Malaysia does not need Singapore for the High-Speed Rail (HSR) project as the rail has the potential to be linked northwards towards Thailand instead, said former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin.

His successor Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob mooted the revival of the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore HSR project in a bilateral meeting with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong recently.

“We do not need to wait for Singapore to get involved...