VIETNAM

Bidding on Road Project Opens: Construction companies from 14 countries have started bidding on projects worth $317 million to resurface and widen Vietnam’s main Highway 1. The bidders include Morrison Knudsen Corp. and Brown & Root International Inc. of the United States, and South Korea’s Hyundai Corp., the Vietnam News said. The government expects to select the winners in August, and work is to begin in November, the paper said. Completion is expected in 1997. Highway 1 stretches for 1,430 miles from China in the north to the Gulf of Thailand in the south.