Vietnam has asked China’s biggest contractor to help build its North-South railway, an epic infrastructure scheme that is expected to lay 1,700km of high-speed track at a cost of $67.3bn.…

Vietnam has estimated that the cost of building a railway to China’s southern Yunnan province would be $7.2bn, Vietnamese state media report. The 427km link would run from the border…

The chief executive of China Communications has met with Vietnam’s deputy prime minister in Hanoi to offer his company’s services in a range of major infrastructure projects, VN Express reports.…

The first section of Hanoi’s second metro line, Line 3, has opened for a free trial period before the official unveiling, due in September 2024. The 8.5km elevated railway built…

A team of business people and state officials from South Korea visited Vietnam last week to discuss large-scale projects such as urban development and high-speed rail. South Korea hopes to…

Vietnamese EV-maker VinFast has broken ground on a $200m factory in Subang in West Java. The plant, which will have a maximum capacity of 50,000 vehicles a year, will contain…

Vietnam is planning to build a $2.2bn motorway connecting Pleiku in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai to the port city of Quy Nhon. The project was suggested by…

Vietnam broke ground this week on the 60km stretch of highway in the north of the country that will complete its historic $59bn North-South expressway. The $430m section runs north…

A court in Vietnam sentenced property developer Truong My Lan, 67, to death last week after a five-week trial found her guilty of embezzling more than $12.5bn from Vietnam’s largest…

Cambodia will start work this year on a controversial plan to dig a 180km canal to link Phnom Penh to the sea, The Star newspaper reports.  The Funan Techo canal,…

Ground broke last week on a $580m port project in the Vietnamese province of Quang Tri, English language daily Vietnam News reports. Going up on a 685ha greenfield site in…

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…

Construction has begun on a 19ha, $744m residential project in Vietnam, developed by Singapore’s CapitaLand Group. The new quarter will be located in Binh Duong New City, an industrial centre…

Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade aims to produce up to 20 million tonnes of hydrogen a year by 2050. According to Vietnam Plus, the plan emerged after a 22…

Vietnam will spend $1.4bn on two ambitious motorways in its mountainous northwest. One will be a 121km link between the provinces of Cao Bang and Lang Son on the Chinese…

Hanoi’s municipal transport department has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the China Pacific Construction Group (CPCG) and the Vietnam Construction Import–Export Corporation on Thursday. According to Vietnamese website The Investor, the…

South Korean construction firm Daewon plans to develop a 280ha eco-tourism and golf resort in the Forest of Hue in central Vietnam. The scheme is awaiting approvals from the government…

The first medium-speed rail link to China’s border with Vietnam entered service last week, cutting travel time between two coastal cities from an hour to 19 minutes, according to the…