Pakakeryor villagers in the shadow of Thailand’s highest mountain began planting rice seedlings in their iconic stepped terraces on Tuesday. The Karen ethnic people of Doi Inthanon in Chiang Mai are looking forward to a bumper crop – of both rice and tourists.

A 70-year-old woman died of a broken neck when she fell from a ladder while she was picking bananas in her garden in Bangkok’s Klong Samwa district on Thursday.