CHIANGRAI TIMES – For some Thais, the capital city is just too much. Traffic jams, rainy-season floods and the general stress of day-to-day living in...
Chiangrai Times – Thai farmers urged to grow rice earlier than usual to avoid damage by flooding. An agriculture expert has urged Rice farmers in...
Doi Chaan is a quirky establishment in tiny Chiang Rai, a town near the Golden Triangle in Thailand’s far north, close to the Myanmar and...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Farmers from the provinces of Chiang Rai, Phrae, Nan and Phayao _ claimed they were duped by Suriyan Wachirawongwichathorn and 10 others...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – During 18 years living across the road from rice paddies, Malinee Khammon has never planted a single seedling. The daughter of farmers...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – A century ago Phrae was known as Thailand’s teak capital, having drawn half a dozen European timber companies to log the North’s...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – A tea seed oil plantation in Chiangrai is helping a tribal community improve its lot. The sweet, herbal aroma of tea seed...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Many farmers, lured by hearty annual returns of 800,000 baht per 20 rai, have abandoned rice for rubber farming across the North,...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Thailand is willing to relinquish its role as the world’s biggest rice exporter as the government prepares to buy grain directly from...
Retail rice prices could jump by 25% or more from next month once the government launches the crop mortgage programme. Somkiat Makcayathorn, president of the...
Thailand is home to thousands of people who were born there, but are not recognized as citizens due to a lack of documentation. In the...
In modern life today, it’s so easy to take so many things for granted. Just because they seem to have conveniently born on these things. Rice...
Chiang Rai, the northernmost province of Thailand, has become a major production base for Japanese rice because of its climate and locally developed strains of japonica...