Bangkok -- European business leaders in Thailand have joined Chinese government advisers and influential Thais in urging the country's military junta to construct a $28 billion ship canal through the narrow Isthmus of Kra to link the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
"We believe the project should have a very high priority for the government," Rolf-Dieter Daniel, president of the European Association for Business and Commerce, the umbrella group of European chambers of commerce in Thailand, told an international conference in Bangkok on Monday.
