Happy 21st anniversary, Pattaya Mail! We wish you many more eternally! As usual, for these landmarks, we want to show our appreciation once again for staying with the Jesters Care for Kids since 1998, when we started at Delaney’s (Dicey O’Reilly’s now) with just a pub night up until the present 17 years later.
We thank you for all the publicity, including all the press releases and PMTV interviews, as well as all of the printing jobs for our PR tools, the posters, flyers, yearbooks, brochures, tickets, etc. We could not have done it without you.
Thank you for the wonderful memories. It’s been a fantastic ride and you have been with us all the way.
Hearty congratulations,
The Jesters Care
for Kids Committee
On behalf of the children and students at the Father Ray Foundation, I would like to wish the management, editor, reporters, photographers and everyone else involved at the Pattaya Mail a very Happy 21st Anniversary.
Thank you for the support you have given to us over more than two decades.
May God Bless you all.
Father Peter Pattarapong Srivorakul C.Ss.R.,
President of the Father Ray Foundation
Hillary says Hi!
So the Pattaya Mail is now 21. Key of the door and stay out past midnight. Oh what a wonderful feeling that was, not to have to knock on the door to get back in, wakening parents and the neighbor’s dog. So keep going Pattaya Mail, I hope to read you in another 21 years, when I will be 21 years older, and never ask a woman her age, Petal.
Congratulations to Peter and the Pattaya Mail for serving our community devotedly for all these years. I particularly appreciate Colin Kaye’s On The Grape Vine column.
David Meador
Pattaya City Expats Club congratulates Pattaya Mail on 21 years of excellent news service to the community and best wishes for many more.
* Hail Hail Pattaya Mail!
Mass communication is a tough game getting tougher. What was just science fiction in 1993 we now take for granted, like smart phones and e-mail. How could we even exist without it? The world and our every day life has changed rapidly in a whirlwind of confusion.
Luckily there are some familiar markers around us that protect us from being blown away. One of them is Pattaya Mail, the first English language newspaper in Pattaya and the Eastern Seaboard of Thailand. It is still here, it is still the best, offering unbiased, honest and well written journalism covering the community, its social events and local sports as well as covering the general news both well balanced and informative.
21 years on Pattaya Mail is present both on the Internet and on TV, the newspaper has expanded into the future, staying modern without sacrificing any of its original intentions, telling the truth being the most important of them all. Pattaya Mail’s contribution to our community can not be overrated.
We also have to praise you for letting Yan’s very close friend Carl Meyer loose in his weekly column plugging old vinyl records. Goes to show that Pattaya Mail isn’t afraid of keeping an eye on the past either. (Hm, come to think of it, vinyl is actually cool again, but don’t tell Meyer.)
So dear Peter and your wonderful staff, congratulations, we are so proud of you and what you have achieved – and here’s to the next 21!
Kind regards
Yan Friis, journalist, author and part-time comedian
Lin Li, senior advisor, Innovation Norway
Mio Thana, Pattaya Self Storage
Jan Olav Aamlid, House of Coins
*Hail, hail rock and roll
Deliver me from the days of old (Chuck Berry, “School Days”)
You’re now just a half way to 42!!!
Congratulations!
Supa Kukarja (Sue)
Director & Production Manager
PMTV Department
We have supplied Horoscopes to the Pattaya Mail for a number of years, and Peter and Dan are truly lovely to deal with. Also, our digital horoscope feed for the website gets a tremendous amount of traffic and we are very proud to support the paper, in both print and online. Many congratulations on this wonderful milestone for your great publication, warm regards,
Astrologer Patrick Arundell
Speaking for my wife and myself, we enjoy following the stories in the Pattaya Mail and value highly your coverage of the local issues that are so important to English speaking Pattaya residents.
More importantly, we trust the information in the Pattaya Mail. There are other news sources out there but they are not as careful about the information they print, and many times worry a subject much too long.
Pattaya would not be as good as it is without the Pattaya Mail.
Thanks for being there.
Richard & Janet Smith
Hi Peter,
Congratulations on your achievement – 20 years anywhere is amazing, 20 years in Pattaya is incredible!
Here’s some words from my school:
“Many congratulations to Pattaya Mail for an amazing 21 years, from Garden International School, Eastern Seaboard, Ban Chang, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Your efforts to highlight the positive elements in our community and tackle social issues is at the heart of all good local journalism.”
Regards,
Mark Beales
Head of English
Publishing
Congratulations!
Dear Peter,
Congratulations to you and all at Pattaya Mail on your 21st anniversary! We wish you all the best for the next 21 years, and more!
Stuart Saunders,
Pattaya Progress Association and Pattaya Bypass.
www.PattayaProgress.Org.
Dear everybody at Pattaya Mail and Pattaya Blatt,
Congratulations to all staff at Pattaya Mail and Pattaya Blatt for the first 21 years of service to everybody in Pattaya. Thank you for all the support and help given to Pattaya International Ladies Club throughout the years we really appreciate it.
Warm birthday wishes on behalf of every member of PILC,
Helle Rantsen
PILC President
A message from Kamolthep ‘Prince’ Malhotra – General Manager & News and Public Relations Department Manager:
I am happy to say that I am very proud to be working with Pattaya Mail Media Group and that it has already been 14 years now. I love this place. It has so much for me to learn and do. I have gained a lot of experience from working with so many gurus in different fields of professions and one of those gurus surely includes K. Peter my beloved father.
The group has built bridges for me to go across to meet a lot of great people in the society, those who dedicate their time and lives to do good for community, those who work hard to make Pattaya City a better and safer place to live in. I thank people at the City Hall, Banglamung District Office, the police offices, the NCPO, charitable clubs and organizations, generous hearts of local business people and more. Pattaya is my only town I know since I was young and I too want to see this beautiful city a peaceful place to live and grow old in, and I know that Pattaya Mail can fulfill that dream for me and for all.
Love you all at the PMMG and good people out there,
Prince
When I was told that the first edition of the Pattaya Mail first appeared on 23rd July 1993, just out of curiosity, I dug out my diary for that year. This was possible because I have kept my annual diaries since 1972. Yes I know, sad but true. I was rather hoping that some significant event occurred on that date in my life. But it turned out that nothing worth reporting happened at all.
Ever since then, on my regular trips to Thailand, the Pattaya Mail was always the first thing I bought on my arrival in town. And for the last couple of years, as fate would have it, I have found myself writing – with considerable enjoyment – for that same newspaper. The 21st birthday of the paper is really something to celebrate and I am delighted to be a small part of Peter Malhotra’s dedicated team who bring you this excellent paper every week. So hearty congratulations, Pattaya Mail! Long may you continue to grace our city’s news-stands.
Colin Kaye
The “Pattaya Mail” holds the key to a beautiful “City-by-the-Sea”.
It does not seem a year since I wished the “Pattaya Mail” a happy twentieth birthday. Now it is time for the twenty-first, with yet another “Best of the East” award for the media group’s consistent, ongoing reportage and support, benefitting all of us living in our chosen “City-by-the-Sea”.
Many moons ago, when I left my native (savage?) birth-place of Hobart, Tasmania, a rather stupid “rite-of-passage” was observed on the day one reached his/her majority (i.e. twenty-first birthday). It was celebrated by a moronic party and an equally-ridiculous song, which went something like: “I’m 21 today, 21 today; I now have the key to the door, I’ve never been 21 before…”
I was able to avoid all this nonsense, by leaving Australia just before I turned this “magic age”. I celebrated my own “rite-of-passage’ on board an ocean liner, somewhere in the Red Sea, about to enter the Suez Canal. There was no party and no key to the door – ANY DOOR. That was to come some half a century later. I can look back on those first 21 years of my unspectacular life, as an almost total blank.
My “key to the door” came one fateful day around the end of the last century when I was “press-ganged” into joining the “Pattaya Mail” – which opened, for me, many doors. Through the Mail’s immense spectrum of coverage of events around the Eastern Seaboard and much, much further afield, I was able to report on a gamut of topics, ranging from royalty to religion, environment to ecology, sports to society, health to happiness, fun to folly, crime to charity: the horizon is endless.
For its dedication to the betterment of the environs and the denizens – from the poorest to the richest – of our “city-by-the-sea”, the “Mail” has been awarded, on at least 16 occasions, the accolade of ‘The best in the East”.
On joining this august group, I have had the singular pleasure of working closely with the newspaper founder Peter Malhotra and his sons, executive editor Dan Dorothy, sports editor Martin Bilsborrow, PMTV people Supa Kukarja and Paul Strachan and, of course, the great Dr Iain Corness whose track cuts succinctly through many echelons of our society.
There is an old tradition, that illustrious citizens or famous visitors to specific cities, are awarded “a key to the city”, to honour singular contributions to that city’s benefit. I would unequivocally present a “key to the city” to Peter Malhotra and the “Pattaya Mail” for the 21 years of dedication, to making our Pattaya and the environs better, year-after-year.
May this be the aim of each and every one of us, to make our Pattaya better than ever and may the “Pattaya Mail” continue to lead the way.
Peter Cummins
