Embarking on a journey to the charming city of Chiang Mai? Craving the comforts of modern luxury while immersing in Thailand's cultural and historic richness? Melia Chiang Mai, a newly-opened urban hotel, is your ideal destination. Located a mere six kilometres from the airport, it's a stone's throw away from top attractions such as River Ping, Tha Phae Gate, Night.
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Spanish hospitality brand Meliá has gone up North to open Meliá Chiang Mai, its third Thai property following Meliá Koh Samui and Meliá Phuket Mai Khao. If no one tells you that Meliá Chiang Mai stands where the Pornping Tower Hotel stood, I bet you would think that it has been built from the ground up. Look at the before and after photos, you may agree with me that the transformation is very extensive and impressive.
Montien Boonma, gone but never forgotten
Exhibition honouring late artist is part elegy, part celebration
published : 23 Dec 2020 at 04:00
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Montien Boonma s death in 2000, at the age of 47, was perhaps the saddest episode ever felt by the Thai contemporary art circle.
When cancer took his life, his friends mourned the departure of one of the country s most respected pioneers in conceptual art while his students lost their beloved master. Montien, whose work dealt with transitional disquiet, rapid industrialisation, and, late in his life, with the conundrum of Buddhist philosophy, was instrumental in ushering Thai art through the threshold of modernity in the late 1980s and the following decade.