PHNOM PENH (Xinhua) - The construction of Neak Loeung Bridge, a part of ASEAN's highway, will play a vital role in boosting the development of Cambodian and regional economy, said Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday during a ground breaking ceremony for the bridge construction.
The Neak Loeung Bridge across the Mekong River along the National Road No. 1 will link the western part of Kandal province and the eastern part of Prey Veng province to Vietnam.
The bridge will be the biggest and longest one in Cambodia. It will be 13.5 meters wide and 2,200 meters long, and as high as 37 meters from the water surface, according to the master-plan.
The Neak Loeung Bridge, being constructed by contractor Sumitomo Mitsu Construction of Japan, will be completed by 2015. The cost was estimated at $131 million under the grant aid from Japan.
"The bridge will be hugely contributed to the development of Cambodian and regional economies because it will link the ASEAN highway and Great Mekong Sub-region highway," the premier said.
The construction of the bridge will also respond timely to the implementation of the bilateral transport agreement between Cambodia and Vietnam, he added.
In a message from Japanese Prime Minister Kan Naoto to congratulate the ground breaking ceremony for the bridge, he said that the bridge construction demonstrated closer confidence and cooperation between Cambodia and Japan.
"I firmly hope that this bridge will contribute to the development and progress in Cambodia and Mekong region," Kan Naoto wrote in the message and was read at the ceremony by Yutaka Banno, state secretary Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
According to the figure from the Cambodian Ministry of Economy and Finance, Japanese grant to Cambodia is about $130 million a year for rehabilitating and developing physical infrastructures such as roads and bridges, and human resources.
Since 1994 to the end of 2010, Japanese's grants to Cambodia mounted to $1.9 billion.
The ASEAN countries consist of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
6 comments:
to be modernized as a country, bridges are necessary to make traveling easier and to help in the development of cambodia as a whole. it is about time they build the neak leung bridge as the country and people in this area of cambodia have used ferry too long already! have many more modern infrastructure is a good sign that cambodia is beginning to modernized our country by having good infracture connected to all of our provinces, etc. thank you japan for assistance and god bless cambodia.
Cheyo and Pdachgnha danheytarm samdach Hun Sen and machass ksart trey Bun Rany.
SEE..I'CPP'TELL YOU,WE ARE BETTER THAN KHMER ROUGE....IF YOU WNT TO BE A PART OF 'CPP'YOU GET TO HAVE A KILLING 'PHD'LIKE SAMDACH AH CHAU.
THANK U
god bless cambodia.
God is dead! We don't need god to help Cambodia.
Cambodians can work hard together to help themselves and their country.
Where was god when the Khmer Rouge soldiers were killing many millions Cambodians and destroying the country? He was nowhere to be found!
Help yourself and you won't need god at all!
A man who believes in himself and challenges god every moment of his life!
No 6;10am we believed in the wrong God. Look at Aust, it is only two hundred years old and it is much more modern than the South East Asia made up of thousand years old and getting no where, why? only the true god can help all of us.So, khmer people should be smarter by now by moving into the right direction that knowing to call upon which is the true God whom is not made by wooden God. E.g there are two fathers, father number 1 cares about us alot and father number 2 is a sleeping father who doesn't give a damn about you, now when you call out to father number 2 instead of number 1, well you will get nothing in return but if you call out to father number 1 off course he cares, he would run for your help because he cares...Now another example if you ring a wrong number don't expect to get an answer that you are trying to look for, simple as that! So, in Aust we have what we called the "Bible", before we start we would make a pray using the bible as our guidain, because it contain biblical story of the real God that he died for us for our sins and he is God's only son to born among us with flesh and blood and his holy spirit... which also mentioning in the bible about the key to eternal life, that is 'love one another as I have loved you or treat others like you want to be treated' plus other laws to pretect everyone equally doesn't matter who they are or where they come from...So, please we must move toward God's way of life so that the world may come to an end and so that we all be part of God's kingdom where we can live forever and ever..Amen ! Aust
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