In 2001, China won the bid to host the 2008 Olympics. Since then, in a race to spruce up the country for the international sports meet, the Chinese government has undertaken a huge infrastructure overhaul, which includes tripling the length of Beijing's highways and quadrupling its subway capacity.

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India"s road networking plan, one of the few projects that are progressing ahead of schedule, is flouting a number of environmental guidelines

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the state appraisal committee in Vietnam has approved a controversial routing plan for the new Ho Chi Highway which cuts through the country's oldest national park, Cuc Phuong, housing many rare

Conservationists and environmentalists are worried that the construction of Vietnam's second major north-south highway could have a devastating environmental impact. Although acknowledging the

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