Transport infrastructure and facilities

Ho Chi Minh City is asking for permission to build a new bridge and make it easier to travel to the neighboring industrial hub Dong Nai. In its proposal sent to the government, the city said a construction company plans to invest US$255.6 million on a ...

The second phase of a bridge building programme, which aims at building nearly 4,000 bridges in remote areas, will be kicked off next month, said Nguyen Van Huyen, director of the Directorate for Roads of Viet Nam. Under the programme, a total of 3,959 bridges, including ...

World famous for its endless swarms of motorcycles, Vietnam is considering banning bikes in the capital over fears its leafy streets will become overrun as the population swells and its middle class buys up cars in record numbers. Hanoi is forecast to have seven million motorcycles ...

A farmers group is pressing local authorities to resurrect the controversial Southwest New City project. Though the three companies selected to build the new city were ready to proceed on the basis of approval from the outgoing Yangon Region government, the incoming National League for ...

The number of traffic accidents involving workers is down 28 per cent in the first six months of 2016 compared to the same period last year, Cambodia’s Ministry of Labour’s National Social Security Fund reported on 28 June. Accidents for 2016 through June totalled 2,259, with 2,849 ...

A representative of China Railway 16th Bureau Group met with Transportation Minister Sun Chanthol on 26 June to discuss a $250 million project proposal that would link the container terminal of Phnom Penh Autonomous Port to the Southern Line, a 266-kilometre rail line that stretches from ...

Laos and Cambodia have agreed to continue to strengthen cooperation and to develop land links to enhance trade and investment between the two nations. The plans arose from a meeting between Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith and his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen when Mr Thongloun visited Cambodia ...

Saravan province has been able to save about US$18 million from state investment projects thanks to effective management of their infrastructure development projects. The projects that the moneys were saved from included the 15A Road construction project linking the Napong area to the province with a ...

The volume of goods shipped has grown steadily in the three months since South Korean sea shipping line Hyundai Merchant Marine began calling at Sihanoukville port in Cambodia, and cargo sizes are expected to double in the coming month, a local company representative said on ...

Agro-industrial tycoon Mong Reththy plans to expand his private port to handle bigger ships and containerised cargoes, increasing potential competition with the country’s principal port in Sihanoukville. “In order to handle container ships, the port must be renovated and the channel deepened to eight metres, which ...