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.