PHUKET: A daily wrap of Thailand news, with a Phuket perspective, plus relevant reports from national and international media.
eturbonews.com Bali must put a cap on the number of tourists allowed to visit the island, a former minister of tourism has stated. ''The island has limited natural resources, limited water resources, limited energy, which all translate into a limited carrying capacity, that's why the island must enforce a limit on the number of tourists visiting the island,'' said I Gede Ardika.
thejakartapost.com Bali, he stressed, was showing every imaginable sign of strained natural resources. Tourists came because the island offered a magnificent natural landscape and rich cultural heritage. Mass tourism threatened these two critical assets, he said.
cnn.com Dan Rivers: We have come to Rahkine to report on the latest threat to the Rohingya. What we have found is shocking. I was expecting the camps to be grim - but I wasn't prepared to see children starving to death. This isn't journalistic hyperbole. Thousands of kids are starving to death.
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irrawaddy.com Hussein Juhar was packed into the hold along with over 300 other Rohingya. ''After we had been at sea for a day, one man became seasick. He begged to go up on deck, but the crew refused,'' he said. ''The man fought back and so they grabbed him, tied his hands and then shot him. They threw his body into the sea.'' On the second day the crew pulled another man from the hold and threw him overboard just to terrify the Rohingya below.
care2.com While important reforms have begun in Burma, a visit by US President Barack Obama was a reward too far and sends the wrong message. Obama should have been standing on the side of the oppressed, calling for an end to the violence and threatening to pull back US support for the Burmese government if the ongoing abuses are not immediately addressed.
gizmodo.com Elon Musk Wants to Build a Town on Mars the Size of Phuket. He has his eye on a piece of real estate on Mars for a colony that would accomodate around 80,000 people. Considering NASA just landed the Curiosity Rover, we might be putting the cart before the horse here. [He also needs to recount the number of people on Phuket.]
cnbc.com Anti-government protests in Thailand over the weekend were a reminder of violent demonstrations in the recent past that have plunged the Southeast Asian state into instability. While the latest outrage was a cause of concern for investors, the risks appear to be contained, as of now, experts told CNBC.
AP Teachers in the violence-wracked southern Thai province of Pattani said that they are shutting down all primary schools there until the government can guarantee their safety from attacks by Muslim insurgents.
afp Fourteen people perished after a fire broke out at a workshop for handicapped people in in the small town of Titisee-Neustadt in the Black Forest area of southwestern Germany, police said.
bangkokpost.com Tencent Holdings, the world's third-biggest internet firm, is expanding its global footprint to Thailand with the launch of a social messaging application. The Chinese firm has chosen Thailand to promote its flagship WeChat app in Southeast Asia.
nytimes.com The marriage of a 12-year-old Malaysian girl has outraged advocates for children and women, who called for a ban on child marriage. Nor Fazira Saad, married her boyfriend, Mohammad Fahmi Alias, 19, on November 17 and the groom's family held a celebration last Saturday, according to local news media reports.
afp Norway's public broadcaster has shown for the first time video footage of right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik parking his van bomb that killed eight people in Oslo in July 2011.
dailymail.co.uk Sea creatures' shells are being dissolved by global warming - making them defenceless against predators, according to new research. Waters around Antarctica are becoming more acidic due to increased levels of carbon dioxide and are corroding the protective outer layer of swimming snails.
afp Britain has named Canadian central bank chief Mark Carney as the new Bank of England governor, picking the first ever foreigner to lead the institution through a period of enormous change.
theage.com.au Australian chef David Thompson confirmed that the London restaurant Nahm, the first Thai restaurant in Europe awarded a Michelin star, will close next month. Thompson will concentrate on Nahm in Bangkok, which this year debuted at number 50 on the prestigious World's 50 Best Restaurants list.
scmp.com China is mourning the death of its J-15 jet-fighter program chief, who collapsed shortly after the nation's first aircraft carrier returned from successful landing tests involving the jet.
culturemap.com It's a sad truth: Newspapers are dying. I worked at the Houston Post and Houston Chronicle for three decades before joining CultureMap, so it pains me to state the obvious. Newspaper readers are like Republican voters: They're old, they're white and they don't like change.
phillymag.com Bottom line: The combined daily circulation of the Inquirer, the Daily News, SportsWeek, and every other product that counts in the final Philly number is down by 10.5 percent - from 331,132 to 296,427 - in just one year. That's more than 30,000 households that just decided to stop reading the newspaper.
afp Thailand's soccer team coach Winfried Schaefer wants to see more of the same from his players as they bid to clinch a semifinal spot with a win over Myanmar in their second Group A match of the Asean Championship today.
dailymail.co.uk Alastair Cook hailed his side's ''incredible'' performance after they became the first visiting team to win a Test in India for almost three years. England had been ridiculed after their nine-wicket defeat in the first Test.
espncricinfo.com Faf du Plessis' fourth-innings century on debut in Adelaide as man of the match helped South Africa secure a draw with two wickets in hand. It was only the first time in 11 years that two successive Tests were drawn in Australia.
November 28 Loy Kratong Day
November 30 AustCham Phuket sundowners social and business networking
December 1 World AIDs Day
December 1-8 King's Cup Regatta
December 2 Laguna Phuket Ironman 70.3
December 5 HM The King's Birthday
December 10 Constitution Day
December 15-20 Patong Carnival
December 16-18 Asia Superyacht Rendezvous, Bang Tao beach
December 25 Christmas Day
October 5-13 Phuket Vegetarian Festival
November 14-21 Fourth Asia Beach Games, Phuket
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