Yogyakarta Trip Report: Yogyakarta should look to Siem Reap’s street reconstruction project, and Siem Reap should have an airport rail link like Yogyakarta. Yogyakarta is the capital city of the Special Region of Yogyakarta in Central Java. The city is 20 km away from the Borobudur temple complex, which is the largest Buddhist temple in the […]
Airports in the Philippines
Southeast Asia Airports > Philippines Airports List and map of current and future airports in the Philippines. Philippines airports map [View Google Map of airports in the Philippines.] Red=International Blue=Domestic Yellow=Under construction The base for this list is the Wikipedia list of airports in the Philippines. The airports are grouped into the traditional island groups […]
Philippines High-Speed Railway
There is no official plan for a high-speed railway in the Philippines, but there have been various proposals made by elected officials and the private sector. Most of the proposals have been for a high-speed railway in Luzon. A North-South Luzon HSR was proposed in 2010 by San Miguel Corp. In 2023, Luis Raymund Villafuerte […]
Could the Philippines build a Pan-Philippine High-Speed Railway?
Is it possible to build a high-speed railway from Manila to Davao, and should the Philippines build such a railway? The Philippines is drafting a 30-year railway master plan, which includes rebuilding the railway in Luzon and building a new railway in Mindanao. There have been some mentions of upgrading the proposed railways in Luzon and Mindanao […]
Ho Chi Minh City’s unwelcoming airport bus
The airport bus from Ho Chi Minh City’s new airport terminal is a confusing, slow, and unwelcoming experience. This lack of coordination for a simple bus service does not bode well for transport links to the future second airport. Tan Son Nhat International Airport’s Terminal 3 (T3) officially opened for commercial flights on April 17, 2025. […]
Leyte-Mindanao Bridge – Connecting Visayas and Mindanao to the Pan-Philippine Highway
The Leyte-Mindanao Bridge is a proposed bridge to connect the islands of Leyte and Mindanao in the Philippines. The project involves the construction of cable-stayed bridges connecting San Ricardo, Southern Leyte and Lipata in Surigao City. The Leyte-Mindanao Bridge is estimated to be 23 km in length, which is long, but it’s not the longest […]
Luzon-Samar Bridge – Connecting Luzon and Visayas to the Pan-Philippine Highway
The Luzon-Samar Bridge is a proposed bridge to connect the islands of Luzon and Samar in the Philippines. The bridge is also referred to as the Matnog-Allen Bridge, named after the ports that currently connect the two islands. The Luzon-Samar Bridge is estimated to be 18.2 km in length, which is just over half of […]
Improving bus services between Da Nang and Hoi An
Da Nang and Hoi An are now the same city as part of Vietnam’s provincial mergers of 2025. With the merger, the new city should promote the current bus connection, improve bus stations, and start an airport and railway station bus service to Hoi An. Da Nang is experiencing an economic boom as it positions […]
Redrawing new districts and geographical zones in Ho Chi Minh City
A proposal to create new districts and geographical zones in Ho Chi Minh City. These new designated areas would act like postcodes and not another government body. On July 1, 2025, Ho Chi Minh City merged with the neighbouring provinces of Binh Duong and Ba Ria-Vung Tau. This was part of the nationwide merger that […]
Makassar should be more like Singapore before being like Dubai
Makassar Trip Report: Makassar is the largest city in Eastern Indonesia. It’s building a Dubai-inspired new urban area on artificial islands, but it should look to Singapore’s example for fixing the city sidewalks first. Makassar is the largest city in the Eastern Region of Indonesia. It has a population of about 1.5 million people, and […]
