A Felda signage at the Felda headquarters outside Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur June 8, 2017. REUTERS/Emily Chow/File Photo
CHINA Communications Construction Co (CCCC), the main contractor for the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL), has drawn similarities between its project in Malaysia and the port it built in Sri Lanka in 2015.
The chairman of CCCC, Liu Qitao, had said recently at a conference in Hong Kong that the Sri Lankan people were initially apprehensive of the Hambantota Port project that the government was forced to hand over to the Chinese after being unable to service the debt of US$1.2bil tied to it.
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