A Chinese tourist was killed while crossing a highway in Chiang Mai after going shopping on Thursday night, police said. The tourist was identified as Huang Cifei, 21. The accident happened on the Chiang Mai-Lampang highway in front of the BigC superstore in Tambon Mae Ping in Muang district. Full story: The Nation By The […]
CHIANG MAI: Eleven American exchange students who became lost in the jungle at Huay Tueng Thao reservoir on Wednesday were found by rescuers around midnight and led to safety. The rescue operation began shortly after 7pm on Wednesday when one of the students used a mobile phone to call local tourist police, said Col Supakon […]
Chiang Mai police are hunting for a “pretty, short-haired” woman who allegedly drugged and robbed two tourists – an Indian and an American – and caused the death of one. Chiang Mai police deputy chief Pol Colonel Piyaphan Phattarapongsin called a meeting of investigators to try and solve the two related drugging cases. Full story: […]
CHIANG MAI: A hot-tempered 69-year-old woman has been arrested and charged after ramming her pickup truck into a security guard who had clamped her wheel at Chiang Mai international airport on Monday afternoon. The incident occurred after Phattra Boonchaliew was hit with a 400 baht parking fine at the airport, according to police called to […]
CHIANG MAI, 19th August 2018 (NNT) — The Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) has joined Chiang Mai University in organizing special activities to promote a campaign against drugs. Secretary-General of the ONCB Sirinya Sitdhichai, chaired the opening of the special program “Power Against Drugs” on Saturday, that has been initiated with the cooperation […]
A Malaysian tourist who claimed he’d been robbed by a farang man in Muang Chiang Mai has been charged with filing a false police complaint. Pravin Krishnan, 20, was booked at 3am on Friday, less than two hours after lodging the complaint. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
Police, troops and Interior Ministry officials joined forces to raid two pubs near a university in Chiang Mai for allowing underage patrons to enter. The first raid was carried out at 11.30pm at the Pen Tor pub, located some 300 metres away from the Maejo University in Chiang Mai’s Sansai district. Full story: The Nation […]
Two women were killed and a man injured when a sedan collided with a pickup truck at an intersection in Muang district of Chiang Mai very early on Wednesday. Police said the 12.10am accident happened at the intersection in front of Tesco Lotus Hang Dong shopping mall on Chiang Mai-Hod road in Tambon Mae Hia. […]
