In building a new ?Friendship Bridge,? Thailand and Burma hope to consign their troubles to the past and increase cross-border trade... "Burma?s Foreign Minister Nyan Win and his Thai counterpart, Kantathi Suphamongkhon, shook hands and smiled warmly. The January 22 opening of the second ?Friendship Bridge?—connecting the Thai town of Mae Sai and, across the river in Burma, Tachilek—would help promote cross-border contact and ?alleviate? the tense relationship between the two countries, they said. It should also provide a massive boost to trade relations between the traditionally wary neighbors..."