China’s State Council, the country’s highest government body, this week approved the construction of six reactors at three nuclear power stations in the east of the country, World Nuclear News…

The US Embassy in the Philippines yesterday told local media that it was concerned about the large number of reclamation projects underway in Manila Bay. It said it was worried…

Construction has begun on the 1,600m-long “super major bridge” that will span China’s Yellow River and link Henan Province Shandong provinces. According to state press agency Xinhua, the bridge will…

UK firm Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has been selected to design a 210m-tall mixed-use tower in Xi’an, the capital of China’s central Shaanxi Province. The 127,200 sq m Daxia Tower,…

The government of Kyrgyzstan has signed an agreement with a Chinese consortium to build four hydroelectric power plants with an investment value of between $2.4bn and $3bn. The deal concerns…

China’s Sunwoda Electronic will invest up to $274.71m to build an electric-vehicle battery factory in Hungary, Reuters reports, citing a filing to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange yesterday. The money will…

Police in the northeast Chinese city of Qiqihar have arrested the management team of a construction company suspected of illegally storing building materials on the roof of the school gymnasium…

Hong Kong-based architect 10 Design has won a competition to design an ideal 74,000-sq-m primary school in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, just south of Shanghai. 10 Design came up…

Turkey has entered into talks with China, Russia, and South Korea on possible deals to build the country’s second and third nuclear power plants (NPPs), and with the US and…

On 8 May 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a law prohibiting Chinese companies, or their “subsidiaries”, from purchasing any real property in Florida. Developments in other US states have…

The Honduran government last week informed Chinese officials it was looking for investors able to raise up to $20bn for a railway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, South China…

The Sun Tower, a 50m-tall viewing platform located in the east Chinese city of Yantai at the tip of Shandong peninsula, has topped out on the summer solstice of Earth’s…

A team comprising Dutch architect Mecanoo, Lola Landscape, and China’s Meng Architects has won a competition to masterplan a 1.2-sq-km “Scientists Valley” on a patch of land in the north…

China has signed a preliminary agreement with Pakistan to finance and build a 1.2GW nuclear reactor there worth $4.8bn, CNN reports. The deal was signed last week between Pakistan’s Atomic…

Chinese authorities have issued an operational permit for the country’s first thorium reactor. The decision comes two years after researchers at the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics unveiled a prototype,…

The eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu will let construction workers work beyond the state mandated retirement age of 60 for men and up to 55 for women as the workforce…

Chinese engineers this week used a smart machine to replace a section of railway bridge in four hours, the South China Morning Post reports. China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) said…

Work has finished on a 250,000-sq-m extension to Xiamen North Railway Station, which is to be a terminus of China’s latest high-speed rail line. When it opens to the public…