Post by Laoupdate on May 5, 2005 11:34:28 GMT -5
Talat Sao to get new look in 2009
ຄວາມຫຍິ່ງໃຫຍ່ຂອງສູນການຄ້າຄົບວົງຈອນຕະຫຼາດເຊົ້າກໍາລັງກໍຕົວເປັນຮູບເປັນຮ່າງຂຶ້ນມາ ແລະຄາດວ່າ ຄົນລາວເຮົາຈະໄດ້ຊົມໃຊ້ສູນການ ຄ້າແຫ່ງ ນີ້ພາຍໃນ ປີ 2009. ຕໍ່ໄປນີ້ແມ່ນພາບບາງສ່ວນຂອງການກໍ່ສ້າງ ແລະທີມງານລາວອັບເດດທ໌ເຮົາຈະນໍາມາລາຍງານໃຫ້ຮູ້ເປັນໄລຍະໆ
IN five yearsf time, Vientianefs Talat Sao (or Morning Market) will be drastically different from what it is today. Talat Sao will be redeveloped into a modern shopping centre, housing more than 1,600 shops selling all kinds of merchandise. There will also be a 400-lot carpark in the shopping centre. On 2 December, Singapore fs Excalibur Group Pte Ltd, inked a US$27 million project to redevelop Talat Sao in three phases. In Phase I, temporary shop space would be set up in front of the Post Office while the construction of a three-storey building takes place. In Phase II, merchants would move their wares to the temporary three-storey building, while construction of another four-storey (including basement) building commences. In the final phase, the temporary block would be demolished and the new face of Talat Sao unveiled to the public. Excalibur expects the redevelopment project to be completed by 2009.
THE renovation of the Morning Market under the Morning Market Revamping Project (MMRP), which is an investment from the Singapore businessmen, will start on 6 February. In order to prepare for the renovation works, the Administrative Board of Morning Market held a meeting on 29 January to brief the merchants. Project-1 will start from the right wing of the main building that is opposite to the Post Office. Mr Bounphon Sisoulath, Head of Vientiane Capital Trade Division, who sits in the Task Force Committee, said that the objective for reconstructing the Morning Market is to expand and build a trade and tourist centre in Vientiane Capital. “This area will be a centre for trade exchange and relations between producers and consumers nationwide and foreign countries. We want it to be a modern shopping centre,Esaid Mr Bounphon. The project is valued at US$27 million. Under the first phase of the project, a Singapore construction company will build a four-storey car park. It will spend the next nine months to work on the west wing of the main building opposite the Post Office. The stone foundation laying ceremony will be held on 6 February.
Info: kplnet
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Way to go! Sounds great ! I hope more foreign investors keep pouring in to Laos. Remember we're way behind Hong Kong or Singapore, but we're getting there some day. But, at least this is a good start...I think Laos will get out of under-developing country status before 2020.