Malaysia to call for high-speed rail civil contracts next year

An artist's impression of Batu Pahat station along the future Kuala-Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail. PHOTO: MYHSR CORP
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SINGAPORE - Malaysia says it expects to call civil contract tenders for the Kuala-Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail (HSR) project in the first half of next year.

MyHSR Corp, Malaysia's umbrella group tasked with delivering the HSR project, said this in response to queries from The Straits Times, and a day after Singapore announced that it had called civil contract tenders for its end of the line.

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