Thai narcotics officials fear drug barons in Burma are using sugar mills to achieve self-sufficiency in ephedrine, the key ingredient in amphetamines flooding from Burma. It's not a complicated technique at all. Ethni Was already have the kind of industries in Burma. A village council seretary in Kawthaung Township has been forced to retired for reporting Burmese troops' involement in drug trafficking. In Rangoon, five-star hotels with entire wing charging as little as 55 dollars per night for a room.
Hoteliers thank largely to the burgeoning sex-industry.