Yearly Archives: 2011
Visakha Bucha Day, the beginning of the Buddhist Era 2,554 years...
Banks and government offices closed Tuesday, May 17, is one of the most venerated holidays on the Buddhist calendar: Visakha Bucha Day. This Buddhist...
New PBTA board takes up tourist promotion, zoning
The new president and board of the Pattaya Business and Tourism Association took up where the old executives left off, planning tourist promotions...
A year after Bangkok riots, tourists return to Pattaya for Labor...
Peaceful times brought tourists back to Pattaya Labor Day weekend a year after the city was left virtually deserted due to increasingly violent street...
Soi Yensabai pub raid nets arrests for drugs, underage patrons
Police raided a Soi Yensabai bar, arresting its manager for operating after hours and serving underage customers, and several customers and staff for...
Father murders young sons, commits suicide
An allegedly drug-addicted rubber farmer viciously killed his two small sons before hanging himself in their Rayong home. Sawai...
Mother and daughter perish in South Pattaya fire
A fire at a South Pattaya music studio killed a mother and her 3-year-old daughter. Kanjana Payupat died en route to Banglamung Hospital...
Police make rare attempt to curb Pattaya noise pollution, citing 149...
In a rare crackdown by officials usually ambivalent to noise pollution, Pattaya Police ticketed 149 people for overly loud cars and motorcycles. ...
Teen waiter gets head stuck between floors on elevator
A teenage waiter at a Pattaya seafood restaurant is alive, but sore after getting his head stuck between floors in a service elevator....
Revered monk’s birthday celebrated with blood drive
The Pattaya Metta Prachakit Club commemorated the 75th birthday of Buddhist monk Panya Punyayo with a blood drive at his Photisampan Temple in Naklua....
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Rauchwolken über Zentral-Pattaya nach Brand nahe Beach Road
PATTAYA, Thailand – Am Neujahrstag ist am Nachmittag hinter einem Hotel in der Soi 12 an der Beach Road ein Feuer ausgebrochen. Dichte Rauchschwaden...
Russischer Motorradfahrer stirbt an tödlicher Jomtien-Kurve
PATTAYA, Thailand – Ein russischer Motorradfahrer ist am Neujahrsmorgen tödlich verunglückt, sein Freund wurde verletzt, nachdem ihr Motorrad an der berüchtigten „tödlichen Kurve“ auf...
Vermisstes pakistanisches Kind in der Neujahrsnacht in Pattaya gefunden
PATTAYA, Thailand – In der Neujahrsnacht wurde ein pakistanisches Kind in der Nähe des Eingangs zur Soi 1 am Pattaya Beach als von seiner...
Fliegende Laternen erhellen Pattayas Neujahrshimmel – und legen Vollzugsdefizite offen
PATTAYA, Thailand – Trotz jährlicher Warnungen, Patrouillen und wiederholter Hinweise füllten fliegende Laternen während der Neujahrsfeiern erneut den Nachthimmel über Pattaya – nur um...
Kühle Luft zieht südwärts – mildere, aber frische Morgen in Pattaya
PATTAYA, Thailand – Das thailändische Meteorologische Amt meldet weiterhin kühle bis kalte Witterungsbedingungen in den oberen Landesteilen, begleitet von morgendlichem Nebel in mehreren Regionen....