I read with interest that Indonesia s Whoosh high-speed train is now carrying over 750 Malaysian tourists a day says more about the bigger mysteries of Southeast Asian infrastructure development than about rising numbers of tourists. It s a shiny icon of Southeast Asia s push-pull with cutting-edge infrastructure. This 142-kilometer connection between Jakarta and Bandung, shaving a [...]
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