A Canadian man from Edmonton has become the seventh mystery death in a month in a controversy which has rocked the northern Thai capital of Chiang Mai. Canadian Bill Mah, 59, died after using the facilities of the Downtown Inn in Chiang Mai, where a British couple and a Thai tourist guide were found dead […]
The Integrative Healing Society (www.ihsociety.com) will be holding a two-week Thai massage training program in the beautiful Northern city of Chiang Mai from May 19 – June 4, 2011. The course will include 60 hours of education and will give participants all the necessary information and training experience they need to be able to give […]
The European Commission visited Burmese refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border this week to evaluate a shift in priorities from basic relief services to longer-term sustainable assistance. But as aid workers on the border scramble to cope with the newest wave of ethnic Karen refugees fleeing war at home, questions remain about whether sustainable assistance […]
PHITSANULOK, March 9 — Police in the northern province of Phitsanulok seized 2.6 million pills of methamphetamine, ‘Ya Ba’, and 102 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine hydrochloride, ‘ice’, with an estimated street value of more than Bt1 billion. The joint operation of Border Patrol Police and provincial police in Phitsanulok’s Chat Trakan district seized the large […]
LAMPANG, 9 March 2011 (NNT)-Scientists have recently discovered a fossil of an ancient species of primate believed to be over 13 million years old in Mae Mo district of Lampang province. The fossil has been royally granted the name of Marcia Sirindhorn. Vice Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Pimook Simarot and Director-General of the […]
BANGKOK, 8 March 2011 (NNT) – The Royal Thai Air Force has dispatched aircraft to perform rainmaking operations in drought-affected provinces across the country. Air Force Commander-in-Chief Air Chief Marshal Ittiporn Suppawong presided over the ceremony to release aircraft of the royal rainmaking unit at Squadron 601, Wing 6, Don Muang Air Force Base. In […]
The father of Wellington tourist Sarah Carter wants the Thai hotel she stayed in closed and a more thorough investigation carried out into her death. His comments come after it was revealed there had been three other unexplained deaths of people who stayed in the same Downtown Inn in Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand. Miss […]
About 1,000 farmers on Monday block the Phitsanulok – Nakhon Sawan road for the second day running, demanding the government raise the guaranteed price of rice for pledged crops to 14,000 baht per tonne. On Sunday, the farmers from the lower northern provinces of Phitsanulok, Sukhothai and Kamphaeng Phet began blocking all four main in-bound […]
