Deluged by chronic flooding and the public complaints that stem from it, Pattaya officials have begun drafting a master plan to deal with water-drainage and flood-prevention issues. Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome presided over the first of several planned public hearings into the plan Sept. 12 with Phanuwat Pinthong, head of the Center for Water Engineering and Infrastructure Research at King Mongkut’s University of Technology in Bangkok, which has been hired to study the cause and possible solutions. Read More