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Kuala Lumpur pulled out all the stops in its preparation for the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit last month. The 114 heads of government and heads of state attending would have found that the beautiful high-tech airport's trouble-prone baggage system had been overhauled under the supervision of transport minister Ling Liong Sik. The system, which embarrassingly failed when the airport was opened in 1998, has now been declared fixed.

Kuala Lumpur pulled out all the stops in its preparation for the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit last month. The 114 heads of government and heads of state attending would have found that the beautiful high-tech airport’s trouble-prone baggage system had been overhauled under the supervision of transport minister Ling Liong Sik. The system, which embarrassingly failed when the airport was opened in 1998, has now been declared fixed.

Potted flowers sprang up in strategic locations where NAM visitors passed and a fleet of new BMWs shuttled VIPs around town.

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