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Introducing a new section of the Future Southeast Asia Newsletter. This week features Dubai in Danang, a rail bridge to Samui, and LED lights of Southeast Asia.

News

• Southeast Asia hopes to become the world’s next EV hub

🇰🇭 Cambodia

• Railway project studies proceed

“The transport ministry is exploring options to expedite preliminary studies on key public railway infrastructure projects, especially the conversion of the Northern Railway Line that links to Thailand into high-speed rail.”

• Waste startups and entrepreneurship tackle Cambodia’s growing trash problem

🇮🇩 Indonesia

• Greater Jakarta LRT to begin operation in June 2023

• PT KAI offers naming rights for ten railway stations

• Three-fourths of waste in Jakarta’s notoriously polluted rivers is plastic

• Indonesia's new capital to have electric charging lanes: task force

[Updated: Nusantara – New Capital City of Indonesia]

🇱🇦 Laos

• Fifth Lao-Thai Friendship Bridge completes 50% construction

• The train to dependence on China

🇲🇾 Malaysia

• Penang prefers LRT but is open to other rail types

[Updated: Bayan Lepas LRT]

• Work on Penang’s Island A set to begin in November, says Zairil

[Updated: Penang South Islands]

• Plan to build 120km bridge or tunnel across sea to link M'sia to Indonesia will take 20 years

🇵🇭 Philippines

• DOTr exec: Gov’t to relocate thousands of informal settlers due to railway, subway projects

• P2.5 B for airport construction, upgrade projects in DOTr’s proposed 2023 budget

• Metro Manila Rapid Transit Map Expansion (1984-2028) | Impograpiko [Video]

🇸🇬 Singapore

• Dhoby Ghaut area upgraded from 2025, with part of Orchard Road becoming car-less & Istana Park made 3 times larger

• Your East Coast sea view may disappear: how the Long Island reclamation could affect you

🇹🇭 Thailand

• Transport authorities set to push for one ticket for all public transport in Bangkok

• BEM wins bid for Orange Line project

• Bangkok city ordered to pay B11.75bn owed to skytrain operator

• Record rain overwhelming city canals

• Thailand to build another bridge to Malaysia

🇻🇳 Vietnam

• Hanoi 2nd metro line likely to be delayed by 5 years

• Gridlock return exposes Hanoi traffic shortcomings

• $4-billion resort project leaves 1,000 families at a loss

“For seven years, nearly 1,000 families subject to vacate land appropriated for a $4-billion resort project near Hoi An Town have been stuck in limbo.”

• Lotte makes fresh Vietnam start after China exit and '5 lost years'

$900m shopping center paves way for No. 3 market after South Korea and Japan

• Long Thanh airport set to serve first flight in September 2025

[Updated: Long Thanh International Airport]

• Hanoi is not building dragon-inspired longest structure in the world, official says