Some residents are saying that there was nothing wrong with this footpath when city fathers decided to replace it.

The challenge of ending the HIV/AIDS pandemic remains huge, experts at the 16th International AIDS Conference agreed in Toronto, Canada last week. Since first emerging 25 years ago, the disease has become a global threat as serious as terrorism and global warming. An estimated 40 million people are currently living with HIV around the world and four million of them were newly infected in 2005. During the same year nearly three million people died from AIDS, which some experts say threatens to make women, who bear a disproportionate burden of the epidemic, “an endangered species.”

Thai-Vietnamese students artistic work exchange exhibition

The faculty of Fine Art, Chiang Mai University, held an art exhibition entitled “Hands”, displaying works by students of the Thai-Vietnamese exchange program. The exhibition ran from September 4 to 13 at the Exhibition Room, Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University.

The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), Chiang Mai, celebrated 36 years of work within the Chiang Mai community this week. Since its beginning in 1970 the organisation has established six centres in the northern region.