May 20, 2011
Built in 1938, the Da Lat Railway Station was designed in the Art Deco architectural style by French architects Moncet and Reveron. Three degrading architectural relics in Dalat, the hill resort city in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, will be restored at the cost of VND45 billion (US$2.17 million), the government said. The local authorities have allocated [...]
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December 24, 2010
If ever there was a vantage point for cloud-watchers, it would be Y Ty. At more than 2,000 meters above sea level, leaning on the Nhu Cu San Mountain, Y Ty Commune in the northern province of Lao Cai’s Bat Xat District is a favorite place for clouds to hang out. The place is [...]
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February 8, 2010
China’s railway network has transported 5.03 million passengers as of Feb. 6, the eighth day of the country’s annual Spring Festival transport peak lasting from Jan. 30 to March 10 Passengers enter the railway station under a shelter against the rain in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province, Feb. 7, 2010. In spite of a heavy [...]
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January 2, 2010
A relic from the past offers a new way to sightsee the resort town of Da Lat. A restoration of the old train has added to the allure of Da Lat“It’s a pity that it is very short. I just want to travel like this from morning till evening!” American tourist Kim Fieldhouse echoes the sentiments [...]
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January 2, 2010
A restoration of the old train has added to the allure of Da Lat A relic from the past offers a new way to sightsee the resort town of Da Lat. âItâs a pity that it is very short. I just want to travel like this from morning till evening!âAmerican tourist Kim Fieldhouse echoes the [...]
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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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December 4, 2009
Thousands of people took a day off from work on December 1 to buy train tickets through text messages for the lunar New Year 2010, which will fall in early February. Though the Saigon Railway Station began selling the tickets by SMS at 8:30am, hundreds had arrived at the station by 5am all set to [...]
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November 28, 2009
For Mumbai, the day is a tribute to all those martyrs who gave up their lives to ensure others could live to tell their tales. Indians take part in a candle light vigil to commemorate victims of last year’s Mumbai carnage on the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks in Kolkata, capital of eastern Indian [...]
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November 24, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Hanoi Railway Station will begin selling train tickets for the Lunar New Year season on December 1 with South-North tickets up by 25%. The price of seat tickets for the South-North route will rise from 10-25% and the price of soft bed tickets by 10% between January 30 and February 11.The price of [...]
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August 19, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The total investment capital needed for the first subway project in Hanoi, Nhon-Hanoi Railway Station, has increased by 71% though this project is not implemented yet. Hanoi will have five metro routes: Nam Thang Long – Tran Hung Dao, Nhon – Hanoi Railway Station, Cat Linh – Ha Dong and Yen Vien – [...]
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