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The Bridge on the River Kwai: How Hollywood buried the grim truth of the Burma Death Railway
Australian drama series The Narrow Road to the Deep North, out now on Amazon Prime Video, takes viewers back to the horrors ...
Places Of The Heart: Architect returns to source of Singapore story down by the river
In this series, The Straits Times speaks to architects and residents about urban spaces that inspire them. Read more at ...
Myanmar earthquake sheds light on building risks far away from fault lines
Earthquakes are among the deadliest of natural global threats to society, responsible for the majority of disaster-related ...
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Central Myanmar shaken by new quake in one of the biggest aftershocks since March 28 temblor
There were no immediate reports of major damage or casualties caused by the new quake, one of the strongest of hundreds of ...
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Choo-choo! Board the train on the century-old Yunnan-Vietnam Railway
The Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, which connects Kunming in China to Hai Phong in Vietnam, has been in operation for 115 years, ...
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Mizoram’s Bairabi-Sairang rail line to reach Myanmar border
The Railway Ministry is considering extending the Bairabi-Sairang railway line to Zochachhuah, a village on the India-Myanmar border, according to Rajya Sabha MP K. Vanlalvena. This extension, beyond ...
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Mizoram’s Bairabi-Sairang railway line to extend up to Myanmar border
Aizawl, April 8 (IANS) Railway Ministry is planning to extend the under-construction Bairabi-Sairang railway line up to the India-Myanmar border, Mizoram’s Rajya Sabha member K. Vanlalvena said ...
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Simulate Digital Rail
This group contains repositories with projects in the area of simulations of railway networks. The core project is the yaramo model, which acts as an interchange format of railway networks. The yaramo ...
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Myanmar’s railway, airport resume operations after earthquake
The earthquake damaged 60 embankments and 11 railway bridges along the Yangon-Mandalay line. It also caused the tracks to bend in some areas. Myanmar Railways began urgent repair work using ...
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Myanmar’s railway, airport resume operations after earthquake
The earthquake damaged 60 embankments and 11 railway bridges along the Yangon-Mandalay line. It also caused the tracks to bend in some areas. Passengers ready to board as Myanmar's aviation sector ...
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A brief history of the District line in four Tube maps
Opening five years after the first Tube services of the Metropolitan Railway, the line was built by the Metropolitan District Railway. The tunnels were made by digging a long trench, laying track ...
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Yangon-Mandalay Railway, Mandalay Airport Resume Operations After Myanmar Earthquake
YANGON, April 6 (Bernama-Xinhua) -- The Yangon-Mandalay railway line and Mandalay International Airport have reopened after being closed due to damage from a strong earthquake on March 28, state-run ...