He said there are many other foreign pedophiles in Pattaya who do much worse.
There are Central stores in Chiang Mai, Hat Yai, Pattaya and Phuket, besides Bangkok.
The symbols are almost everywhere: in Pattaya, one bar dresses its teenage strippers in school uniforms.
More than 30 suspected paedophiles have been arrested in Pattaya in the past 18 months.
Several paedophiles and even murderers are believed to have walked out of Pattaya police headquarters free if poorer men.
Defending champion Vera Zvonareva of Russia is top seed for this week's other WTA Tour event, the Pattaya Open in Thailand.
In February the Sukosol Group announced a rebranding of the Pattaya properties, along with its five-star Siam City Hotel in Bangkok.
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But it was his daughter Kamala Sukosol who used the real estate to transform the group into a hospitality pioneer in Pattaya.
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Many people thought the winner of a transvestite beauty contest in Pattaya in March was as attractive as the woman crowned Miss Thailand.
At a police station in Pattaya, CNN was shown a file of 50 suspected foreign sex offenders believed to be in the Pattaya area.
In the seedy Thai coastal resort town of Pattaya, police questioned owners of bars where underage boys, they said, could be procured for sex.
Try brash Pattaya or the popular beaches of Phuket for that.
In the past eight months, two alleged paedophiles, one Japanese and the other British, were caught by Pattaya police in hotel rooms with under-age boys.
Particularly worrying for the tourist industry is Pattaya's high mortality rate.
In the Pattaya Open in Thailand, Russia's Vera Zvonareva saw off local favorite Tamarine Tanasugarn, claiming a 6-4 6-4 final win to successfully defend her title.
Among the speakers at the seafront dinner for the foreign press earlier this year was Peter Malhotra, publisher of the local English-language newspaper, the Pattaya Mail.
Pairote was also criticized for supporting influential Chon Buri tycoon Somchai Khunpluem when he was charged with corruption in the purchase of land by the Pattaya City Administration.
He then traveled to the beach resort of Pattaya, where closed-circuit television cameras captured the three suspects staying at a budget hotel in the city before moving on to Bangkok.
The team of volunteers, set up two years ago, is touring the resort of Pattaya, bringing free medical care to the growing number of elephant encampments that cater to the tourist industry.
Russia's Maria Kirilenko won her sixth title by edging German fifth seed Sabine Lisicki 5-7 6-1 7-6 (7-1) at the Pattaya Open , having lost in the final of the Thai event last year.
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