Opponents to the controversial Doi Suthep foothill housing estate for court judges and officials plan to demonstrate at Tha Pae gate in Chiang Mai on August 26 to demand immediate dismantling of the housing units in the carved-out forest. In its Facebook post on Tuesday, the opponents under the name of “Network to Reclaim Doi […]
A director of a temple school in Chiang Mai has been reported for his use of corporal punishment. The case was reported to the police on August 8 by Sasi Paripunno, a mother of a 17-year-old novice against an unnamed temple school in Chiang Mai. The director allegedly hit five novices with a broomstick causing […]
Eighteen longan pickers in Chiang Mai were injured on Monday morning when the pickup truck in which they were riding overturned as the driver swerved to avoid an oncoming vehicle. A van carrying doctors and nurses happened to be passing by at that moment and stopped to provide first aid. Full story: The Nation By […]
A fire, suspected to have been caused by a short circuit, broke out on Sunday morning at the one-storey post office building of the San Khamphaeng branch in Chiang Mai province, the local precinct superintendent Pol Colonel Chuwit Kongkaew said. The fire, which occurred at around 7am, took fire-fighters 30 minutes to put out at […]
THE CHIANG Mai provincial court ruled yesterday that Lisu ethnic Abe Sae Moo was shot dead by military officers last year, but did not describe the extrajudicial killing by officials as a legitimate act of self-defence. The court also did not make clear whether drugs and a hand grenade found at the crime scene belonged […]
A 30-year-old man was arrested early on Tuesday after he allegedly raped and robbed a 74-year-old woman in Chiang Mai before cutting her throat late Monday night. The victim is in critical condition. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
A Singaporean cyclist has been killed after being run over by a truck in Hang Dong. The victim, named as retired businessman Denison Seah, 57, who had been living in Chiang Mai for three years, is reported by Singaporean media to have run over buy a 5-ton truck while on a ride with a Thai […]
CHIANG MAI: A Japanese businessman missing for four days was found dead inside his car in the parking lot of a massage parlour in Muang district on Wednesday. The Japanese national, identified later as Y. A., 69, was found inside his locked CRV vehicle with Chiang Mai licence plates in front of the Chang Khan […]
