[photopress:chinarail.jpg,full,alignright]There is a new five-year drive to modernize the China’s railway transportation systems. China’s Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun says that in the five years from now to 2010, China will build 19,800 kilometers of new railway lines, modernize 15,000 kilometers of existing railway lines, boost passenger train speed to 200 km per hour with […]
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[photopress:EmmaMaersk.jpg,full,alignright]Yantian international wharf of Shenzhen, a special economic zone in south China’s Guangdong Province, had the world largest container vessel berth there for the first time. Leaving Shenzhen the same day as it docked, Emma Maersk is on its maiden voyage, which will call at 17 harbors in Europe and Asia including Yantian. Workers at […]
[photopress:Longhuata_1.jpg,full,alignright]In Georgia, Atlanta Portman Holdings announced the formation of a joint-venture to develop Jian Ye Li, a 458,000 square-foot mixed-use, luxury project comprised of high-end residential, serviced apartments, retail and parking in a historically protected neighborhood in the Xuhui District of Shanghai at a cost of $105 million, with an opening expected in the first […]
[photopress:HorstSchulze.jpg,full,alignright]Kwee Liong Tek, Chairman of Kwee Inc in Singapore, and Horst Schulze, Chairman of West Paces Hotel Group, have announced the formation of a 50:50 joint venture to be known as West Paces Hotel Group Asia. Sounds pretty unromantic but wait. This hotel management company will introduce the new Capella Hotels and Resorts and Solis […]
[photopress:Lord_of_the_rings.jpg,full,alignright]CDC Games has signed an exclusive distribution license in China for the online game, The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, the official online game based on the original literary works of J.R.R. Tolkien. The agreement is between CDC Games and the developer of the game, Turbine. More than 200,000 players in the […]