Reuter, 22 May 2009, Nopporn Wong-Anan
SINGAPORE, May 22 (Reuters) - Singapore and Malaysia will consider literally building new bridges to improve an often uneasy relationship, their leaders said on Friday.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said options to improve the relationship included better rail links, broadening a congested causeway between the two, or possibly building a new bridge to link eastern Singapore to Malaysian border state Johor.
Lee said his government could also support the Iskandar Malaysia project, a planned economic zone in Johor that would be Southeast Asia's rival to China's Pearl River manufacturing heartland to give both nations a boost in the global downturn.
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