Pattaya

Pattaya is headed for four more years under the rule of the Kunplome clan after handpicked successor Poramet Ngampichet won the unofficial vote count. The...

A Pattaya-area man arrested for allegedly trying to rape a Russian jogger has been released without charge, at least for now. Kantheepob Thanachotsomboon, 37, was...

Pattaya-area police arrested a local man for allegedly trying to rape a Russian jogger at an area reservoir. The unidentified suspect was apprehended and reportedly...

Teenagers’ incessant lust for the newest mobile phones – and parents’ willingness to spoil their offspring – continues to open the door to fraudsters. This...

The tourists are back in Pattaya and so are the attacks on them by thugs working for the city’s bars. On April 13 alone, an...

Three people were killed and two injured when a drunk Mercedes-Benz driver broke through a police checkpoint and plowed into a group of electrical...

Chonburi police say as many as 10 young boys may have been molested by a school coach arrested last week for allegedly raping three...

Pattaya police are saying an American man who died with a plastic bag over his head and his hotel room safe open died of...

Pattaya’s appointed mayor Sonthaya Kunplome will not stand for election, instead tapping a former MP to run in the May 22 poll against a...

Bangkok and Pattaya voters will get to cast ballots for their local leaders for the first time nearly 10 years on May 22, the...

. Move Forward Party names lifetime Pattaya resident, banker as mayor candidate

Thousands of Russian tourists are stranded in Thailand after their country’s invasion of Ukraine triggered global economic sanctions, Russian diplomats say. There are about 6,500...

A troubled Rayong refiner was given permission Monday to seal a second leak in its underwater pipeline blamed for repeatedly fouling local beaches with...

Prostitution long has been illegal in Thailand and, if you asked some senior government officials in recent years, it doesn’t exist at all in...

Rayong’s Pollution Control Center found contamination at two of six locations where its officials earlier collected seawater samples off Mae Ramphueng Beach in Muang...

Police have arrested a Frenchman for allegedly swindling Pattaya expats out of 6.3 million baht. Herve Christian Robert Leonard, 59, was taken into custody Saturday...

A nurse at a Pattaya hospital confessed to stealing cash and an ATM card from a dying man under her care. Siriphan Lamyoong, an intensive...

Just as a major oil leak was cleaned up, Rayong has been hit with a second spill blamed on the same refiner. The Pollution Control...

There has only been a smattering of oil on the beach in Koh Samet, but that didn’t stop Thais from canceling bookings for 4,000...

The oil is gone from Rayong’s Mae Ram Phueng Beach but now idyllic Koh Samet is under threat. Natural Resources and Environment Varawut Silpa-archa said...

. Spill a 'nail in the coffin' for tourism in pandemic-hit beach town

A day after officials promised that a massive oil spill in Rayong wouldn’t reach shore, the slick had grown to nine times the size...

Pattaya and Chiang Mai may again become tourist “sandboxes” Thursday when the Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration considers relaxing coronavirus restrictions. In addition to restarting...

Pattaya people arrested 50 foreigners and Thais packed in a small, air-conditioned swim club for creating the perfect venue for a Covid-19 superspreader event. Officers...

. Police, raking it in on antigen tests, claim foreigners were 'faking' test results