The giant water fight commonly known as
Songkran has entered its final hours, with Pattaya thoroughly waterlogged and
residents either thoroughly annoyed or gearing up for tonight’s April 19 finale.
The annual rice festivals close out Songkran week starting at noon April 20 in
Naklua and at Nong Yai Temple beginning at 6:30 p.m. (Full Songkran wrap up in
next week’s edition of Pattaya Mail.)
The Chonburi Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department simulated a
chemical disaster in Laem Chabang to train workers how to handle the
real thing.
Red and black cards held the fate of nearly 1,100 Pattaya-area men who
lined up in Banglamung to see if they would be conscripted into
Thailand’s military.
Neighbors in Tune: Tune Hotels launch community beautification project across Thailand
Tune Hotels, Asia’s emerging force in award-winning
“value on a budget” hotel development, has launched a
regional community project to beautify the neighborhoods
in which they operate. Continued
Afterthoughts from winner of Amnesty International’s Young Journalist Award
Was it okay to quote my father?’ ‘How do I
create references to sources within the text?’
‘Is the layout of my article equivalent to what
I would see in the newspaper?’ These were all
questions that ran through my head towards the
end of the second school term as I scrambled to
finish my article for Amnesty International’s
Young Journalist of the Year award.
One of my favorite Neil Young albums. I like him
rough and scrawny, and he is here. The album is
a wily stew of fresh material and outtakes. The
new stuff, a kind of country hoe down with
fiddle, steel guitar and hollering barn-girls
(Linda Ronstadt and Nicolette Larson) lays claim
on side 1.
