Monday, August 18th, 2014
A 143 billion RMB project intended to connect China and Thailand with high-speed trains has been approved by the Thailand National Council for Peace and Order. A source said the routes align with a proposal by China...
Wednesday, January 15th, 2014
China is giving a steely infrastructural hug to its southeast Asian neighbors, with plans to roll out a massive high-speed rail system to crisscross Laos, Thailand, and Malaysia en route to Singapore. Constructing it will be a...
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
A new model of compact, environmentally enhanced urban design by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) for the rapid development of satellite cities along Chinese high speed rail corridors has won an international design competition with its...
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
Even as China prepares to open bullet train service from Beijing to Shanghai by July 1, this nation’s steadily expanding high-speed rail network is being pilloried on a scale rare among Chinese citizens and news media. Complaints include...
Friday, June 17th, 2011
China's ambitious rail project in Laos could bring prosperity, some say. In March, a team of Chinese engineers began surveying the lush valley and hillsides, which lie on the railroad's planned 261-mile route south to the capital, Vientiane,...
Saturday, April 30th, 2011
Zhao Jian, a professor at Beijing Jiaotong University and a longtime critic of high-speed rail, said he worries that the cost of project might have created a hidden debt bomb that threatens...
