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

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.

The complex legal tangle over Poland's troubled A2 highway project is continuing to develop.

A report by Frost & Sullivan predicts that the European electric vehicle charging infrastructure market is set to boom.

Uzbekistan's highway network is benefiting from considerable investment at present.

Swedish engineering consultancy Sweco will design a new connecting road between Malmö and the Port of Helsingborg.

Accident statistics from Laos and Vietnam reveal a growing awareness of the problems needing attention.

Official statistics for the Dutch traffic information service VID reveal that congestion in the country dropped by 16.9% in the first four months of 2011 compared with the previous year.