There’s a sliding scale of busker appreciation/annoyance that ranges from “talented violinist” to “hippies playing acoustic Nirvana” to the ugly world of mimes. If you’re wondering, however, where the scale bottoms out, we can safely say it’s with this Chiang Mai busker, who was arrested after CCTV cameras caught him masturbating in front of a […]
Police are hunting for the pickup that hit and killed a policeman returning to his post in Chiang Mai’s Mae Rim district on Monday night. The Mae Rim police station was alerted of the accident on the Mae Rim-Samerng road in Tambon Mae Ram in Mae Rim district at 8.25pm. Full story: The Nation By […]
A Mae Hong Son man is being sought and may be charged with murder following an alleged attack on his 71-year-old grandmother to obtain money so he could travel to visit his girlfriend in Chiang Mai. Khun Yuam district police superintendent Pol Col Sati Supa said on Monday that Rachain Wongmek was being sought in […]
As land occupants cooperated rather than resisted, officials on Monday demolished two resorts encroaching on Doi Luang Chiang Dao forest in Chiang Mai province as per a court ruling, said Chiang Dao District Office deputy chief for national security Phermkiat Thephassadin Na Ayutthaya. Phermkiat led the combined 50-strong team of administrative and forestry officials, along […]
Paying THB160,000 (about US$4,900) during a drunken night-out is the last thing any bar hopper would want to wake up to find out. That includes a certain unidentified Korean man who filed a police report against Forever karaoke bar in Chiang Mai yesterday. In the report he claims the karaoke joint ripped him off by […]
CHIANG MAI: Five senior police officers at Chang Phueak police station have been transferred to inactive posts following a raid on a gambling den in downtown Muang district in which 93 people were caught on Friday night. Pol Col Pichet Jeerasettasin, acting chief of Chiang Mai police, signed the order to transfer the five officers […]
CHIANG MAI — Police on Tuesday arrested a tuk-tuk driver filmed berating and kicking a GrabCar driver in front of two foreign tourists in the northern city of Chiang Mai. Rungruj Jinaruen, 37, was charged with various offenses, including intimidation, carrying of weapons and driving a tuk-tuk without license. Rungruj was also identified as the […]
An Australian man is believed to have hanged himself from a tree on a roadside in Chiang Mai’s Hang Dong district on Thursday morning. The man was identified as N. J. W. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
