Malaysia said it has suspended talks with Singapore following its decision to scrap the building of a controversial bridge between the neighbours.

"At present we have no plans for any official meetings. There is nothing that we can discuss," Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar told reporters yesterday.

Asked if Kuala Lumpur would hold negotiations on other outstanding issues, Syed Hamid said it had no intention to begin any talks.

"At present when we have just terminated all negotiations, I do not think we should start to talk about any issues as yet," he said.

Malaysia last week abruptly dropped plans to build the bridge after nearly a decade of prickly negotiations with Singapore.

Outstanding issues

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi cited public opposition to Singaporean requests, as part of the bridge negotiations, for the use of Malaysian airspace and for its sand for the city-state's reclamation projects.

The two nations have squabbled periodically since Singapore was ejected from the new Malaysian federation in 1965.

Other outstanding issues include the price of water that Malaysia supplies to resource-scarce Singapore, the future of Malaysian-owned railway land inside Singapore and rival claims to a rocky islet.