Burma connection threatens USAID funding
WASHINGTON, 10 August 2010 ― USAID funding for a project that gave ASEAN a tourism website and campaign “Southeast Asia: Feel the Warmth” is under review following criticism that it may have a commercial value for Myanmar and break strict US sanctions.
A source in the US capital confirmed that “a review of the funding is going on to determine whether the project violates Burma sanctions, but a conclusion hasn’t been reached yet.”
US project grabs Mekong website
March 17, 2010 by TTRweekly Staff
Filed under News
A new verison of the website www.exploremekong.org, the consumer site owned by Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office (MTCO), will be modelled almost a carbon copy of the website recently developed for ASEAN’s new tourism marketing brand Southeast Asia: Feel the Warmth.
It involves the same players behind the controversial SoutheastAsia.Org website with almost identical financial support from USAID until 2013. The project is supervised by the Asean Competitiveness Enhancement project through a contractor Nathan Associates Inc.
