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Eight thousand people have been left homeless in Manila after a major fire ripped through a densely packed slum area on Sunday, CNN reports....

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank, will lend $301m to a developer in Mexico to build “affordable, green ho...

Germany’s Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) has estimated that Germany could add up to 48GW of photovoltaic panels to its road netwo...

Tanzania is to receive 264 freight wagons to improve cargo flows on its booming standard gauge railway (SGR).The post Tanzania buys Chinese...

Samia Suluhu Hassan, Tanzania’s president, has confirmed that 20 people died in the collapse of a building in the busy Kariakoo district in...

In response to an unusual spate of mass killings in China, Beijing has launched a three-month campaign to pressure the country’s indebted lo...

Two Swedish companies, financial services provider Vinga Group and circular industry specialist WA3RM, have joined forces to develop three c...

China has completed its East-route natural gas pipeline, which runs for 5,111km from the Russian border to Shanghai, seven months ahead of s...

Lishui Airport in China’s eastern Zhejiang Province, designed by MAD Architects, is due to open by the end of the year. The airport is locat...

UK architect Foster + Partners has unveiled its masterplan for Bilaj Al Jazayer Beach on Bahrain’s southwest coast. The mixed-use district h...

Russia and Zimbabwe have begun talks about the African country sending people to Russia to work in construction. Russia faces severe labour...

The city government of Hangzhou in eastern China has switched on the first centrifuge at the world’s most powerful gravity simulation machin...

Consulting engineer Sweco is helping Sweden’s most northerly city move 3km to the east to make more room for its iron ore mine. The Stockhol...

French contractor Bouygues has been selected by British property company Segro to redevelop Les Gobelins railway station in southwestern Par...

A joint venture between Tutor Perini and O&G Industries has been awarded a $1.2bn contract to design and build a 4km-long elevated railway a...

Iranian and Russian officials have discussed a plan to build a rail link between Parsabad, a city on Iran’s border with Azerbaijan, and the...

Japanese authorities are considering commissioning a Chinese transport system to take visitors up Mount Fuji, The Japan Times reports. Yaman...

A team made up of North American engineers AtkinsRéalis, Jacobs and Westinghouse has landed a 10-year contract worth $2.3bn to operate a nuc...

Dutch architect MVRDV has developed a modular clubhouse for the Azraq camp in Jordan, which is home to about 41,000 refugees from the fighti...

The chief executive of Neom, Saudi Arabia’s $1.5trn bid to diversify its economy with tourism, city, and business “giga projects”, has left...

The Philippines has secured nearly $2.8bn in loans for a 26km motorway along one of the country’s busiest corridors. The Asian Development B...

Chinese scientists working on the creation of a Moon base have sent fragments of brick into space to determine how they deal with its hostil...

Singapore urged construction firms to take a two-week “safety time out” this month after a surge in workplace fatalities. Ten people died in...

The latest contract in Morocco’s Kenitra-Marrakesh high-speed rail link has gone to the China Overseas Engineering Corporation (Covec), a su...

American architect Studio Gang has unveiled the completed University of Chicago John Boyer Centre in Paris. The centre has a timber structur...