CHIANGRI TIMES – Eight-year-old Soifah Jetsadakraisii was failing second grade. The Chiang Rai native grew up speaking Bisu, one of the hundreds of ethnic minority...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – The Thai government has embarked on an ambitious nationwide programme to teach English at least once a week in all state schools...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – A Tampa businesswoman has been murdered in Thailand. Wendy Albano, 52, is a well known interior designer was in Thailand on business when...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Officials in Thailand again fear for the country’s tourist industry in the wake of a number of bomb blasts that caused significant...
“Let’s face it: Elephants are boring,” I emailed a friend from my BlackBerry during a sluggish, scorching day at the King’s Cup Elephant Polo tournament...
Camera trap video footage filmed in the forests of Thailand confirms that anti-poaching work there is paying off, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society. The...
The U.S. Navy has approached Thailand about stationing some American warships in Thailand. This is part of a new American strategy to deal with expanding...
Tepparith Kokietgym of Thailand outpointed Japanese challenger Daiki Kameda for a unanimous decision victory to keep the World Boxing Association super flyweight title on Wednesday....
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Myanmar on Wednesday for a landmark three-day visit to the long-isolated nation focused on encouraging further political...
Thai teen sensation Inthanon Ratchanok stunned spectators in Shanghai on Thursday, taking under an hour to slay the China Open’s top women’s singles seed Wang...
Thailand has asked social networking website Facebook to delete more than 10,000 pages of content containing images or text which it claims are “offensive” to...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama in a letter to the Prime Minister of Thailand, Yingluck Shinawatra last week expressed...
Thailand’s agriculture sector has major problems to deal with right now, as floodwaters destroy large swathes of the country’s farmland. But another recent development will...
Thailand’s worst floods in more than a half century may have wiped out as much as 14 percent of paddy fields in the world’s biggest...
The Palaung Women’s Organization (PWO) revealed in its report opium cultivation in Namkham Township of Shan State under Burma’s new government has rapidly increased, with...
If you’re in Chiang Rai and after something to jazz up your wardrobe, made a beeline for Chezmoi, a snazzy little boutique that’s piled high...
One day before China’s National Day celebration, Myanmar’s President Thein Sein called a halt to the on-going Myitsone hydroelectric dam project that was being...
Growing interest internationally in the therapeutic value of herbs and spices has also helped popularize Thai cuisine. A large number are indigenous to the country, and...
Thailand’s plan to buy rice at above- market rates will allow farmers “to make a living” and boost growth in Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy, Prime...
Chiang Rai is the northern most province in Thailand and a famous tourist spot for its natural wonders and the remnants of an ancient civilization....