Pattaya Local News

Sale with the right of redemption (Kai Fak) is a contract of sale wherein the seller who owns a real estate has a legal right to redeem his or her sold property within the agreed period of time.

Fraser’s Restaurant and Sports Bar, located right on Thappraya Road, with plenty of off-street parking, which makes it one of the best locations in Pattaya, also offers a great home delivery service, which happens to be free if you live within the Jomtien area.

In the last issue this column covered the importance of working a muscle, that is, focusing on the effort involved in performing an exercise and not worrying about the amount of weight actually being lifted.

In May, the real estate consultant firm JLL released a report entitled ‘The Destination Retail 2016’ and for the first time it provided a global ranking of 140 cities by their appeal to cross-border, or international, retailers. Bangkok came in at a healthy 18th spot.

One of the most familiar and longest-established businesses in Pattaya is 99 Services, which, as the name might suggest, offers a mind-boggling array of the kinds of services which most expats and visitors need during their time in Thailand.

These days, data breaches are growing more numerous — and more worrisome. After all, how are you supposed to protect your passwords and login information when they are being stolen from enormous company databases that you have no control over?

The Sportsman Pub and Restaurant in Soi 13, between Beach Road and Second Road, is one of the longest-running British-style bar-restaurants in Pattaya. Among the myriad of reasons for its success are food quality and portion sizes, staff attentiveness, hands-on management, and ambience.

The government has brought forward the re-auction of a fourth-generation (4G) mobile licence by about a month from a previous date of 24 June after the winner of one auction (Jasmine Internatiional), last December, forfeited after failing to make its first payment.

The investment firm VinaCapital, which heavily invests in listed stocks, recently announced plans aimed at reducing direct property holdings and increasing investment in private equity.

The chances are that if you asked the average person what defines Italian food, they would rattle off the trinity of spaghetti, pizza and pasta. It all sounds so simple, easy and straightforward, yet the reality is that pasta, in particular, has a lot more variations than might at first be imagined, according to Luca Marchetti, the genial mine host of the Toscana Italian restaurant.