Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai on Thursday affirmed that plans are on track to call for a tender for a high-speed rail project linking Singapore with Kuala Lumpur by the end of this year.
"We would like to get started hopefully by the end of the year for this open tender," he said. "Looks like (it's) on schedule."
Asked about shinkansen technology, Liow, who was in Singapore to attend an annual ASEAN transport ministers' meeting, said, "We have been visiting Japan, and I have been given a chance to sit on the shinkansen.