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13 May 2013

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Bangkok Post

Starbucks plans to enter Myanmar [Thailand]

Starbucks CEO, said...that Myanmar was one of the targetted countries for the firm to expand its business...A portion of the revenues earned at the Starbucks store on Lang Suan Road [in Thailand] will be directed toward farming communities in northern Thailand that grow coffee for the...chain. The money will be directed to the Integrated Tribal Development Programme to support education, health and irrigation projects. "I must say that I'm very proud of what this community store concept means. It is exactly the shared values of what Starbucks has done around the world," he said.