Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
PERTH: Australian coal miners made a joint A$4.85 billion (A$1 = RM2.76) cash bid for a rail-track network in the country's biggest coal state, aiming to prevent it being sold onto the stock market in a wider privatisation. The group of 13 firms headed by BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Xstrata said its bid for the network was conditional on the Queensland state government dropping its plan to sell ...
Continue here: Miners make A$4.9b bid for rail network
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
DIVERSIFIED group YTL Corp Bhd ( 4677 ) said it still believes the high-speed bullet train linking Kuala Lumpur to neighbouring Singapore is an economically viable project and hopes the government will reconsider its implementation.
Continue here: YTL: KL-S'pore bullet train project economically viable (Business Times (Malaysia))
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
MALAYSIA'S richest state, which surrounds the capital, Kuala Lumpur, plans to solve the area’s chronic congestion with a public-transport blueprint including boats and trains that may cost RM50 billion (US$14 billion).
More here: Selangor's RM50b transport plan (Business Times (Malaysia))
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