Eastern seaboard of Thailand

[3] The prime minister has invoked the special powers of Section 44 of the interim charter three times already to remove obstacles to EEC development.

[4] Planners see the region as strategically important as it borders the gulf as well as being close to Bangkok, and its major airport.

Two large infrastructure projects worth a total of 36 billion baht, both railways, were approved on 23 October 2007, to link Korat and Lat Krabang District in Bangkok with Laem Chabang port.

[citation needed] Thai logistics firm Best Group and the Shenzhen (China) property company Hydoo International have raised US$3 billion to construct a giant financial technology, trade, and logistics centre on a site near Suvarnabhumi Airport.

A lawsuit filed by local villagers in 2007 led to a cascade of decisions that in 2009 stopped work on many projects under construction for not being in compliance with environmental provisions in the country's new constitution.