Chinese, Thai companies join to develop tourist boat service

BANGKOK - Chinese and Thai companies have agreed to work together and develop a boat trip service along the Lancang-Mekong River.

China's Yunnan Provincial Tourism Investment Co Ltd and Thailand's New Chiang Saen Group Co Ltd were the main signers on the three cooperative documents, at a meeting in northern Thailand's Chiang Saen Port this week.

The firms agreed to launch a boat service from Chiang Saen Port in northern Thailand to Jinghong in China's Yunnan province and also to Luang Prabang of Laos and Kengtung of Myanmar.