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Travel Star Voyager Sets Sail for Thai Shores, Boosts Pattaya Tourism
And now you can add Pattaya to Bermuda and Barbados on the next! -
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Crime Taxi Driver Blocks Ambulance, Leading to Patient’s Death in Patong
Picture courtesy of Matichon. An incident has unfolded in Phuket after a green-plate taxi obstructed an ambulance from Patong Hospital, resulting in the death of an emergency patient inside the vehicle. The event occurred on the morning of 27 April 2025 along the Kamala-Patong Road, located in Kamala Subdistrict, Kathu District, Phuket Province. According to information from the MCOT Phuket Facebook page, the deceased, identified as Mr Pradit, aged 62, had a history of heart disease. He collapsed while working in a durian orchard in the Kamala community. Relatives promptly contacted Patong Hospital, which dispatched an emergency team at 08:15. Upon reaching the scene, the ambulance team quickly placed Mr Pradit into the vehicle and began the journey towards Phuket Town for urgent medical treatment. However, en route, a green-plate taxi allegedly refused to give way, driving slowly along the leftmost lane, thereby preventing the ambulance from gaining speed as the crew continued to administer critical cardiac resuscitation. Despite the medical team’s efforts to revive him, Mr Pradit was pronounced dead at approximately 08:45. Eyewitnesses reported that the ambulance had its sirens fully activated, but the taxi driver failed to move aside. “The road was narrow, but if the taxi had just pulled over for a moment, the patient’s life might have been saved,” one witness said. Patong Hospital, together with officers from Patong Police Station, has since reviewed CCTV footage and summoned the taxi driver for questioning. Initial charges include obstructing an emergency vehicle and violating patient rights, with legal proceedings to follow. Police officials also announced that they are reviewing traffic regulations in the area and plan to launch a campaign urging motorists to yield to emergency vehicles, aiming to prevent such incidents in future. Adapted by Asean Now from Matichon 2025-04-29. -
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Crime Foreign Tourists Clash with Motorcycle Rider After Littering Incident in Pattaya
One of the problems with the major tour zones is that it attracts a lot of outsiders, obviously foreigners but also Thais who are not from the area, and have no local pride, and nothing invested in the area. I saw a lot of that during the years that I was living in Samui. So there's just more of a tendency to misbehave and it seems like there's more of a tendency for the place to invite Riff Raff of all sorts. -
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Crime Thief Swipes Cash from Vendor at Pattaya Market, Sparking Concerns
You see cash money handled so calmly and casually here, stuffed into a baggy apron front pocket, a partly opened drawer, or yes, as here, a plastic basket sitting on the stall. A far cry from Arkwright's bad tempered till in 'Open All Hours'! -
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Report SRT Delays Thai-Chinese Rail Project Completion to Late 2025
I guess we'll find out like we did with the Bangkok building collapse... But I know one thing... I won't be on it. -
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Russia Dismisses Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Offers 3 Day Ceasefire
Aww he’s gonna make Donnie grovel?or has the useful idiot (the most charitable term I can think of) been milked dry?
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