KUALA LUMPUR: Japan’s leading role in the construction of the multibillion ringgit raw water tunnel project from Pahang to Selangor has won praise from Water, Land and Natural Resources Minister Datuk Dr Xavier Jayakumar.
Not only did two Japanese companies provide the state-of-the-art tunnel boring technologies for the 44.6km-long tunnel – deemed South-East Asia’s longest water tunnel – Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) topped it up with soft loans worth ¥82bil (RM3bil) payable over 40 years for the project.
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