BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has poured cold water on a controversial, multi-billion-dollar plan to dig a shipping route across the country’s Kra Isthmus to connect the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman Sea, a news report said yesterday.
In a statement quoted by the Bangkok Post, Thaksin distanced himself from his Deputy Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, who awarded a contract to conduct a Kra canal feasibility study to a Hong Kong firm, Phuket Pass Project Ltd.
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