BANGKOK (NNT) – After a rumor spread, claiming Airports of Thailand (AOT) is looking to cancel operations at Hat Yai airport in Songkhla and at Mae Fah Luang airport in Chiang Rai, the Minister of Transport has officially denied this rumor after delivering his policies to AOT executives, confirming the two airports will remain operational […]
Thailand’s northern provinces of Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai may face a magnitude 5 earthquake, as measured on the Richter Scale (ML), in the next 10 years after a 4.1 ML tremor shook seven districts of the two provinces on Friday night, according to the Department of Mineral Resources. The forecast is based on analysis […]
CHIANG MAI, Sept 30 (TNA) – Four people were arrested for their involvement in using an ambulance to transport hundreds of thousands of methamphetamine pills and ketamine from the northernborder province of Chiang Rai to Chiang Mai province. A rescue of a famous foundation in Chiang Rai, Thanadol Woraasut, 23 and his 17-year-old fellow were […]
A 59-year-old South Korean woman – who was wanted for alleged fraud causing damages worth 440 million won (about Bt10 million) in her home country – has been arrested in the northern border province of Chiang Rai while trying to apply for a re-entry permit, said authorities. The Thai authority was contacted by the South […]
Thai government troops shot and killed four drug couriers and seized more than 300kg of ketamine, a narcotic, on Saturday night in a maize plantation near a border river in Mae Sai district of the northern province of Chiang Rai. Acting on a tip-off that the drugs were to be smuggled from Myanmar for delivery […]
Fire-fighters returned to battle at a rubbish dump in Chiang Rai’s Chiang Khong district on Wednesday, as efforts continued to douse a three-day-old blaze. A source at the scene estimated it would take at least another day or two before the flames are finally put out. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
A 74-year-old German man who jumped bail and fled after allegedly stabbing his teenage wife to death was caught in Chiang Rai province after almost nine years on the run. H. J. T., wanted on an arrest warrant issued by Chiang Rai provincial court on murder charges, was apprehended in front of a clinic in […]
Thailand’s famous Tham Luang cave in the northern province of Chiang Rai will close to all visitors from February 19th to allow Thai Navy SEALs to recover equipment left in the cave after the international rescue mission extracted 13 members of the Wild Boar youth football team who became trapped by flooding last July. Speaking […]
