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250 years later, King Taksin lands his troops again in Pattaya Pattaya warns of winter fire risks Pattaya City Hall warned residents about increased fire risk during the dry season. In a statement, the city said winter is less humid and is subject to stronger winds, which can fan flames quickly. In a list of safety tips, Pattaya said to keep flammable items stored safely, to regularly check electrical equipment and wires to prevent shorts, avoid using multiple extension cords and outlet splitters, turn off and unplug appliances not in use, turn off stoves and kettles before leaving home, and don’t dispose of cigarette butts on the ground or in piles of garbage.

Pattaya City Hall has sent out a statement warning residents about increased fire risk during the dry season.

Advice also included checking fire extinguishers, notifying authorities immediately in case of fire, checking exit routes in high rises, and to not burn garbage or dry grass. (PCPR)

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Royal soldiers man the cannon to protect King Taksin the Great during a grand parade and re-enactment, as the government and navy marked the 250th anniversary of King Taksin’s march through Pattaya to liberate Ayutthaya. To commemorate the epic campaign, the navy held symbolic re-enactments of the long journey by sea, land and river, tracing the route that King Taksin took. Following Pattaya, the caravan proceeded to Chonburi and ended at the historical battleground of Pho Sam Ton Camp in Ayutthaya on Nov. 6, although ceremonies continue until Nov. 11. (Full story and more photos on page 32.)

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Soi Rungland patched

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Soi 5 December flooding woes to be solved in March Boonlua Chatree

Pattaya workers patch broken roads inside Rungland Village to help people enjoy more convenient and safe commuting.

Jetsada Homklin Pattaya workers have patched up broken roads inside Rungland Village. Nikom Sangkang, vice

president of the Soi Khopai Community, called city engineers to the South Pattaya neighborhood Nov. 1 following a string of complaints about busted pavement.

Workers used asphalt to fix the road’s surface and compacted it to increase density to help people for more convenient and safe commuting.

Rumdul Club gives elderly members winter health tips

The Rumdul Club advised its elderly members how to stay healthy during Thailand’s cool season.

Warapun Jaikusol The Rumdul Club has advised its elderly members how to stay healthy during Thailand’s cool season. While Thais don’t have to worry about the health ailments that come from rain, sleet and snow, the relatively cooler temperatures during the autumn and winter – which rarely drop below 20 C – send Thais running to the

stores for parkas and scarves. About 50 seniors, who are more sensitive to drops of even a few degrees Celsius, were told to keep their body temperatures constant with warm clothing and blankets at night. The seniors also were advised to exercise regularly to keep their immune systems strong and eat well, drink plenty of warm water and get enough sleep. Flu shots also were recommended, as well as avoiding

people with colds or other ailments, as well as washing hands regularly and maintaining good hygiene. The members also got practical tips on dealing with winter weather, which can contribute to dry skin and eczema in older people. Older people should avoid long showers, apply lotions after showers and leave the skin slightly moist after washing.

Construction will begin in March to upgrade the drainage system in the repeatedly flooded Soi 5 December Community. Pattaya Deputy Mayor Pattana Boonsawat and workers from the sanitation and engineering departments visited leaders of the Sukhumvit Road neighborhood Oct. 31 to survey flooding problems and listen to opinions and recommendations about solutions. While the community’s drainage system already includes a clarifier and a three-pump station, it has proved insufficient in dealing with the runoff from higher ground. Pattana told residents that the city already approved 8 million baht to build a 1,000cubic-meter retention pond

Pattaya Deputy Mayor Pattana Boonsawat and workers from the sanitation and engineering departments visit leaders of the Soi 5 December Community to survey flooding problems and listen to opinions and recommendations about solutions.

at the beginning of the soi to hold runoff until it can be pumped 12 kilometers to the Naklua Canal, plus an additional clarifier at the end of the soi.

Paiboon Buranasilp, head of construction design and drainage system control, said work would begin in March and take about 6-7 weeks.

Pattaya mulls long-term fix for Kratinglai Canal Jetsada Homklin Pattaya city has dredged the Kratinglai Canal and is preparing to expand the waterway in an effort to relieve chronic flooding. Deputy City Manager Passakorn Usomboon and Sanitation Department workers surveyed the area and canal drainage at Paisan village. Currently, the canal is shallow and narrow in some parts with weeds and garbage blocking the waterway. The result has been frequent flooding in the village. Initially, canal dredging was done to get rid of weeds and garbage blocking the

Deputy City Manager Passakorn Usomboon and Sanitation Department workers survey the Kratinglai Canal at Paisan village.

waterway on both sides of the bridge. For the long-term, Pattaya will survey the area and

determine the best way to solve the problem. It may require the bridge to be lifted or large box culverts installed.

Sisters Foundation offers free HIV tests Jetsada Homklin The Sisters Foundation offered free HIV tests and disease screenings at the Pattaya Youth Sports Center on Thepprasit Soi 7. The transgender-rights organization holds screenings around Pattaya throughout

the year, aims its outreach at ladyboys and sex workers, but also does events in public places where youths congregate to offer education on sexually transmitted diseases and condom use. At the youth center, counselors spoke with those taking tests both before and after the procedure, advised

people of their medical rights and spoke to them about HIV drugs should they test positive. Practical tips about condom use and sexual behavior were addressed as well as emotional problems often experienced by transgenders stemming from family or societal conflicts.

The Sisters Foundation offered free HIV tests and disease screenings at the Pattaya Youth Sports Center on Thepprasit Soi 7.

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Pattaya cleans up after rainy season Pattaya’s Sanitation Department has kicked into overdrive, cleaning drains and collecting garbage in 19 spots around the city. Now that rainy season has reached its end, the big cleanup is on. Workers spread out across Pattaya to pick up the rubbish floodwaters carried into streets and drains from Oct. 30 to Nov. 2. Targeted was garbage in the Kratinglai Canal at the bridge in Thepprasit Soi 1 and construction of a box culvert at the beginning of Najomtien Soi 2 and Sukhumvit Road.

Pattaya’s Sanitation Department has kicked into overdrive, cleaning drains and collecting garbage in 19 spots around the city.

Damaged sewer lids along South Road, Pratamnak Soi 6, Soi Chaiyapruek and

Second Road were repaired. Drainage pipes were cleaned on the railway-parallel road,

Naklua Soi 14/2, Soi 17 and Pratamnak Soi 5. Steel plates on roads also were collected from Soi Chaiyapruek and Sukhumvit Soi 43 and new clarifiers were constructed in the Ban Nernrodfai Community. Sanitation workers also investigated claims of wastewater being illegally dumped by an Indian restaurant and unknown businesses on North Road. Other work continued on installing new pipes, cleaning drainage tunnels and installing clarifiers at ongoing flood-mitigation projects. (PCPR)

Chonburi opens EEC 1-stop labor center Labor Minister Adul Saengsingkaew opened Chonburi’s EEC Labor Administration Center to offer one-stop service for both workers and businesses in the Eastern Economic Corridor. Adul said he came to check the readiness of the facility to be a complete and systematic employment and labor-development center which will provide service to employers and people seeking jobs at the Institution for Skill Development in Muang District’s Nong Maidang. The center’s mission is to manage labor data in the EEC zone to provide services

Labor Minister Adul Saengsingkaew opens Chonburi’s EEC Labor Administration Center to offer one-stop service for both workers and businesses in the Eastern Economic Corridor.

to job applicants and employers. Specific services offered by the center include initial

registration and interviews by the Department of Employment for recruitment and providing notification of job

Pattaya continues planning for Chinese tourist-recruitment video

Deputy Mayor Poramet Ngampichet chaired a meeting to get video-script ideas from various city departments and outside tourism agencies.

Pattaya officials continue to plan what they have to say in a 10-minute video to get Chinese tourists to come back. Deputy Mayor Poramet Ngampichet chaired an Oct. 31 meeting called to get video-script ideas from various city departments and outside tourism agencies. Still not liking what he heard, Poramet called yet

another meeting – the third on the subject – for Nov. 6. Panicking over the steady loss of Chinese tourists, Pattaya officials said a new tourism-promotion video could keep their golden geese from flying the coop for good. Thailand has been living on Chinese tourism for the past four years, with – at one point

– mainlanders accounting for one in every three international visitors to the country. But July’s twin boat sinkings that killed 57 Chinese in Phuket, followed by several high-profile social media scandals showing Thais taking advantage of, or abusing Chinese citizens, have put a serious dent in arrival figures. (PCPR)

vacancies; career guidance and vocational-readiness testing by the Department of Employment; matching of positions with qualified job seekers; skills development and occupational skills testing. Employees also can access information on workers’ rights and social-security benefits, occupational safety and file complaints against employers. The “one-stop” center also will benefit companies employing foreigner workers, as they can apply and renew visas and work permits all in one spot. (CPRD)

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Alleged Khao Chee Chan killers stand trial Nov. 12 Teerarak Suthathiwong

South Korean online gambling ring busted Boonlua Chatree

The trial begins Monday for a Phuket bar owner and six others who allegedly conspired to kill a young coyote dancer and her friend at Sattahip’s Khao Chee Chan. Panya Yingang, 39, and alleged accomplices Kritsana Srisuk, 22, Kiattisak Surangsangboonmee, 35, Jirasak Unaiban, 34, and Sayan Srisuk, 43, all pleaded innocent to murder weapons and conspiracy charges Oct. 31. Gunman Narong Warintarawej, 22, pleaded guilty to murder, but denied the conspiracy charges, saying he had nothing to do with the killing. The six go back to court Nov. 12 to face charges for shooting dead 20-year-old Paveena Namuangrak and Anantachai Jaritrum, 21, in a jealousy-fueled rage before the towering sculpture of Lord Buddha on the Sattahip mountainside. Ronarong Kaewpetch, the attorney who heads the Social Justice Network, brought Anantchai’s parents, Suchin Jaritrum and Jomsri Chompupean, to Pattaya Provincial Court Oct. 31, but they and the defendants did not meet. The lawyer filed a petition to add his clients as co-plaintiffs in the criminal case and said he will be filing a civil suit against Panya for 10 million baht. He said the young man earned 29,000 baht a month and sent 12,000 of that to his parents monthly. While Panya plead innocent, he had confessed earlier, taking part in a police re-enactment of the slayings that shocked the East. According to the final Aug. 21 re-enactment, Paveena and Anantachai were confronted by Panya and Narong, who opened fire using three guns. Despite multiple misfires, the gunmen shot both dead with shots to the head and back. The young woman from Kalasin had come to Pattaya with schoolmate and co-worker Anantachai, another friend and Panya’s

Murder victim Anantachai Jaritrum’s parents and their lawyer have filed a 10 million baht civil suit against Panya Yingang after the murder of their son.

associate Sayan to celebrate her 20th birthday July 29. After visiting the Pattaya Floating Market and Nong Nooch Tropical Garden, they made the fateful stop at Khao Chee Chan to make merit at the 130-meter-tall Buddha image laser-carved into the side of the mountain. Panya, whose nickname is “Mr. Fat Bangla”, for the road where he owns multiple bars in Phuket’s nightlife district, claimed he was in love with the girl who came to work at his Pum Pui go-go bar when she was just 17. Her family has said he made repeated romantic overtures to her over the coming year, which she rebuffed. After Panya reportedly assaulted her in public last year she left Phuket and went to work with Anantachai as a waitress in a Nakhon Sawan restaurant. Paveena’s mother told Thai media that Panya persisted, even sending her 1 million baht over the family’s objections. Panya claimed it actually was seven million and, in return, she agreed to marry him. She didn’t, of course, and an enraged Panya vowed revenge. He said outside the Pattaya courthouse Aug. 22 that it was then he decided to kill her so she could be “judged after death” for her betrayal. He allegedly had Anantachai killed because he wrongly believed he was Paveena’s boyfriend.

3 arrested for stabbing Lebanese tourist Boonlua Chatree Police arrested three men who stabbed a Lebanese tourist who rammed their motorbike, but failed to apologize. Tharapong Jampathong, 43, Eak Sakulnee, 35, and Nattawuth Wachirabanklang, 36, were apprehended Oct. 31, nearly a week after attacking Mohamad El Wazzi, 29, at a Soi Buakhao Family Mart. El Wazzi was treated for the 3-centimeter wound on the left side of his chest at Pattaya Hospital and released. The spark for the assault began earlier when El Wazzi

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Police arrested three Thai men who stabbed a Lebanese tourist who rammed their motorbike, but failed to apologize.

allegedly hit one of the trio’s motorbikes but drove off without even an “excuse me”. They followed him to the convenience store where,

they claimed, El Wazzi started a fistfight. They retaliated with a knife and ran away before police arrived.

Four South Koreans and a Thai landlord were arrested when police raided an onlinegambling operation run out of a luxury Pattaya condo. Pattaya, Tourist and Immigration police stormed the Pinpha Condominium in Naklua Nov. 2, slapping handcuffs on Song Kwang Hyun, 34, Yoon Dong Seong, 26, Choi Jinhoon, 28 and Park Byung Kuk, 19. Also jailed was Apiwan Wongkamsing, the 24-year-old who rented the condo to them but didn’t notify immigration foreigners were staying there. Officers also seized computers, mobile phones, code changers for money transfers, USB drives, bank books, ATM cards and customer lists. Police said the Koreans confessed, admitting they rented the condo on Aug. 27 from Apiwan. They hired Korean programmers in China to create the sports-betting website and paid additional staff in South Korea to host

Four South Koreans and a Thai landlord were arrested when police raided an online-gambling operation run out of a luxury Pattaya condo.

the site and advertise it. Police said it generated about 10 million baht in revenue a month. Immigration police said Park Byun Guk, one of those arrested, also was wanted on forgery charges causing 10 million baht in damage back home in South Korea. They added that the gang

entered Thailand six months ago, but worked the first three months in Bangkok before relocating to Pattaya. They were charged with various gambling and immigration offenses and will be deported. Apiwan, meanwhile, will be prosecuted for not registering her foreign residents.

Condo technician arrested for burglarizing resident Boonlua Chatree A Phetchabun man has been arrested for allegedly burglarizing a Chinese tourist’s apartment. Wichan Payakkul, 34, was taken into custody Oct. 30 with Tourist Police seizing 5,460 baht from him that allegedly belonged to Li Ping, 53. Ping rented the condo Oct. 26, placed his valuables in a safe and went out. When he returned, he found 30,000 baht in various currencies gone. Security cameras showed Wichan, a contact technician for the condominium, entering

Wichan Payakkul was arrested for allegedly burglarizing a Chinese tourist’s apartment.

and leaving the room. The suspect admitted it

was him on video, but denied taking anything.

Schoolkids escape injury in Sattahip 3-car pileup Patcharapol Panrak A van-full of Sattahip schoolchildren escaped injury when their school bus was sandwiched in a threecar pileup in Sattahip. School van driver Supachai Kiatkuladechakorn, 56, was not as lucky. He suffered severe injuries to both legs and was trapped in the driver’s seat after the front of the Nissan van collapsed when it rammed into the rear of a 10-wheeled truck on Road 332 near Tungprong Temple. He was transported to Queen Sirikit Naval Medical Center for treatment. The school bus also got rear-ended by a Toyota Vigo

A van-full of Sattahip schoolchildren escaped injury when their school bus was sandwiched in a threecar pileup in Sattahip.

pickup truck driven by Chanapol Ngampradith, who was unhurt. Patcharapol Kantamala, the 40-year-old driver of the Bangkok-registered 10wheeler, said he slammed on the brakes after a pickup

truck moving in the opposite direction entered his lane in a bid to overtake traffic. The truck skidded for 20 meters and Supachai and Chanapol, traveling too close behind, had no time to stop.

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UN finds 486 million in Asia still hungry, progress stalled Elaine Kurtenbach Bangkok (AP) - Despite rapid economic growth, the Asia-Pacific region has nearly a half billion people who go hungry as progress stalls in improving food security and basic living conditions, a United Nations report said Friday. Even in relatively well-todo cities like Bangkok and the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, poor families cannot afford enough good food for their children, often with devastating long-term consequences for their health and future productivity, says the report compiled by the Food and Agricultural Organization and three other U.N. agencies.

To be able to meet a goal of reaching zero hunger in the region by 2030, 110,000 people need to be lifted out of hunger and malnutrition every single day, said the FAO’s regional director-general, Kundhavi Kadiresan. “After all those years of gains in fighting hunger and malnutrition in Asia and the Pacific we now find ourselves at a virtual standstill,” she said. “We have to pick up the pace.” Meanwhile, the number of malnourished people in the region has begun to rise, especially in East and Southeast Asia, with almost no improvement in the past several years. In the longer term, rates of malnutrition did fall from nearly 18 percent in 2005 to 11 percent in 2017, but

A girl uses a hammer to crack open shells for edible seeds to sell as snacks in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw 18/11/1)

In Bangkok, more than a third of children were not receiving an adequate diet as of 2017, the report said. In Pakistan only 4 percent of children were getting a “minimally acceptable diet,” it said, citing a government survey.

hunger-related stunting that causes permanent impairment is worsening due to food insecurity and inadequate sanitation, with 79 million children younger than 5 across the region affected, the report said.

80 percent of such water contained bacteria and nearly all had coliform, or fecal contamination. Ending the practice of open defecation, seen most widely in India, remains challenging,

School children gather around street vendors outside their school in Bangkok. (AP Photo/ Gemunu Amarasinghe 18/11/1)

The high risks also are reflected in the prevalence in wasting among very young children, a dangerous rapid weight loss related to illness or a lack of food, it said. The condition is seen most often in India and other parts of South Asia but also in Indonesia, Malaysia and Cambodia, affecting almost one in 10 children in Southeast Asia and 15 percent of children in South Asia. “The prevalence of wasting is above the threshold of public health concern in three of every four countries in the region,” it said. Conversely, even overweight children often are malnourished if their families rely on inexpensive street foods that are oily, starchy and sweet, but unhealthy and sometimes unsafe. The report focused on two main factors that often contributed to food insecurity: climate-related disasters and inadequate access to clear water and sanitation. Its authors said that providing adequate clean drinking water and sanitation were

crucial for preventing illnesses that further undermine health, especially among children. It also lauded efforts in some countries to ensure city dwellers have access to fresh food markets. In Indonesia, for example, a study cited in the report found that the prevalence of stunting correlated very closely with access to improved latrines. Children whose families relied on untreated water were more than thrice as likely to be stunted if their homes lacked such latrines, it said. While access to drinking water is widespread it has stopped improving and actually decreased in urban areas, the report said. Many poor living in Southeast Asia rely on bottled water that claims to be suitable for drinking but often is contaminated. A study of samples in Cambodia found

the report said, partly due to customary factors. In 2014, the country launched a campaign to end the practice by 2019, increasing the coverage of latrines to 65 percent. In the cities, progress has been faster.

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Thailand and China ink sister port pact Thailand’s Laem Chabang Port and China’s Qinzhou Port have signed a sister port agreement to promote trade and maritime connectivity between Thailand and China, both of which will set up a joint working group and host a biennial meeting. Laem Chabang Port and Qinzhou Port are currently providing three freight services with an emphasis on shipping fruit. The Chinese government previously designated ports around Beibu Gulf in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the country’s gateway to ASEAN, and Qinzhou Port as the logistics hub. Following the One Belt One Road concept, the Chinese government is stepping up the potential of Qinzhou Port to offer other

Bangkok (AP) - When a rap video critical of Thailand’s military government became a huge sensation, the authorities first responded with threats to arrest its creators. Then they did what the establishment often does when under fire: try to co-opt the genre. So last Thursday, a government “Thailand 4.0” rap video was played to introduce Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha’s remarks to about 500 attendees of a conference on start-ups. The video was seen as a reaction to the popularity of the music video “Prathet Ku Mee” - translated by its producers as “Which Is My Country” - which castigates the army’s domination over Thai politics. The video has logged over 25 million views since it was posted on YouTube on Oct. 22. Prayuth himself has penned several patriotic ditties since seizing power in 2014. Most fans of rap and hiphop would find “Thailand 4.0” lame. It features a melodic sampling of the national anthem and lyrics such

Centara Grand Mirage turns 9

The Centara Grand Mirage Beach Resort celebrated its ninth birthday with a merit-making ceremony conducted by nine monks.

Warapun Jaikusol services, including customs brokerage, agricultural commodity inspections, and vehicle imports. Meanwhile, Thailand is expanding Laem Chabang

Port to accommodate the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC). The Thai-Chinese collaboration will promote shipments of fruit and cars in the future. (NNT)

Thai government, knocked by rappers, responds with own tune Kaweewit Kaewjinda

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as “There are many talented Thais, if we work together, we’d be stronger, stronger” and “Gen M, Gen Z, Gen whatever, if you all agree, it’d be easier, easier.” Prayuth said at the business event that he was happy to hear a rap song with appropriate lyrics. He said some of the song’s beats could be changed but the meaning of the words was good. Officials are not so pleased with “Prathet Ku Mee,” which comes ahead of a general election planned for early next year and amid signs of public disenchantment with army rule. The video provocatively references taboo subjects in Thai society. It replicates a gruesome historic scene where a corpse hanging from a tree is continuously beaten as a crowd cheers on, based on an iconic image from a 1976 massacre by police and soldiers of student pro-democracy demonstrators. A group of rappers takes turns delivering verses such as “The country that points a gun at your throat, claims to have freedom but has no right to choose,” and “you

must choose to either eat the truth, or bullets.” Government officials initially strongly denounced the song, with police saying it could violate the country’s Computer Crime Act by allegedly stirring up unrest. Government spokesman Buddhipongse Punnakanta said the song’s lyrics attacked not only the military government but the country as a whole. But they later backed down, with Deputy Police Chief Srivara Ransibrahmanakul saying Monday that the lyrics were insufficient evidence to launch a prosecution, so people were allowed to listen to, sing, and share the song. Dechathorn Bamrungmuang, one of the rappers in “Prathet Ku Mee,” said at a seminar Wednesday that he thinks the song grew quickly in popularity because hip-hop is becoming more and more popular around the world. “When the song came out, there were both negative receptions and supportive messages to us,” he said. “This made us feel like we can communicate with people through our music and that this song doesn’t overstep any boundaries.”

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The Centara Grand Mirage Beach Resort celebrated its ninth birthday with a merit-making ceremony conducted by nine monks. General Manager Denis Thouvard hosted the Nov. 3 anniversary ceremony with staff paying respect to a four-faced Brahma statue in the front of the hotel and the Garuda placed on the hotel

in 2014. Then the executive board paid respects to spirit houses. Employees then gave alms to monks from Nong-Or Temple in front of the Oasis restaurant and a Buddhist ceremony began at Utopia Sweet at 10.05 a.m. with chanting and offerings for prosperity. The Centara Grand Mirage Beach Resort is a 44 rai, fivestar hotel and resort along

Wong Amat Beach on Naklua Soi 18. Its Lost World design has made it a favorite of tourists since its opening in 2009. Hotel guests enjoy indoor and outdoor activities including sports, yoga, power pump and waterpark, professional entertainers, aqua aerobics, water volleyball and beach activities, kayaking, beach volleyball, and more.

DHL looking to the future Dr Iain Corness The world-wide DHL organization realizes that communication is one of the most important areas in business today. With DHL having a finger in multiple pies it is necessary for some of the different branches to get to know each other and their individual capabilities by hosting a very different type of meeting. The event is known as the DHL Auto-Mobility Discovery Fair and will be held in the Holiday Inn, Friday, 16 November 2018 from 09:00-18:00. The DHL organizers expect about 300 industry people will attend. These will include industry, automotive and manufacturing people not just current customers. The “getting to know you” event will have the following list of displays. This will allow all to understand what is currently available and done for the Future of the Auto Logistics in Thailand. Areas to be explored at the fair include: 1. International Flow International Track and Trace - DHL Global Forwarding A single platform for all logistics utilities for export, import and movement of domestic goods. The platform simplifies the LCL booking process for all Automotive freight flows by automation through a web-based solution. Same Day – Emergency freight solutions - DHL Global Forwarding offers flexibility for last minute and urgent freight worldwide. 2. Customer Centricity and Visibility On Demand Delivery – Last Mile delivery flexibility

- DHL Express. This e-commerce solution enables consumers to control the date, time and location of delivery, even during transit. Connected IT Suite – Domestic Track and Trace and E-POD– DHL Supply Chain. Allows track and trace domestic transportation Supply Chain through Sign-onglass, electronic Proof-ofDelivery and a customized mobile phone application. Sigfox provide a unique device-to-cloud communications addresses cost, energy consumption, and global scalability. Artificial Intelligence based Digital Logistics Platform – FarEye builds logistics applications with a simple drag and drop feature, enabling enterprises to reduce time to build new logistics. 3. Robotics and Automation V-Shelves – Eureka Design advanced robotics systems for warehouses such as Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS), goods-to-person systems and collaborative robots for high-speed fulfillment to optimize complex operations. Automation and Robot technologies – KUKA Industries has systems with widely varying degrees of automation. The technology packages developed for productive processes contain matching hardware components, including the required software. 4. Operation Excellence Ring Scanner – Wearable DHL Supply Chain with Smart Wearable enables higher efficiencies allowing more flexibility and enhancing their day-to-day picking/sorting.

Outbound Real-time dashboard – Digital Dispatch visibility – DHL Supply Chain technology allows simple and leaner dispatches for the Inbound to Manufacturing processes in the Automotive industry, respecting just-in-time planning and deliveries. The tool is also used in our Aftermarket warehouse distribution operations Storeganizer, ROS Rack Repair – Tellus. A high density storage system that is ideal for small, slow moving items. The ROS Rack Repair gives a secured solution to repair the damaged racks. Packaging solution displayed by CHEP allows higher savings through returnable flows for the Automotive manufacturing processes. 5. Digital innovations Vision Picking – Wearable – DHL Supply Chain with Augmented Reality enables workforce training for virtual site visits, and more efficient design activities via visualization of prototypes. Virtual Reality Experience – DHL Innovation. Explore DHL’s Innovation Centers in Germany and Singapore and our Express hub through Virtual Reality. Blockchain – Application in Logistics – DHL Innovation Team will showcase the latest Blockchain applications in the digital Logistics world. This DHL event will be one of the largest industry expo’s ever held in Pattaya covering many of the aspects of today’s Mobility industries. It is not a ‘walk-in event, but bookings can be made through Carey Peck, Director Automotive, Thailand, email carey.peck@dhl.com

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As sea ice melts, some say walruses need better protection Dan Joling Anchorage, Alaska (AP) Given a choice between giving birth on land or sea ice, Pacific walrus mothers most often choose ice. Likewise, they prefer sea ice for molting, mating, nursing and resting between dives for food. Trouble is, as the century progresses, there’s going to be far less ice around. How well walruses cope with less sea ice is at the heart of a legal fight over whether walruses should be listed as a threatened species, giving them an added protection against human encroachments. The federal government in 2008 listed polar bears as a threatened species because of diminished sea ice brought on by climate warming. That year the Center for Biological Diversity petitioned to do the same for walruses. However, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service concluded in October 2017 that walruses are adapting and no one has proven that they “need” sea ice. “It is unknown whether Pacific walruses can give birth, conduct their nursing during immediate post-natal care period, or complete courtship on land,” said Justice Department lawyers in defending the decision. A federal judge in Alaska will hear the center’s lawsuit challenging the government’s decision not to list the walrus as threatened. There is no court date set for the lawsuit. Pacific walrus males grow to 12 feet (3.7 meters) long

and up to 4,000 pounds (1,815 kilograms) - more than an average midsize sedan. Females reach half that weight. Walruses dive and use sensitive whiskers to find clams and snails in dim light on the sea floor. Historically hunted for ivory tusks, meat and blubber, walruses since 1972 have been shielded by the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Only Alaska Native subsistence hunters may legally kill them. An Endangered Species Act listing would require the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to designate critical habitat for walruses and plan for their recovery. Federal agencies, before issuing permits for development such as offshore drilling, would be required to ensure walruses and their habitat would not be jeopardized. Inaccessibility protected walruses for decades, but a rapid decline in summer sea ice has made them vulnerable. In the Chukchi Sea between Alaska and Russia, where Pacific walrus females and juveniles spend their summer, ice could be absent during that season by 2060 or sooner, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service. Since 1981, an area more than double the size of Texas - 610,000 square miles (1.58 million square kilometers) has become unavailable to Arctic marine mammals by summer’s end, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. By late August, as sea ice recedes beyond the shallow continental shelf, female

In this July 17, 2012, file photo, adult female Pacific walruses rest on an ice flow with young walruses in the Eastern Chukchi Sea, Alaska. A lawsuit making its way through federal court in Alaska will decide whether Pacific walruses should be listed as a threatened species, giving them additional protections. (S.A. Sonsthagen/U.S. Geological Survey via AP, File)

walruses and their calves face a choice: Stay on ice over water too deep to reach the ocean floor for feeding - or come ashore for rest periods, where the smallest animals can be crushed in stampedes triggered by a hunter, airplane or bear. More open water already has meant more ship traffic. Walruses also could find more humans in their habitat with a reversal of U.S. policy on Arctic offshore drilling. Former President Barack Obama permanently withdrew most Arctic waters from lease sales, but President Donald Trump in April 2017 announced he was reversing Obama, a decision being challenged in court. The administration’s proposed five-year offshore leasing plan includes sales in the Chukchi Sea.

Designating walruses as threatened would mean oil exploration companies would have to consult with federal wildlife officials to make sure drill rigs don’t endanger the animals. However, Trump’s Interior and Commerce departments in July proposed administrative changes to the species law that would end automatic protections for threatened plants and animals and set limits on designating habitat as crucial to recovery. Walruses are notoriously difficult to count - and population estimates range widely. A preliminary one in 2017 put the number at 283,213, with the caveat that it could be as low as 93,000 or as high as 478,975. The array of stresses and uncertainty about the walruses’ future are enough evidence for listing them as threatened, the Center for

Biological Diversity argues. In the last decade, walruses that gathered on shores have suffered hundreds of stampede deaths, and the loss of ice floes has pushed them away from feeding areas, said Shaye Wolf, climate science director for the nonprofit conservation group. “They’re not adapting. They’re suffering,” Wolf said. Scientists advising the Fish and Wildlife Service say the answer is not so clear cut, and much is unknown about how sea ice loss will affect walruses. Chad Jay of the U.S. Geological Survey said it’s unknown, for example, why female walruses give birth on ice instead of land. “One of the thoughts is that ... there’s more protection for the young from predators,” he said. “They’re offshore, and it’s a cleaner environment, too,

for giving birth. But those are hypotheses that are difficult to prove.” A nursing walrus needs to consume more than 7,800 clams per day, according to a federal assessment. And summer is the usual time for animals to fatten up. When ice melted in alarming quantities, forcing females and their calves to shore in herds as large as 40,000, government scientists in 2008 tagged and tracked walruses to see how the changes affected their feeding. They learned that females, forced to rest on beaches instead of ice, were still visiting their favorite feeding areas. However, the longer swims drew down fat reserves critical for lactating. The walruses should be fine, the study concluded, if they can replace calories with additional feeding in winter, but whether that’s happening is unknown. Undernourished females produce smaller offspring less likely to survive. The declining size of polar bear cubs in the southern Beaufort Sea was a factor in the decision to list them as threatened. Endangered species law does not require perfect science to demonstrate adverse effects, Wolf said. When there’s uncertainty, she said, the benefit of the doubt goes to the species. There have been previous geological time periods when walruses experienced a lack of sea ice, said Jay. “Maybe they can get through that sort of an environment. Maybe they can’t,” he said. “No one really knows.”

Water out of thin air: California couple’s device wins $1.5M John Rogers Los Angeles (AP) - It started out modestly enough: David Hertz, having learned that under the right conditions you really can make your own water out of thin air, put a little contraption on the roof of his office and began cranking out free bottles of H2O for anyone who wanted one. Soon he and his wife, Laura Doss-Hertz, were thinking bigger - so much so that this week the couple won the $1.5 million XPrize For Water Abundance. They prevailed by developing a system that uses shipping containers, wood chips and other detritus to produce as much as 528 gallons (2,000 liters) of water a day at a cost of no more than 2 cents a quart (1 liter). The XPrize competition, created by a group of philanthropists, entrepreneurs and others, has awarded more than $140 million over the years for what it calls

audacious, futuristic ideas aimed at protecting and improving the planet. The first XPrize, for $10 million, went to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and aviation pioneer Burt Rutan in 2004 for SpaceShipOne, the first privately financed manned space flight. When Hertz learned a couple of years ago that a prize was about to be offered to whoever could come up with a cheap, innovative way to produce clean freshwater for a world that doesn’t have enough of it, he decided to go all in. At the time, his little watermaking machine was cranking out 150 gallons a day, much of which was being given to homeless people living in and around the alley behind the Studio of EnvironmentalArchitecture, Hertz’s Venice Beach-area firm that specializes in creating green buildings. He and his wife, a commercial photographer, and their

The Skysource/Skywater Alliance co-founders David Hertz, right, and his wife Laura Doss-Hertz demonstrate how the Skywater 300 works Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018, in Los Angeles. The company received the $1.5 million XPrize For Water Abundance for developing the Skywater 300, a machine that makes water from air. (AP Photo/ Marcio Jose Sanchez)

partner Richard Groden, who created the smaller machine, assembled The Skysource/ Skywater Alliance and went to work. They settled on creating little rainstorms inside shipping containers by heating up wood chips to produce

the temperature and humidity needed to draw water from the air and the wood itself. “One of the fascinating things about shipping containers is that more are imported than exported, so there’s generally a surplus,”

said Hertz, adding they’re cheap and easy to move around. And if there’s no wood chips around for heat, coconut husks, rice, walnut shells, grass clippings or just about any other such waste product will do just fine. “Certainly in regions where you have a lot of biomass, this is going to be a very simple technology to deploy,” said Matthew Stuber, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Connecticut and expert on water systems who was one of the panel’s judges. He called their water-making machine a “really cool” merging of rather simple technologies that can be used to quickly deliver water to regions hit by natural disasters, stricken by drought or even rural areas with a shortage of clean water. Hertz and Doss-Hertz are just starting to contemplate how to accomplish that.

Theirs was among 98 teams from 27 countries who entered the competition. Many teams were bigger and better funded, while the couple mortgaged their Malibu home to stay in the game. At one point, they were told they hadn’t made the final round of five, but one team dropped out and they were back in. “If you say we were the dark horse in the race, we weren’t even in the race,” Hertz recalled, smiling. He stood near a giant copy of the check in his office while Doss-Hertz prepared to leave for a photo shoot and a visitor sampled a glass of their freshly made water. Now, though, they are in for the long, wet haul. “There’s no restrictions whatsoever on how it’s used,” Hertz said of the prize money. “But Laura and I have committed to using it all for the development and deployment of these machines, to get them to people who need the water most.”

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The other side of the coin Last week I had a bit of a tilt at Big Pharma and some of the underhand ways of influencing the medical profession. This week I would like to look at the other side of the coin and highlight things you should be aware of. The first and most obvious is the PI, short for Patient Information sheet. This slip is inside the box of genuine medications. The concept is that by having an educated patient, that person will use the new found knowledge to take the medication wisely. Well, that was the initial reason. Sorry, it didn’t work. Now here comes the other side of the coin. The becoming better informed patient reads the list of side effects and feels that the medication is far too dangerous to take, so leaves the packet in the bathroom cupboard, thus slowing down the rate of recovery. Now let’s look at some of the dangerous side effects. Did you know that one of the side effects of salt is DEATH. Good old salt that you can buy from your local 7-Eleven. Yes one on every street corner and it can sell you death pills. Makes no difference that you have to eat something like 240 grams and that is a lot of salt on the chips. In fact, that’s more salt than chip. That gets us back to the absolutely true statement that dosage alone

determines poisoning (Paracelsus 500 years ago). What the PI also does not say is what percentage of patients actually show any side effect at all. This can be less than 1 percent, but the governmental watchdog insists that the printed warning must be there. I am not in favor of the PI. Your doctor should explain the medication he is prescribing and the likelihood of side effect problems. You can see the difficulty. Not everyone metabolizes chemicals the same way. And here is another interesting fact, when testing chemicals for toxicity, the chemical is compared to one called a placebo, which is a supposedly inert chemical. Yet that inert chemical can also produce symptoms on the testing! How can this be? The answer is in Subjective findings and Objective findings. Subjective means you are recording the person’s thoughts and feelings which can alter, while Objective means you are measuring something and the results can be repeated. Sorry to make something so confusing, but that’s how it is. Without placebo (no matter how inaccurate) you have nothing to compare against. And the manufacturer sticks it into his PI. And incidentally covering his posterior if anyone tries to sue. Now there is yet another side to the coin – counterfeiting. We live in a fake world these days. Fake news and fake

drugs. The price of medicines is always a contentious subject – and not just in Thailand. In Australia “brand name” drugs are more expensive than “copy” (generic) drugs. However, there is a good reason for the brand name being more expensive than the generic. The pharmaceutical companies spend millions of dollars to develop, test and get licensing for new drugs, costs not borne by the makers of the generics, after the patents expire. But some manufacturers do not wait for the patents to expire and the ‘copy’ drug hits the market and will also be cheaper. In Thailand, many drugs can be bought over the counter (OTC), which may or may not be a good thing. Self-diagnosis and self-prescribing can be dangerous. That is why I believe that doctors should be prescribing, and pharmacists should be checking and dispensing. If some drugs are only available through pharmacies world-wide, on the prescription of a doctor, is it safe to just buy OTC, without any doctor’s advice? Obviously not! Through the middle of this pharmaceutical minefield goes the unsuspecting patient, where the only yardstick is price. And it is the wrong yardstick. Believe me when I say, be guided by your doctor, buy only genuine medications from our pharmacy which you can trust.

At many hospitals worldwide, you don’t pay, you can’t leave Maria Cheng Nairobi, Kenya (AP) - Doctors at Nairobi’s Kenyatta National Hospital have told Robert Wanyonyi there’s nothing more they can do for him. Yet more than a year after he first arrived, shot and paralyzed in a robbery, the ex-shopkeeper remains trapped in the hospital. Because Wanyonyi cannot pay his bill of nearly 4 million Kenyan shillings ($39,570), administrators are refusing to let him leave his fourth-floor bed. At Kenyatta National Hospital and at an astonishing number of hospitals around the world, if you don’t pay up, you don’t go home. Around the world, many hospitals detain patients if they cannot pay their bills. The hospitals often illegally detain patients long after they should be medically discharged, using armed guards, locked doors and even chains to hold those who have not settled their accounts. Even death does not guarantee release: Kenyan hospitals and morgues are holding hundreds of bodies until families can pay their loved ones’ bills, government officials say. An Associated Press investigation has found evidence of hospital imprisonments in

Detained patients lie on beds in the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya on Monday, Aug. 6, 2018. At east Africa’s biggest medical institution, and at an astonishing number of other hospitals around the world, if you don’t pay up, you don’t go home. (AP Photo/Desmond Tiro)

more than 30 countries worldwide, according to hospital records, patient lists and interviews with dozens of doctors, nurses, health academics, patients and administrators. The detentions were found in countries including the Philippines, India, China, Thailand, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Bolivia and Iran. Of more than 20 hospitals visited by the AP in Congo, only one did not detain patients. “What’s striking about this issue is that the more we look for this, the more we find it,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute. “It’s probably hundreds of thousands, if not

millions of people, that this affects worldwide.” During several August visits to Kenyatta National Hospital - a major medical institution designated a Center of Excellence by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - the AP witnessed armed guards in military fatigues standing watch over patients. Detainees slept on bedsheets on the floor in cordoned-off rooms. Guards prevented one worried father from seeing his detained toddler. Kenya’s ministry of health and Kenyatta canceled several scheduled interviews with the AP and declined to respond to repeated requests for comment. Health experts decry hospital imprisonment as a human rights violation. Yet the United Nations, U.S. and international health agencies, donors and charities have all remained silent while pumping billions of dollars into these countries to support

their splintered health systems or to fight outbreaks of diseases including AIDS and malaria. “People know patients are being held prisoner, but they probably think they have bigger battles in public health to fight, so they just have to let this go,” said Sophie Harman, a global health expert at Queen Mary University of London. Hospitals often acknowledge detaining patients isn’t profitable, but many say it can sometimes result in a partial payment and serves as a deterrent. Festus Njuguna, an oncologist at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, about 300 kilometres northwest of Nairobi, said the institution regularly detains children with cancer who have finished their treatment, but whose parents cannot pay. “It’s not a very good feeling for the doctors and nurses who have treated these patients, to see them kept like this,” Njuguna said.

Still, many officials openly defend the practice. “We can’t just let people leave if they don’t pay,” said Leedy Nyembo-Mugalu, administrator of Congo’s Katuba Reference Hospital. He said holding patients wasn’t an issue of human rights, but simply a way to conduct business: “No one ever comes back to pay their bill a month or two later.” Global health agencies and companies that operate where patients are held hostage often have very little to say about it. The CDC provides about $1.5 million every year to Kenyatta National Hospital and Pumwani Maternity Hospital, helping to cover treatment costs for patients with HIV and tuberculosis, among other programs. The CDC declined to comment on whether it was aware that patients were regularly detained at the two hospitals or if it condones the practice. Dr. Agnes Soucat of the World Health Organization said it does not support patient detentions, but has been unable to document where it happens. And while WHO has issued hundreds of health recommendations on issues from AIDS to Zika virus, the agency has never

published any guidance advising countries not to imprison people in their hospitals. Many Kenyan human rights advocates lament that hospitals continue to hold patients despite what was seen as a landmark judgment in 2015. Back then, the High Court ruled that the detention of two women at Pumwani who couldn’t pay their delivery fees - Maimuna Omuya and Margaret Oliele - was “cruel, inhuman and degrading.” Omuya and her newborn were held for almost a month next to a flooded toilet while Oliele was handcuffed to her bed after trying to escape. Earlier this month, the High Court ruled again that imprisoning patients “is not one of the acceptable avenues (for hospitals) to recover debt.” Omuya said she is still psychologically scarred by her detention at Pumwani, especially after another recent runin with a Nairobi hospital. Several months ago, her youngest brother was treated for a suspected poisoning. When Omuya and her family were unable to pay the bill, the situation took a familiar but unwelcome turn: he was imprisoned. Her brother was only freed after his doctor intervened.

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UK police hunt shoplifter who looks like David Schwimmer London (AP) - British police are hunting a shoplifter who bears a striking resemblance to Ross Geller, the character played by David Schwimmer on the TV show “Friends.” Facebook users noticed the similarity when police posted surveillance-camera footage of a man carrying a carton of cans from a restaurant in Blackpool, northwest England. The actor responded with a Twitter video that showed him scuttling furtively through a convenience store clutching a carton of beer. Schwimmer wrote: “Officers, I swear it wasn’t me. As you can see, I was in New York.” He wished police well with the investigation. Lancashire Police later confirmed that “David Schwimmer was in America on this date.” Britain’s Daily Star newspaper ran a story about Schwimmer’s lookalike under the headline “I’ll Beer There for You,” a play on lyrics from the “Friends” theme. (Blackpool Police via AP)

Putin’s ex-bodyguard rejects TV debate after duel challenge Moscow (AP) - President Vladimir Putin’s former bodyguard has rejected an opposition leader’s invitation for a television debate after challenging him to a duel. Gen. Viktor Zolotov, chief of Russia’s National Guard and Putin’s longtime bodyguard, recorded a rare video address to opposition leader Alexei Navalny last month, challenging him to a duel over his investigation into corruption at the National Guard. Navalny, who was released Sunday after spending 50 days in jail for an unsanctioned protest, put out a video Thursday, reiterating his claims and inviting Zolotov to a TV debate. Zolotov told Russian news agencies on Friday that he had challenged Navalny to an actual duel and that he does not want a public discussion with him. Navalny’s video got over 2.6 million views in less than a day.

Authorities nab suspected serial diaper dumper Franklin, N.J. (AP) - Authorities say they’ve captured a man suspected of dumping his grandson’s soiled diapers along several New Jersey roadways over the past year. Franklin Township police say an officer acting on a hunch spotted 68-year-old William Friedman leaving a load of diapers in the area of Routes 47 and 40 around 3:15 a.m. Sunday. He was taken into custody after a traffic stop. Friedman allegedly told police the diapers came from his grandson, adding that leaving them around town without getting caught “almost became a game.” Authorities say a motorcyclist crashed in June after running over a diaper Friedman had allegedly dropped. The motorcyclist suffered minor injuries and his bike was totaled. Friedman has been charged with interference with transportation. He faces up to $1,000 in fines.

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Guitarist Jimmy Page looks back at 50 years of Led Zeppelin Andrew Dalton Corona, Calif. (AP) — Jimmy Page once painted a dragon, and used it to slay. The guitar guru was so bursting with creative inspiration 50 years ago that he felt compelled to pick up a brush and use his skills from art school to take poster paints to his favorite instrument, a 1959 Fender Telecaster, and decorate it with a psychedelic beast. He calls the axe “the Excalibur” that he wielded through the wildly eventful year of 1968, when his old band, the Yardbirds, crashed, and his new band, Led Zeppelin, was born just two months later. “My whole life is moving so fast at that point,” Page, now 74, said as he reflected on Led Zeppelin’s 50th anniversary in an interview with The Associated Press at the Fender guitar factory in California. “Absolutely just a roller-coaster ride.” Page said he had Led Zeppelin’s sound, and first songs, fully formed in his mind before the Yardbirds were even done. “I just knew what way to go,” Page said. “It was in my instinct.” He found his first ally in singer Robert Plant, whom he invited to his house to thumb through records and talk music.

This Oct. 10, 2018 photo shows Jimmy Page posing for a portrait at the Fender Factory in Corona, Calif. (Photo by Rebecca Cabage/Invision/AP)

Page said he used an unlikely bit of folkie inspiration — Joan Baez — to show Plant the sound he wanted, playing her recording of the song “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You” and telling him to emulate the way she sang the top line of the song. Zeppelin would put the tune on its first album. Page still marvels at how fast the whole thing took off after Plant brought on drummer John Bonham and Page pulled in his friend John Paul Jones to play bass. “The whole journey of Led Zeppelin and the rise of Led Zeppelin, each tour was just extraordinary, and the growth and the respect and love of the band, and the people that were flooding to see us,” Page said. The first record also included “Dazed and Confused,” with Page famously

using a violin bow on the dragon guitar, which he played on every electric song on the record. The guitar had been a cherished gift that guitarist Jeff Beck had given Page to thank him for recommending Beck for a job in the Yardbirds, which had brought a handsome payday. “He’d bought a Corvette Stingray, and came roaring up my driveway with it,” Page remembered. “He said, ‘This is yours.’ I was absolutely thrilled to bits. It was given to me with so much affection.” Page said he made immediate and intense use of the instrument, and wanted to “consecrate” it, so he went at it with paints that were used at the time for psychedelic posters, and summoned the dragon.

Page later left the guitar behind at his home in England on an early U.S. tour with Led Zeppelin in 1969. He’d come to regret it. When he returned, exhausted and abuzz, he found that a ceramicist friend who had been serving as his housesitter had painted over the dragon in his own mosaic style as a “gift” for Page. “It was a disaster,” he said. Page angrily stripped off all the paint and he placed it in storage, where it sat for decades. Flash forward 50 years.

Page was assembling a book for the band’s anniversary, and the dragon guitar kept popping up in pictures. Page felt that maybe it was time to bring the old beast back to life. He worked with a graphic artist who helped illustrate the book, using photos to repaint the guitar, and recreate its old look. He loved the result so much that he approached Fender, guitar maker happily signed on to make an anniversary rendition for the public. The design will be unveiled in January.

“It’s absolutely identical,” Page said. “You wouldn’t see any difference. If anything, the colors were just slightly richer.” Four different versions of the guitar will be released next year. Along with the book, the instruments are a tribute to the band’s 50-year legacy. Asked what kind of gift one might get for his bandmates for such a milestone, Page said, “I might give them a paintbrush, and the body of a guitar, and see if they can do something with it.”

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Grand celebrations held

Austrian ambassador H.E. Dr Eva Hager addresses the gathering. She is flanked by Dep. Mayor Poramet Ngampiches (left) and Hon. Consul Rudolf Hofer.

Dep. Mayor Poramet Ngampiches, Judith Schildberger, Chargé d’Affaires Austrian Embassy, Banglamung District Chief Naris Niramaiwong, and Deputy Mayor Ronakit Ekasing stand for the royal and national anthems.

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Friends celebrating together, (l-r) Peter Schlegel, Axel Brauer, Winfred Worath, Elfi Seitz, Phillipp, Werner Kubesch, Bo Songkram, Maleerat and Urs Brunner.

Sponsors and supporters: Seated (l-r) Sue Kukarja, Amita Malhotra, Nittaya Patimasongkroh, Prince Malhotra, Noi Emerson, Khannita Klemm and Nutsara Duangsri. Standing (l-r) Peter Malhotra, Joachim Klemm and Palisorn Noja.

It was indeed an honour not only for Austrians in Pattaya but also for the local community as H.E. Dr Eva Hager chose to celebrate the Austrian National Day in Pattaya on 26 October at the Thai Garden Resort. This was all made possible by the inspiration and generosity of Gerrit and Anselma Niehaus, owners of the Thai Garden Resort, who were instrumental in organising the festivities. As if that wasn’t enough, the benevolent entrepreneurs invited 5 members of the Grand Opera of Bangkok to perform classical numbers composed by the greats of classical music, Amadeus Mozart, Johann Strauss, Franz Schubert and Gustav Mahler. Adding a sense of dignity and importance to the gathering were our city fathers, led by Banglamung District Chief Naris Niramaiwong, Deputy Mayors Poramet Ngampiches and Ronakit Ekasing, along with VP of the Pattaya City council Rattanachai Suttidechanai. The Honorary Consul of Austria in Pattaya Rudolf Hofer was in attendance to ensure that the guests received the best of Austrian hospitality and gemütlichkeit.

Gerrit Niehaus greets his guests with the traditional Thai wai.

Pattaya Mail MD Peter Malhotra led guests through the proceedings, introducing the VIPs and other guests. H.E. Dr Eva Hager launched the celebrations whereby the Grand Opera singers gave an emotional rendition of Thailand’s Royal Anthem followed by the Austrian National Anthem, proposing a toast to both H.M. King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand and H.E. Alexander Van der Bellen, Federal President of the Republic of Austria. H.E. the ambassador delivered her speech to the guests by narrating excerpts of Austria’s proud history and the long and cordial relations between Thailand and Austria saying, “In 2018, we commemorate the 100 years’ anniversary of the end of the First WorldWar. At the end of the war, the international architecture had changed considerably with the dissolution of the AustroHungarian Empire and the rise of new nations. On 12th of November 1918, the First Austrian Republic was proclaimed.

The new State had to struggle with the brutal post-war reality: devastation, hunger and malnutrition, especially of children, want, misery, poor health and desolate medical supply. “Despite audacious reforms such as the introduction of modern labour rights, and of general suffrage for women as early as 1920, pervasive unemployment, devaluation of the currency and the economic crises swept the new State into a loop of rising extremism combined with racism and into the tragedy of the 2nd World War. “In 2018, we also commemorate the sinister year of 1938, when Austria was taken over by the forces of Nazi-Germany and ceased to exist as a sovereign and independent state. The consequences such as massive persecution, genocide and destruction worldwide were again devastating. “Austria was to revive only at the end of the 2nd WorldWar. On 27th of April 1945 the Second Republic was proclaimed and Austria finally regained its place among the

Radchada Chomjinda, Director of the Human Help Network Foundation (Thailand) is flanked by Komkrit Prasitnarit and Ronakit Ekasing.

The VIP table: Seated (l-r) Naris Niramaiwong, Judith Schildberger, Poramet Ngampiches, H.E. Dr. Eva Hager, Hon. Consul Rudolf Hofer and Ploy Pisters. Standing (l-r) Komkrit Prasitnarit, Ekprapu Ekasingh, Ronakit Ekasingh, Gerrit Niehaus, Warataya Ekasing, Anselma Niehaus and Peter Malhotra.

Pattaya Blatt editor Elfi Seitz, a true blooded Austrian together with Anselma Niehaus make for a pretty picture.

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Banglamung District Chief Naris Niramaiwong and Dep. Mayor Poramet Ngampiches welcome Thais and foreigners to Pattaya.

community of sovereign and independent nations with the State Treaty in 1955. “As early as 1953, the relations between Austria and Thailand were formally resumed followed by decades of friendship and co-operation in areas such as education, culture, strong commercial and economic exchanges and important political visits such as the State visit of Their Majesties the late King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit to Austria in 1964. “Our relations had been established by a Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the Kingdom of Siam as early as 1869. So, next year we shall celebrate the depth and richness of our 150 years of bilateral relations with important cultural and social events both in Bangkok and in Vienna.” Banglamung District Chief Naris Niramaiwong and Deputy Mayor Poramet Ngampiches thanked the ambassador for her kind words and ensured her that Austrians living and working in Pattaya and the Eastern Seaboard were under the love and

care of the local authorities and promised to look after their safety and welfare throughout the length of their stay whether they were short term visitors or permanent residents. Formalities over, guests were entertained by the magnificent Grand Opera Bangkok singers including Stefan Sanchez, Mashima Meebamroong, Kittiphong Klabprathum, Tae Miyata and Nutchapong Asavakarn with repertoires of the immortal classics composed by Mozart, Strauss, Schubert and Mahler. The Thai Garden Buffet laid on a most extraordinary buffet with a vast selection of Thai, International and Austrian food whilst the inhouse trio serenaded the guests during the intermission. As guests bid fond farewells to each other, one could hear the Austrian Ambassador praising the high quality of hospitality and service of the Thai Garden staff and thanked the management for honoring the Austrians by putting together a most memorable evening of food, drink, culture and music.

Guests of many nationalities enjoyed the Austrian National Day festivities at the Thai Garden Resort.

The festivities were held under the watchful eyes of General Manager Rene Pisters and Leroy Coster, Guest Relations Manager.

The audience gave ultimate accolades to the sensational opera singers who proved to be world class. (l-r) Tae Myata, Rudolf Hofer, Gerrit Niehaus, H.E. Dr Eva Hager, Stefan Sanchez, Mashima Meebanroong, Nuchapong Asavarkan and Kittiphong Kiatprathum.

The Grand Opera of Bangkok singers captivated the audience with their sophistication and charm.

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Halloween proves spooky good in Pattaya

(Above) Pattaya Deputy Mayor Poramet Ngampichet poses on stage with the Zombie Zumba participants and local dignitaries.

Zombies invade the Zombie Zumba party in Pattaya.

Local witches break out in their ghoulish dance.

Jetsada Homklin Dancing zombies and elaborate makeup made Pattaya a scary-good place to be on Halloween. Deputy Mayor Poramet Ngampichet and city workers got into the spooky spirit at 6 p.m. on Oct. 31 with Zombie Zumba on the Beach. The walking dead to aerobics is not something you see every day. Pattaya’s epicenter for Halloween fun, Ripley’s World, rolled out the orange-andblack carpet for the occasion again, offering professional “3-D makeup” that added foam, tissue and plastic props to simulate gruesome wounds and blood. Both Thais and foreigners delighted in getting so made up, but prices were not cheap, with basic makeup starting at 350 baht, costumes at 4001,200 baht and complete disguises starting at 3,000 baht. When the witching hour struck, Ripley’s threw open the doors to their haunted house to let all the “ghosts” out to scare guests. Hotels also got into the spirit with staff dressed up as ghosts and free makeup

for guests available at the Hard Rock Hotel. The Siam@Siam Design Hotel was so excited about Halloween, they began celebrating five days early, decorating the lobby in a horror-fantasy theme. The Centara Grand Mirage Beach Resort hosted their annual costume contest with the “horror night” at the Oasis restaurant featuring a variety of spooky and funny stage performances while guests enjoyed food and drinks. Even small restaurants around Pattaya did their part, with colorful decorations and staffers in Thai-horror costume from Soi 7 to Soi Arunothai to the Chumsai Community. At Ban Euaree in Huay Yai, caregiver Eid Saichon and foreign volunteers hosted a Halloween night with 3D makeup for the kids. While the ghouls and goblins were prevalent at organized activities, they were in shorter supply than normal on Walking Street. Mask and makeup vendors said business was down noticeably from last year, with many tourists citing the high prices for 3-D makeup as their reason to skip dressing up.

Ghosts haunt Ban Euaree on Halloween.

Walking Street bouncers played the part well.

This little warlock casts a spell on anyone who looks at his hand in this photo.

A nightmarish family takes a break at Ripley’s World.

Ghosts break out in dance at the Vampire and Friends at the Cliff Halloween party.

Scary times at the bars along Soi 7 Pattaya Beach Road.

Halloween delights at Hard Rock Pattaya.

These kids gave us nightmares at Ban Euaree.

A little witch pauses for some candy before taking off on her broom.

Loads of ghoulish fun at the Royal Cliff Halloween party.

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Articles For Sale/Rent As611/01-52/ Pattaya Mail Cartoonist Michael Baird (M.J.B.) has 3 brand new cartoon E-Books out. These and his other 10 cartoon EBooks can be bought from www.amazon.co.uk or www.booksmango.com. You will now be able to see all of Mike’s cartoons in FULL COLOUR. His 3 new Kindle

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E-Books are “Pattaya Cartoon Memories”, “Ladyboy Book 3” and “Pattaya Unforgettable Memories”. These cartoons are for grown-ups and would be unique gifts. You never know - You might see yourself in them!

Articles/Services Wanted Aw01/01-52/ Missionary in Rayong sponsoring Little Duck Nursery needs help. Please - Any unwanted items you have would be appreciated. (Eng) Rev Stephen 086 600 5682, (Thai) 0875 381 586

Businesses for Sale or Rent Bop03/31-52/ Spacious Double Shophouse, Thepprasit Road, Soi 5; very good business location;

land 240sqm; business space 150sqm; 6 rooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 kitchenettes; 2-4 locked parking spaces; partly furnished; 4,900,000 THB or near offer; Joe: 092753 9309, info@gopropertythailand.com, www.gopropertythailand.com

Bop02/31-52/ Guesthouse in the heart of Pattaya, Thappraya Road; Land: 210Twah (840sqm) and approx. 800sqm business space on 2 floors; 14 rooms;

tropical garden; family owned since 30 years; 11,950,000 THB o.n.o.; Go Property Thailand; 093 161 5995, info @gopropertythailand.com, www.gopropertythailand.com

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Pattaya Emergency Numbers Pattaya Call Center ................................ 1337 Police Station .......................................... 191 - Pattaya ................................................... 038 424 186 - Banglamung ......................................... 038 221 800-1 Highway Police ....................................... 038 392 001 Fire Brigade ............................................. 199 Pat. Int. Hopsital ..................................... 038 428 374-5 Bkk-Pat Hospital ..................................... 038 259 911 TAT Central Office: Region 3 Pattaya . 038 428 750 Tourist Police ......................................... 038 429 371, 1155 . .................................................................. 038 410 044 (FAX)

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3 bathrooms, guest toilet; 1 European kitchen; terrace; 2 balconies; Jacuzzi bath; 3 aircons; ceiling fan; WiFi access; storage room; carport; very nice and clean place to live; 4,950,000 THB; Go Property Thailand; 093 161 5995, info@goproperty thailand.com, www.goproperty thailand.com

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Property for Rent Houses, Villas Prb03/42-46/ For Rent: Bt.10,900 Per Month, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 3 A/C, Furnished, Pool, Clean, Beautiful, Soi 53 Nern Plabwan at Soi 45. Tel: 084-351-8254

Condos, Apartments Prc216/42-09/ Royal Park Luxury Service Apartments and penthouse suite, Jomtien: starting at 15,000 baht/month. 56-70sqm, one bedroom, large living area

with balcony and European kitchen, Free internet. Enjoy our rooftop swimming pool. Short walk to the beach. Monthly and daily rentals, Contact 086 111 7414 or check on our website www. royalparkjomtien.com to see why we are number 1 in Jomtien Prc211/44-45/ Markland Condo for rent (3 Months) November 17 to February 17, Beach Road, Soi 1, Furniture, True + Sophon cable, Great view on 23rd floor: 18,000 per month. Tel. 086 677 8446 Prc215/43-47/ Markland studios, 48sqm, beachfront, sea-view balcony, furnished, internet, refurbished: 15,000 Baht/month, minimum 12 months. Contact owner: ian.thailand@hotmail.com, 087 137 1529 Prc214/43-47/ Pattaya Beach Rd. Soi 13, 1-bedroom/corner, poolside balcony, kitchen, safe-box, 12,000.- /14,500.Tel. 091-504-1806 Prc213/42-46/ Condo WongAmat Beach: Rent 50sqm, floor-27 corner room, most beautiful sea view in Pattaya, 360 degree panorama, magnificent design: 19500/month. Tel. 081-33 58102, pitipity@hotmail.com

Property for Sale Houses, Villas Psb30/45-49/ New house, nearby Regent School: 2.8 MB, Land 400sqm, 3-bed, 2bath, big living/kitchen, parking 4 cars, terrace, garden. Tel. 081 623 3784 (Eng/Thai) Psb29/13-52/ 1-storey single house, living area 130sqm, land size 300sqm, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, fully furnished, European Kitchen, close to Satit School: 3.75 million baht. Tel. Heiner 0818611907

Psb28/31-52/ 5-storey Townhouse in Pratumnak; lobby, 9 rooms and 8 bathrooms; total area 320sqm; big garage; the property was completely restored in 2015;

new bathrooms, new rooms, new air-conditioners; new electric wiring; must see! Great Opportunity! Only 6,200,000 THB; 092- 753 9309, info@gopropertythailand .com, www.gopropertythailand .com

Psb27/31-52/ City Villa in the heart of Pattaya; completely renovated; close to 3rd Road / LK Hotel; in walking distance to Soi Buakhao; 120sqm living space; land approx. 150sqm; 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living room, kitchenette; fully furnished; 2 new Flat TVs; 3 air-cons; big storeroom; garden, carport & parking; NO THROUGH ROAD- very quite; 3,950,000 THB; 092753 9309, info@goproperty thailand.com, www. gopropertythailand.com

Psb26/31-52/ 3-storey Townhouse located in Pratumnak Hills close to “Royal Cliff Hotel”; living space 200sqm; fully furnished with high quality furniture; living room with dining area, 2 bedrooms,

Psb25/31-52/ Villa located on Pattaya East Side, only 5 min. from Sukhumvit/Thepprasit Road; Land size 760sqm, living space 350sqm; partly furnished; living room, dining room, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, guest toilet; Jacuzzi; European kitchen, security 24/7; private pool; tropical garden; garage; parking; 15,500,000 THB; 092- 753 9309, info@ gopropertythailand.com, www.gopropertythailand.com

Psb24/31-52/ Big Villa with 5,200sqm park similar land; located close to Huay Yai Road; living space 650sqm; fully furnished; 1 living/dining room; 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, full European kitchen; terraces; WiFi; private pool 10m x 5m; outdoor shower and toilet; small lake with sala; air-con in all rooms; fitness gym; many storerooms; 85sqm office in separate building; alarm; own well; pantry & laundry room; double garage; automatic gate; 3 BBQ’s; the property is completely walled in:

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Psb23/31-52/ 3-storey modern “BAUHAUS-Style Villa” and a wooden “Traditional Thai Style house” on 1 Rai of land located in Pratumnak, Pattaya; 360sqm living space on 3 floors with gallery; Thai house has 100sqm living space; short distance to the beach; both properties are partly furnished; open living room over 2 floors; dining room; 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1 kitchen; terraces; WiFi; storage rooms; private parking; 75,000,000 THB; Go Property Thailand; 093 161 5995, info@gopropertythailand.com, www.gopropertythailand.com Psb22/31-52/ Big Villa located in a clean & well maintained Resort in East Pattaya, 12 min drive to Sukhumvit Road; quite & peaceful; 1,632sqm land; living space approx. 500sqm;

fully furnished with custom made quality furniture; 1 living room; 1 dining room; 3 bedrooms, 3 ensuite bathrooms, guest toilet, 1 kitchen, maid’s house; pool 10m x 5m (salt water); many terraces; security 7/24h; double garage; fully air-conditioned; laundry, pantry, many storerooms; office; SOLAR hot water; double wall and roof insulation; emergency power generator; double glazed insulation windows; 25.000 liter water storage; 35,000,000 THB or best offer; 092- 753 9309, info@goproperty thailand.com, www.go propertythailand.com

Condominiums Psc89/45-49/ Beachfront Condo at Bangsaray Condominium: 150sqm, 2-bedrooms, 2-bathrooms, 300m from beach, only 137units in 20-rai of green landscaped surroundings in an exclusive residence. Excellent decoration, fully furnished, TVLCD 50". Hot Sale 7.9 million (4x,xxx baht/sqm). Tel.

081-3358102 (owner), for photos: pitipity@hotmail .com, Line: piti.t Psc88/45-02/ PRATAMNAK, 2-bedrooms, 2-bathrooms, Brand New! Sale: 3 Million Baht. High Floor, Includes furniture and appliances. Foreign name. Tel. 064 723-9972 Psc87/44-48/ Markland Studios, Soi 1, Pattaya beachfront road near new Terminal 21 shopping center: 48sqm, beach front balcony, furnished, refurbished, pool, fitness, foreign ownership, 3mio Baht, also finance options available by owner, details ian.thailand@hotmail .com, Tel. 087 137 1529

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Treasure Hill bares its teeth Pattaya Amateur Golf Society monthly tournament Another day dawned and golfers descended en-masse on the well maintained Treasure Hill course for the October PAGS tournament. The day’s field of 95 players, which included 6 ladies, was testament to the popularity and value this course represents. Greens were running true, and there must have been some recent rain as this course always plays a little long. The course layout provided its usual strong challenge, with no men scoring 40 points or above and Butsaya Chummong (27) from the ladies having the best score of the day, 41 points.

Tommy Marshall (6) continued his recent good form, winning the Low Gross with a solid, if unspectacular 81, just edging Peter Park on countback 38/39 on the back-9. Stephen Hughes (13) with his score of 37 points was good enough to pick up top spot in the A Flight (0–13), clearly ahead of Paul Durkan (8) who signed for 35 points, while also picking up technical prizes on holes 2 and 8. Hannu Simonen (13) occupied the low spot on the podium, with his 34 points. The B Flight (14–20) was a hotly contested division with countbacks required to separate all placegetters,

Erkki Pohja.

Young sets the standard The Jomtien Golf Society

Monday, Oct. 29, Plutaluang Stableford Hopefully the wet season has finished and there was no “pick clean and place” needed today, the first time for quite a while. We booked the North and West nines today and with two divisions out the equal cut came at 10-17.5 and 18.3+. Paul Young with 34 points recorded the highest score of the day, winning division 1 ahead of Steve Richardson in second on 33 and Willy Van Heetvelde third with 32. David Phillips topped division 2 with 31 points, Gil Phillips was second on 28 and Bill Kana took third with 27. Near pins went to (Div 1) Per Forsberg and Pete Sumner (2), and (Div 2) Gerry Cooke (2) and Gil Phillips (2). Gerry Cooke birdied W8 with a rollover in division 2 for the only ‘2’ of the day.

Wednesday, Oct. 31, Burapha - Stableford This was our last game here until April next year for various reasons and we were playing the A and B courses today. Six four-balls out with the cut at 10-16 and 17+ and amazing for here we teed off 30 minutes ahead of schedule. Paul Young won division 2 today with 39 points, Gerry Cooke was second on 37, Frank Grainger third with 35

Stephen Hughes.

after they all signed for 38 points. Glenn Armistead (18) got the best of Seppo Kontio (19) and Donal McGuigan (20) after the back-9 points were 23, 22 and 16 respectively. Another headlining score

of the day went to the C flight (21+) winner, Erkki Pohja (23) with a fine 39 points, to be the highest points scorer for the men. John Fenwick (21) picked up second spot with his 37 points, while the bronze position with 36 points went

Glenn Armistead.

to Martin Wyss (37) A few honorable mentions go to Andre Coetzee, Pete Condict, Howard Marson, Martin Cooke, and Kevyn Wright who each picked up the maximum 2 technical prizes, well done to all.

Barnett bags the loot PSC Golf from The Billabong Bar Monday, Oct. 29, Phoenix - Stableford Frank Grainger, Dennis Scougall and Paul Young.

and in fourth place John Rattray beat Colin James on a 19/15 back nine countback after they both scored 33 points. Ian Speirs was the winner in division 1 after scoring 38 points, Neil Gamble took second on 37, Per Forsberg came third with 36 and Bob Poole was fourth on 33 points. Near pins were claimed by (Div 1) Al Griffiths, Dennis Scougall and Yasuo Suzuki, and (Div 2) Alan Bissell and Dave Howden. Al Griffiths birdied A3 and Dennis Scougall B8 to split the division one ‘2’s pot.

Thursday, Nov. 1, Eastern Star Stableford Due to a major tournament at Eastern Star on Friday we were playing here a day early this week and only had a small turnout today.

The social workers entrepreneur Dennis Scougall won division 1 with 35 points, Per Forsberg was second on 32 and in the frame all week, Paul Young beat Paul Butler on a 18/15 countback after they both came in with 31 points. Jans Oldengarn with 30 points won division 2, Ron Lavett was second on 29 and Gil Phillips came third with 28 points. We could not understand why all the greens here had been slightly sanded with a big comp coming up but they were the slickest we have played on here for many months and this was reflected in the scores today. Paul Butler took two near pins and Steve Harris got one as well in division 2. There were no ‘2’ in either division so rollovers to next Friday at the same venue.

Phoenix On Monday, with 6 groups playing the Lakes and Ocean course off the white tees. We were in for a bit of fun as the greens were so different on each nine, a little slow on the Lakes but decidedly quicker on the Ocean nine, which made for a lot of 3-putts. The course was in great condition as usual, but in the rough it was totally different if you could find your ball you were doing well and to get it out. In saying that, the scoring was very good indeed. There was a 4-way countback for 2nd, 3rd and 4th with Glyn Davies missing the prizes completely. Emmett White took 4th place, Dave Smith was 3rd and Graham Beaumont claimed 2nd, all with 39 points. Jason Barnett took the top spot with 40 points. There were three ‘2’s, coming from Glen Smith, Steve Dodd and Jason Barnett. There was some bad news on arriving back at the bar getting the news that our

good friend Steve Ellison had passed away at Green Valley, The Billabong players would like to extend their heartfelt condolences to Steve’s family he was a good mate to all of us and will be sadly missed.

Friday, Nov. 2, Burapha Stableford Burapha our usual venue for a Friday with a much depleted field owing to the fact that there were about 4 teams from the Billabong playing in the annual Poppy Day tournament at the same venue. We played C and D loops that were in great condition, in wonderful temperatures, it

must be the best time of the year to play golf in Thailand. With only 3 groups playing we were away behind a team of Koreans that held up the field, waiting until we were almost finished putting before racing to the next tee to hold us up some more, but we did finish. There were no ‘2’s so the prizes went down to 3rd place which was taken by Thiery Petrement with a fine 35 points, 2nd place went to the man of the moment Jason Barnett with 36 points, he even cut himself to a 3handicap and still managed to score that amount of points, beaten on the day by Steve Dodd with 38 points.

Devereux takes the day PSC Golf from Siam Country Resort Pattaya Thursday, Nov. 1, Pattavia – Stableford Tuesday we played a 4-ball at Pattaya Country Club with no competition. The course was good and we enjoyed our day.

Two days later on Thursday we went to Pattavia and found another course in good condition. Paddy Devereux won the day with 35 stableford points and Neil Harvey came in second with 34.

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Morris on the mark at Khao Kheow The Tara Court Golf Society

Sunday, Oct. 28, Green Valley Stableford We played the ball ‘as it lies’ today at Green Valley, which was maybe a mistake as we got many muddy balls on the fairways but we still got some very good scores. We had two flights with the cut coming in at fifteen and the best scores came from the lower flight as usual. In the A flight we had two players with thirty eight points and here Kevyn Wright (11),

who is playing very steady at the moment, won a countback which went down to the last six holes and he beat Craig Hitchens (13) into second place, but Craig had a ‘2’ which meant that he walked away with almost the same money. Craig Robson (9) got the third place with thirty six points. In the B flight the scores weren’t quite as good and here Gerry Hughes (21) won with thirty four points, beating Pat Carty (21) on a countback. Paul Butler (18)

got the third and last place with thirty three. We had three ‘2’s, coming from Craig Hitchens, Yasou Suzuki and Neville Duncan.

Tuesday, Oct. 30, Treasure Hill – Stableford We had a smaller group today at Treasure Hill with just 9 players. The course was in great conditions with the fairways, first cut of rough and the general rough having been freshly mown. The greens were a little slower than

Robbins returns to the top PSC Golf from The Bunker Boys Monday, Oct. 29, Pattana B & C – Stableford 1st Geoff Cox (16) 37pts 2nd Geoff Parker (15) 35pts 3rd Paul Lanzetta (7) 34pts A field of twelve fronted up for the first game of the week at the beautiful Pattana Country Club. In the past, we have only played this course rarely and always in low season. If current fees stay comparable with other venues then, without doubt, we will play this course more often. Today we were allocated B & C nines and as is often the case many found themselves in the water on this intimidating starting hole. The course was in beautiful condition but despite that, we had a mix of scores from good to mediocre. Geoff Cox’s motto in golf is “keep hanging in”, this attitude certainly paid dividends today. Having started his round in mediocre fashion he suddenly sprung into life with a birdie on the seventh hole and continued on in the same vein to the end amassing thirtyseven points to take first place. Second, went to Geoff Parker with a steady thirty-five points while Paul Lanzetta took third with thirty-four points. Paul also snared two near pins with Keith Norman and Geoff Parker taking one each.

Wednesday, Oct. 31, Eastern Star – Stableford 1st Jimmy Carr (15) 34pts 2nd Takeshi Hakozaki (12) 33pts 3rd Tony Robbins (22) 33pts The last game of the month was played at Eastern Star. This is a course that has undergone a massive transformation in recent months and the clubhouse renovations are now completed and are brilliant. The change rooms and showers are amongst the best anywhere, bright, spacious, and with piped music. The course was also in tip-top condition and the bunkers have recently been resanded and well groomed. If there was a criticism it would be that the bunkers are extremely difficult to play from with dry fluffy sand and almost always leaving a fried egg lie. Cart paths have been installed around the course and it’s fair to say that this is now an excellent golf venue. Today the wind was strong making a challenging course even more difficult, so scores were modest at best. Jimmy Carr took first place with thirty-four points whilst Takeshi Hakozaki took second edging out Tony Robbins on countback. Near pins went to Takeshi, Neil Carter, and Michael Brett.

Gerry Hughes.

Ted Morris.

normal but in good shape. Once again the course won with no one bettering their handicap. In 1st place was Craig Hitchens (13) with 35 points, second went to Russell Gilroy (16) on 33 and third to Ted Morris (19) with 32. Three players had a 2 today and sharing the money were Russell Gilroy, Pat Carty and the birthday boy, Joe Peters.

Kheow on our monthly schedule and we made our first here visit today. Although it is high season we had the course virtually to ourselves which meant that we got off thirty minutes early and got round very quickly. We had nearly forgotten just how good this course is, especially when it is in the condition it was in today which was very good. We played the B and C nines and had two flights with the cut

Thursday, Nov. 1, Khao Kheow Stableford Now that November is here we decided to put Khao Golfer of the Month, Michael Brett

As it was the last game of the month it was time to decide the golfer of the month. Michael Brett put together six consecutive rounds of thirty-five plus to set the pace early and say to the rest of the team catch me if you can. A few such as Geoff Parker, Geoff Cox, and Neil Carter gave valiant chase but in the end, only Neil Carter was in a position to overtake him which he looked like doing with two birdies in the first five holes only to mess up with a couple of wipes and fade out of contention needing a score of thirty-nine to tie, a score that was out of reach.

for the A flight coming in at eighteen. We had a very strong wind today so with that and the fact that it is a difficult course we had only one player to play better than his handicap and one player to play to it. In the B flight Ted Morris (19) had what was the best score of the day and he was the winner with thirty seven points. Frank McGowan (22) came second with thirty five and then we had two players with thirty four points and here Pat Carty (21) won the countback to come third and Peter Henshaw lost out. In the A flight Jason Barnett (5), who was playing his first ever game with us, was the winner with thirty six points, which was a very good score off his five handicap. Bernie Stafford (18) came second with thirty four and Vincent Gras (17), who was playing with us for the first time in a long time came third with thirty three. We had two ‘2’s today, from Pat Carty and Marty Rock.

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Habersaat posts best of the week PSC Golf from Café Kronborg

Friday, Nov. 2, Pattavia – Stableford 1st Tony Robbins (22) 40pts 2nd Geoff Parker (15) 37pts 3rd Neil Carter (11) 36pts 4th Neil Griffin (26) 36pts The Pattavia course was up to its usual standard but the greens had not fully recovered from recent coring and sanding and were a bit bumpy with occasional pebbles still on the surface, sometimes deviating putts offline. The speed of play was average at best with a few delays on the par threes. Having been in hibernation since his forty-seven a month ago, Tony Robbins sprung back to life today with forty points to take first place with a display of chipping and putting that had his playing partners scratching their heads. Geoff Parker came second with a very creditable thirtyseven points with Neil Carter a stroke back on thirty-six. Neil Griffin in his first game since returning took fourth place losing on countback to Neil Carter. Only three of the four near pins were taken, one each going to Brendan Harnett, Alan Sullivan, and Geoff Cox.

Peter Bygballe and Steen Habersaat with Dave Richardson.

Monday, Oct. 29, Pattavia – Stableford A Flight (0-20) 1st Brian Gabe (17) 31pts 2nd Peter Bygballe (19) 29pts 3rd Ronnie Ratte (20) 25pts B Flight (21+) 1st Jan Lovgreen (21) 33pts 2nd Daryl Evans (22) 30pts 3rd Arne Pedersen (21) 27pts Today was the start of our 2018/19 high season wrap around season starting with Pattavia. The course was in fine shape even though the fast greens had been cored and sanded. We played two flights today with the cut set at handicap 20. Brian Gabe

took the A Flight with 31 points, Peter Bygballe was second on 29 points and Ronnie Ratte placed third with 25. Jan Lovgreen won the B Flight with 33 points ahead of Daryl Evans in second on 30 and Arne Max Pedersen third with 27.

Thursday, Nov. 1, Pleasant Valley – Stableford A Flight (0-20) 1st Peter Bygballe (19) 33pts 2nd Dave Addison (15) 30pts 3rd Ronnie Ratte (20) 29pts B Flight (21+) 1st Steen Habersaat (25) 38pts

2nd Jan Lovgreen (21) 36pts 3 rd Arne Pedersen (21) 33pts Pleasant Valley was the game today and the course was in very good condition. Two flights today with the cut at handicap 20. Peter Bygballe won the A Flight with 33 points, Dave Addison was second on 30 and Ronnie Ratte third with 29. Steen Habersaat had the best score of the day, 38 points, to win the B Flight while Jan Lovgreen came second with 36 points and Arne Max Pedersen was third on 33.

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Hanrahan kicks off high season PSC Golf Pattaya Links Golf Society Monday, Oct. 29, Royal Lakeside – Stableford A Flight 1st Les Cobban (9) 42pts 2nd Maurice Roberts (14) 41 pts 3rd Julian Priesinger (4) 38pts B Flight 1st Colin Service (17) 36pts 2nd Ray Cody (19) 36pts 3rd Paul Chesney (20) 35pts Twenty-eight players made their way by buses and cars to the beautiful Royal Lakeside Golf Course on this Monday morning. We are rarely disappointed in the condition and presentation of this course: fairways with a good covering of grass, bunkers well kept, and greens with some speed (a few sprinkles of sand on some had no effect on the roll of the ball). Royal Lakeside and its neighbor, Bangpakong, usually produce some good scoring, and this day it was Les Cobban with 42 points just pipping Maurice Roberts on 41 to take out “A” flight. That’s great scoring. At his first outing with Links, Germany’s Julian Preisinger, playing off handicap 4, scored 38 points to take third spot, followed by a couple of near pins. “B” flight saw Colin Service returning to the winner’s circle after a few disappointments,

Dave Arataki (center) with Iain Craigen (left) and Steve Potter.

beating Ray Cody on countback, both with handicap equalling rounds of 36 points. Paul Chesney is running hot and cold at the moment, but a hot one today had him come in with 35 points to get third on countback over Mike Tottenham. Near pins were won by Julian Preisinger (x2), Tip Briney and Ed Wykoff.

Wednesday, Oct. 31, Green Valley – Stableford A Flight 1st Mashi Kaneta (13) 38pts 2nd Colin Service (17) 35pts 3rd Eric Black (15) 35pts 4th Ed Wykoff (14) 35pts B Flight 1st Dave Arataki (27) 39pts

2nd Patrick Poussier (29) 34pts 3rd Tip Briney (23) 31pts 4th Jim Ferris (21) 30pts A final low season visit to Green Valley saw the society end the season in style on a course which was quite well presented with good fairways, a little soft but allowing some run and greens which disappointed, being somewhat inconsistent and with a few still bearing signs of re-turfing. Eight groups left the tee well before time and the round was played under a cloudless sky with a cool fresh breeze evident all day, making life comfortable for the thirty golfers. The field was divided into two flights with the cut at

Local favorite Nasa Hataoka fires 67 to win Japan Classic Shiga, Japan (AP) — Local favorite Nasa Hataoka shot a 5-under 67 last Sunday to win the Japan Classic for her second LPGA title of the season. Hataoka offset a pair of bogeys with seven birdies at the Seta Golf Club to finish at 14-under 202, two strokes ahead of compatriots Momoka Ueda, Saki Nagamine and Spain’s Carlota Ciganda, who all shot 68. Hataoka, who also won the Arkansas Championship in June, started the final round four strokes behind secondround leader Minjee Lee. Lee quickly faded, playing the opening nine at 7-over 43 and opening the door for Hataoka, who played the same stretch at 4-under 36. Hataoka had a setback after the turn, carding consecutive bogeys at the 11th and 12th and allowing Ciganda to briefly pull into a tie for the lead. But Hataoka regained her confidence with a clutch par save at No. 13, and her birdie at No. 14 reclaimed the lead. “I realize something has to come to me and I had to get through it, and I knew it was at the 13th hole,” said

Japan’s Nasa Hataoka poses with trophy after winning the Japan Classic golf tournament in Shiga, Japan Sunday, Nov. 4. (Ichiro Sakano/Kyodo News via AP)

Hataoka of the putt that saved her round. “I was not totally comfortable with the shot, but I was calm enough to play well on that hole.” Ciganda had a chance to tie Hataoka at No. 18 but left her birdie putt from above the hole too short. Hataoka’s birdie putt fell, clinching a hard-fought home win. South Korean golfers Jin Young Ko (66) and Ji-Hee

Lee (68) were tied for fifth at 11-under 205. Lee struggled with her game and had back-to-back bogeys on Nos. 7 and 8 as part of a 78 that left her tied for 15th. “I didn’t hit the shots that I wanted very solid,” Lee said. “So obviously it didn’t go the way I wanted.” The LPGA stop in Japan is the fourth of five consecutive tournaments across Asia.

eighteen and under and scores were moderate with only a couple of exceptions. In the top flight fourth place went to American golfer Ed Wyckoff with 35 points, losing out on countback to Eric Black who posted 35 points on his return. Second place, again on “cb”, went to Colin Service with 35 points with Colin stumbling through the final couple of holes. The flight winner was Pattaya regular Mashi Kaneta with an excellent 38 points. In the second flight, fourth place went to Jim Ferris, at last seeing light at the end of a seemingly long tunnel, with 30 points, one behind Tip Briney with 31. Second place went to Patrick Poussier with 34 points. But the plaudits and a second green jacket were reserved for the quiet man of the group Dave Arataki whose 39 points represented one of his better scores with the group. The best front nine (nonwinners) went to Richard “Banjo” Bannister with 20 points and similarly the best back nine winner was Jim Galendez with 17. Near pins went to Dave Arataki (5), Vic Stanton (8), Patrick Poussier (13) and Tony Browne (16)

Jerry Hanrahan.

Friday, Nov. 2, Pleasant Valley – Stableford A Flight 1st Ian Pope (6) 39pts 2nd Ray Cody (18) 37pts 3rd Liam Bennett (5) 36pts 4th Maurice Roberts (14) 35pts B Flight 1st Jerry Hanrahan (21) 40pts 2nd Stan Stewart (20) 36pts 3rd Margaret Stanton (30) 34pts 4th Steve Baker (19) 34pts The society kicked of high season with a visit to Pleasant Valley with forty golfers on Friday. It has always been PLGS policy to reward courses that offer deals/discounts in preference to those who don’t and the voucher scheme here, which applies for PSC members, certainly

represents good value. The course was in good condition with some damp areas on fairways but greens were running well. The large field was divided into two flights, cut at eighteen and under and the top flight, with seven single figure handicappers, had their work cut out to succeed. In fourth place it took a countback to decide the minor place with Maurice Roberts coming fourth with 35 points. In third was Liam Bennett with 36 points, one point behind Ray Cody on his final round this trip. The flight winner was Ian Pope, returning 39 points (75 gross) on a short “R&R” trip enroute to Sri Lanka for a dose of Test Match cricket. In the second flight Margaret Stanton nudged Steve Baker into fourth on countback with 34 points, leaving her two points behind the second placed golfer Stan Stewart. The flight winner and green jacket recipient was Jerry Hanrahan with a fine 40 point return. Near pins went to Dave Arataki (5), Alan Cauldwell (8) and Ian Pope (13, 17)

Fairway to Heaven Traveller’s Rest Golf Group As the flags at TGC flew at half mast And glasses were soberly raised high Steve Ellison was having a ball At the golf course in the sky Freed from the gravity of the situation The first tee shot soared through space Bringing a wondrous, beaming smile To a gentle, down to earth face Surrounded by old friends Once thought never to be seen again The infinity course beckoned ahead Eighteen holes were for mere mortal men This poem was written in memory of Steve Ellison, a true gentleman who sadly passed away doing what he loved to do in the service of others. The management, members and staff of the Traveller’s Rest Golf Group wish to express their sincere condolences to his family and friends.

Monday, Oct. 29, Greenwood Stableford 1st Derek Thorogood (18) 36ts

Steve Ellison R.I.P.

2 Bill Chur (13) 34pts 3rd Lee Leong (17) 34pts nd

Tuesday, Oct. 30, Green Valley – Stableford 1st Richard Talbot (17) 37pts 2nd Neil Wilkinson (13) 36pts 3rd Pat Feeney (24) 36pts

Wednesday, Oct. 31, Khao Kheow – Medal 1st Kevin Smith (13) net 67 2nd Greg Bates (14) net 73 3rd Chun-Yong Park (31) net 74

Thursday, Nov. 1, Phoenix - Stableford 1st Kim Hyeung-Rok (19) 40pts

2nd Liam Horgan (17) 38pts 3rd Paul Durkan (6) 35pts

Friday, Nov. 2, Burapha - Stableford Division 1 1st Colin Smith (11) 40pts 2nd Kevin Smith (14) 35pts 3rd Ron Hulen (12) 35pts Division 2 1st Kim Hyeung-Rok (17) 41pts 2nd Derek Thorogood (18) 37pts 3rd Wang Keun-Tak (22) 37pts

Saturday, Nov. 3, Pattavia - Stableford 1st John O’Donoghue (21) 40pts 2nd Mike Rushant (12) 39pts 3rd Richard Talbot (17) 37pts

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Xin takes October monthly mug PSC Golf from the Tropical Golf Group John Davis (12) topped the A (0–23) flight with 37 points. Dick Warberg (23) claimed second with 36, and Mike O’Brien was third with 35.

The best front nine, not placing, went to Fred Tam’s 18, while Takeshi Hakozaki had the best back nine score with 19 points.

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John Davis (left) and Graham Buckingham.

Dick Warberg presents the Monthly Mug to Frank Xin.

Tuesday, Oct. 30, Royal Lakeside – Monthly Mug/Stroke This is a straight course, by that I mean all the holes are straight with occasional gentle bends in some par 4 and 5 fairways. Straight out and back is nine, more or less, and then the same again. Has to be said that you can think most of the holes are similar but some of them have been modified of late. But it is a clean course as what you see is what you

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get and to suffer you have to hit a bad shot. On this day we were allowed to have carts on the fairways, what a pleasure, and appreciated as most courses have been wet of late. The fairways were still soft and a pleasure to play off while the greens were still firm and quite fast. All in all a course in really good condition and a pleasure to play, which was fine as this was the for the Monthly Mug, which is a strokeplay competition and it is really

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easy to run up a big score on some holes, especially in bad weather. The winner was Frank Xin with a very good net 65, in second place was Brian Gabe with a net 67 and in third was Derek Brook on net 69. Taking fourth was Dave Cooper with a net 71, John Davies placed fifth on net 72 and Don Carmody completed the podium in sixth with a net 73.

Friday, Nov. 2, Crystal Bay – Stableford Sunshine and “cool” temperatures greeted the 19

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players who made the trip to Crystal Bay. The course was in nice condition and the fine weather stayed with us all day. The field was divided into two flights today, and the B (24+) flight had the top scores of the day. While most of the field played from the white tees, the best score was turned in by Graham Buckingham, teeing from the yellows. Graham totaled an excellent 43 stableford points from his course handicap of 25. Second place went to Daryl Evans (24) with 38 points, and third to Don Carmody’s (30) 35.

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The Bunker Boys meet at the M-Club off Pattaya 3rd Road for golf outings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday (www.bunkersociety.com). Transportation leaves from Cafe Kronborg on Soi Diana Inn at 8:15 a.m. on Mondays and Thursdays, (contact Dave on tel. 038 602 2117). Colin’s Bar plays golf Sun/Mon/Wed & Fri (www.colinsbar.com). The Growling Swan plays golf on Monday & Thursday (www.thegrowlingswan.com). Lewinski’s in Soi Pattayaland 1 (Soi 13/3), now have a new schedule, 5 days per week Monday thru Friday. Transport is available everyday, call Jack on 0815781956 for further information and booking. The Pattaya Links Hotel Golf Society departs from Soi Buakhao on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Call Phil on 0625 933 380 or visit www.thelinkshotelpattaya.com. The Golf Club is located on Soij LK Metro. Call Phil on 090 769 3778. Tropical Golf meets at BJ’s Holiday Lodge at 8am on Tuesday’ & Friday. Call Derek on 089 034 0629

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Brady already was the GOAT before beating Rodgers Rodgers is one of the best to play the game and he may be the “most talented,” but he doesn’t belong in the “greatest of all time” conversation. It’s Brady. Then Joe Montana. Peyton Manning deserves a mention. So does Drew Brees. Brady has eight Super Bowl appearances. He won his third regular-season MVP award last year at age 40 and he has four Super

Rob Maaddi New York (AP) - Tom Brady didn’t have to beat Aaron Rodgers in only their second head-to-head matchup to prove he’s the best quarterback of all time. The GOAT (greatest of all time) did it, anyway. Brady threw for 294 yards and one touchdown to lead the New England Patriots to a 31-17 victory over Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers last Sunday night. Rodgers had 259 yards passing and two TDs. It wasn’t a vintage performance for either quarterback. Brady tossed six straight incomplete passes at one point, and he couldn’t get the Patriots in the end zone on four tries from the 1 with the score tied in the third quarter. Still, he posted a passer rating of 99.0 on a night when he didn’t have star tight end Rob Gronkowski and leading rusher Sony Michel. The game was billed as the most talented QB vs. the most accomplished QB. Some considered that statement a slight against Brady. It’s not. Rodgers is immensely gifted with a strong, accurate arm and scrambling ability. He makes plays with his legs that Brady can’t. He makes throws few players ever

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (left) passes under pressure from Green Bay Packers outside linebacker Nick Perry during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Nov. 4, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

could make, whether he’s on the run like the 24-yard pass to Marquez Valdes-Scantling on a third-and-1 late in the third quarter, or if he’s flatfooted, falling down, throwing across his body or heaving desperation passes into the end zone. Brady has a different style. He’s a drop-back passer with underrated pocket mobility and perfect mechanics, and he simply outsmarts everyone else on the field. He fooled a pair of defenders with his eyes by looking as if he was throwing a screen pass and instead fired deep for a 55-yard TD pass to Josh Gordon to seal the win.

But John Elway and Steve Young also belong in the “most talented” conversation, so it’s not even a slam dunk that title belongs to Rodgers. Michael Vick wasn’t nearly as well-rounded, but he could throw a 70-yard touchdown pass with a simple flick of his left wrist or he could sprint 70 yards for a score at any point in a game. He has a case for the “most talented” debate if it’s based purely on physical skills. It won’t be long before Patrick Mahomes has to be considered, too. However, the “greatest of all time” argument ended when Brady rallied the Patriots from a 28-3 third-quarter deficit against the Falcons to win his fifth Super Bowl title on Feb. 5, 2017. “He’s got five championships,” Rodgers said earlier in the week when asked the GOAT question. “I think that ends most discussions.”

NYC Marathon sets record with nearly 53,000 finishers

Runners wait at the starting line during the New York City Marathon on Sunday, Nov. 4, in New York. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

New York (AP) — The New York City Marathon has set a record for the most finishers of any marathon worldwide — 52,812. Organizers said Monday the total topped the mark of 51,394 from the 2016 NYC

Marathon. The race through the city’s five boroughs last Sunday was watched by more than 1 million spectators on a crisp fall day. Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia and Mary Keitany of Kenya were the men’s and women’s

winners. It was Keitany’s fourth victory in New York. Desisa won this race for the first time. The wheelchair winners were Daniel Romanchuk of the U.S. and Manuela Schar of Switzerland.

Bowl MVP awards in his trophy case. He’s still at the top of his game at 41, seven years older than Rodgers. Over 19 seasons, Brady has set numerous records and he notched another milestone against the Packers when he surpassed Manning for the most combination passing, rushing and receiving yards in the regular-season and playoffs. So while the Sunday Night

Football crew enjoyed hyping the matchup and even got Michael Jordan involved by having the six-time NBA champion record a promo saying “the best way to settle this debate is to play it out head to head,” Brady already earned the title way before helping New England (7-2) to its sixth straight win. Brady is the greatest quarterback of all time and he’s still proving it every week.

Djokovic back at No. 1; replaces Nadal, whose season is over Howard Fendrich Paris (AP) - Novak Djokovic returned to No. 1 on Monday after a two-year absence and is assured of becoming the first man in the history of the ATP rankings to finish a season at the top spot after being outside the top 20 during that season. That’s because the man he overtook, Rafael Nadal, is done for 2018. Nadal withdrew from the ATP Finals on Monday, citing an abdominal injury, and announced he was having arthroscopic surgery on his right ankle. Djokovic will be the ATP’s year-ending No. 1 for the fifth time, pulling even with Roger Federer and Jimmy Connors for the second most since the computer rankings began in 1973. Pete Sampras holds the record of six. “Reflecting on what I’ve been through in the last year, it’s quite a phenomenal achievement,” said Djokovic, who was No. 2 last week and hadn’t been No. 1 since November 2016. “And, of course, I’m very, very happy and proud about it. Five months ago, if you told me that ... it

Novak Djokovic of Serbia stretches to return the ball to Karen Khachanov of Russia during their final match of the Paris Masters tennis tournament at the Bercy Arena in Paris, France, Sunday, Nov. 4. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

was highly improbable at that time, considering my ranking and the way I played and felt on the court.” The 31-year-old from Serbia fell to No. 22 in May after beginning the year with a 66 record while recovering from surgery on his right elbow. He hadn’t been ranked that low since he was 22nd in 2006 as a teenager. But Djokovic has gone 435 since, including Grand Slam titles at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open after reunit-

ing with Marian Vajda, the longtime coach with whom he had split. Djokovic raised his haul of major trophies to 14, tied with Sampras for third most in men’s tennis history behind Federer with 20 and Nadal with 17. The last man to go from outside the top 20 to No. 1 within a single season was Marat Safin, who was No. 38 and No. 1 in 2000, before ending that year at No. 2. John Isner will now replace Nadal in the ATP Finals field.

Mayweather to fight Japanese kickboxer Nasukawa in December Tokyo (AP) — Floyd Mayweather is planning on fighting Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa on Dec. 31 in Saitama, north of Tokyo. The 41-year-old Mayweather is 50-0 in his boxing career but has never fought professionally under MMA rules. Although he did have a lucrative win over MMA fighter Conor McGregor last year. Japanese promoter the RIZIN Fighting Federation on Monday said rules and the weight class for the bout have not been set. “We still have some work to do,” said Nobuyuki Sakakibara, the RIZIN chairman. The 20-year-old Nasukawa, speaking at a news conference alongside Mayweather, called it “probably the biggest event of my life so far.” He also vowed to end Mayweather’s long string of victories. “Nobody has defeated my opponent in the past, and I would like to be the man who makes history,” Nasukawa said, speaking through an interpreter. “My punch can change history. And I will show

Floyd Mayweather of the U.S. speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, Monday, Nov. 5. (Katsuya Miyagawa/ Kyodo News via AP)

that to you. So please stay tuned.” Mayweather sat calmly and then praised his young opponent. “I think he’s young, very strong and very fast and he undefeated so it’s obvious he’s doing something right,” Mayweather said.

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All Blacks vs Ireland headlines November rugby series London (AP) — When England recovered within months from a humiliating home Rugby World Cup campaign to Grand Slam the Six Nations in 2016, they clamored to play the double world champion All Blacks. Eddie Jones, the new coach, led the cheerleading. For various reasons — money, scheduling, drawing out the hype — the matchup was put off. Finally, it’s here. This Saturday at Twickenham. And the English ought to be careful of what they wished for. A game that a year ago was being hyped as a preview of the 2019 Rugby World Cup final is no longer the headliner of this November series. That would be New Zealand’s visit to Ireland next week. England can blame only themselves. Notwithstanding upsetting the Springboks last weekend in the first skirmishes, England remain tough but unsettled and exposed. After a glamorous 2016 and 2017, including 18 wins in a row, England’s

losses outweigh the wins this year. Meanwhile, the All Blacks will next week achieve nine successive years as No. 1. And could lose the ranking the next day to Ireland in Dublin. Ireland replaced England this year as Europe’s big cheese. Following a Six Nations Grand Slam, Ireland won a first series in Australia in 39 years. Coach Joe Schmidt has capped 36 new players since the last Rugby World Cup, including two last weekend, and is down to fine-tuning. The crux of the attack remains halves Jonathan Sexton and Conor Murray, who did much to end Ireland’s excessive respect of the All Blacks in 2016 in Chicago. Murray has been rehabbing a neck injury and returned to training last week. The Irish will warm up for the All Blacks this week against Argentina, who transformed into a threat again after Jaguars Super Rugby coach Mario Ledesma replaced Daniel Hourcade in August.

New Zealand’s Ngani Laumape crosses for a try against Japan during their rugby test at the Ajinomoto Stadium in Tokyo, Japan, Saturday, Nov. 3. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

The Pumas beat South Africa and Australia in the Rugby Championship, and impressed against the All Blacks. Beside Ireland, they play France and Scotland. The Springboks are already in Paris, ruing blowing their last two matches to New Zealand and England. South Africa know what their capable of after a home series win over England and beating the All Blacks in Wellington, but they remain a work in progress. To their dismay at Twickenham, the Springboks’ lineout malfunctioned and their error-rate was alarming, but all of it was fixable. After France, the Springboks go to Scotland and Wales. The Welsh opened their series with a rare win, showing off attack and defense in

beating off Scotland. Sam Warburton’s retirement is a blow but Wales have depth in the back row, and Alun Wyn Jones is a rousing leader. A year of improvement in results and expansive back play would be capped by beating Australia in Cardiff this weekend, less than a year from their Rugby World Cup pool match in Japan. Wales have let the Wallabies slip through their grasp

for 13 straight matches over a decade. But that might finally end with the Wallabies appearing to have lost their killer instinct. Australia scored only 16 tries in the Rugby Championship, compared to 25 last year. They have been setting up chances, but tending to grind, putting coach Michael Cheika at wits’ end. If the Will Genia-Bernard Foley-Kurtley Beale axis can grow, the attack could sharpen with the return from injury of center Samu Kerevi and the recall of wing Adam AshleyCooper against Wales, Italy, and finally England. The Scots’ road woes continued last weekend in Cardiff, but they relish Murrayfield, where they have lost only once in two years, and that narrowly to New Zealand. The Scots will also welcome back exiles such as Greig Laidlaw and Sean Maitland plus injured frontliners such as Stuart Hogg, John Barclay and Zander Fagerson for remaining

games against Fiji, South Africa, and Argentina. New Zealand, fresh off another Rugby Championship title, split their squad last week so their second-stringers could account for Japan in Tokyo, and the regulars could come to London early and prepare for England. It’s all part of their Rugby World Cup defense planning, including consecutive games at Twickenham and Lansdowne Road to help them prepare for the knockout rounds. It’s these games on murky and moist November nights in Europe which force the All Blacks, so rampant in the southern hemisphere, to strategize more. It keeps on working. They haven’t lost a test in Europe in six years. This month will also complete the Rugby World Cup field, as Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, and Kenya vie in Marseille for the 20th and last berth. Only Canada of the four has previously qualified, and never missed a World Cup.

Ellis shades a close one PSC Golf from The Growling Swan

Biles wraps up remarkable worlds with 4 gold medals Doha, Qatar (AP) — Simone Biles returned to training last November wondering if she could ever return to the form that made her an Olympic champion. She doesn’t wonder anymore. Neither does anyone else. The American star capped a remarkable 2018 world gymnastics championships by claiming gold on floor exercise and bronze on balance beam during event finals last weekend, giving her six medals for the meet and 20 overall in the world championships, tied with Russia’s Svetlana Khorkina for the most by a female gymnast. “I think there’s a lot to be proud, but I’m most proud of that I’m here, I made all the event finals, medaled in all of the events and I survived,” Biles said. Something that wasn’t a guarantee when the meet began. Biles spent the night before qualifying in the hospital dealing with pain from a kidney stone. The stone was too big to pass and she couldn’t take prescription pain medication because of doping regulations, forcing her to simply deal with it. Biles did more than deal with it. She dominated. Just like always. The 21-year-old headed home to Houston with gold medals from the team final, the allaround final, floor and vault as well as silver on uneven bars and bronze on beam. She became the first woman to earn a medal on all four events since Yelena Shushunova did it for the Soviet Union in 1987. Biles believes it’s just the beginning. She’ll visit with doctors to treat the kidney stone,

Masa Takano (from left), Frank Mills, Roger Ellis and Julian Preissinter.

Monday, Oct. 29, King Naga Stableford

Simone Biles of the U.S. shows her gold medal after the floor exercise on the last day of the apparatus finals of the Gymnastics World Championships at the Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar, Saturday, Nov. 3. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

go on a short vacation and then point toward 2019. “Hopefully I feel more confident next year going into all of the events,” she said. “We’ll see about upgrades. I’m not sure. We’ll see.”

1st Eric Black (15) 37pts 2nd Ian Ward (11) 37pts 3rd Mashi Kaneta (13) 34pts 4th Gordon Clegg (25) 33pts Near Pins: Alex Field, Frank Mills, Alex Field, Eric Black Long Putts: Bernie McCart, Denis Steele. A fine turnout of fifteen enthusiastic golfers made the trip to a course that was a little wet in places so we went for ‘lift, clean and place’ on the fairways. The course was in good condition although there was very little run, greens were fine and the bunkers were a little firm, and that of course is to do with the rain. Eric ‘The Judge’ Black just pipped Ian Ward at the post via the countback system

after both returned scores of 37 points. In third was Mashi Kaneta, with his playing partner Gordon Clegg taking fourth placing on the podium.

Thursday, Nov. 1, Greenwood Stableford 1st Roger Ellis (29) 38pts 2nd Frank Mills (24) 38pts 3rd Julian Preissinter (4) 36pts 4th Masa Takano (9) 36pts Near Pins: Colm Lawlor, Sal Brizzi, Eric Black, Eric Black. Long Putts: Masa Takano, Colm Lawlor. We headed to Greenwood today and I have to say pricing was not too bad considering high season has started. Fifteen Golfers were prepared to take the journey and throw caution to the wind. Greenwood never disappoints us, a great course at

a good price and with the weather we have been having this was in great condition. Everything was spot on and even the weather gods smiled upon us with temperature being in our favor. Courses C & A were allotted to us and we attacked from the white tees. With few people on the course we were up and at it before our allotted time. Our numbers dictated that were playing one flight only with all novelties in play. Roger Ellis observed and learnt from the scribe’s golfing errors on Monday and was the winner today, beating Frank Mills on a countback after both golfers greeted the judges with 38 points. Third and fourth went to the countback also, with Julian Preissinter and Masa Takano both returning with 36 points.

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Arsenal’s Alexandre Lacazette (right) attempts a shot at goal during the English Premier League match between Arsenal and Liverpool at Emirates stadium in London, Saturday, Nov. 3. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

Joel Rosario rides Accelerate to victory in the Breeders’ Cup Classic horse race at Churchill Downs, Saturday, Nov. 3, in Louisville, Kentucky. (AP Photo/ Darron Cummings)

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Elijah Lee tackles Oakland Raiders wide receiver Martavis Bryant during the second half of an NFL football game in Santa Clara, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 1. (AP Photo/John Hefti)

Australia’s Pat Cummins ducks under a short ball from South Africa’s Dale Steyn during their teams’ one day international cricket match in Perth, Australia Sunday, Nov. 4. (AP Photo/Trevor Collens)

Bryson DeChambeau celebrates after sinking a putt during the final round of the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open golf tournament Sunday, Nov. 4, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Mary Keitany of Kenya crosses the finish line first in the women’s division of the New York City Marathon in New York, Sunday, Nov. 4. (AP Photo/ Seth Wenig)

Simone Biles of the U.S. performs on the balance beam during the Gymnastics World Championships in Doha, Qatar, Saturday, Nov. 3. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Fangio Vs Clark Vs Hamilton Vs Schumacher So Lewis Hamilton wins his fifth World Drivers’ Championship and the British press goes wild. However, this is not the most outstanding result in the history of the sport. Is Hamilton the best driver ever? The problem in comparisons is the old situation of apples and oranges. Both are fruits, but there the comparison ends. Now to look at current drivers and compare with previous winners Schumacher, Clark and Fangio, you have a similar statistical problem. In the fifties, there were around nine meetings a year, and in the nineties there were around 15 races a year, so it is easier for Hamilton and friends to rack up high scores now with 20 races each year. To try to equalize all the differences, the statistician must look at percentages and we get some interesting results. Highest percentage of wins in a season: Percentage Wins 1. Alberto Ascari 1952 75.00% 2. Michael Schumacher 2004 72.22% 3. Jim Clark 1963 70.00% 4. Sebastian Vettel 2013 68.42% 5. Juan Manuel Fangio 1954 66.67% 6. Michael Schumacher 2002 64.71% 7. Sebastian Vettel 2011 57.89% 8. UK Lewis Hamilton 2014 57.89% Percentage pole positions: Percentage poles 1. Juan Manuel Fangio 55.77% 2. Jim Clark 45.21% 3. Alberto Ascari 42.42% 4. Ayrton Senna 40.12% 5. Lewis Hamilton 35.68% 6. Sebastian Vettel 25.23% Percentage podium finishes: Podiums 1. Juan Manuel Fangio 67.31% 2. Nino Farina 58.82% 3. Lewis Hamilton 58.15% By looking at percentages we get something closer to being representative of the relative performances of the drivers from 1950 until now. Names that consistently crop up are Fangio, Clark, Schumacher, while Hamilton is not up there with the ‘greats’.

The work load today is also nothing compared to the 1960’s as well. Here is Jim Clark’s schedule for the first half year in 1965. January: South African GP, three Tasman series wins in NZ. February: Warwick Farm Tasman series win, Sandown Tasman series (came 2nd but champion overall). March: Lakeside Australia GP (wins by two laps), Brands Hatch, British Sports Car championship, Sebring 3 Hour (US), wins by two laps. April: Syracuse GP wins by 42 seconds, Snetterton F2 and Touring cars, Goodwood three wins, Pau F2, Oulton Park. May: Wins Indy. June: Mosport (USA) Touring cars and F2, Crystal Palace, Spa (wins by 44 seconds), New York sponsor’s function, Clermont Ferrand (France). That is just 6 months and he competed in eight countries and 20 major categories (winning F1 championship, winning F2 championship, Touring cars, winning Indy and sports cars). Today’s cosseted lot would have to lie down and rest.

uncertainty about what is going to happen in the future. There are so many conflicting experts who believe that we can only buy EVs from a certain date. This is where the confusion lies as we have dates ranging from 2040 down to 2025. As there is no clear message coming from government,

large numbers of people are sitting on their hands waiting to see precisely what is going to be decided. Until a clear message comes out, the car industry and the classic car market will remain in the doldrums. It is just bad news all round and no one in authority appears to know or care.

some interest with items such as “Nothing to lose, it’s gloves off” items. The gloves are well and truly off down the grid with Hartley and Ericsson tossed overboard and Raikkonen demoted to Sauber, and

Ricciardo choosing Renault after having had a string of DNF’s in his Red Bull, attributed to the Renault engine. The Grand Prix is telecast here at 10 minutes past 11. Too late for me, I’m afraid, so I’ll stay at home in bed.

Natter Nosh and Noggin The monthly meeting of the Pattaya Car Club will be on November 12 (the second Monday of the month) and at a new location. Fletcher’s

You use a hand crank at the base of the grille to start the light and punchy 1.5-liter four-cylinder petrol engine. Once fired into life, it chugs away noisily, and only delivers 25 bhp – similar to a modern 250cc motorcycle. Performance is sluggish by today’s standards, with 0-100 kph taking 20 seconds and a top speed of around 120 kph. But remember, MG 14/28 Sports, rely on skinny tyres and weak drum brakes, though they had brakes on four wheels, which was not commonplace in 1924. Since those days, MG has been a consistent winner, until the financial problems that occurred with Leyland. The company struggled with bankruptcy until SAIC took control, and with CP in Thailand a willing partner, MG has raised its head again.

Jim Clark.

Brazil (nuts) this weekend The second last Grand Prix of the year comes from Brazil. The championship is done and dusted, with Lewis Hamilton anointed and Vettel consigned to ‘also ran’. The organizers (Liberty Media) are trying to beat up

MG 14/28.

B-Quik rounds out the year in style

Gloomy Blog from the Petrol Head Club in the UK This last week we have heard that Jaguar LandRover is shutting down for 2 weeks as they have 25,000 cars sitting there that they need to shift. We now have the Ford engine plant in Wales shutting down for a week because demand has dropped. Everyone blames it on Brexit but we believe that it is more of the

I am seeing MG’s everywhere, and the bright yellow ones require sunglasses! However, the history of MG goes back 90 years, with these new MG’s not even built in the UK, but are assembled here in Thailand by a Chinese consortium with CP in Thailand. The CP Group is famous for its 7-elevens, with seemingly now one on every corner. However, CP is also known as being the Thai partner of the Chinese SAIC, lately the manufacturer of MG. The name MG is also famous for sporting chariots they have been building since 1924. These cars had the ‘bull nose’ front and were derived from more humble Morris models, with the concepts and modifications coming from the new general manager Cecil Kimber. The name MG did come from Morris Garages, owned by William Morris, who later became Lord Nuffield. A few modified Morris cars were built from 1922 and these were called MG’s, but the Kimber inspired MG’s, as a separate marque, did not appear till 1924. These cars then were known as MG 14/28 Sports. The early 14/28’s were rather primitive, but as the MG brand grew stronger, then the cars veered away from being Morris specials. They were lowered, the steering column lowered as well. The steering box was taken from being attached to the engine block and repositioned to the chassis rail.

Folly is on Siam Country Club Road, 300 meters from the Mitkamol intersection (AKA Chicken Intersection) and across the road from the

Maxxis tyre shop. A totally lighthearted approach to motoring, old and new, with exaggerations, through to outright lies and fun. Gather 7 p.m.

B-Quik team celebrates.

B-Quik Racing signed off Thailand Super Series 2018 in real style with a superb weekend in Buriram that netted two championship titles, race wins and podiums. Henk Kiks’ team achieved all its objectives for the weekend. The core objective of the weekend was to secure the Drivers’ and Teams’ titles in Super Car GTM. B-Quik arrived at Chang International Circuit holding a slender lead in both championships but with four other drivers also

in the reckoning for the Drivers’ crown while in the Teams’ rankings they would be going head-to-head for glory with the factory Toyotas. B-Quik entered Will Bamber in the #11 Porsche 991 GT3 Cup to both support Drivers’ points leader Alif Hamdan and to grab extra Teams’ points but it quickly started to go south in Race 1 as Alif suffered an engine problem and had to nurse the #72 Porsche 991 GT3 Cup to the finish in P4.

Will Bamber, meanwhile, had maybe over read the job sheet, he certainly “supported” the team to the max – by winning the race! That was his first win in Super Car and his first in the signature black and yellow colors. P1 for Will and P4 for Alif gave B-Quik a double podium finish and the Teams’ trophy for the race – but much more importantly – BQuik had secured the Teams’ championship with a race to spare.

company is still going. What is its name? Be the first correct answer to email automania@ pattayamail.com or viacars @gmail.com. And in addition, if you are a Pattaya resident, the closest correct

answer will win a free voucher for Casa Pascal’s Breakfast BBQ. One local resident wrote back to say he had enjoyed the Casa Pascal BBQ brunch and went so far as to say it is the best breakfast in Thailand. Good luck!

Autotrivia quiz Last week I mentioned that Ford in the UK gave special cars to their reps on the road and I asked, what were they? A really difficult one, as the “Ford” was not the Dearborn “Ford” but a supplier of automotive bits and pieces, not related to the Dearborn Ford at all. The reps were given Dellows, by the way. So to this week. This car company began in 1926, has won the Targa Florio, had a world land speed record, won the World Drivers’ Championship (twice), was lost by the family, bought by a French consortium and then an Italian one. This

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250 years later, King Taksin lands his troops again in Pattaya

A military parade carried the great king and his troops down Beach Road on their way to city hall.

Staff Reporters Horses and elephants again walked the streets of Pattaya in a grand parade and re-enactment as the government and navy marked the 250th

anniversary of King Taksin the Great’s march through Pattaya to liberate Ayutthaya. Following a blast of 4,000 firecrackers, navy troops in period costumes and uniformed officers disembarked

Battle ready elephants look ominous to anyone who would oppose them.

Soldiers in ancient attire await the arrival of their king.

into smaller boats from the HTMS Angthong docked 1.5 nautical miles offshore and, along with a flotilla of about 100 fishing boats and jet skis, landed on Pattaya Beach at Soi 6 Oct. 29. They carried to shore a statue of the only king of Thonburi for a parade from the beach to city hall that included elephants, cavalry, dancers in period dress and more. In all there were 14 segments of the parade with 1,000 people marching. It was led by an open brigade in 18th century uniform followed by cavalry troops with five horses, warlords and generals, the war elephants and their troops, an artillery brigade, members of the public wearing period dress, a supplies brigade and a private brigade. Banglamung District Chief Naris Niramaiwong and Pattaya Mayor Sonthaya Kunplome led government workers and the public in paying homage to the great king, whose ties to the Pattaya area stem from 1767, when he battled his way out of a besieged Ayutthaya and fled to Chonburi and Rayong to raise an army of 500 to return to free the capital.

A royal honor guard brought King Taksin to city hall aboard a royal chariot.

To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the epic campaign, the navy held symbolic re-enactments of the long journey by sea, land and river, tracing the route that King Taksin took. Following Pattaya, the caravan proceeded to Chonburi and ended at the historical battleground of Pho Sam Ton Camp in Ayutthaya on Nov. 6, although ceremonies continue until Nov. 11. At city hall, flowers were arranged in a lotus shape while fireworks exploded. Stage performances told of his heroic battle to free Ayutthaya from the Burmese, with other entertainers performing fire shows, dances and films, including the Sanctuary of Truth’s “King Taksin East Region”, and Legend of Siam’s “Sri Wilai of Siam”. Taksin took the throne as the king of Thonburi Dec. 28, 1768 and reigned until his death and the start of the current Chakri Dynasty in 1782. He is greatly revered by Thais for leadership in liberating Siam from Burmese occupation after the second fall of capital Ayutthaya in 1767, and the subsequent unification of Siam after it fell under various warlords. He established the city of Thonburi, across the Chao Phraya River from the current Bangkok, as the new capital, as Ayutthaya has been almost completely destroyed by the invaders. The scene played out again in Chonburi on Oct. 30 as Gov. Pakarathorn Thienchai welcomed the statue of the king and his troops to Intaram Royal Temple in Muang District. Brahmins delivered the prayers and sermon for King Taksin’s spirit after which the statue was placed on a parade float for the ride to Bangsaen Beach where it was again loaded on to the HTMS Angthong to make its way to Chachoengsao Province.

King Taksin was adorned with garlands to invite his spirit ashore.

King Taksin arrives at Pattaya Beach from Sattahip.

The royal army brought their cannons to Pattaya to hide them before using them against the invading Burmese in Ayutthaya.

War drums announce King Taksin’s arrival on Pattaya Beach.

The royal parade makes its way through city streets.

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Events The next meeting of Pattaya City Expats Club (PCEC) will be on Sunday, November 11. Gay Burnett from the Pattaya’s Surecell Clinic will talk about back pain. The program starts at 10:30 am with a buffet breakfast available from 9:00 to 11:00 am on the 4th floor of the Holiday Inn’s Executive Tower located behind the Holiday Inn’s Bay Tower on Beach Road. A Joint Chambers Eastern Seaboard networking evening will be held at the MYATT Beach Hotel Pattaya on Friday, November 16 from 6.30 p.m. – 9 p.m. (last drinks at 8.30 p.m.). Entrance cost is THB 500 on the door for members and THB 1,000 for non-members. Admission includes free-flow drinks and finger food. The Eastern Seaboard Businessmen’s Dinner is a monthly event taking place at the Mantra Restaurant at the Amari Pattaya Resort on the last Thursday of the month. It brings together business leaders from various backgrounds including Automotive, Aerospace, Real Estate, Architecture, FMCG, Electronics, White Goods, Logistics, Recruitment, Legal, Consulting, and others in a relaxed atmosphere. The next event will be held on Thursday, Nov. 29. If you are interested in attending please contact Anuttra.Sukruen@tinfish.co.th. A Movers & Shakers social charity network-event will be held Saturday, November 24 at the Holiday Inn Hotel (Bay-Tower), 2nd floor Ballroom from 6:00pm – 8:30pm. Admission fee of THB 500 includes a free flow of wine/beer/soft-drinks and an array of delicious fingerfood as long as stocks last. Dress code is casual elegant (no shorts/flip flops). The 2018 Pattaya Boat Show will take place from

Thursday 29th November to Sunday 2nd December at Ocean Marina Yacht Club in Pattaya. The event is Thailand’s biggest boating, lifestyle & leisure show. For more information visit: http://ocean marinapattayaboatshow.com. The Rotary Club Eastern Seaboard invites all Rotarians and friends to an annual Christmas Party on Thursday December 20 from 6.00 pm at the Parkview Ballroom Siam Bayshore Resort. Tickets are priced at THB 1500 and include a sumptuous Christmas buffet dinner plus soft drinks, red and white wine and beer served all evening. Order your tickets by sending an email to JanAbbink: abbinkjan@gmail.com. A Farmers’ Market takes place every 2nd Saturday of the month at the Holiday Inn hotel on Pattaya Beach Road from 10.30 am - 3.30 p.m. Products range from wellness items, jewelry, freshly prepared food, organic vegetables and fruits. The next market will be held Nov. 10. A stamp market is held every Sunday from 10.00 a.m. till 3.00 p.m.at Rahnpintang Moe Kata Restaurant, Panji Place, on Soi Ponphraphanimit 7 (200m from the Bangkok Highway underpass). Here can you exchange stamps from the whole world. Call 089 091 3418 for more information and directions.

Dining In November, Hilton Pattaya presents a variety of delicious creations featuring ginger, the local ingredient of the month. For beef lovers, Flare Restaurant invites you to savor braised short ribs with crispy fried ginger at THB 750 net. Drift Lobby Lounge & Bar introduces a wide selection of ginger appetizers and desserts including seared tuna salad with ginger dressing and spicy ginger chicken skewers,

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both priced at THB 350 net. Horizon Rooftop Restaurant & Bar presents baked whole trout with ginger, lemon and fennel served with Hollandaise sauce at THB 1,250 net. For more information or reservation, please call +66(0)38 253 000 or bkkhp_fb@hilton.com or pattaya.hilton.com.

Ginger creations at Hilton Pattaya in November.

Every Friday throughout November 2018, The Bay International Skewers Restaurant at Dusit Thani Pattaya will host a Hawkers Night Buffet offering urban street food and live cooking stations featuring Thai favorites, charcoal grill skewers, deep fried foodies, noodle soup and Chef ’s corner. Price: THB 555++ per person. Call 038 425 611-7 ext. 2149 0r 2150 for more information and reservations. After 14 years as the Landlord of an Irish Pub, the name Kim Fletcher has not disappeared. Kim may have gone from Jamesons, but his wife Goy has ensured that the name Fletcher has not died by opening Fletchers’ Folly, a boutique pub on the Dark Side. Kim is trying to get used to being retired, but the new ‘pensioner’ loves regaling the drinkers with stories from his lifetime in pubs, punctuated with his

characteristic laugh. Fletchers’ Folly is on Siam Country Club Road, opposite Maxxis tyres and 300 meters before the “Chicken Crossroads”. Food and drinks at very reasonable prices. Saturday Night Buffet is back at AVANI Pattaya Resort & Spa. Experience regional favourites galore, street dishes an artisan desserts, as you relax with classical Thai dance and live music. Every Saturday night at Sala Rim Nam Restaurant from 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm. Priced at THB 599++ per person. Kids under 5 eat free. For more information and reservations, call 038 412 120 Great dining options this month at Centara Grand Mirage Beach Resort Pattaya: Round ‘em up and grab your stetson every Monday night for Cowboy Night at Flames restaurant with a grilled steak and seafood buffet that is fun for families, groups and couples. Priced at 1,199++ baht, and half price for children, the Cowboy Night buffet is served from 18.30 to 22.30 hrs. Live the Italian life every Tuesday night at Acqua restaurant with a buffet of authentic Italian dishes served from 18.30 to 22.30 hrs: Priced at only 950++ baht per person, and half price for children. A family menu of all-you-can-eat prawns in a great range of recipes is served every Wednesday evening at Coast Beach Club & Bistro, priced at only 950++ baht per head, and half price for children, the buffet serving is available between 18.30 and 22.30 hrs. Enjoy an Asian-inspired grilled seafood buffet every Friday

evening at Flames beachside BBQ restaurant for just 1,199++ baht per person, and half price for children. For more information and reservations, call 038 714 981. From 1 November until 31 December 2018, Café Kantary across Thailand invites you to try the special drink, “Caramel Chocolate Brownie Frappé” for only 130 Baht. More details are available from the Cape & Kantary call centre on: 1627 or visit our website at www. cafekantary.com. Pizza and Pasta All You Can Eat at Mövenpick Siam Hotel Na Jomtien: Twist Restaurant features Italian classics like creamy Carbonara or meaty Bolognese with a choice of pasta, or the delicious Prosciutto Pizza with your choice of regular or whole wheat dough. The menu also includes original Thai-fusion pizzas and pasta such as the Tom Yam pizza with chili paste, prawn, squid and Thai herbs or the tasty Green Curry Pasta. Available all day from Sunday – Thursday at only THB 500 per person, with a glass of soft drink. For more information or reservation, call 033 078 888. Special culinary nights at Persimmon restaurant, Pattana Golf Club & Resort: Pizza Pasta Night on Tuesday at only 299 Baht or 399 Baht including sangria or wine, customers can choose ingredients for their pasta and pizza. Seafood Night on Wednesday at only 399 Baht, customers can choose varieties of fresh seafood

cooked to order in the open kitchen. Carnivore Night on Friday at only 499 Baht offers a free flow chicken, lamb, beef or pork BBQ direct from the charcoal grill. In addition, for only 100 Baht customers can choose or combine lots of ingredients and level of spiciness to create your own Som Tam, all day, every day. Call for reservation at 038 318 999 ext. 11212/11230 or email restaurant@pattana.co.th. Big Fish restaurant at Siam@Siam Design Hotel Pattaya enhances its seafood buffet with more premium catches and live music entertainment. The restaurant offers a nightly Seafood BBQ Buffet at only THB 777 net or THB 1,099 net with free-flow wine. Enjoy highquality, premium seafood cuisine as you listen to acoustic guitar and piano music from prominent local artists. Seafood BBQ Buffet at Big Fish is available every night from 6:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. For reservations call 038 930 600 or email fbsec@siamatpattaya.com. The Thai Garden Terrace Restaurant offers nightly dining presentations with different themed “all you can eat” buffets at the resort poolside: Monday – Italian buffet; Tuesday – BBQ buffet; Wednesday – multi-cuisine buffet; Thursday – German buffet with roasted pig; Friday – Thai buffet; Saturday – international Continued on page 35

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Hard Rock Cafe Pattaya On Beach Road, beside a very large guitar neck, is the Hard Rock Cafe, Pattaya. The Hard Rock Cafe concept is a chain of themed restaurants founded in 1971 by Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton in London. In 1979, the cafe began covering its walls with rock and roll memorabilia, a tradition which expanded to others in the chain, including Pattaya. Our Hard Rock Cafe follows the tradition and displayed on the walls are guitars, stage outfits and even a pair of sneakers and other memorabilia, all of which are changed every ten years, I was informed by Totti the restaurant manager. With our Hard Rock Cafe which opened in October 2001, a new batch must be coming soon. We were welcomed at the door and with no nuclear war-heads to declare and with Guns n Roses on the flat screen TV’s, we were

taken to our table. Two outstanding features separate this restaurant are the long bar along one wall and an elevated full rock band dais on the opposing wall. The third (glass) wall cuts off the kitchen. We were taken through the menu by Khwan (Marcom manager) and Ken Goessens (Kitchen manager). The

menu itself, colorful and photographic, is the best menu I have seen in Pattaya. You know exactly what you are getting as your order. We discussed the different dishes with our enthusiastic “guides” and decided to order dishes which were new or different on the menu. We were a group of four so the adults chose the Australian

The Jumbo Combo feeds four (well it did for us) making it under 200 baht per head. The menu is divided into sections, with the first being starters which covers flat breads and nachos (B. 300-400). Entrees are next with several different fajitas and a cod and chips (B. 499).

Staff checking for a nuclear bomb?

This is a ‘small’ 6 oz burger.

A Jumbo Combo for four.

One of the Thai dishes complete with sticky rice.

chardonnay (served at the correct temperature), and the younger members of the team could find some exciting non-alcoholic mocktails to keep them occupied. Beers are B. 199 and wines are around 2,000 baht a bottle. I should also mention at the outset that most dishes are so big they need to be shared, with an 8 ounce burger being enormous, and even the 6 ouncer is a lot of beef. When you then look at the prices, what seemed to be expensive is not when shared between two or three people.

The Cafe does their own smoking in house with a half rack ribs at B. 449. There is one section called Asian inspired with Tom Yum Goong (B. 419). So here we go. We began with the Jumbo Combo. Brilliant beginning. The next dish was a flatbread with grilled chicken, pico de gallo, roasted red peppers, green onion, avocado, mozzarella and spicy jalapeno sauce. Our next was a huge plate of nachos tortilla chips piled high and layered with three

bean mix, Monterey Jack and cheddar cheeses, pico de gallo, jalapenos and green onions, served with grilled salsa. Garnished with sour cream. We had to try a burger and chose a 6 oz Tropical Burger - basted with chipotle pepper, topped with BBQ glaze, Cajun bacon, cheddar cheese, grilled pineapple and mango salsa with arugula, served with BBQ glaze. If we had the 8 oz we would have been there all night. Eventually we finished off with a hot fudge brownie vanilla ice cream and hot

fudge on a dense chocolate brownie, topped with chopped walnuts, chocolate sprinkles, fresh whipped cream and cherry. The band comes on at 9 p.m. and they will even play rockin’ requests. A great night’s entertainment. Don’t miss the Hard Rock Cafe. Hard Rock Cafe, 429 Moo 9, Pattaya Beach Road, telephone 038 428 755 through to 9, Parking streetside or in the hotel grounds, open 12 noon to 1 a.m. weekdays and 12 noon to 1.30 a.m. weekends.

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E-mail: comhaps@pattayamail.com From page 33 buffet; Sunday – steak & skewers buffet. The buffet starts from 6 p.m., runs until 9 p.m. All this for just 399 baht net per adult. What you see is what you pay, no additional service charges or VAT. For reservations call 038 370 614 or make your booking at www.thaigarden.com under “buffet reservation”. Thai Garden Resort is located on North Pattaya Road, 200 meters from the Dolphin roundabout and 200 meters before Tesco Lotus.

The happy BBQ chef at Thai Garden.

Yupin’s Restaurant in Jomtien Complex offers some fabulous culinary options including Fines De Claires Oysters arriving fresh ‘Par Avion’ from Normandy in France. Served on ice with lemon and on request a spicy Thai sauce for dipping. An amazing experience. Only 595 baht per six oysters. Yupins is also taking bookings for Christmas dinner at 995 baht per person. For more information or reservations, call 038 250394 or visit website: www.yupins.com.

Linda’s Restaurant is large with seating for 200 people, with a covered al fresco verandah outside for those who wish to smoke. Inside, in air-conditioned comfort, there are comfortable chairs and decent sized tables, with white starched napery. Linda’s Restaurant, 315/177-180 Moo 12, opposite the Jomtien Complex. Thappraya Road, Jomtien. Open seven days from 7.30 a.m. until late. Tel: Reservations: 038 252 726, www. lindasrestaurant.com, streetside parking. Email linda @lindasrestaurant.com . GPS 12.901655 N 100.869. Yamato Restaurant located on Soi Yamato has been around for more than 39 years and the soi was named after its oldest tenant. This is a restaurant to take a few people with you. The prices are certainly not over the top, and the quality is superb. Yamato Japanese restaurant, 219/51 Soi Yamato (13/1), close to Beach Road end, telephone 038 429 685 or 038 421 618. Open 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for lunch and 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. for dinner. The legendary Somsakdi Restaurant has been in operation in Pattaya for more than 40 years. Proprietor and Chef Somsakdi is still cooking and running his amazing restaurant at 78 years of age. The menu is probably the largest in Pattaya, with 374 individual items. Each dish is in Thai with an English explanation underneath. Rather than be swamped by choices, let Somsakdi guide you. After all, who knows his dishes better than he? Somsakdi Restaurant, Pattaya Soi 1, tel. 038 428

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987, 038 423 284, 038 429 869, limited parking plus onstreet parking in the soi. Hours 11 a.m. until 11 p.m., seven days.

Spa & Hotel Promotions eforea spa at Hilton Pattaya introduces a 120-minute spa package ‘Total Bliss’ for your ultimate relaxation and facial skin nourishment: Priced at THB 4,300 net per person and THB 8,000 per couple and available from now – January 31, 2019. For more information and reservations, call 038-253-000. Welcome the winter season with a “Winter Enrichment Promotion” at AYATANA Spa, Pattana Golf Club & Resort with a 25% discount for body scrub & body mask, only 1,500 Baht from the normal price 2,000 Baht. This special is for the whole of this November. Also, from now until the end of this year, enjoy a 30% discount for traditional Thai massage from 09.00 am12.00 pm. More information and reservations at 038 318 999 ext. 11143. AVANI Spa offers a spa buffet package: 90-minute AVANI signature touch massage and International Buffet Dinner at Garden Cafe for one at only THB 2,700 net. Advance reservations required, contact AVANI Spa at Tel. 038 412 120.

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Thai-style Garlic Prawns I had sizzling garlic prawns at Yupins restaurant the other night, and that made me think of a Thai version of garlic prawns, as opposed to the European style. With prawn recipes, the time is in the preparation, not the cooking. Do not overcook prawns or they become rubbery.

Ingredients Olive oil Garlic cloves, chopped Chili flakes Sweet paprika Medium green king prawns Dry sherry Parsley leaves, chopped

Serves 4-6 ½ cup 4 1 tspn 1 and a ½ tspns 1.5 kg 1 and a ½ tbspns 1/3 cup

Cooking Method First peel and devein the prawns cutting down the back of the prawn with a sharp knife. Thais like to eat the tails, foreigners do not. Set prawns aside. Combine oil, garlic, chili and paprika in a large saucepan. Heat over medium heat for 3 minutes or until oil becomes aromatic. Increase heat to high. Now add prawns. Cook, stirring, for 2 to 3 minutes or until prawns begin to turn pink. Add sherry and cook for a further 1 minute or until prawns are cooked through. Remove from heat. Toss through parsley. Spoon prawn mixture into bowls. Serve immediately with crusty bread.

Ben’s Theater in Jomtien will stage the Omiros Quartet for a night of classical music on Sunday, November 11 at 8pm. Tickets are priced at THB 950 per person including free drinks of choice. Reservations strictly by email: benstheaterjomtien@ gmail.com. Pattaya Soul Club will hold its 7th anniversary ‘Souled Out’ music night at the Lion Pub (Soi 17, Suksabai) on Saturday, Nov. 10. Entrance of 500 baht (payable at the door) includes a free-flow of selected beer and wine from 8pm – 10pm (or while stocks last). ALL the proceeds will be donated to a very deserving Baan Jing Jai Children’s home and Orphanage in Pattaya. Enjoy great music from Thomas Reimer, one of the most famous European Jazz guitarists, playing live every evening (except Tuesday) from 6.00 p.m. - 10 p.m. at the Sugar Hut restaurant on Thappraya Road, call 038 364 186 for details.

Community Services The North Star Library on Sukhumvit Road, north

Pattaya holds regular Thai language classes Mon - Fri from 10.30 a.m. till 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. till 2.30 p.m. Cost of admission is 100 baht per session for library members and 200 baht for non-members. Private lessons are also available for 200 baht per hour. In addition, the library also holds Yoga training every Tuesday from 1 - 2 p.m. at the Father Ray Foundation. Cost is 1200 baht for 6 sessions (first session free). For more information, call 081 575 4854 or email wan_nujan@yahoo.com

Groups & Associations Rotary Club of JomtienPattaya (English) meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month at Royal Cliff Grand Hotel, Pattaya City. Fellowship begins at 18.30 hrs and Dinner meeting at 19.00 hrs. President Vutikorn Kamolchote Email: <vuti kornk@hotmail.com> Rotary Club Eastern Seaboard (English) meets at the Siam Bayshore Hotel, 17.30 hrs for 18.00 hrs on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month, followed by dinner (Fellowship) President Brian Songhurst Email: <bjs2904 @yahoo.com> Rotary Club Phönix Pattaya (German) meets every Tuesday at the Holiday Inn Pattaya at 19.00 hrs. President Peter Schlegel Email: info@rotary-phoenixpattaya.org. Le Rotary Pattaya Marina, seul Rotary Francophone d’Asie, vous accueille les premier et troisième vendredis de chaque mois, début des réunions 19h, à l’hôtel Pullman G Pattaya Wongamat 445/3 Moo 5 – Soi 16 – Pattaya Naklua Road. Venez agir avec le Rotary pour changer des vies. Pierre Yves Eraud Président 2018-2019 Email: < info@rotarypattaya marina.org. Rotary Club of Pattaya (Thai-English) meets at the First Pacific Hotel, Central Road on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month. Meetings begin at 19.00 hrs. President Stephen Devereux Email: < stevecarlow@gmail.com> The Thai Stamp Alliance is a new internet and social media group created to share information, including posts of events like Exhibitions and Auctions. If you live on the Eastern Seaboard of Thailand and have an interest, email thaistampalliance @gmail.com. or find us on Facebook. Remember to attend the upcoming World Stamp Expo coming to

Bangkok in late November! Post 12146 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States of America (Ban Chang – U-Tapao, Thailand) meets the second Saturday of each month at 13:00 at Sinthavee Park Condo, 2/ 1 Moo 5, in Ban Chang. If you are interested, please contact Membership Chairman Dan Morgan at <ban changvfw12146membership @gmail.com> or visit website: www.banchang vfwpost12146.org. The Royal British Legion Thailand meets the last Saturday of every month from 2 p.m. at the Tropical Bar on Soi Khao Noi (Watboonsampan near the Temple entrance) in East Pattaya. You do not need to have served in the Armed Forces to become a member and can join in the many social events arranged throughout the year. The Legion’s primary aim is the care and welfare of those who have served and/or their dependents. For general enquiries send email to <secretary@rblthailand .org, www.rblthailand.org>. Alcoholics Anonymous: The Pattaya Group meets Monday, Tuesday and Friday at 5 p.m., Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. All meetings are closed (alcoholics only) and are held at Soi Skaw Beach (off Pattaya 2nd Rd). Contact Carl 08-456-31671. The Good Morning Pattaya Group meets 9 a.m. every morning. All meetings are ‘open’: contact 084 564

8479. The Jomtien Group meets every day at noon at Jomtien Long Stay Hotel: Contact, Andrew 086 107 6631. The Scandinavian Group meets on Tuesdays and Fridays 6 p.m. at the Norwegian Seaman’s Church, Thappraya Road Soi 7: contact Hans 085 135 7755 or Rune (Rayong) 089 754 9515. 10.30 a.m. meetings every day at Satree Pattana Centre on Soi Skaw Beach off Second Road. Call 084 564 8479. The Samaritans of Thailand English Help Line operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to provide support to the expatriate community. English-speaking staff, trained in crisis intervention will provide active, non-judgmental and empathetic listening services on the phone. All calls will be handled on an anonymous basis and are free of charge. (02) 713-6791. Overeaters Anonymous The ‘Up to You’ group meets Wednesdays 9:30-10:30 a.m. in the housing area just behind Pan Pan Restaurant in Jomtien on Thappraya Road. Call Steve at 038-364-207(h) or 089-250-1359 (cell) for directions or more information. Narcotics Anonymous Hotline: 082 811 2686. 3 English speaking meetings in Pattaya near Central Festival and 2 in Jomtien each week. Also regular Thai speaking meetings at 12 noon every Sunday, and Persian Farsi speaking meetings at 5.30 pm on Thursdays. Please call the Hotline for details.

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VOL. XXVI No. 45

Special needs kids ride for glory at Gymkhana Games For many children with special needs, to have the chance to participate in a simple gymkhana event can mean the world. On Sunday, October 28, twenty riders with varying disabilities from autism and Downs Syndrome to various physical handicaps joined the Equine Assisted Therapy Programme at Horseshoe Point to take part in a day of fun and competition. These riders practiced for 8 weeks learning simple skills such as egg and spoon race, carrying a bean bag, zig-zag, up and down a hill and the most popular, dismounting their pony and running with a parent before throwing a cup of water into the duck pond. Each of the six stations was marked out of 10 points and it was fun to see the parents train and work with their children to compete against their friends. Everyone

Sarajut Rattanachet was crowned this year’s champion at the Gymkhana Games.

Children, parents and helpers pose for a group photo during the Gymkhana Games at Horseshoe Point in Pattaya, October 28.

received a rosette but the overall winner this year was Sarajut Rattanachet. Thanks goes to the Pattaya International Ladies Club for sponsoring the rosettes for all the special needs competitions throughout 2018. If you would like to know more about joining this

Equine Programme for your own special needs child, please contact Sandra on 086 848 3684. Private lessons are available any afternoon from 2.00pm to 6.00pm. Morning group sessions are Tuesday and Thursday from 10.00am to 12.00 at Horseshoe Point.

Marc Marquez wins Malaysian MotoGP Sepang, Malaysia (AP) — Honda rider Marc Marquez overcame a six-place grid penalty and took advantage of Yamaha rival Valentino Rossi’s late crash to win the Malaysian MotoGP last Sunday. Rossi led from early in the race but crashed with four laps to go at the Sepang circuit to give Marquez a clear run to the finish for his ninth win of the season and 70th of his career, and give the Honda team an unassailable lead in the constructors’ championship. Marquez, who claimed his fifth world championship in Japan two weeks ago, was demoted from pole position to seventh on the grid for impeding Suzuki’s Andrea Iannone in Saturday’s qualifying, but that didn’t hinder him for long as he quickly moved through the field to put pressure on Rossi and eventually forced the Italian into an error.

For volunteering for this programme, reliable and enthusiastic people are always welcome. You don’t need riding skills or a background in special needs, just be trainable and keen to learn. If you love animals and wish to take care of a pony, a separate programme is also available. To make this programme successful, sponsors are also needed and warmly welcome to assist with equipment purchases.

The individual challenges required balance and dexterity.

Egg and spoon race on horseback proved to be great fun.

Changes to Pattaya Marathon mulled Pattaya is contemplating changes to the annual Pattaya Marathon to have the 2019 race better reflect the city’s ambitions to be a “sports city”. Deputy Mayor Poramet Ngampichet chaired an Oct. 31 planning meeting for the race, which is scheduled for July 21. Plans and details were vague, but Poramet

suggested that government agencies, tourism officials and sports groups put their heads together to see how the event could be tweaked to better show off Pattaya’s potential for hosting sporting events. Plans should also consider how to keep the Pattaya Marathon consistent with changing standards for international competitions.

Team Thailand picks amateur star Sadom for Friendship Cup Honda rider Marc Marquez of Spain rides to victory at the Malaysia MotoGP in Sepang, Malaysia, Sunday, Nov. 4. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

The 25-year-old Spaniard crossed the line in a time of 40 minutes, 32.372 seconds, 1.898 seconds ahead of Suzuki’s Alex Rin. Yamaha’s Johann Zarco was third, 2.474 seconds off the pace, for his first podium finish since the Spanish MotoGP in May.

Maverick Vinales, who won in Australia the previous week, was fourth and Danny Pedrosa finished fifth. Rossi finished in 18th place and fell to third in the championship standings behind Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso, who placed sixth, with one round remaining.

Mayweather to fight Japanese kickboxer Nasukawa in December Turn to page 28.

Rugby international series preview Turn to page 29.

With just under two months until the inaugural Amata Friendship Cup, Team Thailand captains, Boonchu Ruangkit and Virada Nirapathpongporn have added amateur protégé Sadom Kaewkanjana to the national team lineup for the contest against Japan on 21-23 December 2018 at Amata Spring Country Club in Chonburi. “Sadom is a fantastic addition to our line-up, and both Boonchu and I are excited to put him in alongside some of the best players Thailand has ever produced,” said Virada. “He has seen success from a young age, most notably in 2017 where he upstaged the professionals to win the Thailand Golf

Sadom Kaewkanjana.

Tour’s Pattaya Open last October, so I’m sure he will relish in the spotlight and the chance to tee-up alongside the professionals once again.”

Tickets for the 3-day Amata Friendship Cup are now on sale and can be reserved at website: www.amatafriend shipcup.com.

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