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Chiang Mai On The WWW

[right]This colume is to keep you abreast of the latest websites which Citylife has produced, introducing you to the ever-increasing presence of Chiang Mai online.[/right] Holiday Garden Hotel and Resort http://www.holidaygardenhotelandresort.com Citylife designed the web site for this charming Huay Kaew hotel and resort last year and featured their site in the October 2007 edition of this magazin … Continued

Kiddie Ideas

Community Services

The Mission House is a Christian Organisation offering a genuine service in both English and Thai to Chiang Mai. Their focus is on helping foreigners settle into Chiang Mai and offer many wonderful homes to rent. The Mission House supports, and works in partnership with a number of Christian Organisations and Churches within Chiang Mai & Chiang Rai. Contact; Janta, The Mission House: jantawint … Continued

Surfin’ Lessons

For starters, to go surfing you need a decent board, or in this case broad…er broadband that is, and it might sound a little obvious but here in Chiang Mai you get broadband and band aids. The suburban internet services do leave a lot to be desired and their reliability is woeful. City dwellers are a little luckier but those of you out in the moo baan no doubt have a frustrating time, so here’s a … Continued

City Talk

City Vibes

Artist: AC/DC Album: Black Ice Rating: AC/DC has been smashing guitars since 1973 and has sold over 200 million records. ‘Black Ice’ arrives eight years after their last release and heralds a reinvigoration of their classic sound and the thumping hedonism of the 1980 classic ‘Back in Black’. The distinctive vocal rasp of front-man Brian Johnson channels a furious energy into the band’s songs and l … Continued

Love Precepts

January, 2009 The ‘Growth Industry’ Website 40over40.com states that 40% of men over the age of 40 experience Erectile Dysfunction (ED). And 65% of men over 65 are prone to penile flaccidity. Author David Friedman dubs impotence as “a growth industry”. The aforementioned statistics are relevant to Thailand – ‘Country for Old Men’ – where the expat population is predominantly men aged 40 plus. Life … Continued

A Retiring Attitude

I wake up to lots of forwarded emails in my inbox. I almost never forward them on, but the other day I got one that I thought might be appropriate for others to read. So I forwarded this email on to all the ‘mature’ (read ‘older’) people on my email list. STROKE IDENTIFICATION A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within three hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke … Continued

What’s Happening?

Now – 6th January DAD & ME @ Pongnoi Art Space 053 329 305 info@trickthink.com, artspace.trickthink.com Art exhibition by Monrudee Thiensart Tuesdays – Fridays 1 – 6 p.m. and Saturdays – Sundays 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Now – 28th February WOVEN WISDOM @ The Patricia Cheesman Collection Gallery www.studio-naenna.com Come see a collection of masterpieces from the Studio Naenna Archives 5 – 7 p.m. until … Continued

Ten Years Ago January 2009

Citylife (which changed its name from the Chiang Mai Newsletter in 2002) has been in publication for over seventeen years. Let’s look back at what we wrote 10 years ago.   January 1999: The Chiang Mai Newsletter bar is now officially open to anyone who may be interested to pop in to meet us or other business people in Chiang Mai. We are open every Friday after work for a few hours and finish … Continued

Your Say

[right]Your say is an open forum for you the reader to express your opinions. Write to: editor@chiangmaicitylife.com, subject: Your say. Letters can be on any subject and priority will be given to letters under 200 words. Letters may be edited for clarity or conciseness. Name and contact details must be supplied.[/right] Citylife, I write in relation to an item in the Nov edition _ the interview w … Continued

This is Thailand

For those of you with any questions regarding Thailand, Thai culture, history, tourism, laws, rules, food, nightlife, sub-cultures, dating; generally anything as long as it is relevant, we have a panel of three experts who will respond to your enquiries. Email: james@chiangmaicitylife.com. 1. I don’t understand the law that restricts buying alcohol during the weirdest times. Can you explain why th … Continued

City Sport

[right][/right] In the Chiang Mai cricket league, the Chiang Mai Colts and U.N. Irish Pub played at the Gymkhana Club in early December. Thanathit Jiraphanthawong (Tong) opened the batting with Peeravat Duangthip (Gun) and they compiled a rapid 50 before Gun was dismissed for 17. Tong continued his merry way to a chanceless 70 before being caught at point, off the bowling of Nick Hanlon. Newcomer … Continued

Citylife In House

Editorial

I remember the exact moment when the 1997 Asian financial crash hit me. I was in Israel, still trying to get a job a year after graduation and still relying on the largess of my parents to survive. The cheque always arrived regularly in the mail and I wasn’t particularly desperate to earn a living, never having done so before. Then one day in early 1998 I received a phone call from my father to in … Continued

City Events

City Buzz

  This elegant modern coffee shop serves great baked goods during the day and morphs into a hip pub during the night. With comfy furniture and a relaxing atmosphere, this is a great place for time out. Their private garden and free WIFI make it the ideal place during the day to sit back with a book or a notebook. We love how the lights are dimmed at 7 p.m. and baguettes and coffee cups swiped … Continued

Niue . . . Unbelievable

January, 2009 This tropical island of Niue, a 3.5 hour flight northeast from Auckland, population of approximately 1,500, is the fourth smallest independent country in the world and sits in the centre of a triangle bounded by the Cook Islands, Tonga, and the Samoas, sitting smack in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean. There are no shopping malls, cinemas, karaoke bars, casinos, or mass tourism. … Continued

Where to go for Children’s Day

Children’s Day is on the 10th of January, and is taken very seriously by Thailand’s children who get to go to their favourite destinations, stuff their faces with ice creams and candies and generally rule the roost for one day of the year. So if you are scratching your head with indecision about where to take your children, here are some popular spots for Chiang Mai’s little ones. 01 Mae Sa Valley … Continued

Prisoner: Cell Block Latte

January, 2009 I wasn’t at all sure how well I would cope with my time in prison. Thai prisons have a dreadful reputation for not being very pleasant at all; and I found myself being sent to one on some trumped up charge of being able to write. I felt scared and alone. I had heard the stories of overcrowding -something like 250 people crammed into a six-foot by four-foot cell with no beds and just … Continued

New Year Resolutions 2009

January, 2009 Save money, lose weight, get fit, eat healthy, work harder, work fewer hours, be happier, love more, read more, travel lighter…whoever we are, we always seem to need to be better. For most of us much of these self imposed disciplines are gratuitously mumbled and soon forgotten. Perhaps once a year, traditionally, we make a list, fuel our determination, and spend a few days…weeks, or … Continued

Photo of the Year

  Citylife organised our first Photo of the Year competition in 2008. We received over 280 submissions from over 80photographers. Thank you for all of your interest, and support and a huge thanks to our sponsors for the great prizes. 2009’s competition will be open to submissions in February when we will announce the year’s theme. [right][/right] First prize: 10,000 baht cash Photographer: Ch … Continued

The Art of Being Alive

The Greeks had an idea that all people could be identified by one of four humours, or what we’d now define as temperaments. After imbibing the knowledge of his cerebral forefathers, Plato and Aristotle, a philosopher called Galen came up with this idea: we humans will always fall into one of these categories: Choleric; Melancholic; Sanguine; Phlegmatic. Don’t reach for your dictionary, here’s the … Continued

Slip of the Tongue

January, 2009 “The People Power Party was disillusioned (dissolution)!” I recently announced with glee to a group of friends who promptly burst into hysterics. It took a minute or two to realise that I had, once again, committed my most reticent (persistent) and embellishing (embarrassing) of linguistic sins – Malapropism. For those who have never encountered Mrs. Malaprop, she is the wonderful ch … Continued

Cultural Insight

Thai chronicles and history tell us little of Lanna in the years after the 1558 Burmese conquest. Richard Hakluyt, in his Voyages tells the story of Ralph Fitch, merchant of London, who, in 1586, travelled overland from Pegu in Burma to Chiang Mai, a journey of twenty-five days. ‘Jamahey,’ he wrote, ‘is a very faire and great town, with faire houses of stone, well peopled, the streets are very lar … Continued

Office Politics

In the beginning, when PAD stood for the termination of Thaksin’s government through peaceful means, I would have proudly worn a yellow shirt (had it not clashed with my skin tone). I admired their dogged digging of the government’s wrong doings and their startling exposés of the depths of depravity of the then administration. We were up against something so insidious and so far reaching that I fe … Continued

Ten Feet Under

January, 2009 The 600 million baht Chiang Mai Zoo Aquarium, conceived during the days of Thaksin Shinawatra, is a joint venture between the Thai government and the Australian firm MarineScape. Boasting all sorts of ‘…in the world’ claims including the longest fresh water tunnel in the world at 66.5 metres, the longest underwater tunnel in the world at 113 metres (though rather deceptive as it is a … Continued

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Culture Shock

What is culture? It’s certainly something not easily definable, it’s negotiable – when it suits us – and it’s unashamedly versatile. Nevertheless, we live within it, and occasionally die for it; we argue for its global ascendancy in the pub and cry for its plight when it moves on without us. Culture is a well worn word these days in Thailand as the government’s grip on the nation loses its strengt … Continued

School uniform shop reports 50% down in sales

Mon 9th May

https://youtu.be/vHxmJTa6xds One week until schools across Chiang Mai may open in full and many parents are struggling to afford to get their children ready for school. CityNews visited a school uniform shop whose owner said sales are down 50% in comparison to normal pre-school year sales. He said that he has heard similar numbers from other vendors and says many parents who used to purchase three … Continued

Boat Bakery & Restaurant เป็นมากกว่าร้านอาหาร หากยังเป็นสถานที่บันทึกความทรงจำครั้งวันวาน

เป็นร้านอาหารที่อยู่คู่บ้านคู่เมืองเชียงใหม่มากว่า 40 ปี นับจาก พ.ศ. 2524 จวบวันแรกจนถึงวันนี้ โบ๊ตเบเกอรี่ ยังคงไว้ซึ่งเอกลักษณ์บรรยากาศริมถนนห้วยแก้วที่เคยคุ้น พร้อมกับเมนูอันหลากหลาย

FREE rent for one year at One Nimman and four other spaces

Mon 9th May

Business tycoon Tan Passakornnatee, owner of One Nimman, Think Park and many other developments in Chiang Mai and across Thailand, has announced that he is renting space for FREE for one year for vendors needing help during the pandemic. There is a total area of 5,000 square meters available. Following the sudden closure of Promenada Mall last week, resulting a reported 200 vendors losing their sp … Continued

Meliá Chiang Mai โรงแรมสัญชาติสเปน เปิดบ้านใจกลางเมืองเชียงใหม่

มีเลีย แบรนด์โรงแรมระดับนานาชาติ ที่มีสาขากว่า 100 แห่ง กระจายทั่วยุโรป เอเชีย แอฟริกา และอเมริกา ล่าสุดกับสาขาเชียงใหม่ ที่มาเติมสีสันให้กับถนนเจริญประเทศ

Promenada closes, businesses given no notice

Fri 6th May

On the 5th May Promenada Mall announced its closure, citing hardship caused by Covid over the past three years. Businesses were not given any notice of closure.

ชมงานศิลป์ กิ๋นข้าวลำ ดื่มด่ำบรรยากาศสวนสวยกลางเวียง ที่คุ้มหอม คาเฟ่ “อร่อยทุกคำ ลำทุกมื้อ”

คุ้มหอมคาเฟ่ ตั้งอยู่ริมถนนศรีภูมิ เขตเมืองเก่า แวดล้อมด้วยพื้นที่สีเขียว ที่ถูกแต่งเติมชีวิตชีวาด้วยไอหมอก ดอกไม้ เสียงน้ำตก เพิ่มความสดชื่นให้กับการพักผ่อน

พร้อมเสิร์ฟความอร่อยครั้งใหม่ เอาใจสายหวาน กับชูครีมก้อนใหญ่ไส้ทะลัก ที่โรงแรม Centara Riverside Hotel Chiang Mai

พบกับความอร่อยครั้งใหม่ จากโรงแรม Centara Riverside Hotel Chiang Mai ที่จะเปลี่ยนช่วงเวลาธรรมดาให้เป็นโมเม้นอันแสนหวาน กับขนมชูครีมก้อนกลมใหญ่

Controversial judge mansions ordered razed

Thu 28th Apr

Photo Credit: https://www.facebook.com/DoiSuthepMountain   The Court of Appeal Region 5 officially handed over 85 of land back to the Chiang Mai Treasury Department yesterday. This piece of land sits at the foothills of Doi Suthep, and has stirred controversy and protests in 2018 when it was discovered that the land had been handed to the court of appeals, by the army, to be developed into 45 … Continued

Red and Yellow shirt groups protest 8.8 billion new US Consulate

Mon 25th Apr

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvc4SH4dZ30   The ‘Thai Citizens’ Group’, representing both the red shirts and yellow shirts political groups, handed a letter addressed to US President Joe Biden to the US Consulate here in Chiang Mai earlier today amidst concerns over the up and coming new US Consulate General. As Citylife published in our recent article, ‘Everything you need to know a … Continued

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