Anti-Chinese sentiments spark in Laos; protest Chinese company's arbitrariness
05 May 2024
LAOS: Anti China sentiments have sparked against a Shanghai-based company Wang Feng Shanghai Real Estate Co. over building a 100-meter statue of Buddha costing USD 5 billion at That Laug Marsh close to the SEZ on the bank of river Mekong in Vientiane.
People expressed anger on social media accusing the company of stepping on Laotian Buddhist sentiments by designing it in a Mahayana fashion contrary to the Theravada school of Buddhism followed in Laos which depicts Buddha sitting cross-legged.
The statue will be the tallest structure in the low-rise building area and its location is close to Ph...
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