Chinese-Thai beauty contest hopefuls Pattaya
before final judging
Miss Feng
Ling Song, a 21-year-old Shanghai University
student, poses for photos during last week’s Miss
Thailand Chinese Cosmos Pageant visit to Pattaya.
The contestants were in town the day before final
judging in Bangkok. (Full story and more photos on
page 5.)
3 months on, Pattaya officials still talking tough, doing nothing to solve jet ski extortion scandal
Nearly three months after promising a strict
crackdown on scamming jet ski vendors, Pattaya officials are no closer
to actually ending near-daily incidents of extortion and intimidation of
tourists by beachfront criminal elements. Continued
Second Road cable
construction to continue through November
Construction work to install new high-speed Internet
and electrical cables under Second and Pratamnak roads will continue for
another four months, city officials said. Continued
Raimon Land unveils new show suite for luxury Zire Wongamat development
Award-winning property developer Raimon Land has launched
the show suite for its new Zire Wongamat project in Pattaya at a special
media event held Friday, July 29, that also provided an unprecedented
insight into the state of the city’s property market.
A.X. Fassbind Memorial Charity dinner
planned for August 13 at Linda’s Restaurant
Alois X. Fassbind, a.k.a. ‘Luigi’, a.k.a. Mr. Pattaya, left us on the
3rd of August 1998. His colourful career was devoted to the Thai tourism
industry, and to philanthropic activities, including his own charity,
During the recent floods in the south of Thailand
residents of the Lan Pho market in Naklua, led by Aka Thai of Fix Gear shop,
collected total of 15,212 baht which they donated to Mayor Itthiphol
Kunplome at b>Pattaya City Hall to use as emergency funds when needed..
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