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Japanese firms opt out of Malaysia-Singapore high-speed rail project
Japanese firms have decided to drop their plans to get involved in a high-speed rail project connecting Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, government and company sources said Thursday. The compa
Japanese firms have decided to drop their plans to get involved in a high-speed rail project connecting Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, government and company sources said Thursday. The Malaysian and Singaporean governments initially reached a basic agreement in 2013 on the project, which called for building a 350-kilometer-long high-speed rail link that would cut travel time between Kuala Lumpur and the city-state to just 90 minutes, compared with over four hours by car. In 2015, then Japanese transport minister Keiichi Ishii pitched the shinkansen system to Malaysian government officials during a visit to Kuala Lumpur.
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