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Singapore and Malaysia on May 21 agreed to suspend the construction of a train project linking the two countries.

Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his Cambodian counterpart Samdech Techo Hun Sen co-presided over the inauguration of a friendship bridge and the reopening of railway lines connecting Aranyaprathet district in Thailand's eastern Sa Kaeo province and Poipet city in Cambodia's Banteay Meanchey province.

A training programme for Vietnamese consultants, co-held by Samsung Vietnam and the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), is estimated to host 100 trainees this year, raising the total number of trainees in 2018-2019 to around 200.

Samsung Vietnam, in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), on April 2 launched a training programme for fostering Vietnamese consultants to improve the production efficiency of local enterprises in 2019, thus gradually meeting the requirements of global supply chains.

The ‘train street’ in Hanoi is considered a terrifying challenge for foreign visitors to experience the feeling when the train snakes past just inches or so from their nose.

Tens of people were injured after a train derailed in Bogor district of Indonesia’s West Java province on March 10 morning.

Samsung in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam officially launched its first course in the Republic of Korea on March 4 for Vietnam’s support industry experts.

Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the DPRK’s Workers’ Party of Korea, continued to run stories on February 26 on DPRK leader Kim Jong-un’s trip to Vietnam for his second summit with US President Donald Trump.

The Vietnam Railways (VNR) has announced it will provide free train tickets for international journalists who registered to cover the DPRK-USA Hanoi Summit Vietnam, which will take place in Hanoi on February 27-28.

DPRK Chairman Kim Jong-un on February 23 departed for Hanoi by train for talks with US President Donald Trump at the DPRK-USA Hanoi Summit Vietnam.

The armoured train of Chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong-un crossed into the Chinese border town of Dandong after 9pm on February 23 (local time) ahead of his second summit with US President Donald Trump in Vietnam, according to international media reports.

Six Vietnamese futsal players will train with top-flight Spanish clubs in preparation for coming international tournaments.

The Indochina Rail Tourist Service Company plans to restore the operation of steam trains travelling between the central city of Da Nang and Hue to serve tourists.

Vietnam Railway (VNR) aims to accelerate its growth to a rate of 8 percent in 2019 after suffering depression from 2015 to 2017.

A cooperation agreement to promote a train tourism programme was signed between the SaiGon Passenger Transport JSC and the Da Nang Tourism Association of the central city of Da Nang on January 7.

Passengers on an international railway connecting the capital city of Hanoi and Nanning city in China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has hit a record high of over 40,000 over the past ten years.

Nearly 50,000 train tickets on the North-South route for the upcoming Lunar New Year 2019 (Tet) holiday are now available, said the Hanoi Railway Transport JSC (Haraco).

The railway line runs through a street in Hanoi, between two rows of houses, giving it the name of "train street".

A programme to improve the training of Japanese language teachers in Vietnam was launched in Hanoi on October 24.

Saigon railway station started selling train tickets for the upcoming Lunar New Year 2019 on the first day of October. On the first selling day, nearly 60,000 seats were booked.