Opinion

Like most Thais, I've had some of the best food I've ever eaten off the streets. Admittedly, while standards of hygiene have greatly improved in recent years, they

We take a look at the life of the pretty or coyote girls in Chiang Mai, hired by event organisers to use their sex appeal to help them promote and sell.

Last month Chiang Mai was engulfed — not with the smog that has again descended on the city despite all the usual promises — but by a biblical plague.

But as far as I can see, this morning ritual has gone blithely unnoticed by the men I target my heated gaze towards.

The anachronistic term arranged marriage conjures up all sorts of, generally negative, images — terrified child brides, life-long servitude, and misogyny.

We have 220 stalls booked, ranging from gifts, handicraft items, non-profit PR stands, second hand goods and a whole heap of food and drinks stalls…including five