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Construction of fourth Lao-Thai bridge to start in March

Jan 13, 2010, 4:06 GMT

Vientiane - Construction of the fourth bridge linking Laos and Thailand across the Mekong River was scheduled to start in early March, state media reports said Wednesday. The 480-metre-long bridge is to link the Huayxai district in Laos' Bokeo province to Chinag Khong in northern Thailand's Chiang Rai province. 'Now we are clearing land and compensating people who will lose their land, houses and farms,' Thavone Vorlaboud, deputy head of the bridge construction project, told the Vientiane Times. 'It is expected the bridge will be finished within 30 months after building starts,' he said. The Lao and Thai governments are each due to contribute 50 per cent of the cost of the bridge's construction. Laos received a grant of 20 million dollars from the Chinese government in 2008 to finance its half of the project. The bridge is part of the Greater Mekong subregion north-south economic corridor project, linking Chiang Rai province to Kunming, capital of south-west China's Yunnan province via Highway Number 3 in Laos.

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