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Interview with Dr. Deuntemduang Na-Chiangmai

Citylife last interviewed ex Lady Mayor Dr. Deuntemduang Na-Chiang Mai in August 2007 as she was poised to become the next Chiang Mai city mayor. After a tumultuous two years, we ask her what hurdles she faced and what her achievements were during her two year stint. Cityife: There was a DVD released recently of you and your partner in a compromising situation. Would you care to comment on it? Dr. … Continued

108 Great Places to Eat Map

108 Great Places to Eat Map To enlarge the map just click on the spot you want to enlarge.

Jin Design

Alright, alright . . . Listen up . . . We’ve got something to say . . . Firstly, who are we? Well, we specialise in residential and commercial architectural design. But let us get one thing straight, if you are thinking about 50 storey glass clad office buildings where people have to struggle to get in the lift, or duke it out in the car park to get a space . . . well, that is not us, Jin Design. … Continued

What’s Happening?

7th – 31st August BEAUTY OF LIFE @ Northern Village Floor 2nd, Central Plaza Chiang Mai Airport 053 999 199 ext 1020-1023 Central Plaza Chiang Mai Airport presents an art exhibition by Jakkapan Chaijit featuring his painting themed ‘Beauty of Life’. The exhibition will take place Monday – Fridays, 11 a.m. – 9 p.m. and 10 a.m. – 9 p.m. on weekends. 8th – 31st August SPIRITS IN NATURE @ 9 Art Galler … Continued

City Talk

City Buzz

At Le Petit Paris, a cool, French style bistro, Philip the congenial English owner has been both a chef and restaurateur for two decades in both England and France. He is now firmly planted in Chiang Mai with his wife where they cook up a storm of English and French dishes. Dishes are mostly staples, including English roast pork dinner, chicken Provencal, beef brown ale, goulash, pork fillet with … Continued

Your Say

As always Citylife is well received in the Bangkok Hilton. June’s edition being particularly so. An excellent editorial, which has always been the case and a very brave article on the state of the education system _ or rather, lack of it in the kingdom, by Associate Professor Prathoomporn Vajarasthira. I was more than pleasantly shocked when I read Assoc. Prof. Prathoomporn’s article to find that … Continued

Community Services

Informal Northern Thai Group The Informal Northern Thai Group has been hosting a series of monthly talks since 1984, usually about aspects of Thailand, SE Asia and Asia. They are held at the Alliance Francaise on Charoen Prathet Road starting at 7:30 p.m., usually on the second Tuesday of each month. Everyone is welcome! Tuesday 11th August at 7.30 p.m. Adam Oswell, Director of the Willife1 Founda … Continued

Ten Years ago

We reported on the grand opening of the new Provincial Hall and surrounding complex, slated to be called the Mae Rim Centre, originally set on 176 rai of land, but which later incorporated the adjoining land which had been under the care of the Department of Animal Husbandry, adding another 600 rai for future expansion. Governor Pravit Srisophon was the first governor to move in and was most proud … Continued

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It is not an incongruous sight to see ladies, hair sprayed and teased to double the size of their heads, Ferragamo shoes swinging, Hermes handbag as arm candy, and Chanel glossed lips slurping a steamy bowl of noodles while perched on a wobbly fold up chair, in a run down, neon-lit shop house. In Thailand, we all know that great food is best served cheap. Oddly enough, when some of these shabby ve … 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. What do they call Thailand: Developing World, Second World? And, if you don’t mind, what are the average w … Continued

City Sport

This is the Chiang Mai community sports page, please feel free to send your sports news, results and any announcements you wish to make to james@chiangmaicitylife.com. GOLF John Almquist won his second ‘Little Man’ for the year at Highlands by applying that old golf truism. Hit fairways and greens and the score will look after itself. Fourteen fairways hit and ten greens reached in regulation were … Continued

Surfin’ Lessons

Antisocial networking Forget the hi-so events pages of this magazine, being a network socialite is far more 21st century darling. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Hi-5, YouTube, MySpace, I’m all over them like a social networking butterfly. If there’s one phenomenon that’s taken the internet by storm Facebook is it, though I know a few out there resolutely refusing to sign up and, gasp, others who are … Continued

City Vibes

This album cover vomits on the pivotal human principles of logic and reason. It twists every recognisable thread of remaining sanity in my brain and rapes the notion of artist integrity with a blunted lance. So what’s the music like? If one had dried chilli sprinkled slowly on forced open eyes for a month, it could not compare to the pain one suffers when exposed to this egotistical detritus. It i … Continued

A Retiring Attitude: Let’s Do Lunch (a starter luncheon menu)

New expats to Thailand who know only survival Thai may only know how to order a few Thai dishes at a typical restaurant here. Since lunch is the meal that is most often eaten out we are offering, as a public service to the palates of all new expats, a starter luncheon menu of some favourites. These are standard dishes served at inexpensive roadside and shop house restaurants almost everywhere. Eac … Continued

CULTURAL INSIGHT Identity Crisis

When, in 1775, the Burmese were finally defeated and driven out of Chiang Mai and the north, the Chiang Mai Chronicle says: all were starving and emaciated and weak, [since Citylife has food as its theme this month the following remarks from the Chronicle are included _ The inhabitants were starving having eaten all their elephants, horses, buffalo, ducks, chicken, pigs, dogs, tubers and bananas…s … Continued

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108 Great Places to Eat

[right]Photographer by Alberto Cosi[/right] A list of 108 great places to eat. This list is to point you, foodies, to some of the more interesting and perhaps lesser known and advertised, eating venues in and around the city, beloved by locals. Some of these stalls and restaurants don’t even have names, but they are tasty and delicious. If there is no menu – and chances are there isn’t – just look … Continued

Dinner Parties for Dummies

If, like me, you love entertaining at home, but have been banned (for life) by your husband from cooking, I thought it would be a good idea to share some of my not-so-secrets with you. After a failed paella attempt, which turned out to resemble a mutated seafood porridge, and forced twelve dinner guests to send an emergency SOS to Pizza Company many years ago, I have humbly had to re-evaluate my c … Continued

AKACASA Luxury Private Villa & Spa

In the heart of bustling Chiang Mai, is a sanctuary of serenity that has set a new standard in private villa exclusivity – AKACASA Luxury Private Villa & Spa. Created by renowned architect and designer, Eakrit Pradistsuwana, AKA spa was, for many years, one of the city’s most exclusive spas. Set in a remodelled wooden and floor-to-ceiling glass house surrounded by giant rain trees and landsca … Continued

Fat to the Future

Fatso, porky, piggy . . . obese, corpulent, overweight . . . larger framed, robust, strong. Adjectively rotund, euphemistically well rounded, fatness has a language all of its own. Our weight is now a way of life, it’s a pastime, a recurring issue, especially in the weighty west where people often spend more time fixated on their weight than they do say, the reason why their 80 kilos of flesh even … Continued

Good Food without the Frilly Bits

As I sat in a bar contemplating a bowl of fermented fish puree and the sliver of strange green fruit I was supposed to dip into it, I was pleased to be diverted by a Thai friend. ‘You’re going to eat that?’ he asked, nodding at my dripping fishy fruit slice, ‘or you want to come get an orgasm in your mouth?’ The choice was surprisingly easy and a short bike ride later we arrived – not at an establ … Continued

A Rare Raw Treat

Since The Spa Resort Samui opened its doors in 1992 on a small stretch of lily white beach, it has become a destination _ a mini Mecca _ for thousands of health aficionados, or those seeking an alternative solution to their often unhealthy lives. Celebrities, overweight people, the sick, and more often than not, those whose careers pressure them into a frenetic lifestyle, come to The Spa Resort to … Continued

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Polytechnic Lanna College’s 4,400 faculty and students mourn the passing of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, the Queen Mother

Mon 27th Oct

Over 4,400 people—students and faculty—at Polytechnic Lanna College came together for 93 minutes, to mark the 93 years lived by the late Queen Sirikit earlier today. 

Governor presided over ceremony to honour the late HM Queen Sirikit

Mon 27th Oct

Yesterday, 26th October, at the International Convention Centre, an official ceremony was held at 3.30pm, presided over by the Governor of Chiang Mai, to honour the late Queen Mother. Over 500 citizens, along with dignitaries and government officials attended the event.    From now until further notice, the public can visit the Provincial Hall, as well as every District Office in all 25 Districts … Continued

FUNGI IN YOUR HEADLIGHTS (Singing of TaahMs)

Thu 23rd Oct

The Chiang Mai Art Conversation and Filament Works CIC is organising an exhibition, ‘Fungi in your Headlights’ between 27th September until 31st October between 11am and 7pm at Panic Room DC Collection. Emerging from a journey into the atmosphere of a cave and woven into the exhibition “FUNGI IN YOUR HEADLIGHTS,” the explorations by artist Anont Nongyao and NooN Collective opens up dialogue about … Continued

Mae Kha phase III to be complete in a few months

Thu 23rd Oct

Governor Thossaphon Phuean-Udom followed up on the Mae Kha Canal landscape improvement project, and told CityNews that it will be fully complete early next year as a New Year’s gift to Chiang Mai residents.  Governor Thossaphon explained that the project covers three phases, spanning about 4.5 kilometres from Rattanakosin Bridge to Mahidol Bridge. It includes scenic improvements along both banks a … Continued

Cameras capture healthy number of wild animals on Chiang Dao mountains

Wed 22nd Oct

Doi Luang Chiang Dao park authorities told CityNews that they are very happy at the overall health of Chiang Dao National Park’s ecosystem, saying that 11 types of wild animals have been caught on camera over the past eight months, a great sign, they say, of the overall health of the area. Motion triggering cameras have even captured a leopard wandering around at night recently. Through efforts by … Continued

Long queues seeking help to register on Half Half Plus application 

Wed 22nd Oct

As the government launches its populist Half Half Plus programme across the nation, millions are rushing to register themselves for this privilege. Registration dates are available between 20th-26th October between 6am and 10pm.  According to the government public relations department, “The half-half plus co-payment programme allows registered individuals who buy goods from local shops to pay only … Continued

Yi Peng alcohol regulations 

Wed 22nd Oct

Here are some things you need to know about the sales and consumption of alcohol this upcoming Yi Peng festival, should you be looking for a tipple: Apart from the usual laws regarding under age drinking (20 years old) and the ban of sales and consumption in temples, petrol stations and educational institutions, it is also illegal to sell alcohol to those already excessively impaired. There will b … Continued

Vegetarian festival flopped this year due to bad timing, says vendors

Tue 21st Oct

Vendors across the city have complained that this year’s Vegetarian Festival has performed badly when compared to previous years, blaming things on the slow economy, the fact that the festival was held after lent and before the implementation of the Half Half Plus populist programme.  Sales were slow, said numerous vendors of the annual festival as the festival’s date was post lent this year, trad … Continued

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เป็นประจำในทุกวันหยุดสุดสัปดาห์ ที่ร้านขนมปังโฮมเมด Nature Chiang Mai ได้คอยส่งมอบความสุขในรูปแบบขนมปังแสนอร่อยที่มาพร้อมกับกลิ่นกรุ่นชวนอบอุ่นหัวใจ ณ ตลาดนัดจริงใจ Farmers Market ตลอดระยะเวลา 10 ปี

Bierfest – International Culinary Journey at Shangri-La Chiang Mai

Sun 19th Oct

Shangri-La Chiang Mai invites you to experience the vibrant spirit of “Bierfest – International Culinary Journey”, where authentic Bavarian flavours meet international delights in a lively and welcoming atmosphere., the event takes place from 1 October to 29 November 2025 at Kad Kafé, Level 2. Inspired by Germany’s beloved Oktoberfest, this new dining experience brings the heartwarming ambience of … Continued

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