Burma's Dawei Project Jeopardized by Thai Rival

A new plan by Thailand to build a port on its own stretch of the Andaman coast may signal the end of the multi-billion dollar dream of creating a major industrial center at Dawei (Tavoy) on Burma’s southeast coast.

The ink is beginning to fade on the Dawei project, which was first agreed in a memorandum of understanding between the two countries’ governm…