By NELSON BENJAMIN
JOHOR BARU: Some 5,000 jobs are expected to be created with the establishment of the Legoland Theme Park in Iskandar Malaysia.
Iskandar Investment Bhd chairman Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar said that job opportunities would be available during various phases of the project in the next five years.
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By MEERA VIJAYAN
JOHOR BARU: The new Sultan Iskandar Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) complex will be fully operational tomorrow and replace the Causeway checkpoint in the city centre, which will be closed.
This means that all vehicles travelling to and from Singapore will have to use the new complex to get their passports stamped and Customs [...]
By ZAZALI MUSA
JOHOR BARU: Work on the RM750mil Legoland theme park at Bandar Nusajaya in Iskandar Malaysia will start in 2010 and the opening slated for 2013.
The park, to be built in the city centre of Nusajaya, will have a 5.5 million sq ft of gross floor area within the 58.679ha land dedicated for the [...]
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JOHOR BARU: The new Sultan Iskandar Customs, Immigration and Quarantine complex is expected to cut traffic congestion on the Causeway by more than half.
Johor Immigration director Mohd Nasri Ishak said the new complex was designed for smoother traffic flow to and from Singapore.
“Traffic congestion has always been a major problem at the Causeway. We hope [...]
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JOHOR BARU: The largest Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) complex in the country will be the transit point for more than nine million people travelling between Malaysia and Singapore each year.
The Sultan Iskandar Building is expected to be the busiest land entry and exit point in Malaysia, with some 135,000 vehicles passing through daily.
Yesterday, the [...]
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By EILEEN HEE
KUALA LUMPUR: Newcastle University will set up a RM100mil medical faculty in Nusajaya, Johor, via a joint venture with Iskandar Investment Bhd by 2011.
According to Dean of International Medical Education and CEO of Newcastle Medicine Malaysia Sdn Bhd Professor Reginald Jordon, students will be able to obtain a Newcastle University medical degree at [...]
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By ZAZALI MUSA
JOHOR BARU: Malaysian Resources Corp Bhd’s (MRCB) RM1.3bil Eastern Dispersal Link (EDL) highway project in Johor is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2011 and operational in early 2012, said chief development officer Shaharizuan Shafiei.
The 15km highway links the Pandan Interchange at the Tebrau Highway to the North-South Expressway and the [...]
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By ANGIE NG
WITH a number of lifestyle residential projects in its stable, IJM Land Bhd can look forward to riding out the current soft property market by focusing on its niche projects in Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Johor Baru.
For the financial year ending March 31, 2009 (FY09), the company expects to maintain sales at around [...]
LAUNCHED by the Sultan of Johor Sultan Iskandar Shah on Nov 4, 2006, the Iskandar Development Region was, in a rebranding exercise earlier this year, renamed “Iskandar Malaysia”.
The region was promoted by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as the cornerstone of Malaysia’s economic development.
The plan was to transform the area, which was already [...]
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DUBAI: Iskandar Investment Bhd (IIB) is in discussions with three operators to develop several theme parks in Iskandar Malaysia.
IIB managing director Arlida Ariff told a well-attended conference for participants at Cityscape Dubai on Wednesday that she hoped the negotiations would be finalised with at least one operator in the next six months to a year.
Speaking [...]
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