Bridge over troubled waters


  • Letters
  • Sunday, 19 Feb 2006

It has been called the scenic bridge and crooked bridge, but Malaysia has decided to go ahead and build its half of the controversial bridge over the Johor Strait. JOCELINE TAN looks at the arguments behind the decision that caught the Singapore side off-guard. 

DATUK Ghani Othman must have felt that he had come full circle when he learnt that Malaysia was going ahead with the bridge project. 

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