Thai Police raided a rented room in Chiang Mai’s Muang district Tuesday morning and rescued eight children aged 3-14 from three Burmese human trafficking suspects, who reportedly forced the kids to beg on the street and assaulted those failing to meet a daily target of Bt500. Provincial Police Region chief Pol Lt Gen Chaiya Siriampankul […]
Three British students on a holiday of a lifetime before they were due to start university have been killed in a horror bus crash in Thailand. The trio were Bruno Melling-Firth, 19, Conrad Quashie, 19, and Maximilian Boomgaarden-Cook, 19 – all friends from The Charter School in Dulwich. They died instantly when a bus struck […]
A transport truck collided with a ten-wheel truck in Chiang Mai’s Doi Saket district Tuesday, killing eight passengers and seriously injuring three others. The accident took place at around 7.30am on Doi Saket – Chiang Rai Road, after the transport truck for Wiang Kalong – Chiang Mai route, running downhill, overtook other vehicle but could […]
BANGKOK, June 21 – The so-called yellow shirt People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) on Tuesday petitioned the Election Commission (EC) to dissolve the Pheu Thai Party, claiming the active role of ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra as grounds for its disbandment. PAD spokesman Panthep Puapongpan and Samdin Lertbut, secretary-general of the Puea Fa Din Party, submitted the […]
CHIANGMAI, 19 June 2011 (NNT) – After the Chiangmai Zoo has decided to showcase a polar bear, many people and activists denounced the move, saying it would be tantamount to animal cruelty. Under heavy criticisms on the move to exhibit polar bear, Chiangmai Zoo had held a public forum to listen to public opinion. Over […]
CHIANG MAI, June 13 – A gunman on Monday shot at the house of ex-Rak Chiang Mai ‘Love Chiang Mai 51’ security guard Niyom Lueangcharoen, 51, but the former Red Shirt faction member was unscathed. Also known as disc jockey Lae, Mr Niyom was unhurt as he spotted the attacker first and escaped when an […]
Chiang Mai’s fledgling music scene has suffered a setback of late due to the crackdown on foreign musicians playing live music in the city. A number of arrests were made during the months of March and April at Guitarman and Northgate, nightspots that have gained cult status within the foreign community, among local Thais as […]
Blood-test test results awaited; Official says bed-bug spray ‘not behind deaths’ The governor of Chiang Mai yesterday confirmed that public health authorities and the police were continuing to investigate the mysterious deaths of seven tourists at the northern city’s Downtown Inn and planned a press conference for the international media today on the probe. Governor […]
