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Hat Yai, the hub of Songkhla Province, will spend 200 million baht to jazz up its appeal by adding a cable car, planetarium and art gallery to the list of attractions already available at the city's main public park. Mayor Prai Pattano plans to broaden the park's appeal from a place of leisure to include edutainment to pull in visitors from neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore, who regularly travel every year to pay their respects to a shrine of Chinese goddess Guan Yin and a Buddha statue atop a hill with thick forest cover in the 900-rai park that also boasts a huge lake.


 

Hat Yai, the hub of Songkhla Province, will spend 200 million baht to jazz up its appeal by adding a cable car, planetarium and art gallery to the list of attractions already available at the city's main public park. Mayor Prai Pattano plans to broaden the park's appeal from a place of leisure to include edutainment to pull in visitors from neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore, who regularly travel every year to pay their respects to a shrine of Chinese goddess Guan Yin and a Buddha statue atop a hill with thick forest cover in the 900-rai park that also boasts a huge lake.


 

Hat Yai, the hub of Songkhla Province, will spend 200 million baht to jazz up its appeal by adding a cable car, planetarium and art gallery to the list of attractions already available at the city's main public park. Mayor Prai Pattano plans to broaden the park's appeal from a place of leisure to include edutainment to pull in visitors from neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore, who regularly travel every year to pay their respects to a shrine of Chinese goddess Guan Yin and a Buddha statue atop a hill with thick forest cover in the 900-rai park that also boasts a huge lake.


 

The Administrative Court has ruled in favour of villagers in Rayong province, ordering the National Environment Board to declare the area near Map Ta Phut industrial estate a pollution control zone. Twenty-seven villagers from 11 communities around the industrial estate in Muang district filed the case in October 2007, accusing the NEB of negligence for failing to designate the area as a pollution control zone. The board was then chaired by Kosit Panpiemras, a former deputy prime minister and industry minister.

 

The Administrative Court has ruled in favour of villagers in Rayong province, ordering the National Environment Board to declare the area near Map Ta Phut industrial estate a pollution control zone. Twenty-seven villagers from 11 communities around the industrial estate in Muang district filed the case in October 2007, accusing the NEB of negligence for failing to designate the area as a pollution control zone. The board was then chaired by Kosit Panpiemras, a former deputy prime minister and industry minister.