The world's longest train journey now runs from Singapore to Portugal, covering nearly 19,000 kilometers across 13 countries ...

I traveled to Laos to experience its new China-made railway. The one-hour trip revealed a countryside that's burned from farming. The air was so toxic that soot and ash were falling from the sky. Laos ...

BEIJING, Dec. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- As of Monday, the China-Laos Railway has facilitated more than 43 million passenger trips and transported 48.3 million tons of goods during its three years of ...

Laos went from barely having a railway to becoming a critical link between China and mainland Southeast Asia. This video explores the $20 billion China Laos railway, the engineering across mountains ...

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 ...

BEIJING (AP) — Laos, a nation of 7 million people wedged between China, Vietnam and Thailand, is opening a $5.9 billion Chinese-built railway that links China's poor southwest to foreign markets but ...

The first stop is the Mekong River sunset selfie. Chinese tourists are bussed straight from the new high-speed train from Kunming to the ancient Lao city of Luang Prabang. They scramble up the 300 and ...

(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 ...