I first visited Forest City in May 2022, and it was a ghost town. I found towering apartment buildings spread across 4 square miles. A white-sand beach overlooked the Johor Strait, where I could ...

JOHOR BAHRU: A bustling ... Another property owner Hong Li Wei, who owns a three-bedroom apartment at Starview Bay in Forest City, tells CNA that the recent financial woes will likely hit his ...

Rising from the trees just after crossing the strait between Singapore and Malaysia, Forest City is an imposing sight, the tall apartment blocks ... Malaysian state of Johor, which was built ...

She rents a room in an apartment above the shop, month to month, for $118. At a distance, Forest City’s rows of high-rises tower over the Johor Strait between Singapore and Malaysia like a ...

Malaysia – Built along Malaysia’s southern Johor state coast, the 2,833-hectare (7,000 acres) Forest City boasts high-rise apartments overlooking Singapore aimed at Chinese nationals dreaming ...

Malaysia's Forest City was billed as a 7,000-acre "dream paradise", with luxury apartments overlooking nearby Singapore. Built along the coast of the southern state of Johor, the $100 billion ...

Attempts to make Forest City a duty-free zone were previously ... most Singaporeans prefer to own landed property in Johor rather than apartments, as spacious houses are more appealing to ...

JOHOR BAHRU – On the approach to Malaysia’s US$100 billion (S$135 billion) island mega project backed by Chinese investment, a collapsed bridge forces drivers to detour before they reach an ...

[KUALA LUMPUR] The centerpiece of Malaysia’s recently-unveiled new initiative to revive the struggling Forest City project in its southern state of Johor is a zero tax rate for family offices, set to ...

The Forest City special financial zone (SFZ) in Johor will not be competing directly with Singapore. Instead, it aims to attract a different market segment by offering lower threshold requirements ...