Thailand’s ethnic Karen minority are facing a crisis due to encroaching modernization and misunderstandings about their way of life and livelihood. Their lands have been...
Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) said in June it had to close two projects, which it said treated around 55,000 mainly Burmese unregistered migrants....
Rebels of the Karen National Union rebels are blocking construction vehicles using a road linking Thailand to a proposed $US60 billion ($A61.7 billion) development project...
Myanmar’s nominal civilian government has suspended a controversial $3.6 billion hydroelectric power project which has faced objections from various social strata nationwide, according to the...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Police arrested a suspected member of a major drug network in the North, two suspected drug traffickers in the capital and a...
Any visitor to Chiangrai cannot fail to recognize the richness and obvious affluence that abound in this northern most province. Its proximity to the Golden...
Where would you want to go if you wanted to soak in the timeless and conventional beauty of Thailand? Chiang Rai is the answer. Evolving...
If you ask Thai people who come from the Northern part of Thailand, “What are the top-three Northern Thai dishes?”, they will definitely include “...
Santi Leksakun grew up in Chiang Rai, a small city in the north of Thailand near the border of Myanmar. He is a project coordinator at...
Amnart Pamornprasert, who like Saran was on target in the Thais 3-2 win over Australia in Monday’s Group G opener, made in 3-0 in the 16th...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Thai veterinarians say a 22-year-old elephant was wounded after he wandered into neighbouring Myanmar and stepped on a land mine. Soraida Salwala...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Ajahn Cagino, 43, lives in a cave with two snakes and eight bats. The cave is 2km from the nearest village in Mae...
Thailand’s plan to pay its rice growers far above market rates is expected to push up prices for the staple that feeds almost half the...
The city of Chiang Rai is the capital of Chiang Rai province in Northern Thailand. The province, which borders Myanmar (Burma) and Laos, is one...
Thailand’s new government unveiled a revised plan for the country’s high-speed train network on Tuesday, prioritising domestic rail expansion over an ambitious regional connectivity plan...
Until he received his Thai citizenship and identification card this month, life was very difficult for 17-year-old Joe as a stateless person. “I couldn’t go...
United Nations Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons Joy Ngozi Ezeilo will visit Thailand from Monday to August 19 to appraise the government’s efforts to...
Anantara Resorts is on quite a tear this year, opening and acquiring several properties, including its first urban hotel in its hometown of Bangkok. The...
Only in dreams can Say Say La return to the life she once had in Burma. She recollects life on her family’s farm and her...
Environment groups and local villagers in Burma and Thailand launched a protest against the Mong Koke coal-mining project in eastern Shan State last week. The...