Sunday, February 13, 2011

Work starts on new Cambodia bridge

Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011

PHNOM PENH (Kyodo) Construction on a third bridge in Cambodia to be built with official development assistance began Saturday on a route crossing the Mekong River to Vietnam.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony, said the planned 2,240-meter bridge will be the longest and "most beautiful" in the country.

The structure, 37.5 meters above the river at its highest point, will provide a direct transportation link to Vietnam.

The new bridge is at the Neak Loeung River Crossing, 56 km southeast of Phnom Penh. Construction is expected to end in February 2015.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

To reach the heaven,or down to hell,build tall high scrapers or long bridges to compete some richest states are not for country like Cambodia.
Amongst 14,000,000
Khmer people in the country,13,000,000 are very poor people
,lacked of jobs,poor health,lacked of skills,lacked of schools etc...
The Egypt has the same problems as Cambodia so the
YOUNG GENERATION ME
(20 to 50 yrs)rise up against Mubarak
dictator.
Hun Sen Khmer dictator will fall down from heaven and down to the hell as quick as possible.

Anonymous said...

i'm glad cambodia keeps building more and more infrastructure, skyscrapers, etc... of course, life must go on as there are more to cambodia than some cynical individuals, you know! god bless cambodia always.