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发表于 17-10-2007 05:41 PM
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New landmark coming up
Global Upline to sign agreement with international hotel next month: Ting
KUCHING: Ming Kiong Garden, sitting on a 10-acre site at Jalan Lapangan Terbang, is making way for a new landmark here.

BIGGER DEVELOPMENT COMING UP: Ting at the press conference. — Photo by Davidson Kho
“Replacing it will be high-rise buildings comprising a four-star hotel, Global Upline Sdn Bhd head office and some offices, commercial shophouses and service-apartments,” Global Upline advisor Tan Sri Datuk Ting Pek Khiing told reporters at a press conference here yesterday.
“The earth-breaking ceremony for the project will be performed by Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud on Nov 7 and we will be signing an agreement with a renowned international hotel management company for the management of the hotel,” he disclosed, but declined to reveal the names of the management company and the hotel.
“We will first develop Phase I which comprises world class 12-storey, 360-room hotel and our head office which will take up five acres of land,” he said.
“By erecting these high-tech buildings in this area, we are changing the landscape of Kuching. The hotel also brings a lot of convenience to international tourists and business people as it is about three minutes’ drive from the airport. They can save time without going through the traffic jams and worry about missing the flights.”
This project, said Ting, would also bring in up-market food and beverages outlets, shopping and entertainment centres and also abundant parking space for 2,000 cars in two basement car parks.
There is also plan to have an international chain of spas.
Saying that the hotel would be operational in August next year, he said: “The hotel will support the tourism industry in Sarawak. A lot of tourists have turned away from the State because there are not enough hotel rooms. We will build another four-star, 220-room hotel at Jalan Tabuan and by 2008, Kuching will have an additional 580 hotel rooms,” he said.
Clearing works for the project begun yesterday morning and upon completion more than 3,000 fruit trees including mango, longan, campedak, durian and dragon fruit would have been cut down.
新闻来源:The Borneo Post Online |
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