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The manufacturer Volvo Construction Equipment has major growth plans for its presence in Asia and China in particular.

Upgrading work on China's Hohhot-Baotou highway is now underway in a project worth US$1.5 billion.

Nepal is recovering from a massive earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale, which has severely damaged infrastructure.

Construction work on a highway link in Tunisia will be funded by a 22 year loan being provided by the Arab Fund for Social and Economic Development (FADES).

Hill & Smith is buying Swedish firm ATA for SEK 100 million (£9.8 million).

The International Transport Forum at the OECD, an intergovernmental organisation for the transport sector that comprises 52 countries, has announced the winner of its 2011 Young Researcher of the Year Award.

The latest available data regarding the European construction equipment market suggests that the machinery market is improving.

The severe risk of working in Afghanistan was highlighted when Taliban insurgents attacked a road construction firm in Paktia Province.

A series of key technical innovations are now coming to market that will help boost performance for future electric vehicles.

Work is progressing on the 180km National Highway 18 project in India linking Kurnool and Kadapa.

A new bridge in Ecuador will improve transport connections in the country.

A US$104 million road project that will improve cross-border links in Southern Africa is now getting underway thanks to a loan from the African Development Bank (ADB).

The UN Road Safety Collaboration has used support from the World Health Organisation in its development of a Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 (DARS).

Upgrade work to five sections of the D1 highway in the Czech Republic is due to commence in spring 2012.

The authorities in Phnom Penh plan to handle the city's endemic congestion problems.