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KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - After five years of hard work boring dozens of tunnels and building even more bridges to lay more than 400 kilometers of train track, China’s high-speed railway through Laos is on course to launch within the year. State media in China and Laos say service could begin by December. For sprawling China, analysts say the line promises to inject new growth into the country’s backward underbelly by plugging it into some of Southeast Asia’s largest markets and ports. As for tiny Laos, they add, it could boost a heavily resource-reliant economy with more trade, tourists and industry — if at the cost of crippling debt and the growing sway of its giant neighbor. The view from China Part of Beijing’s sweeping Belt and Road Initiative, the $5.9 billion project will connect China’s landlocked Yunnan province to northeast Thailand through northern Laos. It is the first leg of a serpentine line Beijing hopes will one day reach to bustling Singapore via Thailand … [Read more...] about Laos Braces for Promise, Peril of China’s High-Speed Railway

Regulators in five countries around the world announced new rules on Thursday to speed the development of modified COVID-19 vaccines targeting emerging variants of the disease. The United Kingdom's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) confirmed that vaccine manufacturers will not need to pursue “a brand new approval or ‘lengthy’ clinical studies” in order for modified vaccines to be approved. The guidance was issued from the ACCESS Consortium, a coalition of regulators from the U.K., Australia, Canada, Singapore and Switzerland. ADVERTISEMENT Under the new guidance, vaccine developers must “provide robust evidence that the modified vaccine produces an immune response,” but they will not need to pursue new, large-scale clinical trials. Instead, developers will perform small-scale trials on a few hundred participants instead of the thousands of people required for the initial approvals of COVID-19 vaccines, according to The Associated Press . … [Read more...] about Regulators in five nations ease rules for developing modified vaccines