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• 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

City Sport

• FOOTBALL The Farangutans FC travelled to Lamphun in February to play an exhibition game with the Lamphun FC seniors before the big game that involved the new Lamphun FC team against CMFC. In a short game there was little action, though the large crowd did their fair share of laughing, booing and clapping. The result was 0-0. In the main game CMFC beat Lamphun 2-1. farangutans@yahoo.com • CHIANG … Continued

Community Service

• 01 Informal Northern Thai Group 8 March: Betty Nguyen on: A Sangha without a King: A Buddhist Millenarian Response to the Collapse of the Local Buddhist Kingdom. If you cannot attend and would like to write in a message for the tribute please send it by email to one of the organisers below and your message will be read during the programme on the evening of the tribute. For more information, ple … Continued

City Vibes

Artist: Iron and Wine Album: Kiss Each Other Clean Rating: Right, time to get serious OK? And I mean serious, because Iron and Wine have released another long player which means it’s actually time to shut up and listen for once. For those that recall the tempestuous triumph of 2007’s The Shepherd’s Dog you will already be salivating at the prospect of this release. For those that don’t, welcome to … Continued

Chiang Mai on the WWW

www.cmuexmba.com www.cmuexmba.com Ex MBA is a Chiang Mai University Education Centre that has been operating in Samut Sakorn province since 2001. The centre provides master degree education for business owners or students who are interested in business management. The centre’s emphasis is on developing executive officers to manage their knowledge in business and management fields. The centre ensur … Continued

This is Thailand

1. Please could you tell me where I can find the fixtures for the new season for Chiang Mai F.C.? Also which division will they be in? From what I have read nobody seems to know in advance where they will play each week. Sometimes it is the Municipal Stadium and sometimes the 700 Year Stadium. How can you find out in advance? James: The fixtures for 2011 season are not out yet. CMFC have now moved … Continued

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• Shakedown My friend’s business was shaken down recently by the authorities (I don’t want to get them into more trouble, so won’t say which authorities). Let’s just say that men in uniform came in and threatened and harassed them into a bribe even though all the business’s papers were legit. Why would they have paid you may ask? Well, they took the staff to jail _ again, legit staff _ and threate … Continued

Wine Culture

Only a few years ago getting your hands on a glass of wine outside of an expensive restaurant was no easy task. Wine was underground, limited to a few hotels, the odd pub menu, or hidden in the walls, covered in years of dust, in the backs of booze shops. Even then the selection was pretty poor, often the only wines available were those oversized bottles from California that only a builder’s wrist … Continued

The Best of Both Worlds

[i]Philip Wylie is the author of several books, including How To Establish A Successful Business In Thailand and How To Make A Living In Paradise; and he assists writers in their quest to get their books published.[/i] Hello, Chiang Mai! Thanks for being such a wonderful hostess, and for allowing us to experience the ‘best of both worlds:’ the comforts, zest and convenience of the West together wi … Continued

Out in Chiang Mai

Denny and I were sucking on fat cigars and sipping Scotch on his Floral Condo balcony with its panoramic views on another pleasantly cool Chiang Mai evening. This is a regular pleasure carried over from our days as legal eagles in Boston. “Ah!” he ejaculated with evident satisfaction, ice clinking in the crystal and a luxurious halo of expensive blue smoke about his noble head. “Ah, indeed,” I rep … Continued

Special Scoop: Flight of the Gibbon

Putting Down Roots: How the Tai Yai are making a home for themselves

s far back as history chronicles, the mountain ranges of northern Thailand and the surrounding region have been home to a complex and diverse mosaic of continually migrating cultures and nationalities, living off the hills, and avoiding the hundreds of lowland kingdoms that have grown and crashed around them. One of the most recent mass movements of these peoples’ away from war and oppressive stat … Continued

Special Scoop: Chiang Mai Ballet

A V8-HEMI KIND OF THING

When I learnt that the theme of this month’s magazine was Subculture, I got very excited. I have a friend back in the UK who spent several years in the Navy as a submariner. Not in the large nuclear powered ones but in the old, small diesel-electric kind that date back to the Second World War. At over two metres tall, I could never quite understand how he could fit, let alone live in one and there … Continued

City Women

I’m sure there’s a few who will agree with me when I say that being a woman here in Chiang Mai certainly comes with its share of ups and downs. On the one hand, we choose to live here because we love the city, the culture and the general way of life, but on the other hand we are constantly brought face to face with beautiful, slim, cellulite-free girls who, without meaning to, make us take a long … Continued

City Talk

A Connoisseur’s Resort: Four Seasons Samui

Resort connoisseurs will struggle to find fault with the uber luxe Four Seasons Samui. But I get ahead of myself. Needing a relaxing holiday, and wanting a night of fun in Bangkok, we decided to go Four Seasons all the way, and stopped off for two nights at the Four Seasons in Bangkok first. Living in Chiang Mai, surrounded by some of the greatest resorts in Asia, it is a struggle to be impressed … 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

The Boiler Room Boys

“They had a picture on the wall with three brains, a big one, a medium sized one and a small one. Above the small one it said ‘this is the one we are looking for’,” Lee, a Scottish national who’s spent much of his life working in South East Asia, explained of his experience in a boiler room. For those unfamiliar with Lee’s past line of work, who may have not seen the cult 2000 Hollywood film ‘Boil … 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

The Youth of Today

Many of us can identify with a particular youth subculture. My dad, proudly, was a beetle crushers wearing Teddy Boy, my brother (in his early teens) was a defiant Goth who got suspended from school countless times for dyeing his hair and defying an establishment who, in their time, had most likely rebelled themselves. Most of the people I knew in the early 90s were part of a ‘drug culture’ whose … Continued

Chiang Mai’s subcultures…

More From Citylife

All hands on deck to rebuild Ban Pang Ung village

Fri 5th Sep

The cleanup of residents’ homes and the entire waterway at Ban Pang Ung in Mae Chaem, after the recent flood and landslide, has made progress. Forty households in disaster-prone areas have requested relocation. The Forest Resource Management Office No. 1, Provincial Office of Natural Resources and Environment Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai Irrigation Office, Chiang Mai Department of Public Works and Town … Continued

Tourism declines in Chiang Mai, authorities prepare new campaign

Fri 5th Sep

The number of tourists in Chiang Mai has declined. From April to June 2025, the number of Chinese tourists dropped by over 30 percent, raising serious concerns within the local tourism sector. Phatthanong Na Chiang Mai, Deputy Governor for Asia and South Pacific Marketing at the Tourism Authority of Thailand, stated that approximately 6.7 million tourists visited Chiang Mai in the first six months … Continued

Artistry in bloom at Anantara Chiang Mai Resort

Fri 5th Sep

As one of the Lanna capital’s most beautiful hotels – with tranquil lawns that front the Mae Ping River, Zen courtyards, and a magnificent teak mansion that once served as the British consulate – Anantara Chiang Mai Resort is the perfect stage for artistry. On 6 and 13 September, music scholars and students from Prem International School will serenade guests at The Verandah at 1921 House. Highligh … Continued

Mandarin ducks, coy fish and Pygmy goats now added to the flock

Wed 3rd Sep

Following the success of the geese at the moat and the swans at PAO’s park, the PAO has now added ten pairs of mandarin ducks to the park. The ducks were donated by Pa Miang Sub-district in Doi Saket. Not only that the Zoo Aquarium has now donated 100 coy fish to the same lake as the mandarin ducks, in hopes of pleasing the public even further.  As to the Pygmy goats also added to the park by the … Continued

Pioneering soy bean research by Chiang Mai University picked up by anti-ageing industry  

Wed 3rd Sep

Regional Science Park North, Chiang Mai University held a press conference to announce the licensing of its soy extract tablet and skin cream to Winona International Co., Ltd. The university also signed an MOU with the company to enhance research and development of health innovations for practical use in industry and society. Assoc. Prof. Supanimit Teekachunhatean, M.D., Ph.D., Head of the Clinica … Continued

90% of 13,698 votes say yes to the geese staying in the moat 

Mon 1st Sep

After a poll which ran for 48 hours saw 13,698 people from all over Chiang Mai and beyond vote on whether or not to keep the ten geese on the moat, following a week long experiment to house the geese moatside while they spent their days eating the overgrown duckweed, 90% said yes. As the city waited for the results of the poll, the geese have been taken away for a health check, vaccination and mic … Continued

Rescue helicopters and personnel descend to help Ban Pang Ung flood victims 

Mon 1st Sep

A flash flood and landslide occurred in Ban Pang Ung in Mae Chaem District, resulting in the deaths is currently seven people. Rescue teams continue to search for two missing 5-year-old boys. The search for the remaining two missing used a backhoe from the Chiang Mai Provincial Administrative Organization to excavate the area where the bodies were previously found. The Department of Disaster Preve … Continued

Mother seeks justice after son dies in cow-related road accident

Mon 1st Sep

Kalong Sukjui, a 56-year-old woman, is calling for accountability after her 21-year-old son was killed in a car accident involving a cow. The incident occurred when a cow suddenly ran in front of his motorcycle, causing him to fall and be struck by another vehicle. The accident happened on the Chiang Mai – Hang Dong Outer Ring Road 3, opposite the PTT gas station, at around 7.20 pm on August 26, 2 … Continued

The largest international book fair in Northern Thailand runs from 29th August – 7th September 2025 at Chiang Mai Hall, Central Chiang Mai Airport

Sat 30th Aug

Plan for Kids Co., Ltd., a leading publisher and distributor of children’s books and learning resources for families, together with Big Bad Wolf Books, the renowned international book fair organiser with a track record of hosting events across 34 cities in 13 countries, and Central Chiang Mai Airport, proudly present the “International Book Sale Featuring Big Bad Wolf 2025.” Book lovers across Chi … Continued

Monks pulled across raging river to attend funeral of flood victims in Mae Chaem 

Sat 30th Aug

Residents of Pang Oong Village in Mae Chaem District, released images showing images of a recent landslide, carrying earth and uprooted trees, which surged down into the village without warning. It has now been three days since the devastating flash floods and resulting landslides struck the area, claiming six lives. As of today, rescue teams from multiple agencies, together with local villagers a … Continued

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