TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Taiwan High Speed Rail northern extension between Taipei and Yilan has received a cautious welcome ...

Taiwan's long-delayed high-speed rail system debuted Friday, with its 12-car caravan of sleek orange and white coaches gliding out of a suburban Taipei station right on time at 7 a.m.

The completion of the new light rail section will provide the public with the convenience of transiting from Taiwan High Speed Rail’s Zuoying Station to Kaohsiung MRT Red Line’s Aozihdi Station. From ...

Taiwan’s population, like California’s, is mostly along its west coast. So at the century’s turn, Taiwan started building a high-speed rail line between Taipei City and Kaohsiung, 225 miles ...

Taiwan’s high-speed rail resembles what California’s might have ... to Kaohsiung, in the south. That’s a ... just as the regular train with my colleagues was pulling into the Taichung station.

Taiwan's costly high-speed railway, ... The high-speed railway, linking Taipei and Kaohsiung, was put into operation in 2007 with an investment of 500 billion New Taiwan dollars ...

Premier Su Tseng-chang points to a map yesterday in Pingtung County while announcing the Cabinet’s plan to extend the Taiwan High Speed Rail from Kaohsiung to the county. Photo: CNA. The Zuoying route ...

When it came to high-speed rail, the cost was high, engineering was a challenge and there were environmental issues. Taiwan overcame them all, writes Joe Mathews in this Zócalo Public Square column.