Top of the pile is HS2, a high-speed rail project that will link London with Birmingham by 2026 and with Manchester and Leeds by 2033.
A mentoring program is also being set up, that will link students with mentors in Canada and Kenya, who will help them with academic issues and personal ones — like time management and family constraints.
A Zug-registered firm is building the strategically critical gas pipeline that will link Europe with Russia via the Baltic.
Before Kia signed a contract, Slovakia had to agree to complete a 26-mile stretch of highway that will link Zilina with Bratislava.
At the end of a three-day visit to Kenya in May, China's premier, Li Keqiang, agreed to finance 90% of a $3.8bn railway that will link Mombasa with Nairobi, and eventually connect Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan and Uganda.
"After 30 years of waiting, we are now poised to turn talk into action by breaking ground this year on the train-to-the-plane that will link Manhattan with J.F.K.," Gov. George E. Pataki said late tonight.
A high-speed train line is under construction that will link it with cities as far north as Beijing, and the world's longest sea bridge, connecting Macau to Hong Kong, is set to open in three or four years, reducing the ferry crossing to a half-hour drive by car.
When President Chung Hee Park cut a tape late in De cember opening the new 77 mile superhighway from Pu san to Taegu, the country's second and third largest cities, it meant that almost two‐thirds of the express way that will link Seoul with Pusan, the chief port, was in use.
In addition to investing in Mr. Chu's Peach, All Nippon Airways is setting up a joint venture with AirAsia, a fast-growing carrier based in Malaysia, to form a low-cost carrier that will link Japan with northeast Asia beginning in August next year.
