Pattaya City Manager Jonsak Yomchinda welcomes
entertainment and soccer stars from the Netherlands, here to raise funds for
homeless children. The honourable City Manager told the assembled celebrities
that their presence proves that Pattaya has undergone its change in image from
one of sea, sun and sex to that of sea, sun and sports.
A Pattaya police sergeant and his assistant are now trying to convince
their superiors that three Middle Easterner prisoners, held in
connection with a Dusit Resort robbery case, managed to saw through
heavy metal bars at the jail and escape into the busy street.
Security guard Virat Khampong received
minor injuries when he was struck in the
face with a 5 kilogram rock at the scene
of a bank robbery at the Maha Nakorn
Bank in South Pattaya last week.
In 1987,
as part of a cultural exhibition celebrating King
Bhumibol Adulyadej’s 60th birthday, various memorabilia
from the travels of Carl A. Bock, the 19th-century
Norwegian explorer, were put on display. Continued
Chamlong Krutkhuntod, (2nd Left) Deputy Prime Minister
for Education, recently presided at a training seminar of librarians and
public library officers nation-wide at the Ambassador City Jomtien.
