Tag: Roy Albiston
Crowley introduces his latest book to PCEC
Tom Crowley did not really want to write his latest book, “Shrapnel Wounds.” After all, the book is a combat memoir and Tom is...
Pork pies and ham
Pork pies and ham were features of the presentations at the October 11 meeting of the Pattaya City Expats Club. There were two guest...
Searching for oil in Saudi Arabia
Pattaya City Expats Club member Ian Frame spent three years searching for oil in Saudi Arabia. Did he find any? Read on! Ian, who...
A resort that’s going to the dogs
A resort that’s going to the dogs was one of the features of the Mirabel Resort included in the owner Remy’s talk to the...
Keeping degeneration diseases at bay
Keeping degeneration diseases at bay was the topic at the September 20 meeting of the Pattaya City Expats Club. There are ways to slow...
Life’s road begins where land ends
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do, than by the things you did do. So throw...
Celebrating the Pii Taa Kon Festival in Loei
“It’s the most purely Thai thing I’ve ever been to,” said Pattaya City Expats Club member Ren Lexander, speaking of the trip that the...
PCEC gains 72 members this past year
Pattaya City Expats Club (PCEC) holds its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on the first Sunday in July, which was on July 5 this year....
It’s always a good idea to have a Plan B
Plan B came to the rescue. Club member David Garmaise was prepared to present another of his interesting and entertaining video themes at the...
PCEC learns about exotic plants at Discovery Garden
Have you ever heard of soursop fruit? The lipstick tree or the pencil tree? Screw pines? Luffa sponge plants? Inca peanuts? Baobab trees? Probably...
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Pattaya Retirees: Lucas Vanlaar
“Between a rock and a hard place”
PATTAYA, Thailand - At 76, Australian retiree Luke Vanlaar (born in Holland) has been settled in Jomtien just...
Pattaya enhances public amenities with new state-of-the-art Toilet Buses
PATTAYA, Thailand - Pattaya City is tackling the shortage of public restrooms by acquiring six new mobile units, with the arrival of the first...
Pattaya launches electric baht-buses to tackle long-term pollution
PATTAYA, Thailand - In a bid to revolutionize public transportation and combat pollution, Pattaya City took a significant step forward on April 25 with...
Thailand’s declining birth rate sparks future population concerns
PATTAYA, Thailand - The Paediatric Society of Thailand has sounded the alarm over a troubling trend where the number of births in Thailand has...
Immigration police raid nets 21 Myanmar nationals in Pattaya
PATTAYA, Thailand – Chonburi Immigration Police conducted a raid on two rented rooms in Soi Khopai South Pattaya on April 24, following reports of...