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Fuel sale ban put off

Malaysia has put off plans to ban foreign-registered vehicles from filling up on subsidized gasoline in its border areas with Singapore and Thailand, a top Malaysian official said yesterday.

The ban was originally due to start yesterday at up to 300 stations within 50 km of Malaysia's borders with the two countries, where gasoline costs up to twice as much.

But Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is in Singapore for a security summit, told reporters that an anti-inflation Cabinet committee would meet tomorrow to review the plan.

(China Daily 06/02/2008 page6)