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Dems see Hat Yai as next Hong Kong

MFP ‘orange shirts’ seen as ‘misguided’

Suchatvee Suwansawat and Ms Watanya Bunnag, key members of the Democrat Party, are warmly received when they help campaign for party candidate Pipat Udom-aksorn in Hat Yai, Songkhla on April 16. (Photo: Assawin Pakkawan)

The Democrat Party wants to woo investors by dusting off its plan to transform the commercial district of Hat Yai in Songkhla into an economic powerhouse.

Its economic team had initiated a plan to seek the enactment of a special law to upgrade Hat Yai into an economic boom town that can rival Singapore and Hong Kong, according to Nipon Boonyamanee, the party’s deputy leader and election director.

The party has pledged to implement the plan if…

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