With this issue, Chiangmai's most popular monthly takes another step
forwards with extra colour pages - and new advertising clients which include
our first truly international name. This couldn't have been achieved without
the support of you, the reader, and the growing awareness within the marketing
world that we put YOU and your interests first. A big thank you, folks!
Back in April we began to feature art, paintings and sculptures produced
locally by both Thai and foreign artists. This was so well received that
we return to the subject this month to mark an important exhibition of
contemporary art at the huge - yet largely unknown - Art Museum at the
northern end of Nimmanhemin Road. "It's a fun place" said former
Governor Pravit Sihsobhon. He was right and there has never been a better
time to explore it. Read UK artist Michael
Croft's feature and "sort of" biography first - then
I promise you'll get even more out of your visit.
Talking of visiting, people and goods should be flowing freely to and
from Mae
Sai and Tachilek in Burma by the time you read this. The closest
border for tourist visa extensions (and re-entries on multiple visas) is
back in business then, but don't let this put you off the delights of Vientiane,
described colourfully by our new man in Nong Khai.
And keep those letters coming! What YOU think and write has become one
of our most popular pages, as well as a source of some real inspiration
within this office.
PAINS
It's a terrible truism that success seldom comes without pain - and
all these good things seem to be happening against a background of local
rumours that, yet again, we have gone out of business. These are the annual
local mutterings in an over-crowded market place which we take with a pinch
of salt. But this time some staff movements and consequent unanswered telephones
have probably contributed to the premature reports of our demise. Given
a choice of fully manning the office OR producing the July magazine, we
thought you'd prefer the latter. So here's the monthly miracle, regular
as clockwork - and with our apologies for maybe neglecting your calls for
a while!
Deputy
Editor
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