Transport infrastructure and facilities
Roads and bridges
Xamtay to Vietnam road construction expects delays
Construction of a new road connecting Xamtay district in Huaphan province to Thua Thien Hue province, Vietnam will not be finished according to plans, say officials of the project. Head of the District’s Public Works and Transport Office, Mr Soukaseum Sonesavat, telephone interviewed by Vientiane ...
Pickups allowed to carry passengers until new rules done: police
Senior police are pressing the Land Transport Department for new regulations that would allow pickups to carry passengers, not just cargo, in cabs or beds – as long as they have safety belts installed. Until the new regulations are issued, police have no plan to ...
Vietnam's FPT looks to put self-driving cars on Asian roads
IT company to challenge global giants with low-cost tech. Vietnam’s FPT aims to jostle into competition among industry titans like Apple and Google over autonomous vehicles by commercializing a low-cost system within the next two years. The country’s leading information technology company is targeting about $200 million in annual sales from ...
PM: More roads, bridges
Prime Minister Hun Sen has highlighted his government’s achievements in building new infrastructure as part of a message to commemorate Khmer New Year. He said 15,376 kilometers of national roads and bridges have been built over the past year, including 12,100 km of asphalt roads. During ...
Troubled road project along Lao-Cambodian border rolls on
Work by military engineers on a contentious road skirting Cambodia’s border with Laos – which has prompted a military stand-off in the area – has quietly resumed, local officials say, even as run-ins between Cambodian and Lao military patrols in the disputed area have further ...
Grab eyes Myanmar growth
Though the taxi-hailing service is still a relatively new concept in Myanmar, Grab, the leading ride-hailing firm in Southeast Asia, has revealed its ambitious target of attracting everyday taxi users in Yangon to book taxis through their app. Cheryl Goh, group vice president of marketing ...
Incentive bonus for highway bus companies
The Mandalay Supervisory Committee for Highway Bus Lines has given out more than K40 million in incentives to 146 bus lines that fall under its supervision for the 2016-17 fiscal year on April 5. U Aung Kyaw Linn, chair of Bus Line Supervisory Committee (Highway) ...
Bus companies urged not raise fares during festival
Bus companies have been urged to maintain fare prices and not take advantage of the festive season to raise them. Mandalay Region Supervisory Committee for Motor Vehicles (Highway) chair, U Aung Kyaw Lin, said that he is making a request and not ordering the companies ...
Expressway set to open in 2019
Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has urged the two ministries overseeing the Trung Lương-Mỹ Thuận expressway project to speed up construction of the Mỹ Thuận-Cần Thơ stretch so that the entire road can be open to traffic by 2019. Dũng asked the Ministry of ...
Savannakhet immigration officials ordered to end border crossing fees
Immigration officials working at the second Lao-Thai Friendship Bridge in Savannakhet province, which forms the border with Mukdahan province in Thailand, have been ordered to stop the collection of immigration and service fees. The Prime Minister’s Office last week issued a notice to the Deputy ...
