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Chiang Mai construction and transport report – 2025 edition
The big Night Bazaar redevelopment, turning the old women’s prison into a park, an unusual abandoned mall waiting for a developer, a modern apartment tower in a potential future hotspot, the light rail plan, the two airports plan, and waterway rehabilitation.




Chiang Mai Metro System – Reviewing the routes of the 3 proposed transit lines
Chiang Mai is planning to build a 3-line urban rail transit system that will be the first provincial subway in Thailand. I visited the locations of every station of the proposed first line, and I reviewed the routes of the other lines. I also propose to turn one line into a circle line.


East Timor planes and dreams of trains
[News 10 Sep 2025] New Phnom Penh airport opens, Indonesia and China discuss sea wall and high-speed rail, land for South Korea tourism project in Vientiane, Malaysia mulls railway link to encircle Borneo, Singapore reclaims land below mean sea level, Nong Khai–Vientiane rail bridge, HCMC-Tay Ninh Railway.


Future Southeast Asia News #281
Airport rail links to HCMC's new airport, Thailand airports map, Laos launches SE Asia’s largest wind farm, electric train service to halve JB-KL travel time, Samar-Leyte and Panay railway study, Singapore coastal barriers, financing the Lao Cai-Hanoi-Hai Phong railway

