A newspaper report on Tuesday highlighted Chinese brutality to Malawian workers at the construction site of a National Stadium in the capital city Lilongwe. And Nyasa Times correspondent followed up by visiting the construction place where it established that indeed workers were being abused. Those who spoke to Nyasa Times collaborated the Daily Times report […]
The state-of-the-art 40,000 seater stadium project in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe has received a boost after the Governments of Malawi and China have signed a framework agreement on provision of concessional loan on the construction of the facility. The new sports arena billed to be of high-tech Olympic standard, is expected to be completed in two years. China […]
Chinese Ambassador to Malawi Pan Hejun has assured Malawians that the state-of-the-art 40,000 seater stadium project in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe will be completed in two years. Hejun said this on Thursday inside Capital Radio’s Straight Talk interview programme. He rebuitted the reports that claimed the Chinese government has withdrawn funding for the new sports arena […]
Malawi government has dismissed media claims that the Chinese government has withdrawn the funding for the state-of-the-art stadium project Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe. Government spokesperson that also doubles as minister of information and Civic education Moses Kunkuyu on Sunday whacked the reports, describing the news as “untrue”. “The genuine agreement that was signed is still there […]
President Joyce Banda today, July 11, 2012 laid a foundation stone for the Malawi National Sports Stadium in Lilongwe’s Area 48 to mark the launch of the construction project. Olympic standard structure had been taken away from the capital and moved to the commercial city of Blantyre by the previous Democratic Progressive Movement (DPP) administration and relocated […]
President Joyce Banda on Saturday held a road show rally in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe to speak to a crowd that gathered to welcome her from Ntcheu. Banda announced she was going to lay a ground stone for the city’s new stadium on Tuesday. Lilongwe stadium Banda said she had told the contractors to build the […]
The People’s Republic of China has assured President Mrs. Joyce Banda’s administration of continuation in terms of infrastructural development despite the recent transition of power. Chinese ambassador to Malawi, Pan Hejun, made the assurance in interview with local radio, Capital FM’s Daybreak Malawi program. The world’s second richest country which stunned economists and western governments with […]
Former Sports Minister Symon Vuwa Kaunda has confessed he was ‘stupid;’ in recommending that the Chinese planned new sports stadium be snatched from Lilongwe and given to commercial city of Blantyre. Malawi sought assistance from the Chinese Government for the construction of the new stadium earmarked for the central region and Parliament already approved the plans […]
Lilongwe football followers have expressed their frustrations over government’s decision to relocate the multimillion kwacha state of the art national stadium the Chinese are planning to build. The much hyped multimillion kwacha stadium, was meant to be constructed at a site between Area 47 and Area 49 Gulliver in the capital city. However, Malawi Government […]