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Malaysia seeks to revive high-speed rail line

Local and foreign firms invited to submit new proposals for KL-Singapore route

A worker walks past a tunnel construction site for the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project in Dungun, Malaysia in 2019. The project, not related to the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore line, was cancelled in 2018 because of high costs but later revived. (Photo: Reuters)

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is seeking proposals from private companies to develop a high-speed railway between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, reviving a multi-billion-dollar project called off more than two years ago.

Malaysia and Singapore in 2021 cancelled a plan to build the 350-kilometre rail line after they failed to agree on several proposed changes to the project.

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