The Latest Breaking News from Mae Hong Son

Smog continues to cloak the upper northern region with PM2.5 dust at red-coded levels, and the worst pollution in Mae Hong Son province.

Red-coded hazardous smog levels again recorded in 13 areas in the upper North, with the worst pollution in Pai district of Mae Hong Son, the Pollution Control Department reported on Monday.

Pai district in Mae Hong Son province, one of the best known tourist destinations in the North, experienced the highest level of hazardous ultrafine dust in the country on Wednesday.

MAE HONG SONG: A group of indigenous villagers has spoken up against the government's plans to build big water projects in the Salween River Basin.

With foreign tourists flocking to Pai district in Mae Hong Son province in search of adventure activities, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has confirmed the safety of the inner tubes floating on the Pai River and their low impact on local communities and the environment.

Doi Kloselo in Mae Hong Son's Sop Moei district will be developed into a tourist attraction in what is seen as a move from locals to oppose the planned construction of a hydropower dam in the Salween River, locals say.

When teacher Chiratip Kaewphaisan heard about the imminent visit by a team collecting data in the northeastern province of Nakhon Phanom for a national survey on children and women, she had just one question: "Will [relevant government agencies] send an expert or a tutor to offer a special class for…

To step up the fight against Covid-19 in the most remote parts of Thailand such as Mae Hong Son requires precise co-ordination of healthcare workers and temperature-controlled storage and transport of life-saving vaccines.

The National Research Council of Thailand opened the Khun Yuam Living Museum Coordination Centre in Khun Yuam district, Mae Hong Son province, on March 7, 2022.

On a sandy beach by the Salween River on the Thai-Myanmar border in March 2006, boats carrying Karen villagers and other ethnic groups such as Karenni, Yintalai and Shan from various areas in the Salween Basin are arriving to join an important yet simple ceremony.