tall building is a view pollution, especially when it is closed to the temple.
Laos should avoid buiding tall building hear temples

Khobchai

tall building is a view pollution, especially when it is closed to the temple. Laos should avoid buiding tall building hear temples Khobchai

Good point, you are a very clever student. Can you count how many tall builing in Japan, U.S, Thailand and Malaysia? countless right? why? it is a sign of development. So let try to count tall building in Africa country like Somalia, Sudan, Rawanda or Guinea, none right? why?

Khobchai der

what's the purpose of that new building?

I am so sorry to see the high building in Cambodia,

Bruce Vientiane wrote:

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U must be out of your mind bro. Re-educate to to think in a goodway, m sorry to say this.

RE: rapid growing cambodia

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I am so sorry to see the high building in Cambodia,

 

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I personally don't like the hight building, so what;s wrong?

Not only in Cambodia, but also the high building in around the world,  a person who need to re-think is you, but me, 

 

KTK

 

 

I am living in Laos.man there are no any high building in my hometown, I don't support to build the high building in Laos .if you live in Vientiane, just enjoy the city with the growing of tall building ok!! good luck..

that's good news - as long as these developments will also benefit the locals.


http://eye-in-the-blue-sky.blogspot.com/2009/01/encounters-tall-tan-and-spaced-out-at.html

congratulate them and Bravo to their development...

       In real fact, We also need to tall development, because it is a sign of development....all we need to do now is to concentrate and do our work...

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hight or tall building is not a problem. Build hight buildings near or closer to temples is not a poblem. the problem is people in the country have food to eat, have good education, have schools to study, have water to drink and all basic needs of human being. 


By the way, I love vientiane without high buildings. If it can keep this condition forever Vientiene will be a unique capital without high buildings, in stead, if Vientiane was full of trees on the sides of the roads, that would make green vientiane without high buidlings. This is we should be proud.


But do not compare our country to others in offensive ways. Every country has its advantage to have a high building. If we think about the truth to have somehting we have to lose somthing. For example, Lao government is now promoting Laos to be Asian batter through allowing foreign investment to invest on construct Hyropower in Laos more than 30 projects. If we think about the losing it would more than the getting.


Please try to consider before saying.


Regards

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I agree with you,  I like vientiane to have a big road and nice road, Have a nice school for schildren and have everything as the developed countries, no need to have a tall building show that we are one of the developing country//

 

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Anonymous wrote:

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 For example, Lao government is now promoting Laos to be Asian batter through allowing foreign investment to invest on construct Hyropower in Laos more than 30 projects. If we think about the losing it would be more than the getting.

Regards

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I don't think our government would go ahead if we would lose more than gain. Please don't just rubbish talk, provide us the economic evidents.

 

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Laos will lose our natural resources and ecosystem...the dams will harm the environment in the long -term,,,, and Laos get $$$$, i think that is what her meaning,,??? $$$$$$$$$$ can't buy the forest,  Big tree is nearly 100-200 years to grow??

Cambodia: Capitalism Takes Root
By Yoolim Lee and Netty Ismail
Bloomberg Markets, December 2008


August 28 (Bloomberg) -- Kith Meng grew up in Australia as an orphan and a refugee from Cambodia's
genocide. He tells of washing dishes and mowing lawns to make ends meet while living in Canberra.
Being a poor outsider made him stronger, he says, and unusually driven.
Back in Cambodia since 1991, Kith Meng, 39, has built his Royal Group into an empire that owns
Cambodia's biggest mobile phone company and television network and is developing a $2 billion resort
and casino on a fishermen's island on Cambodia's coast. The country's most successful businessman, he
supports Prime Minister Hun Sen and benefits from his ties to the government, which granted the 99-year
lease on the island for his resort. Kith Meng is a Neak Oknha, an honor the royal family confers on a few
of the wealthiest members of society.
Black-and-white photographs of Kith Meng's parents adorn one wall of his office in the capital city of
Phnom Penh. They starved to death during Pol Pot's reign, when Cambodia's fertile countryside became
the killing fields -- two victims among the 1.7 million, or 20 percent of the population, who perished. Kith
Meng fled the terror, first to a refugee camp in Thailand and then, in 1981, to Australia. ``Suffering is my
mentor,'' he says.

Outdated Views
Still, the business council's Sciaroni, a former lawyer at the White House under President Ronald Reagan,
says perceptions of Cambodia have not caught up to the changes. In May, a U.S. State Department official
inquired on behalf of an executive if it would be safe to visit Siem Reap, home to Angkor Wat, the fivetowered
archaeological wonder. ``He wanted to know about bandits and land mines,'' he says. ``I said this
is ancient history.''
If Cambodia is about to take off on the same trajectory as Vietnam to its east or Thailand on its western
border, the time to get in is now, says Robert Ash, a former executive at the asset management arm of
insurer American International Group Inc. ``Where the perceived risks are greater than actual risks,
investment opportunities are the result,'' Ash says. ``Such is the case of Cambodia.''
Investors familiar with Thailand and Vietnam have been among the first to spot the changes taking place
in Cambodia. ``In the past, when you went to a dinner party here, everybody would be talking about
politics,'' says Leopard's Clayton, 47, who used to run the Thailand office of CLSA Securities, a Hong
Kong-based brokerage. ``Last year, when I came, nobody was talking about politics. Everyone was
talking about property, investments, deals, like everywhere else in the world.''
Frontier Market
Besides Leopard, at least two other private equity funds have been established to capitalize on Cambodia
as a frontier market. Cambodia is outpacing Asia's other frontier markets in Bangladesh, Laos, Mongolia
and Myanmar, says Clayton. Cambodia is represented by just one company in the S&P/IFCG Extended
Frontier 150 Index.
Marvin Yeo and Kim-Song Tan, co-founders of Phnom Penh-based Cambodia Investment &
Development Fund, say they noticed the buzz when they visited the capital city in May 2007 to deliver
speeches to senior government officials on how to develop capital markets.
Indeed, the streets of Phnom Penh are filled with traffic and roadside vendors who sell everything from
motorbikes and household goods to tropical fruits and local snacks. Multistory office buildings,
residential towers and bridges are under construction. From 2004 to '07, the number of cars in Cambodia
doubled to 200,000, according to figures from the Ministry of Public Works and Transport.
Rogers, Faber
Yeo and Tan are raising $250 million for their private equity fund. They brought in Ash, the former AIG
executive, as an adviser, along with Jim Rogers, a former hedge fund manager who predicted the start of
the commodities boom in 1999.
Rogers, who has circled the world by motorcycle in search of investment ideas and now mostly invests
his own money, says he was surprised by Cambodia's progress. ``It's got a lot of great things going for it,''
he says. Marc Faber, an investor who forecast a bust in Asia before the region's financial crisis in 1997, is
also an adviser.
``Cambodia is Vietnam 8 to 10 years ago and Thailand 20 years ago,'' says Yeo, a former financing
specialist at the Manila-based Asian Development Bank. He says the boom will move fast in Cambodia,
because it's a smaller country than Thailand or Vietnam and has more pro-business policies. ``You can
expect to see very time-compressed growth in Cambodia,'' he says.
Following Vietnam
Vietnam, with six times as many people as Cambodia, may be the model -- and the cautionary tale. The
benchmark index for Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange surged almost fivefold in two years to a
peak on March 12, 2007. By June of this year, it had lost more than two-thirds of its peak value.
Investors face many hurdles in Cambodia -- not just the risk of getting in late. In a report this year, the
World Bank and International Finance Corp. ranked Cambodia 145th out of 178 countries as a place to do
business. The assessment weighed criteria such as how difficult it is to register property, secure credit or
move goods across borders.
In Transparency International's 2007 survey of perceptions about corruption, the Berlin-based watchdog
group put Cambodia among the world's worst, ranking it 162nd among 180 countries.
``The rule of law needs to be more central to Cambodian society and business,'' Ambassador Mussomeli
said in a speech to mark the opening of an aluminum can factory in Phnom Penh in December by an
affiliate of Crown Holdings Inc., the U.S.-based packaging manufacturer. ``Cambodia will lose a great
many of its potential investors if it does not fiercely combat corruption,'' said Mussomeli, who is
scheduled to leave his post at the end of August.
`Shortcuts'
As much as $500 million a year is diverted from government coffers, the U.S. Agency for International
Development estimated in 2004 in its most recent report on the issue.
John Brinsden, vice chairman of Acleda Bank, Cambodia's biggest bank, says the country's attitude
Marvin Yeo, left, and
Kimsong Tan brought
in Jim Rogers, right,
as an adviser.
toward business is laissez-faire. ``You are apt to get a few people who're going to take shortcuts all over
the place,'' he says.
Kith Meng, the country's most prominent business leader, has a gap in his resume. A chamber of
commerce biography says he earned his ``B.S. Economics & Political Science at the Australian National
University'' in Canberra. He repeated this piece of his biography in an interview.

Island Resort
In his office overlooking the Royal Palace in one direction and Cambodia's first shopping mall in another,
he flips through a 20-page document that outlines his island resort-casino plan, which will take more than
a decade to complete. He declines to say how much Royal Group is paying the government for the island
lease. He says Cambodia is still hungry for investment and expansion. ``Every sector of the economy will
drive growth,'' he says.
Public Works and Transport Minister Chanthol Sun, 52, is another former refugee lured back by the
chance to play a role in transforming his country. He lost his mother and a brother when the Khmer Rouge
drove the population out of the cities. The rest of the family managed to escape to a refugee camp in
Thailand. He had been sent to the U.S. in 1973, escaping the violence with a one-way airplane ticket and
$50 in his pocket.
After earning a master's degree in public administration at Harvard University's Kennedy School of
Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he went to work at GE. Then came a call for help that
Chanthol Sun decided he couldn't turn down. The Cambodian government asked him to set up a
Cambodia development council, and he came back in 1994 to the country of his birth.
``When I worked at GE, I worked hard for the shareholders, but who are they?'' he says. ``Here, my
shareholders are men, women and children in the streets I see every day.''
To contact the reporters on this story: Yoolim Lee in Singapore at yoolim@bloomberg.net; Netty Ismail
in Singapore at nismail3@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: August 27, 2008 17:08 EDT

Bruce Vientiane wrote:

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Really? u r living in Vientiane, where exactly, do u know what time is it in Vientiane? u must be an english teacher over there. anyway consider the previous comment
Good point, you are a very clever student. Can you count how many tall builing in Japan, U.S, Thailand and Malaysia? countless right? why? it is a sign of development. So let try to count tall building in Africa country like Somalia, Sudan, Rawanda or Guinea, none right? why?

Khobchai der

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 actually there are lots of projects in Sudan with high rises. I'm not sure about the other countries though.

 

for example: http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/4131/southboulevardaerialqh3.jpg

-- Edited by bip_01 at 06:01, 2009-01-05