New border charges ‘too high’


Vehicles queue up at the Miri border checkpoint to cross from Sarawak to Sabah via Brunei.

MIRI: The Federal Government and Sarawak government have been urged to start building a new highway linking northern Borneo and bypassing Brunei, following the sultanate’s move to impose new travel charges on those crossing into its borders.

In making the call, Progressive Democratic Party secretary-general Datuk Nelson Balang Rining told StarMetro that Brunei’s decision to impose land entry and exit fees of B$3 (RM9.2) per foreign traveller is too expensive.

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