Far from where Samnieng Srichai sat knitting a waistcoat, the 83-year-old woman looked no different from other elderly people. Coming closer to her brought a surprise: her fingers, gnarled by leprosy, knitted fluidly and skilfully. Samnieng suffered from leprosy, or Hansen’s disease, about 50 years ago. It made her fingers crooked. She also lost her […]
Provincial Police Region 5 officers joined forces with anti-human trafficking organisations to raid a karaoke bar in Chiang Mai’s Muang district yesterday and rescue 13 female workers, including three girls aged under 18. Together with the Anti-Trafficking Coordination Unit Northern Thailand (Trafcord) and the Counter Human Trafficking Unit (CTU), police raided the “Mida” karaoke bar […]
No less than 3,000 red-shirts in Chiang Mai will go to join the mass gathering of red-shirts in Bangkok tomorrow, Krissana Prombuengram, core leader of Rak Chiang Mai 51 group, said on Saturday. “Chiang Mai red-shirts will join the mass rallies in front of the Criminal Court and the Democracy Monument by the United front […]
One woman has died and two people are seriously ill in Thailand after reportedly contracting food poisoning A New Zealand woman has died while on holiday in Thailand after reportedly contracting food poisoning. Two people travelling with the woman are also ill and being treated in hospital in Chiang Mai. Newstalk ZB
A 23-yr-old member of the Akha hill tribe in Northern Thailand has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of British music teacher and composer David Crisp. Awe Ye Piang, was sentenced by the Chiang Mai provincial court in Northern Thailand, but two other hill tribe men who were involved have still not yet […]
Thai AirAsia has launched its Chiang Mai hub with new daily direct flights from Singapore to the northern Thai city. The introduction of this new route is yet another important milestone for AirAsia as guests can now look forward to better connectivity to Northern Thailand. Chiang Mai is also linked to Bangkok, Hat Yai, Phuket […]
The Public Health Ministry confirmed yesterday that at least two people had died in the cold weather – one in Loei and the other in Chiang Rai. “Victims in this category are people who died because they lacked warm clothes and lived in areas declared as being hit by a cold spell,” Public Health Minister […]
Chiang Mai, Thailand – Sorayut Chayapanyo, the 32-year-old abbot of the Doi Pha Som forest temple, has found little use for his Stanford University economics degree in the hills of Chiang Mai. ‘I studied pure, hard-core, theoretical economics and now I can say it’s all BS,’ Sorayut said, sitting in his spartan hut on top […]
