A search team has found a 40-metre deep shaft at Doi Pha Mee giving hope that if further drilled may lead rescue teams to where the 13 missing are believed to be taking refuge. The team of policemen, troops and officials of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, led by a western […]
As rescue teams which included special team from Sweden began the search of 13 members of a youth football team went missing in the over 10-kilometre long cave in Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai since last Saturday, the Royal Thai Air Force today flew a C130 plane from Don Mueang military airport to the […]
CHIANG RAI: Eleven football players and a coach were believed to have been trapped in Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Mae Sai district of this northern border province, and a search and rescue team was trying to find them. The cave is located in the Thaluang-Khun Nam Nang Non National Park in tambon Pong […]
Two Myanmar men were arrested in Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district on Wednesday night allegedly carrying 30 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine. A source at the Royal Thai Police Narcotics Suppression Bureau said on Thursday its officers and Mae Sai police conducted a sting operation that led to the arrest of Sai Lyoe, 32, and Sai […]
CHIANG RAI, 11 June 2018 (NNT) – Over 1,600 cyclists have taken part in “Ride to Doi Thung 3”, which went off without incident despite constant rain. Chiang Rai Public Health Official, Dr. Tossathep Boonthong, and Pan Nai District Public Health Official, Pajon Jaikla, as President of the Chiang Rai cycling network, released the 1,600 […]
CHIANG RAI: An abandoned pickup truck loaded with 1.4 tonnes of methamphetamine pills found in Wing Chiat district is believed to be linked to the lethal ambush of a Hmong leader and his family in April. A total of 57 sacks, containing 11,996,000 speed pills and weighing 1,425kg, were found in the back of the […]
An American man has been arrested in a sting operation for allegedly running a online brothel service matching men in northern Thailand with Myanmar sex workers across the border, police said Tuesday. Police said K. V. A., a 66-year-old living in Chiang Rai province on a retirement visa, is behind a website and Facebook page […]
THE MILITARY is preparing to hand over a soldier who allegedly fatally shot a man at a checkpoint in Chiang Rai during the New Year holidays. Constructor Sornchai Sathitrakdamrong was killed January 2 amid murky circumstances. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
