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New light-rail system planned for Phnom Penh
Published on 17/11/2017
» PHNOM PENH: Cambodia plans to have a new, electric mass transit system built and running in the capital by 2023, when it hosts the Southeast Asian Games, with the help of Japanese know-how.
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Indonesia ready to regulate motorcycle taxi fares
Asia focus, Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Published on 28/01/2019
» Reports of a government plan to regulate the fares of app-based motorcycle taxis have given some hope to Fariz, a driver who switched to an app-based service from a regular one six months ago.
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Light rail opens in S.Korea amid financial fears
AFP, Published on 17/06/2012
» With sleek railcars sliding along elevated tracks, South Korea's newest light railway is a smooth ride, and the hope is that it can avoid the fiscal train wreck facing similar projects.
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Ancient Greeks outsourced battles
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 20/11/2022
» Wherever there is an out-of-the-way war, there will be mercenaries -- hired fighters whose only common bond may be a hunger for adventure. Some join foreign armies or rebel forces because they believe in the cause; others sign on because the price is right.
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A railway from the past
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 26/06/2022
» Astride century-old tracks that cut through the modern metropolis of Amman, a historic train blared a horn to announce its departure. That sound spurred families bearing bags of food, pots of coffee, coolers of soda, grills, hookahs and lots of children into action, scrambling up iron ladders to settle into the train's wooden cars.
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Greek PM asks high court to expedite cases over rail disaster
AFP, Published on 06/03/2023
» ATHENS: Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday asked the country's Supreme Court to prioritise any criminal cases over last week's deadly train crash and to shed light on what led to the country's worst rail disaster.
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France to pay $60 mn to US for Nazi rail deportations
AFP, Published on 06/12/2014
» WASHINGTON - In a landmark deal, France will pay $60 million to the United States to be shared among American and foreign nationals deported to Nazi death camps on French trains in World War II.
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World's longest rail tunnel sees light at end of decades' wait
AFP, Published on 29/05/2016
» GENEVA - When Swiss engineer Carl Eduard Gruner came up with the idea to build the world's longest rail tunnel under the Alps in 1947, he predicted the visionary project could be finished by the start of the 21st century.
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US House approves bill to avert freight rail strike
AFP, Published on 01/12/2022
» WASHINGTON - Lawmakers in the US House of Representatives voted Wednesday to prevent a potentially catastrophic freight rail strike, stepping in to break an impasse between workers and executives during a critical pre-holiday period.
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Typhoon Saola aftermath
South China Morning Post, Published on 03/09/2023
» Hong Kong on Saturday woke to debris and fallen trees on its streets in the aftermath of Typhoon Saola, the first storm in five years to trigger the highest No 10 alert.
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