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Thai highway linked with to East-West Corridor to be ready by August 2011
BANGKOK, Feb 28 (TNA) - Thailand's Department of Rural Roads has confirmed that the construction of a new two-lane Thai highway ko-so 4035, stretching some 18.53-kilometres from a main Thai highway No. 2009 reaching to Ban Nong Sam Kha locality in Nong Kung Sri District of the northeastern Kalasin Province, has been some 30 per cent progressed, and is expected to be completed by this coming August to connect Thailand with the East-West Economic Corridor (EWEC).
Thai Transport Minister Sopon Zarum reported on the latest development, noting that once completed, the new Thai highway will become a strategic linkage between Thailand's northeastern Nongkhai and Udon Thani Provinces to Mukdahan through Kalasin.
Sopon said Mukdahan will then become Thailand’s gateway to the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) and to Indochina, including Laos and Vietnam, which will promote and boost two-way trade and investment between Thailand and the neighbouring countries in Indochina or in the EWEC.
Meanwhile, Rural Roads Department Director-General Wicharn Kunakulsawat said that the construction of the new Thai highway was funded by a total state budget of nearly 200 billion baht. (TNA)
Thai Transport Minister Sopon Zarum reported on the latest development, noting that once completed, the new Thai highway will become a strategic linkage between Thailand's northeastern Nongkhai and Udon Thani Provinces to Mukdahan through Kalasin.
Sopon said Mukdahan will then become Thailand’s gateway to the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) and to Indochina, including Laos and Vietnam, which will promote and boost two-way trade and investment between Thailand and the neighbouring countries in Indochina or in the EWEC.
Meanwhile, Rural Roads Department Director-General Wicharn Kunakulsawat said that the construction of the new Thai highway was funded by a total state budget of nearly 200 billion baht. (TNA)
