Don’t let the rain keep you stuck at home when there is so much going on!

While most after-school extracurricular activities focus on sports, fine arts, or other academic related fields such as Model United Nations or Homework Club, Unity Concord International School (UCIS) is making a difference with a newly formed club called Interact Club.

We are seeking a Communications Officer (CO) to manage donor, sponsor and supporter communications on behalf of the organisation. This includes drafting sponsor proposals to fund community-run projects, writing project reports, overseeing social media and managing the communications strategy of PCF. The CO will work closely with the Project Coordinator and report to the Executive Director.

Jalae Jamuu, this video’s star-performer, resides in “Pumuen” village, a 58-household 300-person community of ethnic Black Lahu peoples. His quaint locale, comprised of bamboo constructed houses encompassed by villagers’ livelihood supporting cash crops (e.g., tea and fruit), was established in the 1970s. Around 1880 is when the earliest inhabitants of this highlands area immigrated from Myanmar to this location.

The international schools all over Thailand are home to a plethora of confused third culture kids, or TCKs. If you don’t already know, the term “third culture kid” refers to individuals raised in a culture other than their own native country for a significant part of their early development years.

So, if you have money – and I know many of you do! – I would like to ask you to please consider digging into your pockets and kindly supporting Warm Heart Foundation’s biochar project.

Inthakin Festival is an 8-day running festival which takes place according to the lunar calendar – usually between the months of May and June. This year, the festivities have started on Thursday, May 30th, and will end on the evening of June 6th.

Because of your support, BNSCLC and its students now have access to an activity stage to organise activities that contribute to the student’s education, development and social life. And of course, for community events such as graduation ceremonies, presentations given by the students and welcoming events for sponsors and partners.

Chiang Mai Foodies, add a notch to your belt, because you aren’t going to want to miss a bite of this feast.

As a journalist, you’re trained to observe as much as possible in life, and it certainly didn’t take this scribe very long to realise that Chiang Mai stands second to nowhere in the world as a city with a distinctively quirky side to it.

I recently visited Vietnam, the latter and a lot more all hit home. In early April, I found myself on a bus riding along a highway somewhere between Hanoi and Halong Bay. Suddenly the vehicle stopped and we were told we would be spending 45 minutes at what was described to us as the Hong Ngoc Humanity Centre.

Northern Thailand is home to a uniquely rich and diverse history, rooted in the lifestyles of various village communities. With Chiang Mai at the centre of this diversity comes the question of how to best preserve such cultural traditions.

If you were to mention to Martin Papworth that he is being considered as the focus of any sort of media attention the first thing he would say is I don’t deserve the attention. It’s a team effort.

It has taken many years, but finally, there is becoming widespread awareness of the great health hazards of Northern Thailand’s annual air pollution crisis. With thousands hospitalised for various pollution-caused and -related illnesses each year, we are slowly becoming aware, as a society, of the potential for long term damage to our health.

In celebration of 14th Aniversary, Le Crystal Restaurant will be serving a special set menu with champaign pairing for 2,500 baht per person. Limited seats available.

Upon arrival at the expansive grounds of Fah Lanna Spa, one immediately exhales. The ubiquitous spa aromas gently tickle the nose and lead you inwards, but there is something wonderful about having a large space where art, culture, crafts, design and nature intermix so seamlessly.

Thailand might seem to be a just a country where you can do cheap shopping sprees and enjoy cheap food. However, there is a lot more to do in the country! Here is your guide so you can stay away from the typical activities and look forward to a more engaging experience both in and out of the tourist-filled attractions of Thailand.

We headed to Chiang Dao to activists who are doing everything they can to relieve air pollution issue for their community

Knowing that this is a play by university students, I expected to see the same kind of thing I had before. But the first step into Lanyim Theatre soon proved time that I had underestimated this group.

Happy April Fools Day

Happy April Fools!

A 15 course set menu inspired by the sea features farm-raised sweet prawn from Surat Thani, served with a salty sea blite pesto made with chakra vegetables, Kaffir lime, and the aroma of bergamot skin and bergamot juice, and more.

It’s called the Chiang Mai International Cricket Sixes tournament, and this year’s 32nd edition unfolds March 31 to April 6 at the historic Gymkhana sports club.

A book lover’s haven, a quiet place for reflection – Payap University Library’s Archives are an unexpected delight

Whether it be football, cricket or Thai boxing, anyone in the know about sports in general will automatically tell you without hesitation that the future of any chosen sport lies with the children who participate.

Smiles, tears, and first steps towards novice monkhood during Poi Sang Long in Mae Hong Son.

With the passing of Major Roy Hudson on March 19, 2019, we have lost a founding father of our modern Chiang Mai community. For, after having settled here, Major Hudson brought together residents, researchers and academics to give talks about their work in Northern Thailand.

Shangri-La Chiang Mai’s Executive Chef, Paolo Pelosi, has drawn inspiration from the sights, sounds, scents and tastes of an Italian spring to bring us a superb culinary event.

Shangri-La Hotel Chiang Mai continues to take us on a culinary journey unlike any other we have experienced in the northern city.

Tucked away in one of the many pockets of Chiang Mai’s Chinatown, between a mystery concrete box and a store selling kids’ bikes and pork buns, is a nondescript, seemingly ordinary shop called Kasem Store.

What being Thai means exactly is perhaps forever evolving I came to believe, maybe not really existing. Failing to come up with anything, I will now stick to telling you my story. My truth.

When we first heard of a dramatic comedy theatre play on breast cancer, it was difficult to comprehend how will the three go together? Comedy, theatre and poignant theme of breast cancer! Glad we went for the preview show of this play because it did justice to comedy, theatre and breast cancer issue in a very compelling way.

Last week we wrote , with bated breath, about the imminent arrival of Chef Gaetano Trovato of Tuscany’s famed Arnolfo Restaurant, gushing over the fact that this would be the first time a two-stared Michelin chef comes to Chiang Mai. And, after last night’s sneak feast, we are feeling even more effusive.