Yearly Archives: 2011
Sriracha man dies as car crashes, burns
A Sriracha man died after his car hit and tree and exploded in Borwin. Paisan Fungfuang, 56, was pronounced...
Alleged police payoffs fail to prevent gambling den raid
Alleged bribes to the Banglamung Police Station didn’t stop officers from raiding a Soi Khao Talo house where 19 people were arrested for...
Icy bum lands Nigerian in jail
A Nigerian man who stuck a bag of methamphetamines up his bum was one of two people arrested by Banglamung police for alleged...
Pretend cop ticketed by real officers
A man pretending to be a Roi Et police officer got a little too into his character and was nabbed by real police...
Drug Culture rife in Pattaya
A Police checkpoint on the Soi Khao Talo stopped a 29 year old Thai man Chatchai Srisen. He was found to...
2 injured as Burmese, Cambodians brawl at labor camp
Two people were injured when drunk Cambodian and Burmese laborers squared off at a construction camp in Nongprue. Two...
Palang Chon leaders hit the road to get candidates elected
With July 3’s parliamentary elections less than a month away, Chonburi’s powerful Kunplome family brought out its top executives in a push to...
Drug Addict arrested at police checkpoint
The highly effective police checkpoints around Pattaya netted another offender. 31 year old Santi Kaewpuang was stopped on his motorbike in...
Grandmother collects trash to keep her family together
At 80 years old, Bunlert Nutnom never expected to be walking Pattaya’s streets every day collecting trash to get by. But she also...
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Wine World: Doing the Twist
If you recognise that expression, you must be getting on a bit. The lines were made famous by an American singer called Chubby Checker...
Citywide operation targets public-space living as Pattaya seeks balance between care and order
PATTAYA, Thailand – Pattaya City officials have continued coordinated operations to manage and support homeless individuals in public spaces, while maintaining order in key...
Russian mother flies to Pattaya in desperate search for missing son, fears foul play
PATTAYA, Thailand – A Russian mother has flown to Pattaya in a desperate attempt to locate her missing son, who vanished more than a...
Pattaya moves forward with smart city development, reviews public space survey proposal
PATTAYA, Thailand –– Pattaya City is advancing its smart city development agenda by considering a proposed project to survey and analyse public spaces, aimed...
Pattaya to add 200 more cameras, expanding real-time coverage of beaches, Jomtien and Koh...
PATTAYA, Thailand – Pattaya City is moving ahead with an expanded smart-city surveillance initiative by adding 200 more CCTV cameras to the Pattaya Connect...