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 Myanmar port city into a gateway to the Andaman Sea.

Located just 230 miles (370 km) west of Bangkok, it is ideally situated to become a new hub for Thailand’s industrial heartland. Ambitious plans to build a special economic zone in the area have faltered, however, as rival projects at Thilawa, near Yangon, and Kyaukphyu, in Rakhine State, have generated more interest among deep-pocketed Japanese and Chinese investors.

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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 Khaing, from Pu Gaw Zon village, who opened a restaurant at a market built by ITD in the project compound, said: "At the time the projects were suspended, business was very weak because f workers going home. "In April last year, there were more than 30 shops. But since the projects have been suspended, some have closed because business is bad. Now, only about 10 shops remain.

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၈ ေလးလုံး လူထုဒီမုိကေရစီအေရးေတာ္ပုံ (၂၆) ႏွစ္ေျမာက္

 

လြန္ခဲ့ေသာ ၂၆ ႏွစ္က ၈ ေလးလုံး လူထုဒီမုိကေရစီအေရးေတာ္ပုံႀကီးတြင္ ပါဝင္လႈပ္ရွားခဲ့ၾကသူအေပါင္းႏွင့္ အသက္ေပးဆပ္ခဲ့ၾကရသည့္ ရဟန္းရွင္လူျပည္သူတုိ႔အား ဦးၫႊတ္အေလးျပဳပါသည္။

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