Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

BIZARRE: 7 - What They Never Told You

Hazardous pollution levels in northern Thailand have left Chiang Mai choking under thick smog, with local residents worried about the impact on tourism — and their health.

Bangkok Post

‘This week, no one’: Tourists shun choking Chiang Mai

CHIANG MAI: Hazardous pollution levels in northern Thailand have left the historic city of Chiang Mai choking under thick smog, with local residents worried about the impact on tourism — and their health.

Bangkok Post

How Chiang Mai became the world’s most polluted city

Burning fields are blamed for hazardous levels of air pollution in northern Thailand but the government is doing little.

Al Jazeera

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Challenges in tackling PM2.5 crisis

Chiang Mai has repeatedly been named the world's most air-polluted city this year. Not exactly a title to be envious about.

Bangkok Post

AWC lays out expansion projects for Chiang Mai

SET-listed Asset World Corp (AWC) Plc, an integrated lifestyle real estate group in Thailand, is developing new projects in Chiang Mai similar to its flagship Asiatique open-air mall in Bangkok.

Bangkok Post

Chiang Mai people sue PM for failing to tackle smog

About 1,700 people in Chiang Mai on Monday brought a lawsuit in the Administrative Court against the prime minister and two state agencies for failing to tackle the annual dense smog over the region, which they say is shortening their lives by about five years.

Bangkok Post

Thick smog continues in upper North

Red-coded hazardous smog levels again recorded in 13 areas in the upper North, with the worst pollution in Pai district of Mae Hong Son, the Pollution Control Department reported on Monday.

Bangkok Post

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Thick smog chokes North, upper Northeast

Levels of particulate matter 2.5 micrometres or less in diameter (PM2.5) have reached the "unhealthy" red zone throughout the North and the upper Northeast, with the highest level exceeding the safe threshold of 50 microgrammes per cubic metre (µg/m³) by over eight times, as people in Chiang Mai have been…

Bangkok Post

Seriously hazardous smog again in North

The Pollution Control Department reported 12 spots in the upper North with red-coded, seriously hazardous levels of PM2.5 on Tuesday morning, and the worst air pollution in Chiang Mai province.

Bangkok Post

Chiang Mai park to be made 'disaster zone'

Authorities are preparing to declare Sri Lanna National Park in Chiang Mai province a disaster zone due to the ongoing wildfires in the area.

Bangkok Post

Chiang Mai hospitals overflow with pollution sufferers

Air pollution in Chiang Mai has reached hazardous levels, with people suffering from respiratory issues filling up local hospitals, the Chiang Mai University Faculty of Medicine reported.

Bangkok Post

Thick smog only in upper North

Hazardous levels of PM2.5 remained only in the upper North at noon on Sunday, with the worst air pollution in Chiang Dao district of Chiang Mai province.

Bangkok Post

Chiang Mai hospitals overflow with pollution sufferers

Air pollution in Chiang Mai has reached hazardous levels, with people suffering from respiratory issues filling up local hospitals, the Chiang Mai University Faculty of Medicine reports.

Bangkok Post

Remote working: how a surge in digital nomads is pricing out local communities around the world

For eight years I have studied digital nomadism, the millenial trend for working remotely from anywhere around the world. I am often asked if it is driving gentrification.

The Conversation

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Bangkok Post

Asean to tackle haze crisis

The secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) has pledged to support efforts to combat transboundary haze pollution in the region.

Bangkok Post

Chiang Mai air still the worst

Chiang Mai was again listed on Wednesday as the city with the worst air pollution in the world, according to pollution monitoring website IQAir.

Bangkok Post

Dance of the new North

Dancer and choreographer Ronnarong Khampha presents Neo Lanna Matinee, at Lanna Traditional House Museum, Center for the Promotion of Arts and Culture, Chiang Mai University, on Saturday and Sunday at 4.30pm.

The Guardian - UK

Air pollution chokes Thailand as campaigners call for stricter laws

Chiang Mai listed as worst in the world for air quality in survey of 100 cities as pollution worsens during cooler months

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Bangkok Post

Toxic dust blankets North

Northern provinces, especially Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, were blanketed by unsafe levels of the carcinogenic PM2.5 on Sunday, according to the Health Department.

Bangkok Post

Army reacts to influx of drugs across North border

CHIANG MAI: The army has tightened security along the northern border following reports of greater quantities and varieties of illegal drugs flowing into the country from Myanmar, which is also said to harbouring a rise in opium-growing facilities.

Bangkok Post

Toxic dust blankets North

Northern provinces, especially Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, were blanketed by unsafe levels of the carcinogenic PM2.5 on Sunday, according to the Health Department.

Bangkok Post

Hailstorms hammer Chiang Mai

Summer storms and hail damaged hundreds of properties in four districts of Chiang Mai on Saturday.

Bangkok Post

Beer-drinking tourist upsets netizens

Pictures of a man carrying and drinking beer at a Chiang Mai temple during a visit by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha have caused a stir online.

Bangkok Post

Call to list air pollution on national agenda

The Thai Chamber of Commerce has proposed PM2.5 ultra-fine dust pollution be elevated to an urgent national agenda item, noting it affects the health of residents and dents confidence in tourism, particularly among long-term visitors and groups visiting the country to mix work and leisure.

Bangkok Post

Coming up for air

Worries about Covid-19 may be gone, but PM2.5 is back, plunging Thailand into yet another crisis.

1 … 6 7 8 9

People

Prayut Chanocha

941 stories

Kriengkrai Thiennukul

123 stories

Sanan Angubolkul

86 stories

Marisa Sukosol Nunbhakdi

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

World Health Organization

915 stories

SET

450 stories

the Securities and Exchange Commission

132 stories

the Health Department

the Association of Southeast Asian Nations

30 stories

Dublin City University

20 stories

The Pollution Control Department

20 stories

Chiang Mai University

16 stories

the Administrative Court

11 stories

NEB

10 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.