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COPYRIGHT 2002 Asia Pulse Pty Ltd
KUNMING, June 28 Asia Pulse - After a five-year break because of the Asian financial crisis, China and its neighbors have restarted their multinational program in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS).
At the port of Guanlei in southwest China's Yunnan Province, bordering China, Myanmar and Thailand, a dozen Chinese workers are busy loading garlic on to ships anchored in the Lancang River. They will take it to Thailand, where garlic is uncommon.
China has declared at a recent ASEAN 10+1 meeting that it will invest US$5 million to dredge the upper Mekong River, once notorious for its scattered hidden reefs.
China will also build one third of a 1,855-km transnational road from Kunming to Bangkok and...
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