Maingy's proclamation, issued in the wake of the First Anglo-Burmese War, noting his orders to proceed from Penang to
Tavoy and Mergui and "to provide them with a civil and political administration, on the most liberal and equitable principles" (p.
Robert James Bennett, of Glasgow and
Tavoy Park, Ayr.
Tavoy Jervis (29), Perseverance Street, Huddersfield.
They include the Dawei or
Tavoy industrial zone, which, with an initial investment of 8ドル.6 billion, will include a deep-sea port, steel, fertilizer and petrochemical plants, and an oil refinery, with highways connected to Bangkok and to the new railway lines linking Yunnan, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia.
Maingy acted as commissioner of Mergui and
Tavoy provinces in the British-occupied far south of Burma from 1825 until his reassignment in 1826.
Ceded to Great Britain after the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-26), the Tenasserim Provinces--Maulmain,
Tavoy, and Mergui--started to register on some Western minds and balance sheets once British capital began to penetrate Lower Burma in the 1830s and 1840s.
Colleagues George and Sarah Boardman had moved farther south to
Tavoy by 1828, and there shared the gospel with the Karen, an ethnic minority within Burma.
In addition, New Delhi has begun to study the feasibility of building a deep-water seaport at Dawei (
Tavoy), on the Burmese coast, possibly allowing access from the Middle East, Europe, and Africa to East Asian markets without transiting the Malacca Straits.
It will snake 65 kilometers across southern Burma's Tenasserim Division, through mangrove swamps, then up the
Tavoy River valley and down the Zinba River valley before ascending the final 20 kilometers through densely forested mountains along the Thai-Burma border.