China and Vietnam are in talks about modernising the 855km colonial-era railway between Kunming in southern China’s Yunnan Province and Vietnam’s port city of Haiphong. The two sides are preparing…

Vietnam’s Planning ministry is considering plans to build a $2.2bn resort in the celebrated tourist attraction of Van Don in the northern province of Quang Ninh, local news sites report. …

A court in Vietnam has sentenced 22 people to prison terms of up to six years for malpractice and negligence in building a major expressway. It also fined five contractors…

China Communications (CCCC) has offered to invest in several infrastructure projects in Vietnam, including the country’s high-speed North-South Railway, news website VNExpress reports. The proposal was made by Bai Yinzhan,…

The World Bank has debarred a Vietnamese construction firm from bidding for World Bank-funded contracts for the next 41 months. The bank’s action against HTC Construction and Advanced Technology (HTC)…

UK-headquartered architect Foster + Partners says it has completed two towers for Vietnam’s Techcombank. Similar in design, one is a 22-storey headquarters for the bank in Hanoi and the other…

The Mekong Delta in Vietnam may run out of sand by 2035 as the country’s building boom and the installation of up-river hydroelectric schemes put the region’s ecosystems at risk.…

The Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) has chosen the Vietur consortium led by Turkish contractor IC Içtas to build the $1.5bn terminal for Long Thanh International Airport, website VNExpress reports. …

South Korea’s Lotte Group today conducted a limited opening of Westlake Hanoi Mall, the biggest in Vietnam, ahead of the official inauguration on 22 September, website Pulse News reports. The…

Vietnamese car maker VinFast says it will break ground on its $4bn electric vehicle factory in North Carolina on 28 July. VinFast is a subsidiary of construction, technology, and property…

Vietnam has held a ceremony to mark the beginning of construction work on a 188km expressway across the Mekong Delta in the south of the country, Vietnamnet reports. The motorway…

Construction began this week on the Cambodian side of a tolled motorway that will eventually link Phnom Penh with Ho Chi Minh City, China’s People’s Daily reports.   The Cambodian…

Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport is considering plans to build a second airport in Hanoi to accommodate an expected increase in population from 5 million to between 21 and 23 million…

Vietnam has approved a scheme to prevent a looming power shortage and meet net-zero goals with a $135bn investment package that will favour renewables and gas power rather than coal,…

Cambodia’ transport minister Sun Chanthol said work on a $1.6bn motorway running from the capital Phnom Penh southeast to the border with Vietnam will start in June next year, Xinhua…

The US State Department has broken ground on a US embassy building in Vietnam. The ceremony was held in Hanoi, and attended by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, as well…

Vietnamese infrastructure developer Deoca Group is to team up with fuel distributor Petroleum Trading Lao (Petro Trade) to investigate the possibility of building a $6.3bn railway between Vientiane, the capital…

SGC Energy, a South Korean renewables company, is to work with Vietnamese power engineering consultant PECC1 to convert coal power plants into biomass-burning facilities, Bioenergy Insight reports.