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A Chiang Mai food shop famous for its 3-baht noodle soup dishes promised to retain the low price despite a huge decline in profits due to the higher cost of raw materials.

Police swooped down upon a call-centre gang at a Chiang Mai resort and nabbed 24 suspects, the majority Chinese, for allegedly preying mostly on Japanese investors.

Chiang Mai is attempting to woo tourists from May 27 to 29 with an attractive lighting display at seven temples, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) said.

Police managed to hunt down and arrest a drug dealer after receiving a tip-off from DHL in Chiang Mai.

Heavy rains left many provinces in the South inundated on Saturday, with some 100 households affected. There were no reports of casualties.

A Chiang Mai court has ordered the Election Commission (EC) to pay 70 million baht in damages to an election candidate who was accused of vote-buying and disqualified after winning the 2019 general election.

Street dogs taken care of by a Buddhist temple in Chiang Mai’s Muang district prevented an immigrant from allegedly stealing donations to the temple on Tuesday morning.

The Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department on Monday warned residents of Chiang Mai and Lampang in the North to brace themselves for high PM2.5 pollution levels.

Northern Thailand’s largest elephant attraction splashed out on Thursday, opening for free so that visitors could enjoy Songkran’s Family Day with the friendly giants.

Five competitors were all fired up on Wednesday for a durian spicy salad eating contest at Taiton, a restaurant in Chiang Mai’s San Kamphaeng district, to mark Songkran.

Locals and tourists in several provinces have been celebrating Songkran Day, or traditional Thai New Year, under Covid-19 preventive measures.

Chiang Mai has saved about 1 million cubic metres of water per year since Songkran splashing bans were imposed in 2020, irrigation officials say.