Thailand powers ahead with port plans – portstrategy.com, April 24, 2012
[Thanks to Tom for pointing this out.]
…One reason for the decision to push on with Pak Bara is the continuing uncertainty over the Dawei mega-port in Myanmar. The government believes if Dawei does go ahead, Pak Bara can supplement it and if doesn’t happen it will be a useful port in its own right even though Mr Sittipunt acknowledged “the hinterland is limited”…
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“The hinterland is limited”. The opportunity to plunder the exchequer is enormous. He would gladly evict people off what little land they have and then be happy for it to wind up a complete dud. For him and his twisted like, the profit is never in the final product, (which is usually a crock) but in the corruptible construction phase.