Chiang Mai Public Health Office yesterday reported that 237 students at Wat Don Chan School in Muang district had fallen ill. About 100 of them were sick due to food poisoning, while others suffered from dengue fever, flu and other diseases. Fifty-nine of them would remain in hospitals for another one or two days, said […]
CityNews – A 30 year old Swedish tourist has been found dead at the Jocker Brother Guesthouse located at 18/5 Ratchawithi Road in downtown Chiang Mai. At this time police say the cause of death of the man, named O. R., 30, from Sweden, is unknown. Read more: chiangmaicitylife.com Citylife Chiang Mai
Police have arrested a Chiang Rai man and seized 1.368 million yaba tablets and 108 kilograms of crystal meth worth a total of Bt1 billion, National Police chief Priewpan Damapong announced at a press conference on Tuesday. The suspect, Weera Saelee, 25, was nabbed in Chiang Rai’s Thoeng district on Monday night as he, along […]
CHIANG MAI, 16 September 2012 (NNT) – Dr. Attapol Cheepsattayakorn, deputy director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Control, in Chiang Mai, stated that following an outbreak of diphtheria in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic in May this year, there arose two suspected cases of the disease in Loei and Petchabun provinces in Thailand […]
Police in Chiang Mai have arrested four men they said belonged to a drug racket, seizing 600,000 methamphetamine tablets from one of them worth Bt180 million. The suspects, paraded at a press conference at Don Mueang Airport in Bangkok, are Samran Saenluang, Phongsaphak Ruengkijsuwan, Somyos Laomee and Nopphorn Phanasirisomboon. Read more: The Nation
CHIANG Mai, 21 August 2012 (NNT) – The Tourism and Sports Ministry has launched the ‘Miracle Thailand: Believe in Chiang Mai’ project to promote tourism and meeting and incentive businesses in the province. Tourism Department Director-General Supon Sripan yesterday presided over the opening ceremony of the event at Chiang Mai Hall in Central Plaza Chiang […]
Inspired by heartthrob singer and model Dome Pakorn Lum, a 18-year-old Chiang Mai boy spent over Bt250,000 on more than 16 operations over the past three years to make his face look like a star. “I just wanted to be accepted by other people,” Apirak, not his real name, said yesterday. Read more: The Nation […]
DEVASTATED friends paid tribute to a holidaymaker who died on a dream trip to Thailand. Jonny Sutch collapsed and died on the last day of a month-long holiday in the Asian country. Doctors today remained uncertain over the cause of his death with tests so far unable to establish the reason behind it. Read more: […]
