After a short discussion with our contributors Rainbow Production decided not to scrap the pictures and the information but to clear all its websites from Google advertisements. Pattaya-at-Night never published lewd pictures. On every beach in and around Pattaya you can discover more flesh than on all of our pages.

In our case the sender of the SMS' withdraws 13 Baht every single day from our account without any authorisation! TrueMove, our provider, told us they need 1 full week to block the sender(s)! On most Mobile Phones it's impossible to block junk, scam or simply undesirable mails yourself. If you don't refile your account, you will receive every day one or more 12Rasi0 message(s) telling you Sorry your credit is not enough for this service. Pls top up first. 12Rasi0 is an automatic message generated by the Remote Access Subscriber Interface of your provider. It also suggests that you tried to make a connection. In our case the message is generated every morning at 06:30, a time we all are sleeping... Another possible scam: Some of today's phones allow to receive a service called Browser Message. This service is often used to send spam mails and to download (unwanted) scripts to your mobile phone as well as to withdraw money from your account. Usually you can disable this function in the Browser Message Setup.

Thailand's Deputy Minister of Justice informed Pattaya's City Hall, Police, entertainment venue Representatives and the Tourist Business Association on Thursday afternoon, January 20th 2011, of Bangkok's verdict regarding closing times of entertainment venues in Pattaya. The Deputy Minister said that the Goverment's Entertainment Act B.E. 2509 (1966) already fixed the closing time clearly and the Justice Ministerial Regulations must be followed strictly, as before.

The new year started with fireworks along all beaches. From Naklua over Pattaya until Jomtien the sky beamed up in beautiful colors.

For Pattaya's Shopping Centers X'mas and New Year are already in the past, but not for Pattaya City Hall: Its decoration on Beach Road is always waiting for Christmas and the New Year!

Santa Fé opened its Steak House at Carrefour's 1st floor. It's the company's second restaurant in Pattaya. Its first outlet at BigC (North Pattaya) is known for years for tasty steaks (and more) at very reasonable prices.

According to Freedom in the World 2011, the latest edition of Freedom House's annual survey of global political rights and civil liberties, conditions worsened for the fifth consecutive year in 2010. While the decline for the year was less extensive than in some years past, the multiyear spate of backsliding is the longest of its kind since Freedom in the World was first published in 1972. Freedom in the World says the increasing truculence of the world's most powerful authoritarian regimes has coincided with a growing inability or unwillingness on the part of the world's democracies to meet the authoritarian challenge, with important consequences for the state of global freedom. Freedom in the World downgraded Thailand from Free to Partly Free. Thailand received a downward trend arrow due to the use of violence in putting down street protests in April and May 2010, and the coercive use of lèse-majesté laws and emergency powers to limit freedom of expression and personal autonomy.

At the entry to Tony's new Grecian Temple, called ABYZZ, the management placed a snack bar. It's Pattaya's first snack with comfortable sofas. Let's hope the customers appreciate the luxury and take care of the expensive furnitures...

The former Embassy Club in front of the Bella Villa Hotel on Pattaya's 3rd Road opened as Marocco. The new venue is a beautiful Pub & Restaurant.

Seen at Carrefour Pattaya.

Bangkok's Designated Areas for Sustainable Tourism Administration (Dasta) told Itthiphol Khunpluem, the Mayor of Pattaya, Pattaya's repositioning as a tourist destination has to go ahead without Itthiphol's dream toy, his Monorail...

During Pattaya's Countdown 2011 a busdriver presented his new Multimedia Baht Bus. It includes a powerful surround-sound audio system, a LED light show and a widescreen flat TV. The new white bus will run between Pattaya and Sattahip.

But keep in mind that most drivers here in Pattaya don't understand why they should stop for some pedestrians. They simply ignore these 'crazy' red lights.

During a nationwide police crackdown on drugs from December 21st 2010 until January 5th 2011 Thailand's Police searched 4'655 communities nationwide. During the raids the police arrested 21'130 suspects for drug offences and seized more than 1.6 million methamphetamine pills, 295kg of marijuana, 8.5kg of crystalised methamphetamine (known as ice), and heroin. Five suspected dealers were arrested in four major cases, one of them was Pol Sr Sgt-Maj Pairote. He was arrested with 120'000 speed pills in his car. Two women of Burmese origin were arrested with 300'000 methamphetamine pills in Pathum Thani. In Lat Phrao area (Bangkok) police arrested a 25-year old Thai man with 100'000 speed pills at a patrol station. In Chiang Mai a 25-year old Thai was arrested with 3'000 speed pills. Most of the drugs were smuggled across the border into northern Thailand. In a spectacular operation on January 5th 2011 a 350-person strong Pattaya Police shut down almost all bars on Pattaya's popular Soi 6. Police blocked first both ends of the Soi. Then the police checked over 500 workers for drugs in a mobile drugs testing van. 16 (other sources mentions 24) women and hybrids were arrested and later charged with consuming a class 1 drug. Not enough to fill up the two large prisoner transport wagons the police demonstratively placed on the Soi. No actual drugs were found in the raid. During the same day Pattaya Police arrested 8 suspected drug users in South Pattaya and seized 6.55g of Ice and 4½ Yahba Tablets. On Tuesday Night, January 4th, Pattaya Police already arrested two local drug dealers. Both had been released recently from Prison... On January 11th Police arrested a 41-year old Thai woman as well as eight other people associated with her and conficated 430 Yahbah tablets, bottles of Ketamine and crystal methamphetamine (ice). On January 12th 2011 Banglamung Police arrested 3 Thai males selling Yahbah and marijuana on Pattaya's streets.

Behind the scene Pattaya City is dirty. A paradies for straying dogs and rats.

During Pattaya's Countdown 2011 we lost one of our cameras after NightWalker tried to capture a picture at the Thai DJ Community 'Dance Hall' on Pattaya Beach Promenade, just in front of Mike Shopping Mall. He pointed the camera into the laser beam, which destroyed the image sensor of the camera.

What you learned? The money makers aren't located in Bangladesh, Cambodia or Thailand! They scoop up and are lamenting in your country!

Seen at Tesco/Lotus South Pattaya Branch.

Do not believe any advertisement! You don't need an expensive mattress or a 5-Star Hotel to have a good sleep - all you need is to lay down in Pattaya...