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 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.

Taiwan’s population, like California’s, is mostly along its west coast. So at the century’s turn, Taiwan started construction on a high-speed rail line linking Taipei City, in the north, to ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A meeting between Transportation Minister Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) and local politicians resulted in a high degree of consensus about the location of the future Yilan high-speed rail ...

The high-speed rail now links major cities, ... This map shows China's high-speed lines and stations as of the end of 2023. ... Taiwan in 2007 began operating its high-speed railway, ...

Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp. engages in the provision of high speed rail system services. It also provides commercial outlets at rail stations to supply goods and services including food ...

Paradoxically, Taiwan’s project was completed less expensively because it didn’t do high-speed rail on the cheap. While California established an underfinanced government authority to lead the ...

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.

In other developments, the Taiwan High Court yesterday ruled that THSRC must pay China Development Financial Holding Corp and Continental Engineering Corp a total of about NT$1.1 billion (US$35 ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Taiwan High Speed Rail southern extension to Pingtung will pass through Kaohsiung Railway Station, Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) said Saturday. The 40-kilometer route between ...