Serious Sinkieland to Kuala Lumpar in 90 minutes!

[Asterix]

Najib, Lee Hsien Loong to witness high-speed rail MoU signing Tuesday

PUTRAJAYA: Leaders from Malaysia and Singapore will witness the signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding (Mou) concerning the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail on Tuesday.

The event will be held in conjunction with Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong's one-day visit to Malaysia on July 19.

Wisma Putra, in a statement said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and Lee would witness the signing ceremony of the MoU between the two governments.

The proposed 350-km line will begin in Bandar Malaysia, seven km from the Kuala Lumpur city centre and end in Jurong East, Singapore.

The proposed train service is expected to cut travel time to about 90 minutes from about five hours by road between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.

The proposed train is expected to have five transit stations, namely cities of Seremban, Ayer Keroh, Muar, Batu Pahat and Iskandar Puteri.

The Wisma Putra statement said that Lee was also scheduled to have a four-eyed meeting with Najib to discuss bilateral issues of mutual concern.

Malaysia and Singapore enjoy excellent ties in various sectors including trade and investment, social, education, defence and security, as well as people-to-people relations.

In 2015, Singapore was Malaysia's second largest trading partner globally and largest trading partner among member countries of ASEAN.

Total trade between the two countries was recorded at RM190.6bil (US$48.8bil) in 2015. – Bernama

http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nati...-witness-high-speed-rail-mou-singing-tuesday/

 

[Asterix]

Asia Embraces Bullet Trains as Singapore-Malaysia Deal Looms

Asia is embracing bullet trains like never before.

Singapore and Malaysia are set to sign an agreement Tuesday that will bring a high-speed rail link to Kuala Lumpur one step closer to reality. That follows a $5.5 billion project already underway in Indonesia while India last year chose Japan to build a $15 billion network, its first.

Asian nations are modernizing their transport infrastructure while China has set up the world’s biggest high-speed rail network. Japan has been running bullet trains for more than five decades now. As countries embrace the latest technology, it’s also pitting Chinese and Japanese manufacturers of super-fast trains against rivals such as Siemens AG and Bombardier Inc.

“It’s a good sign because generally investors are looking to see more inter-connectivity across Southeast Asia," said Alan Richardson, a Hong Kong-based fund manager at Samsung Asset Management. That "will help to provide greater resilience to, or less reliance on other developed economies and also, should provide a more stable geopolitical environment with increasing inter-connectivity,” he said.

Final Negotiations

Singapore and Malaysia will sign a memorandum of understanding regarding the rail line, Malaysia’s foreign ministry said in an e-mailed statement Monday. Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will be visiting his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak. The agreement will pave the way for final negotiations on the development and execution of the 300-kilometer (185 miles) line connecting Singapore and the Malaysian capital, the New Straits Times reported this month.

Last year, Singapore and Malaysia said they would reassess the 2020 target for the completion of the project because of the scale and complexity of the venture. Leaders of the two countries had announced in 2013 the rail link may be completed by the end of this decade, with Najib calling it a “huge game changer” that will transform the way the neighbors do business.

"The high-speed rail is a key bilateral project for both countries," Lee’s office said in a statement Monday. "The two governments’ commitment to this project is a reflection of our strong bilateral ties and our continued efforts to deepen relations. When completed, the HSR will boost connectivity, strengthen economic ties and forge closer people-to-people linkages."

Shorter Journey

The high-speed rail line will trim the land journey between the two Southeast Asian cities to 90 minutes, from about five hours now. It will also challenge budget carriers such as AirAsia Bhd. and Singapore Airlines Ltd.’s Tiger Airways, which fly passengers from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur in about an hour.

"The Singapore-Malaysia sector has among the largest airline capacity within the region," said John Mathai, Bloomberg Intelligence’s Singapore-based transport analyst . "A high-speed rail could service some of the traffic within that segment, reducing congestion at airports."

Asia’s appetite for high-speed rail has also pitted Chinese rail giants such as CRRC Corp., and Japanese manufacturers Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. against European rivals.

Exporting Technology

Japan, which built the world’s first high-speed train more than half a century ago, is stepping up efforts to export its bullet-train technology to meet a pledge by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to triple infrastructure exports to 30 trillion yen ($284 billion) by 2020. China, home to the world’s biggest high-speed rail network, has identified the sector as one of 10 focus industries in a blueprint for economic development.

Japan aims to sell bullet trains to the project and the government supports bids by its companies, Transport Minister Keiichi Ishii said in December. The country beat China to secure a $15 billion rail project in India.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is leading his nation’s overseas push by train equipment makers as part of the government’s broader strategy to turn the country into an advanced industrial nation. He has targeted emerging markets in Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia for rail-related orders, while also bidding for high-profile contracts in the developed world.

In October, a subsidiary of China Railway Group Ltd. partnered with local companies to win the rights to build a $5.5-billion high-speed railway line in Indonesia, the country’s first.

Malaysia and Singapore received close to 250 submissions after calling for a Request for Information for the project, and 98 were shortlisted, the New Straits Times reported in December.

Fourteen foreign entities among the 98 were asked to present their views, including France’s Alstom, Germany’s Siemens AG, Spain’s CAF and Talgo SA, Canada’s Bombardier, a group led by China Railway, as well as consortium from Japan and South Korea, the paper reported, without saying where it obtained the names.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ullet-trains-as-singapore-malaysia-deal-looms

 

[tonychat]

Jurong East is going to have a custom immigration center?

 

[dr.wailing]

Your Sinkie Prime Ministar has won again...Allahu akbar

A little bird from the West whispered to me that one of Familee's private investment vehicles will be bidding for parts of the project. Expect Familee to make a windfall with corrupt Najib.

Undoubtedly both Najib and Familee will pressure their respective government ministries to buy trains from China's Qingdao Sifang.

And expect Najib to pocket hundreds of millions of USD from the deal. I hope that he'll be smarter this time and avoid receiving the corrupt money into his own bank accounts. He may wish to park them with one of the accounts belonging to Familee's private investment vehicles.

 

[Devil Within]

A lot of Malaysia-Singapore coaches need to start thinking about their business model. They have the next few years to come up with new business strategy.

 

[Papsmearer]

Your Sinkie Prime Ministar has won again...Allahu akbar

A little bird from the West whispered to me that one of Familee's private investment vehicles will be bidding for parts of the project. Expect Familee to make a windfall with corrupt Najib.

Undoubtedly both Najib and Familee will pressure their respective government ministries to buy trains from China's Qingdao Sifang.

And expect Najib to pocket hundreds of millions of USD from the deal. I hope that he'll be smarter this time and avoid receiving the corrupt money into his own bank accounts. He may wish to park them with one of the accounts belonging to Familee's private investment vehicles.

Bro, Don't worry about these 2 billionaire assholes Gay Loong and Najib. My malaysian chinese towkay friends already scouting parcels of land to buy in those 5 transit cities. Looking for those parcels near the proposed stations. I also looking to invest with them. Do what you can to make money for yourself in this deal, you know already these 2 jackasses are doing it.

 

[Hans168]

to muar in 30 mins for seafood.........?

 

[Hans168]

A lot of Malaysia-Singapore coaches need to start thinking about their business model. They have the next few years to come up with new business strategy.

better stopover at towns for sex like Kulai, etc

 

[Hans168]

Your Sinkie Prime Ministar has won again...Allahu akbar

A little bird from the West whispered to me that one of Familee's private investment vehicles will be bidding for parts of the project. Expect Familee to make a windfall with corrupt Najib.

Undoubtedly both Najib and Familee will pressure their respective government ministries to buy trains from China's Qingdao Sifang.

And expect Najib to pocket hundreds of millions of USD from the deal. I hope that he'll be smarter this time and avoid receiving the corrupt money into his own bank accounts. He may wish to park them with one of the accounts belonging to Familee's private investment vehicles.

to use such train travelling at high speeds is NO NO....... hairline cracks develops quickly into cracko..........

 

[shittypore]

Prepare for more Sinkies to get killed, robbed and raped in Mudland once the rail is running.

 

[Papsmearer]

Prepare for more Sinkies to get killed, robbed and raped in Mudland once the rail is running.

Talk lancheow wei lah. I know one Minister, he recently spend the whole day in JB with 20 busloads of grassroot supporters. All loaded with money and buying many shopping bags worth of items. How come not one out of the 20 busloads got robbed, killed or raped? Explain that or else shut your face.

 

[chootchiew]

Prepare for more Sinkies to get killed, robbed and raped in Mudland once the rail is running.

More jobs will go to msians
More pack sardines
Rental income drop
More target for robber in kl
Lol lol lol

 

[CABcommander]

God knows how much kopi $ will go inside najib and umno pockets. Huat ah.

 

[dr.wailing]

you know already these 2 jackasses are doing it.

Your assumption seems to be correct, bro.

It appears that the Founding Daughter has reconciled with the "dishonorable Son" a/k/a Chief Natural Aristocrat and teamed up with the latter to buying up land in those areas that you described. Greed for money has the power to create ties, enhance them, mend them and wreck them.

 

[ginfreely]

Talk lancheow wei lah. I know one Minister, he recently spend the whole day in JB with 20 busloads of grassroot supporters. All loaded with money and buying many shopping bags worth of items. How come not one out of the 20 busloads got robbed, killed or raped? Explain that or else shut your face.

Please go read my thread today on MALAYSIAN woman robbed by taxi driver in KL.

 

[ginfreely]

More jobs will go to msians
More pack sardines
Rental income drop
More target for robber in kl
Lol lol lol

The silver lining is maybe more gamblers will come to Spore to gamble instead of Genting.

 

[frenchbriefs]

Why would malaysians want to come to singapore?has the ministers thought about this long and hard?we need mudland more than they need us,cheap shopping,cheap holidays in genting,cheap food,cheap housing,cheap cars.everything that singapore doesnt have.theres nothing that singapore has that malaysia doesnt have except newwater.

 

[virus]

to use such train travelling at high speeds is NO NO....... hairline cracks develops quickly into cracko..........

pls dont spread such ideas as it will cause panic... btw, will terrorist drop explosive next to the track and kabroom how arh?

will it be big enough to fly to heavan? or land in kovan?

 

[bushtucker]

yay! can go over to KL for a sauna/massage quickie

and no need to register for VEP crap.

 

[Devil Within]

yay! can go over to KL for a sauna/massage quickie

and no need to register for VEP crap.

I don't think it will be cheap. Most probably around the price of airline?