Year of the Golden Ox
begins on Monday

Local celebrations run from January 24-27 at Bali Hai Pier

Models pose with ox outfits outside a shopping mall in Hong Kong. The Chinese Year of the Golden Ox begins on Monday January 26. Locally, celebrations run from 24-27 at Bali Hai Pier. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

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Free Wi-Fi internet begins service

Free Wi-Fi Internet will be available all along Pattaya Beach by the end of February. Initially it will be free for all users for three months. Administrators will then decide on how long it should remain free and to whom.
On January 9 at Pattaya City Hall, Mayor Itthipol Khunplome said this first Wi-Fi high-speed alliance between Pattaya City and TOT (Public) Co. Ltd was formed to honor His Majesty the King’s 81st birthday last December. TOT and Pattaya have already been providing internet service in the Bali Hai Pier area for a distance of 1.5 km since December 25 to support the New Year Festival. By the end of this February the range of the service will extend along the beach for a distance of 4.5 km.

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OUR COMMUNITY

Jameson’s hosts first BCCT networking for 2009

The first chamber of commerce to hold a networking evening for 2009 was the British Chamber (BCCT), with an excellent roll-up at Jameson’s Irish Pub (one of the principal sponsors of the evening), overseen by its hard working publican Kim Fletcher.

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FEATURES

Good wishes to kids on their day

There was plenty of encouragement all around for our children, along with fun on their special day in Pattaya. Adults were thinking up ways to help kids enjoy the day as well as giving them advice and good wishes for their future.

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OUR CHILDREN

Rotarians help with polio drops

Rotarians turned out to help Pattaya Public Health Department officials give the second round of polio vaccination drops to young children. On January 14 the Pattaya Public Health Center on Soi Buakao was busy when children under five years of age came for their polio drops.

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SPORTS

Darren & Mod crowned champions at blustery Khao Kheow

The annual PSC Club Championship was held this year at Khao Kheow Golf Club over two days, Thursday January 8 and Monday January 12.

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Arts - Entertainment - Lifestyles

Ladies – at last, beautiful clothes that fit

Are you sick and tired of liking a dress but you can’t buy it because it doesn’t fit you? The Thai fashion industry has in the past tended to make very small sized clothes, leaving behind those with a larger body frame.

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DINING OUT

s.e.a. at dusitD2 baraquda

Stroll down Pattaya Second Road towards The Avenue and you will suddenly find a new hotel. A new, very hip and different hotel called the dusitD2 baraquda (yes, the spelling and the strange use of upper and lower case is intentional). Under the captaincy of ‘guru’ Paolo Randone, the hotel is still in a soft opening phase, which is why you have probably not noticed it, but, I can assure you, it is worth a visit.

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