Pattaya Press Association
members celebrate their step up from a club to an association.
Manoon Makpol
Area media organizations have incorporated the
Pattaya Press Association, which brings together smaller media groups
that have been operating on the Eastern Seaboard for the past 20 years.
Regional politicians, bureaucrats and community
leaders congratulated inaugural President Amporn Saengkaee.
At the group’s first meeting Aug. 8 at the Diana
Garden Resort, the association handed out scholarships to children of
reporters and editors and enjoyed dinner and other activities.
Amporn said the incorporation as the former Pattaya
Press Club had become larger and larger over recent years. Thai laws
draw a tax and legal distinction between clubs and associations, and it
was time for the club to become the latter.
He said the association will work in coming months to
increase the academic, practical and ethical training for Thai
journalists.
