It’s not the women or their smiles anymore — it’s the exchange rate that decides whether I stay or go.” That line keeps ...

Walk along Pattaya Beach Road on any given afternoon and the scene repeats itself daily. Foreign tourists wander across traffic wearing nothing but shorts, flip-flops, and sunburnt confidence.

Tourists and locals demand a crackdown after vendors were seen openly selling illegal sex products and untaxed cigarettes in Pattaya.

Officers in Pattaya detained 15 people during a street begging crackdown, including repeat offenders and foreigners facing deportation.

A German engineer was duped by a miracle hair scam in Thailand just days before Christmas. Yilmaz Yuzbasi, 57, said he was walking along Pattaya Beach Road when a foreign man offered to regrow his ...

I HAVE avoided Pattaya for years. Not out of protest, exactly. I think it’s been more from habit than principle.