Chiang Mai, Thailand News

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AN Australian man has been jailed in Thailand for the shooting murder of an American tourist during a drunken quarrel.

It is 4pm and Pranee Soongkhaeng is hurriedly piling up sandbags in a bid to prevent flooding in front of her shop on Meechai Street in Nhon Khai Province, northeast Thailand, close to the Mekong river bank.

Did you know that Australian Bottle Trees cannot survive in the extreme wet climate of northern Thailand? It seems fairly obvious that a tree accustomed to a very dry climate wouldn't survive very long in a ...

Members of Thailand's People Power Party yesterday vented their anger at Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej for failing to protect the reputation of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra.

The domestic airlines Air Mandalay on Friday denied rumours doing the rounds that it was being taken over by Air Bagan.

On women who seek equality in an unjust world, look to pressure patriarchal societies and empower sisterhood AMITHA AMRANAND Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams and actor-activist Mia Farrow recently visited ...

Formal merger negotiations were announced between two key HIV/TB development agencies - Health & Development Networks and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance - at the XVII International AIDS Conference which ...

" The Kachin women's group released a report today on Kachin women being trafficked to China as a fallout of the economic downslide in Burma.

The Burmese government has reinforced its troops along the border with Thailand to beef up security in the run-up to the 20th anniversary of Burma's pro-democracy uprising, said a border source.

Sindicatum Carbon Capital, a leading global turnkey developer of greenhouse gas abatement projects, is entering Thailand in a joint venture with GRTech.

Nonsense, there's piles of exciting stuff to do, and here's just a sample. You'll need muscles and some sort of weapon, but relax! THE X-CENTRE It's playtime for your adrenaline at this bungeejumping, ...

WEST POINT - The accommodations weren't exactly plush. Cadets slept on hard mattresses on the floor, there was no hot water or air conditioning and bugs were everywhere.

At least eight water diversion projects are planned, not including the Prime Minister's ambitious scheme to divert water from the Mekong River to help farmers in the north-east. The Thai cabinet approved two of ...

Department of Export Promotion has canceled longan and Thailand Exhibition fair scheduled to be held in Cambodia this month due to a strong sentiment among Cambodians opposing Thai products following the temple ...

Cromwell rsidents and missionaries Malcolm and Sandy Potter. Photo supplied. When Malcolm and Sandy Potter and their young family from Cromwell moved to Thailand 10 years ago as missionaries for World Outreach, ...

SWEDEN : Alicia Elfversson on Friday arrived in Sweden with her mother and aunt, who for the past year have been looking for the girl.

Jul. 28--Chiang Mai is trying to attract local and global corporate clients by offering low prices for staging meeting, incentive, convention and exhibition activities in the northern province.

''The space of Aan [Read Journal] is thus the space of criticism where footnotes may not be as valuable as courage to express voices, prejudices, standpoints, and even humour _ bitter or not.

The landscape of Laos is glorious to behold and its inhabitants radiate inner calm.