According "The Nation" Bangkok newspaper, the railway link between Suvarnabhumi, Bangkok International Airport, and the City Air Terminal located in Makkasan area should be available as from December 2008.

Passengers will have the opportunity of checking in their luggage at the City Air Terminal, before boarding the rapid train to Bangkok airport. The 29 kms journey will take 15 minutes (express train) or 27 minutes (commuter train).

Interconnection with existing transport systems will take place at Phetchaburi station for MRT (subway) Blue line and at Phayathai Station for BTS (skytrain) Sukhumvit line.

About 80% of the overall work is now completed.

We all know about the most famous Chinese mode of transportation, the bicycle. Indeed with the situation is changing and the bicycle leaves more and more its place to cars & motorbikes. 

I arrived 2 days ago in Kunming, the capital of the Yunnan province. The city is growing and its 6 millions inhabitants add 200 cars on the road every single day. However in a city where a liter of petrol costs 0.50 USD and the monthly salary is less than 100 USD I wonder what is the average yearly mileage of this multitude of vehicle.

What surprised me here is that most scooters in town are electric and this idea should inspire Europe. However I have not seen how they recharge them and if the battery can easily be remove and be charged at home. I'll try to have a deeper look in the coming days .

Specifications are the following

Dimension: 1700*555*1170
N weight/ G weight: 115/136KGS
Max speed: <60Km/h
Battery: 48V/38AH Silicone
Motor Power: 1500W
Load capacity: >85Kg
Brake: Disk brak FR, drum brake RR
Mileage for one charge: 80Km
More info here

Who said that in China there are no efforts made to reduce carbon emissions ? 

Based on proprietary network software, 802.11x wireless access points and a fleet of vehicles, including buses and motorcycles, First Mile Solutions proposed stored-and-forward Internet access to remote rural villages in the developing world.

How does it work:
The main location called a Hub is where there is a reliable  and preferably high-bandwidth Internet connection. From this place, subscribers within a radius of 5-15 km, can get Internet access, as it is the case with any Wireless Local Loop system.

First Mile Solutions technology has the ability to distribute Internet connection's bandwidth to the last 100km – the Village Area Network (VAN) – with relatively small infrastructure costs by installing Mobile Access Point (wireless connectivity and cached Internet content) on any vehicle (buses, motorcycles, boats…) which physically transports data to/from surrounding rural areas and automatically collects and delivers data wirelessly to/from access devices in each village. Internet kiosks are installed in villages along the road taken by the "VAN vehicles".

Projects have already been deployed in India, Rwanda and Cambodia.

More informations :

• First Mile Solutions, 
• Village Area Network,
• Ongoing projects, 
• Comparative Access Word Map