Chinese Rail Official

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday instructed officials to expedite the construction of the new USD 47.8 billion railway project connecting the country's southwest Sichuan province to Linzhi in Tibet close to the Indian border in Arunachal Pradesh, saying it would play a key role in safeguarding stability in the border areas.

On Tuesday evening in China, hours before Apple's earnings, China's official state broadcaster railed against the firm in a 30-minute special report.

An ambitious high speed train project in south India has been delayed after the Chinese railways that completed a feasibility study a year ago, did not respond, railway officials have said.

India is in urgent need of upgrading its railways and China can offer the necessary help, official media said here today as it expressed concerns over the poor maintenance of India's rail network following the deadly train derailment that claimed over 147 lives.

China today played down arch rival Japan winning the contract to build India's first bullet train project as officials said the deal is confined to one sector and claimed India is still open to Chinese investments on other high-speed routes depending on easy financing.

A Beijing court on Wednesday sentenced a former railway official to death for corruption, but promised a reprieve after two years of good behaviour, state media reported, in the latest graft case to hit China's sprawling rail network.

China on Monday revised the death toll from a high-speed train crash to 36, with 192 people wounded, in the country's worst rail accident since 2008. A statement from the Railway Ministry gave the new figures and said the cause of the accident on the outskirts of the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou was still being investigated.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday instructed officials to expedite the construction of the new USD 47.8 billion railway project connecting the country's southwest Sichuan province to Linzhi in Tibet close to the Indian border in Arunachal Pradesh, saying it would play a key role in safeguarding stability in the border areas.

On Tuesday evening in China, hours before Apple's earnings, China's official state broadcaster railed against the firm in a 30-minute special report.

An ambitious high speed train project in south India has been delayed after the Chinese railways that completed a feasibility study a year ago, did not respond, railway officials have said.

India is in urgent need of upgrading its railways and China can offer the necessary help, official media said here today as it expressed concerns over the poor maintenance of India's rail network following the deadly train derailment that claimed over 147 lives.

China today played down arch rival Japan winning the contract to build India's first bullet train project as officials said the deal is confined to one sector and claimed India is still open to Chinese investments on other high-speed routes depending on easy financing.

A Beijing court on Wednesday sentenced a former railway official to death for corruption, but promised a reprieve after two years of good behaviour, state media reported, in the latest graft case to hit China's sprawling rail network.

China on Monday revised the death toll from a high-speed train crash to 36, with 192 people wounded, in the country's worst rail accident since 2008. A statement from the Railway Ministry gave the new figures and said the cause of the accident on the outskirts of the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou was still being investigated.