The Pattaya Bluewater Sailing Club sponsored a daysail early February on a 40 ft catamaran. The yacht easily accommodates 10 members. Many areas of Koh Sak still have live coral that supports many varieties of tropical fish and everyone enjoyed snorkeling off the island. Some of the members also enjoyed using the yacht’s kyak to [...]
Mrs. Saichol Panchumchit, Thai health insurance manager of Bangkok Hospital Pattaya, presented an ambulance to Mr. Prasit Thongthitcharoen, the chairman of the Sawang boriboonthammasatan Foundation Pattaya, for the use of their staff and volunteers at Koh Larn Island.
Louis Tussaud’s together with the Guinness Book of Records cooperated to create the magic on Valentine’s Day at the Royal Garden with the kissing marathon that had been well publicized in advance. The aim is to reach 32 hours plus to win 100,000 baht with an extra prize in the form of a 50,000 baht [...]
mergency crews scoured the mangled wreckage of quake-hit Christchurch for a fourth day Friday but found only bodies and no signs of life as the death toll climbed to 113.
“These are very, very dark days for New Zealand,” Prime Minister John Key said, adding that rescue crews refused to give up hope [...]
Yu Ruicheng’s weathered face creases with worry as she stands on her dry wheat field in eastern China, where a record drought is threatening to send soaring global food prices even higher.
“If it doesn’t rain next month, we won’t harvest anything,” the 62-year-old farmer says, crouching down and sifting parched soil through [...]
An 86th-minute header from Dirk Kuyt earned Liverpool a narrow 1-0 win
over Sparta Prague on Thursday that took the five-time European champions into the Europa League last 16.
Liverpool had enjoyed the lion’s share of possession against the Czech side but, as in the first leg, they struggled to make their dominance count.
Raul [...]
Eastern Libya is in full revolt as an insurrection against strongman Moamer
Kadhafi intensified, and a string of Arab states braced for a fresh wave of anti-regime protests.
Swathes of Libya have fallen to opposition control and others into lawlessness, residents and reporters said, as opponents of veteran leader Moamer Kadhafi vowed to [...]
The boards of CAT Telecom and TOT Plc have agreed unanimously to take
legal action against the 2003 Thaksin Shinawatra cabinet, seeking almost 100 billion baht in damages for its approval of the excise tax on telecom services.
The state telecom enterprises said yesterday they would not demand compensation from private telecom firms [...]
Cambodians accused of ‘expanding presence’
SI SA KET : Two Thai soldiers have been seriously injured after stepping on landmines while patrolling Phu Ma Khua along the Cambodian border.
The incident occurred about 4pm yesterday.
The two were later identified as Sgt Pornpiboon Ngaosuwan and Cpl Sumet Boonsalee of the 16th Infantry Battalion in Yasothon province.
They [...]
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva holds dual Thai and British nationality, the opposition has told the parliament as it continues to pressure Mr Abhisit to come clean about his roots.
Mr Abhisit was born in Newcastle in 1964 and became a British citizen by virtue of being born there.
He is also Thai as he was [...]
