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Meliá Chiang Mai’s GM talks about how the hotel will transform hospitality landscape and give a morale boost to the local tourism industry

New five-star hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand, first since pandemic began, to be opened by Spanish chain Melia A room at the Melia Chiang Mai, which will open in the city centre of Chiang Mai, Thailand, in the fourth quarter of this year. Photo: Handout Like many cities in Southeast Asia that rely heavily on tourism, Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand, has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. With no international tourists having arrived for 18 months, most small tourism-related companies ha...

WATERTOWN — Victoria J. Recor is no stranger to the dark world of human trafficking, having watched her daughter Haley being kept up in it for the past six years. Now, she’s organizing an anti-trafficking event she believes is the first in Upstate New York in the hopes of raising both funds and awareness. The first “Bikers Against Human Trafficking” event will take place on July 31 with a poker run and feature live music and food at Spook Hill Bar & Grill in Adams Center. Particip...

Sherri Burr Sherri Burr is the recipient of New Mexico Press Women’s 2021 Communicator of Achievement Award. The award recognizes members who have distinguished themselves within and beyond their profession. Recipients are living members in good standing for at least two years in New Mexico Press Women and the National Federation of Press Women. Burr was elected president of NMPW in 2018. She has been a law professor for more than 30 years, worked as a columnist for The Albuquerque Tribune an...

July 20, 1941 – November 11, 2020 Kathie Gayle Merrick, 79, passed away on Nov. 11, 2020, at Modesto Memorial Center in Modesto, from severe head injuries she suffered as the result of a fall in her home on Wednesday morning, Nov. 4, 2020. Funeral services were held in the parking lot behind the Ward Meeting House of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at 221 Church Hill Street in San Andreas, CA 95249, at 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 5, 2020. Kathie Gayle Denton was born on July 20, 194...