China is planning to build the world's fastest bullet train, to link Beijing with the financial capital Shanghai. In a sign the country's ambitions to go faster, higher and bigger have not been dimmed by the end of the Olympics, the Ministry of Railways says it is raising the speed it intends the new line connecting the cities to reach when it opens in 2012. New technology will enable trains to travel at 380 km or 236 miles an hour, 30 km per hour (18mph) more than the current generation of bullet trains, according to the ministry's deputy chief engineer, Zhang Shuguang. More... Magazine Lane - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - South Beach Diet
