A Krungthai Bank sale sign has stood outside Kad Suan Kaew on Huay Kaew Road since September 2024, and the number on it has just come down. The bank now asks 2.583 billion baht for the shuttered shopping centre, down…
Thailand ranks 44th among 139 economies in the Global Innovation Index 2026, published on 29 September by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). That is one place better than 2025 and three places short of 2024, when Thailand ranked 41st.…
A handful of people see a Facebook post from a Chiang Mai business, and a week later it has vanished from every feed. Organic reach keeps shrinking and the algorithm changes without warning, while the time spent feeding it comes…
At a Chiang Mai massage business with five branches, the next group of customers often arrives before the previous group has finished checking out. The founder introduced a point-of-sale system, the software that records each sale, and abandoned it. She…
On 25 September, the Real Estate Information Center presented a table of Chiang Mai’s foreign condominium buyers that contradicts this month’s national headlines. Foreign nationals took ownership of 379 units in the province between January and June 2026, up from…
On 1 September at Pantip Lifestyle Hub Chiang Mai, Deputy Governor Boonlue Thammatharanurak launched Cosmo Local CNX 2026 alongside Pisan Suwannathada of Pantip Lifestyle Hub, Arisa Nimmanhaemin of Anusarn Co., Ltd., and project lead John Ho, who spoke to CMBN this week.…
Revenue is rising across Thailand’s veterinary hospitals while profit falls. The constraint is not demand for pet healthcare. It is the number of hours a veterinarian can work, and where in the country those hours are spent. Thonglor Pet Hospital,…
On 31 August, five million Thai citizens get free access to the world’s best AI tools. Here is what that changes for your business in Chiang Mai. At half past one in the afternoon on Wednesday 19 August, 307,425 people…
What AI actually says about Chiang Mai businesses, why the schema fix does not work, and where local authority is really built Ask any assistant for the opening hours of a small business in Chiang Mai and the answer arrives…
Walk through the herb section of Warorot Market on any weekday morning and something has changed. On several of the older stalls, tucked between the dried galangal, the bundles of lemongrass, and the jars of tamarind paste, there are small…