(EPA photo)SINGAPORE - Japan intensified its sales pitch for the shinkansen bullet train in Singapore on Friday, hoping to give it an edge when tendering for the recently agreed Malaysia-Singapore high-speed rail project. Visitors look at a train model on display at the 2nd High Speed Rail Symposium at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Singapore on Friday. Yuji Fukasawa, executive vice president of East Japan Railway Co, told the symposium that a shinkansen system could start commercial operations as early as in seven years. "Japan's private and public sectors are trying very hard to have a high-speed railway that adopts the shinkansen technology to be run here in Singapore," Ishii told reporters after the symposium. Earlier this week, the governments of Singapore and Malaysia signed a memorandum of understanding for the project to build a railway that links the two countries.

Source: Bangkok Post July 22, 2016 11:03 UTC