For years, we have received over thousands of wishes and congratulations from our readers, partners, and friends. We shall carry on the tradition. Here we are, post a message here and let the world know what you think about Pattaya Mail.

I would like to express how I feel to have the privilege of being in Pattaya when you launched your very first issue of Pattaya Mail and how the newspaper has evolved over the years.  How proud you must be of your staff, under your direction, that Pattaya Mail has been recognized over and over through the years as the best news provider on the Eastern Seaboard.

Most importantly, I am one of the biggest fan and have read both hard copy and via the internet. I survived homesickness during the time I was away in the US by rushing to my computer every Friday morning to read the new issue each week.  What a life saver!

Thank you for giving me the window to the Pattaya world and the joy of knowing what's going on in Pattaya.

Neera Sirisampan
Business Development & International Affairs Director
Bangkok Hospital - Pattaya

Congratulations!

The Pattaya Mail is now 15 years old.  As well as being the first English language weekly newspaper on the Eastern Seaboard, it is also the longest running and this week’s edition is the 781st.  And there are those still in the organization who remember that fateful first edition, including the founder and these days MD, Peter Malhotra and Executive Editor Dan Dorothy, who began as a stringer for the sports section.

If the Pattaya Mail were a government media outlet, long service leave after 15 years would be commonplace, but as the old saying goes, “If you enjoy the work you’re doing, you don’t consider it to be work at all.”  That goes for all the long stayers at Pattaya Mail Publishing.  15 years or 15 months or 15 days - it does not really matter, as the Pattaya Mail is a ‘family’.  One joins the family and one works for the common good of the family, and that concept begins right at the top.  Peter Malhotra isn’t the ‘boss’ for many employees, he is more like their father.  Benevolent as a father, forgiving as a father and yet strict as when a father senses a family member is heading in the wrong direction.

Five, ten, fifteen and soon it will be twenty.  The core staff who are here today, will still be here in another five years, and I hope to be one of them!
Congratulations Pattaya Mail.  Fifteen years perhaps, but there’s no time for long service leave in a weekly newspaper!

Dr. Iain Corness