India to open super highway to Burma and Thailand

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The new "trilateral highway" is aimed at creating a new economic zone ranging from Calcutta on the Bay of Bengal to Ho Chi Minh City on the South China Sea.

The first phase of the project was agreed during Indian prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh's visit to Burma this week when he and President Thein Sein set a 2016 deadline to complete a super highway linking Guwahati in Assam to Burma's border with Thailand via Mandalay and the former capital Rangoon.

India to open super highway to Burma and Thailand - Telegraph

I recently returned from a trip to Burma, Thailand and China. My favorite was Thailand, I have never met a more hospitable and gracious people. Their infrastructure was also much more built up even in the far north then I expected. I hope the highway gets completed.