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A key highway upgrade will improve links between Chinese capital Beijing and Tibet.

Approval has been given for a US$108 million flyover project for Bangladesh. This 8.25km structure will run from Satrasta to Shantinagar via Mauchak, Moghbazar and Malibagh.

A programme of rural road improvements will see the upgrade of 100,000km of links in China's Sichuan Province.

With work on Colombia's first La Linea tunnel still incomplete, discussions are now being held regarding plans for the second tunnel.

Plans are now well in hand for Qatar's Lusail Expressway project, which is expected to cost some US$700 million in total.

Questions are being asked in the US State of Alabama over additional funding being required for an 83km stretch of road.

Legal and technical complications are the cause of a dispute in between the Algerian transport authorities and four Japanese contractors over a US$6.56 billion highway project.

The International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA) is giving its backing to strong investment in US infrastructure.

Work is now commencing in South Africa on the massive the S'hamba Sonke road repair and upgrade project.

DBi Services has acquired the assets of the contracting division of Prismo Road Markings T/A Ennis Traffic Safety Solutions, a subsidiary of Ennis Paint.

Against a backdrop of China's fast-growing infrastructure projects, the organisers of BICES are promising 2011 will be another record-breaking year for the event.

Canada's Henri IV road will be widened and upgraded in a project worth US$413.6 million ($400 million).

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) has received the US Department of Commerce's Certificate of Appreciation for Achievement in Trade.

A staggering US$21 billion is being invested in Shenzhen city in China on road projects during the 2011-2015 period.

IBTTA president Frank McCartney has urged US Congress to remove the barriers to tolling and expand the TIFIA program.