According to the author, the favourable geographical direction and the common track gauge of the railway networks of the USSR and the PRC can well serve to expand mutual and international traffic, including transit (Europe - Far East) traffic, and to co-ordinate the efforts of the USSR and China...

The author examines privatization in newly industrializing countries of Asia, in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines and in three Asian socialist countries , China, Vietnam and Laos. He discusses rectified concepts of state regulation in Asian countries, general principles of...