road construction

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Sluggish site clearance slows North-South Expressway project

Stagnant site clearance work for the North-South Expressway project means work will not start on the project this August as planned.

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BOT toll stations will be closed if investors don’t fix roads: Transport Minister

VietNamNet Bridge – Toll stations on roads built under Build-Operation-Transfer (BOT) contracts could be closed if investors behind the projects delayed repairs,

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Hydropower plants destroy vast forest area

VietNamNet Bridge – Over 20,000 hectares of forest had been chopped down for several purposes, mostly for development of hydropower plants, but only around 700 hectares had been replanted as of the end of 2012.

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$50 million of road maintenance fees collected

By the end of March, the Road Maintenance Fund collected more than VND1 trillion ($50 million) of road maintenance fees of automobile owners. The fee for motorcycles is not fixed yet.