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Coral planted in Maya Bay

Published

1 year ago

July 8, 2018

The Thaiger & The Nation

By Sitthichai Sikhawat

“Officials said they would use a drone to follow up the coral growth on a monthly basis.”

As the famous Maya Bay on Koh Phi Phi in Krabi’s Muang district is now until September 30 to allow nature to recover, officials on Thursday brought 400 coral pieces to be planted onto the degraded reef at the bay. The bay was closed down for a four month ‘rest’ on June 1.

Hat Noppharat Thara–Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park officials, joined by staff from Trang Marine Park, worked on the coral propagation programme by bringing coral from a nursing farm to be attached to the dead reef to support recovery.

Officials said they would use a drone to follow up the coral growth on a monthly basis during the first phase before monitoring it once every four months for a year, said park head Woraphot Lomlim.

Woraphot said the four-month break was necessary because the beautiful bay had suffered from scuba diving, boat anchoring and the passage of numerous boats. Up to 4,000 visitors came each day, he said.

A pier is being constructed at nearby Losama Bay so that Maya Bay could be closed permanently to boats and the number of visitors would be limited to 2,000 per day, he added.

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STORY: The Nation

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Pattaya

Pattaya City’s Police Chief dies from sudden heart attack on way to Bangkok

Published

19 mins ago

October 19, 2019

The Thaiger

PHOTOS: The Pattaya News

The Pattaya City Police Chief Col. Atinan Nuchanart has died from a heart attack yesterday morning (Friday) while he was on the way to a meeting. 59 year old Col Atinan was the Pattaya City Police Acting Chief, new in the position, and died at the Chonburi Hospital from a heart attack.

Yesterday morning he and his team were heading to Bangkok from Chonburi for a meeting when he started complaining of chest pains before falling unconscious in the car. The Chief was rushed to the Chonburi Hospital by other officers in the vehicle. He was pronounced dead by doctors at 2pm.

Col Atinan was born in Lopburi and was the previous Police Chief of Mueang Chonburi Police Station. He was later transferred as the Pattaya City Police Acting Chief on September 2. He had only been in the top job for little over a month.

The previous Pattaya police Chief was removed from the position pending an investigation into large drug raids at local discos open after legal closing hours during this year.

A full funeral for the well respected veteran officer will take place in the near future but has not been announced at this time.

SOURCE: The Pattaya News

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Environment

Local residents and vendors demand action on Pattaya Beach erosion

Published

32 mins ago

October 19, 2019

The Thaiger

PHOTOS: The Pattaya News

Recent heavy rains over the past week in Pattaya have caused significant deep erosion and gaping holes on Pattaya Beach that have now been sitting in plain view for nearly a week. The situation is an unsightly embarrassment and a potential hazard for tourists, according to local residents and beach vendors.

The Pattaya News reports that, earlier this week, storm waters were flowing onto Pattaya beach into the Gulf after torrential rains, notably at the beach area near Central Festival Pattaya, and have been washed away.

The erosion is at least a metre deep in places, exposing some of the underpinning sand-bag foundations that were placed there doing the re-instatement works last year. Local vendors are complaining that tourists were avoiding the beach.

Beach vendors say this erosion has happened nearly a week ago and is very dangerous especially at night time. They are asking for city officials to speed up repair work and fix the problem.

Earlier this week residents were complaining about an unknown white sediment floating around some of the areas where the erosion had occurred. Last year some 400 million baht was spent re-building some of Pattaya’s beaches which end up damaged and washed out to sea any time there are heavy rains.

SOURCE: The Pattaya News

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Politics

Charter court will hand down ruling on Thanathorn share case on November 20

Published

48 mins ago

October 19, 2019

The Thaiger

PHOTO: Thai PBS World

The Thai Constitutional Court is set to issue a ruling in Future Forward party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit’s media share ownership case on November 20. The court wrapped up its inquiry yesterday with the questioning of ten defence witnesses, including Thanathorn who arrived at the court greeted by well-wishers.

Thanathorn, who held 675,000 shares in V-Luck Media, has repeatedly insisted they were sold to his mother on January 8, weeks before he registered to run as a candidate.

As judges fired questions at him during today’s hearing, the usually cool-headed party leader appeared tense, saying he couldn’t recall the legal details of divesting the shares. His supporters say the case has been trumped up to take out Thailand’s most popular politician and deliver a gut punch to the FFP and its radical reform agenda.