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Written by Pattaya Daily News
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 The organizers & sponsors of the 2nd Pattaya International Bed Race were delighted at the huge success of this charity event after putting in so much hard work. International media organizations & teams were involved, so that the end result has been the raising of well over 300,000 baht (approximately $10,000 US).
PDN interviewed leading Rotary Club of Pattaya official Mr. Niels, who is widely known as one of the founders and a moving force behind this charity event. He stated that there was more involvement this year by Pattaya’s various clubs, business organisations, local sponsors, and even Pattaya City Hall. |
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Written by Pattaya One News
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 In the early hours of Tuesday Morning and in response to complaints received from local residents, Karaoke Bars located in Soi 17 off the Tepprasit Road in Jomtien were checked by officers from the Police Region 2 Child and Women’s Protection Unit who also received information that drug activity was rampant amongst employees and patrons of the bars. |
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Written by Pattaya Daily News
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 A German national recently died after being stabbed by a Thai man as a result of a minor traffic incident. Police have apprehended the murderer who pleads he acted in self defence.
Wolf-Dieter Kesselheim [66] a German national, living in Phuket for the last 2 years, was stabbed to death after Mr. Pittaya Srijitraporn [32] and two of his teenage cousins, riding a motorbike, allegedly cut him off in his pickup. The incident occurred outside the Chalong Police Station but a chase continued as a result of the incident for a further few hundred meters, ending in a fatal confrontation. |
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Written by Pattaya Daily News
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 This following incident of yet another electrocution of an elephant was reported yesterday, 23rd January at 5.30pm to Police Lieutenant Arnon Inphorng , (NaJomtien Police Investigator)
Mr. Uay Yuirum [61], stated that on the day in question, as he was riding his elephant Saeng-jun [50] in the rain to the Nern NaJomtien Elephant Camp in Sattahip, for her monthly check at the back of the elephant camp, he felt a surge of electricity through his leg and was thrown of his elephant onto a grass verge at the side of the road. At the same time as he was thrown, he felt his elephant shudder before she fell by the side of a high voltage electricity post. |
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Written by Phuket Gazette
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 RAWAI, PHUKET: Ten Rawai sea gypsies were arrested by Marine Police late Sunday night and charged with collecting protected species for the illicit trade in tropical fish.The arrests were carried out by Phuket Marine Police and officials from the Phuket Marine and Coastal Resources Conservation Center (PMCRCC).Under the direction of PMCRCC Director Paitoon Panchaipum, the officers intercepted two large longtail boats filled with protected marine species as they were coming ashore at Rawai’s Phromthep Cape.Among the fishing ‘equipment’ collected as evidence in the case were bottles of cyanide.One of the most toxic substances known to man, cyanide is used to temporarily stun fish so that they can be easily removed from the coral reefs they inhabit. |
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Written by Pattaya Daily News
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 An intoxicated taxi driver has been arrested for a series of weapons related charges after threatening to shoot a Thai man outside the Tamnan I-San Pub & Restaurant, North Pattaya.Pattaya, the 5th of January 2010. At approximately 3:00am on Tuesday, police Lieutenant Colonel Suphat Phuikaew (Pattaya Police Investigator) received a report stating that a taxi driver was holding a man at gun point outside the Tamnan I-San Pub & Restaurant, Soi Pechtrakoon, North Pattaya. A team of police rushed to the scene to investigate. |
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Written by Phuket Gazette
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Chalong Police are on the hunt for a man presumed to be a ‘tuk-tuk / taxi driver’ who allegedly set upon a French family with a beach umbrella in the Kata area of Phuket on Saturday evening.
The family, an elderly couple on holiday with their 44-year old son, his wife and their three children, aged 14 months, seven and nine, claim they were attacked when they parked their rented car along the Kata Beach road.
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Written by Pattaya Daily News
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 A two storey vessel has capsized off the coast of Koh Larn, near Pattaya. The accident injured 17 passengers and crew. The reason for the accident has been put down to an imbalance in the boat, caused when most of the passengers had been on the second level whilst a large wave struck the vessel. The boat had recently been modified to include a second floor and it is uncertain whether the construction was certified.Koh Larn, the 24th of December 2009. At approximately 4:30pm on Thursday Police Lieautenant Rerngwit Rakchat (Pattaya Police investigator), received a report stating that a boat had capsized in Pattaya Bay, with its passengers and crew stranded in the water. Police Lt. Col. Rakchat informed his superior; police Colonel Sarayut Sanguan Pohkai, who along with the Pattaya City Mayor Itthiphol Khunpluem and a team of rescue officers from the Sawang Boriboon Foundation went to the scene to investigate. |
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Written by Pattaya One News
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 On Wednesday Afternoon, Police and Rescue Units were called to the Bali Hai Port located at the south-end of Pattaya Beach following reports of a boating accident. A collision involving two speed boats had just taken place as one boat left the port and another was arriving from nearby Larn Island. A total of 49 tourists were on both boats at the time of the head-on collision. One of the boats sunk while the other sustained serious damage and all of the tourists were thrown out of the boats. |
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Written by Pattaya One News
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In the early hours of Thursday Morning, Pattaya Police Officers working in the Undercover Unit held a press conference to announce the arrest of a Pattaya Police Volunteer who was caught selling class 1 drugs. He was arrested at the JV Place Apartments in Soi Beokeow during a covert operation and was found to be in possession of 14 Yabba Tablets.
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Written by Pattaya Daily News
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 On 28/12/2009, the Government has launched a project to designate 2010 as the year for road safety in an effort to reduce road accidents and ensure public safety. The campaign for road safety has been stepped up, especially during the New Year festive season. The objective is to bring down the number of road accidents by 50 percent within the next 10 years. |
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Written by Pattaya One News
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In the early hours of Saturday Morning, Police Lieutenant Nitipoon from Banglamung Police Station was called to Banglamung Hospital to speak with a 15 year old boy who had just been repeatedly shot at on the Naklua Road. The boy had sustained three gun shot wounds to his right side, right arm and back, but was able to explain what had happened to the Investigating Officer.
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Written by Pattaya Daily News
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A local youth gang from the Huay Yai and Pattaya area have been held responsible for the pack rape of two 16 year old female students who where lured to a remote location by the gang via a deceitful phone call made by a female friend.
Police recently issued information regarding the pack rape of Ple (fake name) age 16, a student in her 2nd year of a vocational certificate at a local Pattaya college. Ple filed a report on the incident at the Huay Yai Police Station stating that a group of 7 men coerced her down to the forest by using the phone number of a female friend where they proceeded to rape her one at a time after which they left her alone.
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Written by Pattaya One News
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On Monday Afternoon at the Pattaya Floating Market located on the Sukumvit Road in Jomtien an incident involving an elephant occurred which left a 3 year old boy with injuries. The boy, Deckchai Gritdanon, was rushed to the Bangkok Hospital Pattaya for treatment to an injury to his stomach caused by the tusk of the elephant. Khun Tong-oon aged 43 is the Elephant Master and rents an area inside the market with his 5 year old female elephant and for a small fee, you can purchase food to feed to the elephant.
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