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As usual. China’s government-run 12306 train ticket site is experiencing problems.

Riders of trains in China, rejoice! China’s state-run 12306 train ticket sales site, which has a total monopoly on online ticket sales despite being buggy and inefficient, has finally consented

Yesterday, I wrote about how 12306, China’s government-run train ticket e-commerce platform, had just blocked all of the third-party browsers optimized by Chinese companies for buying tickets on the slow

China’s official website for train ticket sales, 12306, is bad in ways that it’s tough to even begin to count. The country’s Railway Ministry may be kaput, having been absorbed

Yes, the rumors were true: China is dismantling its hilariously corrupt Railway Ministry and absorbing its duties into the Transportation Ministry. It’s not fully clear what all the repercussions of

Back by popular demand again, the space train. With Spring Festival just around the corner, China’s 12306 train ticket sales site seems to be doing at least a little better

Back by popular demand, the space train. Last fall, we learned that China’s 12306 train ticket sales platform cost 329 million RMB ($52 million), which seemed like sort of a

China’s 12306 ticket purchase site (run by China’s Railway Ministry), is the only official way to buy train tickets online in China. But with Spring Festival coming and traffic to

Just yesterday it seemed that China’s Railway Ministry was in the process of negotiating nicely with domestic browser companies to get them to remove plugins and other web apps that

As we approach the Spring Festival heavy travel season, China’s 12306 train ticket e-commerce site seems to be handling the load a bit better than last year. Over the year,