Yearly Archives: 2014
Ladies’ Wine?
As chance would have it, a couple of weeks ago I found myself at a local wine-tasting, though with the flashing lights, the deafening...
Community service & a birthday cake
To honour the 87th birthday of His Majesty the King, forty students from the Redemptorist Vocational School for People with Disabilities took time off...
St. Andrews students go on Operation Smile medical mission
November is a special month for students and staff at St. Andrews, Green Valley. Apart from being the time for the school’s Halloween party...
Community Happenings – Friday December 19 – December 25, 2014
Events The next meeting of the Pattaya City Expats Club (PCEC) will be on Sunday, December 21. Everyone is warmly welcome. Club member David...
IGCSE history students taken on Vietnam field trip
Before the Vietnam trip all of us were incredibly ecstatic about it; even if it was 4 months or so away we were all...
Regents brings festive cheer with two delightful Christmas concerts
Those lucky enough to have attended Regents’ primary and secondary Christmas concerts would have left with a massive smile on their faces after some...
Pattaya School No. 3 takes 3rd at Lions classical-music contest
Pattaya School No. 3 took third place at a classical music contest organized by the Lions Club of Pattaya-Taksin. Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome presented the...
Japan donates over 1m baht to Fountain of Life Children
The government of Japan, under its Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects Scheme (GGP), is providing funds amounting to 1,004,000 baht to provide...
Pattaya Pride raises 216,000 baht for AIDS charity
More than 200,000 baht was raised for HIV/AIDS charities at the annual Pattaya Pride gay festival on Pratamnak Hill. Emceed by organizer Jim Lumsden,...
Latest Stories
A strong Baht, who wins, who loses and why expats are paying attention
PATTAYA, Thailand - “The baht is strengthening.” It sounds like an ordinary line from an economic report. For expats living in Thailand, it is...
Pattaya authorities enforce sidewalk rules, ticket cars blocking pedestrian paths
PATTAYA, Thailand – Pattaya municipal officers cracked down on vehicles obstructing sidewalks, issuing a ticket to a white Honda Jazz parked on South Pattaya...
Pattaya bustles with festive cheer on Christmas Eve
PATTAYA, Thailand — Pattaya came alive on Christmas Eve as tourists and locals flooded the city’s famous Walking Street, soaking up the festive atmosphere....
Foreign tourist injured in fight outside Jomtien beer bar in Pattaya
PATTAYA, Thailand — At around 2:00 a.m. on December 25, police at Pattaya City Station were notified of a brawl with injuries in front...
Foreign tourists clash in street fight along Pattaya Beach over minor bump
PATTAYA, Chonburi — A street brawl between two foreign tourists erupted along Pattaya Beach, causing alarm among onlookers and disrupting the area’s normally festive...