Taipei Study Trip (II)

4) High Speed Train

Even Taiwan has their high speed (bullet) train now. The train travel at about 350km/hr from Taipei to Kaohsiung taken about 90 minutes. This is what most of the Malaysian dream for (as compared to KLCC, KLIA and many other white elephant projects) if one day we can have the same from Padang Besar/Alor Setar to Johor Bahru, via all the major cities.

I travelled to a few countries recent years, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, East China, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Jakarta, etc. It was noticed that in terms of infrastructure, the electric train system is the most cost effective way to link up all cities and people. Of course, unless we still satisfy compared ourselves with Thailand, Vietnam, Jakarta, etc.

About double tracks or whatever, we are still talking, talking, talking,............... probably still could not decide which crony should get it.

5) The Economic Activities

This picture taken at one of the shopping street at small city in Tai Chung at 11.30pm on Tuesday night.

The island has about 20 over millions population, exposed to natural disaster like typhoons and earthquake. No natural resources like petroleum. Politically threatened by China.

But the aggressive & dynamic Taiwanese created a magic in their economic activities either in high-tech technologies and agricultural.

Similary, we in Malaysia, free from all the above disaster, also talked about high-tech industries, high-tech agricultural, MSC, etc., etc., for last many years. But now still hope and depending on foreign investment to boost our economy.

In short, there are many things to study in Taiwan.

However, I still feel that Malaysia is a better and more beautiful country. What we need are just be more hardworking, be more practical, be cleaner and smarter government management and get lost all political warlords.