Malaysian PM says MSC to proceed

Malaysian PM says MSC to proceed

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuter): Malaysia will push ahead with an
ambitious hi-tech multimedia zone despite the shelving of several
other major projects, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said
yesterday.

"There will be no delay, although some people will want us to
delay," Mahathir said while opening a conference to showcase his
Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) pet project.

The MSC, a 15-by-50-kilometer hi-tech, high-speed
communications zone will extend south from Malaysia's capital
Kuala Lumpur to its new international airport. It will include an
"intelligent" city Cyberjaya and a new "wired" federal capital,
Putrajaya.

The construction of Putrajaya itself will only go as far as
the first phase, the government announced last week.