ASEAN green award

THE general manager of Dusit Thani, Chatchawal Supachayanont, received the ASEAN green recognition award from Dr Suvit Yodmani, minister of tourism and sports. The award is an appreciation of the hotel?s efforts to conserve the environment through strict in-house programmes.

Good idea at the Ice Bar

Kobi Elbaz(right) with Rony Fineman and his wife

Khun Yung with Thailand’s actor, Tao and Khun Glad

LOCATED AT the luxurious Amari Nova Suites in soi Petchtrakool, just off Pattaya Central Road, the -5? Supper Club and -5? Ice Bar have become the gathering grounds of the rich and the famous.

Modernizing the deadly sins to protect gullible property buyers in Pattaya

     “Sail away where no ball and chain
     Can keep us from the roaring waves
     Together undivided but forever we’ll be free
     So sail away aboard our rig
     The moon is full and so are we
     We’re seven drunken pirates
     We’re the seven deadly sins”

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Electricity in reverse

AS ROGER Crutchley noted in the Bangkok Post, foreigners even complain that they can't find anything to complain about. Unfortunately, living in Pattaya gives a lot of scope for complaint. So, if for no other reason than to blow off steam, I offer you this story.

Tropical Bert's breezers

By Derek Brook

PLUTALUANG ( Stableford) The turnout on this day was a little thin due to the "Club Championship" finishing the day before and many of the golfers, no longer young, were stressed out from this major effort. Mind the tough one's battled on.

UXO Laos

by Peter Lloyd

ONE fine autumn day in 1916, early in the morning, a man emerged from a foxhole in Northern France. He ran a few metres through a hail of bullets and was immediately hit by shrapnel from an artillery shell exploding nearby He fell, injured and bleeding, into a watery shell crater in no man?s land.