The well written script has now reached its expected conclusion with the release of Khun Sivarak, charged by the Cambodian government with alleged spying.

Travel Update (Bangkok Post - Thailand’s English news)
The Outrigger Laguna Phuket Resort and Villas opened this month at Bang Tao beach. The resort features 68 villas with options of two, three or four bedrooms. Each villa has two levels with kitchen, dining and living areas on the lower floor. Areas range from 229 square metres to 604 square metres.

Phuket King s Cup Regatta remains the most popular and is voted the best regatta in Asia (Thaipr.net)
Thailand was voted the favourite sailing venue in Asia and the Phuket King s Cup Regatta best regatta in Asia, according to a recent survey. The survey found also that the Regatta generated approximat

Frodeno, Vodickova Win Laguna Phuket Triathlon (Triathlete / Inside Triathlon)
Germany s Jan Frodeno and the Czech Republic s Radka Vodickova won Sunday s Laguna Phuket Triathlon. Frodeno crushed the men s field, winning with a time of 2:24:56. Second place finisher Matthieu O Halloran of Canada came in 12 minutes later at 2:36:58. The final podium finisher was Balazs Csoke of Hungary at 2:38:18. Vodickova beat out last year s champ, Belinda [...]

Phuket to welcome thousands of new Jetstar passengers (Thaipr.net)
Low fares leader Jetstar will bring thousands of new tourists into Phuket from next week when it commences its twice daily A320 service from Singapore and additional A330 holiday services from Austral

Five years after tsunami, warning system still patchy (The Sun)
Bangkok/Jakarta (Dec 13, 2009): The biggest tragedy of the Dec 26, 2004 tsunami was that had people been properly warned half an hour in advance, tens of thousands of lives could have been saved. As it was, an estimated 230,000 people died in the disaster.

From Zulhilmi Supaat (Bernama)
VIENTIANE, Dec 13 (Bernama) — For the love of his son, a 63-year-old father, Jaya Abdullah from Malaysia, rode 2,400km to the Loatian capital to lend support to his son Adam, who is competing in the 25th SEA Games tennis event.

Phuket lures back travellers (The Nation - Thailand’s English news)
As further pushes for Phuket’s tourism industry, Pacific Blue last month launched direct service from Perth and V Australia joined the act on Dec 3 with nonstop flights from Melbourne .

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