Chiang Mai, Thailand News

The landscape of Laos is glorious to behold and its inhabitants radiate inner calm.

At food stalls and in supermarkets in Chiang Mai, Thailand's second largest city, plastics of all shapes and sizes are dolled out like confetti when you make a purchase of items.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams met a group of women from Burma as well as from various ethnic groups in this northern province yesterday to gather information about their plight.

BANGKOK : Low-cost carrier One-Two-Go will suspend its operations from Tuesday until September 15, making it the first airline victim of record oil prices.

The landscape of Laos is glorious to behold and its inhabitants radiate inner calm.

My 88-year-old uncle Robin has left the house he has lived in for half a century and moved to a hotel in Chiang Mai All comments The Audit Commission, which has the job of scrutinising how local authorities ...

A few months ago I went to a rally in support of harm reduction services outside a UNAIDS meeting in Chiang Mai.

Thai forces shot and killed a suspected drug trafficker in Chiang Mai Province on Sunday, as authorities in Bangkok expressed growing concern about the introduction of new drugs into the country.

Contrary to the popular belief that the illegal growing of opium has dwindled in Thailand, the Office of the Narcotics Control Board reports the opposite is true for this source of heroin.

Heaven on Earth ? Close... The majestic $80 million USD and 60 acres mandarin oriental property is a site not to be missed in Chiang Mai in fact it was referred to by many 'a living museum' of Northern Thailand ...

Special warfare troops from Thailand and China on Friday started their second combined training, with a theme of anti-terror, in Thailand's northern province of Chiang Mai.

If you're headed to Thailand, here's a romantic package we just received: the Intimate Retreat package at Mandarin Oriental Dhara Dhevi, Chiang Mai, located in the romantic mountains of the country's north.

CHALLENGES: The Asian Development Bank head said he expected emerging economies would be able to beat inflationary pressure and return to sustainable growth BLOOMBERG Saturday, Jul 05, 2008, Page 11 Asian ...

Chinese and Thai special forces will hold a joint anti-terrorism training exercise from July 9 to 31 in northern Thailand's Chiang Mai Province, a spokesman for China's Defense Ministry said in a statement here ...

PATONG: Kathu Police Superintendent Col Grissak Songmoonnak and four Drug Suppression officers from Kathu police station arrested four ya bah and ya ice dealers on Tuesday night.

Enjoy delicious dishes personally prepared for you by Executive Chef Stefan Frenzel.

During the first few tumultuous months in this land of low life expectancy, the average foreign traveller might find himself getting into a spot of bother.

Contributor of The Christian Science Monitor / June 30, 2008 edition Chiang Mai, Thailand Some people look at a pile of elephant dung and see a big waste-disposal problem.

So you've come to the conclusion over the past six months that Thailand is not far from the utopia you've always dreamed about, but the problem is in a week you have a flight back to the shit hole where you ...

Twenty years ago, Steve Van Beek paddled a small teak boat from the headwaters of the Ping River on a 58-day journey to the sea.