High-Speed Rail

14 May 2013

The 50-minute high-speed rail trip from Guangzhou South station to Shaoguan in northern Guangdong province isn't one of the world's great train journeys.

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Hong Kong, mainland Chinese firms eye Malaysia bullet train plan

2 Apr 2013

Hong Kong and mainland Chinese companies are interested in a recently announced high-speed railway planned to link Singapore with Kuala Lumpur, according to Mohamad Nur Ismal Kamal, chief...

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Speed increase on Harbin to Dalian rail line delayed

24 Mar 2013

The 50 per cent speed increase on the high-speed rail from Harbin to Dalian, originally scheduled for April 1, is likely be postponed for operational and safety reasons.

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Slicing through the airlines

12 Mar 2013

The integration of air travel and high-speed rail services on the mainland will benefit major airports like Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing, but hurt smaller airports and short-haul flights, say...

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Mainland China moved by trains, not planes

2 Mar 2013

The report about how China's domestic air carriers are feeling the pinch from competition with high-speed rail was inevitable ("Mainland airlines fly into headwinds from high speed trains",...

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Fast track to big economic benefits

21 Feb 2013

"High-speed rail will push [mainland] China's economy forward significantly," said Anthony Wong, a former president of the Hong Kong Logistics Association, citing the Chinese proverb, "When the...

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2020 target for Singapore-Kuala Lumpur high-speed rail link

A high-speed rail link between Singapore and the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur may be completed by 2020, leaders of the two countries said yesterday.

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China's high-speed rail network carries burden of being safe and affordable

China's desire to be a science and technology leader was made plain when it became the third nation to put a man in space in 2003.

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Shanghai's maglev passenger traffic lower than expected

Shanghai's 30-kilometre maglev railway has seen its business so pummelled by the expansion of the city's metro system it is increasingly becoming a white elephant, leaving city officials red-faced...

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RAILWAYS

China Railway Construction Corp wins 13.2b yuan of orders

China Railway Construction Corporation has won two contracts worth 13.2 billion yuan (HK$16.4 billion), the company announced on the Shanghai Stock Exchange website yesterday.

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Mainland railway firm eyes US project

Despite the China-bashing in the United States presidential election, which has entered its final week, a Chinese state-owned enterprise is in talks to win a US infrastructure project worth at...

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Safety laws target high-speed railways

The central government is considering legislation that would make China's railway system safer, in part by banning the hasty completion of high-speed lines.

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