Work on a 523km railway between western China and Uzbekistan through Kyrgyzstan will start in October, Kyrgyz president Sadyr Japarov said in a speech this week, reports The Diplomat, citing…

China’s MAD Architects has unveiled its design for the Cloud 9 Sports Centre, a mirror-clad development surrounded by parkland in the central business district of Shijiazhuang, capital of northeast China’s…

Academics at Michigan University argue that China’s property-sector woes may have causes beyond the overambition of developers and the government’s actions to limit the ballooning debt in the sector. Led…

Chinese car maker Great Wall Motors plans to build a big electric vehicle plant in Hungary, media there have been speculating. They believe it will time the announcement to coincide…

Contractors have finished laying track on the remaining Serbian section of the new, China-backed north-south railway between the Serbian capital, Belgrade, and Budapest, capital of Hungary. Costing $1bn, the 108km…

China Railway Tunnel Group (CRTG) says it used “Eight Intelligent Systems” to build China’s deepest and highest-water-pressure tunnel under the Pearl (Zhujiang) River Estuary.

Millions of people living in Chinese cities face rapid subsidence, according to a major new study. Dozens of researchers led by Ao Zurui of South China Normal University used a…

The Cambodian coastal resort of Sihanoukville has been left with hundreds of empty or unfinished buildings after the collapse of a Chinese tourism and investment boom, Nikkei Asia reports. The…

American EV maker Tesla is to break ground on a battery factory in Shanghai in May, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua. The facility will be capable of manufacturing…

The China Merchants Bank Headquarters in Shenzhen, designed by UK-headquartered architect Foster + Partners, has topped out. Announced in 2019, the 350m-tall tower will contain 310,000 sq m of office…

Chinese developer Shimao Group has been issued with a winding-up petition from China Construction Bank, in a rare instance of a state-owned bank taking a hard line with a struggling…

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) has agreed to increase its investment in its Arizona site by 60%, from $41bn to $65bn, and to begin making cutting-edge 2nm chips in them. In…

China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) has begun work on a 575km railway through the Sahara desert, between the Algerian iron ore mine at Gara Djebilet and the Moroccan rail system,…

China and Brazil last week signed a 30-year franchise agreement for a new, 1,468km high-voltage transmission line to bring renewable power from Brazil’s remote northeast to the more populated centre…

Bangladesh Railway (BR) has cancelled a rail upgrade scheme in the northeast of the country after talks with a Chinese contractor that dragged on for nine years, local newspaper The…

A Chinese train-making company has withdrawn from a €610m Bulgarian tender after the European Commission opened a first-of-its-kind investigation into the company.  CRRC Qingdao Sifan, a subsidiary of the world’s…

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has debarred contractor China Henan International Cooperation Group from bidding for projects the bank funds for a year for a fraudulent practice. China Henan failed…

Five Chinese workers and their driver were killed yesterday by a suicide bomber in northwest Pakistan, the Associated Press news agency reports.