Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Western Australia’s powerful mineral and petroleum industries, which provided more than 40 per cent of Australia’s 2010 export earnings, are also driving massive investment in infrastructure, set to transform the State over the next decade.
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Bombardier Transportation announced today it has won a groundbreaking contract for propulsion and control equipment in India from Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation (MRVC). MRVC is a joint venture between the Ministry of Railways and the Government of...
Saturday, November 26th, 2011
Be it airports, Metro, rail or road, the UAE is assembling a world-class transport system to rival any country in the world. A country that once had no airline of its own, or a railway system, or an...
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Padma Vibhushan Dr E Sreedharan, better known as India's Metro Man, said here on Thursday that the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) had submitted a feasibility study report on a high-speed railway line between Kasargode and Thiruvananthapuram....
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
The number and severity of flood events throughout Asia has increased in recent times. Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma and Vietnam have all experienced major flood disasters recently. Integrated flood management is emerging as a comprehensive approach for...
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
For the first time in history, more than half the world's population now live in urban areas and about 70% will be city dwellers by 2050.The UN estimates that 11 out of 20 mega-cities are in Asia...
Monday, November 14th, 2011
The two leaders exchanged pleasantries and expressed appreciation for each other’s help such as Australia’s assistance in mapping out flood-prone areas in Metro Manila, Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Laura del Rosario said. “The Australian government is helping us unmask...
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Through its acquisition of Pointools, Bentley is able to go beyond embedding the powerful Vortex engine in MicroStation, to assimilate point cloud processing and data management through the ProjectWise and AssetWise platforms, extending point cloud value through...
Friday, November 4th, 2011
General Atlantic-backed Infotech Enterprises has acquired the 26 per cent stake it didn’t own in its subsidiary Infotech Geospatial (India) Limited (IGIL), for undisclosed sum, the company disclosed in a statement to Bombay Stock Exchange today. Infotech Enterprises...