China First Highway Engineering Corporation has begun design work on the second phase of a motorway that will run east–west between Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, and the port city…

The bids have been entered for Dubai Metro’s Blue Line, which will add 30km and 14 stations to the emirate’s mass transit system. According to business website Meed, the lowest…

China’s biggest miner has announced has begun work on a $24bn plant to turn China’s future coal surpluses into chemicals. China Energy Investment (CEIC) said it is building the plant…

Two Chinese engineers were killed and at least 10 people were injured in a suspected suicide attack last night near Jinnah international airport in Karachi, Pakistan. A third body was…

Dutch firm MVRDV and China’s Huayi Design have won a competition to design the Shenzhen Pingshan Sports Park. This complex will be the home of China’s national badminton team, and…

The governments of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan have agreed to begin work on an $8bn railway to China next month, confirming a target set back in March, website BNE News reports.…

China began work this week on the second phase of FAST, the world’s largest and most powerful single-dish radio telescope, Xinhua reports. 

Saudi national oil company Aramco has signed a five-year cooperation deal with China National Building Material Group (CNBM), bringing together the world’s biggest oil and petrochemical company with one of the largest building material producers.

Accountant PwC China has halted work on a $140m business campus in China after it was sanctioned by China’s Ministry of Finance, the Financial Times reports.

China is planning to spend $6.3bn to upgrade a stretch of the 1,900km G50 motorway between Shanghai and Chongqing, the World Highways website reports. 

China has connected the world’s biggest flywheel system to its national grid.

Chinese renewables company Envision Energy has announced plans to invest $1bn in a green hydrogen industrial park in Spain. The investment will be made “together with other business partners”, according…

Pakistan’s Economic Coordination Committee has approved a $2bn project to reconstruct a 241km stretch of the celebrated Karakoram Highway in northern Pakistan, newspaper Dawn reports. The road runs from the…

Chinese officials have revealed more details of its plan to build an International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) on the Moon. The aim is to build a base near the satellite’s…

Nigeria’s National Petroleum Company has signed a memorandum of understanding with the China Engineering and Machinery Corporation (CEMC) to build a gas power plant near the capital, Abuja.  Posting on…

The governor of Lagos State in Nigeria has signed a memorandum of understanding with China Civil Engineering (CCECC) for the construction of a bridge over the Lagos Lagoon between the…

China Railway Number 4 Engineering Group (CREC 4) has been chosen to carry out civil engineering works on Morocco’s high-speed rail line between the port of Kenitra, 30km north of…

A team of Chinese researchers is exploring the feasibility of producing building materials on Mars by melting its soil. The possibility of “in-situ resource generation” is being investigated by scientists…