New Thai-Burmese border road planned - The
Irrawaddy, July 17, 2006
... The 140-million baht (US $3.66 million) plan is to
be proposed to the Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation
Strategy, where the Burmese government will be asked to cooperate.
The planned road would start south of the border town of Mae
Sot, in Tak province, at Valley village in Pob Phra and then
travel 28 kilometres cutting through Karen State to Nong Loung
village in Umphang district, also in Tak. It would mean using
two fords across a loop in the narrow Moei River...
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