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Trip Reports
Trip reports of cities I visit in Southeast Asia, featuring construction updates, transit reviews, and observations on urban development.
Penang construction update (2025 edition)
Trip report for my visit to Penang in September 2025. The Penang LRT finally begins construction, historic Georgetown begins a greening and pedestrianisation project, merging old and new outside the historic UNESCO area, the Gurney Bay reclamation update, and making the same car-centric mistakes on the Andaman Island project.
Hat Yai construction and transport report – 2025 edition
Turning Hat Yai into a great southern metropolis, apartment living comes to Hat Yai city, the tallest building in Southern Thailand, the Hat Yai Monorail plan, Hat Yai-Songkhla Railway revival, and double-tracking the railway to the border.
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.
Vietnam's most provincial international beach city
Quy Nhon trip report (2025 edition). A review of apartment and hotel towers under construction, the resort project that will be connected to the city by cable car, the abandoned Japanese-themed new urban area, and prospects for the city with the future high-speed railway.
Da Lat construction and transport report
Da Lat (Central Highlands of Vietnam), featuring a new international hotel, the greenhouse problem, the old Governor’s Palace, build too big and ask for permission later, an old military airport that would make a great park, international flights, and the proposed railway restoration.
