News about ECRL

SEREMBAN (April 7): The alignment of the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) will be rerouted to benefit Negeri Sembilan if it is resumed after negotiations with the Chinese government at the end of this month.

SEREMBAN (April 6): Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng hinted that  the East Coast Railway Line (ECRL) may be rerouted to Negri Sembilan during a ceramah for the Rantau State seat by-election yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 31): Tun Daim Zainuddin has revealed today that it is not true that the government would be satisfied if it can get China to reduce the cost of the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) mega project by RM10 billion.

  KUALA LUMPUR (March 21): Former Finance Minister Tun Abdul Daim Zainuddin is the best candidate to lead the negotiation on the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) as it involves a big and sophisticated contract, says Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 20): Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad told the Parliament today that Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob raised a rhetorical question on the cost of Malaysia's suspended East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project, because such query should have been posed when the former government under Barisan Nasional (BN) was still formulating the contract.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 8): Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng (pictured) is hopeful that talks on reducing the price of the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project will be carried out before Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s visit to China next month.

KLANG (Feb 26): Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday that Malaysia will continue with the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project if the price is right.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 25): With Malaysia’s economic growth seen to moderate going into 2019, coupled with talks of a potential global recession, pump-priming could be one of the ways to support economic growth.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 25): The construction sector, the worst-performing sector in 2018 with the Bursa Malaysia Construction Index (KLCON) declining by more than 50% during the year, may now be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 22): Shares in Iskandar Waterfront City Bhd (IWCity) continued to rise this morning on the back of talks of possible revival of the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL), which improved sentiment on Malaysia's mega projects currently under scrutiny.