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China is secretly building a massive military command center southwest of Beijing. The 1,500-acre construction site is expected to dwarf the Pentagon.
Vanuatu, site of a major U.S. naval base in the Pacific War, was also a vital venue for China's "undercover infrastructures," ...
The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits fell to a two-month low last week, suggesting labor ...
In China, entire buildings have collapsed just years after being built. Cheap materials. Rushed work. Lives lost. This is the story of the Tofu Dreg crisis.
(In construction parlance, “topping off” means completing the basic structure of a building.) It was an occasion momentous enough to be honored with fireworks in the sprawling capital of China ...
(AP Photo/Manish Swarup) A Thai rescuer talks to members of the Blue Sky Rescue (BSR) team from China’s Hunan province at the site of an under-construction high-rise building that collapsed after an ...
The state is considering allowing mass-produced reactors, defying economics and logic. The hype is built on magical thinking.
If 100 megawatt hybrid plant is on schedule, it could put China decades ahead of comparable efforts in the rest of the world.
The executive director says he's already seen a slight price increase for materials, but what he is especially concerned ...
A Chinese-backed construction firm is being investigated over the collapse of a 33-storey high-rise in Thailand's Bangkok during Friday's 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar.
In promotional material posted on its official social media channels in 2024, China Railway No. 10 Engineering Group declared that its first super high-rise project built overseas would duly become ...