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  • Thailand video newsThailand News Today | Pattaya Walking Street “Ruined”
    Thaiger VideoFriday, June 10, 2022
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    Thailand News Today | Pattaya Walking Street “Ruined”

      Business operators on Pattaya Walking Street have blamed the authorities for causing a public nuisance and spoiling the city’s reputation because of an unfinished road renovation project. The Pattaya Walking Street Business Association insists the road needs to be completed faster than the current schedule, and more street lights installed, if it is to save face with the public.…

  • Pattaya NewsNightlife operators blame officials for unfinished work on Pattaya Walking Street
    Petch PetpailinFriday, June 10, 2022
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    Nightlife operators blame officials for unfinished work on Pattaya Walking Street

    Business operators on Pattaya Walking Street have blamed the authorities for causing a public nuisance and spoiling the city’s reputation because of an unfinished road renovation project. The Pattaya Walking Street Business Association insist the road needs to be completed faster than the current schedule, and more street lights installed, if it is to save face with the public. In…

  • Pattaya NewsPattaya tourist says security guards beat him “bloody” near Walking Street
    Tara AbhasakunSunday, May 29, 2022
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    Pattaya tourist says security guards beat him “bloody” near Walking Street

    A Pattaya tourist says security guards beat him bloody over a near collision when he was driving near the city’s famous Walking Street in the early hours of this morning. The tourist, an unnamed 31 year old Indian national, said he almost collided with a group of security guards who were standing in front of a venue on Soi 16.…

  • Pattaya NewsPattaya officials say Walking Street should be repaired by August
    Tara AbhasakunThursday, May 26, 2022
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    Pattaya officials say Walking Street should be repaired by August

    After Pattaya’s famous Walking Street welcomed back visitors last month for the first time since Covid-19 broke out, the city’s officials have put in a big budget to give the street a ‘makeover‘. Pattaya city officials announced yesterday that the city has now spent 13 million baht on road repairs for the street, and these repairs are expected to be…

  • Thailand video newsPhuket Night Life Entertainment | Bangla Walking Street is Busier Than Ever
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    Phuket Night Life Entertainment | Bangla Walking Street is Busier Than Ever

    Phuket night life is now busier than it has ever been in the last 2 years. There is a loud buzz along the street and tourists have flooded the ‘restaurants’ in Soi Bangla walking street. Everything seems to be back to normal from the last time we visited Phuket including the obnoxiously loud music, the neon lights, mass amount of…

  • Thailand video newsPattaya walking street makeover – Safer, better and more secure I GMT
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    Pattaya walking street makeover – Safer, better and more secure I GMT

    Pattaya walking street makeover and officials meet to discuss re-opening of bars and extension of curfew times. Fugitive accused in Thailand murder dies in plane crash. Thai man finally cremates wife after keeping her body for 21 years. Thai PM Prayut warns about fake 1000 baht banknotes. All this and more on todays Good Morning Thailand.

  • Thailand NewsPattaya police invite media to inspect the Walking Street makeover – safer, better, more secure
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    Pattaya police invite media to inspect the Walking Street makeover – safer, better, more secure

    Business owners and staff along Pattaya’s high profile Walking Street are ready to to welcome visitors, both Thai and foreigners, after waiting for over 2 years. Pattaya police have paid a visit the street in a media stunt to declare the street is now ready, and safe, for visitors to return. They’ve been setting up checkpoints and urging security guards…

  • Pattaya NewsPolice keep Pattaya’s Walking Street safe after reopening to cars
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    Police keep Pattaya’s Walking Street safe after reopening to cars

    After Pattaya’s Walking Street started reopening to cars again from 7pm to 6am, police went to the street last night to make sure tourists safe. A lieutenant from Pattaya Traffic Police told The Pattaya News that over 90% of business operators had cooperated with the closure, however, “some still don’t know the rules” and are parking in the area. Walking…

  • Pattaya NewsAs tourists return, Pattaya’s Walking Street set to close to cars again
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    As tourists return, Pattaya’s Walking Street set to close to cars again

    Pattaya officials say that starting tomorrow (Thursday), the city’s tourist magnet, Walking Street, will close to cars again, as it did in pre-Covid days. This news comes as more former bars have opened as ‘restaurants’, a loop hole in the Thai government’s Covid restrictions that’s been forced on bar owners so they can get their businesses open again. From 7pm…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket shuts down ATK checkpoints at Bangla Walking Street from tomorrow
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    Phuket shuts down ATK checkpoints at Bangla Walking Street from tomorrow

    The ATK checkpoints at the entrance of Bangla Walking Street in Phuket will be shut down from tomorrow onwards, according to the Patong Entertainment Association. The checkpoints have been operating since January this year. Today, the President of Patong Entertainment Association shared with Thai media that the two ATK checkpoints at the entrance and exit of Bangla Road or Bangla…

  • Pattaya NewsPattaya braces for reopening of “Walking Street” ahead of the US troops visit
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    Pattaya braces for reopening of “Walking Street” ahead of the US troops visit

    Pattaya City’s officials met with more than 30 local business owners on Saturday to discuss preventive measures and regulations to reopen the famous “Walking Street” ahead of a planned US troops visit weeks ahead. Around 2,000 soldiers are expected to visit this month for the Cobra Gold military exercise. The discussions come just as Chon Buri prepares to welcome an…

  • Pattaya NewsPattaya Walking Street renovation 80% complete, officials target visitors of all ages
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    Pattaya Walking Street renovation 80% complete, officials target visitors of all ages

    Renovations to Pattaya’s famous Walking Street are about 80% complete, according to the city mayor Sontaya Khunpluem. The project aims to clean up the redlight district street and draw in tourists of all ages… yes, he said all ages. The mayor told Thai media that overhead electric and communication wires have been moved to the underground to make the street…

  • Thailand NewsWoman falls off building on Pattaya’s Walking Street
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    Woman falls off building on Pattaya’s Walking Street

    Last night in Pattaya, a woman fell off a building. She fell an estimated 4 metres on the well known Walking Street. The woman, whose identity is unknown, fell around 11:30 pm. Emergency responders got to the scene to see a woman they believe is Thai and about 35 years old. She was lying on the ground in a pool of…

  • Business NewsScrub away Pattaya’s restrictions with a Walking Street wash-a-thon
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    Scrub away Pattaya’s restrictions with a Walking Street wash-a-thon

    Without much other good news on the horizon, Pattaya officials have celebrated almost two weeks of no new Covid-19 infections with a celebratory ‘wash down’ of Walking Street. The ritual ‘wetting’, in the Songkran tradition, was seen as a new beginning, washing away the bad spirits and the bad times that had fallen on the once-busy red light district. Sonthaya…

  • Tourism NewsPattaya cleaning up its Walking Street act in time for Chinese New Year
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    Pattaya cleaning up its Walking Street act in time for Chinese New Year

    Pattaya City is planning to clean up its Walking Street act in time for the upcoming Chinese New Year. But, as the second wave of Covid-19 mostly destroyed what was left of any foreign or domestic tourism, it might all be in vain. Thousands of businesses remain closed due to Chon Buri province being a “highly controlled” Covid-19 zone, which effectively…

  • ExpatsPattaya’s Walking Street. Will it return to high rents and high heels?
    Tim NewtonTuesday, August 11, 2020
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    Pattaya’s Walking Street. Will it return to high rents and high heels?

    Now that Pattaya’s infamous Walking Street is open to traffic along with parking for the first time in many, many years, what’s next? Thai officials and the local constabulary have long had a love-hate relationship with the red light district. It has attracted tourists but perhaps to the tourists the bosses in Bangkok were hoping for. It was a hive…

  • Economy NewsOutcry as Pattaya’s Walking Street opens to vehicles
    ThaigerSunday, August 9, 2020
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    Outcry as Pattaya’s Walking Street opens to vehicles

    Pattaya’s famous Walking Street nightlife district is now open to vehicular traffic around the clock, but not everyone is pleased. Business owners in the Walking Street area are reportedly asking the Pattaya City government to extend a current trial allowing vehicles onto the street at all hours of the day. The trial was proposed as international borders are still closed…

  • Pattaya NewsPattaya mayor responds to video showing black water gushing into the sea next to Walking Street
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    Pattaya mayor responds to video showing black water gushing into the sea next to Walking Street

    With Pattaya’s beaches reopening this week, for the first time since they were closed in March, there is still concern about what the City’s officials are pumping into the Gulf of Thailand off the Pattaya coast. Last Monday, filthy black water was seen gushing into the Gulf of Thailand right next to Pattaya’s famous Walking Street. The video, from the ‘We…

  • Pattaya NewsMajor makeover proposed for Pattaya’s Walking Street
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    Major makeover proposed for Pattaya’s Walking Street

    … but few are impressed. Images on the Facebook page of Pattaya City reveal plans for a major re-imagining and makeover of one of the resort’s most notable, and notorious, landmarks – Walking Street. Gone are the grotty road, broken pavements and lurid signs and frontages, and in their place will be an easy to navigate walking area fit for…

  • Environment NewsBlack water pours into the Gulf of Thailand right next to Pattaya’s Walking Street – VIDEO
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    Black water pours into the Gulf of Thailand right next to Pattaya’s Walking Street – VIDEO

    Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water… some disgusting black water gushing back onto the Pattaya foreshore. It’s meant to be the Gulf of Thailand, not the Black Sea. The video on the ‘We Love Pattaya’ Facebook page (below) showed the black water pouring into the sea from a pumping station near the entrance to Pattaya’s Walking…

  • Bangkok NewsBangkok’s new Silom Road walking street a great success
    ThaigerMonday, December 16, 2019
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    Bangkok’s new Silom Road walking street a great success

    PHOTO: INN News “Walk, Eat, Taste, and Explore”. And thousands descended on Silom Road to welcome the new walking street destination yesterday. Street performers, crowds and live music transformed Silom Road into Bangkok’s newest walking street yesterday with the first of the new walking street-style markets opening up in Bangkok. There was also another one in Yowarat Road in Chinatown. The…

  • Economy NewsWalking street-led economic recovery
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    Walking street-led economic recovery

    And it starts today at two locations in Bangkok. In its latest campaign to encourage more spending and boost tourism Bangkok’s government is launching a series of walking streets today before the Thai government spreads the walking street ‘boost’ to other provinces. Silom and Yaowarat roads are becoming pedestrian walkways today and other provinces have temporary walking street events starting on…

  • Bangkok NewsBangkok City Hall launching walking streets around the city next month
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    Bangkok City Hall launching walking streets around the city next month

    PHOTO: Khao San Road – Upsplash Walking streets are the new rage in Bangkok. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration is planning three temporary walking streets in Bangkok as a trial and to stimulate tourism in the areas. The locations are Silom, Yaowaraj and Khao San roads. The projects will start on Sunday, December 13. Deputy Bangkok Governor Sakonthee Patthiyakul says that…

  • Tourism NewsPattaya’s Walking Street is “heaving with tourists”. But…
    ThaigerFriday, November 22, 2019
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    Pattaya’s Walking Street is “heaving with tourists”. But…

    PHOTOS: Pattaya City Law Enforcement Walking Street is “heaving with tourists”. Pictures posted on the “Pattaya City Law Enforcement” site indicate an encouraging sign for tourism in Thailand’s ‘sin city’ seaside resort. According to the post, it appears Pattaya’s famous soi of ‘boom boom’ is having a boom in tourism numbers. But Thai netizens say there is a backstory. Whilst…

  • Pattaya NewsIranian tourist fleeced during visit to Walking Street in Pattaya
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    Iranian tourist fleeced during visit to Walking Street in Pattaya

    PHOTO: Sanook Sanook reports that an Iranian man was robbed by a female pickpocket while walking along Walking Street in Pattaya with his girlfriend. The 32 year old Sadej told investigating Police that a Thai woman had come up to the wandering couple and gave him a hug. But he says he politely pushed her away and the woman just melted back…

  • Pattaya NewsSoldier and partner assault police in Walking Street brawl
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    Soldier and partner assault police in Walking Street brawl

    PHOTO: Siamchon News A conscript, whom Thai media have described as a ‘gay soldier’, refused to go quietly after creating trouble in Walking Street. It got worse from there… His partner became involved after a member of the public stepped in to assist a police officer before the men were finally overpowered. The melee continued at the Pattaya police station…

  • Pattaya NewsPattaya kathoey thief charged over Walking Street theft
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    Pattaya kathoey thief charged over Walking Street theft

    A video on the Pattaya Online Facebook site shows the chief of the national tourist police and Pattaya police chief Pol Col Apichai Krobpetch sorting out a theft in the seaside ‘World Class Family Resort’. An alleged ladyboy thief, 23 year old Sunthorn Huajaipetch from Nakorn Ratchasima, had been nabbed after a theft along the notorious Walking Street. 35 year old…

  • Pattaya NewsPhew! Police report there is no prostitution or drugs in Walking Street
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    Phew! Police report there is no prostitution or drugs in Walking Street

    Netizens of Thailand are breathing a collective sigh of relief after it was revealed that there is no prostitution in Pattaya’s infamous Walking Street. Police proudly declared that, following checks on the famous red light district, they found absolutely no evidence of prostitution. The check was one of the highly public monthly police ‘inspections’ of the street, usually with the…

  • Pattaya NewsTourist sniffs a new scam after Walking Street on-the-spot litter fine
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    Tourist sniffs a new scam after Walking Street on-the-spot litter fine

    A new scam? The ‘spot fine for littering’ scam? An Iranian tourist is voicing his suspicions after being fined for littering on a Pattaya walking street early today (Wednesday) by men who are claiming to be Pattaya City officials, but failed to issue a receipt. 32 year old Shahrokh Assadizadldleh has lodged an official complaint at a Pattaya police station…

  • NewsPattaya’s Walking Street gets a ‘family’ make-over.
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    Pattaya’s Walking Street gets a ‘family’ make-over.

    Walking Street in South Pattaya is facing its biggest makeover in decades early next year for a more family orientated feel. The unsightly hanging wires are set to be buried underground in an effort to beautify the infamous red light street to appeal to families. But not everyone is thrilled about it – the operators are worried about the effect on…

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