BANGKOK – Yupa Prai-ngam’s body lay slumped on her bus seat like a dozing passenger. Around her, forensic police cased the scene, zipping up the corpse...
CHIANGRAI – Thai jasmine rice, also known as “Khao Hom Mali Thung Kula Ronghai,” will become the first product in Southeast Asia to be registered...
BANGKOK – As Thailand braces itself to combat drug-resistant malaria, a spread of small, nondescript buildings scattered close to corn and rice fields along its...
BANGKOK– The World Bank (WB) has adjusted Thailand’s economic growth this year from 4.5 percent to 4.7 percent and positively forecast a 5 percent expansion...
PATTAYA – A 42 year old British man Paul Antony Jones from Windsor in UK has been found dead at his East Pattaya apartment on...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Laos says it will officially launch construction of the controversial Xayaburi dam project on the Mekong River this week despite objections from...
Two Bulgarians have been arrested by tourist police in Phuket on forgery charges. PHUKET – Thai Police have arrested two Bulgarians for having allegedly attempted to...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – A police officer who fled from his vehicle leaving behind drugs worth about 760 million baht on the street surrendered to authorities...
BANGKOK – Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom yesterday vehemently defended the government’s rice-pledging policy, saying it had not breached any commitment under the World Trade Organisation (WTO)...
CHIANG RAI –Thailand has long been recognized as a leading exporter of rice and other agricultural produce. But tests for pesticide residues are raising concerns...
Thailand’s northern province of the geographical advantage to trade links with neighboring countries through economic corridor north – south (NSEC: North South Economic Corridor) link...
Chiangrai Times – Three guns were used in the fatal gunfight between people in two cars that claimed the life of Farut Thaiseth, the 27-year-old...
Chiangrai Times –In recent years, small businesses, especially coffee and bakery shops, have been popping up on many corners and plazas in Chiang Mai, Thailand’s...
Chiangrai Times – Malaysia police have reported that a raid on a sex trafficking and theft gang in the country has seen a 13-year-old girl...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Professor Geoffrey Lipman, President of the International Council of Tourism Partners (ICTP), told delegates from Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and Myanmar that...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Thai prison, like all prisons, reveals the dark side of a person’s soul. It is how people behave when there are no...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Worshiped for the sense of euphoria it brings and loathed for the depression that follows as its effects wear off, opium is...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Deadly malaria that is resistant to drug treatment has spread rapidly from Cambodia to the border between Thailand and Myanmar, raising concerns...
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,...
In a word – Monsanto. Here in ChiangRai, we still have bees and butterflies, pollinators. We and everyone everywhere, need them. In China, they’re now...