An American tourist has been arrested for stealing Bt1,420 from a donation box at a temple in Chiang Mai. A man named by police as M. W. D., 48, was arrested late on Friday night in front of a guesthouse in Tambon Chang. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
CHIANG MAI Governor Pawin Chamniprasart has taken legal action against the magazine Citylife Chiang Mai for posting on social media a painting featuring three late kings wearing masks. The painting was used to promote an event that intended to highlight Chiang Mai’s air-pollution problem. The event scheduled for yesterday was later cancelled. Full story: The […]
Army chief Chalermchai Sitthisad has given the green light for the construction of the new Region 5 Court of Appeal office and housing for judicial employees at the foot of Doi Suthep National Park in Chiang Mai to continue, saying the project does not encroach on the forest or violate any laws. Furthermore, the construction […]
A man poaching in a Chiang Mai forest mistook his elder brother for a wild animal and shot him dead. Siwan Suwinawe, 38, walked out of the forest near the village of Ban Omlong in Tambon Mae Sob, Samoeng district, at 2am Wednesday and turned himself in to police. Full story: The Nation By The […]
CHIANG MAI, 26 March 2018 (NNT) – Local residents in Chiang Mai Province have taken part in the government’s Sustainable Thai Idealism project to develop local farming in Mae Chaem District. Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Wiwat Salyakamthorn and residents of Mae Chaem took part in the reforestation of encroached forestland and preparations for rice […]
Mae Hong Son’s decision to bar entry to woodlands in a bid to curb forest fires and haze does not apply to local people who daily forage there for food and other necessities villagers, Deputy Governor Prachuap Ajarapong clarified on Monday. Even locals would be checked to make sure they weren’t carrying matches or similar […]
Air pollution in the North continues to be critical, with small dust particles of 2.5 microns in size (PM2.5) exceeding safe limits at almost every air-quality testing station. The Pollution Control Department (PCD) revealed on Sunday that although PM2.5 levels had dropped from the previous day at almost every station, the amounts were still higher […]
CHIANG MAI: A suspected member of a drug-smuggling gang has been arrested and almost 3 million pills seized near the Thai-Myanmar border in Chiang Dao district. Lhao Boontai, whose identity and nationality have not yet been verified, was caught and 19 rucksacks containing 2.84 million speed pills seized about 1.5km away from the border area […]
