CHIANG MAI, 1 June 2016 (NNT) – Thailand and Yunnan Province of China have agreed to cooperate in narcotics suppression in the Mekong River Region through information exchange, in an attempt to eradicate trade and smuggling routes. The Minister of Justice Gen Paiboon Koomchaya and Yunnan Provincial Public Security Department Executive Deputy Director-General Dong Jialu […]
A woman who crashed her car into a group of cyclists killing three of them while under the influence of alcohol was sentenced to two years imprisonment by the Chiang Mai provincial court on Tuesday. The court found Ms Patchuda Jairuen guilty of drunk driving causing deaths to three bicyclists. The incident took place on […]
CHIANG MAI: — DSI officers announced the arrest Wednesday of a 73 year old Englishman on pedophilia charges. Following the arrest of a Japanese man earlier one of the boys involved said that he had been lured from a computer gaming shop to a man’s house and been sexually molested with a video clip being […]
CHIANG MAI — A Japanese tourist was arrested this morning in Chiang Mai province on allegations he sexually abused boys as young as 9. Teruaki Matsubara, 49, was arrested Wednesday morning at an apartment by officers from local police and the Department of Special Investigation, or DSI. Read more: khaosodenglish.com By Teeranai Charuvastra
The board of Airports of Thailand Plc (AOT) on Wednesday approved the 12-billion-baht expansion of Chiang Mai airport over 15 years to serve growing traffic. AOT chairman Prasong Poontaneat said the project would be implemented in two phases. The first will last ten years from 2016 to 2025 and consume 11-billion-baht of the investment funds. […]
A Mexican aged tourist was caught red-handed with stolen shoulder bag in hand after quietly grabbed it from a sidewalk gallery vendor in Chiang Mai Night Bazaar last night. The tourist was identified as Mr Albert Ramos, 66. Read more: thaipbs.or.th
A British man allegedly crashed his Mercedes Benz into the rear of a pickup truck resulting in the death of its two occupants in Chiang Mai’s San Sai district on Wednesday night. Following the accident at 11.30pm, police rushed to the Chiang Mai-Doi Saket Road in Tambon Sannameng to find the bodies of Pattaraporn Inthajak […]
CHIANG MAI, 10 May 2016 (NNT)-Thai Buddhists don’t have to travel all the way to Nepal to see one of the world’s largest stupas ‘Boudhanath’. The landmark stupa has now been duplicated in Chiang Mai Province for Buddhists to pay their respects at. The duplicated Boudhanath is also known among locals as ‘Maha Chedi Boudhanath […]
