An Indian tourist was punched by a Thai man after he and his Thai friends refused to rent a mat but used their own mat to sit on Pattaya beach on Tuesday evening.

Thailand is viewed as the centre of Montessori education among Asean nations, said Megan Tyne, project manager of the International Montessori Congress 2021 and of the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) in a press release on Friday.