Thailand Seeks to Revive Its Peninsular White Elephant
The trillion-baht question returns
By: Ben Raiwin Kiatkwankul
Three feasibility studies, zero committed foreign capital, 349 years of revivals. Thailand’s Land Bridge is back on the cabinet agenda. Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul’s cabinet has directed a fresh 90-day review, to be concluded by August 10, of the Chumphon to Ranong corridor. Construction, at a cost predicted at Bt997 bil…
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