PHUKET: A woman escaped serious injury after her car collided with a cow in Thalang this morning. Thanyaluck Plongnirat, 26, was heading to the airport at about 5am when the accident occurred, Lt Kraisorn Boonprasop of the Thalang Police told the Phuket Gazette .
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PHUKET: Former Palawan Governor Joel T Reyes and his brother Mario Reyes were arrested in Phuket on Sunday, according to a Philippine Daily Inquirer police source. The source, an official of Task Force Usig, the tracker group assigned to catch big-name fugitives from the Philippines, said that the Reyes brothers had long been wanted for the slaying of Palawan environmentalist and journalist Gerry Ortega. The task force was in close coordination with the Thai police, who are holding the brothers before deportation, the source added.
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PHUKET: The budget condominium segment in Phuket and many other cities in Thailand is now suffering from the large supply that has inundated the market over the past 5 to 7 years, Phanom Kanjanathiemthao, Managing Director of Knight Frank Chartered Company, said this week. This low-end market, with units costing from about 1.1 to 1.8 million baht, has also very clearly been impacted by Thailand’s slower economic growth, with the Asian Development Bank getting ready to revise downward its projected GDP growth for the year, reported at just 2.9 percent for the first half.