost infinite number of digital sites.

This raises the question: who is going to pay for the news? David Armstrong, Post Publishing (Bangkok Post), editorin-chief of The Australian, The Bulletin, The Canberra Times and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, will be giving his views from his journalistic career that spanned more than 40 years. All welcome, doors open 6.15pm, more details ibapphuket.org.

Young people pour scented water over Buddha images and on the hands of elders to show respect, and to seek their blessing.

Another custom of Songkran is to clean houses and anything old and useless must be thrown away. It is believed that anything bad belonging to the old year will be unlucky to the owner if left and carried on to the coming new year. The most prominent custom of the festival is throwing water.

Everybody throws water on each other on the first day. In Phuket, the biggest water-throwing parties are in Patong and Saphan Hin.

MONDAY APR 22-28

Royal Ploughing Ceremony and Farmer’s Day Ceremonies giving blessing to the country’s farmers are held on this day. It is officially known as Wan Phra Ratcha Phithi Phuet Monkhon Lae Charot Phra Nangkhan Raek Na Khwan. This day is also observed as Farmer’s Day. Each year’s date is astrologically-determined and announced by the Bureau of the Royal Household. A government holiday only, this ceremony revives an ancient blessing of the plants and ceremonial start to the new growing season. The action takes place on Bangkok’s Sanam Luang in front of the Grand Palace.

TUESDAY JUNE 4 Visakha Bucha Day Falls on the full moon of the sixth Thai lunar month (May). A Buddhist observance commemorating the birth, enlightenment and passing of the Buddha. Also observed as National Tree Day. On this, the holiest Buddhist holiday of the year, you will find the temples full with devotees receiving blessings and giving offerings. All government and public sector business will be closed, including most bars and pubs.

SATURDAY APR 6 Chakri Day

EVERY DAY

A public holiday to honor the founder of the Chakri Dynasty, King Rama I. April 6 falls on a Saturday this year so April 8 will be the substitute day.

SATURDAY APR 13-15

WEDNESDAY MAY 1

BBQ Ribs All You Can Eat

Songkran Festival

Labor Day

Wednesdays and Fridays. BBQ ribs all you can eat with salad buffet and potato salad for B295 per person. 7pm-11pm. Located in Patong on Rat-U-Tit 200 Pee Road next to Hotel Mercure.

Songkran is the old Thai New Year, and is an occasion for family reunions. Many Thai people return to their homes and families for the three day festival. Celebrated each year between the 13th and 15th of April, it

The government has established May 1 of every year as Labour Day just like most European countries. The objective of this day is to recognise the employee’s duty and responsibility they show everyday of

Happy Hour at Sugar Reef Happy Hour B60 on all selected beverages, B120 house doubles, and B99 all selected drinks. 4pm - 8pm. Also Sunday roast served from 2pm. B250 to club members. opposite Tesco Cherngtalay.

See sugarreefbar.com.

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This week in history

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■■ March 29, 1886 Pharmacist John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in his backyard in Atlanta, Georgia – a non-alcoholic version of his medicinal coca wine, containing extracts from coca leaves and kola nuts.

■■ March 30, 1981 US President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a hotel in Washington DC by would-be assassin John Hinckley.

■■ March 31, 1492 Spanish monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand order the 150,000 Jewish subjects in Castille and Aragon to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.

■■ April 1, 1924 Political agitator Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his participation in an attempted coup in Munich, known as the “Beer Hall Putsch.”

■■ April 2, 1930 Ras Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael is crowned Emporer Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, following the death of the Empress Zewditu.

■■ April 3, 1888 “Jack the Ripper” commits the first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women in the Whitechapel district in London’s East End. ■■ April 4, 1975 Microsoft is founded as a partnership between college drop-outs Bill Gates and Paul Allen, to write a BASIC interpreter for the Altair microcomputer.

43,079

Number of people per square kilometre in Manila, the world’s most densely populated city.

40,000

Dollars saved in 1987

by American Airlines, by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

100

In the computing industry, the number of jiffies in one second.

9

Number of times a blue whale’s heart beats in a minute.

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Security men leap into action after John Hinkley shoots President Ronald Reagan in 1981. Reagan survived.

Crossword by Myles Mellor

1. Where in the world would you naturally find hummingbirds?

2. Palindrome, palimpsest, palatine. Which is a person?

3. What is an autoclave used for?

4. In which year did Kublai Khan first invade Burma?

5. What is the cube root of 1,000,000?

Answers at the foot of the page.

SUDOKU

Across 1. Cores 6. Tacky chic 10. Enhances 14. Courtyards 15. Sea position 16. Hawaiian tuber 17. Mags 20. Increase, with “up” 21. Poetic palindrome 22. WWII battle site 23. Crackers 26. Mandela’s org.

27. Stimulant ingredients 29. Kuwaiti, e.g.

31. Land of leprechauns 35. Profits 37. Indonesian roamer 39. Australian runner 40. Rags?

43. Addition 44. Affectation 45. Cow fuel 46. Some beans 48. Campaigns 50. Some bays 51. Family dog, for short 53. Psychoanalyzed?

55. Cooling-off

24. Catch 25. Alain RobbeGrillet novel, with “The” 27. “Who ___?”

28. Kind of molding 30. Aardvark’s tidbit 32. Worthy of comment 33. Candidate’s concern 34. Certain posers 36. Quail food Down 1. Perry Como’s “___ 38. Disney workers 41. Fed. construction Loves Mambo” overseer 2. Any thing 3. In Aruban fashion? 42. Brio 47. Sirhan Sirhan, e.g.

4. Cool 5. Vendor’s mistake? 49. Fuse mishaps 6. Linked series of 52. Back when writings 54. Churchill’s “so 7. “Aladdin” prince few,” (abbr.)

8. Exec’s note 55. Creep 9. Gotcha moments 56. Bird beak part 10. Immediately 57. The America’s 11. “Two Years Cup trophy, e.g.

Before the Mast” 58. Gull-like bird writer 61. Neuter 12. Attracted 62. To be, to Tiberius 13. Bean used to 64. Paranormal make miso ability 18. Time piece?

19. Time div.

65. Line periods?

59. Bit in a horse’s mouth 60. Ripen 63. Mags 66. Algonquian Indian 67. Brown shade 68. Fat units?

69. Frau’s partner 70. Blabs 71. Nobel, for one

Solutions to last week’s puzzles:

Answers to this week’s Pop Quiz:

1. In the Americas; 2. Palatine; 3. For sterilising equipment or supplies.

4. 1277; 5. 100

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minute walk to N aihar n beach, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, aircon. B17,000 per month. Call 081 397 1833.

5 Rai raw land behind ACG clubhouse on long lease for compatible sporting facility. alan@acgphuket.com.

Long term rental Karon: Exceptional fully furnished house for rent in the hear t of Karon. Walking distance to everything. 2 huge bedrooms, new kitchen, lounge, dining, air cons in every room. Call 080 690 5248.

Surin Beach Office For Rent: Prime location

fully renovated sales office/ shop with initial lease of 6 years. Internal area 144 m2, walled back garden 60 m2, 4 parking spots, 3 phase, kitchen, internet, phone/ fax, TV, 5 AC. Contact 085 060 0033.

Near Beach 3 Bed Pool Villa: Fully equipped Kalim Sea View, Freehold Condo for Sale/ Rent: B11.9 million, 2 minutes walk to beach, big balcony and sunset view, 180 sqm, 2 ensuite bedrooms, big living space. PhuketAREA.com Search V146.

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Beach Condo, Beach 3 Min. Walk: Spacious

room and fully equipped kitchen, 160-212sqm. Very high standard with a nice view. Big balcony, swimming pool, gym. Location: Kat hu, 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 e-mail to: condophuket@yahoo.com.

The Courtyard - Dance Centre: Located next to Island Furniture, Chaofa Road West, 2 kms. South of Central. Corner unit, on the upper of two floors, 7m x 15 m, plus entrance lobby.

Two large mirrors, special flooring, aircons, adequate parking. Rent B25,000 per month. Securit y deposit B75,000 (refundable). Lease one to three years. Contact Khun Siriporn Island Furniture. 081 691 0213 or visit thecourtyard-phuket.com.

2-bedroom apartment for rent, long or short term, fully furnished, kitchen, 2 bathrooms. Pool, large gardens, parking, a mere 3 minute stroll to scenic Nai harn beach. resortgm@gmail.com.

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Bath, 4 aircon, fullly firnished with Chanote tiltle, mini office 4x4, living room , European kitchen, CCTV, internet, garden. Permsap Villa Manik, 436sqm. 15min from airport.

Call 089 871 4172.

For sale: Spacious one bedroom apartment with ocean view, north of Patong. Floor area 96m2 internal and 72m2 terrace including water feature with sala and jacuzzi. Perfect bachelor pad with rental income. Email for info: bart duykers@mac.com.

New Condo Kathu For Sale/Rent: Sansiri D Condo Kathu, Fully furnished Studio type 29.7 sq.m.on 6 Floor, good facilities with fitness gym and large swimming pool. Only 5 minute to Patong, Lotus, BigC, Central.

By owner. Call 086 105 8144.

Budget Bungalows: Two Bungalows 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.

Beach front Building Lanta: Urgent Sales! Beach Accommodation Available: Patong Tower

or 2 bdrm, 2 bathrm, kitchen, large balcony, parking, 24 hrs security, gymnasium, swimming pool. Ph: 076 486 624 and 086 281 9311.

Email: bao200@gmail.com.

Main road from Karon to Patong-Close to Simon Cabaret.

Multi Functional Building Total 700 sqm (15 metre front) 1-floor 350.sqm with 3 toilets. 2-floor 350.sqm with 2 toilets.

For visit SMS (French) 080 035 1626 English 081 788 8280 Email: maurice.phuket@gmail.com For Russian contact: Oxana: 080 529 0726 Email:phuket.lux@gmail.com

Urgent- 3 Bedroom House for sale: 3 Bed, 3

holiday home with private garden and pool. Within easy reach of Rawai and Nai Harn beach. For full details and pictures, please contact me. 084 850 1340.

Andaman Beach Suite Condo Patong Beach, Phuket: Has kitchenette,

Luxury Ocean View Apartments for Rent in Kata and Karon: 1

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apartment for long term rent.

Fully furnished with kitchenette, security, parking etc.

Right in the middle of Patong. More info call 076 344 922 or visit bluewaterphuket. com.

front 3 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.

Free Hold Condo For Sale: 45 Sq. Free hold. 2 balconies(Great view). 1 bed room. 1 living room. 2 air conditioners. Full furniture.

Internet. Cable TV. Laundry.

Fresh market. Swimming pool. Gym. Restaurant. 080 040 9077.

Home Office Near Thanyapura: New 2-storey

home office near Academy for sale 280 sq metre, Chanote tiltle, 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.

Ocean Front Villa for rent: Luxury brand new vil-

Shop Front for Rent: The Royal Phuket Yacht Club shop front space for rent 4.34 M. x 4.37 M. Located on the first floor of a great looking area for retail shop, boutique etc. Call 076 380 200 ext.

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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.

House For Rent: 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, fully furnished with small garden, quiet area at Paklok. Rent: B15,000 per month. Email: suksavat@hotmail.com or 084 626 5616.

Balinese Pool Villa: 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 stayon phuket@yahoo.com.

3 gorgeous lots, clean titles: For sale or long lease. 2 Lots on IslandBeachfront (Bungalow-/ Housing-Estate) and 1 big Mainland-Mountain property all in very quiet, safe, well maintained locations near Krabi. 089 291 4671.

House for Sale - Chalong: 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 million, firm. Contact: peterb@inter globalau.com, 084 843 3492.

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Opportunity Knocks: Af fordable 3 Bedroom House: Single floor, 3 bedroom, kitchen/ dining area, living room, 2 toilets/showers. Aircon in each bedroom. Water tank+pump. External covered area. Chanote title: 256 sqm Quiet developed village near Heroines Monument B3.2 million. Call 086 278 0007.

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B24,500,000. Deceased Estate - Absolute waterfront.

Occupying a stunning location on the east coast of Phuket this five-level villa has panoramic sea views from every level. Renovation work required. 085 793 2667. See exotiqproperty. com. Ref AB-V453, email: dmuir@exotiq.com.

Unique luxury condo 2 bed, 2 bath, 155sqm.

Foreign FREE HOLD. Recent architect remodel.

New Jacuzzi. Views to lake, mountain, marina, pool etc.

Sea View Land for Sale: Ao-Yon, 13.5 rai, chanode title.10m/rai.Call Siri 089 649 9939, email:siri_ phuket@changrunner.com.

Investment Property for sale!: New, modern waterfront townhome 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).

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 carport included.

Price 11mln. Call 083 509 8797 for info or viewing.

Completely furnished to very high standard, toothbrush only required. Owner leaving. 17.5MB. Contact Brian (Owner) 089 054 4354, +632 906 435 7146, Alan 087 999 6174, bggvirgo@gmail.com.

See RoyalPhuketMarinaCondos.com for complete details.

FOR SALE RAWAI BEACH SPECIAL TWIN VILLAS. 3 OR 4 BEDROOMS, 4 BATHROOMS. POOL, LARGE TERRACE, SMALL GARDEN. LIVING SPACE 400 SQM, LUXURY FURNISHED. PRICE B8,500,000. FREEHOLD. INFO: 081 788 8280. EMAIL; thewhitehousekata@gmail. com.

3 Bed Pool Villa Pa Khlok: 3 Beds, 2 Bath

Land for Sale - in Marina: Design and build Guesthouse for Lease in Patong: 12 rooms, good

Commercial Buildi n g Fo r S a l e: 5 M . x

location Nanai Road.9 year lease:ver y low rent,strong starting, easy to manage and good return on investment.

Price 1MLN. Take this opportunity. Thamad17@yahoo.com.

089 728 4005.

18.3 0 M.,3 f loors, loc ated close by Condo at Saiyuan, 2 big halls, 2 bedrooms,4 bathrooms,clean&new building. Price negotiable. Tel:087 8 81 7979, 0 81 472 0770, ss.kijrungruang@gmail.com.

your own home in a good location and gated community. All the infrastructure you need is available such as water, underground cabling for power, telephone, ADSL internet etc. Contact 076 238 948, email: market ing@ phuketpropertytrip.com.

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.

Nai Harn Beach Townhouse: 3 story, 2 bed townhouse. Views over Nai Harn lake and only one minute walk to beach.Lease or free hold. Roof top BBQ/ Sala. Buy of the Century.

B6,500,000. Call 081 270 4291. See phuketpremium realestate.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@hot mail.com

2 Pool Villas next to PIA: Ready to move in, villa 1 on 1,100 Sqm. land, for sale 15.9 mill and villa 2 on 2,200 Sqm. land, for sale 19.9MB. Brand new, each with 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 12 metre swimming pool, guest bungalow with 1 bedroom 1 bathroom.

Perfectly located in a developement with underground electricity and security, only 800 metres from Mission Hills golf course, less than 10 mins to airport, Phuket International Ac ademy and AoPor Grand Marina.

Call 081 343 0777. Email: montha _ phuket@yahoo. com.

Beautiful Villa Rawai: Beautiful 2 bed pool villa with sep maid’s room or 3rd b/ room. Great outdoor entertaining area. 5 minutes to all conveniences. Reduced to B9,500,000. Call 081 270 4291 or thailandmls@gmail. com.

Villa with Pool for Sale: Freehold 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.

Nai Harn Baan Bua: 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. com, w w w.phuketpremium realestate.com.

Single House Special Price B9.5 million: 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 Palm, major stores, BIS and KIS. Call Oranwan 086 883 3169.

Rawai Seaview Condo for sale: Seaview condo, freehold, 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 120sqm. 7.8 million Baht, fully furnished.

For more pictures and information please contact adrian_troy@yahoo.com

Patong Apartment Reduced Price: Condo 4 years old. Swimming pool, security 24/7, cafeteria. Studio 46sqm fully furnished.

Fr e e h o l d f o r f o r e i g n e r s .

Price:2.6MLN. Urgent sale, no agent. tel.089 728 4005.

Mail:thamad17@yahoo.com.

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Luxury Villa 3 Bedroom Pool for Rent: New villa

7.5 M House and Pool Bypass Rd: Very clean 5

Condo At The Heights, Kata: Immaculate 2-Bed fo rei gn - f re eh o l d unit in award-winning project. 195 sqm, sea view, near gym & pool. Quality furnishing throughout. Designer kitchen with utility-store. phuket.pn@ gmail.com.

Resort for Sale: Resort 2

bedroom, 3 bathroom house with 5 x 10 metre pool 10 minutes south of Central Festival, walking distance to Kajonkiet Bilingual School.

To see: 083 301 3470, email: wpdrake@hotmail.com.

F O R S A L E - K ATA BEACH CENTRE LUXURY 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT 60 SQM. PRICE B2,700,000.

LEASEHOLD. INFO: 084 843 8720.

EMAIL; thewhite housekat a @ gmail. com.

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.

3 Bdrm House for sale Thalang: House for sale. 3 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, chiangmaibel trade@hotmail.com, dream housephuket.com.

room pool villa 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

private pool villas in secure development. Available now.

All beds ensuite. Fully furnished. Rental programme available. B12-20 million.

Contact owner: 085 549 7110.

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.

One of the last pieces of beautiful sea view land between Ao Makham and Ao Yon Road. and infrastructure done B210 million. Call 081 917 0377, 10am-5pm.

Rawai Condo Sale/ Rent: Sell 1.1MB, Full own-

205/34 Soi Thamdee Nanai 6: House for sale in a very good location in the heart of Patong. The house has 3 floors, 3 sleeping rooms, 1 living room, 3 bathrooms and a roof terrace with jacuzzi, garage. Good rental return. Price on request. 084 188 4544.

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.

ership forever-beyond 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.

Chanote title. 412 sq.metre.

2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms.

Extra penthouse with open k itc he n an d sto re r o o m.

Lovely garden, very quiet and cosy place. Access to pool nearby. Price B3.9 mill. negotiable. Telephone 087 881 3062 (After 5/4-13 +47 4739 0581) email: kjellsy vertsen@hotmail.com.

PATONG condos for sale: Beautiful, modern Con-

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.

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 European- designed 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.

Main home: two bed, extended bungalow with outside kitchen, shower and seating salas set in mature, walled, private gardens. Own well, tanks and pumps. Sold, furnished. Will sleep 8+ can be sold with a 30 -year land lease for non-Thai. Price B5.5 nego: Mobile: Eng 082 416 0150.

3BB WiFi internet also.

Hill Land for Sale: Very nice location hill land by the Bangwat Dam, total 60 rai, 96,000 square metre. Contact: Attapong 081 892 0610 (Thai), Jantiwa 081 890 8268 (Eng). e-mail: jantiwa_ j@hotmail. com.

dos/Apartments, furnished, best/quiet locations, garden, s-pool, from 36-67sq metre, sea-city-mountian views, from B2,375. Call 087 819 2162 or caltirol@hotmail.com.

F O R S A L E - K ATA BEACH CENTRE LUXURY 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT 60 SQM. PRICE B3,400,000.

LEASEHOLD. INCLUDE FURNISHINGS.

INFO: 081 788 8280.

EMAIL; thewhite housekata @ gmail. com.

Pa tong Towe r fo r Sale: 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.

House for sale Rawai Soi Orchid: 5 sleeping

rooms, 4 toilets. 3 kitchens EUR / Thai/outside. 3 car places Soi Ruam Na Nachat sale by owner 8.7MB. Tel 084 745 4132, private financing by owner down 2.7MB + 4 yearly payment of 1.5MB

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. Contact K. Peerawat: 084 308 8484.

Email: peerawat200310@hot mail.com

Golf Course Land For Sale: Near British

NEW Studio Apt in Kathu: 30 sqm, 1 bed-

room, kitchen, washing machine, aircon, balcony, fully furnished. Condo with gym, 24hr security, car park. 5 mins to Patong, Loch Palm golf.

Good view. B1.25 million. Call 086 947 1273.

Condominium in Patong for Sale: Less than 1 Km

One + Two Homes for Sale with AC, Rawai: Sea-View ChalongResidence: Dream pool

rooms villa in Rawai. 160sqm i n d o o r. 4 0 0 s q m o u t d o o r.

Shared swimming pool.

Modern villa renovated in 2011-2012. Fully furnished.

For more info: phuketvillajas mine@gmail.com

LUXURY 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT 60 SQM. PRICE B2,900,000.

LEASEHOLD. INFO: 084 843 8720.

EMAIL; thewhite housekata @ gmail. com.

Villa and farmland for sale: A big beautiful house

Mai Khao Prime Location Land: I will sell my

House For Sale In Chalong By Owner:

F O R S A L E - K ATA BEACH CENTRE

Modern Family House for sale: Beautiful 3 bed-

12 Rai Chanode to sell: House for sale near Loch Palm: Three bed-

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 080 143 5294, email: alainterrat@ hotmail.com.

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 & 4 Bed Pool Villas: Laguna/Layan. Luxury

Beautiful Karon Villa:

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from the beach, large 2-bedroom apartment with communal swimming pool and balcony. FREEHOLD (can be foreign owned). B7.5M. Call owner 089 724 7211 or julien@phuket immo.com.

Intl School, 17 rai with public road access. Suitable for resort or housing project. Can be divided. Price: B 4. 5 m p e r r ai. C o nt ac t owner 089 724 7211, email: julien@phuketimmo.com.

Patong Lof t Condo: For sale. 1 bedroom, fully furnished, 67sqm living a r e a. N ow o n ly B2 . 5 m i l lion, reduc ed from B2,9 9 m.Telephone:089 8726 895 Email:jospeder@live.no.

For Sale Rawai Beach Special Twin Villa.

4 suites/studios, 4 bathrooms, pool, large terrace, small garden, living space 400 sqm. Include luxury furnishing 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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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. 3.75 Mill baht per rai negotiable. Call 081 087 9237.

Land for Sale: 400m from Naiyang Beach. 3 Rai 1 Tarangwah. 6.5MB per Rai. Call 087 091 8331 or email chiangmaibeltrade@ hotmail.com for more information.

PATO N G - 2 B E D ROOM TOWNHOUSE: C o m p l ete 18 0 d e g r e e seaviews, 215 metres living area, 2 balconies and 2 huge roof terraces. Quiet location, euro managed develp’t, private swimming pool, car parking and gardens. 087 268 1170, www.phuketreal estatesalesandrentals.com.

Beautiful Naiharn Pool Villa: Secure private hillside

1 Rai Land QUICK Sale in Rawai: Beau-

by Naiharn Beach. Quality furnished throughout. 3 big bedrooms, office, 4 baths, 230 sm plus carport etc. 1050 sm land. New condition. 15x4.6 m pool. Freehold. Nice. 089 727 5407.

tiful land with Chanote for sale, concrete access road, Land plat, electric & facilities ready to build your home.

Direct contact Thai owner K.Dallas (Poy) 089 472 9870 or dchaibut@gmail.com.

Rawa i So i S a l i g a 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 tiltle.

SeaView near Airport: 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.

Karon Hill Condo for sale! Foreign Freehold: Seaview over Karon

Rawai B eachf ront Pool Villa for Sale: Rawai Beach front pool villa for sale. 3 bedrooms, furnished. Contact Siriporn on 089 649 9939.

B e ac h. 10 0 s qm. Li v ing area. 1 bedroom, walk in closets, luxury bathroom, terrace, etc. Fully furnished.

Many upgrades. Luxury furnishings. Only 6.9 million baht. Brokers welcome. Call 086 747 9292 (English) or 0 81 970 520 4 (English/ Thai). Email: claudstrey@ gmail.com.

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 k itc hen (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.

sign villa with a large 9x3 metre pool, 2 floors, nice garden, car park and mountain views, 6 years young, 120 sqm floor, 2 bedrooms, chanote, located close to center & beach. Call 085 473 7812.

la, 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.

Happy Home Apartment for sale: Nice Patong Bangla Building for Sale: B28 mil-

lion, 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.

P a t o n g Fr e e H o l d Condo: Studio condo on

4th floor 50s/m. Huge swimming pool, beautiful gardens, completly renovated new tiles, light, painting, new furniture, kitchen, shower and toilet. 2.5 B/T Eng 085 471 9246, Thai 087 621 3405.

Rawai 6 Bedrooms: Lovely 6 bedroom/office.Inc: 2 bedroom SC disable flat.

Pool, garden, garage, storage. Opp.Tesco in well established area.Priced to sell at B9,000,000. Call 081 270 4291. Email:thailandmls@ gmail.com.

Ocean Front Villa for Sale: Luxury brand new vil-

Pool Villa For Sale Nai Harn: Modern, open de-

Fu r n i s h e d H o u s e for Sale Phuket Villa 5: 3 bedroom furnished

apartment, fully furnished at Rawai. The apartment 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 w w w.happyho meapartmentphuket.webiz. co.th.

house near Kajonkiet School. Secure area, Cul De Sac. Nice gardens, two bathrooms. B3.5M negotiable. Call 081 370 8114 (Thai) 087 889 3838 (Eng), e m a i l:d av i d g e m 9 8 @ h ot mail.com.

Absolute Beachfront - EVA: Set on the beachfront, the ff villa offers uninterrupted sea and island views of the south east coast of Phuket. Situated between t wo 5 star resor ts: Vijitt and EVASON near Laem Kanoi. 081 480 3834, http:// www.facebook.com/Phuket.

Beachfront.

FO R S A L E - K ATA BEACH CENTRE 2 BEDROOMS LUX E 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.

Double your money in 5 years!: New Year special promotion: Studio in brand new, world class, east-coast development. Never seen on Phuket; Amazing luxury at real prices. Call 080 882 1377, email: beachprojects1@gmail.com.

Pool Villa in Marina: Ready to move in, single storey pool villa with 3 bedrooms situated in the impressive Park Residence s e c t o r of B o at L a g o o n Marina. Impressively constructed along a modern Asian theme. 076 238 948, email: marketing@phuketproper tytrip.com.

Golf V i ew V illa For Sale: Near British International School, state-of-the-art villa overlooking the Loch Palm Golf Course: 4 bedrooms + maid’s room; 485 m2 built on 1,860 m2 land. B28million.

Contact owner 089 724 7211.

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. 0 9 0 487 8 08 4, utaipan@yahoo.com.

Sea-View Contemporary Pool Villla: Located near Phuket town. Land: 855sq.m. House: 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.

Seaview Townhouse Patong: Between the city and 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. andamanhills@gmail.com.

Apar tment on Golf Course: Golf View, Kathu.

Tastefully renovated large (83m2) apartment 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.

3-Bed House - Sale or Rent: Sun Palm Village, Chalong. 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

Townhouse Chalong Bargain!: Town house on 3 levels with mezanine, 112 sqm, fully furnished, 3 BR, 3 bathrooms, 2 kitchens, 3 air con. Tasteful western decoration, MUST see, HP English 0854415115. Thai 081 555 1230.

Patong Condo: Makes a good condo deal now. 1-bedroom corner condo 56sqm, fully furnished. Only 1.99 mil.

Normal price 2.6 mil. 10mins walk to beach and Bangla Road. Tel: 089 872 6895 or jospeder@live.no.

Seaview 1 BDRM New Condo Patong: Stunning seaview, 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.

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6.1 Rai Land for Sale: 6.1 rai (10,000sq metre).

- 5 m i nute s to N a i t h o n 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.

Cheapest Seaview land for Sale: Panorama view

Land Closed to Thanyapura /PIA: Half Seaview Land For Sale: Land located right in the heart of Chalong with panorama view of Chalong pier. Close to 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.

of sea view golf course view mountain view land for sale.

Near Mission Hills Golf course.

6rai chanote tiltle. B3 million per rai. 087 675 9555, email:pee_ bang56@hotmail.com.

Reduced for Quick Sale: Studio condo at The Point near Lotus, Big C, Central. Fully furnished. Great views 6th floor. Cost B2.8M Baht. Reduced to B2.25M. Call 087 889 3838 or 081 370 8114. Email: davidgem98@ hot mail.com

Rai 1.3MB, 1 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.

Seaview Land Patong: Prime Location 35M Lake Front: Fantastic

Land for Sale: 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.

views over the 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.

Absolute Beach Front Land: S o ngk la dist r ic t near new deep sea por t.

4.5 Rai divided into 7 Chanote plots. Reluctant sale.

B4.9M the lot. Email: jmic chia@yahoo.c om or c all 087 276 0529.

BEST SEAVIEW LAND-EVER!

Rawai Great Buying:

www.phuket-land-sale.com

Beachfront land for sale: 2 rai absolute amazing

Pa klok L and O nly B7,999/Sqwah: Only

beachfront, few min boat ride from Phuket, facing west to sunset and views of Phuket.

B13 million per rai +66 (0) 86 278 8300 or izzy.serenity group@gmail.com.

6 rai Hilltop Land for sale: Near Mission Hills golf

1 Rai Sea-View Land: Opposite Wat Chalong on the way up to the hill, Chanote, ca. 36 m x 45 m, sophisticated hillside project, proratable, B8.5 mil direct to owner: 085 65 44 0 11 or 089 40 40 737.

club, may split into 3 x 2 rai seperate plots, B4.2 million per rai, full chanote, water/elec. sea/mountain views. 087 978 5804 (Eng).

B7,999/Sq wah at Paklok, Chanote, Mountain View, 200m from main road, 11 km from monument and 4 km to Mission Hill. Interested/ Wanted larger size, CALL 084 305 6667, email: mari sar1978@hotmail.com

Donsak Beachfront Land 3 Rai: 67 metres absolute beach frontage, fully infrastructured, ready to build. Close to ferry going to Koh Samui. Chanote title. 6.6MB for all. Email: nhoj0512@hotmail.com.

Hills. 3/4 of rai in small community, very quiet and private, close to all services, 10 min to school, airport, beach, golf, Tesco B2.5M. 087 276 0529 for info.

Amazing Sea View Penthouse: Panoramic

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.

Ocean Front Land: 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: mon tha_phuket@yahoo.com.

sea view, 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.

Chanote title at Cherng Talay / Pasak7 (Phuket - Surin Beach aerea) Phone 090 487 8084. Email: utaipan@ yahoo.com.

Patong/Kalim sea view condo: Freehold,

2nd floor, corner unit, stunning sea view, pool, car park, security, best location, ca. 110sqm, 2 bedroom, German kitchen, all new, terrace, only a few metres to beach, B10.6 M 081 824 1385.

Rawai Half Rai for Sale: Land plot 100 metres to Rawai Beach, about 850 sq.metre.

Chanote title deed, private road with sewer, 3 phases electricity and wall around the land. Email: rawai.steen@ gmail.com, call 080 530 6880.

Apartment for sale in Patong: Apartment for SALE in 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.

Hill Land for Sale: Very Land Plot for Sale:

Lovely house with 2 bedrooms or separate SC flat downstairs.Well ventilated with natural light in pristine condition. Distant sea views.

B5,500,000. Call 081 270 4291 or thailandmls@gmail. com. See phuketpremium realestate.com.

Land For Sale: Mission

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.

Two parcels of superior land 11 rai. Inc seaview. Main road frontage. Ideal for resort or condominiums. B150 M. Negotiable. (Thai) 081 370 8114 or (Ger) 081 892 1108. Email: davidgem98@hotmail.com.

nice location hill land by the Bangwat Dam, total 60 rai, 96,000 square metre. Contact: Attapong 081 892 0610 (Thai), Jantiwa 081 890 8268 (Eng). e -mail: jantiwa _ j@ hotmail.com.

Patong Condo for Sale: My condo is ready for immediate sale located at Lotus Residence, a small 3-storey boutique condo of only 12 apartments total.

It is located on a southern hillside above Patong Bay. Call 084 436 2540.

1 Rai Chalong Pier Land Sale: Reduc ed Price. 1,483 sqm (0.927 Rai).

Chanote Title, New Survey.

Public road, electric and well. 450m walk to Chalong Pier. B8.9 million. 085 784 0209. chalong1000@gmail. com. www.sites.google.com/ site/1483meters.

Land At Kathu For Sale: Only 15 min. to Patong and only 10 min. to Phuket Town, located at Kathu, total 141 sqw or 564 sqm with ready public utility.

Call 081 892 0610, 081 472 0770, tan_ohio@hotmail.com.

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US based network marketing company work in over 140 countries is expanding and opening now the market in Thailand.

Dewa Naiyang Beach Phuket

Sea Bees Diving is looking for a reliable and

Director of Sales ( Bangkok or Phuket Based) Our ideal candidate will: - Female / Male - Foreigner / Thai - Previous experience in similar position for boutique resort - Bachelor's Degree in Business / Marketing or related fields - Fluent in both spoken and written English - Excellent computer skill, internet literate and social media skills Interested candidates are invited to submit their CV together with applicable certificates to:

responsible person, Western or Thai, for our Head Office in Chalong. Applicants should be fluent in English and other languages (German preferred) with good communication, sales skills and willing to work in a highly professional & diverse team. Flexible, able to work under pressure and be service-orientated is a must. This position is long-term & with a full-time contract. Please send your CV & recent photo to: office@sea-bees.com

DEWA PHUKET 65 Moo. 1 T.Sakoo, A.Thalang, Phuket 83110.

Tel.+66 76 372 300. Fax. +66 76 372 399.

E-mail: Lars@tri-asia.com.

Website: www.dewaphuket.com.

Live in Housekeeper Wanted: Exceptional

DaVinci Restaurant in Nai Harn: Thai nationality only. Waitresses 2 positions, Bartender 1 position. Experience and good English will be an advantage. Good salary and benefits. Contact Khun Jana 086 947 5197, jana@davinciphuket. com.

conditions for housekeeper who loves dogs and speaks English. Separate one bedroom apartment with everything. Has to be able to live in full time with us. Call on 080 690 5248.

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

Island Based Positions Vacant Front Officer Manager Resort Host (Receptionist) Excursion Guide Spa Receptionist

Profile At least Vocational certificate to Bachelor degree At least 3-5 year experience in the field Strong result oriented, people management, and leadership skills Strong in English communication skill, and computer literate Strong result oriented, people management, and leadership skills Strong in analytical, problem solving skills, and execution of work

Fringe Benefits Good Salary + Sharing Service Charge Group Insurance, Social Security, Workmen Compensation Duty meals the staff canteen / Officer Check at hotel restaurant as per position category Private dress / Uniform Laundry Transportation from/to Phuket / Krabi – Resort for round trip by ferry Accommodation as per your position category at resort

Zeavola Resort Phi Phi Island SLH member

The Zeavola is the only 5 star resort on Phi Phi Island and is currently highly successful.

In order to improve our performance further, the Zeavola Family is seeking applications from dynamic and talented individuals, who share our passion for providing excellent customer service.

You should be highly motivated, confident and enthusiastic about assisting the team to reach new levels of service quality and financial success.

Income full time.... up to 50.00 Baht per week.

Required: Must have good English and computer skills, Skype, independent thinking, positive attitude, willing to learn.

Send CV and recent photo to phuketgeneral@gmail.com or call Mr. Velan 080 692 4084 (English, German, Croatia speaking)

Get on board and start your financial freedom today!

Wedding Sales Manager: We are looking for

Financial Controller.

His/her main task will be taking care of all financial matters of Siam Palm Residence companies. Requirements: A few years’ experience in accounting position. Proficient in English (speaking, reading and writing). Good computer skills. Must also be willing to assist in the hotel’s front office/ reception. Service-minded, as he or she will be in direct contact with (potential) guests in the front office. Salary: negotiable (based on education and experience).

Phuket Brasserie Jobs Recuitment: -Waitress Salary B9,000. Service charge B4,000. If you worked in hotels before it will be an advantage.

Native English Teacher:

Contact 076 210 511.

Send CV and photo to linkwanjai@me.com.

- To teach class of 9-12, children ages 6-9.

- Must have experience and degree.

- Start April 22.

- Chalong, 8am-4pm - Monday - Friday.

Mob: 080 624 7060, email: buds.span@ yahoo.com.

Sales Managers And Reps Wanted: Club Tropic al Asia is 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@clubtropical lifestyle.com.

To achieve this, a great part of our work goes toward following the latest trends in the design world by constantly updating, attending seminars and trade fairs as well as continuously researching new distinguishing products to ensure the most successful outcome of each and every project.

an enthusiastic wedding coordinator/executive to join our F&B team. Experienced in organizing weddings with excellent English skills is required recruit@paresa resorts.com.

Senior ESL Teacher Needed: PHBGTU char-

-Bartender

Please send your resume with expected salary to: info@ siampalmresidence.com For more information call Khun Joy at 0 816 930 195.

ity is seeking experienced Senior Teacher to teach, manage teaching staf f, and develop curriculum for practical, quality English language programme in 2 government schools. Email: info@phukethasbeengood tous.org.

O f f i c e A s s i s t a n t Russian sales: Two needed: Mobile Car Rent- Chefs are now looking for al is looking for a flexible office assistant/receptionist with driving license.English knowledge required.

Work location is at Boat Lagoon. Contact nui@mobile carrent.com.

a outgoing sales person of Russian nationality. There is a good opportunity for the right person with an opportunity to get a high salary and good commission.

Email: jon@twochefs.com.

Class Act Media is southern Thailand's most comprehensive media company, incorporating Phuket’s leading English newspaper ‘The Phuket News’, Phuket’s leading English radio station ‘Live 89.5’,‘The Phuket News TV’, a host of publications & services including ‘The Phuket Colouring book’, & ‘Phuket Ticket Master’. WE ARE CURRENTLY SEEKING

3D ARTIST 1 POSITION Qualifications: At least 2 year experience of 3D modeling software (Rhinoceros or Blender or 3DSMax with VRay will be preferred) Able to use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to create enhanced texture for the rendering Good in both written and spoken English Prepared to learn new things Able to work with team Able to work under pressure and time constraint

Working Place: Cherngtalay, Monday – Friday, 9 am – 6 pm

Interested applicants should e-mail their CV/Resume to: info@a2zen.net Please indicate the position you are applying for in the SUBJECT line of your e-mail, also attach your CV in English ONLY, a recent photo, expected salary and date that you could start.

Phuket's Live 89.5 is looking for

FREELANCE RADIO PRESENTERS This is a great opportunity for someone to develop their overall skills in not only radio but other media platforms such as TV presentation as we have just launched our own local channel.

What we require from you is simple: ● Must be an experienced English speaking presenter.

(This position is is open to Thai Nationals as well). ● Must be aged between 25-45 male or female. ● Must be able to use Adobe Audition and Simian.

This is a freelance position ONLY and will be paid per shift. The company is expanding therefore opportunities for full time positions may arise in the future.

Please read all the above text before applying and we will only contact those who we think meet the criteria set.

Only Thai Citizen will be considered.

Please send your CV to hr@zeavola.com preecha@zeavola.com or call Khun Preecha Onkong under 075-627-000 for an appointment.

Human Resources Department Resort: 11 Moo 8 Laem Tong, Koh Phi Phi, Ao Nang, Muang, Krabi 81000 Thailand Tel. 075-627000 ext. 1400 or 1401 and Fax. 075-627025

Income part time.... up to 10.000 Baht per week.

Siam Palm Residence Co., Ltd. is looking for an experienced Accountant/

A2Zen Consulting Ltd. bases its Interior Design vision on innovation. Its highly qualified team of Italian Interior Designers and Interior Architects are constantly riding the wave of novelty and originality to ensure that every project comes to life emerging for its exclusive personality.

Zeavola Resort Phi Phi Island SLH member

Looking for serious and positive people to work with us and want a long term business relation. You can work from home or any place you have access to internet. Worlds first instant pay plan.

Interested?

Contact: manager@phuketliveradio.com for more details.

A2Zen Consulting Ltd. 125/3 Moo 5 Bangtao Place, Cherngtalay, Thalang, Phuket 83110

Class Act Media Co., Ltd. 99/7 Moo 1 T. Kathu A. Kathu Phuket 83120 Tel: 076 612 550-2 Fax: 076 612 553

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Sunseeker 58 Manhattan For SWAP or SALE

4 cabins 3 bedrooms fully equipped located in Boat lagoon. With excellent place FREE for 7 years.

Price 12 million or EXCHANGE for a Villa or Apartment in Rawai, Kata, Karon.

For English - Email: maurice.phuket@gmail.com or SMS 081 788 8280.

For Russian - Ms. Oxana Email: phuket.lux@gmail.com or SMS: 080 529 0726.

+66 81 892 4804, gordon_asia@hotmail.com

BOATS & YACHTS Charter Boat: 62ft Hat-

Sale New Boat SR-21 Finished: Only B330,000.

Kawasaki 750Sxi Jet Ski Pro: Stand up. Trick c o nver si on k it , R& D r i de plate, Race bars with finger throttle,Hydro-turf floor mat with foot-holds, Very reliable, fast, and great fun. Very good condition. Contact: 087 265 8002.

Samran Marine. We are professional boat builders, factory located in Pattaya, This model is SR-21 fully finished. We can deliver to your place. “This price excludes engine.” Call 081 782 0921. Email: nungnapong@ hotmail.com.

teras Style yacht, 35 + 4 crew, large upper deck includes website: www.char terboatsphuket.com, price B5,370,000 or best offer. email: eastcoastefi@aol. com or 087 889 8044.

Speedboat for sale Hull Only: Excellent condition, 12.18m Fiberglass Bowrider, 12mm thick hull, 600ltr fuel tank, 150ltr water tank, licensed for 25 passengers, storage area, manual head, 5 years old, B1.4 million o.n.o, contact 076 362 300 Ext.1801.

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.

A Steal For A Quick Sale: 2007 Italian demo yacht Cranchi 47f t Hard Top. Fully loaded with Tropical air con, genset, Electrical winches, garage, roof, Raymarine Premium Navy, BBQ, Ice Maker, 3 Fridges, “Bose” Sound, Neon light, Twin 570HP with reliable shaft drive, under 300 hours, Brand New Condition. Euro385,000. Call: 089 971 0278, eddyelan@yahoo. com.

4 0F T Steel Cut ter Sloop: Ready to cruise.

Centrecockpit. Safe, strong German design. New Sails, 44HP Yanmar Engine, 6 Berths, solar, wind generator, BBQ, dinghy&outboard.

AUD$110K. 085 378 0498, yacht.antaia@gmail.com.

Ski Boat for Sale: Glas6.5M RIB: New Hypalon tubing and blue cover. On a fiber glass V shaped hull. 240HP Mercury Giving comfortable cruise at 25-30Kts and 40 Kts Max Ideal for family day trips to beach skiing etc. 081 273 6959.

tron Carlson design, Thai registered, 120ltr fuel tank, 200hp Yamaha engine in excellent condition. Includes trailer, boat cover, wakeboard pole, ropes and ski equipment. Call 081 894 5822, email: mark breitis@gmail.com.

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cover, Garmin deep sounder and fish finder brand new. Call 081 477 5637 THAI; 086 283 0082 ENG, RUS.

KOH LIPE Dive Center for sale: URGENT SALE Speedboat Yamaha 200HP4s, Coltri Sub compressor, Nitrox system, 16 BCD, 11 regulators, 32 tanks, website, renewed TAT, buildings, 5 rooms for rent. Asking price 120,000 USD. 084 399 8978.

Sale New Boat SR-18 Finished: Only B280,000.

Samran Marine. We are professional boat builders, factory located in Pattaya,.

This model is SR-18 fully finished. We can delivery to you place. “This price exclude engine”. Call 081 782 0921. Email: nungnapong@ hotmail.com.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

Restaurant /Guesthouse for sale: Located in Kamala. 40 metres to the beach. 10 rooms with full furnishings. Restaurant 54 seat. Price B8 million. For more information call 081 396 0033.

5 In 1 Business For Sale: Good location, 1 1/4 Rai. 1) Jungle bar, 3 TVs, 2 pool tables, seating: 65 pax, parking: 15-16 vehicles, good business. 2) Beauty salon: fully equipped. 3) Massage pallor. 4) Restaurant. 5) Indoor pub: fully equipped, stage, seating: 70 pax. Lease for 8 years+6 months left on lease.

Sale: 5.7 MB. Negotiable!

Contact five.business@yahoo. com, 091 654 1720, 087 892 6204, (Russian) 085 709 9191 (Thai) (English) 091 654 1720.

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

Patong Massage Shop For Sale: Cosy renovat-

Bar for sale: Very Busy

ed 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. chum po26@ hotmail.com.

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.

Business for sale: Busi-

E xc ept ional Yacht For Sale: Beautifully maintained Wauquiez Yacht 41FT. Specs and photos: w w w.w a u q u i e z f o r s a l e . blogspot.com. Robert: 087 632 8259 or email: camina ta40@hotmail.com. Priced to sell: $199K US. Can be seen in Phuket.

ness only or business and property. Est 2003. Repeat business from big data base, non tourist related soft furnising manufacturing and retail business. Genuine enquires only, no tyre kickers. For further info email samos1941@ gmail.com.

2 Rai, Cherngtalay: Speed boat for sale!

Now B290,000: 6 metre body Bayliner, 200 HP (EFI) Mercury engine, Yamaha 5 HP back up engine. Blue book. Including: trailer, 2 anchors, and

25 year lease for sale. Well situated in a fast developing and sought after area close to Laguna. Some fixed rent applies. Contact 087 884 0644 for more info.

Cement Production Plant: Ready Mixed Concrete Company’s factory.

446.92 Horse power. Output of workers in the production of 22 people per day at an average yield of about 100 Q/Day (B1,800/Q) average revenue per day for about B180,000. Manufacture of ready-mixed concrete. Can continue immediately. Just buy a cement truck then start delivery. Ready water source to be used for production.

Address: Moo. 4 T. Maikhao Thalang Dist. Phuket 83110.

Land Size: 20 rai 2 Ngan and 56 talang wah. Price: B130 Million. Contact: Mr. Lee, mobile: 081 803 7189.

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List your advert for FREE at thephuketnews.com BUSINESS OPP. CONT. Sport Club for Sale

by Owner: Set on 4 rai land with 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 SERVICES

Sale Bar, Hotel + 1 Shop Rawai Beach: Land plot 700 sq metre+building+10 bed+10 bath+2 restaurants.

New renovated. Private financing by owner. Down B2 million+13yearly payment of 1MB. Own forever title land 100 metre to Rawai landing pier. 084 242 8914, rawai4@ yahoo.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

Mazda 2 For Sale: One year old 7,500km. automatic, smart lock, park distance control, air bags, CD stereo, controlled on steering wheel B490,000 moving must sell, contact Thai/English: 090 165 0875.

Mini Cooper S JCW GP for sale: Only 2000 made

Farang Food Paradise: 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.

CAR FOR RENT

Toyota Vios For Sale: 2007 lady owner perfect condition B359,000. Tel 081 125 1873, gordon_asia@hotmail. com.

Restaurant / Guesthouse: Established restaurant covering two shop houses with private terrace and owners apartment or 8 room guesthouse. Freehold (no lease/rent). Includes all equipment and newly renovated kitchen. Contact for details. Projected ROI 4 years. Call 081 956 3166.

as new condition, white, mag wheels, air con, CD stereo controlled from steering wheel, 1 year 1st class insurance.

B550,000 ONO, call 087 276 0529.

worldwide. Perfect condition, 2006, 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.

CHILDCARE

care facility. High- quality, time-proven schedule and curriculum. Now in brandnew purpose -built school.

Experienced native English teachers to teach ages 1 1/28. Mon- Fri 8am- 5pm. Bus service available from Patong, Karon, Kata, Phuket, Rawai and Chalong. Tel: 076 384 638, 080 624 7060. Website: www.buds-phuket.com.

CHILDREN’S CLUB

Lady Car for sale: Nissan

Buds Nursery: Phuket’s

Honda jazz for rent with insurance and delivery service. Call 081 607 8567.

Tida 2010 model, automatic,

oldest international child-

Baht. Country club 500,000 Baht. Buyer pays for transfer.

083 388 5566. Email borst. jg@gmail.com

Blue Canyon Golf Members h i p: Blue Canyon Golf Lifetime membership for sale! Excellent saving!

Call 084 052 2277.

FunStart: Family sports and leisure club. Swimming/ golf/ playcentre/ gaming arcade. Contact 076 203 185, 087 882 5544. See funstart phuket.com.

CLUBS & MEMBERSHIPS Singapore Club Phuket: Calling all Singa-

New Honda Jazz: New

Golf Membership for Sale: Loch Palm 500,000

poreans in Phuket to join Singapore Club Phuket. Contact Robin on 081 803 7189.

Clubs & Memberships: Club Asia Fitness, Royal Phuket City Hotel - Offers Zumba/LesMills/ Yoga Classes / Weight Training / Sauna/Steam/Swimming pool-all inclusive. For a free trial workout come along and join the action. Call 076 354 027, 087 275 3614, www.club asiaphuket.com.

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Clearance Sale

7th Floor Suites (Hotel) Building For Sale

* Liquidation Goods *Unpaid Storage *Repossessions

Price total 38 million Baht (9.50.000.euro) include chanote and Thai company.

For serious interest email: thewhitehousekata@gmail.com for RUSSIAN ; Ms. Oxana Email: phuket.lux@gmail.com

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS FOR SALE

Office Furniture, Bathroom ware, Jacuzzis, Water Tanks, Motor Bikes and more

2 mast 17 metre (50 c.v. Yanmar engine) excellent condition Fully equipped located in Chalong. Valuations price B15 million.

Price NOW! 9.8 million - OR TO EXCHANGE. For a villa/apartment in Rawai, Kata, Karon Phuket.

Main Highway Thalang 081 125 1873 - 081 892 4804

Email maurice.phuket@gmail.com or SMS 081 788 8280 For Russian contact Oxana 080 529 0726 or Email: phuket.lux@gmail.com

MOVING & STORAGE

Canon 5D Mark 2: For sale, Canon 5D Mark 2 body, B 25,000, Call Dan on 084 841 7339.

M o t o r b i k e Tr a i l e r with Tow bar: Profes-

VALCUCINE for sale: VA LC U C I N E s h ow r o o m kitchen for sale due to renovation. 3 years old / good condition / Walnut material with Stainless Steel worktop /hob / hood sink and tap. Please call English (084 240 6688) and Thai (081 484 2565).

sionally 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.

Health Food: Online health food in Thailand. Good karma, all natural, healthy, and organic products. Please contact 082 276 1675, www.good karmathailand.com.

PET ADOPTION Why buy a pet?: Soi Dog Foundation have over 300 beautiful dogs and puppies available for adoption. Fully vaccinated and sterilised. Contact 085 574 4258 or email: cindy@soidog.org.

Phuket Cooking A c a d e my: C o o k i n g and baking classes have never been more fun using our top-class 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 w w w. phuket-cooking-academy. com or call 081 821 4064.

Sailboat for Sale/or TRADE

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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.

COOKING CLASS

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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.

PERSONAL SERVICES

PREMIUM: PAY ONCE UNTIL SOLD B2,799+VAT.

All range of pool table, snooker table, foosball and game machine. We Sell, Rent, Profit share. Commercial and home use. We are a local company that you can trust. facebook. com/thailandpoolta. 081 823 4627.

Dining Pool Table: “Dining Pool Table” by Thailand Pool Tables. Our good combine and great design dining pool table. Convertible in just a second! Come complete with accessories. Call now 081 823 4627.

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Premium Pool Tables:

V isa 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.

SPORTING GOODS & EXERCISE

PAY ONCE UNTIL SOLD WILL RUN ONLINE AND IN EVERY PRINT EDITION UNTIL YOU HAVE SOLD. INCLUDES ADDITIONAL 9 PICTURES ONLINE.

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Backgammon: Players Wanted. Tel: 081 577 8443, email: phuketconnection@ yahoo.com

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W E A R E LO O K I N G FOR A NEW HOME Several rescued dogs, Cute, cuddly & groomed ready to be loved.

For more photos visit www.doggieheaven.net Or contact: Sherin.peace@gmail.com

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Print upgrades:

Extra lines B99

Kite Surf Equipment for Sale: 2 new boards,

Urgent banner B199 Box B199

FSR Carbon MTB, Super top spec - Brain F+R Shocks, SRAM XX drive train, Hope Race brakes, Mavix SLR wheels. Large size (180 cm+). Midlife crisis dream machine. B125,000. 081 737 0722.

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Online upgrades:

Specialized Carbon Full Suss: Stumpjumper

never used. 2 Kites, used 2-3 times. New price was more then 200,000 Baht.

Sell altogether for 100,000 B a h t . Fo r s i n g l e i t e m s please call: 086 747 9292 (English) or 081 970 520.

Colour Background B199

Colour Headlines B199

INCLUDE NOVOSTI PHUKETA (FREE TRANSLATION TO RUSSIAN) B1,699+VAT.

Football Table for Sale:

PET HOSPITAL

DEADLINE: MONDAY 11.59PM (MIDNIGHT) FOR THAT WEEKS ISSUE

Chaofah Pet Hospital:

Hand this in at agent shops, our office or fax: 076 612 553

8/28–29 Moo 9, Chaofah East Road. Contact 076 283 365.

Brand new “Heavy duty” Soccer/Football Table for rent and sell. Suitable for bars and hotels. Call us now at 081 823 4627, 085 782 1200.

Life Fitness Walking Machine: Brand new retail B150,000. Sell for B70,000.

Call 0872760529.

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Close race to finish in Super Six FOOTBALL

Phuket Super Six League

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ith only three rounds to go in the Super Six League, three teams are now within one point of the top of Division 1, while two more teams are three points behind, but with one game in hand. It has all the makings of a thrilling season finale.

Division 1 Holiday Inn FC v Morning Star: 2 – 8 Although Morning Star were missing several players, they had no problems with Holiday Inn. In fact, Morning Star started the game 5 against 6 and found themselves up 4 – 1 already with one less player on the pitch.

Pita Bar Phuketeers v Shakers FC: 6 – 3 This was going to be an intense game, with both teams needing points for their campaigns.

Although the Phuketeers were missing a few players, they still managed to neutralise the Shakers, and pull off an impressive 6-3 win.

Nanai Boys v Joy Dive FC: 5–2 The surprise of the evening, as Nanai Boys grabbed a 6 – 3 win against table-toppers Joy Dive FC. Nanai Boys, with only a single win in the season before this game, managed to find the correct tactics to beat Joy Dive, who looked lost on the night.

Banana FC A v Phuket Condos & Homes: 5 – 6

Division 1

Team

MP

W

D

L

F

GD

Pts

1

Joy Dive FC

11

6

2

3

52

16

20

2

Morning Star

11

5

4

2

42

9

19

3

Pita Bar Phuketeers

11

5

4

2

31

6

19

4

Banana FC A

9

5

1

3

43

5

16

5

Phuket Condos & Homes

10

5

1

4

44

2

16

6

Nanai Boys

10

2

4

4

29

-5

10

7

Shakers FC

11

1

4

6

34

-11

7

8

Holiday Inn FC

9

1

2

6

15

-22

5

MP

W

D

L

F

GD

Pts

Division 2

Nanai Boys grabbed a suprise 6–3 win against Division 1 leaders Joy Dive.

Phuket Condos & Homes remain on target, pulling closer to the rest of the pack with a narrow 6-5 win against in-form team Banana FC. Division 2 Seduction v Irish Times: 0 – 6 Irish Times showed impressive form with a 6–0 win against previous favorites Seduction, leapfrogging them on the table.

Irish Times are now one point behind PSV at the top of the table, but with one game still in hand.

Big Apple & Pita v Bat Fire: 6–1 No worries for Big Apple & Pita as they racked up a solid 6-1 win against table jumbos Bat Fire.

Phuket Serenity Villas v Blue D Zine PSU FC: 1 – 3 Blue D Zine had a surprise win against Division 2 leaders Phuket Serenity Villas, who remain top of table, but now only a single point ahead of Irish Times.

Team 1

Irish Times

11

7

2

2

44

18

23

2

Phuket Serenity Villas

12

6

3

3

49

6

21

3

Seduction

11

6

2

3

48

7

20

4

Big Apple & Pita

11

4

3

4

37

5

15

5

Blue D Zine PSU FC

12

3

5

4

39

-3

14

6

Mr. Moo

9

3

1

5

34

1

10

7

Atmanjai

10

3

1

6

35

-12

10

8

Bat Fire

12

2

3

7

37

-22

9

Division 3

Team

MP

W

D

L

F

GD

Pts

1

Fruit Ninjas

11

7

1

3

45

14

22

2

Rose United

11

6

3

2

62

22

21

3

Russia United

11

5

3

3

43

4

18

4

FC Raya Group Asia

11

5

2

4

44

10

17

5

Gang Junior

11

4

4

3

43

4

16

6

Two Chefs

11

5

1

5

34

-11

16

7

Crown Plaza Panwa FC

11

2

1

8

25

-21

7

8

Banana FC B

11

2

1

8

29

-22

4

Division 3 Rose United v Gang Junior: 3–6 Rose United lost the chance to go to the top of the division after losing 3–6 to in-form team Gang Junior, who continued their climb up the table.

FC Raya Group Asia v Fruit Ninjas: 3 – 1 Fruit Ninjas title intentions were jeopardised when they lost to Raya Group, who remain within striking distance of the

top of the table.

Two Chefs v Russia United: 6–1 Two Chefs continue their form, this time with an impressive 6–1 win against previous favorites Russia United.

Banana FC B v Crown Plaza Panwa FC: 3 – 4 Crown Plaza managed to lift themselves out of the bottom spot with a hard-earned 4 – 3 win against struggling Banana FC B.

New Phuket FC centre for Chalong FOOTBALL

AFTER AN IMPRESSIVE start to the season under Chairman Pamuke Atchariyachay, Phuket FC have revealed they are building a new sports training centre near Wat Chalong.

Currently under construction, the Phuket FC Sport Complex will include an Academy Centre, a full-sized football field, a swimming pool, a fitness centre, and physical therapy facilities.

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The site of the new Phuket FC complex near Wat Chalong.

Work is already underway on the new sporting complex, at a large site in front of Chaofathani Village, along West

Chaofa Rd. At this stage the ground has been levelled and a European football-standard drainage system is being built

beneath the future pitch, before the turf is laid at the end of the month.

The entire Sport Complex expected to be complete by the end of the year.

It has also been revealed that Phuket FC is currently negotiating with sponsors and investors to build a new home stadium.

It is “likely” to be on Chao Fa West near the Honda dealership, but its construction will be dependent upon Phuket FC’s promotion to the Thai Premier League.

The great ‘line’ debate CAST AWAY Jim Stewart editor@thephuketnews.com

HELLO ONCE AGAIN MY ofishinadoe friends.

As there has been a dearth of amusing anecdotes recently, and very little happening on the local fishing front apart from Short Fin Tuna (Bonito or Skipjack) and Long Fin Tuna (Albacore), I decided this month’s article would have to be a bit more serious, by necessity.

After being out on a few friends’ boats, I thought I might join the “Mono or Braid” fishing line debate, and save some of you fisheroos out there some misery.

While experienced fishermen will tell you “Braid is best” because it is thinner and therefore less visible in the water, and has no “give” or stretch – which means the angler has a much better feel of what is going on at the sharp end of the line – I feel the part-time fisheroo should know both sides of the story.

I am a Big Game fanatic, and as such take out amateur anglers with a view to catching

the biggest beastie out there with the least problems, and that’s where Mono (monofilament) comes in.

The more lines you troll the better chance you have of hooking the big ones. But it also means (especially in “lumpy” weather) that there is a greater chance of tangled lines, commonly known as “knitting.”

Mono is much cheaper (and therefore amenable to my Scottish upbringing) and easier to untangle, while Braid is a total nightmare to untie and usually needs cutting; the subsequent re-rigging and the time involved without hooks in the water is time lost fishing.

So for trolling I believe in using nothing but Mono – for “Big Game” don’t believe the advertising, which should be targeted at single line “bottom” and freshwater fishing.

This month’s tip: when making Tuna “belly strip” dead bait, always use Short Fin Tuna as this bait seems to holds together and moves through the water much better than its Long Fin cousins.

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‘Fire Power’ too hot for Islanders FOOTBALL

Yamaha League 1 / Thai Division 1 Team

Kazira Hans editor@thephuketnews.com

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n extra-time goal by “Fire Power” PTT Rayong FC at Surakul Stadium on Saturday (March 23) knocked Phuket FC out of the Toyota League Cup competition in an early round.

Both the teams had fielded “alternative” squads for the knockout League Cup fixture, ref lecting the importance placed by both sides on the Yamaha League 1 games.

PTT Rayong FC had enjoyed a week’s break before the game and were more than ready to rumble. Still, their first 11 this game was their “B team”, without big stars like Noguchi Pinto, Keerati Kiawsombut, Pipat Tonkanya or Paisal Pohna.

The Islanders’ Coach Paniphol also decided to shuffle his first 11, dropping local hero Kampon from goal and sending on former PTT Rayong goalie Adisak Duangsri, and keeping Nonthaphan on the bench while sending Ake-artit Somjit out to the left winger position.

Coach Paniphol’s 4-1-4-1 formation still left Brazilian Dudu Purcino as the lone striker, as in their last game.

PTT Rayong packed a

Phuket FC midfielder “Junior” Juninho takes a tackle. strong striking force and pushed forward right from the kick-off, pressing deep into Phuket territory.

But they rarely made it past Phuket’s strong back four and new fan favourite Assawin in defensive midfield.

The visitors had their first scoring opportunity early in the game, when their captain whipped a ball forward to a teammate who shot from just outside Phuket’s penalty area, but the attempt went wide.

Overall the first quarter of the game was tight, as both teams tried not to make

mistakes.

PTT Rayong’s defence tried to isolate Dudu from the rest of Phuket FC, which meant that the two Brazilians, Dudu and Judinho “Junior” Guimaroat midfield, had to retreat to find the ball and got tackled as soon as they did find it.

Junior had a close scoring opportunity when he sped past PTT’s defence line and scrambled for a shot– but the goalkeeper tipped the ball away with his fingers just before it curled in.

In the last few minutes

MP

W

L

D

1

Singtarua FC

3

3

0

0

4

9

2

Bangkok FC

3

2

1

0

3

7

3

Air Force United FC

2

2

0

0

2

6

4

Phuket FC

3

1

2

0

2

5

5

BBCU FC

3

1

2

0

2

5

6

PTT Rayong FC

2

1

1

0

3

4

7

Krabi FC

3

1

1

1

2

4

8

Rayong United

3

1

1

1

1

4

9

Nakon Rachasima FC

3

1

1

1

0

4

10

Trat FC

3

1

1

1

0

4

11

Saraburi FC

3

1

1

1

0

4

12

Siam Navy

3

1

1

1

0

4

13

Nakhon Pathom United

3

0

2

1

-1

2

14

Khon Kaen FC

3

0

2

1

-2

2

15

Rayong FC

3

0

1

2

-2

1

16

Sriracha FC

3

0

1

2

-4

1

17

TTM

3

0

1

2

-5

1

18

Ayutthaya FC

3

0

1

2

-5

1

before first half extra time, Nene Bi Tra Sylvestre pushed forward and had an opportunity for a header from a cross, but the shot was not strong enough to beat the PTT keeper.

Dudu was finding more space by this point and he crossed a ball from the right sideline for Junior in front of the goal, but a PTT defender just beat Junior to the ball.

A minute later Assawin Boonmun tried for goal with a powerful direct shot from 22 yards, but it was headed out by a PTT defender.

Dudu had more opportunities in the second half, but his first attempt was stopped

by PTT’s keeper just before

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the ball rolled across the line.

A few minutes later he tried again with a close-range header – the goalkeeper had lost his bearing and the goal was clear, but Dudu’s header went over the crossbar and missed the goal by inches.

Coach Panipol then sent on assistance for Dudu in form of Giorgi Tsimakuridze, who was expected to use his height to the team’s advantage. But he didn’t seem much help either.

Dudu had another chance when the ball dropped right at his feet, three yards in front of the goal, but he struck at the wrong angle and skewed the ball past the far post.

Frustrated, Dudu tried harder to score but during

his repeated attempts at the goal he stamped on the net and ripped it – and the referee stopped the game to let Phuket stadium staff fix the tear.

An additional two minutes of extra was called, and PTT Rayong made their last attempt: PTT’s Affoloh Ouattara dribbled the ball towards the end line and clipped it to his teammate Amadou Ouattara, who charged in from two yards and sent the ball into the Phuket goal.

The whistle sounded a short minute later, giving PTT Rayong the win and knocking Phuket FC out of the Toyota League Cup. Phuket FC next travel to Bangkok on Sunday (March 31) for a Yamaha League 1 game against TTM FC – who have been ordered by the Thai Premier League to drop the “Lopburi” from their team name over a contractual disagreement.

TTM’s Lopburi stadium has also been ruled not ready for League level matches, and the team is in search of a new home ground.

It’s not yet settled just where the next match against Phuket will be held.

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Phuket FC need to keep up, not play catch up ANALYSIS Kazira Hans editor@thephuketnews.com

SATURDAY’S TOYOTA League Cup game was a tough one for Phuket FC, especially for the Brazilian star Dudu who wasted more than half a dozen opportunities and was devastated by it.

This is the negative side of being a star of the team: you

will always get opportunities left and right but if you waste them, it will not be easy.

That aside, the team performance was unsatisfactory against PTT Rayong FC According to their coach, the Phuket squad on the night was a “rotation”, which meant they dropped most of their Ateam and played their second string side instead.

But in reality Phuket FC played almost their best side,

and shuffled just a few positions – notably Phuket boy Kittitach Kraithong, who didn’t get to touch the ball much for most of the first half.

The 4-1-4-1 formation was only functioning at 50 per cent, the working part being the 4-1 defence.

In my humble opinion, this Back Four plus Assawin at defensive midfield is the best Phuket FC has ever had.

But what’s the point of having

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a good defense when your offence can’t score?

Coach Paniphol’s decision to replace Kampon with Adisak as goalkeeper proved to be the right move, but there are still other big problems for the coach to solve.

He has good numbers of midfielders, but what he lacks is good wingers on both sides who understand his game plan and know how to put it in to action.

The men he has now don’t seem right for the job: he needs natural wingers who will run the sidelines and cross the ball in for his strikers to take the kill shot.

Most fans think Phuket FC’s loss on Saturday was acceptable as they want their beloved team to focus mainly on Yamaha League 1, where some teams have started to stand out from the others after three games played.

The competition for Thai Premier League promotion will be fierce and, even if this race is more like a marathon than a sprint, Phuket FC will need to keep up, not catch up, and try to stay in the ‘Top Five’ throughout this season.

Do you agree or disagree with Kazira’s analysis of Phuket FC’s performance?

Comment on this story now at thephuketnews.com

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Strong Patong sink Laguna CRICKET

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atong defeated Laguna for the first time in two seasons on Sunday (March 24) and are now almost certain of a finals berth in the Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels cricket league.

Patong batted first and posted a solid score of 230-9 – and that proved too much for Laguna, who were bowled out for 143 in the 29th over on a scorching hot Sunday at the Alan Cooke Ground (ACG).

The match between league leaders Patong and the so-far undefeated Laguna side had been one of the most highly anticipated of the season.

After winning the toss, Patong elected to bat and put the Laguna side in the field, hoping to sap their energy under the hot sun before they started their run chase.

After a delay in commencing the match, as a result of the dismantling of the stage from the previous night’s “Big Night Out” music event, Patong got off to a blistering start hitting 12 runs from the 1st over.

Laguna eventually fought back, getting a breakthrough with Sami Ullah bowling Mike Kahn in the 6th over. Ullah struck again just two balls later, bowling Paddy Morton.

Patong’s Semant Raju lofts a boundry. Photo: Michael Way Shortly before the 10 over drinks break, Ullah was in action again running out Neil Quail, and the match was evenly balanced at 3 wickets down for 58.

However, Patong consolidated their innings with a 38 run partnership between Seemant Raju (47) and David Watson (35) until Seemant fell in the 14th over with the score on 96.

Watson then teamed up with Manish Sadarangani (31), posting another 32 runs until he fell with the score on 128 in the 19th over.

However, captain Anthony Van Blerk (45) put on a match winning 72 run partnership with Sadarangani, taking the score along to 200 until he was dismissed in the 32nd over.

The Patong tail then accumulated a further 30 runs to take their innings total to 230 runs for the loss of 9 wickets after their 35 overs.

Pick of the bowlers for Laguna was Sami Ullah (3

for 43) and Sameer Khan (2 for 49).

After the lunch break, Laguna set out to chase the Patong total. Opening batsmen Bill Stahmer (14) hit a six from the first ball, and it looked like game on.

But the Laguna top order then collapsed with 4 wickets down for only 22 runs in 5th over. When Val Guiraud (13) fell to lbw in the 8th over, Laguna were reeling with 5 wickets down for only 40 runs.

Sameer Khan (39) then joined Roly Cooper (27) for a 55 run partnership, until falling on the last ball before the break with the score on 95.

With another 136 runs

required from 15 overs, a run rate of 9 per over was going to be tough with only 4 wickets in hand.

Captain Stuart Reading (18) then teamed up with Cooper, looking to push the score along at the required run rate, but fell in the 24th over.

The Laguna innings eventually ran out of steam, being bowled out for only 143 runs in reply. Pick of the bowlers for Patong were Richard Desmond (3 for 22) and Manish Sadarangani (2 for 20).

Patong have now extended their lead at the top of the table on 33 points while the others will now fight it out for a finals berth.

This Sunday (March 31) the Village take on Laguna.

Will the Village roll the normally unflappable Laguna or will Laguna put this defeat behind them and get back on track? Specators are welcome at the ACG to find out.

JLL Hotels Cricket League 2012/2013 Team

P

W

L

Pts

1

Patong

7

5

2

33

2

Jabudays

6

3

3

21

3

TNT

6

2

4

20

4

Laguna

5

3

1

20

5

Village

6

1

4

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HASH HOUSE HARRIERS Run 1412: 4pm on Saturday, March 30 Directions: From Heroines Monument, head north to the main traffic lights in the center of Thalang. Turn right (east) and continue straight for 2.2km. Turn right at the HHH sign and continue for 200m on the paved road, then a further 200m on a gravel road to the laager (signed). Park in the rubber or to one side of the track.

More information: phuket-hhh.com

Young swim stars gather in Thalang SWIMMING SOME OF ASIA’S RISING swimming stars will take part in the 2013 Thanyapura Long Course Swim Championships this weekend (March 30 and 31) at the Thanyapura Sports and Leisure Club in Thalang.

The entrants include young athletes from Malaysia, the Philippines, Hong Kong and mainland China, and a strong contingent from Phuket.

“We will be seeing some really promising swimmers here at the Aquatics Academy, including 13 year old Francesca Ho Ching-leung from Hong Kong, who is a very exciting up and coming swimmer,” said Thanyapura‘s Director of Aquatics Simon Jones.

“Also heading up the field in every event with some potentially very fast swimming is 19 year old Filipino talent Daniel Gian Berino.”

Among the teams taking

part will be the Thanyapura Aquatics Academy’s own junior swim team Silverfinz, as well as TSLC’s Team Extreme project – six aspiring young athletes from schools in Banbangtao and Thalang who receive swim lessons several times a week to help them achieve their sporting goals.

The latest event at Thanyapura has attracted some of the biggest sports names in the Asia-Pacific region, including the former coach of the Australian Swim Team John Dempsey, who will attend as the coach of the Hong Kongbased Ladies Recreational Club.

Presenting the awards will be world-renowned coach Roly Crichton from England, now based in New Zealand, who now works with many international triathletes and top swimmers including Olympic triathletes Andrea Hewitt, Laurant Vidal, Tony Moulai and Kris Gemmel.

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from time against Jake White’s Brumbies.

Making a rare start in place of injured Bryan Habana, former Northern Bull Van den Heever grasped a long pass from lock Peter Kimlin deep in Stormers’ territory and darted clear.

Fullback Joe Pietersen added the extra points to finish with 15 from three conversions and three penalties.

In a messy game in Hamilton, the Chiefs took the points over the Highlanders through the goalkicking of tournament leading scorer Gareth Anscombe, who slotted a conversion and four penalties.

The Sharks set a club record as they tossed aside the Rebels, their 57-point winning margin bettering a 53-11 win over Western Force last season.

Victory came a week after the Sharks sustained a 19-point hiding from the Brumbies at the same venue, which led John Plumtree to make eight starting line-up changes.

In Brisbane, Springbok JJ Engelbrecht had a try disallowed after the full-time siren as the Reds clung on for a

tense win over the Bulls.

The Pretoria-based team launched a last-ditch attack and looked poised to level the scores with a conversion attempt to come when Engelbrecht dived over in the left corner.

But he put a foot on the sideline in the desperate covering tackle by winger Chris Feauai-Sautia to deny the Bulls a pulsating victory.

Seven-time Super Rugby champions Canterbury buried their early season lethargy in soundly beating the Kings.

The Crusaders stole lineout balls, used their powerful pack to out-muscle the Kings and ran the ball to post the first score in excess of 50 points this season.

The Cheetahs showed great character in Perth to fight back for their third straight win on the road over the Force, who controlled play for long periods and looked the likely winners.

The Bloemfontein-based Cheetahs grabbed the lead with successive penalties, before sealing the win with a 77th-minute try to Willie le Roux. AFP

Big wins for South African sides RUGBY UNION

ustralia’s ACT Brumbies lost their unbeaten start to the Super 15 season to South Africa’s Western Stormers, as title holders Waikato Chiefs closed the gap with the frontrunners in the latest round of matches.

The Stormers dented the Brumbies’ four-game run with a 35-22 victory in Cape Town Saturday to spice up the rivalry, with four teams in the mix for the South African conference title.

While the Brumbies faltered, the Chiefs retained top spot in the New Zealand conference and trail the competition leaders by just two points in the overall Southern Hemisphere provincial championship standings.

The Chiefs beat the Otago Highlanders 19-7 in Hamilton Friday for their fourth win in five outings.

The Coastal Sharks and Central Cheetahs made it a great weekend for South African teams, with wins over Australian opposition.

The Sharks, last season’s

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Bulls’ Jan Serfontein runs against the Queensland Reds. Photo: AFP/Patrick Hamilton finalists, slammed the Melbourne Rebels 64-7 in Durban Saturday , while across in Perth the in-form Cheetahs came from behind to beat the Western Force 19-10.

Queensland Reds squeaked home against South Africa’s three-time winners Northern Bulls 23-18 in Brisbane to move to within six points of

the Brumbies in the Australian conference.

Meanwhile, the Canterbury Crusaders gained more momentum after a sluggish start to the season with a 5520 romp over South African newcomers Southern Kings in Christchurch, while the Wellington Hurricanes had the weekend off.

Fly-half Bernard Foley kicked a penalty goal after the siren to deliver the New South Wales Waratahs a thrilling 30-27 come-from-behind win over the Auckland Blues in Sydney on Sunday.

At Newlands, the Stormers clinched victory with an intercept try by winger Gerhard van den Heever six minutes

Pacman confirms September bout Unbeaten Rabbitohs

climb up NRL ladder

BOXING PHILIPPI NES BOXI NG STA R Manny Pacquiao has confimed he will return to the ring in September for the first time since he was knocked out by Juan Manuel Marquez.

The former WBO world welterweight champion suffered a crushing sixth-round defeat to the Mexican in Las Vegas on December 8 last year that left him lying unconscious on the canvas.

Concerns for the 34-year-old Pacquiao’s health lead to calls for him to quit by doctors in the Philippines, and some fans feared that he may decide to concentrate on his political career rather than get back in the ring.

Pacquiao has confirmed however that that he will fight again this year.

“Tell [the fans] to be patient,” he told Manila Standard Today. “[Top Rank promoter] Bob Arum and myself have been talking and will continue talking. What is definite is they’ll see me fight again come September.

“Not April nor immediately after that as speculations are going. Tell the public that it won’t be long before I make them happy again when I fight.

“Tell them, too, that I appreciate very much their concern over my well-being when I lost by a knockout to Marquez and during the debate whether to fight in April.

“I treasure their concern and prayers that I recover quickly from

RUGBY LEAGUE

Manny Pacquiao in the WBO welterweight title match against US boxer Timothy Bradley in Las Vegas last year. Photo: AFP/Joe Klamar my knockout loss. I want everyone to know that I am well and fully recovered.”

Pacquiao has not ruled out a fifth fight with Marquez but says the decision rests with the Mexican.

“Marquez, according to news reports, doesn’t want to fight me for the fifth time,” Pacquiao said.

“It actually is up to him.

“Me? Well, everybody knows I’ll fight anyone. I am not scared of anybody. And that is the reason

why boxing fans like me so much. I never avoid anyone. I don’t choose easy fights. I will fight anybody, anytime, anywhere. If he doesn’t want to fight me then I don’t want to fight him either. So be it. It’s that simple.”

“He says he doesn’t want to fight me because he won our last fight?

Well, I am still ahead in the tally of our last four fights. I won two, lost one and drew one,” said the defiant Pacquio. Bangkok Post

SOUTH SYDNEY FOUGHT off a second half fightback from Penrith for a high-scoring 44-32 victory to remain unbeaten and join Melbourne at the top of Australia’s National Rugby League on Sunday.

Penrith clawed back from 34-16 down at halftime to get within two points of the Rabbitohs with 10 minutes remaining.

But the Rabbitohs kicked clear with two late tries including the final four-pointer to winger Nathan Merritt, who scored a hat-trick in the 14try thriller.

Melbourne Storm are the other unbeaten club following their 22-18 victory over Canterbury Bulldogs, the team they beat in the grand final for last season’s NRL title.

Gold Coast Titans dug deep for a 16-14 win over Manly Sea Eagles to lie third on the NRL standings.

The match was locked at 14-14 after Manly scored three second-half tries before scrum-half Daly Cherry-Evans conceded a match-winning penalty late in the clash.

Cherry-Evans kicked a goal-line drop-out over the sideline and Aidan Sezer kicked the penalty goal from

in front of the posts to clinch the Penrith victory.

A stout defensive display from the Sydney Roosters laid the foundation for an 8-0 win over Brisbane.

James Maloney scored all of the points, running in for the only try of the game on 30 minutes and then kicking a penalty goal midway through the second period.

Wests Tigers turned on the style, beating Parramatta 31-18 for their second straight victory.

Two first-half tries from Chris Lawrence and Blake Ayshford helped the Tigers open up an 18-0 lead after they dominated the opening 40 minutes.

Cronulla showed little to suggest they are a club in crisis with a comfortable 28-4 win over the New Zealand Warriors.

Coach Shane Flanagan was back at the helm after being stood down by the Sharks in light of the probe by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.

On Monday Newcastle Knights and North Queensland Cowboys completed the third round of matches, with the Newcastle delivering a crushing 34-6 defeat to North Queensland. AFP

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Webber blasts Vettel’s win FORMULA ONE

Following a heated exchange in the team garage, both drivers scowled their way through the victory podium ceremony before the race fans.

“I think it’s very early days right now, it’s very raw, obviously, and we need to work out how the team best goes forward from here,” Mark Webber said after the race.

“That’s obviously going to be discussed this week.

“I will be in Australia on my surfboard, the phone won’t be engaged. We’ll see what happens.”

There is a history of bad blood going back to Vettel’s crash with Webber at the 2010 Turkish Grand Prix that ended the German’s race and wrecked the Australian’s chance of victory.

Webber showed Vettel his disgust prior to the podium presentation at Sepang last weekend, saying only “Multi-21, Seb Multi-21” in reference to Red Bull’s race instructions over the team radio.

Vettel leads the drivers’ championship on 40 points, with Webber third on 26. Red Bull is also on top of the constructors’ standings with 66 points. AFP

From back page ...has warned that the incident could come back to haunt Red Bull.

“Let’s assume that these two guys are in a position to win the championship at the end of the year, then there is no way that Mark is going to help Sebastian,” Ecclestone told Britain’s Daily Telegraph.

“So Sebastian has to think about that. Maybe there will be a stage when he would like Mark to help him, but I don’t think Mark is going to come up front and do it.”

Webber and Vettel have a strained relationship, with the Australian openly questioning the support he gets from the team hierarchy as opposed to the German.

After the Malaysia race there were none of the customary team celebrations on the pit wall and Vettel received lukewarm congratulations from his colleagues.

Webber showed Vettel his before the podium presentation at Sepang, pointing to Red Bull’s implicit race instructions over the team radio.

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Montenegro’s forward Stevan Jovetic vies with England’s captain Steven Gerrard in the World Cup 2014 qualifier in Podgorica. Photo: AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff

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ngland manager Roy Hodgson said his side’s hopes of reaching the World Cup were “still in our hands” despite the setback of their 1-1 draw with Montenegro.

England were on course to go top in Group H after Wayne Rooney gave them an early lead in Podgorica on Tuesday, but the visitors wilted in the second half and Montenegro equalised with 14 minutes to play.

It leaves Hodgson’s side two points off the pace in the group, and they could be five points behind Montenegro by the time they resume their qualifying campaign in September if Branko Brnovic’s side beat Ukraine in June.

With only the side finishing in first place guaranteed to qualify for the World Cup, England face a fight to overhaul the Montenegrins, but Hodgson believes the fixture list will play in his side’s favour.

England play three of their final four games at Wembley Stadium, with a trip to Ukraine on September 10 the only time they will have to leave their base before the end of the qualifying campaign ““We’ve got three of our last four games at home,” Hodgson said. “We think it’s still in our hands and we intend to make sure we keep it in our hands by winning those matches,” he said.

English skipper Steven Gerrard also believes the team can still secure automatic qualification, despite the per-

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fomance against Montenegro.

“They took control in the second half apart from the last 10 minutes, but we are still confident we can finish top of the group,” Gerrard said.

In other results from the latest round of qualifiers, world champions Spain regained the top spot in their group when they beat former leaders France 1-0 in a hard fought clash.

While Pedro Rodriguez’s second-half goal saw them take a one point lead over France in Group I, the team Spain beat in the 2010 World Cup final, The Netherlands maintained their perfect record with their sixth win in six games, a 4-0 success over Romania.

The Dutch – who have recovered brilliantly under Louis van Gaal since he stepped in

after they exited Euro 2012 at the group stage – lead Group D by seven points, secondplaced Hungary having drawn 1-1 away in Turkey.

Montenegro still lead them by two points and could stretch it to five if they beat Ukraine in June before the English play their next qualifier at home to Moldova in September.

Other European heavyweights had little trouble against lightly-regarded opponents, Germany cruising to a 4-1 win at home to Kazakhstan and a double from Mario Balotelli – taking his haul to 10 goals in nine games for club and country since signing for AC Milan from Manchester City – seeing Italy to a 2-0 win away in Malta.

Italy lead second-placed Bulgaria by three points – the Bulgarians having drawn 1-1

with Denmark – but with a game in hand.

The Czech Republic could sneak the runners-up play-off spot as a 3-0 win in Armenia on goalkeeper Petr Cech’s 100th appearance put them just two points behind Bulgaria and also with a game in hand.

The enthralling duel for top spot in Group A shows no sign of abating as Belgium edged Macedonia 1-0 in Brussels while Croatia stayed on level terms by coming from a goal down to beat plucky Wales 2-1 in Swansea.

Both sides are on 16 points with the Belgians ahead on goal difference, the two of them are nine points clear of Serbia, who put Scotland out of their misery by beating them 2-0 in Novi Sad to end their already dim hopes

of reaching Brazil next year.

Spain dispelled notions before the match that their mastery of world football was on the wane after a disappointing 1-1 draw at home to unfancied Finland last Friday.

Their performance left coach Vicente del Bosque a satisfied man.

“They are three welcome points which changes our situation in the table,” said the unassuming former Real Madrid coach.

“What is better still is that we remained faithful to our style of play.”

However, Del Bosque is too experienced a hand to assume the hard work is over “There are still enough matches for the fortunes to change again, so nothing is yet done and dusted,” he added. AFP

Webber will compete in Chinese GP, says his dad FORMULA ONE AUSTRALIAN MARK WEBBER is not reconsidering his future in Formula One and will drive in next month’s Chinese Grand Prix, his father said this week.

Webber, 36, was incensed when Red Bull teammate Sebastian Vettel defied orders to overtake him

and snatch victory in last Sunday’s Malaysian Grand Prix.

He returned to Australia for some reflection and was reported to be contemplating missing the April 14 Chinese Grand Prix but his father, Alan, said his son would be on the Shanghai starting grid.

“We’ll be up in China for the next one,” Alan Webber told the

Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

After the race Vettel said “I’m not proud I did it” and Webber’s father said he believed the triple world champion was sincere, but the damage to the already fractured relationship had been done.

“I think it will take a while to earn the respect and trust again,”

he said.

Webber said it was not just his son who was upset with Vettel, highlighting that the Britain-based Red Bull team had also expressed their displeasure.

“Sebastian disobeyed team orders and most, if not all the team, are disappointed with him,” he said.

“Up and down pit lane Mark

has not lost any credibility at all.

It’s probably Sebastian who has lost an awful lot.”

Alan Webber said Red Bull co-owner Dietrich Mateschitz confirmed his son’s position on the team was “assured”.

For mula One commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone...

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