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Sigh… China’s train ticket site just threw up yet another obstacle for passengers

Sigh… China’s train ticket site just threw up yet another obstacle for passengers

China only has one online train ticket purchase site, so it’s pretty important. Yet it seems like every day, buying a ticket gets a little bit harder.
C. Custer · · 3 min read
China’s train ticket site has an image CAPTCHA so hard that 92% guess wrong. Can you do better?

China’s train ticket site has an image CAPTCHA so hard that 92% guess wrong. Can you do better?

Can you answer these image identification questions?
C. Custer · · 3 min read
Another year, another fuck up for China’s government-run train ticket sales site

Another year, another fuck up for China’s government-run train ticket sales site

As usual. China’s government-run 12306 train ticket site is experiencing problems.
C. Custer · · 4 min read
Ctrip buys train ticket app Suanya for US$16M

Ctrip buys train ticket app Suanya for US$16M

Chinese travel giant Ctrip has acquired train ticket app Suanya for US$16M.
C. Custer · · 2 min read
Hallelujah! China’s train ticket site accepts help from Alibaba

Hallelujah! China’s train ticket site accepts help from Alibaba

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
C. Custer · · 2 min read

China should give Alibaba or JD control of online train ticket sales

China’s government-run online train ticket sales site 12306 has been causing problems since pretty much the moment it was launched. It broke during its first Spring Festival rush back in
C. Custer · · 3 min read

Chinese government launches app for booking train tickets, and it already sucks

The government-run railway website 12306.cn has released both iOS and Android versions of its new seat-booking app. The app lets users browse, reserve, and order train tickets straight form their smartphones. However …
Paul Bischoff · · 2 min read

Sogou launches browser that beats government blocks on train ticket website

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
C. Custer · · 1 min read

China’s official train ticket site makes travel harder during the holidays. Again.

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
C. Custer · · 2 min read

Ctrip Selling Train Tickets Again in Wake of Railway Ministry Absorption News

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
C. Custer · · 2 min read