Another Day, Another Dollar

[Confuseous]

We can understand it will take a bit longer to query why they bought Kawasaki trains assembled in China, the country that gives you spectacular smash ups like the recent collision in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. Even Bangkok, with lowly paid parliamentarians, didn't stinge on public safety when they sourced their trains from the more reputable Siemens Transportation Systems (Siemens C651 were bought mainly to complement the existing Kawasaki C151 trains due to the opening of the Woodlands extension). Investigating sourcing decisions sometimes require the assistance of other agencies like CPIB. How long did they take to nab the flashy guy who scammed the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) out of $11.8 million?

- http://singaporedesk.blogspot.com/2012/01/another-day-another-dollar.html

 

[Froggy]

I remembered listening to a BBC special report that China was able to achieve great feats on their High Speed Rail because they cooperated with Kawasaki at first to develop high speed train system in China on condition of technology transfer. After technology was transferred another company was set up and using these new technology stolen they simply increased the capacity of the design and patent them and call them indigenous technology. Kawasaki was very mad and internally ban all future investments in China. I wonder these MRT trains really from the Japanese Kawasaki plant in China or could it be the Chinese Kawasakee

 

[eatshitndie]

............. I wonder these MRT trains really from the Japanese Kawasaki plant in China or could it be the Chinese Kawasakee

it was more like chinese kamikaze.

 

[Windsor]

So after buying the China-made buses, they are now buying the trains from China? How are the new buses?
http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?96768-Smrt-buys-cheap-china-buses

 

[red amoeba]

I remembered listening to a BBC special report that China was able to achieve great feats on their High Speed Rail because they cooperated with Kawasaki at first to develop high speed train system in China on condition of technology transfer. After technology was transferred another company was set up and using these new technology stolen they simply increased the capacity of the design and patent them and call them indigenous technology. Kawasaki was very mad and internally ban all future investments in China. I wonder these MRT trains really from the Japanese Kawasaki plant in China or could it be the Chinese Kawasakee

we just never learn right? Sounds like Suzhou Industrial Park redux.