News: 28 June 2023

Trans-Borneo Railway, Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway reaches 350 km per hour , Penang South Islands reclamation work starts July 1, Pattaya monorail system

Hello from Ho Chi Minh City! I arrived at Tan Son Nhat International Airport and I could see for the first time that construction of Terminal 3 is underway. I also did a walk around to see how the metro construction is going, and there has been progress since I was last here as well.

This week I put together a fact sheet for the Trans-Borneo Railway. There was a new proposal for this railway last month, which got me thinking about all the other times I have read such announcements. It can be quite depressing when you see how much talk there is and how little action is the result. The earliest announcement I found was from 2000, which said that a 3,940-kilometre Trans-Borneo railway line linking all major towns in Sabah, Brunei, Sarawak and Kalimantan would be finished by the year 2010.

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