PUTRAJAYA: Iskandar Malaysia is bringing in a prestigious British boarding school as the economic zone revs up efforts to woo investors to south Johor.
So easy meh ? Think investors are all fools all the time ?
Investors of all shades and colours have NOT forgotten the bashings we received during the 1997 financial crises.
Clobs and subsequent last minutes policies from dictator M took tolls of many of us , all but making us poorer by the billions of $$$$$ . Some of us are still broke , if not final blow came from crooked bankers 2 years ago.
Poor security , police sleeping most of the time , poor quality staff and lack of trainable manpower come second .
Good people already moved south over the last 25 years. Only vacuum to operate in Iskandar Malaysia !
Those coming down to work in Johor are also NOT know to be honest , cannot trust them with anything , many known to cheat their bosses in all ways imaginable , stealing money , pilfering goods and properties ,
illegal overseas calls , the list goes on !
ASK around before throwing your hard-earn money and precious time into the cess pool .
Even buying properties is a risky affairs . At the Water Front after the immigration check point , many made 10 % deposits to see nothing being constructed after 12 years.
Developer Eric Tan and Wing Foong must have made a " fortune " !? Was told company still operates in Malacca.
Be Warned !
..rat.. #1 ~ Even 'superior' nations like ours can't win every time, right? That the Brit school chose nearby Johor means they have an eye on our market/residents? How'd you know they won't relocate here should Johor's lower costs, etc be negated by economic and other changes - over time? Ditto should schools located here want to cross the Johor Straits.
How sure are you that 'they allow crooks to come in to set up schools'? If you're referring to those few schools that misrepresented their offerings, etc - did they get crooky FROM THE OUTSET or over time?
Btw, 'too many red tapes' ISN'T English; 'too much red tape' IS.
Have you watched BBC Knowledge's (Starhub Channel 74) 'Curious Tribe' : about PNG (Papua New Guinea) tribesfolk visiting the UK - first time out of their hunter-gathering jungle lifestyle? You'd be surprised how good their men's English is despite having Tok Pisin (PNG pidgin) as their Singlish equivalent.
Is this why, in the 2009 Patois World Cup, Tok Pisin wins 3 - Nil over Tok Singie? They're probably meticulous with expressing English separately from the PNG patois. And well-taught too - by Australian missionaries?
it's an ambitious plan. there is a need for a total revamp in the whole state economics in order to bring the crime statistics down for iskandar to succeed.
October 31, 2009 Saturday, 04:55 AM
