Mae Hong Son, Thailand News

Romance is in the air this Christmas with two days of pop and jazz concerts in the mountain town of Pai The charming town of Pai in Mae Hong Son Province with its bohemian atmosphere and mountain scenery is the place to get up close and cosy this Christmas as hip coffee shop Coffee in Love hosts the Chang in Love concerts.

Ethnic villagers and civilian groups yesterday rallied outside Government House to demand the government abandon a proposed mega-dam construction on the Salween river.

They suffer social discrimination and lack of self-esteem throughout their childhood, but that's not all.

The Pai Airport in Mae Hong Son is winning a Bt28 million budget under the Thai Khemkhaeng stimulus package, which is enough to extend the runway by 200 metres.

Small private airline SGA is planning to spread its wings into southern China next year, after first expanding its network domestically for the coming high season.

The Public Health Ministry yesterday sent medical supplies to aid flood victims in the northern and northeastern areas hit by tropical depression "Ketsana". Public Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai said 70,000 medical sets were dispatched to 15 flooded provinces for distribution to local mobile medical units giving preliminary help to flood ...

Late monsoon season every year devout Buddhists in Mae Hong Son province, a cosy town in north Thailand, mark the end of Buddhist Lent in very unique and colourful way _ via the Chongpara Festival.

Located at Tambon Huai Pha, 17 km away from Mae Hong Son city, on the way to the Pang Ma Pha district, is Tham Pla .

A British tourist died of unknown cause Wednesday morning while travelling in Chiang Mai with his Thai girlfriend, police said.

After a few months of working hard, neglecting sleep and stressing too much, it was time to get out of Chiang Mai for a few days - and naturally, cover myself in mud.

Okay, so it wasn't the bone-crunching rapids in Kaeng Hin Ploeng in Prachin Buri, but those 40 kilometres of the Pai River in north ern Mae Hong Son province - a seven-hour odyssey - still gave me one of the most thrilling experiences of my life.

While we city parents complain about rote-learning in the education system which kills our children's creativity, the ethnic Karen forest dwellers in the northernmost mountains of Mae Hong Son suffer a different disillusionment.

Let's go to the origin of our creek and see where our water and electricity come from,'' says Patuka Wuthi-upatham, an ethnic Karen villager, as he dexterously moves from one slippery rock to another along the creek as if he was flying towards the dense rainforest high up on the mountain.

Thai Airways International is urged to maintain the Chiang Mai-Mae Hong Son route, as the scrapping would severely damage the tourism and trade in Mae Hong Son province.

Siam General Aviation Co Ltd, the operator of SGA Airlines, sees continued travelling demand in the Northern routes despite the 20-25 per cent drop in overall passengers in the first five months of this year.

The IT industry is moving to help cut unemployment by boosting skills and opening job opportunities for software programmers, IT security professionals and network specialists.

The Mae Hong Son Disaster Prevention and Mitigation office will conduct drills next month to prepare for possible mudslides in the rainy season.

Tourism in Mae Hong Son's Pai District had generated Bt1.03 billion last year, said Wisut Buachum, director of Tourism Authority of Thailand office in Mae Hong Son said Tuesday.