Searching for cheap energy, Thailand has clinched controversial hydropower deals with neighbouring Myanmar and thrown the impoverished military-ruled state an economic lifeline.
Myanmar, one of the world's poorest nations, is under a series of US and European economic sanctions imposed over the junta's human rights abuses and the house arrest of 61-year-old democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
But their effect has been weakened because neighbouring China, India and Thailand are spending billions of dollars for a share of Myanmar's vast energy resources to solve their fuel problems at home.
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