July 24, 2011
Chinese firefighters work to rescue survivors from the scene of a high-speed train crash in eastern China’s Zhejiang province. China has ordered an “urgent” overhaul of rail safety, state media said Sunday, after a train crash killed 35 people in the worst accident to ever hit the country’s high-speed rail network. Another 210 people were [...]
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January 28, 2011
Vietnam will study a proposal to build a high-speed railway linking Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung declared that the feasibility study would commence at a “suitable time.” The decision was included in his approval of a plan to develop the transportation infrastructure in the southern economic area by [...]
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November 13, 2010
A group of deportees still wearing their concentration camp uniforms are greeted by locals on their arrival back in Paris in 1945 after being liberated by Allied forces in Germany. France’s state-owned rail company SNCF has expressed remorse for hauling thousands of Jews to their deaths in Nazi camps, after US lawmakers threatened its chances [...]
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January 14, 2010
State-owned Vietnam Railways Corp is talking with Japanese trading company Itochu Corp about the construction of a Shinkansen-style train route linking Hanoi with its airport, a local newspaper said Thursday. The 47 km double-track line would connect Noi Bai International Airport with three stations in the capital, the Transport Ministry-run Giao Thong Van Tai newspaper [...]
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January 1, 2010
Ho Chi Minh Cityâs transport sector needs around US$40 billion to fulfill its development plans by 2020 instead of the $26 billion planned two years ago, a municipal administration meeting heard Monday. Compensation to residents for site clearance accounted for most of the estimated investment, said Tran Quang Phuong, director of the HCMC Department of [...]
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December 26, 2009
The Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed railway with the world’s fastest train journey with a 350-km-per-hour average speed, started operation Saturday. A high-speed train runs into Wuhan Railway Station, in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province, Dec. 26, 2009. The Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed railway, which boasts of the world’s fastest train journey with a 350-km-per-hour average speed, is [...]
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August 27, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Director of the Viet Nam Railway Department Vu Xuan Hong spoke to Dau Tu about a project to build an express railway from HCM City to Can Tho. Passenger transport is the key target of this railway.The Ministry of Transport has entrusted us to make a report on the project on the basis [...]
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July 29, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The Hanoi-Ho Chi Minh City express railway will play a very important role in the industrialization and modernization of the country, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said recently. Vietnam will have a high speed railway from Hanoi to HCM City. LookAtVietnam – The Hanoi – Ho Chi Minh City express railway will play [...]
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July 3, 2009
LookAtVietnam – A high-speed canoe speeds up, pulling along a parachute flying above the Bai Chay coast and Halong Bay. That’s the beginning of a parachute-pulled canoe adventure into the World Heritage Site from the sky. A parachute-pulled canoe tour is what travelers must experience when travelling Halong Bay.The tour leads you to different states [...]
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June 30, 2009
Largest commercial complex under construction; More eight projects in Ninh Binh province licensed; Contract for providing gas compressor module signed; Bumper crop of winter-spring rice The country has finished harvesting the 2009 winter-spring rice with an output of 18.6 million tonnes, up 312,000 tonnes compared to the last crop, according to the Ministry of Agriculture [...]
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