Pattaya Mail – Thai News Reports

Pattaya braces for isolated heavy rains, slight temperature drop next week

Weather Forecast for Pattaya and Eastern Part Scattered thundershowers with isolated heavy rains in Chachoengsao, Chonburi (Pattaya), Rayong, Chanthaburi and Trat. Minimum temperature 23-25 °C. Maximum temperature 31-34 °C. Southeasterly winds 15-30 km/hr. Wave height about 1 meter and above 1 meter in thundershowers. During 7 – 10 Oct, scattered

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Dr Iain Corness recalls that a doctor’s life is much more than medicine at Pattaya City Expats Club

A guest speaker at Pattaya City Expats Club this week, Iain delighted 60 members with humorous remembrance of his living legendary status. Often mistakenly believed to be Australian by birth, this baby first saw the light of day around 80 years ago in Northern Ireland, and then Scotland, before turning

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Dr Iain Corness recalls that a doctor’s life is much more than medicine

A guest speaker at Pattaya City Expats Club this week, Iain delighted 60 members with humorous remembrance of his living legendary status. Often mistakenly believed to be Australian by birth, this baby first saw the light of day around 80 years ago in Northern Ireland, and then Scotland, before turning

Published on: 12 hours ago

Source: Pattaya Mail

Thailand’s “revenge tourism” boom reflected in Cambodia too

Governments throughout south east Asia are pleased with the uptake in foreign arrivals now that the pandemic is decidedly on the wane. The trend amongst travellers is called “revenge tourism”, characterized by people having more extravagant and longer vacation cravings after being cooped up in their houses at the height

Published on: 23 hours ago

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Drunk driver crashes into Pattaya motorcycle showroom

A suspected drunk driver damaged a car and numerous motorbikes when she crashed her pickup truck into a Pattaya motorcycle showroom. Identified only as Sinthon, the driver told police she had been drinking with a friend and had not been sleeping due to relationship problems. She fell asleep at the

Published on: 1 day ago

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Hong Kong loan shark gang busted in Pattaya

Sixteen Hong Kong loan sharks were arrested when regional and immigration police raided a Pattaya townhouse. Chonburi and Pattaya police joined immigration officers in the operation at a three-story building on Soi Chaloemphrakiat 22 Oct. 4. The 16 Hong Kong citizens were working on each floor. Police seized 20 mobile

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Police to step up patrols for noise, drugs in South Pattaya community

Pattaya police will step up patrols in the Soi Khopai Community where noise and drug complaints are leading concerns. Police chief Pol. Col. Kullachart Kullachai met Oct. 5 with residents of the South Pattaya neighborhood. The forum was organized to let residents voice their complaints. The list ran from bars

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Pattaya couple moans about plainclothes police conduct

Plain-clothed Banglamung police upset a Jomtien Beach couple by not clearly identifying themselves and taking their keys. Janyaporn Lando, 41, and Wiwat Theppitak, 56, complained to the media Oct. 3 that two men came into their grocery store in pursuit of a pair of young people who pulled in there

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Pattaya City opens renovated administrative office on Koh Larn

Pattaya officially opened its renovated administrative office on Koh Larn. Mayor Poramet Ngampichet cut the ribbon on the redeveloped facility Oct. 4 surrounded by elected and appointed city administrators. Nine monks from Yai Samran Temple were invited to chant Buddhist stanzas for prosperity. The Koh Larn administration building was built

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Pattaya-Koh Larn incinerator still mired in bureaucracy

The slow wheels of government continue to turn slowly for Koh Larn’s proposed incinerator. The central government has been chewing on the project since June with no signs it will clear all the red tape any time soon. Pattaya Mayor Poramet Ngampichet said Oct. 4 that the contract is again

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Sarah McLean, philanthropist and respected journalist has passed on

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand extends its deepest condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Sarah McLean who died peacefully and without pain on Wednesday Oct. 5, in Chiang Mai in the company of her husband, Denis Gray, and her three children, Amanda, Grant and Vanessa from her

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Pattaya beach trees replanted along new Indoor Sports Stadium Road

Contractors this week began transplanting 133 Beach Road palm trees to make way for new parking spaces. Deputy Mayor Manote Nongyai on Oct. 4 inspected an under-construction road leading into the Eastern National Indoor Sports Stadium where the trees will be replanted. The project is part of the 166-million-baht redevelopment

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Pattaya warned of more heavy rains and flash floods this week

Weather Forecast for Pattaya and Eastern Part Fairly widespread thundershowers with isolated heavy rains in Chachoengsao, Chonburi (Pattaya), Rayong, Chanthaburi and Trat. Minimum temperature 23-26 °C. Maximum temperature 32-33 °C. Southeasterly winds 15-30 km/hr. Wave height about 1 meter and above 1 meter in thundershowers. During Oct 5 – 9,

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Pattaya warned of heavy rains and flash floods this week

Weather Forecast for Pattaya and Eastern Part Fairly widespread thundershowers with isolated heavy rains in Chachoengsao, Chonburi (Pattaya), Rayong, Chanthaburi and Trat. Minimum temperature 23-26 °C. Maximum temperature 32-33 °C. Southeasterly winds 15-30 km/hr. Wave height about 1 meter and above 1 meter in thundershowers. During Oct 5 – 9,

Published on: 2 days ago

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Pattaya police chief returns to active duty after temporary suspension

Pol. Col. Kullachart Kullachai is back on the job as Pattaya’s police chief after being suspended, not sacked, over unsolved cases of human trafficking. Kullachart met Oct. 2 with Pol. Maj. Gen. Kittanet Thananantaveesin, commander of Chonburi police, to discuss allegations made by a marijuana dealer that he’d been threatened

Published on: 2 days ago

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Pattaya replaces lighting in Sukhumvit-Central Road tunnel

Pattaya replaced burned-out lightbulbs in the Central Road bypass tunnel amid complaints motorists were driving in the dark. Deputy Mayor Manote Nongyai said Oct. 2 that repeated storms that caused power surges and blackouts, shortening the life of the bulbs in public lamps, including those inside the tunnel. Pattaya received

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Rotarians and students join sanitation workers to clean up Jomtien Beach

More than 100 students, Rotarians and Pattaya sanitation workers cleaned Jomtien Beach of plastic and other litter. The monthly Rotary Club of Pattaya International activity led by Charter President Jana Keightley saw members join students from Ban Sunsaray School, International School Eastern Seaboard (ISE) and Pattaya School No. 5 together

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Pattaya man assaulted on beach over music

A 20-year-old man complained to police he was assaulted and threatened at knifepoint by men on Pattaya Beach annoyed by his music. Pongsakorn Palasan, 20, said he and a friend were relaxing on the beach, playing music and dancing Oct. 2 when three men, annoyed at the ruckus, attacked them.

Published on: 2 days ago

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Russian, Indian tourists robbed by Pattaya Beach Road hookers

Pattaya Beach streetwalkers continue to generate crime, with Russian and Indian tourists reporting robberies on the same night. Russian Vadim Korni Iashchenko, 31, told police around 11:30 p.m. Oct. 2 he was accosted and propositioned by a pair of transgender women on Pattaya Beach. He pushed them off and refused

Published on: 2 days ago

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