CHIANG MAI, Sept 17 – About 200 maize farmers rallied at Chiang Mai provincial hall in this northern province today, demanding the government pledge the grain at Bt8-10 per kilogramme. Farmers from Mae Chaem district, led Mae Chaem corn network leader Uthai Boonthiam, called on the government to set up local depots to buy corn […]
BANGKOK, 7 September 2013 (NNT) – Uttaradit-Chiang Mai rail service will be closed for maintenance from September 16 – October 31. The decision came after a train has derailed while traveling through Phrae Province. Governor of the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) Prapat Chongsanguan disclosed that a 300-kilometer rail line from Sila-art station in Uttaradit […]
CHIANG MAI – Chiang Mai airport has lined up another taxi company to serve passengers as metered taxi operators continue their strike over a 26% increase in monthly parking fees. The airport was working with Chiang Mai Airport Transport Co to help reduce passenger congestion as the protest entered its second day on Friday, said […]
Authorities arrested nine people for allegedly trafficking more than 500,000 methamphetamine pills and about one kilogramme of crystal methamphetamine, or ya ice. Six of them were arrested on Tha Ton Road in Ban Tha Makaeng village in Mae Ai district of Chiang Mai province. Read more: Bangkok Post
CHIANG MAI, Aug 28 – More than 10,000 patients in the northern province of Chiang Mai have suffered dengue fever this year with eight fatalities from the virus, according to a top Public Health Ministry official. Chiang Mai Public Health Office deputy director Dr Surasingha Wisarutrat said 10,017 persons have been diagnosed with dengue fever […]
LAMPANG – A train jumped off the tracks on Friday near the spot in Hang Chat district where a similar incident took place last week, taking the total number of derailments on the route to four in the space of six weeks. The Chiang Mai-Bangkok free service carrying around 80 passengers was on its way […]
BANGKOK, 26 August 2013 (NNT) – The Office of the Non-Formal and Informal Education (NFE) has unveiled its ASEAN Study Center in Chiang Mai Province, which aims to educate Thai women living in the North about ASEAN community, which is to be realized in 2015. According to NFE Secretary-General Prasert Boonruang, the new center has […]
The night Nic Brown got shot seemed at first a night like any other. The 35-year-old Canadian ex-pat was out with his girlfriend and some friends. The group was having a few drinks at Baan Din, a small bar in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Brown had even played the part of the Good Samaritan, helping break […]
