{
  "id": 15996177,
  "title": "Chiang Mai ranked safest city in Southeast Asia for 2026 in public survey",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/chiang-mai-ranked-safest-city-in-southeast-asia-for-2026-in-public",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-22T03:20:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Thaiger",
    "slug": "the-thaiger",
    "url": "https://thethaiger.com/news/chiang-mai/chiang-mai-tops-southeast-asia-in-numbeos-2026-safety-index"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Chiang Mai has finished first in Southeast Asia in Numbeo’s 2026 safety ranking with a score of 77.9, placing 19th worldwide and edging Singapore, which scored 77.5, as the region’s highest-rated city. The table is published by Numbeo, a cost-of-living and quality-of-life database operated in Serbia and running since 2009. The ranking is built from … The story Chiang Mai ranked safest city in…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Nikkei Asia",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/palm-oil-prices-to-stay-high-next-year-on-southeast-asia-drought",
        "published": "2026-10-22T00:42:51.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "New Straits Times",
        "title": "New US-backed Southeast Asia data cable to pick NEC or Alcatel as supplier, developer says",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/new-us-backed-southeast-asia-data-cable-to-pick-nec-or-alcatel-as",
        "published": "2026-10-22T06:19:56.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}