Dear Agony Ivy
Goodbye to all that As a retired expat, I married this Thai lady but everything was dreadful from day one. The honeymoon cost me a fortune in a five star hotel in Singapore which was a total waste of...
View ArticleIB Graduation Dinner
by Mark Beales Garden International School held its biggest-ever IB Graduation Evening at the Holiday Inn, Pattaya. Nineteen students finished their examinations as part of GIS’s International...
View ArticleCompetition in primary physical education
by Amy Chapman It has been proposed that the new English curriculum for primary schools will prescribe that primary aged children should be involved in more competitive sport. This has fed a mass of...
View ArticlePattaya Sports Club meets Kate’s Project Trust
by William Macey Nongprue covers a much larger area than Pattaya with many more residential areas and, as a consequence, has more families living in very poor conditions with very little to call their...
View ArticleChang-Everton Football Academy
by Derek Franklin More than 500 boys and girls converge on the ThaiBev Football Academy in Bangkok for free soccer coaching sessions each weekend. The youngsters–of all ages and from all sectors of...
View ArticleUrban Property helps orphans
Urban Property Co., Ltd. donated food and needed supplies to the Pattaya Orphanage and treated the children to lunch and ice cream. On hand for the generous occasion was Sompop Vanichsenee, managing...
View ArticleMost-needed Pattaya changes
We asked 100 foreign tourists which one improvement they most wanted to see in Pattaya before their next visit. Here’s a selection of the replies. That’s an easy one. Relax the licensing laws and allow...
View ArticleDemocracy remains a dream
According to United Nations research, there are 41 democracies in the world today. By the dawn of the 21st century, there were three times that many. In the past 12 years all sorts of dictators,...
View ArticleThree-year visa
Q: I have heard that some Thai embassies and consulates abroad are now giving three-year visas with multiple entries. I would very much like to have one of those so how do I go about obtaining one? I...
View ArticleVincent needs assistance please
Paul and Sandra, who run the cat charity Cats4You in the Pattaya area, are appealing for help after a young feline, whom they call Vincent, was hit by a car and taken by a stranger to a vet where he...
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