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Food vendors briefed on sanitation laws
About 80 Sattahip-area bureaucrats and restaurateurs were briefed on food-safety laws at a sanitation knowledge and consumer-protection seminar in Khet Udomsak. ...
Rayong Prison issues stay for feline inmates
Rayong Prison officials have dropped plans to rid the penitentiary of hundreds of stray cats, saying feline inmates’ impact on rodent populations and...
Navy seizes 3 Vietnamese fishing boats off Sattahip
The Royal Thai Navy captured three Vietnamese fishing boats illegally catching sea snakes used as aphrodisiacs off Sattahip. Crews from the HTMS Ratanakosin arrested...
Naklua parents hold engagement ceremony for their 4-year-old twins
Call them old fashioned or just superstitious, but a Naklua couple had their 4-year-old fraternal twins engaged to be married to ward off...
Navy’s ACDC parades sailors, armaments
The Royal Thai Navy’s Air and Coastal Defense Command showed off its readiness for battle with a parade of troops, vehicles and artillery...
99 couples wed on Valentine’s Day at Nong Nooch
Valentine’s Day brought 99 couples to Nong Nooch Tropical Garden to get married while riding elephants. Sattahip Mayor Phawat Lertmukda and district Permanent Secretary...
Elephants become lions for Chinese New Year at Nong Nooch
Elephants who thought they were lions rang in Chinese New Year at Nong Nooch Tropical Garden. The park dressed up four of its...
Spitting cobra bests Rottweiler in Sattahip
A cobra bested a pursuing Rottweiler with a well-aimed spit of venom to the eyes, but animal-rescue officers with a lasso got the last...
Rayong prison raid recovers knives, but no drugs or telephones
More than 200 police and military officers recovered nearly 70 knives, seven tasers and 26 packs of cards in a raid of Rayong...
Brit arrested, Thai in coma after Sukhumvit crash in Plutaluang
A British driver is in custody after hitting a Thai motorcyclist while allegedly speeding in Plutaluang. Dominic Nardone, 37, was taken into custody...
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