Yearly Archives: 2018
Exhausted
After ditching the Lotus T/C engines in our home built Ford Escort racers and fitting 12A Rotaries, the first meeting for the modified car...
Autotrivia Quiz
Last week I mentioned the names Lee Iacocca and Carroll Shelby and they came together in a famous race, and I asked: what was...
Biometric checks now required for all Thailand SIM card purchases
PATTAYA - Anyone buying a mobile phone SIM card in Thailand now must be fingerprinted or have their faces scanned, an initiative touted as improving...
OAG wants more evidence before pressing charges against Premchai
Bangkok - Thailand's Office of the Attorney-General (OAG) has decided not to send the case against Italian Thai Co Ltd CEO Premchai Karnasutra to...
Tropical storm reaches Thailand, earthquake reported in Kanchanaburi
Bangkok - Thailand's Meteorological Department has issued warnings for people in all provinces to brace for tropical storms from Wednesday through Friday.
According to the...
Tourism agencies on alert following popularity of Thai soap
Bangkok - The Permanent Secretary for Tourism and Sports, Pongpanu Svetarundra, has instructed all agencies to prepare to accommodate the rising number of tourist...
EC reacts to expulsion of Somchai Srisuthiyakorn
Bangkok - The chairman of Thailand's Election Commission (EC) has assured the public that the National Council for Peace and Order’s (NCPO) decision to...
3 years after eviction, AIDS hospice opens new home in Nongprue
PATTAYA - More than three years after being evicted from its Pattaya home by intolerant neighbors, an HIV and AIDS hospice opened the doors...
Thai court sentences Laotian drug kingpin to life in prison
Bangkok (AP) — A Thai court on Tuesday handed a life sentence to a Laotian drug kingpin who was notorious for a high-flying lifestyle...
Latest Stories
Refuse the breath test and you’re drunk Pattaya drivers lose all excuses
PATTAYA, Thailand – As Thailand enters the New Year “Seven Dangerous Days,” police warnings across the country carry a message that Pattaya residents and...
Pattaya’s ‘No Sex on the Beach’ claim tested as Immigration Police bust beachfront solicitation...
PATTAYA, Thailand – Despite repeated assurances from authorities that sex solicitation has been eliminated from Pattaya’s beachfront, immigration police once again moved to suppress...
Denial, prejudice and violence reveal what Pattaya’s street disputes say about the city
PATTAYA, Thailand – When Pattaya Blatt’s German-language readers reacted to news about an Indian tourist attacked by transgender street sex workers, the comments quickly...
Pattayas „Kein Sex am Strand“-Behauptung durch Razzia an der Beach Road widerlegt
PATTAYA, Thailand – Trotz wiederholter Versicherungen der Behörden, dass sexuelle Anwerbung entlang der Pattaya Beach Road beseitigt worden sei, ist die Einwanderungspolizei nur wenige...
Gibt es in Pattaya alleinstehende Frauen, die eine ernsthafte Beziehung suchen?
PATTAYA, Thailand – Für viele ausländische Besucher und Langzeitresidenten steht Pattaya sinnbildlich für Nachtleben, Strände und die Aussicht auf Gesellschaft. Doch hinter den Neonlichtern...