Saturday, June 2, 2012

Remote China border town hopes for boom as Myanmar opens but faces backlash first


1-Jun-12
RUILI, China — This remote southwestern Chinese city of about 
140,000 nestled in a river valley on the Myanmar border amassed 
huge wealth over decades of trade and smuggling of drugs, 
timber and jade. Now, China's main trading gateway to its 
long-isolated neighbor is waiting for a new boom that 
may never come.

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