President Tsai Ing-wen on Tuesday arrived in Paraguay, where she and Paraguayan president-elect Mario Abdo Benitez agreed to further expand cooperation. Tsai and Abdo Benitez agreed to focus on investment, infrastructure and trade as the focus
CONNECTED:The transit system would connect Tainan with Kaohsiung, making the municipalities the ‘twin engines’ that propel Taiwan’s development, the premier said Premier William Lai yesterday marked the beginning of construction on Tainan’s advanced transit system, which
China increased the maximum speed of bullet trains on the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed railway to 350 kilometers per hour, reducing the inter-city travel time by five minutes, Xinhua reports. The route now runs a Fuxing (Rejuvenation), the
Lead 8, the international award-winning firm of Architects, Masterplanners, Interior and Graphic Designers, has been appointed Lead Designer for Beijing’s planned Daxing International Airport by the operator, China Resources Land, of the new commercial terminal. Daxing
The known death toll from a massive dam collapse in southern Laos is now at 31, though more than 100 people remain missing weeks after the disaster that swept away entire villages. Information about the number
MANILA — The construction of the Metro Manila subway, the biggest project under the government’s “Build, Build, Build” program, will begin this year, Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade said Wednesday. Tugade said the original
Taiwan and Haiti are expected to sign an agreement by the end of this year for the construction of a power grid in Port-au-Prince to alleviate the Caribbean nation’s energy supply problems, a high-level government official
The government is to invest NT$72.7 billion (US$2.38 billion) in urban and rural infrastructure over the next two years, sources with knowledge of the matter said. If passed, the urban and rural infrastructure plan would be
Several MTR Corp management-level staff – including a top executive in charge of mainland operations – have been sacked as the railway operator stand poised to begin cross-border operations. The dismissals were immediate and all the
TOKYO-Five people died and around 40 were injured Thursday after a fire broke out at a construction site in suburban Tokyo and smoke engulfed workers. One of the five died after failing to escape from the
