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...Events: Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar of Johor is installed as Malaysia’s 17th king in a ceremony in Kuala Lumpur....
...Both men and their associate Marianne Hoayek faced new corruption allegations this week by Judge Helena Iskandar, who is representing the state and overseeing the European delegation’s probe....
...Most recent failures include Nobiskrug in northern Germany, owned by French-Lebanese industrialist Iskandar Safa’s Privinvest, which fell into administration last month (April), and the bankruptcy of Italy...
...Mr Boustani said in his own testimony that “neither Iskandar Safa, Akram Safa or Privinvest or myself offered a penny in exchange of securing a project”....
...Governments are aware . . . that not doing this has huge costs,” said Iskandar Safa, chairman of Privinvest, the parent company of shipbuilding group German Naval Yards....
...Malaysia’s Iskandar region is an example of Asean countries working together across national borders....
...“We just don’t have the land here and Iskandar is close enough for companies to have manufacturing there but the finance and R&D in Singapore.”...
...In Iskandar Khakimov’s family shop I watched papier-mâché puppets being crafted using moulds, then sanded for hours to make them smooth. Finally, they were lovingly painted with characterful faces....
...Irda believes Iskandar would need a total of 1.2m homes to accommodate its projected 2025 population....
...The optimism that drove industrial property developers to invest heavily in Malaysia’s Iskandar region has now turned to fear, as demand dries up and oversupply looms....
...Iskandar Simorangkir, secretary of the National Financial Inclusion Council, said only “lazy” banks “with outdated ways of thinking” were feeling threatened....
...The border-crossing fee will slow Iskandar-Singapore integration, which depends on easy labour flow....
...Sir, Very interesting to read the juxtaposed reports (July 3) about Beijing’s increased assertion of authority over Hong Kong (“Xi visit exposes deepening gulf with Hong Kong”) and the ascendancy of Iskandar...
...The government initially appointed China Railway Engineering Corporation and its local partner Iskandar Waterfront as the developers but later cancelled the deal over a payment dispute....
...Iskandar, a schoolteacher, says there used to be more trees. “But it’s enough for us. You can’t move in this forest without [finding nutmeg and] making money.”...
...But a crucial factor was the difficulty Iskandar Waterfront Holdings, the Malaysian partner, had in securing financing, according to two people with knowledge of the process....
...About 220,000 people are expected to work in Forest City, one of several mainly private construction projects in the Iskandar Malaysia zone, a special economic zone offering tax and regulatory incentives...
...Danga Bay is the primary source of property glut in Iskandar....
...But the idea that the Malaysian developments in Iskandar would satisfy a huge demand for a Singaporean overspill is being tested to its limits....
...Iskandar, a Malaysian development zone across the Johor Strait from Singapore, has for many become a cautionary tale against irrational exuberance....
...indirectly spawned a web of investigations internationally. 1MDB announced on Thursday it would offload its 60 per cent share in the Bandar Malaysia venture in Kuala Lumpur to a joint venture comprising Iskandar...
...“I want areas like Manchiet Nasser to become neighbourhoods and not to remain slums,” says Ms Iskandar....
...Slowing loan growth has already led to real estate oversupply problems in Iskandar, on the Malaysia-Singapore border and Cebu in the Philippines....
...While ties have improved since Mr Najib took office in 2009, culminating in the joint development of the Iskandar development corridor on the Singaporean border, the selection of the winner could prove a...
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