Infrastructure

Asia and Pacific countries, including India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, need to thwart challenges posed by natural calamities that have been taking toll on their infrastructure, ADB has said.They will have to find solution in greener infrastructure to restrict global mean temperature rise, it said.Shattered ...

The country’s first dry port will be built near Myitnge, in Amarapura township, Mandalay Region, and join the Belt and Road network, said U Myo Win, general manager from Myanma Railways (Upper Myanmar).“It is a two-year project under UNESCAP agreement between governments,” he said. UNESCAP ...

The double-track rail project worth 64.3 billion baht linking Laem Chabang, Map Ta Phut and Sattahip ports to the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) is scheduled to go before the EEC Policy Committee for approval tomorrow.Keep reading ...

The national carrier Vietnam Airlines signed an agreement with the Ministry of Public Security’s Department of Cyber Security, marking their co-operation on ensuring security and safety of information system on Tuesday.Keep reading ...

After three years of uncertainty surrounding China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the highly anticipated Belt and Road Forum (BRF) was finally held in May 2017 in Beijing. But India, Beijing’s most populous neighbour, was conspicuous in its absence.Despite earlier concerns over a lukewarm ...

Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha will use his special power as the junta chief to speed up the long-delayed Thai-Chinese railway project. He insisted his planned issuance of the all-powerful Section 44 of the interim charter to clear legal hurdles in the Thai-Sino rail project is not ...

Attapeu province in southern Laos has huge untapped tourism potential but still lacks the funding to develop these tourism sites and roads access, officials have confirmed.Without roads access, it would make it difficult for authorities to attract the business sector to develop those attractions and ...

The European Union launched a project yesterday, entitled World Cities Việt Nam, which aims to promote the exchange of experience and best practice on regional and urban development policies. Two Vietnamese cities – Hà Nội and HCM City – are being paired with two European ...

Both Airbus and Boeing have chosen China to build airplane assembling factories. French Airbus has kicked off construction of a helicopter assembling factory in the eastern port city of Qingdao, Shandong Province which is expected to be completed by the end of 2018. The factory will ...

Thailand hopes that China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative would boost trade and investments as well as increase the number of tourists visiting Thailand from Eurasian countries, including Kazakhstan which is hosting the Astana Expo 2017.​ Nat Pinyowattanacheep, Thailand’s ambassador to Kazakhstan, said that although ...