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Y.W.Loke wrote: > http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/6/news/nmsia01.html > > 28 Oct 2000 > > M'sia to spend RM5b to bail out KL light rail > > Terms being worked out with creditors' body; govt to take over the rail > system > > MALAYSIA plans to spend about RM5 billion (S$2.3 billion) to bail out Kuala > Lumpur's light rail, run by Renong Bhd and other firms, in the nation's > biggest such rescue, bankers involved in the transaction said. > > The government will take over the rail system, swapping debt at the project > for bonds. > > Terms of the swap are being negotiated with a creditors' committee headed > by Bayerische Landesbank, Commerce International Merchant Bankers Bhd, > Employees Provident Fund, PhileoAllied Bank Bhd, state asset management > company Pengurusan Danaharta Nasional Bhd and RHB Bank Bhd. > > The five-to-15 year bonds will have yields of between 5.5 per cent and 7 > per cent, the bankers said. > > The bailout is "inevitable -- it was a question of time," said Loke See > Ooi, research manager at Worldsec Securities Advisor Sdn. "It'll hurt > taxpayers in some form." > > The rescue comes after one of the two groups managing the longest > driverless rapid transit rail in the world defaulted on a debt payment last > year. The light rail service, which runs between Kuala Lumpur and its > suburbs, is managed by Putra, led by Renong, and Star -- headed by the UK's > Taylor Woodrow Plc. > > The move is another setback for Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's > efforts to let private companies manage key projects, a policy he crafted > to help promote ethnic Malay businesses. > > Renong, the largest industrial group in Malaysia, with interests in > construction, banking, oil and gas, hotels and property, is controlled by > Halim Saad, a protege of Daim Zainuddin, Malaysia's finance minister. > Renong's businesses were formerly owned by dominant political party United > Malays National Organization, or Umno. > > In a similar rescue in March, the government took over an unprofitable > national sewerage treatment project from Prime Utilities Bhd, paying the > company RM192.5 million after the company failed to collect enough revenue > to pay its bills. > > Under a plan being worked out for the light rail companies, the government > will set up a special purpose vehicle to issue a series of bonds to > creditors such as Bayerische Landesbank, Danaharta, EPF, Standard Chartered > Bank, ABN Amro Bank, RHB, PhileoAllied Bank and Commerce International. C > Rajandram, chairman of the government's Corporate Debt Restructuring > Committee, declined to confirm the details, saying "Talks are still > preliminary. We want to resolve this as soon as possible." > > As part of the plan, the government will own the light rail project, which > will be leased back to an operating company, bankers said. The shareholders > of Putra and Star are currently battling over who will operate the rail > system. > > Troubles at the rail projects emerged after Putra, or Projek Usahasama > Transit Automatik Sdn defaulted in 1999 on interest payments totalling > RM44.6 million on a RM2 billion loan, after revenue couldn't cover its > expenses. > > Star (Sistem Transit Aliran Ringan Sdn Bhd), counts the Employees Provident > Fund and other state-run pension funds as shareholders. > > Malaysia is struggling to reorganise the city's transport industry to help > ease over-capacity. Other companies in the industry that need help include > KTM Bhd, the national railway being run by a group of investors led by > Renong, bus companies Park May Bhd and Intrakota Consolidated Bhd, and a > RM1.17 billion KL monorail system. -- Bloomberg > > _______________________________________________________ > > The Berita Malaysia / bmalaysia mailing lists > ============================================ > Read postings, subscribe/unsubscribe or change settings at: > http://www.eGroups.com/list/beritamalaysia/ > http://www.eGroups.com/list/bmalaysia/ > > -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> > eGroups eLerts > It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! > http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/14/_/1812/_/972734395/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ( Melanggan ? To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] pada body : SUBSCRIBE HIZB) ( Berhenti ? 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