Thousands of red shirts from the North and the Northeast have started their march Friday’s morning, expecting to reach Bangkok by Sunday. Those from the North are expected to converge and stay overnight in Nakhon Sawan while those from the Northeast will spend the night at Nakhon Ratchasima. Before departing their respective hometowns, the red shirts organised a series of [...]

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 [...]

Advanced Info Service (AIS) plans to start providing 3G wireless broadband services in Bangkok on Feb 1 along with TOT Plc’s 3G services through a data roaming agreement. The country’s largest mobile-phone operator says it is ready to work with its concession provider TOT in a joint venture or co-investment in the state enterprise’s 3G project if 3G licensing remains [...]

Food Offering to 10,000 Monks On 28 Nov, on 6.09 am, there will be a big event at Nimmanhaemin Rd. for food offering to the 10,000 monks. Aims to give all the merit to our majesty king have a good health and long life. This is a kind of the buddisht’s making merit as they believe that will bring them [...]

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, [...]

On the heels of TOT’s 3G deployment it seems that True Move may be secretly testing 3G in Chiang Mai as well. Speaking to some iPhone 3G users in the Muang area of Chiang Mai, I’ve found that in many areas of the city are getting a steady signal but have not noticed a big change in speed. Some have [...]

The Government of Japan’s policy about youth exchange between member of East Asia Summit 16 countries; Asean Group, China, Korea, India, Australia, New Zealand and Japan with the amount 6000 people per year in the Japan-East Asia Network of Exchange for Students and Youths Project or JENESYS Project. For this year, the government of Japan present 10 Cosplay Actors to [...]

Bangkok – Thailand’s Chiang Mai Night Safari has launched a search and rescue operation for a baby hippopotamus that went missing from the zoo’s veterinary hospital last week, media reports said Sunday. The baby hippo was last seen in hospital on Thursday, soaking in a tub of water, the Bangkok Post said. A security guard assigned to watch the hippo [...]

BANGKOK – THAILAND’S prime minister announced on Thursday that he had cancelled a visit to a northern stronghold of his rival, ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra, owing to security concerns. Abhisit Vejjajiva was set to travel to the northern city of Chiang Mai for a commerce meeting on Sunday, but decided against the trip after receiving death threats, despite initially downplaying [...]