Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

It is part of the Singapore-Kunming railroad project, so it will be a key railroad for Cambodia to transport commodities to regional and global markets, especially in the framework of Asean-China Free Trade Area.

The state-own corporation Vietnam Railways should work out a new plan to build the North-South Express Railway by 2012, Minister of Transport, Ho Nghia Dung, has said at a conference recently hosted by the corporation.

The HCM City Management Authority for Urban Railways (MAUR) said the city is striving for solving traffic congestion by completing all seven metro lines by 2020 with a total budget of over $11 billion.

Under the general draft on Hanoi transport -2030 and vision till 2050, Hanoi will have a modern transport system with eight urban railways totalling at 284 kilometres in length to link the inner city and satellite urban and other nearby localities.

HANOI — Vietnam has started work on Hanoi's first urban rail system in an effort to ease traffic congestion in the capital, reports said Sunday.

The government has reiterated its intention to press ahead with a controversial big-ticket project to build the country's first express railway linking the two biggest cities, Hanoi and HCM City.

HANOI - A plan to build a north-south high-speed railway to connect Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam has hit a snag following an unusual move by the parliament of a Communist state not to approve it for further study, but unbowed, the head of the railway operator is calling for continued support from Japan.

HANOI — Vietnamese legislators rejected a proposed bullet train over its $56 billion cost — the assembly's first rejection of a major proposal submitted by the all-powerful Communist government.

Lawmakers in Vietnam's National Assembly clashed over a government plan for a 56-billion-dollar nationwide high-speed railway, local media reported Wednesday.

Hanoi pushes ahead to build a Japanese-designed bullet train system whether it needs it or not

Transport minister Seiji Maehara told Vietnamese officials that in return for Japan's financial support, they need to be flexible over an envisioned north-south high-speed railway project in their country.

Vietnam's cabinet has approved a $55.9 billion project to build a high-speed rail line connecting Hanoi and Ho Chin Minh City using Japan's bullet train technology, the Nikkei business daily reported on Thursday.

As planned, the first metro section of HCM City from Ben Thanh to Suoi Tien will be finished by 2014 and officially operational from 2015. Meanwhile, in two years, there will be a tramway section in HCM City.

Spain committed to raise the funding for Vietnam's metro construction project in HCM City to 500 million euro (727 million or nearly 13.3 trillion dong), according to the agreement signed between two governments on December 15 in Madrid.