Hill Tribes

British expatriate murdered in his Chiang Mai home

By | January 27th, 2009 | Category: Chiang Mai, Crime, Hill Tribes, News Reports | No Comments »

News reached me over the weekend (24th/25th January) of a British expatriate found murdered in his home in a gated community (with 24 hour security) late last week.

Unfortunately, the news arrived whilst we were in the midst of the heavy end of relocating the business and household and I’ve not been able to prepare a full story yet. I hope to do so during this week.




Voiceless in the Night

By | June 27th, 2002 | Category: Business, Feature Articles, Government, Hill Tribes, Tourism | 3 comments
Voiceless in the Night

Published in Chiangmai City Life Magazine – September 2002

Re-uniting Lan Na – Part 2
CHIANG MAI, Thailand – 27 June 2002

Decades ago, HM King Bhumipol realised that there were crops more profitable to the growers than opium. Beginning with, “Small peaches are expensive and bigger ones more expensive”, the Royal Projects encouraged the Hill Tribe peoples to change their agriculture from opium to other cash crops. To date, the success rate has been impressive, but now it may be under threat from current government policies in Thailand. Hill Tribe income growth, of the last twenty years, may be reversing through an over-reliance on the sustainability of tourism. For the Tai Hill Tribe peoples there is uncertainty coming from ongoing tourism successes…