The BMW-B.Grimm Thai Polo - Open 2014 was a fitting
prelude to Friday’s Chinese New Year, Year of the Horse, when lions and dragons
will dance from morning to night when Pattaya celebrates Chinese New Year on
Jan. 31. Along with people throughout the area paying respects to their
ancestors at temples and individual homes, many venues around town will hold
celebrations. City sponsored events include lion and dragon parades, a Chinese
Girls pageant in Naklua, cultural shows and concerts by Pao Paowaree and the
Blueberry Girls. May good luck, good health and prosperity be with you
throughout the Year of the Horse.
Burapha Bike Week returns to indoor stadium Feb. 14-15
Burapha Bike Week returns to the National Indoor Sports Stadium in
Jomtien Beach Feb. 14-15, a year after organizers and Pattaya officials
moved the biker event to the less congested Silverlake Vineyard.
City employees take
northern Thailand junket
to study physical fitness
A select group of city employees set off on a junket to northern
Thailand last week under the premise of studying the health and
psychological impact of physical fitness.
Farmers block road in Nakhon Sawan to demand rice payment
Farmers from five provinces have blocked Asian Highway
at Nakhon Sawan to pressure the caretaker government to
pay them for rice they sold under the rice pledging
scheme. Continued
Hilton Worldwide adds new beneficiaries and hotels to Carbon Offset Program in Southeast Asia
Hilton Worldwide recently announced
the expansion of their Carbon Offset Program in
Southeast Asia with three new renewable energy projects
receiving support for 2014. The Mungcharoen Biomass
Project in Thailand, the Musi Hydro Project in
Indonesia, and the Song Ong Small Hydro Project in
Vietnam will join the Borneo Rainforest Rehabilitation
Project in Malaysia as beneficiaries of the program.
St Andrews raises charity funds during “One Day, One Goal”
Saturday 18th
January saw the
4th annual “One
Day, One Goal”
Charity football
event take place
at St. Andrews
International
School, Green
Valley. The day
was split into 2
parts with the
morning
consisting of a
football
competition
between 4 local
international
schools and the
afternoon seeing
children from
local charities
coming in to
receive some
free gifts and
football
coaching from
our very own
United Football
coaches.
life at 33 1/3:Before Zeppelin there was ... Yardbirds
They started out as blues purists, bending the
blue notes with such ragged ease that the late
great Sonny Boy Williamson hired them as his
backing band when he visited England in 1963. Continued
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