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"Soldiers in the northern border province of Chiang Rai have seized 500,000 methamphetamine pills and two kilogrammes of crystal meth, also known as "ice"." The street value was estimated at 150 million baht - that's about $5... sorry, $5 million.  Read more »

http://thailand-village.blogspot.com/2009/10/big-dru... 

The golden Clocktower in Chiang Rai is the work of the Thai artist Chalermchai Kositpipap. The Chiang Rai Clocktower echos
Chalermchai’s revolutionary design of the White Temple, Wat Rong Khun

http://www.thaichimes.com/clocktower-chiang-rai-chal... 

In the 13th Century, when Kublai Khan, the grandson of the infamous Genghis Khan, was sweeping all before him and in the process of annexing the Yunnan area, there lived a man, Mengrai, King of Chiang Saen in the north of what is now known as Thailand.

http://www.thaichimes.com/mengrai-lanna-thai-history...