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Going Digital, for Infrastructure Resilience!
- 27 August 2022
The opportunity now is to institutionalize going digital not only within our organizations but also towards “future-proofing” our world’s assets with respect to economic and environmental dependencies. As we look forward at the outset of 2022, having endured an unanticipated and unexpectedly protracted global pandemic, we should prioritize making the most of what we’ve learned in response to vuln...
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Singapore Building World’s Largest Automated Port Worth Over US$14 Billion
- 22 August 2022
Singapore is building the world’s largest port worth over US$14 billion with construction scheduled to be completed in the next 20 years. Named Tuas Port, it will stretch over an area of 1,337 hectares. Phase 1 of Tuas Port has just been completed with Phases 2, 3, and 4 to follow, according to a CNA report on 21 August. The entire project is expected to be completed by 2040, the report adde...
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4,000km Australia-Singapore Sub-Marine Power Cable to Go Online in 2024
- 18 August 2022
The 4,000km Australia-Singapore sub-marine transmission being developed by Sun Cablet is scheduled to go online in 2024, with a full operational target in 2029, according to a Nikkei Asia report on 18 August. The line is being built at cost of US$21 billion to transmit solar energy from Australia to Singapore. As part of the project, a massive solar farm was also built on 12,000 hectares of ...
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Gov’t Strengthens Construction Law Implementation; Site Manager Arrested for Collapsed Scaffolding
- 12 August 2022
Since the construction law came into force, construction sites across the kingdom have been closely monitored, and a site manager in Sen Sok district has been recently arrested for collapsed scaffolding causing one death. HE Chhann Sorphal, Director-General of Construction of the MLMUPC, said that the arrest is part of the strict implementation of the construction law and a lesson for other con...
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Bridge Connecting Koh Norea to NR1 Scheduled to Open for Traffic in September
- 10 August 2022
The bridge connecting Koh Norea to NR1 is scheduled to open for traffic in September, as construction is now more than 90% complete. Mr Touch Samnang, Deputy General Director of OCIC, the company that is developing Koh Nora, said on 10 August that the construction work is proceeding as planned, and expected in September to be put into use. “The bridge is now more than 90% completed and proba...
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Singapore Launching First Taxi Drone Service in Early 2024
- 13 July 2022
Singapore will use a modern and innovative way of transporting tourists to get new experiences and excitement with a 12-kilometre air drone that can fly up to two passengers. According to The Straits Time published on 12 July. This type of taxi drone was developed by the German company Volocopter and is expected to go public in Singapore in early or mid-2024. This taxi drone will initially b...
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Thailand Pledges to Finish US$12 Billion High-Speed Rail Link to China by 2028
- 9 July 2022
Thailand has pledged to complete its part of a much-delayed high-speed rail system linking the country to China through Laos by 2028, which is a link to Yunnan, China via Nong Khai, Laos, according to Bloomberg published on 06 July 2022. Thailand will complete the first of two stages of construction, and expects a test run by 2026 and the official launch the following year, budgeted at US$12 bi...
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EU Plans Investment in World’s Tallest Dam to Dent Russia’s Energy Clout
- 7 July 2022
The European Union plans to become the top investor in the world's tallest dam in Tajikistan, EU officials told Reuters, in a move aimed at helping Central Asia cut its reliance on Russian energy and part of the EU's answer to China's Belt and Road Initiative. The Rogun Dam is expected to cost around US$8 billion, of which US$3 billion has already been spent, the Tajik energy minister Dalyor Ju...
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PM Hun Sen: Gov’t to spend approx. US$100m in electricity loss this year
- 6 July 2022
The Cambodian government estimates that in 2022, Cambodia may lose approximately US$100 million of the national budget to electricity expenses, due to rising fuel prices caused by the Russia-Ukraine war. Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen stated on 6 July that investment in electricity has already been operating at a loss; however, the government decided not to increase the price to ease ...
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US$1.5 Trillion to be Spent on Smart Infrastructure in China in 2021-2025
- 5 July 2022
China's State-owned enterprises (SOEs) have revealed plans to invest over US$1.49 trillion in more than 1,300 smart infrastructure schemes across the country during from 2021 to 2025, to boost sustainable economic growth. According to a China Daily report in June, those development projects are not the traditional types like railways, roads, and water conservancy, but will focus on infrastructu...
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