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Work is now underway on a new highway in China, the Shenzhen Eastern Corridor expressway.

A consortium will build a new tunnel in Romania as part of the Orastie-Sibiu highway project.

China is providing technical assistance for the upgrading of the 27km ring road project for Nepalese capital Kathmandu.

Work will start shortly on the second stretch of the Panama-Colon highway in Panama.

The Indian authorities are continuing to invest in infrastructure with 11 major projects planned to be launched during the coming financial year.

Four major infrastructure projects in Pakistan have been approved by the country's National Highway Authority.

The highway authorities in Indonesia are setting a budget of US$1.79 billion to maintain 34,000km of roads in the country during 2010.

In the US state of Virginia, the Governor Robert McDonnell is suggesting a new toll on Interstate 95 to help pay for road repairs.

Approval has been won by the South African National Roads Agency for construction of the planned N2 Wild Coast toll road project.

China's Gansu Province is to benefit from a major new highway connection. Work on the Cheng county-Wudu highway is scheduled to start at the end of August 2010.

A new report by the US based Freedonia Group suggests that construction spending in China will grow 9.1%/year in real terms through 2014.

A new report by the US-based Freedonia Group estimates that world demand for asphalt will grow 2.1%/year from the low in 2008 to 108 million tonnes in 2013.