Threepeoplewerekilledand12injuredwhenacabletransportingvehicleoverturnedinsideasubwaytunnelduringconstructionworkonFridaymorninginQingdao,eastChina'sShandongPro
Hong Kong is suffering from a severe shortage of construction labour, where 40 per cent of registered workers are older than 50 years.
A highway bridge connecting China and Russia over the Heilongjiang River will start construction Saturday, about 28 years after it was first proposed, local authorities announced Thursday.
Prosecutors on Tuesday raided the home of a former senior presidential secretary over his alleged involvement in a corruption case surrounding the ongoing construction of a skyscraper in the southern port city of Busan.
Shovels in hand, crowds of people in southwest China gathered in a street to dig for buried treasure in a scene that went viral after photos circulated online.
Cambodia's construction sector has seen a big jump in investment projects in the first five months of 2016, the Phnom Penh Post reported on Friday, citing government figures.
Three workers were killed and five others sustained serious injuries after a bridge under construction collapsed in West Nusa Tenggara province of central Indonesia on Tuesday, an official of the local disaster management agency said.
The Pyongyang skyline is rising - and not just with the trophy structures that represent the North Korean state. Despite its political and economic isolation, the capital is in the midst of a building boom.
Fan Changlong, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspected Nansha Islands in the South China Sea in recent days, the Ministry of Defense said Friday.
A total of 34 people were killed when a five storey building collapsed in Lagos, Nigeria, in the early hours of Tuesday, local authorities confirmed Wednesday.
Shenzhen is to set up a 15 billion yuan ($2.2 billion) fund to improve public safety, part of efforts to build a modern, international city.
Nearly 20 provincial governments in China have rolled out their local development plans for the 13th Five Year Plan period from 2016 to 2020, with their focus on the "Belt and Road" construction, the Shanghai Securities News reported on Friday. Under their development plans, they attach great importance to infrastructure construction in transportation industry and construction of industrial parks.
More than 25,000 Kenyans have been employed for the ongoing construction of a Chinese-funded high-speed railway line linking Kenya's port city of Mombasa to the capital Nairobi, according to the Chinese ambassador to Kenya.
The Nepalese government has decided to impose a ban on the construction of new houses across the country till the end of the current fiscal year which falls on July 15, while the restriction on the building of new homes will continue until it comes up with a new building code and other necessary policies and regulations.
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Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said on Wednesday that the United States is blocking construction in the West Bank settlements, but he hopes the delay is "temporary" because the Obama administration "won't be around forever."
Despite increased competition in the booming Gulf Arab construction market, Chinese representatives told Xinhua at The Big 5, the biggest annual Middle East construction fair which started here on Monday, that they still see potential for more business in the region.
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