Ralph Jennings
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🔮 At peak periods that day, trains departed every 40 seconds, an interval the publicity department said was “faster than people could scroll through short videos”.
🔮 It identified 4,137 companies that had withdrawn from China or could not be accounted for since the last survey.
🔮 As Jakarta explores foreign backing for the Trans-Kalimantan railway, analysts say costly past ventures could shape any coming negotiations
Indonesia is considering Chinese investment to help build a massive 2,772km (1,722 mile) railway network through the vast, resource-rich region of Kalimantan, following the completion of Southeast Asia’s first high-speed line between Jakarta and Bandung, state media and analysts said.
🔮 The trade group Airlines for America, which represents major US airlines, filed an objection to Air China’sbid for additional Beijing-New York and Beijing-Washington flights for September 19 and 25, saying it was unfair that American counterparts could not fly over Russian airspace, according to a department document.
🔮 The International Financial Centre Oman will open in Muscat, the Omani capital, by early next year.
🔮 Anticipated push for the FTAAP, covering all 21 Apec members, will burnish China’s reputation by casting the US as an obstacle, analysts say
China is increasingly expected to push for a trade agreement binding a wide swathe of the Pacific Rim, including the US, when it hosts a forum of major Asia-Pacific economies in November, but a real deal may be hard to secure as Washington is likely to resist, according to analysts.
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