Higher things: Officials pose for a photo on Doi Kloselo in Mae Hong Son’s Sop Moei district to promote the mountain as a tourist attraction.
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.
The Salween River, known as Thanlwin in Myanmar, is one of Asia’s last largely free-flowing rivers, running from China, through to Myanmar and Thailand.
It is also the site of a planned cascade of six massive dams, including the Mong Ton Dam in Shan State and Hat Gyi Dam in Karen State. Most of electricity will be sold to Thailand. But the plan has been opposed by locals in…
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