SINGAPORE — Malaysia has paid Singapore over $76 million compensation following the cancellation of a controversial high-speed rail line between the neighbors after years of stop-start negotiations, officials said Monday.
The 350-kilometer (217-mile) railway was expected to cut travel time between the city-state and the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to 90 minutes from the four or more hours by car currently.
But the neighbors scrapped the project in December after failing to agree on changes proposed by a new Malaysian government, which had taken power after the fall of a short-lived reformist administration.
The countries have had fractious relations since Malaysia expelled …
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