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Monday, 03/31/2008 4:07:34 PM

Monday, March 31, 2008 4:07:34 PM

Major highway opening today: China to Bangkok

If you stare at the pictures long enough, you will see Good Life trucks.

“North-south economic corridor,” a 1,150-mile network of roads linking the southern Chinese city of Kunming to Bangkok.

Prime ministers of Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam are officially inaugurating the former opium smuggling route Monday.

Runs through the heart of the Golden Triangle, the region that once produced 70 percent of the world’s opium crop.

The new roads, as well as upgraded ports along the Mekong River, are changing the diets and spending habits of people on both sides of the border. China is selling fruit and green vegetables that favor temperate climates to its southern neighbors, and is buying tropical fruit, rubber, sugar cane, palm oil and seafood.

“You never used to see apples in the traditional markets,” said Ruth Banomyong, an expert in logistics who teaches at Thammasat University in Bangkok.