Thais rejoice as our beloved King celebrates His 78^th Birthday

School children perform traditional Thai dances in front of the portrait of HM the King, one of the many festivities held to mark the 78th Birthday of our beloved King Bhumibol Adulyadej the Great on December 5. (Photo by Suchada Tupchai)

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A time for remembering as Pattaya celebrates 27th anniversary as a city

A ceremony was held in front of the King Taksin Monument at Pattaya City Hall on November 29 at 9:30 a.m. to commemorate the 27th year of the founding of Pattaya as a city, with nine monks present and city hall officers making offerings.

Pattaya was a sub-district of Chonburi originally, called Pad Tha Ya, which means the wind blowing from the southwest to the northeast at the beginning of the rainy season. The name eventually became Pattaya, and for years it was a small fishing settlement.

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NEWS

Only halfway to Paradise as mayor puts brakes on project

OUR COMMUNITY

Pluakdang Hospital receives donated air-con units

The Rotary Club of Jomtien-Pattaya and Emerson Climate Technologies have donated more air conditioners to Pluakdang Hospital in support of the work undertaken there in the treatment of drug addicts.

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FEATURES

PILC Charity Ball 2005 A romantic journey through Golden Siam

Golden Siam was the theme for this year’s Pattaya International Ladies Club Golden Siam Night Charity Ball, the annual social event of the year at the Royal Cliff Beach Resort Saturday November 26. The motto this year was Secure a Child’s Future. All money raised from this event will be used to help make life better for the underprivileged children in this area.

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OUR CHILDREN

Students take to the streets to help with annual litter-pick

Every student from Assumption College Sriracha went out recently with one aim – to find rubbish. The children went to various points in Sriracha, near Pattaya, to collect as much litter as they could.

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SPORTS

All that glitters is not gold

The SEA games originated from the SEAP (South East Asian Peninsular) Games, which were first inaugurated in Thailand in 1959. Laung Sukhumnaipradit, the then Vice President of the Thailand Olympic Committee conceptualized the idea of the games as a means to “promote cooperation, understanding and friendly relations” among the countries in the region. As the 23rd SEA Games drew to a close last Monday in Manila amidst allegations of cheating, unsporting behaviour and diplomatic ‘mud-slinging’, one can only wonder what he would make of it all today.

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Thais rejoice as our beloved King celebrates His 78th Birthday

Pluakdang Hospital receives donated air-con units

PILC Charity Ball 2005 A romantic journey through Golden Siam

Students take to the streets to help with annual litter-pick

All that glitters is not gold

Thais rejoice as our beloved King celebrates His 78^th Birthday