Cashing In across the Golden Triangle: Thailand’s Northern Border Trade with China, Laos, and Myanmar Literature In recent years the river

In recent years the river and its surroundings have become a “development corridor” and a framework for thinking about trade

The earliest reference to Syam or Shan is found in a Pagan inscription from A

a young man who leaves China to make his fortune in Thailand at the close of World War II

To first imagine and then create a more just future

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Cashing In across the Golden Triangle: Thailand’s Northern Border Trade with China, Laos, and Myanmar Literature In recent years the riverThein Swe and Paul Chambers Historically, the Golden Triangle on the Mekong River has been a strategic yet largely impoverished crossroads between Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and southern China. In the latter half of the twentieth century, it was known as one of the worlds key opiumproducing regions. The new transnational economic corridors connecting northern Thailand and southwestern China via key border towns in Myanmar and Laos have greatly increased