Controversial rail deal marks policy test for Pak Lah

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A controversial multi-billion-dollar rail deal appears to have been shunted into a siding as steam rises in Malaysia, China and India over a contract seen as a policy test for new Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

One of Asia's biggest infrastructure contracts, the double-tracking rail project forms part of an ambitious 5,600-kilometre trans-Asia link that runs from Kunming in China through Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia to Singapore.

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