Chiang Mai, Thailand News

Earlier this year, Unesco launched the World Digital Library website with the aim of making available on the internet significant primary material from countries and cultures around the world.

The Chiang Mai Wood movie-making project is expected to become a new tourism magnet and create 300 jobs for film and entertainment specialists.

The Education Ministry will spend Bt12 billion on developing "National Research Universities" in the country.

A Chiang Mai hospital has won a prestigious UN award for a programme that simplifies the referral of critical patients and also improves the skills of hospital staff handling emergencies such as heart attacks.

Thousands of excited visitors flocked Saturday to a zoo in northern Thailand for the first public viewing of a baby panda, which has been featured on Thai front pages almost every day since her birth six weeks ago.

Many new hotels have recently opened their doors in Northern Thailand during the last year or so.

An institute with Chiang Mai University has signed a special carbon credit agreement, which makes Thailand the fifth signatory in the world to pen a deal of this kind.

The man behind the turnaround success at SC Asset tells of his life experiences and his two years with the property company of the Shinawatra family.

Forget about elephants, Buddhist temples and exotic hill tribes. The great hope for tourism in Chiang Mai, the "Rose of the North" and fountainhead of Thai culture, is a small, mouse-like baby panda of Chinese descent.

Los Angeles-based entertainment property developer Creative Kingdom Inc. is to build a film studio and residential complex near Chiang Mai in northern Thailand.

Tourist season in Thailand is from mid-October until the end of March. During that time, the weather in Thailand is bearable, so tourists love to come.

In comparison to the toilets in Thailand - the ones in the Tokyo airport are quite techno., The toilet seats have arm rests equipped with options like - spritz, complete spray - music and a flushing sound ! Our hotel in Chiang Mai is ultra modern and each room has its own doorbell and a set of switches in the room to turn on the lights for Do Not ...

On the surface, the resident status of a three-week old unnamed baby panda born in Chiang Mai will be the most visible barometer of the state of Sino-Thai relations in weeks to come.

I have a friend by the name of Lek in Northern Thailand who hosts a meditation retreat on her large sprawling estate in Chiang Dao , a small rural community located about 75 minutes north of Chiang Mai, a major tourist hub.

Chiang Mai A - " Chaiwut Bannawat, Thailand's Deputy Education Minister on Friday said the government will introduce a new policy of providing equal educational opportunities to all children in the Kingdom including over 100,000 stateless and migrant children.

If you're brave enough to head into the mountains of Thailand, you might be rewarded with a ride on a little fella like this, guided by the folks at Pong Youeng Elephant Camp.

A committee of the Zoological Park Organisation of Thailand has picked four names from thousands of entries submitted from all over the country for the new female baby panda at Chiang Mai Zoo.

PUBLIC health authorities on Sunday expressed worries that the new influenza type-A virus could mix with the upcoming seasonal flu strain, possibly making it more dangerous to humans.

Baby animals, big and small Some are cute and cuddly, and others may weigh more just days after being born than you do now.

A woman recovering from a bullet wound to her chest from a shooting in Thailand that claimed the life of her friend said they were play-fighting, but causing no harm when an off-duty police officer intervened and pulled out a gun.