CHIANG MAI, 30 October 2016 (NNT) – Chiang Mai has organized an annual activity entitled Check in Chiang Mai to High Season 2017 to welcome visitors to its high season. Chiang Mai Govermor Pawin Chamniprasat presided over the opening ceremony for Check in Chiang Mai to High Season 2017 along with heads of government offices, […]
CHIANG MAI, 13 October 2016 (NNT) – A honorary consul of the United Kingdom in Chiang Mai province visited a couple of Hmong girls and offered to provide aid for them. Ben Robert Svasti, the U.K. honorary consul attached to Chiang Mai and chairman of FOCUS, visited Tidarat and Kalyani Lawang in provincial seat area […]
The Tourism Council of Chiang Mai yesterday called on the state to appoint a central committee to resolve the hotel business in Chiang Mai as currently there are many hotels operating services without licenses. The central committee shall have the participation of relevant agencies in the province in solving this problem. Full story: thaipbs.or.th
CHIANG MAI – An angry South Korean tourist arrested for slashing car tyres in a shopping mall parking lot said was venting his anger against a Thai who bumped into him at a pub and damaged his prized amulet. The tourist, identified as , 30, was detained by security guards at Central Festival Chiang Mai […]
CHIANG MAI, 6 October 2016 (NNT) – A sweep of illegal workers in Chiang Mai province has uncovered over 100 illegal foreign laborers. Chiang Mai Employment Officer Yaowapha Piboolpol led a contingent of border police and provincial administrators on a probe of foreign laborers in work sites and markets throughout Chiang Mai, finding more than […]
CHIANG MAI, 27 September 2016, (NNT) – Several vulnerable, urban areas of Chiang Mai province are still put on alert for imminent flooding. Deputy Chiang Mai provincial governor Mongkhol Suksai said that eight districts, 155 villages and 24 communities in Chiang Mai province had been declared flood-affected zones and measures are yet to be taken […]
CHIANG MAI, 23 September 2016 (NNT) – 30 suspects of human trafficking have been arrested since 1 January this year in four northern provinces. The number of human trafficking cases in the four provinces was 26. Most of them were in Chiang Mai province. 18 of the cases are in Chiang Mai, six in Chiang […]
CHIANG MAI – A 64-year-old British expatriate and former Buddhist monk has been sentenced to a combined suspended prison term of four years and two months, and fined 83,000 baht in two cases involving child pornography, sexual abuse and holding children against their will. The Fang Provincial Court on Monday found F. F. B. guilty […]
