{"id":646695,"date":"2026-10-31T07:59:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T07:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/646695\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T07:59:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T07:59:05","slug":"thailand-looks-west-after-30-years-of-struggles-over-dawei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/646695\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand looks west after 30 years of struggles over Dawei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/comment\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Comment<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Long-delayed Indian Ocean gateway project takes on urgency as growth slows<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"Dawei Top 2026-10\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Thailand,\u00a0which is still looking for a\u00a0gateway to the Indian Ocean, first considered developing\u00a0the Dawei area in southern Myanmar for this purpose in the 1990s. (Photo by Yuichi Nitta)<\/p>\n<p>TORU TAKAHASHI<\/p>\n<p>October 31, 2026 09:40 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; The International Monetary Fund and World Bank held meetings in Bangkok earlier this month that ended somewhat anticlimactically, with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent skipping a Group of 20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comment Long-delayed Indian Ocean gateway project takes on urgency as growth slows Thailand,\u00a0which is still looking for a\u00a0gateway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3589,138,316931,219,663,111,139,69,3258,4327,3807,1530],"class_list":["post-646695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-3589","tag-business","tag-dawei","tag-economy","tag-looks","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-struggles","tag-thailand","tag-west","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}