Police arrested a Thai man in Chiang Mai for procuring minors, and Belgian man for having sex with these minors, Department of Special Investigation (DSI) chief Tharit Pengdit said Thursday. On Wednesday, Suchat Biewtoo, 21, was nabbed at his home in San Sai district, while 41-year-old Philip Francoise was nabbed in front of a condominium in Muang district. Police were [...]

On Sunday, about three hundred members of Thai United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), gathered in Chiang Mai in an anti-government rally. The demonstrators lay down on the ground and staged a theatrical play to mock the military who clamped down on red shirted protesters in Bangkok earlier in 2010. Most of the demonstrators are women and elderly residents [...]

A 90-year-old Australian man has been charged with detaining and raping four young sisters at his home in northern Thailand. German-born Joseph Kraus Karl was arrested at his house in Chiang Mai province yesterday after police received a complaint from the children’s father. The Thai girls, aged seven, 11, 12 and 14, were allegedly abused repeatedly after being invited to [...]

Chiang Mai – Police have arrested a Malaysian man, two Thai women and four Thai men for having allegedly collaborated to kill a Malaysian man whom they alleged to be a drug ring leader. The seven were arrested by Chiang Mai police for having allegedly killed Kwa Hok Chun, a Malaysian busienssman, on June 15. Police said two of the [...]

CHIANG MAI, June 17 (TNA) – An American man was arrested and alleged to have committed paedophilia, or having engaged in sex, with an underage child in this northern Thai province, according to provincial tourist police. Police found evidence that the man identified as Wilbert Willis Holley, 72, had sexually abused a ten-year-old female student at a local school in [...]

BANGKOK — A baby koala and a young girl are helping move Thailand toward reconciliation after the country’s recent bitter political violence. Four-year-old Lapassarada Mung-opas submitted the winning entry in a contest to name the baby koala at the Chiang Mai Zoo in northern Thailand. Her suggestion, Prong-dong — “Reconciliation” — was picked over 496 other names, including “Ice,” “Sugar” [...]

A duo of Buddhist monk and a private citizen have been accused of pandering to paedolphiles in Chiang Mai, running a child-sex ring. The monk would apparently go out into the hinterland, in mufti, to procure young boys, who were then brought back to the city, seduced and provided for the delectation of foreign perverts. Chiang Mai, April 3, 2010, [...]

The Chiang Mai Arts and Culture Festival celebrates the ancient customs of the Lanna region. Every year, the people of Chiang Mai celebrate their artistic and cultural heritage with a special event in the city. The Chiang Mai Arts and Culture Festival is centred around the Tom Payom Market near the city’s university and is an annual highlight of the [...]

Chiang Mai and Chanthaburi recorded the most New Year holiday road deaths while Yasothon is the only province with zero accidents and no deaths. Overall, the number of deaths and injuries in road accidents during the first six of the seven-day New Year holidays this year was down on the same period last year. The total deaths reported from Dec29, [...]

Chiang Mai Is a Top Destination for Vacationing and Volunteering Chiang Mai’s reputation marks this small city as the jewel of Northern Thailand, a quaint city cozily nestled into the foothills of a lush green mountain. Chiang Mai is often just another stop on the average backpacker’s whirlwind temple tour of Southeast Asia. But change is underway. With numerous classes, [...]