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...airlines. An alliance between Air China and China Eastern - the government is majority owner of both - is a first step toward this ambition. The two airlines ranked as the 13th and 14th largest in the world by number of scheduled passengers flown in 2006, according to the International Air Transport Association. Combined, they would be the fourth largest and the biggest outside...
...besides the presence or absence of our vehicles." India, he agreed, "does desperately need mass transit systems... both within cities and between cities." But poor Indian families also have a right to what millions take for granted elsewhere in the world. "Should they be denied the right to independent transport...
...investment Yoon seeks is precisely what the Roh administration has been pushing in its last months in office. Among its key initiatives are capital infusions geared toward improving transportation links between the North and South, adding to the $700 million the South has already spent on North Korea infrastructure projects over the past eight years. The projects are starting to bear fruit. On Dec. 11 a regular rail-freight service was inaugurated between Seoul and Kaesong, punching a symbolic hole in the heavily fortified DMZ that divides the countries. Work is also underway to repair a rail line linking Kaesong...
...hope those breakthroughs come soon. Another new paper in PNAS underscores just how vital it is to make the transition to low-carbon transport fuels. Scientists at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo quantified the full impact of all our driving, shipping and flying on the climate, and found that transport accounts for around 16% of all man-made carbon emissions - with auto fuel taking the largest chunk. That percentage will only increase over the coming decades - unless we can switch to something cleaner...
Lula has asked Brazil's Congress to allocate 10.13 billion reais for its 2008 military budget, or around $5.6 billion at the current exchange rate. Brazil has what it calls a "dissuasive" defense policy and the majority of its spending will go to non-aggressive weaponry such as transport planes, helicopters, communications equipment and armored vehicles, according to Defense Ministry officials and analysts. Around $70 million has been set aside for early work on a nuclear submarine...