Sorry, Singapore ...

span style="font-size:180%;"/spandiv style="text-align: justify;"span style="font-size:180%;"/span/divdiv style="text-align: justify;"blockquotediv style="text-align: justify;"span style="font-size:180%;"The Johor Sultan /span[which means, the people of Johor] opposes your third bridge proposal. Read the NST a href="http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Thursday/Frontpage/20090618153119/Article/index_html"span style="font-style: italic;"here/span/a.br /blockquotespan style="font-size:85%;"br /JOHOR BARU, THURS:br //span p class="abstract"span style="font-size:85%;" The Sultan of Johor, Sultan Iskandar has expressed his opposition to the proposed third bridge linking Johor and Singapore. /span/p table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" width="200" /table span style="font-size:85%;" Sultan Iskandar's message was delivered by his son, Tunku Mahkota of Johor, Tunku Ibrahim Ismail who read his speech at the opening of the State Assembly in Kota Iskandar, Nusajaya today.br /br /"I am instructed by His Royal Highness to convey a message that he did not agree with the proposal for a third bridge," said Tunku Ibrahim after he finished reading the prepared speech.br /br / Tunku Ibrahim, however, did not eleborate further on the Sultan's stand on the matter.br /br /The proposed third bridge, linking Pengerang in Kota Tinggi and Changi, in Singapore is among the key bilateral issues discussed between Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his Singapore counterpart Lee Hsien Loong during Najib's official visit to the republic last month.br //span center!-- start video-- !-- end video-- /centerspan style="font-size:85%;" It is aimed at complementing future development in the less-developed Pengerang and Desaru areas. /span/blockquoteNajib's going to have a headache over this one. Pak Lah did and never recovered from it.br /br /Back to the crooked, scenic bridge, anyone?br /br /span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" Flashback, the PM's statement on Third Bridge:-/spanbr /table border="0" width="100%"tbodytrtd width="50%"br //td td align="right" width="50%"span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;font-size:85%;"b June 11, 2009 12:18 PM/b/span/td /tr /tbody/table table border="0" width="100%" tbodytr td width="100%" table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="100%" tbodytr td bg width="71%" style="color:#7181aa;"span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;font-size:85%;color:#ffffff;"bSingapore Keen On Third Bridge - Najib/b/span/td !--td width="24%" align="right" bgcolor="#7181AA"a class="latest_news" href="send_friend.php?id=417264amp;title=Singapore Keen On Third Bridge - Najib"img alt="E-mail this news to a friend" src="images/friend.gif" border="0" width="15" height="11" //a a class="latest_news" href="printable.php?id=417264" target="_top"img alt="Printable version of this news" src="images/print.gif" border="0" width="15" height="11" //a /td-- /tr tr td colspan="2" bgcolor="#7181aa" width="100%" table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellspacing="5" width="100%" tbodytr td align="justify" width="100%" p class="news_summ" align="justify"br / /p p class="news" align="justify" /p span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;font-size:85%;" PUTRAJAYA, June 11 (Bernama) -- Singapore is quite keen on the construction of a third bridge linking the republic to Malaysia, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said Thursday.br /br /"The concept of the third bridge on the eastern side of Johor is something which we will pursue, and Singapore is quite keen on having the third bridge.br /br / "When we have a third bridge, we can develop the whole of the eastern side (of Johor) up to Mersing and onwards to Desaru.br /br /"Singapore did say that it (the area) has the potential to be another Nusa Jaya like in Bali (Indonesia)," he said in his opening address at the 2010 Budget consultation meeting at the Finance Ministry, here.br /br /Speaking at a news conference later, Najib said Singapore's interest in the bridge was conveyed by its Minister Mentor, Lee Kuan Yew, who met him several days ago.br /br /"He showed interest to work with Malaysia to build the third bridge. The bridge can develop Johor and districts like Mersing, Desaru and so forth in Kuantan in Pahang.br /br /"I have directed the relevant parties to provide a feasibility study and consultant for the project. It is related to the development of the Iskandar corridor," he said.br /br /However, the date to start the project had yet to be decided. "We cannot say when the project will be implemented because we have to look at the finding of the feasibility study and the costs. Malaysia and Singapore will pay for the cost of the third bridge," he added./span/td/tr/tbody/table/td/tr/tbody/table/td/tr/tbody/table/divbr /br //blockquote/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28452020-5037535433440160792?l=rockybru.com.my'//div