The high cost of border jingoism

A party-list MP and leader of the Economic Party, Chris Potranandana, is attacking the budget allocation for infrastructure development in Cambodia through a cooperation agency under the Finance Ministry. He is extremely upset. The budget will cover the repair of NR 67, the road that connects Siem Reap and northern Cambodia to Si Sa Ket and northeast Thailand, as well as a road connecting sites in Sa Kaeo province to ease traffic in Poi Pet, a major tourism and trade channel. NR 67, which was inaugurated in July 2009, has been rehabilitated and rebuilt under concessional financing from Thailand since…