Community News

01-11-2010
Tourist Traps Hand in Escalator on Halloween Shopping Trip[4,241 views]

A young Swedish tourist got his fingers trapped in an escalator at 'Tuk Com' IT City on Halloween. His hand was eventually freed and he was sent for emergency treatment.
01-11-2010
Bizarre Traffic Accident Injures Two[2,601 views]

A flying car and collisions with several vertical roadside obstructions on Sukhumvit Road, Sattahip, resulted in two drivers being hospitalised after being trapped in their vehicles.
31-10-2010
Happy Hallowe’en 2010[2,295 views]

Pattaya’s 2010 Halloween Festival will be celebrated in style this year. Next to Hard Rock Cafe, on Pattaya Beach Road, there will be a specially created haunted graveyard, where mere mortals can meet the denizens of the underworld in person, as they traverse the portal between their world and ours as the clock strikes 12am tonight, on the cusp of Oct31-Nov1.
30-10-2010
Neighbours Suffer Chain-Electrocution In Ayutthaya Flood[3,175 views]

Two Ayutthayans were cross-electrocuted while trying to salvage electrical kit in a riverside kitchen 60cm-deep in water. A neighbour was also electrocuted attempting to rescue the first two victims.
30-10-2010
Pattaya Does Its Bit To Help The Unfortunate[1,342 views]

Pattaya is to participate in a nationwide drive to collect and distribute food to 200,000 Buddhist monks in 77 provinces, particularly to those in the four insurgency-struck Southern provinces, as well as to bring food aid to as many of the recent flood victims as possible.
29-10-2010
Gang Of Hypnotizers’ Rip Off Thai Mother For Bt300,000[2,763 views]

A young mother, out shopping in Carrefour Supermarket, was somehow mesmerized into parting with the equivalent of Bt300,000 by a 3-man gang, dubbed ‘the hypnotizers’.
28-10-2010
Two Iranian Sneak Thieves Swell Number of Foreign Thefts in Pattaya[5,422 views]

Thailand in general and Pattaya in particular seem to be being currently targeted by international thieves, both gangs and individuals. The latest case concerns two Iranians who tried to unsuccessfully sneak goods they had stolen past security guards at Big C Department Store, North Pattaya.
28-10-2010
Locals protesters voice concern over Sky-train project[1,678 views]

Angry locals protested against the proposed monorail/sky train that City Hall wants to press ahead with. They said they would continue their protest come what may.
27-10-2010
Tragic drowning in Na Jomtien[4,313 views]

The pregnant wife of a jailed foreigner, was thought to have drowned after drinks at a Na Jomtien restaurant where she had gone to be with her waiter friend, a restaurant employee.
27-10-2010
Chinese National Arrested for Indecent Act[5,788 views]

A Chinese National was arrested after a complaint by a woman who caught him videoing under her skirt as she stepped on an escalator in a Pattaya department store.
27-10-2010
New Light-Controlled Crossings Increase Pedestrian Safety[2,792 views]

Pattaya has just spent Bt129 million on a new system of traffic light-controlled pedestrian crossings for Pattaya City in order to improve safety and ease traffic congestion.
27-10-2010
Local Fresh Food Prices Spiral As Regional Floods Intensify[1,181 views]

The increasingly worsening flooding in the Northeastern and Central parts of Thailand has forced up the price of vegetables in Sriracha and other local markets due to severe supply shortages. The situation is hardly likely to improve in the near future and prices of all perishable goods can be expected to rise everywhere in the Pattaya region. Let’s just hope that unscrupulous vendors don’t take advantage of the situation to hike the price beyond affordable levels.
26-10-2010
Middle-Aged Dane Found Dead In Pattaya Hotel[3,282 views]

A 57-year –Middle Aged Dane who was in ill health was found dead in his hotel room on October 25. Police do not suspect foul play and are reserving judgment as to the cause of death until after his autopsy.
24-10-2010
Wily Pattaya Hi-Lo Gamblers Caught Red Handed[2,395 views]

A ‘bush’ gambling ring, under surveillance for some time, was finally busted in a timely police operation in Phratumnak Soi 4. Police managed to nab 28 of the 40 gamblers, the remainder escaped and are currently being sought.
23-10-2010
Australian Drunk Driver Found Well Over Legal Limit[5,949 views]

An Australian National was arrested after being caught up in a row resulting from his dangerous driving due to his seriously intoxicated state in Pattaya.
22-10-2010
School Children Injured in Pattaya Hotel Lift Accident[3,172 views]

A group of schoolchildren and their teacher have been injured in a freak lift accident at a central Pattaya hotel on Thursday. The lift is thought to have plunged from the sixth floor of the building in unknown circumstances.
22-10-2010
Mayor Oversees Seminar on Pattaya Development Plan[1,689 views]

On Thursday morning, the mayor of Pattaya oversaw a seminar aimed at promoting the present and future development of the city to ensure a better quality of life for its residents and visiting tourists.
22-10-2010
Depressed Elderly Thai Woman Jumps to Her Death in Jomtien[5,183 views]

An elderly Thai woman is thought to have committed suicide by jumping from the 19th floor of a Jomtien condominium complex on Thursday.
21-10-2010
Elderly Dutch Man Drowns After Accident in Pattaya Pool[3,977 views]

A partially disabled elderly Dutch man has drowned in a Pattaya swimming pool on Thursday afternoon. The man is believed to have slipped at the waters edge, hitting his head before drowning in the pool.
20-10-2010
Woman Injured on Revolving Ride at Pattaya Beach Road Carnival[3,721 views]

A Thai woman has received minor injuries after falling from a showground ride at the ‘Grand Sale Fair’ on Pattaya’s Beach Road on Tuesday night.