Highway by-passing Brunei must be priority after fee hike by sultanate, says politician


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

MIRI: The Federal Government and Sarawak state government must start construction of a new highway linking northern Borneo that will by-pass Brunei, following the latest move by the sultanate to impose new exorbitant travel charges on land commuters.

Progressive Democratic Party secretary-general Datuk Nelson Balang Rining on Firday (July 10) said the latest move by Brunei to impose land entry and exit fees of B$3 per foreign traveller was too expensive and was unreasonable.

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