Straw hats, once seen as purely utilitarian, are now gaining a new life as fashionable and internationally sought-after products—thanks in part to a centuries-old craft from Shandong province.

Currently, the workshop produces thousands of hat styles, with an annual output of 3 million units and a production value of 30 million yuan ($4.1 million). Its products are exported to over 30 ...

BANGKOK: Chiang Mai’s tourism and hotel industry is struggling to weather a particularly severe low season in 2025, more challenging than usual in the post-Covid era, as major travel trends ...

Wanda Hotels & Resorts officially opened its latest overseas property, Wanda Vista Resort Khum Wang Nuea Chiang Mai in May ... integrating traditional Lanna aesthetics with natural landscaping.

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The owners of a Chiang Mai cafe housed in an old tobacco factory ... factory and the owner wanted to portray its story and the traditional ways of tobacco manufacturing, she wrote.

"Today on April 21, 2025 -- building collapse in Chiang Mai," reads the Thai-language text superimposed on a Facebook reel viewed more than 324,000 times. The video shows people on a crowded ...

CHIANG MAI: A fire broke out at the renowned Dhara Dhevi Hotel in Chiang Mai province in the early hours of Wednesday (April 23). Firefighters and rescue teams worked swiftly to contain the flames ...

CHIANG MAI - Police were hunting for a lone robber who made off with about 40,000 baht in cash from a Kasikorn Bank branch on Charoen Muang Road in Muang district on Monday. The man, wearing black ...

CHIANG MAI: The northern Thai province of Chiang Mai has made history by setting a new Guinness World Record for the largest traditional Thai dance, with 7,218 performers participating in a mass ...

Mrs Patsalin said Chiang Mai is scheduled to host the Thailand Travel Mart Plus, an annual business-to-business meeting event in June, promoting the province as a top traditional and cultural ...

But a video of a demonstration circulating online was in fact filmed in Thailand's northern Chiang Mai city at a land rights protest by indigenous groups. "Min Aung Hlaing, who was asked to leave ...