Forest fires have destroyed about 80 hectares of forest in the Doi Tung development project, in Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Rai, and worsened the air pollution in Mae Sai district, with the level of PM2.5 dust rising to 443 microns. Massive Fire in Nakhon Nayok Causes Chaos The fires started at about 3pm in […]
More than 3,400 people in Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Rai, including 372 in Mae Sai district alone, were treated for respiratory conditions between March 19th and 26th, as they struggle to cope with choking air pollution caused by forest and farm fires. Meanwhile, Chiang Rai governor Puttipong Sirimat said yesterday (Monday) that he will […]
The Mae Sai-Tachileik border checkpoint, between Thailand and Myanmar, was officially reopened today (Monday), after about three years of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The reopening ceremony this morning was jointly presided over by Chiang Rai Deputy Governor Somwang Boonrayong and governor of Tachileik Province U Minh Nay at the first Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge, […]
Duangphet Promthep, aka “Dom”, one of the 12 “Wild Boar” soccer team who were trapped, with their coach, in Tham Luang Cave in Chiang Rai for 17 days in 2018, has died while studying at a prestigious soccer school in England. The abbot of Phra That Doi Ngao Temple in Chiang Rai told Thai PBS […]
Officers from the office of Thailand’s Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) seized six million methamphetamine pills, hidden in three vehicles, and arrested five men in Wiang Pa Pao district of the northern province of Chiang Mai earlier this week. Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin said today (Wednesday) that anti-narcotics officers stopped a timber truck and two scout […]
CHIANG RAI, Jan 12 (TNA) – Thai soldiers killed five suspected drug smugglers in a shoot-out in Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district. The incident took place in a jungle near the Noi Dong Tung temple. Patrolling officers encountered a group of 7-8 men, carrying rucksacks. When being signalled to stop for a search, those men […]
CHIANG RAI, Dec 27 (TNA) – A House committee on telecommunications and digital economy and society, the government and the private sector have opened the Space Technology Laboratory in this northernmost province. The Space Technology Laboratory stands in the compound of Wiang Pa Pao Technical College in Wiang Pa Pao district. It is an advanced […]
CHIANG RAI, Nov 28 (TNA) – The Pha Muang Task Force already received the three Thai women who had been lured to forced prostitution in Myanmar. After the Pavena Foundation had asked the task force to coordinate their rescue with Myanmar authorities, Col Nathee Thimsen, commander of an ad hoc unit under the 2nd Cavalry Regiment […]
