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Travelers gradually get back on track Map of Guangzhou China
Feb.3   China
  Authorities expect 1.3 million people to travel out of Guangzhou's train station over the next few days
  China
  Heavy fog fell over parts of central China, further clogging a transport system already paralyzed by weeks of snow
Feb.1   China Chaos as travelers stampede stations  The continuing snow storms would still crush the hopes of desperate to see their families during their only break of the year Jan.31   China Rail services resuming  Hundreds of thousands of desperate travelers pushed their way onto trains as service resumed after the worst winter storms

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Dec.10   South Korea Inter-Korean train service starts
  The first cargo train providing regular service across the border between the two Koreas in more than a half century left for the North
Transport 'sabotage' hits France May.16   North Korea Korean trains in historic link-up
  A pair of passenger trains have crossed the heavily fortified border for the first time in more than 50 years
 The 5-carriage trains, one travelling from the North and one from the South, each carried 150 invited passengers, travelling about 25km (16 miles)
May.10   North Korea NK allows cross-border rail test  The military has consented to planned test run of trains on rails rebuilt across the border with South Korea in a symbolic event in inter-Korean détente

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Jul.1   China Hu opens world's highest railway  Chinese President is describing the 710-mile Qinghai-Tibet line as a 'magnificent feat' May.23   North Korea N Korea calls off DMZ rail trial  N. Korea wants to cancel a trial run of trains across the border with the South

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Jun.4   North Korea   Koreas to open new transport link  North and South have agreed to formally open newly-built roads through the buffer zone that divides the two countries

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Rich-poor divide derails WTO talks Jun.28   South Korea Strike cripples railways  Railway workers are on strike amid growing tension between the government and unions Jun.13   North Korea Railway reconnects two Koreas
  Workers have reconnected railway lines between the countries in a special ceremony, the first time in 50 years

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Sep.17   South Korea Work began on railway to link Koreas  Both countres expressed hope the monumental project would bring peace to their divided peninsula

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Jan.1   Taiwan First Taiwan Boat Reaches Mainland  2 boats docked completing the first legal direct crossing from Taiwan



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