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PETALING JAYA (April 30): Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak is expected to announce details of the high-speed rail (HSR) after the annual Malaysia-Singapore Leaders’ Retreat next week, said Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) CEO Mohd Nur Ismal Mohamed Kamal, according to a report in The Edge Financial Daily today.
“There will be a leaders’ retreat next week. It will be unfair for me to comment on the development of the HSR as it is still in the government-to-government discussion [stage],” he told reporters after a forum yesterday on “The Rail Challenge: Taking City From Good to Great”.
Najib is scheduled to attend the Sixth Malaysia-Singapore Annual Leaders’ Retreat in Singapore starting May 5, which will be hosted by Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
On April 27, Sinagpore’s Business Times reported that the HSR project – touted to cost RM40 billion – is expected to miss its 2020 deadline by two years.
It cited unnamed sources, which said 2022 may be a more realistic deadline as there are many unresolved issues in the mammoth project.
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