Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (1st, R)

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Sunday visited the 2009 Southeast Asian Games Village Project, which is under construction in the Lao capital of Vientiane.

Company Chairman Doan Nguyen Duc said, “Although the weather conditions haven’t been very favorable, almost 700 workers, 95% of whom are from Vietnam, have been working hard and have completed more than 45 percent of the work.”

“With support from the Lao government, HAGL will surely finish the project and hand it over to the Laotian organizers of the 25th SEA Games in June next year,” Duc said.

PM Dung praised HAGL workers and engineers for their efforts to complete the work on the five-hectare site.

He said because the project was of great significance to the friendship between Vietnam and Laos, the construction process should be safe and the work of high quality in order to impress the Lao people.

HAGL is sponsoring the US$19 million 25th SEA Games Village Project with $4 million in nonrefundable aid and an interest free loan of $15 million, which will be repaid within three years.

The project, which will be handed over to Laos’ National University after the sports event, will have 992 rooms in eight four-story blocks, a 1,200-seat dining room, a central hall and functional rooms. The site will also have football fields and basketball facilities.

Reported by Anh Duc