Chiang Mai University students will host an academic exhibition featuring extrajudicial killings to highlight the alleged injustice related to the fatal shooting of the young Lahu activist Chaiyapoom Pasae. Nontawat Machai, a student at the university, said the exhibition would be held at the Faculty of Social Sciences on Friday, adding that many legal experts […]
A female teacher turned herself in to police at midnight on Sunday after she allegedly strangled her tomboy partner in a fit of jealousy, police said on Monday. After her surrender, police took Chanpen Chartkulwanit, 30, to re-enact her alleged killing of partner Chanasnon Thongbamrung, 25, in Chiang Mai. Full story: The Nation By The […]
Police believed that the young Lahu activist who was killed during a raid in Chiang Mai province was guilty of drug dealing and might have been involved with the local drug dealing network, otherwise he would not have resisted the soldiers at the checkpoint, a senior provincial police said on Monday. “We believe that Chaiyapoom […]
Bushfire is still raging at Ob Luang national park in Hod district of Chiang Mai, causing smog to blanket the town. Until today no authorities are out to put out the bushfire which was believed started by poachers. Full story: thaipbs.or.th Thai PBS
CHIANG MAI – The deaths of two young geologists may have been caused by a fragile layer of rocks in a freshly built tunnel caving in, causing a large rock to fall and crush them, engineers say. The incident in Mae Taeng district occurred as Pratyawat Wasu-anant, 24, and Pathomporn Siriwat, 23, went into tunnel […]
CHIANG MAI, 27 February 2017 (NNT) – Chiang Mai province has alerted local villagers for imminent haze from a nearby province which might possibly worsen the air quality. Chiang Mai province’s Command Center for Haze Disaster Prevention and Mitigation has ordered all local authorities to alert the general public to prepare for a potential drop […]
A Japanese tourist has filed a complaint with police, alleging that his 100,000 yen in cash was stolen from his bag loaded on Thai Smile’s Flight WE 161. Sato Shoji, 63, filed the complaint with the Suvarnabhumi Airport police station at 5:30 pm Thursday. He said he traveled on the flight from Chiang Mai to […]
CHIANG MAI: — A leading private hospital in Chiang Mai has hit back at online allegations that they have been using needles more than once to inject sick people. The claims raged online after a video – now deleted – showed that a patient was getting shots from the same needle that had already been […]
