Police arrested dozens of sex workers amid a prostitution crackdown in Sin City Pattaya. Cops detained female and transgender ...

Pattaya’s labor market is facing a hidden crisis: despite a persistent shortage of workers, an alarming number of ...

And about 27,000 of those sex workers are based in Pattaya. Most of them can be found on Pattaya’s infamous Walking Street, a 2km strip lined with go-go bars, pleasure dens and ping-pong shows.

Sex workers support charity Service Workers in Group [SWING] helped Dao set up a street food stall, and she still meets the occasional local client. But it is still not enough to get by.

One worker, Sister Voranut Pranommit of the Lovers of the Cross of Chanthaburi, directs Home for Street Children that the Redemptorists also run. Of the 8 million foreign tourists who visit Thailand ...

Last week Pattaya City police arrested 12 women from Uganda on Walking Street, charging them with advertising for sex work. As per procedure, the police made them pay a fine and then freed them.

Of those, 75% are sex and entertainment workers, 10% are cabaret performers, 10% are students and the remaining 5% are workers not involved in the sex industry. The HIV infection rate among the ...

However, not all Pattaya's sex workers are Thai. Julia, 33, is a native of Omsk, Russia, and manages Crazy Russian Girls, a go-go bar on Pattaya's Walking Street.

IN A daring nautical themed outfit, sex worker May confidently predicts the survival of Thai sleaze town Pattaya despite a junta attempt to tame the kingdom’s “Sin City”.

Pattaya continues to uphold its image as a caring and responsible tourist city by actively assisting intoxicated foreign ...