Pattaya Mail
Thais rush to buy gold after price plunge, despite threat of...
Pattaya residents rushed to buy gold after the world prices plunged 30 percent in a week. The Gold Traders Association cut the buying price...
Banglamung escapes increase in national Songkran death toll
While Songkran carnage on Thailand’s road increased by one nationally from 2012, the Pattaya area suffered no fatalities. A total of 321 people...
Waterproof phone pouches popular during Songkran
Street vendors have found a new source of revenue for Songkran besides ice and powder: telephone covers. In Naklua, water fights continued as...
Water vendors drown in Songkran profits
Perhaps the happiest people in all of Pattaya during Songkran are the ones supplying the water. The annual holiday again had water-truck operators’...
Water + Songkran: An ancient combination
Songkran wasn’t always a war of water. It began thousands of years ago with disciples pouring water for Lord Buddha. Practiced throughout the...
Songkran tradition takes a powder
It should have been no surprise that a government ban on the throwing of white powder during Songkran had the same chance of...
Myanmar – letting the dust settle
Armin Schoch, formerly of Diethelm Travel and now of Impulse Travel, talking recently as guest speaker at the March meeting of Skål International...
Dusit Thani Pattaya is second among top 100 hotels in Starway...
General Manager Chatchawal Supachayanont (8th from right) holds up the trophy received by Dusit Thani Pattaya after it was named as the second...
Thailand announces new Minister of Tourism
Career politician and former provincial governor Somsak Pureesrisak has been appointed Minister of Tourism and Sports, effective April 9. He replaces the late...
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