The 221-room resort is to be fully financed by the Allure Group Co Ltd of Thailand. Under contract terms signed on Thursday, the Burmese government will become the owner after 30 years. It will be built in two stages over two years, Allure group president Upakit Pachariyangkun was quoted as saying. Hotels and Tourism Minister Maj-Gen Saw Lwin said the Allure resort would be the eighth hotel project by a Thai firm in Burma.
Few people can recall a Thailand without a drug problem.
Trafficking has corrupted some of our top officials. Drugs have threatened communities for decades. But nothing has prepared the country for the flood of amphetamines that threatens our heritage, and puts Thailand's future at risk. Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai and others have rightly identified the drug flood as Thailand's Number One national security threat. By the hundreds of unstoppable millions, the pills have caused murders youths, killed drivers, touched off hostage tragedies.