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Sattahip holds Buddhist celebration to commemorate enlightenment anniversary
Sattahip opened its celebration of 2,600 years of Buddhist enlightenment with a religious ceremony at Samakhee Banpot Temple. Sattahip...
Nong Nooch wins gold medal at British flower show
HM Queen Elizabeth II visits Thai exhibit Pattaya’s Nong Nooch Tropical Garden won a gold medal for the third consecutive year for...
Thai naval ship makes friendship call in Sihanoukville
A Royal Thai Navy ship paid a friendship call in Cambodia’s Sihanoukville, strengthening ties between military forces and giving Khmer officials a chance...
CARAT 2012 wraps in Sattahip
Thai and American naval forces wrapped up their 18th Combat Afloat Readiness and Training exercise, which this year focused extensively on amphibious assault....
Aditya employees apologize to neighbors for chemical leak
Executives from a Rayong chemical plant apologized to neighboring residents after a chemical gas leak at the Maptaput factory sickened more than 40...
CARAT 2012 exercises begin in Sattahip
Thai and American naval forces again are shooting up the skies near Sattahip as the annual CARAT exercise gets underway. ...
Sattahip residents clean, cremate bones of forgotten dead
More than 1,000 Sattahip residents dug up the graves of Sawang Rojthummasathan graveyard internees without families to clean bones and prepare them for...
Sattahip remembers revered monk
Pupils and followers of revered monk Luang Por Ee, the abbot of Sattahip Temple until 1946, remembered him with a seven-day festival. ...
Nong Nooch celebrates birth of elephant calf
Bird, Nong Nooch Tropical Garden’s top breeding elephant, added to his impressive total of offspring with the May Day birth of his 39th...
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