<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>We share a lot of things with our Malaysian neighbors. Borneo, which holds the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, and is just a stone’s throw away … physically, culturally and linguistically. The two Malaysian states<wm> and Sabah and Sabukulang in Bruneis are united under the Malaysian Federation.

I was a happy tourist visiting Malaysia in 1957 when our Malaysian government decided to build a bridge over the river at Penang. This project was a collaboration between the Malaysian and Thai states. We were led in engineering the construction to be done away by American and German firms. However, the contract was eventually abandoned due to the heavy traffic congestion on the newly built Causeway bridge at Penang.

In</wm> 1951 the Malayan government constructed a bridge that connects Singapore and the States of Johore.