CHIANG MAI, 29 September 2011 (NNT) – Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is urging every sector to help Chiang Mai residents cope with rising flood levels. Knock-down houses are expected to be built to provide temporary shelters and survival kits will be distributed to help residents get through the ordeal. According to Ms. Yingluck, the […]
The flood crisis in many provinces remains critical particularly in Chiang Mai, where five missing locals have been found dead from ravaging flash flood torrents that surged through certain parts of the province. Last night, pounding torrential rain triggered surging flash floods from a nearby creek which ravaged Muang Guy Village in Chiang Mai’s Mae […]
Chiang Mai has been nominated as Thailand’s representatives of cities under a UNESCO scheme to promote local and creative cultures, a senior Culture Ministry official said Friday. Speaking at a ceremony yesterday in which the Chiang Mai provincial authorities signed a deal with the ministry to promote this northern province, Prissana Phongthadsirikul said Chiang Mai […]
Four Hmong men were apprehended while trying to deposit some Bt5 million they allegedly earnt from smuggling ya ba (amphetamines) at a bank in Chiang Dao, police said Monday. Police presented the four at a press conference: Noppadol Songsitthicharoen, 33, Wanwichit Chatnapalai, 29, Charin Songsawatwong, 31, and Wongsakorn Phupakampanat, 30, along with Baht 3.599 million […]
The train services between Bangkok and Chiang Mai have been resumed after the rail track damaged by flashfloods in Lamphun province has been repaired, State Railway of Thailand public relations chief Nuan-anong Wongchan announced on Sunday. Train services between Bangkok and Chiang Mai had been halted after the rail track between Khun Tan and Tha […]
BANGKOK, 27 August 2011 (NNT)-The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has led tourism operators and press members from East Asia nations to meet tourism operators in Chiang Mai in the hope to increase the popularity of golf tourism in the North. According to TAT, travelers in golf tourism have buying power twice as much compared […]
CHIANG MAI, Aug 20 – All 25 districts of the Chiang Mai Province in Northern Thailand were declared disaster areas from flooding, to facilitate urgent assistance after continuous rains had caused many major rivers in the province to overflow river banks, according to Chiang Mai Governor Panadda Disakul. She said more than 1,000 households in […]
Gay rights advocate Natee Teerarotchanapong yesterday praised the Chiang Mai Administrative Court’s ruling, which said it was unlawful for the Nakhon Chiang Mai Municipality to ban gay people and transvestites from appearing on the 2010 Loy Krathong Festival’s floats, based upon new standards earlier enacted to assist Chiang Mai in becoming a model city without […]
