A sleepy downtown scene in Mae Hong Son province, known for its stunning mountains and ethnic minorities. It was once touted as Thailand's "happiest" province. But recent police investigations reveal it hides a bustling child-sex trade, and that has turned the province into an unwitting icon of child sex tourism.ST PHOTO: TAN HUI YEE.
MAE HONG SON: Faint tunes drift out from an empty pub as darkness fills the misty valley of downtown Mae Hong Son.
A handful of local diners and the odd souvenir shop light up its main street, but this seems to be about as far as nightlife gets in this remote northern Thai province.
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