A successful business idea on Pattaya's Beach Road: Your future for 50 baht...

Above the enlarged Utopia Lounge opened a new Disco called Coyoty's.

Wildcats, a new beer bar with pool tables opened on May 20 2008 on Soho Square, off Walking Street. It has a second entry via Soi 16.

Pattaya City itself, not the hotels, exhausts its stinky wastewater directly into the beach. Photographed on May 13 2008 at 20:18 at the Pier Bar Complex.

The water that Pattaya City is pumping into the sea has the same bad smelling as the stench on Beach Road, in front of the pumpstation.
Apparently the wastewater doesn't get any treatment.

We heard from a privat investigation of a belgian biochemist. He collected sea water at various spots in Pattaya and Jomtien and tested the samples at his laboratory in Belgium. His advice: Don't take a bath at Pattaya's beaches.

Pattaya's Nightlife is less dangerous than its sea. With such a high contamination of its sea, Pattaya is an unsuitable seaside resort.
Having the same degree of contamination in Europe, most, if not all, countries would close its beaches for the public, the biochemist said.

The Hammer Disco Girls.

Tina opened his or her 'The Tina Malibu Bar & Restaurant' at the corner of
Soi 10 / Second Road. The shows start at 21:45 and 23:45.

First army region commander Prayuth Chan-ocha said on May 03 2008 that the political situation is fragile and he is worried about it, but he insisted that the army does not plan to stage a military coup.

He was explaining recent troops movements, which have renewed rumours the military is once again getting ready to stage a coup d'etat and overthrow the elected government.

'We just do our job. Without training, soldiers will be weak.' the commander said.

In 2006, a few days before the army started the coup, another spokesman insisted too that Thai military has no plan to stage a coup. Let's hope that at least this time the army tells the truth.

Thailand, Singapore, Japan, Indonesia, and the United States announced their participation in the Cobra Gold exercise to be held in Thailand from May 8 to May 21, 2008.

Cobra Gold is a regularly scheduled joint and combined multi-national exercise hosted annually by the Kingdom of Thailand. Cobra Gold 2008 is the latest in a continuing series of exercises designed to promote regional peace and security.

Usually the American soldiers include Pattaya's service girls in their exercises.

Come and see Pattaya's newest and biggest bar and its first real freelancer meeting place. Please check the Pattaya Beer Garden Website for more information and its latest news.

Statistics says that 2007 14'464'228 tourists arrived in Thailand. According to TAT (Tourism Authority of Thailand) Region 3 Office Pattaya had 6.62 million visitors. That means, statistically, that about every second visitor arriving in Thailand stayed at least a few days in Pattaya.

Hotel operators in Pattaya say this information is wrong. According to their information the number of visitors has decreased.
But TAT insists that the number of new hotels opening, especially large hotels, is spreading the business more thinly...

Perhaps both parties are right. The number of tourists from the United States, from United Kindom and from Germany decreased significantly (-16%, -17% and -11%!). Usually these tourist spend most of their holidays in Pattaya.

On the other hand tourist from Russia and Earstern Europe flooded all over Thailand. Pattaya also could catch up a lot of Chinese and Japanese tourist, mainly because Japanese and Chinese refuse to go to Phuket for cultural reasons (tsunami). But these tourist usually spend a few days only in Pattaya.

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Dear TAT:
If your numbers are correct, why your advertisements always tell that Phuket is the country's most popular tourist destination? Your ads tell a lie!
According to your very own numbers Phuket had 4.7 million visitors only!
Phuket isn't Thailand's most popular destination, but its most expensive one.
Take a close look at your numbers: They will tell you that Pattaya is Thailand's most popular tourist destination.

The United States put Thailand, China, Russia, Argentina, Chile, India, Israel, Pakistan and Venezuela on the elevated 'priority watch list' for failure to protect American movies, music and computer software against piracy.

The United States looks forward to working with the new Thai government to seek resolution of these (piracy) concerns. The United States recognises that in 2007, Thai law enforcement officials continued to conduct actions against infringing activity at the retail and distribution levels. Despite these efforts, however, piracy and counterfeiting rates remained high.

Thailand is doing too little to crack down on rampant piracy of American music, movies, computer programs and other products. At street markets as well as at some shopping centers the shelfes are full of copycat products.

It's nearly impossible to relax on Pattaya's beaches: Vendors turn up every few minutes. Do not buy any goods or services at the beaches. It's simply too expensive.

During February 2008 the City Hall promised to remove undesirables vendors from Pattaya's beaches, but so far nothing happened.

The City Hall people are known for big announcements and promises, but not for deeds. They don't understand that deeds are better than words.

During February 2008 Pattaya's Mayor mentioned that the Maprachan Reservoir is suffering from months of no rain and the situation could become worse in the coming months.

Now the Chonburi Irrigation Department says that there will be no water shortages this summer, with enough reserves to provide tap water for everyone and to still keep enough on standby to provide for the city during the traditional drought season.

Time will tell...

Utopia Lounge on Soho Square (Walking Street) pays 9'000 to 14'000 Baht a month for coyote dancers plus an additional 50 Baht for every Lady Drink a customer orders for the lady.

According to some lawers Pattaya is a specially administrated city, and the power to administrate belongs to the mayor of Pattaya. The Chonburi governor only has the power to consult and monitor the situation.

Nevertheless, the Chonburi governor tries to extend his power all over Pattaya.

On April 25 2008, the front pages of virtually every Thai newspaper was dominated by reports that Prime Minister Samak had told a group of Thai businessmen that after the constitution is amended, a general election would be held and a new government would be elected to carry out its work under the revised charter.

But Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej dismissed reports that he planned to dissolve the parliament and call for snap polls after the revised constitution is in place.

The (false) message was distributed by the official Thai News Agency. TNA is part of MCOT Public Company Limited and has close ties to the Thai Military.
On February 7 2008 Air force chief Chalit Phukphasuk said that 'there are other ways than a coup to terminate roles of those in power'.

Is distributing false information one of it?

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After a week rife with rumours of a military coup, Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej on April 27 2008 charged that forces aligned against his government are trying to goad the army into seizing power again.
Mr Samak also said he heard about some of the PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) actions. The PAD's huge street protests in mid-2006 were at least partly responsible for the military coup of September 19 of that year.
Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said the PAD is trying to repeat history.