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Tag: high-speed rail

A promotional poster for the 414-kilometer Laos-China railway project that promises to transform Laos from landlocked to land-linked. Photo: Facebook
Posted inLaos

$6 billion Laos-China railway on track to somewhere

by Peter Janssen December 3, 2021December 8, 2021

BANGKOK – The US$6 billion Laos-China railway that starts operations on December 3 – following the 46th anniversary of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic on December 2 – is definitely a game-changer for the land-locked communist country of 7 million people, which has rarely enjoyed the regional spotlight. The inauguration of the 422-kilometer rail link […]

Posted inChina

China’s ‘floating’ maglev train in testing stage

by Dave Makichuk June 23, 2020June 23, 2020
A promotional poster for the 414-kilometer Laos-China railway project that promises to transform Laos from landlocked to land-linked. Photo: Facebook
Posted inAT Finance, Laos

China-Laos friendship ‘blossoming’

by Bertil Lintner April 24, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inChina, Northeast Asia

BeiDou helps lay China’s new key rail link

by Asia Times staff April 19, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inChina

Mega road-rail bridge planned to connect Hainan

by Asia Times staff March 19, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inAT Finance, Myanmar

Poor and isolated, Myanmar backs into a China debt trap

by Bertil Lintner January 31, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inChina

Debt trap could derail China’s high-speed train network

by Gordon Watts January 30, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inChina

Shenzhen building skyscrapers, metro, high-speed rail lines

by Asia Times staff January 22, 2019February 18, 2020
A bullet train passes along a bridge in downtown Ningbo. Photo: Weibo
Posted inBeijing, China, France, Taiwan, United Kingdom, World

Green light for undersea tunnel linking two industrial hubs

by Frank Chen November 26, 2018February 18, 2020
Aerial view of Kunming skyline in fog with empty streets. Photo: iStock
Posted inAT Finance, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Chengdu, China, European Union, India, Laos, Myanmar, Shanghai, Singapore, South Asia, Vietnam, World

Yunnan once again pivot of Southeast Asia

by Altay Atli July 18, 2018
New electric Baojun cars lined up at a plant in Liuzhou. Photo: AFP
Posted inBeijing, China, Hong Kong, Shanghai, World

Speed bumps ahead as smart cars and clean energy fuel China’s rise

by Gordon Watts July 11, 2018February 18, 2020
High speed trains at the Beijing end of the 2,298-kilometer line between Beijing and Guangzhou. Photo: AFP
Posted inBeijing, China, European Union, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghai, World, Wuhan

How Chinese cities can capture high-speed rail opportunities

by Huang Bo July 1, 2018February 18, 2020
Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi (L) greets Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on August 19, 2016. Photo: AFP/Dela Pena
Posted inAT Finance, Bangladesh, Beijing, China, European Union, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, South Asia, World

How China gets what it wants in Myanmar

by Bertil Lintner April 24, 2018February 18, 2020
Lao children in a village setting. The Lao government aims to implement a universal health care scheme to cover remote impoverished areas of the country. Photo: iStock/Getty Images
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, China, France, Hong Kong, Laos, Middle East, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Thailand, Timor Leste, Vietnam, World

China’s aid a matter of life and death for Laos

by David Hutt December 12, 2017February 18, 2020
Indonesian President Joko Widodo (second left) and China Railway Corp manager Sheng Guangzu (center) examine  a high-speed-train model during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Jakarta-Bandung railway line in Walini, West Java province, on January 21, 2016. Photo: Reuters / Garry Lotulung
Posted inAT Finance, China, Indonesia, Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, South Korea, World

Indonesia’s high-speed rail to start construction early 2018

by Lin Wanxia October 20, 2017February 18, 2020
US President Donald Trump welcomes Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to the White House on September 12, 2017. Photo: Reuters Jonathan Ernst
Posted inAT Finance, China, Japan, Malaysia, Northeast Asia, Singapore, South Asia

Camaraderie between Najib, Trump jangles investor nerves

by Gary Kleiman September 25, 2017
China Digest 10
Posted inBeijing, China, Guangzhou

Guangzhou bans new launches of shared bikes

by Liu Hsiu Wen and Zheng Xin August 4, 2017February 18, 2020
The construction site (foreground) for the West Kowloon terminus of the high-speed rail link connecting Hong Kong to the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou is seen in Hong Kong on July 27, 2017. Photo: AFP / Isaac Lawrence
Posted inBeijing, China, France, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, World

How a Chinese checkpoint in Hong Kong raised so much angst

by Kent Ewing July 31, 2017February 18, 2020
A young couple salute the flag of India. Photo: iStock
Posted inChina, European Union, India, Middle East, Pakistan, South Asia, World

10 reasons an Indian can be seen as an ‘anti-national’

by Amrita Mukherjee July 10, 2017
A high-speed train undergoing cleaning. Photo via the state PeopleRail.com Weibo.
Posted inBeijing, China, Shanghai

New bullet trains hit tracks in China, rebranded for Xi

by Asia Unhedged June 30, 2017February 18, 2020

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