It is very helpful fpr business trip and weekend vacation la.

KLIA stop doesn't make sense. City centre is logical. KL city centre to KLIA is 1h car if no jam. If car/LRT to KL Sentral then ERL to KLIA is oso 1h at least. Then HSR to SG in 2 hours takes at least total 3h.
Compare bus ride to SG 4h if no jam, firefly 2-3 hours including ground transport.

What's the feasibility of HSR if it doesn't at least half the time KL-SG?

i believe one of the east asia will get the job one de lah

surely japan or china 

I guess China.

heard their technology was copy from Kawasaki Heavy Industries, one of the makers of the bullet train, as well as from Germany’s Siemens and other copy hi-tech heavyweights 

Buy prop at BN state won't go wrong. You saw proposed stop all at BN state. Skipped selangor

Yah, start at 5am will be good, reach Spore at 730am, half hour immigration clearance, take MRT to work & reach office before 9am! But wake up at 4am!  

When age catch up, short travelling will b stress too

dun knw ppl are trolling or for real when they say they wanna use hsr as daily commute to work in sg.....

The chinese plan it for the long term one....e.g. 25-50 years instead of 5-20 years.
It may not look profitable in 5-20 years but over a period of 25-50 years it will especially for such an expensive project like HSR.

A lot of times .....it may not make sense in term of business profitability plan perspective.
But when you add in politics,pride and goodwill....those thing cannot be measure financially.

The Chinese face fierce competition from the Japanese.....Thus will do what it takes to win this project.

Failure to clinch this Singapore- KL project will set them back for years/decade and will be a major blow to their new silk road project and their dream of connecting southern China to Singapore by HSR.  They will lose face in South East Asia also.
The Japanese want to spoil their plan e.g. a revenge from their failure in the Indonesia bid.

We , as Malaysian need to play our card well in the fight between China and Japan/USA (AIIB vs World Bank/ADB).
Perhaps we will get our HSR for free and at a very low cost (just like the Indonesia)

Personally, I wish the chinese bid would win.
It is not because I am Chinese Malaysian.
It is because it makes the most business sense to get a China/Kunmin - Laos - Cambodia - Bangkok - Haadyai - Penang - KL - Singapore HSR in place in the long term.
It will be a major boost to tourism in South East Asia. imagine a HSR Oriental express in the making.
You can have breakfast in Singapore, lunch in KL and dinner in Bangkok and a late nite supper in China or vice versa early breakfast in Southern China, lunch in Bangkok, dinner in KL and a late night party in Singapore hehehehe. Superb!
It will be one of the 'must do' thing to do for any tourist to Asia , just like the London - Paris route in Europe.
Who knows ....one day our children or grandchildren can take a HSR from London to Singapore.
HSR would be a boost to KL position as the business hub of South east asia as it is in between Bangkok and Singapore.

http://www.thestar.com.my/business/busines...ject/?style=biz

Actually, from Singapore all the way to Vietnam, it is possible to use single type trainset and all of the route use Metre Gauge. That is why Malaysian trainset can travel all the way to Bangkok. China mostly use standard gauge which is bigger then metre gauge and can carry more load at faster speed too. In order for China to use Southeast Asia train route, they have to somehow transfer their load at border into smaller trainset.

If they don't mind, they can sponsor or atleast give soft loan to SEA countries to convert or to build new standard gauge rail lines.

The problem with metre gauge is the speed limit which is about 160 km/h and at most at 210km/h and that too only with heavily modified trainset in Australia.

With standard gauge, train can travel at speed more than 300km/h and carrying more loads. That is why in choosing HSR, I rather have TGV type rail system which use standard gauge. This might help if the HSR failed to make money since it can be converted to standard rail system anc cargo train can use it as well. If use Japanese Shinkansen system, once failed, nothing can be use on it anymore since it is highly dedicated rail lines.

Why cant make the travel time shorter? As from the news, the nonstop services for the 330km route means only approx 220km/ph. Does not look high speed right. Thought can generally average 300km+?