India and China are competing to build rail connections – and influence – in the Himalayan state of Nepal, with India somewhat ahead in the race, according to a report…

Uganda has cancelled a deal with a Chinese contractor to build a $2.3bn railway after Beijing decided not to fund the scheme, Bloomberg reports. Perez Wamburu, Uganda’s project coordinator, told…

Dutch architect MVRDV alongside local design parter UAD has won a design competition for a library in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The 14ha Wuhan Central Library is distinguished by…

China has begun work on an $11.5bn renewables project in Inner Mongolia that will eventually generate 16GW of energy, the Xinhua news agency reports.  The project, located in the Kubuqi…

Thai energy company Bangchak Corporation (BCPG) will join forces with PowerChina International to build a $1.5bn wind farm in Laos. The two companies yesterday signed an agreement to cooperate on…

Work started yesterday on a new headquarters for the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) in the Nigerian capital of Abuja, funded by a Chinese grant. Ecowas president Omar…

China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has been hired to build Khalifa Port in Abu Dhabi, which is being developed by CMA Terminals (70%) and AD Ports Group (30%). CHEC will…

China’s Moon base, to be built at the satellite’s south pole by 2028, could be powered by nuclear energy, reports South China Morning Post.  The project was revealed by Wu…

International design and engineering group Aurecon has appointed Frank Nelisi as digital practice leader for China, along with three other digital construction specialists to meet an expected rise in demand…

Australian architect Aspect Studio has designed a 30,000-person campus for Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba in Hangzhou, the capital of China’s eastern Zhejiang province. Aspect Studio’s Shanghai office has created the…

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said Beijing will invest in major projects in Cambodia including a $1.6bn expressway from Phnom Penh to the Vietnamese border and the upgrading of a railway…

A colossal waste of materials and embodied carbon appears to have been averted in China after a city government decided that 39 nearly complete residential towers built by embattled developer…

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif agreed this week during talks in Beijing to push for the “earliest implementation” of the multi-billion-dollar Main Line 1 railway (ML-1)

A five-storey hospital in the eastern Cambodian town of Tboung Khmum was officially opened this week by Prime Minister Hun Sen and Wang Wentian, China’s ambassador to Phnom Penh.

State-backed construction crews raced this week to erect temporary hospitals and isolation facilities in Hong Kong amid a sudden surge in Covid-19 infections.