high speed rail (HSR)

The king has been a longtime backer of the rail link, which Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s government revived last year.

The on-again, off-again 350-kilometre high-speed rail link would cut travel time between the centres down to about 90 minutes.

The meeting will help the Malaysian government determine the feasiblity of reviving the project

The two countries will resume talks on proposed changes to the multibillion-dollar project’s commercial and technical sides in the near future, Azmin Ali, Malaysia’s senior minister of international trade and industry, said in a statement.

The KL-Singapore high speed rail (HSR) project, which was suspended following a change in the Malaysian government nearly two years ago, might be revived in the short term, instead of suffering from outright cancellation, says Fitch So

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 5): Singapore and Malaysia on Wednesday signed an agreement to defer the high speed rail link connecting the two countries for almost two years.

SINGAPORE (Sept 3): Singapore hopes to reach a mutually acceptable outcome soon on the High Speed Rail (HSR) project linking Kuala Lumpur with the republic, according to Singapore’s Ministry of Transport.

SINGAPORE (July 10): Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says Malaysia has not given Singapore a full notice on the planned Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail (KL-SG HSR), as this decision requires the government to be mindful of the country’s resources

SINGAPORE (May 28): Malaysia’s newly-reinstated Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has vowed to scrap the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail (KL-SG HSR) project to curb unnecessary government spending, says an article published today by the Financial T

SINGAPORE (Apr 12): The joint tender called by SG HSR and MyHSR Corporation, for a private-financed assets company (AssetsCo) to work on the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail (HSR) project has attracted six potential bidders, says Bernama news agenc