SEPANG: Singapore took out a full-page advertisement in the Asian Wall Street Journal yesterday to counter a media blitz by Malaysia on their protracted dispute over a water supply deal.
The advertisement carried in the daily yesterday said that Malaysia had sought a price increase of RM3 per 1,000 gallons of water, then demanded more than RM6 – 10 times more than the agreed 60 sen – and that it was Malaysia that unilaterally called off the package negotiations in October last year.
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