The death of a Thai girl has highlighted the dangers of the country’s illegal but ‘normalised’ sex tourism trade ...

By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Artorn Pookasook PATTAYA, Thailand, June 29 (Reuters) - A 17-year-old Thai girl was on a lively strip of palm-fringed sand in the seaside city of Pattaya on Wednesday night ...

It has become the centre of international attention after an Australian allegedly murdered a teenage girl, but Pattaya City has had an international reputation for decades.

The chilling murder of a teenage girl whose lifeless body was found folded and stuffed inside a suitcase has suddenly plunged the popular tourist hotspot of Pattaya into the spotlight.

Sitting on a stool under purple neon lights, Emily waited for clients in the back of a bar in Pattaya, a notorious Thai seaside resort back in the spotlight over a sordid murder.

In Pattaya, a popular beach resort known for its colourful night ​life and an epicentre of illicit sex tourism, police said Carman had made a partial confession. “He said he did not intend to kill her ...