Live Nation announce Thai JV

Live Nation has announced a joint venture with Thailand-based entertainment firm BEC-Tero. The new company, Live Nation BEC-Tero, will promote concerts by Western, J-Pop and K-Pop artists in the region, a pursuit in which BEC-Tero's concerts division is already a market leader locally. The joint venture will be led by Neil Thompson, who has been working in the Thailand music industry for over two decades.

Thai disco fire claims 4 lives

At least 4 people are dead and 20 injured after fire swept through the Tiger Discotheque in Patong on the holiday island of Phuket. Survivors said that fire started at 4am, seemingly two hours after the club should have shut, and was packed with people sheltering form a tropical rain storm. An eye witness said they heard two explosions 'like a bomb going off' and then fire spread along air conditioning ducts and that 'foam insulation was on fire' falling 'on a man below' with the venues power supply and lighting then failing and toxic smoke spreading. A Government spokesman Prompong Nopparit said that the club's walls were seemingly made of the same flammable foam material used for decoration in the Santiago club in Bangkok - which caught fire in 2009 killing 66 and injuring 222 others.