Pattaya Mail – Thai News Reports

Thailand now clarifies aspects of its new welcome policy

We know a lot more today and we did yesterday about the latest “Test and Go” entry policy for nationals of 46 chosen countries. They include the traditional markets (UK, US, Australia and mainland Europe) but exclude most of Africa and Latin America. Group tours won’t be starting any time

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87 percent of Pattaya students get first vaccine jab

More than 87 percent of Pattaya’s allocation of coronavirus vaccines for children ages 12-18 has been administered as first shots. More than 2,400 students continued their inoculations Oct. 20 at Pattaya School No. 2. Mayor Sonthaya Kunplome said 5,300 teenage students are eligible to receive jabs of Pfizer Inc. Covid-19

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Brazen Pattaya teenager snatches gold chain from security guard

Security guard Surasak Pranomsri, 50, had just gotten off work on the evening of Oct 18 and thought he would go to the Soi Chak Ngaeo market in Huay Yai sub-district to buy some vegetables to take home for dinner. As he walked back to his motorbike, vegetable bags in

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87 percent of Pattaya students get 1st vaccine jab

More than 87 percent of Pattaya’s allocation of coronavirus vaccines for children ages 12-18 has been administered as first shots. More than 2,400 students continued their inoculations Oct. 20 at Pattaya School No. 2. Mayor Sonthaya Kunplome said 5,300 teenage students are eligible to receive jabs of Pfizer Inc. Covid-19

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Pattaya’s Koh Larn teenagers given Covid-19 vaccines

With nearly all of their parents already vaccinated, it was Koh Larn’s teenagers’ turn to roll up their sleeves for Covid-19 vaccines. Mayor Sonthaya Kunplome watched as students, ages 12-18, received their first jabs of the Pfizer Inc. vaccine Oct. 20. A team from Pattaya Hospital ventured to the island

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Elderly drink vendor tells Pattaya to keep battling

He’s 65, needs a cane to walk and has a disabled wife at home. But Weerasak Kaisuwan keeps battling and tells everyone else in Pattaya facing trouble to do the same. Weerasak was out on South Road on Oct. 20, pushing his beverage cart. He needs either the cart or

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Pattaya begins work on post-pandemic 5-year master plan

Pattaya began work on its latest five-year development plan, the first to strategize for a post-pandemic world. Mayor Sonthaya Kunplome chaired the Oct. 20 meeting for the first draft of the 2023-27 development plan, which currently is no more than an outline. Pattaya’s five-year plans are normally updated every year,

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Thailand’s confusing insurance rules for visitors continue

Today’s announcements by the Ministry of Health about new entry rules leave vital insurance questions up in the air. A new condition specifies that all entrants should have US$50,000 insurance, either from Thai or foreign-based companies, but does not specify whether such a policy should be Covid-specific, or for general

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Thai Garden Resort welcomes you back to your home in Pattaya

Dear friends and guests of the Thai Garden Resort Hotel, Even though the Covid-19 Pandemic has deprived what has been our “joie de vivre” for almost two years now; we can still be grateful and proud to have managed to keep our staff and our hotel premises safe from Corona

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Operation help starving people in Pattaya continues

BCCT and Rotary support Brian Jack’s humanitarian project On Sunday, October 17th 2021, we had another family pack day at our headquarters, Base Camp View Dee in Pattaya. Special thanks to the British Chamber of Commerce Thailand (BCCT) for their fantastic donation of 300 food packs. Sunday morning, rain greeted

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Pattaya Motorway 7 access road riddled with potholes

East Pattaya residents are complaining again about potholes, this time at the Highway 7 offramp near Nongprue’s King Bhumibol Park. Specifically at the entrance of Soi Chaiyapornwitee 16, large holes have basically closed one lane, as they pose too much danger to vehicles. The closed lane has been a construction

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Pattaya netizens freak out of homeless-man video

Pattaya netizens flew into another lather over a video clip of a homeless man smoking what appeared to be drugs. Online users expressed fear and loathing, with nary a hint of empathy or sympathy, over a vagrant who they speculated might hurt someone. A check on the spot in South

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Thai businessman tries to sell kidney to pay off loan sharks

A Chonburi man hopelessly in debt to loan sharks offered to illegally sell his kidney to pay off his debts. Fully aware selling human organs is illegal in Thailand, Thanakrit Pansingsorn, 36, stood on a street corner in Chachoengsao over the weekend with a sign, saying he’d sell his kidney

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Pattaya removes Bali Hai concrete barriers for better traffic flow

Eighteen months after installing road barriers to restrict traffic in and out of Bali Hai Pier, Pattaya now is removing them. Deputy Mayor Wutisak Rermkitkarn met with municipal police, transportation and public works staffers Oct. 18 to undo the work done in February 2020 which, at the time, was described

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Broken equipment leads to stagnant water at Pattaya park

If there were fish in the pond at Nongprue’s King Bhumibol Public Park, they’re all dead now after the oxygenator broke and officials allowed the water to stagnate. Nongprue Mayor Winai Inpitak and subdistrict engineering and environmental workers took water samples and inspected the broken machinery at the park behind

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With more rain coming, Pattaya trims more trees

With more rain in the forecast, Pattaya got back to work trimming trees. Parks Department crews were out on Third Road Oct. 18, with clippers and wood chippers, turning potentially falling branches into fertilizer. The public has been calling in about branches that, if they break loose or even swing

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New financial headache for some retirement visa holders

A news report that some visas based on retirement could now require two insurances has stirred confusion on social media. Deputy public health minister Sathit Pitutecha, in comments first relayed by ThaiPBSWorld, is quoted as saying that applications for one year 0/A visas would carry the extra requirement of “health”

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Bangsaen Beach adopts Lisa’s Thai costume as symbol of fight against COVID-19

The popularity of Thai K-pop star ‘Lisa’ has inspired Saen Suk Municipal Office in Chonburi province to adopt the costume worn by the artist in her music video in their COVID-19 prevention campaign along Bang Saen Beach, attracting much attention from tourists. Saen Suk Municipal Office and Phalang Ban Yai

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Thank you Dr Jenner

With the world-wide Pandemic (in some situations ‘pandemonium’) caused by the Covid-19 virus, vaccines were quickly developed which would produce an immune reaction to kill the virus. Despite much verbiage on the “social media” the vaccines do work. In fact, the whole concept of vaccination is based on good scientific

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Bangkok named world’s best ’workation’ destination by UK-based holiday website

Despite the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic affecting countries around the world, Thailand’s capital of Bangkok continues to gain popularity among international visitors. It was recently named the best spot for work and vacation by a property search website. A UK-based holiday lettings search website Holidu.co.uk has named Bangkok the No.1 place

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Cambodia’s rules for restarting tourism appear stricter than Thailand’s

The Phnom Penh government has published its policy for the resuscitation of international travel to the kingdom ahead of Thailand where the official pronouncements of the top health committee are still under wraps. The Cambodian restart has harsher quarantine rules than those promised for Thailand, but there are still some

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Pattaya Survivors: Tulip House Jomtien Beach

This popular Dutch and international restaurant is a classic survivor in the best sense of the word. Founded by Mathieu Corporaal in 1989, Tulip House is the oldest eatery in the whole of Thailand operating under the founding Dutch owner. That’s quite a history. “I first came to Thailand on

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Rotarians throw party for underprivileged children born in October

On October 17, Rotarians from the Rotary E-Club of Dolphin Pattaya International led by Charter President Dr. Otmar Deter and Past President Dr. Margret Deter visited the Child Protection and Development Center (CPDC) in Huay Yai near Pattaya where they organized a grand birthday party for children born in October.

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