The Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation has announced the award of one civil construction contract and one systems contract for the West Rail Phase I worth a combined value of $92.8 million.Costain-China Harbor Joint Venture won the contract for the construction of the West Rail Depot Buildings at a contract sum of $88.8 million.

The $150 million Nathan Dam in Queensland, Australia, has won state government approval, 70 years after it was first proposed.Environmentalists said the decision was ''fatally flawed'', predicting disastrous impacts on the Fitzroy River system and Great Barrier Reef.

Vietnam is set to kick off an ambitious project early this year to develop the country's second major road artery at a cost of millions of dollars, said an official with the Ministry of Communications and Transport.