Much-awaited Pan Borneo project will induce a multiplier economic effect


By YU JI

Workers setting up the exhibition area of the Pan Borneo Highway launching ceremony at Mile 32 Jalan Bintulu-Miri on Monday morning. The Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem will launch the start on highway building on Tuesday. Presently, just 14 of the road is dual-carriageway, with the remains single lane country roads. Photo by ZULAZHAR SHEBLEE.

BINTULU: Today marks the official start of the Pan Borneo Highway construction, a project first talked about when Malaysia was formed in 1963.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak will launch the upgrading of an existing road to Bakun Dam from Mile-32 of the Bintulu-Miri trunk road.

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