US architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and Chinese designer GAD have won a competition to masterplan a research district in the city of Hangzhou, about 100km west of Shanghai.…

China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) is to examine the business case for building an industrial zone in New Alamein City, a mega development on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast that may…

Vietnam has asked China’s biggest contractor to help build its North-South railway, an epic infrastructure scheme that is expected to lay 1,700km of high-speed track at a cost of $67.3bn.…

The New York State Supreme Court judge who ruled this month that contractor China Construction America (CCA) owed damages worth $1.6bn to the developer of the Baha Mar resort in…

A year after opening, Bangladesh’s $1.6bn tolled road tunnel under the Karnaphuli River in Chittagong has failed to attract the volume of traffic that was projected, BDNews24 reports. The 3.4km-long…

Vietnam has estimated that the cost of building a railway to China’s southern Yunnan province would be $7.2bn, Vietnamese state media report. The 427km link would run from the border…

Ground has been broken on a global headquarters for shipping company China International Marine Containers Group (CIMC). The building, designed by US architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), is intended…

China First Highway Engineering Corporation has begun design work on the second phase of a motorway that will run east–west between Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, and the port city…

The bids have been entered for Dubai Metro’s Blue Line, which will add 30km and 14 stations to the emirate’s mass transit system. According to business website Meed, the lowest…

China’s biggest miner has announced has begun work on a $24bn plant to turn China’s future coal surpluses into chemicals. China Energy Investment (CEIC) said it is building the plant…

Two Chinese engineers were killed and at least 10 people were injured in a suspected suicide attack last night near Jinnah international airport in Karachi, Pakistan. A third body was…

Dutch firm MVRDV and China’s Huayi Design have won a competition to design the Shenzhen Pingshan Sports Park. This complex will be the home of China’s national badminton team, and…

The governments of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan have agreed to begin work on an $8bn railway to China next month, confirming a target set back in March, website BNE News reports.…

China began work this week on the second phase of FAST, the world’s largest and most powerful single-dish radio telescope, Xinhua reports. 

Saudi national oil company Aramco has signed a five-year cooperation deal with China National Building Material Group (CNBM), bringing together the world’s biggest oil and petrochemical company with one of the largest building material producers.

Accountant PwC China has halted work on a $140m business campus in China after it was sanctioned by China’s Ministry of Finance, the Financial Times reports.

China is planning to spend $6.3bn to upgrade a stretch of the 1,900km G50 motorway between Shanghai and Chongqing, the World Highways website reports. 

China has connected the world’s biggest flywheel system to its national grid.