MUZAFFRABAD: Four people, site for a major dam project in Kashmir, officials said. including a Chinese engineer, were killed on Wednesday when a wall collapsed at a construction The accident happened at the Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project intake site 40 kilometres north of Muzaffarabad, the capital of the Pakistan-administered Kashmir. “Four workers including a Chinese engineer were killed when a wall collapsed,” Sayed Asif Gardezi, a local administration official, told AFP. He said a…
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BEIJING: China is losing more than $10 billion a year from its expressways, state media reported on Wednesday, despite levying hefty tolls on the world’s largest highway network. China spent 431bn yuan ($69bn) on building, maintaining and operating highways in 2013, but only took in 365bn yuan from tolls, the China Daily reported, citing the Ministry of Transport. For years the building of roads, high-speed rail lines and other infrastructure projects helped China…