Yearly Archives: 2013
Tourist compensation fund facing bankruptcy
Administrator proposes reorganization into fund-raising association following April speedboat accident Still reeling from an April speedboat accident that injured 18 foreign tourists and 2...
Lions Club joins Naklua canal restoration effort
Area Lions clubs are joining Pattaya’s efforts to clean up Naklua’s Nok Yang Canal. Lions Club members from regions 8 and 9 joined the...
Vendors bemoan Beach Road construction
Construction to widen Beach Road is taking a toll on beach umbrella vendors as annoyed sun worshippers are finding quieter places to sunbathe. ...
Russian spurns Pattaya after necklace snatch
A Russian tourist has lost faith in Pattaya after losing his gold necklace to a transvestite thief. Sergei Trubarev, 53, complained to police May...
Banglamung man arrested for dealing drugs to speedboat drivers
Tourist police ordered to crack down on drug use by tourist-boat operators have arrested a Banglamung man suspected them methamphetamines. An intoxicated Nattapong Noilamai,...
Sriracha man tempts karma with Buddhist shrine burglary
A Sriracha man faces more than bad karma after being arrested for burglarizing the donation box at a Pattaya Beach Buddhist shrine. Narai Samniangprao,...
Plutaluang police look for fuel thief
Plutaluang police are tracking down the license plate of a Toyota Fortuner whose driver filled up at a PTT petrol station but didn’t pay....
2 Central Festival workers suffocate whilst cleaning storm drain
Two Central Festival Pattaya Beach employees ordered to clean a drainage pipe died after suffocating from carbon dioxide overexposure. G4S Co. security guard Suradet...
Indian loses watch after ending fling with transvestite hooker
An Indian tourist complained to police that a transvestite prostitute he hired for two nights stole his expensive watch when he ended their fling....











