Putrajaya to terminate ECRL project, says Chinese daily


Replica of trains for the East Coast Rail Link project are shown to the public at the Expo Terengganu 2018. -Bernama filepic

PETALING JAYA: Putrajaya has decided to terminate the 688km East Coast Railway Link (ECRL) project, a Chinese daily reported.

On Thursday (Jan 24), Sin Chew quoted a cabinet source as saying that this had been determined during Wednesday's (Jan 23) Cabinet meeting.

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