Japan Interest in Dawei Industrial Zone Seen as Unlikely Efforts by the Thai government to attract Japanese investment in a port-industrial complex at Dawei on Burma’s southeast coast are doomed, a prominent regional economist said. “I don’t think the Japanese are at all interested in Dawei. To the extent their name keeps cropping up, I expect it reflects the desire of the zone’s promoters, now essentially the Thai government, to have them involved,” Sean Turnell a professor in economics and co-editor of the Burma Economic Watch bulletin told The Irrawaddy this week. Turnell was commenting after a fresh round of promotional talks instigated by Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was held in Rangoon last week. Read more: myanmarbizlink/news/2013/10/03/japan-interest-dawei-industrial-zone-seen-unlikely
Posted on: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 06:14:42 +0000
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