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Construction work on a section of Bosnia's Corridor 5c highway is set to commence by the end of September 2011.

Bolivia's 306km Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos road is due for completion in 2014. The new road will provide and important link for the departments of Beni and Cochabamba

Two major highway projects are now going ahead in India. A contract worth some US$383 million is now being carried out by Era Infra Engineering Limited (EIEL) through its partnership with OJSC-SIBMOST in Uttar Pradesh.

Work to upgrade the Hanoi-Thai Nguyen section of Vietnam's Highway 3 will now be split into two sub-projects.

Zimbabwe looks set to receive a US$1.3 billion loan from the Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA).

A newly planned project aims to address road maintenance issues in Cambodia.

The Israel National Roads Company has awarded a tender to The Mordechai Binyamin for the construction of the Golani interchange.

The Greek highway sector looks set to receive much-needed external funding from the EU for key project studies.

The regional authorities in the Spanish Andalucia region are looking to the PPP model to develop infrastructure projects.

The authorities in the Czech Republic are counting the cost of bungled planning for a series of infrastructure projects, including a number of road, tunnel and bridge connections.

A notable partnership deal looks set to provide funding for key Russian highway projects. A memorandum of co-operation has been signed between the state-owned Russian Highways (Avtodor) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).