The Chiang Mai COVID-19 Situation Command Centre has ordered the Muang Mai and Sor Thor Gao wet markets to remain closed until at least October 22nd after 118 more COVID-19 cases were found, raising the total in the cluster to 478. After the finding of new cases, Dr. Songyos Khamchai, chief of communicable disease control […]
Thai public health officials have been trying to track down 10 people from five different provinces who may have been exposed to COVID-19 during their visits to Muang Mai market in Chiang Mai, where 265 people, mostly traders and workers, have been found to be infected. The Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) Assistant Spokesperson […]
CHIANG MAI: Police have arrested a couple in their 30s for having sex in public places and charging people to view the videos online. Pol Lt Gen Piya Tavichai, commissioner of the Provincial Police Region 5, said on Tuesday police acted after a complaint that Satchukorn Sinrungruangsuk, 35, and Pichapat Pintasen, 37, had sex in […]
A fire destroyed a popular pub in Muang district of Chiang Mai late Friday morning and the manageress was found dead in the ruins. The blaze at the Tawandang Mahason pub in tambon Suthep was reported to police about 10.30am. Full story: Bangkok Post BANGKOK POST ONLINE REPORTERS
A 19-year-old wanted in connection with a mobile phone sales fraud has surrendered to police in Chiang Mai. Police believe Piyada Thongkhampan cheated around 500 people, mostly students, by selling non-existent phones online. One of her alleged victims included a 14-year-old boy who died from a haemorrhagic stroke after learning he had been duped. Full […]
From Phuket to Koh Samui, the country is nervously navigating its way through a reopening of the tourism industry. Chiang Mai could be next to roll out its carpet to welcome back visitors near and far. However, obstacles stand in the way of tourism resuming, for Chiang Mai faces various challenges, from under-vaccination to tourist […]
CHIANG MAI: A young girl missing from her home in a remote village has been found safe in a hut outside a cave where she was abandoned by her abductor as a sacrifice to the spirits of the forest and mountains. Rescuers found 23-month-old Phonsiri “Nong Gina” Wongsilarung on Wednesday morning, about three kiolemtres from […]
A couple is being been held in police custody for questioning in connection with the search for a 23-month-old girl, who went missing from a remote village in Mae Taeng district of Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Mai on Sunday night. The 44-year-old Akha man is a neighbour of the missing girl’s father. He and […]
