An employee of a hotel in Pattaya has been arrested for allegedly robbing a gold shop in a Pattaya shopping mall of 1.65 kilograms of gold jewellery worth Bt2.18 million at the weekend.

A fire at a well-known hotel in Pattaya’s Jomtien Beach caused panic in the early hours of Wednesday as guests were plunged into darkness and corridors began filling with smoke.