CHIANG MAI, 22 July 2013 (NNT) – The outbreak of dengue fever is raising concerns among health experts in Chiang Mai, given nearly 6,000 people have been afflicted by the disease in the province since the beginning of this year. The Chiang Mai provincial health unit said a total of 5,977 cases of dengue fever […]
An American tourist was found dead from a suspected drug overdose in a hotel room in Chiang Mai province on Thursday, police said. Pol Capt Jirasak Nakham, an investigator at Muang Chiang Mai police station, said the man was identified as Daniel Gibbons, aged 55. Read more: Bangkok Post
A Belfast college student has died in a tragic accident abroad in Thailand. 21-year-old Stephen Timothy Clifford, from Carryduff, fell from a balcony in the town of Chiang Mai. Read more: belfasttelegraph.co.uk
A man who brazenly rode a motorcycle through downtown Chiang Mai while naked has been arrested after detectives were alerted to his antics through a video clip on a social media network. It took five hours for police to swoop on the man after the clip of his raunchy romp appeared on the web yesterday […]
BANGKOK, May 20 – Police arrested a drug dealer with 400,000 pills of methamphetamine in Chiang Mai and seized some 70,000 meth pills and 4.5 kg of crystal methamphetamine ‘ice’ in Samut Prakan in a separate drug busting operation. A drug dealer identified as Thanya Saeyang was arrested by Narcotics Suppression Bureau police at Chiang […]
At least four senior officials from a district in Chiang Mai are accused of unlawfully issuing Thai identification cards to more than 18,000 unqualified immigrants, the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) said yesterday. DSI chief Tarit Pengdith said the probe found that 18,587 foreign immigrants had been added unlawfully to the database of Wiang Haeng […]
BANGKOK, April 10 – Almost 70 per cent of foreign tourists intend to celebrate the Thai New Year Songkran festival, and the northern province of Chiang Mai is the destination of most of them, according to a recent opinion poll by Bangkok University Research Center (Bangkok Poll). The survey on “Foreign Tourists and Thailand’s Songkran […]
A small earthquake with a magnitude of 2.9 on the Richter scale was recorded at tambon Mae Win in Mae Wang district of Chiang Mai late Friday night, the Meteorological Department reported on Saturday. Read more: Bangkok Post
