Editing Economy of Myanmar (section)

===Asian investment===
''[[The Economist]]''{{'}}s special report on Burma points to increased economic activity resulting from Burma's political transformation and influx of foreign direct investment from Asian neighbours.<ref name="Economist Rite">{{Cite news |date=25 May 2013 |title=Geopolitical consequences: Rite of passage |newspaper=The Economist |url=https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21578174-opening-up-myanmar-could-transform-rest-asia-rite-passage |access-date=31 May 2013 |archive-date=31 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531041427/http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21578174-opening-up-myanmar-could-transform-rest-asia-rite-passage |url-status=live }}</ref> Near the [[Mingaladon Township|Mingaladon]] Industrial Park, for example, Japanese-owned factories have risen from the "debris" caused by "decades of sanctions and economic mismanagement."<ref name="Economist Rite" /> Japanese Prime Minister [[Shinzō Abe]] has identified Burma as an economically attractive market that will help stimulate the Japanese economy.<ref name="Economist Rite" /> Among its various enterprises, Japan is helping build the [[Thilawa Port]], which is part of the [[Thilawa Special Economic Zone]], and helping fix the electricity supply in [[Yangon]].<ref name="Economist Rite" />

Japan is not the largest investor in Myanmar. "Thailand, for instance, the second biggest investor in Myanmar after China, is forging ahead with a bigger version of Thilawa at [[Dawei]], on Myanmar's [[Tenasserim Division|Tenasserim Coast]]&nbsp;... Thai rulers have for centuries been toying with the idea of building a canal across the [[Kra Isthmus]], linking the [[Gulf of Thailand]] directly to the [[Andaman Sea]] and the [[Indian Ocean]] to avoid the journey round peninsular Malaysia through the [[Strait of Malacca]]." Dawei would give Thailand that connection. <ref name="Economist Rite" />