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A Chinese train-making company has withdrawn from a €610m Bulgarian tender after the European Commission opened a first-of-its-kind investigation into the company.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. 

Dutch architect MVRDV has unveiled its design for Tencent P5, a residential development in Shenzhen’s Qianhai bay containing 11 apartment towers and a kindergarten arranged around four courtyards. The development…

A subsidiary of Chinese firm Jinzhao has won a $405m contract to build a port in Peru, one of the world’s top copper producers, Reuters reports. Jinzhao Peru will build…

China, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan will form a company to build a 523km rail link between western China and Uzbekistan, the Railway Supply website reports. The decision was made during a…

China’s State Grid Corporation has started a $3.9bn project to boost the ability of its national grid to deal with intermittent generation. It will string a 1,069km ultra-high voltage transmission…

The Honduran commission planning a railway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans presented its proposals to country delegations this week, local media report. The US, Japan, South Korea, Spain, China,…

China’s MAD Architects has designed the Lishui Airport in Zhejiang Province, with a roof overhang giving it the appearance of a big silver bird ready to take off over the…

Chinese energy company Huadian has proposed the construction of a $2.4bn green hydrogen plant in central Vietnam, local media report. The state-owned company is looking to carry out the project…