(Bernama)-Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razakwill declare a agreement signing for a USD$ 5bil (RM15 billion) electrified stand in lane railway plan to be built by a Malaysian association which will turn landlocked Laos into land link.
The master benefaction agreement is in in between a Laotian government andGiant Consolidated Ltd, a Malaysian company, to develop a 220km lane from Savannakhet to Lao Bao, near a Vietnam border.
Malaysian Ambassador to LaosDatuk Than Tai Hing(pic)said LaotianPrime Minister Thongsing Thammavongwould additionally declare a signing rite to be held here Monday.
Najib will arrive here this afternoon for a three-day working revisit to Laos as well as to attend a 9th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM).
Than pronounced a five-year standard gauge railway plan would link a easterly as well as west of this nation as well as turn this nation from landlocked to land link, apart from realising a Asean Connectivity by 2015 as well as contributing to this country's mercantile development.
Najib, who is additionally Finance Minister, will openMaybank's initial branch in thi! s nation here Monday, completing a bank's presence in all a 10 Asean part of nations.
Currently, Maybank, Malaysia's largest blurb bank as well as informal monetary services leader, has an general network of over 2,200 offices in 19 countries, together with in a United States, Britain, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, China, Hong Kong as well as India, apart from Asean part of countries.
Than pronounced Najib would additionally encounter Malaysian investors engaged in a hydro-electric plan as well as in a special mercantile section in this nation here. Malaysians have invested about USD$ 165 million (RM495 million) in Laos in in between 2000 as well as 2011, creation them a ninth largest investors in this country, he said.
Malaysians' investments in Laos have been in banking, insurance, education, semiconductors, tourism as well as agriculture sectors.
Public Bank,Dominant Semiconductors Co Ltd,Mega First Corporation Bhd,Savan Pacifica Development Co Ltdand Dansavanh Nam Ngum Resort have been among Malaysia's major companies which have invested in this Asean part of state.
"Malaysians' brand new investments have been in a electrified stand in lane railway as well as hydro-electric projects which will definitely shift Malaysia's in front of as a largest financier in this nation now being led by China," he said.
Najib will additionally stick on 48 leaders from Middle East as well as Europe during a two-day ASEM starting here tomorrow.
The assembly themed! "Friend s for Peace, Partners for Prosperity" will serve make firm mercantile as well as domestic cooperation in in between a dual regions amid a current euro section debt crisis.
ASEM leaders have been expected to plead a tellurian mercantile situation, reforms to general monetary institutions, water, energy, food security, mess management, interfaith dialogue, tourism as well as migration, among others.
Than pronounced Najib is additionally expected to foster a tellurian mediation transformation concept during this meeting.
The ASEM organisation membership will be stretched to 51 with a inclusion of Bangladesh, Norway as well as Switzerland during this meeting.
ASEM was determined in 1996 with the initial assembly in Bangkok.
ASEM leaders encounter each dual years alternately in a dual regions.
Najib will additionally hold separate shared meetings with FrancePresident Francois Hollande, Norway PrmeMinister Jens Stoltenbergand PakistanPrime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashrafon a sidelines of a meeting.
Najib will be accompanied by his wife,Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, during a visit.
This is a initial time, Laos, a nation with six million population, is hosting the greatest general conference.
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