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Bloomberg TV Takes a Look at the Iskandar Economy

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Bloomberg TV Malaysia’s Cynthia Ng examines slowing growth in Iskandar’s real estate sector and the prospects for Johor Bahru.

The report states that 650,000 jobs have been added in Iskandar between 2006 and 2014. It also references a forecast for Iskandar to add 800,000 more new jobs by 2025.

The report pushes the notion that the housing market has been overdone and other areas (health care, tourism, education, banking…) should be targeted by investors. Manufacturing is a significant focus and has been doing fairly well (it is the only area with more investment than housing).

I raised the issues mentioned in the report (such as the over-reliance on luxury condo development) in my 2014 post Iskandar: Present and Future (and in other posts).

Related: Iskandar Housing Real Estate Investment Considerations (2011) – The Potential of Iskandar is Very High but Investing in Iskandar has Risks (2011) – The Precipitous Fall of the Ringgit Shows the Economic Risk in the Malaysian Economy – Iskandar Malaysia Economic Development Zone (2013) – The Singapore Market Impacts on the Johor Bahru Real Estate Market (2013)

Lintang Trail, Bako National Park, Sarawak, Borneo

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Forest trail, Lintang trail

The Lintang Trail, Bako National Park, Sarawak, Borneo is 5.25 km but it offers several additional spur trails. I will post on the spur trails in a future post.

Steep climb on trail, Lintang trail

The trail has quite a bit of step climbs. Along with the spur trails I was quite exhausted when I completed the hike (which is not normal for me). It was fairly hot, combining that with probably a bit over 10 km (which is not normally any problem) and the step climbs got a bit tiring.

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Blogs and Forums Related to Malaysia

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When I was considering moving to Malaysia one of the things I tried to find were blogs and forums to learn from others what experiences they were having. And living in Johor Bahru now I still seek such information. I have a directory of Malaysian blogs and forums with quite a few good sources of information.

Some of my favorites are:

Hopefully you will find some of the many wonderful blogs interesting and useful.

This is an interesting documentary on recent USA graduates teaching English in Malaysia; via the Fulbright Malaysia blog.