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Citylife Next Issue: The Sunshine Issue All things bright and beautiful. Beach visits, fun entertainment, bubbly personalities, and feel good stories…all to brighten up your monsoon season. Citylife Wins National SME Award! There are three million small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Thailand. Small and medium basically means that enterprises employ under 200 people and generate under 20 … Continued
Citylife Wins National SMEs Award!
There are three million small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Thailand. Small and medium basically means that enterprises employ under 200 people and generate under 200 million baht per year. Citylife (or to be correct, our company, Trisila) is an SME. Last year, we heard about the national SMEs award, a highly prestigious and coveted award which the government had been handing out for two … Continued
What’s Happening?
+ ARTS & EXHIBITIONS Now – 20th June MY STORY @ MUMU Arthouse, Nimmanhaemin Road Soi 7 081 286 9676 The Best Friend Library presents a retrospective exhibit of photos from the the ‘MY STORY’ photo project by photographers on the Thai Burma border and from inside Burma. Now – 31st July CHUENTA CHUENJAI @ Siripanna Villa Spa and Resort Chiang Mai You are welcome to an art exhibition featuring 1 … Continued
The Music is Over
Chiang Mai’s fledgling music scene has suffered a setback of late due to the crackdown on foreign musicians playing live music in the city. A number of arrests were made during the months of March and April at Guitarman and Northgate, nightspots that have gained cult status within the foreign community, among local Thais as well as tourists. The arrests, which the immigration police have said were … Continued
City Buzz
Located on the same road as the Royal Rajapruek Project – Hang Dong, Sunshine Kindergarten is great for families who want their children learning in a tranquil atmosphere while acquiring first rate skills with trained teachers. Much of the emphasis of learning is on the environment and nature, plus there are classes in art, gym, cooking and English. In the morning, they study English, instructed b … Continued
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Citylife Next Issue: The 20th Birthday Issue Well, we can’t spoil the surprise can we? Let’s just say that we are going to be featuring some fantastic articles written by top writers and journalists in Thailand. We will also be looking back 20 years to see how far Citylife and Chiang Mai have come, picking the positive and negatives as well as try to foresee Chiang Mai in the next 20 years. It is … Continued
City Buzz
• Cosmos Café & The Bottle Shoppe Open less than a month, is Cosmos Café, a sophisticated yet intimate bar with dark mood lighting, subtle wall water features and a modern open-style kitchen. The menu features 29 different cocktails ranging between 95 _ 220 baht as well as an extensive, but affordable, wine, beer and finger food list. Bang for bucks value is excellent as a large … Continued
What’s Happening?
• ARTS & EXHIBITIONS Now – 5th June BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE @ Tita Gallery Chiang Mai 053 298 373 and tita@cm.ksc.co.th Anupan Pluckpankhajee devotes himself to art with a new dimension of using it as a therapeutic treatment. ‘Butterflies Are Free’ is his first art exhibition in Chiang Mai. Now – 9th May THE LADY STORY @ The House and Ginger 053 419 011 Exhibition called ‘The Lady Story,’ by Att … Continued
TEDx Doi Suthep
Somewhere in your inbox crammed with viral ‘world’s funniest’ videos of cats dancing to death metal and granny punch-ups you may find you have also been the recipient of the rather heady TED videos, where world renowned thinkers and savants from the streets discuss their ideas in front of an audience of a hundred people and you, the online viewer. TED is a non-profit organisation that’s been aroun … Continued
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Citylife Next Issue: The Indochine Issue Citylife, partnering with our media associates in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, will bring you interesting articles and information of where to go and what to do in some of South East Asia’s most exciting cities. CityCard A lot of people have been asking about what will happen next with the CityCard campaign after its expiration on 31st March 2011. We have st … Continued
What’s Happening
• ARTS & EXHIBITIONS Now – 31st May FLORESSENCE EXHIBITION AND BOOK LAUNCH @ Tamarind Village Chiang Mai 053 418 896-9 Tamarind Village presents ‘FlorESSENCE,’ art of modern floral design by Thailand’s preeminent floral artist, Sakul Intaku. The exhibition displays from 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. and also features a series of striking photographs. Now – 30th April ABSTRACT FOR ACCESS The Art Gallery Fa … Continued
Chiang Mai FC: an interview with the new manager Rene Desaeyere
Two years ago you would be forgiven for not knowing that Chiang Mai had a football team representing the city. Things have certainly changed. A few months ago in a match against Buriram, during the play-off stage of the second division, Chiang Mai FC drew a crowd of 23,000, which is more than some English Premiership Clubs have yet had this season. Chiang Mai has suddenly become a city obsessed wi … Continued
Stream of Lanna Wisdom
Rickety Lanna style wooden houses, bamboo shacks and an open-air Buddhist hall surround a shady courtyard which comprises the Lanna Wisdom School run by Chatchawan Thongdeelert. Chatchawan spent his early years working for the government, attempting to teach rural villagers the necessity of change and incorporation of modern technology. “I would tell them to use chemical fertilisers and to stop re … Continued
City Buzz
• Ming Mitr Coffee Shop Ming Mitr is a coffee shop that was created by a person who loves, and has real passion for, coffee. He told us that this eventually lead him to opening up his own place, somewhere he could drink coffee himself and have a business at the same time. The owner is meticulous in every part of the process, by choosing the right coffee plantation, to roasting the beans just right … Continued
What’s Happening?
ARTS & EXHIBITIONS Now – 31st May FLORESSENCE EXHIBITION AND BOOK LAUNCH @ Tamarind Village Chiang Mai 053 418 896-9 Tamarind Village presents ‘FlorESSENCE,’ art of modern floral design by Thailand’s preeminent floral artist, Sakul Intaku. The Exhibition displays from 11a.m. – 6 p.m. as well as featuring of a series of striking photographs. Now – 4th MarchART THESIS EXHIBITION @ CMU Art Centr … Continued
The Moviegoer
Any city worth the name has to have a cinephile community of some sort, a group of people who live and die by movies, all movies, any movies. Chiang Mai has such a group, but it’s very small – probably no more than a few hundred – and ‘community’ is a stretch. They’re not like Chiang Mai’s opera people, who all seem to know each other, or the local book crowd, who love to meet and discuss. Movie p … Continued
M.L. Panadda Diskul, Governor of Chiang Mai
Citylife: You have now been governor of Chiang Mai for four months, what was your mission and do you think you are satisfied with your performance so far. M.L. Panadda: When I went to pay my farewell respects to the minister of interior, he asked me to make sure that I worked hard to help unify the people of Chiang Mai and bring harmony back into society. It was such a great honour to be given thi … Continued
Police Colonel Prachuab Wongsuk, Deputy Commander of Chiang Mai Provincial Police
Originally from Phrae Province, Pol. Col. Prachuab has been a policeman in Chiang Mai for over twenty years, having worked in all four stations in the muang district and built his career from the bottom up to become one of the city’s more respected policemen. It is not often I interview a policeman, so I decided to go the informal route and invited him and a few of his good men to my house for fin … Continued