Tanzania is to receive 264 freight wagons to improve cargo flows on its booming standard gauge railway (SGR).

In response to an unusual spate of mass killings in China, Beijing has launched a three-month campaign to pressure the country’s indebted local governments to clear the vast backlog of…

China has completed its East-route natural gas pipeline, which runs for 5,111km from the Russian border to Shanghai, seven months ahead of schedule, South China Morning Post reports. The final…

Lishui Airport in China’s eastern Zhejiang Province, designed by MAD Architects, is due to open by the end of the year. The airport is located in Lishui’s foothills, 15km southwest…

The city government of Hangzhou in eastern China has switched on the first centrifuge at the world’s most powerful gravity simulation machine, South China Morning Post reports. Known as “Chief”…

Japanese authorities are considering commissioning a Chinese transport system to take visitors up Mount Fuji, The Japan Times reports. Yamanashi Prefecture had been considering a light railway but, at a…

Chinese scientists working on the creation of a Moon base have sent fragments of brick into space to determine how they deal with its hostile environment, Space Daily reports. The…

The latest contract in Morocco’s Kenitra-Marrakesh high-speed rail link has gone to the China Overseas Engineering Corporation (Covec), a subsidiary of China Railways, business website Zawya reports. Covec was bidding…

China’s Cosco Shipping opened the first phase of its new Chancay Port in Peru yesterday after a two-year construction period. The complex 78km north of Lima will now begin handling…

China Energy Investments today connected the first instalment of its 1GW offshore solar farm to the grid. Lying some 8km off the coast of Kenli District in Shandong Province, northeast…

Brazil will not be joining China’s global infrastructure push, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a senior government official said last week. Celso Amorim, a diplomat and special advisor on…

China is in detailed talks with Kenya over turning a one-lane road running around 200km from the outskirts of Nairobi northwest to the town of Mau Summit into a four-lane…

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…