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 ...

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.

To support the preservation and modernization of this heritage, Tancheng Gaoda Hats Industry Factory established ... helping to pass on this traditional skill to the next generation and contribute ...

The sales manager Yang Qian presents a high-end straw hat made from toquilla straw (Panama grass). [Photo by Bi Nan/chinadaily.com.cn] The craft has deep roots in the local community. Known for ...

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 ...