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At what point do you admit to yourself that perhaps the better course of action is to backtrack rather than push on?

TENS OF THOUSANDS of bikers and motorcycle enthusiasts will once again roar into Patong for the annual Phuket Bike Week 2011, from April 8 -10.

EITHER THE TAILORS in Patong can identify Russian visitors by their laissez faire dress sense and throwback hairstyles or they have decided it better to hedge their bets at a 'Privet’ as opposed to a ‘Hello’ by way of introduction.

A NEW TOURISM Learning Centre opened last month at the Plookpanya School, with the sole aim of providing training and knowledge in the tourism industry to local students.

The final night of festivities to celebrate the bravery of Phuket sisters Thao Thepkasattri and Thao Srisoonthorn will be held tonight at the Heroine’s monument and around Thalang.

Well, It’s that time of the year again - Valentine’s Day – a day when millions of people around the world say those magic three words “I love you”-without having a clear idea of what they actually mean

Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, New York in 1919. Ferlinghetti settled in San Francisco by the mid-fifties, becoming a member of the underground poetic current, seeing the rise of the Beats bring the diffuse poetic underground to general notice, representing the ‘wild men’ of American verse. Here he writes about the Great Chinese Dragon... Happy Chinese New Year

Fly girls and fly boys alike are invited to attend the Phuket Airshow and Fly-In Bikini Competition on 15 January, held at the Phuket Air Park. For details of the day's schedule, read below:

Zarir F Bamji’s work as Director – Marketing, South Asia & Middle East for a large US based company meant that he has spent a great deal of his working life travelling and staying in hotels all around the world.

Thanks to ''Jet-ski JJ'' Naiman, Annice Smoel and Simon Burrowes, Phuket now has a more effective structure for dealing with tourists in trouble on the holiday island. Expat residents are now also better protected, too.