Thailand keen to do business in India's northeast

Guwahati: Thailand is making a serious bid to expand its trade and cultural ties with India by doing business in the northeast in areas such as handicrafts, tourism, and food processing, Thai officials said here.
A private Thai airline operator recently proposed converting the northeastern region as an Asian Safari circuit and evinced interest to set up an airport, build resorts, and other tourism infrastructure in Assam.
'Bangkok Airways is interested to build an airport near the Kaziranga National Park and other facilities to make Assam as an Asian Safari zone,' Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi had said recently.
Bangkok Airways president Prasert Prasarthong-Osoth urged the Assam government to grant them land to set up the airport and other infrastructure facilities to make the region one of Asia's tourism hotspots.
26/08/06 Syed Zarir Hussain/Indo-Asian News Service/DailyIndia.com, US

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