Feature: Chinese construction projects i...

by Mahmoud Fouly CAIRO, March 17 (Xinhua) -- On a sunny day, some 45 km east of the Egyptian capital Cairo, one of the gates of the under-construction new administrative capital city had a Chinese si

China's Shandong to build barrier-free e...

JINAN, March 17 (Xinhua) -- East China's Shandong Province is looking to create easy environment for the disabled, elderly and mobility impaired in public places, local authorities said. The provinci

S.Korea's construction permits fall in 2...

SEOUL, March 12 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's construction permits fell last year as the government tightened regulation to curb housing price, a government report showed Tuesday. The surface area of per

Philippines mulls to tighten overseas de...

MANILA, March 8 (Xinhua) -- The Philippines is mulling to cut down the overseas deployment of Filipino construction workers by up to 90 percent to mitigate the domestic shortage of builders needed in

Auckland's commercial construction drive...

WELLINGTON, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Building work on non-residential buildings in New Zealand, especially in the largest city Auckland, drove the overall construction volume growth in the December 2018 q

Preparation work for Beijing 2022 goes s...

The preparation work for 2022 Beijing Winter Games is so far going smoothly in terms of venues and infrastructure construction, technology supporting, market developing, meteorological guarantee and

Sri Lanka proposes foreign construction ...

COLOMBO, March 6 (Xinhua) -- The Sri Lankan government on Wednesday proposed that foreign construction companies which bid for local projects in the island country should enter joint ventures with lo

U.S. construction spending falls in Dece...

U.S. construction spending unexpectedly fell in December as the investment in both private and public projects dropped, leading economists to expect that the government will trim its economic growth

British construction activity drops for ...

LONDON, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Britain's construction activity levels fell to 49.5 in February, the first time the index has been below the 50-mark which separates growth from contraction since March 20

Egypt's PM hails Chinese company's const...

Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly hailed on Monday the progress made by China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) in the construction of "Iconic Tower" as part of the Central B