Pattaya

A ferocious fire destroyed an Indian nightclub on Pattaya’s Walking Street, injuring no one, but taking 10 fire companies to extinguish. Flames broke out at...

Thailand’s coronavirus task force on Friday will decide if Pattaya can “move on” and welcome fully vaccinated foreign tourists on Oct. 1. The Center for...

A German expat in Pattaya set fire fire to his house before stabbing himself and slitting his throat. Police and officers from the Chonburi Home...

Proving that the former military junta leader who put Bangkok and Pattaya’s mayors in office isn’t ready to let his men go, the Cabinet...

Pattaya’s ladyboys are learning how to stay home and bake cookies. The Sisters Foundation launched its second round of vocational training courses for LGBTQ people...

Pattaya activists launched their fourth anti-government “carmob’ demonstration, rolling a loud demonstration from the Dolphin Roundabout to the Sattahip Naval Base Sept. 5. The rolling...

Stuck with junta-appointed mayors, councils since 2016, voters finally can exercise democratic rights in city/SAO polls

Koh Larn reopens again Wednesday but will not require visitors to be vaccinated or tested for Covid-19. The island closed for the third time since...

With nearly 20,000 Pattaya residents either in the hospital, ‘hospitels” or “home isolation”, the city’s hazardous waste problem is growing faster than coronavirus cases. Deputy...

Pattaya plans to begin vaccinating 30,000 residents against Covid-19 with a Chinese-made vaccine the city bought because the central government wouldn’t send enough doses. Pattaya...

Not as sexy as Soi 6 bargirls shaking their asses for lady drinks, YouTube videos plead for 50-baht donations for baskets of elephant food.

Critics have short memories: Trees are replaced regularly. And while it looks bad, the project must start now, or leave Pattaya Beach uncompetitive for years.

Pattaya’s latest beach facelift project stopped a day after it began when a group of influential Thais protested the cutting of trees lining the...

Project to widen Beach Road, add underground restrooms, 700 parking spaces

Anan broke bylaws, set aside vote in push to spend ฿200 million on cameras instead of Covid-19 relief for hungry, unemployed public

Will elections be called to replaced panel appointed by junta?

For the few still holding out hope, it’s now official: Pattaya is not reopening to foreign tourists Sept. 1. In truth, it never was. No...

The Pattaya-Hua Hin ferry survived summer storms, pier renovations and mechanical issues, but Covid-19 finally sunk the service. Mayor Sonthaya Kunplome announced Aug. 10 that...

Thailand’s Office of National Water Resources has formed a technical team to study and develop a seawater desalination project for the Eastern Economic Corridor...

A sign at the intersection of Beach and Central roads once proclaimed Pattaya the “Extreme City”. Now it could be called “Heartbreak City”. How else to describe the rows of thousands of people, sitting under the hot sun on hot concrete at the South Pattaya jetty waiting for handouts of food they no longer can afford?

A Pattaya resort operating as a “hospital” was caught disguising infectious waste as ordinary garbage in an apparent attempt to avoid paying 16 times...

With monks refraining from collecting alms and Buddhist holiday events canceled, Thailand’s temples are having problems keeping the lights on. Sunthon Rattanapirom, dean of monks...

Thailand, Pattaya hit records for daily cases.

Pattaya has converted another closed hotel into a coronavirus field hospital as the number of cases in the city continues to soar.

Pattaya police early today raided an Indian pool bar, arresting 11 foreigners and 18 Thais for drinking and smoking shisha in violation of the...