From Gateway to Getaway?

MARK INKEY/ THE IRRAWADDY| Friday, August 15, 2014 Nabule Beach is a vast and beautiful expanse several miles long, near Dawei. (Photo: JPaing / The Irrawaddy) DAWEI, Tanintharyi Region — For years, Dawei has been the promised land of Thai developers who have long dreamed of turning this southern...

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Local workers hit by Dawei project halt

THE NATION | August 14, 2014 1:00 am WORKERS and local people dependent on construction of the Dawei deep-sea port and Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Myanmar's Taninthayi region are facing livelihood problems, after suspension of the projects late last year. Italian-Thai Development (ITD) allowed Thai workers to return home and dismissed local workers after paying them compensation last November. Ei...

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၈ ေလးလုံး လူထုဒီမုိကေရစီအေရးေတာ္ပုံ (၂၆) ႏွစ္ေျမာက္

  လြန္ခဲ့ေသာ ၂၆ ႏွစ္က ၈ ေလးလုံး လူထုဒီမုိကေရစီအေရးေတာ္ပုံႀကီးတြင္ ပါဝင္လႈပ္ရွားခဲ့ၾကသူအေပါင္းႏွင့္ အသက္ေပးဆပ္ခဲ့ၾကရသည့္ ရဟန္းရွင္လူျပည္သူတုိ႔အား ဦးၫႊတ္အေလးျပဳပါသည္။ × × × ×...

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