{"id":602454,"date":"2026-09-16T19:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/602454\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T19:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:39:07","slug":"uk-eyes-role-in-vietnam-infrastructure-boom-with-2-5bn-metro-financing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/602454\/","title":{"rendered":"UK eyes role in Vietnam infrastructure boom with $2.5bn metro financing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/transportation\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Transportation<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">British export credit agency plans support for Ho Chi Minh City airport rail link<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/5\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20260914 metro vietnam\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Ho Chi Minh City commuters skip the megacity&#8217;s traffic jams\u00a0by taking a new metro train line. (Lien Hoang)<\/p>\n<p>LIEN HOANG<\/p>\n<p>September 16, 2026 11:50 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">HO CHI MINH CITY &#8212; UK Export Finance (UKEF), Britain&#8217;s export credit agency, is planning up to $2.5 billion in financing to help Ho Chi Minh City extend its metro line to Long Thanh International Airport, Nikkei Asia has learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transportation British export credit agency plans support for Ho Chi Minh City airport rail link Ho Chi Minh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[142453,16424,138,219,2753,52338,1702,54181,111,139,69,205,1613,2317],"class_list":["post-602454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-25bn","tag-boom","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-eyes","tag-financing","tag-infrastructure","tag-metro","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-role","tag-uk","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}