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last updated:
9 September, 2024
Shanghai

One Shanghai worker's daily commute

Indonesia

Deadly train crash in Indonesia

Beijing

Icy track blamed for Beijing train mishap

Indonesia

Is Indonesia’s new high-speed railway worth the hype?

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Future of transport

Driverless sky train starts trial run in Wuhan's high-tech park

Science

Chinese levitating trains that may soon rival airline speeds

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Greece

Collision of 2 trains in Greece leaves dozens dead

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Turkey

Turkish metro features Chinese high-speed trains

Thailand

Fanfare, nostalgia welcome Bangkok’s new railway terminal

The Philippines

Motorbike taxis in Philippines add height to rise above floodwaters

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Japan

First Tokyo taxi fare hike in 15 years

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Hong Kong transport

HK’s Star Ferry surviving despite financial troubles

China’s carbon neutral goal

HK’s first electric double-decker bus

Hong Kong taxis

Visa rolls out contactless payment app for ‘missing link’ Hong Kong taxis

Credit card firm says it has rolled out a ‘Tap to Phone’ service for taxis, allowing passengers to use their contactless cards on cabbies’ Android mobiles.

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Sonia Cheng of Chung Shing Taxi and Maaike Steinebach from Visa. Photo: K. Y. Cheng
Shanghai

Shanghai’s lockdown easing doesn’t mean end of shipping snarls

The world’s supply chains have taken a battering this year from China’s zero-Covid policy, which has hampered the production and delivery of everything from bathroom taps to Apple iPhones.

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Container vessels queueing around Shanghai and the entrance into the Yangtze River on May 19, 2022. Photo: Bloomberg
Electric & new energy vehicles

Kerry Logistics rolls out Hong Kong’s first electric trucks in emission cap plan

Firm director William Ma says e-trucks have hit the road in ‘trial run’ and currently transporting high-end fashion goods.

MTR Corporation

Eager Hong Kong rail fans get first look at new Exhibition Centre station

Fans wowed by new Exhibition Centre station, calling it ‘beautiful’, while a World War II bomb uncovered during construction and now on display is ‘amazing’.

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Accidents and personal safety

Man found dead inside Hong Kong bus, believed to have been there overnight

A driver at the terminus says ambulance personnel estimated the man had been dead for at least 10 hours by the time he was discovered

A man was found dead inside a 36B double-decker at Lei Muk Shue Bus Terminus in Tsuen Wan.
Luxury cars

Palaces on wheels: the most impressive RVs to travel the road in style

Taking road trips to a whole new level, here are some of the most extravagant RVs with luxurious features – and some are worth millions

Transport and logistics

Hong Kong to get first electric double-decker bus designed for hilly terrain

Battery-powered double-decker bus from Bravo Transport can accommodate 113 passengers and could be ready for service by midyear.

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Sinopec

Sinopec sees return of fuel demand as Covid-19 lockdowns ease

The petroleum and chemical giant expects demand to recover during the second quarter, after Covid-19 lockdowns deflated demand in recent weeks. The outlook comes as the company reported 27 per cent year-on-year profit growth for the first three months.

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A pump attendant refuelled a car at a Sinopec gas station in Beijing on February 28, 2020. Photo: Reuters
John Lee

Letters | Can John Lee’s ‘result-oriented’ pledge truly stir the bureaucracy?

Readers want results – from the Buildings Department on unauthorised signboards, the Transport Department on bus services, the Education Bureau on online teaching resources – and suggest four ways for the government to bring real change.

Chief executive hopeful John Lee Ka-chiu on a grass-roots visit in Yau Ma Tei on April 24. Photo: K.Y. Cheng
Transport and logistics

Hong Kong’s largest bus operator adds new electric vehicles to fleet

KMB aims to run a fully electric fleet eventually, will stop buying diesel-powered buses from 2030.

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Electric & new energy vehicles

Tesla supplier CATL to invest US$6 billion in Indonesia battery project

CATL and its Indonesian partners Aneka Tambang and Industri Baterai will build an integrated EV battery project in the Southeast Asian nation’s northern Maluku province.

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Women and gender

Letters | Public sector should lead to narrow Hong Kong’s gender pay gap

Readers commend the RTHK for bucking the gender pay gap, decry the addiction to fossil fuel-run cars, say the future of a Polar Silk Road remains bright, and ask that tobacco deaths be treated as a public crisis on a par with Covid-19.

Commuters in Hong Kong’s Central district on January 27. The Civil Service Bureau does not consider that there is any issue of gender pay inequality in the government and has issued no report on the matter. Photo: Bloomberg
MTR Corporation

Hong Kong MTR service between Sunny Bay, Disneyland resumes after power outage

Service resumes after a nearly 12-hour delay caused by a technical fault with overhead line equipment.

The problem on the Disneyland Resort route is due to a technical issue with overhead line equipment. Photo: K. Y. Cheng
China technology

In maglev innovation, Chinese researchers transfer power wirelessly

Although a maglev train is driven forward by magnetic force, much of the equipment on board requires electricity, and current methods have their drawbacks.

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Britain

Protesters gather at UK ports after P&O sacks 800 ferry workers

Dubai-owned P&O said on Thursday it had lost US$131 million in the past year and that without changes, its business was not sustainable.

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