{"id":8492,"date":"2012-06-07T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2012\/06\/07\/dawei-reaches-crossroads\/"},"modified":"2012-06-07T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T19:12:00","slug":"dawei-reaches-crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/asia\/dawei-reaches-crossroads\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawei reaches crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf (project developers Italian-Thai) can do it they should. If they cannot, then we will have to review it,\u201d he said before hinting that the government was looking at other options.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDawei is an SEZ and the new area (Thilawa) would not in any way be a competitor, although the new zone will also have a deep sea port, but with more than 1,200 km of coastal shoreline, we can have many deep sea ports,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The news came as little surprise to sources in Bangkok where there has long been scepticism about Dawei\u2019s viability especially now that political reform in Myanmar is gathering pace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t think it was going to happen anyway,\u201d said one senior government official, pointing out the problems it was having getting investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar\u2019s Dawei is very much at the cross roads as Myanmar\u2019s Industry Minister, Soe Thane, recently acknowledged to the Bangkok Post newspaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8492"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=8492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}