Iskandar Malaysia News - 12 Dec 2011

JPO planned to increase their stores from 70 currently to 130 through RM100M in investments expected to be completed by next year with a water theme park, convention centre and a 2,000-room hotel setup there.
Legoland Theme Park will be opened to the public by end of 2012. I believe that the income from tourism will be increasing significantly especially now people can have more choices to stay longer period in South East Asia. They can choose to go to Johor Bahru after visiting Singapore and take a flight from Senai Airport to another destination or vise verse.


Below are the part of the news source from Bernama.

Source from Bernama:

Iskandar Malaysia that receiving RM78B investment can now creating thousand of jobs to employment seekers, said Johor Human Resources, Science, Technology and Innovation Committee chairman M. Asojan.

He said since its launch at the end of 2006, over 50k job vacancies in various sectors of the industry were created in the development corridor.

"We expect 800K more jobs to be created in Iskandar Malaysia throughout the development period from end of 2006 until 2025," he told reporter after attending the Johor Skills Development Centre (Puspatri) convocation cermony at the Persada Johor Convention Centre, here today.