BANGKOK, 4 January 2013 (NNT) – Five border districts in Chiang Mai province are developing historical tourism promotion plans in preparation for the opening of the temporary checkpoint of Kiew Pha Wok in Chiang Dao district. Mr Phairote Kunlawanit from the Chiang Mai Provincial Office of Commerce said he and a team responsible for studying […]
A 15-year-old girl in Chiang Mai said she was raped by an unidentified man while in the care of a relative. The autistic girl had been left alone with the man in the house of the relative, who had gone to work at a karaoke bar. The man gave her liquor to drink, and later […]
CHIANG MAI, Jan 26 – A cold spell continues in this northern province, affecting over 30,000 households, with the low temperature measured at 8° Celsius in Chom Thong district. Following Chiang Mai’s 25 districts being announced as disaster zones due to cold weather, Siripannee Boonmalik, a senior official of the Chiang Mai disaster prevention and […]
Sompat Kaewpichit, a former Chart Thai Nakhon Pathom MP and former deputy agriculture and cooperatives minister in the Samak Sundaravej government, was found dead in a room of a Chiang Mai hotel on Saturday night, reports said. Read more: The Nation
CHIANG MAI, Jan 14 – About 260,000 people in Thailand’s northern provinces of Chiang Mai and Mae Hong Son have been affected by the current cold snap, and the provinces have declared disaster zones to be able to provide assistance to affected residents. Siripannee Boonmalik, a senior official of the Chiang Mai disaster prevention and […]
A 53-year-old German and a 25-year-old tuk-tuk tricycle driver were arrested in Chiang Mai for sexually abusing minors. The tuk-tuk driver procured boys under the age of 12 for the German. He paid the boys between 500 to 1,000 baht for sex, and also paid his tuk-tuk pimp 200 to 500 baht each time. Read […]
A 22-year-old suspect in a gruesome murder case was arrested yesterday as he was trying to cross the border in Chiang Mai’s Mae Ai district. Pairoj Nanthatanti had been sought since last Thursday(January 3), when the mutilated and burned body of his former girlfriend was found in an apartment building in Nonthaburi’s Pak Kred district. […]
CHIANG MAI, Dec 25 – Almost 600,000 meth pills and 50kg of meth ingredients were seized in this northern province and the nearby province of Chiang Rai. The methamphetamine components were estimated as sufficient to make as many as 50 million pills, according to police. Read more: MCOT
