Malaysia will bring a simmering water dispute with neighbouring Singapore to the boil again in a tit-for-tat publishing duel, a report said today.

Kuala Lumpur will produce a book revealing a "true" account of the squabble and rejecting the version put forward by Singapore in a recently-released book entitled: "Water talks? If only it could."

"We must give the true picture. The only one who is unfair and unreasonable is Singapore," Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar was quoted as saying by the Malay-language Utusan Malaysia .