DAM-L LS: Rock blasting along Mekong to finish in next two months (fwd)

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Bangkok Post, April 21, 2002.

MEKONG RIVER
Rock blasting clears channel

The blasting of rocks in the Mekong river to clear water transport routes
between China, Burma, Laos and Thailand is expected to be completed in the
next two months.

PM's Office Minister Somsak Thepsuthin, in charge of tourism, said the job
would be speeded up to take advantage of lower current levels in the river.

Passage would be improved for some 2,000 ships and smaller craft travelling
from China to Thailand, Burma and Laos every month.

He would talk to Transport Minister Wan Muhamad Nor Matha about putting on
more one-hour flights between Chiang Mai and China's Jin Hong, to save time
for investors and tourists who spend more than 20 hours travelling by boat.

An opium museum in Chiang Saen district is expected to open in August. Pruet
Phutthanop, assistant director of the northern tourism district 2, said the
tourism authority was hoping to attract at least 1.2 million tourists to
Chiang Rai this year.

Chiang Saen district chief Wisit Sitthisombat said construction of a new
port worth more than 180 million baht along the Mekong river in Chiang Saen
would be finished early next year.

China had agreed to invest 500 million baht in a tax-free industrial estate
project in the district, he said.



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