FILE PHOTO: A train is ready on the station during the handover ceremony of the high-speed rail project linking the Chinese southwestern city of Kunming with Vientiane in Laos BANGKOK (Reuters) - ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China and Thailand must accelerate the construction of a planned high-speed railway linking the countries, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said on Monday, pushing an ambitious ...

In the first half of 2025, the cross-border transport handled by China-Laos Railway hit a record high, demonstrating robust growth in both passenger traffic and freight volume. According to data from ...

Construction of the Bangkok-Nakhon Ratchasima segment is completed by more than one third. Credit: Vespa_Foto/Shutterstock. Thailand has announced that its section of the high-speed railway, which ...

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(CNN) — Imagine jumping on a train in southwestern China, traveling some 2,000 miles and arriving in Singapore – less than 30 hours later. That’s the scenario China is envisioning for Southeast Asia ...

The Lane Xang passenger train of the China-Laos Railway runs past a maintenance centre in Luang Prabang, Laos, on March 30, 2023. [Zhou Xing/Xinhua] Speeding through mountains and valleys, trains are ...

VIENTIANE: Laos is stepping up efforts to attract more investment from China's Yunnan province as the two sides work to ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's government said it is "making progress" with the much-delayed high-speed Thai-Chinese rail line that is to link Thailand, Laos and China, as the three countries prepared ...

BEIJING (AP) — After a blessing by Buddhist monks, Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh on Friday rode the first run of a $5.9 billion Chinese-built railway that links isolated, mountainous Laos with ...

THANALAENG, LAOS — Landlocked, impoverished Laos will soon take a significant step some countries first made two centuries ago — it will chug into the railway age with a humble, 2.17-mile line, but ...