The collapse of Serbia’s Novi Sad train station roof last month killed 15 people and severely injured two others, igniting weeks-long, nationwide protests against government corruption that is widely perceived to be at the root...
Anyone who has boarded an airplane in the last 20 years knows what stands between arrival at the terminal and waiting at the gate: shoes off, laptops out, water bottles emptied …. In China, similar checkpoints also await railway...
According to a state media report, China plans to construct two railway lines in Tibet that will...
At Foreign Policy, author of Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World — From...
At the New York Times’ Sinosphere blog, China correspondent Edward Wong reflects on his...
From AP: China rebounded quickly from its deadliest train accident in a decade, announcing that speeding was to blame for the collision that killed at least 70 people and reopening the railway after little more than a day....
From BBC News: Shares in China’s state-owned railway builder made a strong debut in Shanghai – calming fears after weak debuts by other Chinese companies. China Railway stocks surged 68.54% after a flotation which raised about 22.4bn yuan (¬£1.5bn) for the firm. There had been some worries about its debut after the truck maker Sinotruk’s […]
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