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Laos to build railway to Vietnam

Published: 14 Nov 2012 at 19.19
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Construction work on a US$5 billion (195 billion baht) railway linking Laos to Vietnam is scheduled to begin in January, media reported on Wednesday.

Giant Consolidated Limited, the Malaysian investor in the project, expects to begin construction in January on the 220-kilometre-long track linking Savannakhet to Laobao on the Lao-Vietnamese border and complete it within four years, the Socio-Economic newspaper reported.

The contract to build and operate the railway was signed on Nov 5. Giant Consolidated Limited was granted a 50-year concession to operate the rail link, which will form part of the East-West Corridor linking Malaysia to Thailand, Laos and Vietnam by rail.

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buster
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Discussion 5 : 15 Nov 2012 at 03.365
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@Democrazy.

What has Thailand to do with this?
Laos is booming, if Thailand wants to 'truck'goods and commodities to the border thats their business.
Laos doesn't have the funds to 6 lane highways, they link by rapid train.
LAOS IS GREEN.
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Discussion 4 : 14 Nov 2012 at 23.494
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Well that's a whole lot better than talking about it. Will we see the high speed trains from Bangkok to the North East by 2015?
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Discussion 3 : 14 Nov 2012 at 20.463
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By using Malaysian investors they may not have had to give resettlement rights to Chinese railway laborers as part of the deal either. Good on them if that is the case - very impressive.

I wonder what their police force is like ?
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democrazy
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Discussion 2 : 14 Nov 2012 at 20.242
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But there is no railway in Mukdahan on the Thai side of the border to Savannakhet.
So what is the point ???
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Discussion 1 : 14 Nov 2012 at 19.581
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Amazing Laos. Just converted completely from 3G to 4G (100 times faster than anything Thailand has) and now will have its first section of railway that will be new and modern and not the 2G equivalent of the Thai accident prone SRT. Wake up Thailand, your being left behind.
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