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Flash flooding inundated homes, major roads and farms in Chiang Rai on Sunday.

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

The 25-year-old owner of a roller skating and roller blading rink has traversed from Chiang Rai to Yala province on his Rollerblades, covering 2,051 kilometres in 55 days.

A motorcyclist was killed when a tree uprooted by a thunderstorm fell on him in Chiang Rai’s Muang district late Saturday night.

Highway police in Chiang Rai proved that traffic violators cannot get away easily when they showed up at the homes of two law-breaking motorists to serve them with arrest warrants.

Officials of Chiang Rai’s Pha Muang task force on Tuesday engaged in a gunfight with a group of drug smugglers while patrolling Thai-Myanmar border in Mae Fah Luang district in Chiang Rai province. After the shootout six of the gang members have been shot dead while nine backpacks containing over 1.8 million amphetamine tablets were found at the scene.

Chiang Rai province is getting ready to welcome double-jabbed tourists from December 1 under the “Blooming Chiang Rai” campaign, provincial governor Phassakorn Boonyaluck told the press on Monday.

Thailand’s secondary provinces are finding new ways to revive their economies now that the Covid-19 crisis is easing. Lopburi, for instance, is getting ready to host its annual Monkey Buffet Festival, while Trang and Rayong are preparing for island hoppers.

A narcotics suppression unit swooped down on two men in Chiang Rai’s Muang district on Thursday night with one million speed pills.

Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives is planning to connect the Northern railway with China’s Yuxi–Mohan railway to expand trade routes to China, Asia and Europe.

Thailand’s famous National Artist Chalermchai Kositpipat has announced that he will retire in three years when he turns 70.

Chiang Rai’s famous Tham Luang cave complex will finally be opened to visitors from Friday.