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A huge investment in infrastructure is planned for Peru as part of its programme to boost connectivity internally and with its near neighbours.

Multi-purpose bridges are being proposed as suitable infrastructure options for Bangladesh as well as to link Argentina and Paraguay.

Work to the D3 highway connecting Czech capital Prague with Ceske Budejovice and the Austrian border is not seen as a key project that will be supported by the European Commission (EC) between 2014 and 2020.

Major structural problems have been identified in several bridges in Nepal.

New links will provide better transport connections between Thailand and Laos.

The cost of the new causeway project linking Qatar with Bahrain is expected to hit US$5 billion in all.

Plans are being worked on for a tunnel connecting the town of Rho with Milan's Linate airport.

The new ringroad around Novi Sad in Serbia is now open to traffic.

Work on a new road in Laos will take until 2012 to complete

Moldova's state road administration is opening the tender process for the selection of a consultant to manage a major road rehabilitation project.

A legal dispute continues to delay work on Stockholm's Bypass project.

Data from Belgium suggests that the level of use of seatbelts amongst car drivers and passengers lags behind that of a number of other European nations.