{"id":7953,"date":"2020-01-17T04:57:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T04:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7953"},"modified":"2020-01-17T04:57:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T04:57:24","slug":"chinese-investment-sought-to-expedite-construction-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/chinese-investment-sought-to-expedite-construction-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese investment sought to expedite construction work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has sought Chinese investment for construction of the Kaduwela-Meerigama stretch of the central expressway and the expedition of work on the extension of the southern expressway up to Hambantota, Daily Mirror learns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Prime Minister handed over a list of investment proposals to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi when he called on him on January 14.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The government is planning to obtain a loan from EXIM bank of China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The 2010\/2015 government led by Mr. Rajapaksa made initial arrangements for the implementation of this project. However, it did not take off during the last five years under the former government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The work on the Meerigama-Pothuhera segment of the central expressway has progressed. The contract is yet to be awarded for the construction of the final segment up to Galagedara in Kandy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has sought Chinese investment for construction of the Kaduwela-Meerigama stretch&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}