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| Nai Yang Beach restaurant operators fight eviction |
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| Restaurant owner Somjit Lakbarn (right) is one of 13 vendors petitioning Gov Preecha Ruangjan for the right to continue operating on Nai Yang Beach. Photo by Kamol Pirat. |
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| Thursday, November 20, 2008 |
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| NAI YANG BEACH: The owners of 13 beach-side restaurants located inside Sirinath Marine National Park are refusing to relocate to new premises that were built for them at the park’s visitors center, s... |
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Phuket second highest HIV infection rate in Thailand
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| Thursday, Nov 20, 2008 |
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PHUKET CITY: Phuket now ranks second among Thailand’s 76 provinces in terms of HIV infection, with the large number of nightlife entertainment venues and the sex industry seen as the cause.
Dr Wiwat Sitomnoch of the Phuket Public Health Office reported that the incidence of HIV infection among teenagers and young adults in Phuket is rising, as are the number of cases of gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases. About 90% of cases are the result of unsafe sex practices, he said.
The Public Health Ministry’s Department of Disease Control has been keeping statistics of HIV/Aids c...
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Emergency medical training course for scuba staff
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| Thursday, November 20, 2008 |
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PHUKET CITY: The Badalveda Diving Medicine Network, on behalf of the TDA Diving Association (Thailand) and Bangkok Phuket Hospital, has announced the presentation of an Emergency Medical Management Training Course to be offered to the general scuba diving community.
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All systems go for Coral Reef Squadron
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| Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
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PHUKET DEEP SEA PORT: Muslim clerics and Buddhist monks held religious services on the morning of November 15 to bless 10 aircraft that will be be sunk off Bang Tao Bay to create the “Coral Reef Squadron,” the first artificial reef project of its kind in Thailand.
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Nuvo to play benefit concert for Coral Reef Squadron project
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| Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
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PATONG: Veteran pop band Nuvo will play a benefit concert at Jungceylon on Friday, November 28 to raise funds for the Coral Reef Squadron artificial reef project, which will have its grand opening ceremony the following morning.
'For Sea Foundation' Press Coordinator Siri “Poo” Vorabutra sai...
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| Aussie stabbing: no worries, mate |
| PATONG: Officers at Patong Hospital have denied reports in a local Thai-language newspaper that an Australian serviceman on shore leave was in a coma after being stabbed repeatedly fo...
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| Curious cockroach gives traveler trauma |
| CHIANG MAI: At some point in their lives, most people are likely to have had some pretty unpleasant bus trips, whether on a crowded Greyhound Bus in the States or a steaming hot, jam-packed third-clas...
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| Cobra cocktails, roadside rat-ions |
| SUPHANBURI: The sight of roadside stalls selling seasonal fruit, diesel-flavored roast chicken or other comestibles is a common one on any road trip in Thailand. Along the roads of Suphanburi, however...
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