Binh Duong expands cooperation with Lao province

(KPL) The southern province of Vietnam’s Binh Duong wishes to expand its cooperation, especially in economy, with Champassak province of Laos, said Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Mai The Trung, according to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA).

At a recent working session with a Champassak delegation led by its Party Committee Secretary Soukanh Mahalat, Trung expressed his wish that Champassak leaders will continue creating favourable conditions for the Vietnam-Laos Dau Tieng Rubber Joint Stock Company to implement its rubber planting project in the southernmost province of Laos and for the Binh Duong Production and Import-Export Company to implement a project to build a complex of golf courses and hotels in Pakse and Phonthong districts in the province.

He also suggested the two provinces jointly survey locations and sources of materials to boost the implementation of ceramics, construction material and metal mineral projects in Champassak province.

For his part, Soukanh Mahalat expressed thanks for Binh Duong province’s support for his province to organise sports activities and upgrade rural traffic roads. He pledged to facilitate Binh Duong’s investment projects and wished the two provinces will continue their comprehensive development cooperation in various fields.

In late 2006, the Binh Duong and Champassak leaders signed an agreement on developing their friendship and cooperation. The Binh Duong-based Dau Tieng Rubber JSC’s project to plant 30,000 ha of industrial trees in Champassak province has so far planted 4,600 ha of rubber trees and an additional 2,000 ha is expected to be covered by the end of this year.

Binh Duong province provided 900,000 USD for the Lao province to build and upgrade a number of works serving the Laos National Sports Games 2008 and the 25th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 25).

It granted scholarships for 15 Champassak students while Champassak trained four Binh Duong officials in the Lao language.

Source: KPL Lao News Agency
March 19, 2010