The Greater Bay Area Sports Centre in Guangdong, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects’ (ZHA), is due for completion in June ahead of China’s National Games in November. Set in a…

Work starts in June on a 1.4GW pumped storage power plant in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi, the latest start in China’s intense campaign to build hundreds of gigawatts…

China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) has broken ground on a 100-bed hospital in the southern Iraqi province of Dhi Qar. The facility will be built on a turnkey basis,…

China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) will invest $1.4bn in an upgrade of Africa’s longest railway – the 1,860km “Tazara” line that connects Zambia’s copper belt with the port of…

Dutch architect MVRDV has unveiled the design for the LuLa Light Mall, a largely open air shopping centre in Chengdu, China, designed to resemble a “loose stack of boxes”. A…

The Norwegian Coastal Administration has cut the number of bidders for the Stad Ship Tunnel from six to four, after two Chinese consortia failed to prequalify. The teams are competing…

Executives from China Railways have met with Vietnamese officials to express interest in joining a $1.1bn project to restore a railway built by the French colonial government in the early…

Liu Jiakun has been named 2025 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize following a 40-year career and 30 projects ranging from academic and cultural institutions to civic spaces, commercial buildings…

Work has begun on a 26km bridge in northeast China, 19km of which will be over the sea, China News Online reports.  The Changhai Cross-sea Bridge will connect the city…

China’s biggest construction equipment maker has announced plans to build a 35,000 sq m smart factory making scissor and boom lifts in Hungary. Zoomlion signed a 10-year lease with Dutch…

A Chinese industrial conglomerate is to invest $1bn in a pumped-storage system in southwest Cambodia. According to news site Yicai, the Upper Tatai Pumped Storage Power will be added to…

Mongolia and China will build a rail link to connect their networks to reduce trade costs, particularly for Mongolia’s coal, Railway Supply reports.  The line will extend a 240km track…

Justin Trudeau has announced that a 1,000km high-speed rail link will be built in the centre of the country, linking Toronto and Quebec City. The service, to be known as…

Kuwait has signed an agreement with China State Construction and Communications (CSCC) to work on completing the Mubarak Al-Kabeer Port project, news agency Kuna reports. The agreement was signed yesterday…

Construction has begun on China’s first privately funded test facility for drones, light aircraft and flying cars. The plant, which is located in Chongzhou, Sichuan Province, will assess engines for…

China has given a green light to the construction of a deep-sea research facility in the South China Sea, South China Morning Post reports. Known in the research community as…

China has completed work on the last of 2,132 “quiet communities” in a bid to tackle noise pollution and reduce the stress of city living, Xinhua reports. The Ministry of…

A Chinese contractor has completed work on the largest cocoa factory and warehouse in the Ivory Coast, the South China Morning Post reports.  The 21ha plant is the second that…