The SEA Game should be considered a crucial event in the history of a modern day Laos though it might also be the first in the world with a minimal contribution as a host country but this should not be viewed as embarrassing and it’s ok to not to be proud of it.By the same token, every Laotian should be happy instead for this opportunity doesn’t often come around. Yes, it is not a secret that Laos does not even hold a minimum skilled referee for this important event let alone meet the financial and technological levels of requirement; nevertheless, Laos sure has moral values and qualifications in the eyes of international community.Is this a feasible plan as far as aiming for profits? Of course it is, since the amount of funding will be coming from many compassionate neighbors. I don’t think money has ever been an initial issue or objective for Lao governments but the projection of image is probably the tentative goal. Therefore, I wouldn’t be surprised if their perception of this game as a watershed and it can’t simply be a mere circumspect ambition especially after years of within a party debate and incessant lobbied for the right to host this SEA Game which finally had come to a milestone consensus. It’s like God for once, blessed this Kingdom of One Million Elephants.On the day of opening ceremony, Laos should ask Chinese for their assistance before any initiation of pyrotechnics. We’d all seen how spectacular it was during Beijing Olympics. Best Regards from BruceLaoMan
i hpe laos will do its best and i believe this is a huge stepp this is like lao coming out to the world and stepping on the big stage. this asean games might not be as good as any of the other ones and i bet the next time lao hosts it will be even better but laos is like going form a 0 to 10 in one leap in sports and hosting terms. so either way i see this as a win win situation we gain regional and world atention while at the same time gain tremendous experience in one shot.
any ways lao has all my support. go lao!! destiny is coming XD
i hpe laos will do its best and i believe this is a huge stepp this is like lao coming out to the world and stepping on the big stage. this asean games might not be as good as any of the other ones and i bet the next time lao hosts it will be even better but laos is like going form a 0 to 10 in one leap in sports and hosting terms. so either way i see this as a win win situation we gain regional and world atention while at the same time gain tremendous experience in one shot.
any ways lao has all my support. go lao!! destiny is coming XD
If we are not proud of the government, at least we should be happy for Lao people.I am sure this is the moment they’ve been waiting for.I personally like to express my moral support for this crucial event for it never took place in the history of our motherland.In addition, Laos will be brought closer and closer to the international community. In return, our people will have greater freedom and liberty for all.As the government is losing up civil control year by year, more people will also have access to better living standard because they are allowed to have control of their own destiny.People have the choice to be who they want to be. As you can see, privatization is the absolute solution in lifting out people of abject poverty.Market economy has been proven better than command economy.Thus, all communist countries with the exception to North Korea, and Cuba have mixed market economy to the extent.
Laos did the right thing with the initiation of market economy in 1986 and gradually abolished the outright practice of command economy that she once practiced.As you may not know, command economy is also known as socialism or communism.In this system, government owns most property resources and economic decision making usually occurs in a central planning board appointed by the government.The state makes nearly all major decisions concerning the use of resources, the composition and distribution of output as well as the organization of production.
In the market system which is also known as capitalism, there is freedom of enterprise and choice to ensure that entrepreneurs and private businesses are free to obtain and use economic resources to produce their choice of goods and services and to sell them in their chosen markets.Freedom of choice also enables owners to employ or dispose of their property/money as they see fit.Moreover, it also allows competition because competition brings innovation along with quality and all.
I am happy for Lao people and its government for walking down this path of market economy.In another decade or so, it would yield more result assuming that the global economy recovers in a timely fashion.Although government ownership of resources and capital in Laos may still be extensive, but the nation, if I am not wrong, has increasingly relied on free market system to organize and coordinate its economy which is good for Lao citizens. And with greater reform in its judicial system, Laos will achieve greater prosperity in due time. Since it has less than 7 million bodies to cloth and mouths to feed but abundance of natural resources, I just don’t see why it can’t be done.
