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UPDATED 5.33PM | The PKR president says Farhash has been advised to meet the police.

'MRL proposed a route that includes two stations in Negeri Sembilan, at Kuala Klawang and Nilai.'

The 331 companies bidding for contracts likely to be judged on pricing and execution.

Anthony Loke previously said local firms would have larger function and scope in the relaunched project.

PARLIAMENT | He had jabbed them on why they hadn't questioned the previous BN government over the project.

MB Ahmad Samsuri believes the current 40pct allocation is insufficient to mobilise the state economy.

Such claims circulating on social media are untrue, say MRL and CCCC.

Daim Zainuddin believes that locating Jho Low is more complicated than ECRL.

COMMENT | The haste with which mega projects are being pushed through raises questions on re-emergence of patronage.

UPDATED 9.13PM | BN created the two 'tools' after it lost its two-thirds parliamentary majority in 2008, he adds.

COMMENT | The initiative is fraught with pitfalls for unsuspecting countries that get sucked in by China’s cheap financing.

UPDATED 12.52PM | Minister responds to claim that the 'discount' was given in exchange for 4,500 acres of land.

He asks whether it was a personal emissary of the former PM involved in the negotiations.  

UPDATED 6.40PM | The prime minister says the four 'major problems' resulted from the previous government.

Country's lead ECRL negotiator urges local contractors to seize chance to work on international project. 

M'sia's lead negotiator says this is possible once rail construction experts work out technical details. 

The 16km-long and 200m-wide pure quartz dyke is the longest of its kind in the world.

MRL says that its joint venture with the Beijing-owned CCCC poses no security threat.

UPDATED 9.30PM | Ex-PM says M'sians are capable of handling the project, and cites national security concerns.

Ong Kian Ming says Beijing-owned firm already carried out a significant portion of ECRL work.

No date has been fixed for its submission.