Monday, May 24th, 2010
Two popcorn makers stand at the exit of the Pavilion, to show the importance of the province as an area of agriculture, lying in the Golden Corn Belt. Each visitor can get a free cup of popcorn. The pavilion also has a 1:1 model of the controlling cabin of a multiple-unit train with two VIP seats. "The custom-made seats are the only two in China, costing 150,000 yuan (22,000 dollars) each ...
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Jilin pavilion presents world of adventure (3)
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Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Japan's transport minister criticized Toyota on Tuesday as initially too slow in responding to its recall crisis, but said the automaker had learned its lesson and is getting quicker in announcing recalls.
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Japan minister says Toyota has learned its lesson
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Japan may give financial backing to Central Japan Railway Co. and other bullet-train makers bidding for U.S. high-speed rail projects to help them compete with Chinese and European suppliers.
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Japan May Support Bullet-Train Makers for U.S. Bids (Update1)
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
For Tomonobu Itagaki, chief creative officer at the spanking-new Valhalla Game Studios , spending two years away from the front lines of game development weren't exactly taxing. "They were really easy for me," he told Famitsu magazine in an interview published over the past three issues. "I spent the days doing anything I felt like, researching whatever kind of technology struck me, playing ...
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
Akio Toyoda dipped briefly -- an apology, but not a sign of culpability for defects. The gesture came two weeks after his company began recalling cars by the millions. The president's bow, when it came at last, was a dip that lasted only a second.
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A ritualistic bow from Toyota chief (Los Angeles Times)
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010
The Jiji Line (集集線), one of the nation’s heritage railway routes, will be closed in March because seven of its tunnels between Zhuoshui (濁水) Station and Checheng (車埕) are in need of immediate repairs, the Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA) said last week.
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TRA’s historic Jiji Line to close in March for repairs (Taipei Times)
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
WHILE his pals were making the most of their school holidays dining out, taking in a movie or engaged in sport, Mr Elvin Tan was knee deep in grease and oil helping his dad repair generators.
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Friday, January 8th, 2010
China startled the entire world on December 26, 2009 by announcing and actually demonstrating that it has developed passenger-carrying railway trains which can run at speeds reaching an average 350 kilometres (KM) an hour and the train from Wuhan in the Beijing area to Guangzhou near the Hongkong area,1069 kilometres away, was covered in only three hours.
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India getting ready for bullet trains (Central Chronicle)
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Economic ministers yesterday instructed the Transport Ministry to open negotiations with BMCL to amend the Blue Line subway concession contract so that the government can set fares and decide the ticketing system.
Continue here: Ministers want BMCL concession changed (The Nation - Thailand's English news)
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
And that is magnificent...
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FIFA 10 Review (Ferrago)
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