Mahathir 'very good spin doctor': Goh

Mahathir 'very good spin doctor': Goh

SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong has described his Malaysian counterpart Mahathir Mohamad as a "very good spin doctor" for saying he had opposed out of nostalgia the building of a new bridge to link both countries.

Mahathir, a physician by profession, said last week that Goh had blocked a plan to replace a causeway currently linking the neighbors with a new span.

He said that Singapore Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew had told him he had no objections to a new bridge, but that it was Goh who was against it because he was "nostalgic about the causeway".

Goh said he had been against knocking down the causeway "because I saw no benefits whatsoever in replacing a perfectly functioning historical causeway with a new bridge" because of additional expenses. --AFP