It's Hot In Thailand... And it looks like our service projects are going to heat up soon.

As one of our contributors writes this month, there does appear to be light at the end of the tunnel in Chiang Mai. Municipal education...

Welcome to Smoky Season! It's been late getting started this year, with pleasant temperatures and occasional rain showers lasting longer.

February opens with the Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year.

December was a busy month for the club, with procurement, packing and deliveries of winter clothing, teddy bears and food to the needy.

"Winter" such as it is in Thailand, has arrived in Chiang Mai. Most mornings there is frost atop Doi Inthanon, the highest peak in Thailand

Sadly, the optimism of last month's CMIRC Bulletin, published in late September when cases were under control, has been dashed.

The return to a "new normalcy" may be in sight. More and more vaccines are coming into Thailand.

Some light at the end of the tunnel. During August some of our CMIRC members returned from their overseas vaccination trips with more coming

As you'll see from the length of this month's bulletin, everything has pretty much been in suspension during the month of July.

So sorry to be a week late with the July bulletin for Chiang Mai International Rotary Club, but the last two weeks have been wild.

School reopening is delayed. Private schools are online. Chiangmai is in a type of lockdown. The effect on the local economy is devastating

The third Covid-19 wave hit Thailand and Chiang Mai province with a vengeance in early April.

We read media reports that quarantine requirements for those wishing to enter Thailand may be loosened for those who have been vaccinated...

Smokey Season is underway in Chiang Mai, just like normal, despite little else being "normal" in Thailand because of Covid-19.

It was a year ago that the first cases of Covid-19 outside of China were found in Thailand, initially with Chinese tourists...

December 2020 was quite the busy month for Chiang Mai International Rotary Club (CMIRC) as we completed our School Vision Screen Project...

We've just been treading water here, to use an analogy from our Children's Water Safety & Drowning Prevention Program.

This past weekend was both Halloween and Loy Krathong here in Thailand. 

October 1st was the end of what is called "Buddhist lent", which is the rainy season in Thailand when the monks must remain in their temples

And so it goes. Each day we look at the internet sites to see if there are any new locally-transmitted cases of Covid-19 in Thailand...

Welcome to the "New Normal".  It's been over ten weeks since Thailand has experienced its last local transmission of Covid-19...

Monday, 12 August, the birthday of Thailand's Queen Mother is Thailand's Mother's Day.

Rainy season has started, with brief, but heavy showers nearly every day and clear skies for weeks on end. 

May 2020 has been an "interesting" month in Chiang Mai. We've had just one new Covid-19 case in the province this month...

Blue skies and clear air have returned to Chiang Mai wit the summer rains, and the province has gone nearly a month without any new cases...

March 2020 will be remembered as the month where everything changed. Well, not quite everything.

It's Smoky Season in Chiang Mai, the time of year when farmers burn their fields to eliminate the waste from the previous season's crop.

Happy New Year! It's high season in Chiang Mai with the streets, malls and restaurants bustling with seasonal visitors.

It's the Holiday Season in Thailand. The Thai people love the secular aspects of Christmas and New Year's Eve is a big holiday.

November is the start of the cool season in Chiang Mai and our collection boxes for the Children's Winter Clothing Appeal are filling up.

Surprisingly, there are no holidays in Thailand during the month of September. Odd, for a people who love their celebrations.