Anwar publicly acknowledged there was friction between tycoon Ting Pek Khiing's Ekran company, which is handling the project, and the main contractor, the Swiss-Swedish firm of Asea Brown Boveri.
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Whether the chief minister's sons have shares in Ekran or whether the chairman is a friend of the prime minister is totally irrelevant to the issue of whether a hydroelectric dam would spur industrialization in the Peninsula as well as in the Malaysian territories of Borneo.