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Dr Oh Ei Sun, senior fellow at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs think tank, said there was a need for a rail link across the breadth of the Malay Peninsula to facilitate the transport of goods.

“The existing east coast rail line can be upgraded – such as [by being] double-tracked – to better serve needs,” he said.

Excerpted from the full article: Mahathir says stalled Chinese rail link can go ahead on ‘smaller scale’ if Beijing agrees [South China Morning Post, 2 January 2019]

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