Luke Bartlett moved to Chiang Mai this year after visiting in 2024 and deciding to stay. The move came with the usual friction: neighbourhoods to evaluate, apartments to inspect, landlords to negotiate with. But one variable that proved genuinely difficult…
A business owner somewhere in Chiang Mai is telling anyone who will listen that they pulled their site off WordPress last month and rebuilt it using AI. The build took a weekend. The cost was minimal. The announcement lands with…
At the top of Nimmanhaemindha Soi 11, where foot traffic runs heavy from mid-morning through to the early hours, a black food truck with German tricolour livery has taken up a permanent position. It belongs to Berlin’s Doner Kebab, and…
In 1964, a Canadian professor of English literature published a book arguing that everyone was paying attention to the wrong thing. Marshall McLuhan said that when a new medium arrives, we fixate on what it carries and ignore what it…
Merchants at Sirivattana Market gathered on Sunday morning with smartphones already open, working through the registration flow for the government’s latest co-payment stimulus: Thai Chuay Thai Plus. The scene carried the easy familiarity of a process vendors have done before,…
Why does a second-tier Thai city outperform Singapore, Lisbon, and Bali for remote workers? The short answer is infrastructure density. Chiang Mai has, over roughly fifteen years of organic development, built a remote work ecosystem that major global nomad hubs…
Thailand officially launched ThaiLLM last month, a sovereign AI foundation model built from the ground up for the Thai language, trained on over 100 billion tokens of Thai-specific data, and made freely available to the public through a developer API…
Chiang Mai Wellness operators are now positioned inside a USD 22.8 billion sector that the Tourism Authority of Thailand has named a national priority. TAT Governor Thapanee Kiatphaibool recently confirmed the country’s push to become Asia’s wellness hub, and the…
Chiang Mai has been ranked the top destination in Asia for culinary activities, according to Agoda’s 2026 Travel Outlook Report, published April 16. The ranking is based on activity bookings made on the Agoda platform from January to March 2026.…
Songkran 2026 has just ended. The moat road is quieter, the water guns are packed away, and Chiang Mai is settling back into its regular rhythm. But as the city comes down from one of its biggest weeks of the…