Thai Kingdom celebrates Royal Wedding Anniversary

April 28 marks Their Majesties 55th wedding anniversary

His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej the Great and Her Majesty Queen Sirikit celebrate Their 55th wedding anniversary on Thursday, April 28. (Photo: Courtesy of the Bureau of the Royal Household)

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Rabies fears grow as summer heats up

The public is afraid that a summer hotter than in previous years will increase the number of rabies cases, and Pattaya City administration has issued a warning about epidemics.

Pattaya’s Environment and Health Department is urging the public to take precautions with their pets over rabies as summer begins, saying that animals such as dogs, cats, monkeys and squirrels can become infected. Rabies can be passed to humans from bites, scratches, licking and the body fluids of infected animals, the infection being passed through saliva or seminal fluid.

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NEWS

Retailers ponder implications of proposed sim card controls

OUR COMMUNITY

Motor show promotes vineyard as new tourist destination

Mayor Niran Wattanasartsathorn presided over the opening ceremony for the Pattaya Motor Show & Country Fair 2005, held from April 14 – 17 at the Silver Lake Vineyard in Pattaya.

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FEATURES

Pattaya awash during annual Wan Lai Songkran celebrations

Before Thailand changed over to the international calendar and began celebrating January 1 as New Year’s Day, the traditional New Year festivities were held over Songkran, April 13-15, with April 13 as the main day. The water festival on the Eastern Seaboard, however, takes place almost a week after the rest of the nation celebrates.

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SOCIAL SCENE

Pattaya Marriott Resort & Spa led by Khun Sathit Mansuwan, Resident Manager warmly welcomed Mr. Claus Egmoni Rink our VIP guest representative for Simon and Gerlinde, Head of St. Katharinen Hospiz who donated 16,000 baht to Spirit to Serve Communities recently.

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SPORTS

Close encounters on the Optimist water-lines

It was “wall-to-wall Optimists” off the Royal Varuna Yacht Club last weekend, when upwards of 70 of the little international training dinghy for under-16-year-olds, took part in the 2005 “Admiral’s Cup”, the ‘curtain raiser’ to the Optimist National Championships, always hard-fought among the top sailors, with very close racing, and always held in the previous week to the Nationals.

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