Word: pattaya
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Paichit Linpiyavarn of Somerville, who worked as waitress at the Thai Pattaya restaurant, was fatally stabbed there around 10:45 p.m. Sunday night. Her husband, Voravit Larpchardenrus, 35, who is a chef at the restaurant, was also stabbed in the attack, but he survived, the detective said...
...Travel section, contributor Pico Iyer takes you to Thailand, the "Land of Smiles" as well as this year's hottest new tourist destination. Iyer spent several weeks exploring the Asian jewel, from the cool allure of the hill town of Chiangmai to the seaside resort of Pattaya to the thriving capital of Bangkok...
...hills with something of the impenetrable allure of old China. Here one imagines the ghosts of opium warlords in the nearby Golden Triangle, or catches the sense of Viet Nam as one floats along the Mekong. Other, less adventurous souls simply sink into one of Thailand's seaside dreams: Pattaya, the "sea, sand and sin" city just 90 minutes from Bangkok; or Phuket, a Tahitian strip of bungalows along the emerald-green Andaman Sea that is home to Club Med and a host of other beach resorts; or, for the bargain-seeking pleasure lover, the Crusoe simplicity of Ko Phangan...
...come without a loss. The paradox of beauty is that it will not be left alone; it begs, almost, to be compromised, homogenized, packaged or roughed up. And Thailand has certainly been industrious in marketing its smiles. By now, 77 companies offer hill-tribe treks in Chiangmai alone, and Pattaya, a quiet fishing village just two decades ago, is a bloated red-light area studded with 256 hotels. Indeed, the metaphor of selling out is given flesh by the embarrassing statistics of Thailand's sex trade: perhaps 250,000 women in Bangkok alone respond to the siren call...