THE tantalising prospect of a high-speed rail (HSR) slicing through the coast of the Malaysian peninsula from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore where Jurong East has been identified as the terminus came a step closer to reality this week.
The bonhomie between the leaders of both countries - Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Malaysia's Najib Razak - at the annual leaders' retreat here as they laid the course for the mega project dubbed a "game changer" was unmistakable.
It lent a sense of firm...