Jonathan Head
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 Sep
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Labour activists have for many years drawn attention to the problem of abuses of the large migrant worker population in Malaysia.
Jonathan Head, BBC News, Bangkok.
One line of thought from experts is what kind of opportunities does this present for a country like India?
And why is it continuing to grow?
What does it mean for the rest of the world?
And is it bad for the rest of the world that China is exporting so much and not importing very much?
I'm actually standing on the railway line where this happened and behind me they've moved away now using heavy cranes, the crushed carriages.
This is a brand new high speed line that they're building on top of this existing railway line and that huge crane that is now tilted at a really dangerous angle
Big parts of it came crashing down, crushing at least three of the carriages, setting one of them on fire.
It really was a dreadful scene.
They're trying to clear it up now.
There are dozens of people still being treated in hospital, and the government has announced what it says will be a very fast investigation into what went wrong.
But this is a highly prestigious project.
This new railway line is meant to link
Bangkok with China.
It's part of China's Belt and Road Initiative.
So it's a very prestigious project.
And to have such a major disaster happen on it is a real blow to what for Thailand was meant to showcase its modernizing infrastructure.
There have, I have to say, been other accidents like this before in Thailand.
I think there'll be a lot of skepticism about what kind of action is going to follow this one.
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