DPA
Bangkok - Laos, which will host the South-East Asia Games in November 2009, has received assurances that the Chinese-constructed National Stadium will be completed by March, a Lao foreign ministry spokesman said Tuesday.
'The Chinese contractors have assured us that the stadium will be completed by March,' said the ministry's spokesman Yong Chanthlangsy.
'This will give the Lao government enough time to rehearse all the things we need to do to prepare for the games,' said Yong in a telephone interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Land-locked Laos, one of South-east Asia's poorest countries with a population of less than 6 million, will host the SEA Games for the first time this year in mid-November.
To help Laos prepare for the games, China has provided government loans amounting to 80 million dollars to its communist neighbour to build a new National Stadium Complex in Vientiane, the capital.
The SEA Games' planned 390 events in 25 different sports will be held in Vientiane's two sports stadiums and several venues in the capital.
Lao Deputy Prime Minister Somsawat Lengsawat, who heads the National Preparatory committee for the SEA Games, was informed of the progress on the main stadium at a meeting in Vientiane on Monday, said Yong.
'The Chinese contractors have assured us that the stadium will be completed by March,' said the ministry's spokesman Yong Chanthlangsy.
'This will give the Lao government enough time to rehearse all the things we need to do to prepare for the games,' said Yong in a telephone interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Land-locked Laos, one of South-east Asia's poorest countries with a population of less than 6 million, will host the SEA Games for the first time this year in mid-November.
To help Laos prepare for the games, China has provided government loans amounting to 80 million dollars to its communist neighbour to build a new National Stadium Complex in Vientiane, the capital.
The SEA Games' planned 390 events in 25 different sports will be held in Vientiane's two sports stadiums and several venues in the capital.
Lao Deputy Prime Minister Somsawat Lengsawat, who heads the National Preparatory committee for the SEA Games, was informed of the progress on the main stadium at a meeting in Vientiane on Monday, said Yong.
9 comments:
Dear KI admin,
as i have observed here, mostly, i see ppl using bad words in the comments. KI admin should change the way of commenting. because those comment doesn't really benefit the readers and it is also wasting time for others to read as well. Disable or Allow only Registered user can post come is the only way that keep this blog healthy and clean.
Regards,
Ur reader,
I support your suggestion. There must be some kind of control. Free speech has been exploited. Register user is good way to start. Or they can filter certain words and deny the posting.
Censorship is not free speech. It may turn KI-Media to a graveyard!
AwK (អក)
The best solution is to shut down KI.
Get real! If you have to register to post comments here, include yourself and perhaps five or six other members to contribute the sterile and boring one-way-view comments.
In a free world, you have the option of picking up just what you want. Au contraire, in a controlled world (registration requirement), the option is dictated upon the participants. The best approach is to ignore what you don't need.
5:02 AM,
You lost me here. What are you trying to say? Thanks.
អក
7:17 AM,
I was trying to say KI is already vibrant and healthy. You don't need to shut it down or police what people say. If KI require users to register to post comments, it will lose many of the readers and comments contributors. Why do I somehow sense insincerity in your question?
No such thing on my part here 8:17 AM. I just want to make sure I understand correctly what you said. That's all. And that's my opinion exactly as mentioned @1:03 AM.
Thanks, for clarifying, 10:43 AM.
I agree that things could seem out-of-hand at times, but it is the good chaos that we should have if we truly uphold freedom of speech/expression.
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