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Skal looking forward to ITB and Asian Assembly
The recently re-activated, and very active, Skal Club
of Pattaya and East Thailand held their monthly meeting at the Aung Kham
Restaurant on 3rd Road. President Murray Hertz was unable to attend, but
was in the Philippines gaining first hand information regarding the XXXI
Skal Asian Assembly in Manila to be held May 24 to 26 this year. For the
Manila Skal Club it is also a most auspicious time, being the 50th
Anniversary of that club.
The local members were also brought up to date with the
7 million baht “re-launch” of Pattaya to be held at the ITB (the
world’s largest tourism expo) to be held in Germany on the 16th to 20th
March. Following the many improvements to Pattaya, the water treatment
plant being just one of them, it was decided that Pattaya should inform
the world of the advancements that have been undertaken over the past
couple of years by Pattaya City. Many of the Skal club members (the
premier tourism and hospitality group in the world) will be at the ITB to
boost the Pattaya image to the world.
During
their monthly meeting at the Aung Kham Restaurant, the Skal Club of
Pattaya and East Thailand discussed the upcoming XXXI Skal Asian Assembly
in Manila and the 7 million baht “re-launch” of Pattaya to be held
this month at the ITB (the world’s largest tourism expo).
Sriracha Phyathai Hospital opens clinic in Pattaya
Mayor Pairat Suttithamrongsawat and Darryl Mayton, CEO
at Phyathai Group presided over the official opening ceremony of the new
Phyathai Clinic on North Pattaya Road.
Dr. Anan Tharawet, director of Sriracha Phyathai
Hospital, said that since the hospital has joined the health insurance
program, the number of patients in the program living in Sriracha and
nearby districts has increased enormously. The patients from Pattaya
steadily increased until it became necessary to provide an additional
location to service patients.
The new Sriracha Phyathai Clinic has a highly efficient
staff of medical assistants, nurses and doctors ready to provide expert
service and medical care. The hospital is equipped with modern lab and
x-ray facilities, and provides general checkups, cardiology checkups, and
gynecology and pediatric care.
Sriracha Phyathai Hospital is ISO certified and is
under the Phyathai Group of hospitals located all over Thailand. If
special medical care is unavailable at the Sriracha Phyathai Hospital
patients can be referred to Phyathai-Harvard Heart Disease Center or the
Siriraj Hospital.
Phyathai Group also has six other locations in Chonburi
Muang District, five in Ban Bueng, 16 in Sriracha, one in Sattahip and
four locations in Banglamung, with many other branches in other provinces
around the country, each under the health insurance program.
The Phyathai Clinic is located on North Pattaya Road
opposite the Pattaya tour bus station and is open from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
every day.
(from
right) Dr. Anan Tharawet, director of Sriracha Phyathai Hospital, Darryl
Mayton, Phyathai Group CEO, and Pattaya Mayor Pairat Suttithamrongsawat
cut the ribbon to officially open the new Phyathai Clinic on North Pattaya
Road.
Diana Group holds Buddhist ritual ceremony at Ban Ruan Thai Kalae
Chakrapong Akkaranant
The staff at Diana Group arranged for nine monks from
Wat Na Jomtien to perform ritual ceremonies on February 19 at the Ban Ruan
Thai guesthouses and driving range located in Diana Garden Lodge on
Pattaya North Road.
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revered monk performs a ritual ceremony to sanctify the signs at each of
the guesthouses at Diana Group’s Ban Ruan Thai Kalae.
Manager Tamarat Chotsakul explained that the ceremony
marked the first anniversary at the driving range, but is also arranged
each year to insure prosperity and prevent ill fortune for residents and
employees.
The ritual is an all-inclusive ceremony that includes
sanctifying the building and business signs by sprinkling sacred water
throughout the area while performing ancient ritual rites that appease
spirits in the vicinity. Food offerings are presented to the nine monks
following the ritual prayers.
ESBEC starts Waste Management Operations in Eastern Seaboard
United State Ambassador Darryl Johnson (left) presided
over the grand opening of Eastern Seaboard Environmental Complex (ESBEC)
in Bowin Subdistrict, Sriracha, Chonburi Province held by Waste Management
Siam Ltd., (WMS) led by Edward A. Corcoran (second from left), president
& chief executive officer along with Ms. Unchalee Chawanit (third from
left), governor of the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand, Santsak
Ngampiches (center), advisor to the Minister of Science, Technology and
Environment, Viroj Amatakulchai, and John L. Hamilton (right), ESBEC site
manager.
ESBEC’s services will cover the disposal of municipal
waste, commercial waste and non-hazardous industrial waste. It will also
carry out waste segregation, materials recovery, composting, leachate
treatment, landfill gas management, recycling and environmental
monitoring.
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