No funny business in Johore: Comment

Sustainable Living Institute (SAVE) said...

In the international tourism scene Mersing is a nonenity. Even for Malaysia it is still in the backwaters, more of an adjunct to get to Tioman. As it is tourism is seasonal, low during the monsoon months.The locals are happy with current situations because that is all they could handle in terms of investments, attitudes, infrastructure, affording ecosystem.

To transplant a super-mega tourism project at Mersing is akin to putting a blue arwana in a bowl. The whole belt if not the region around Mersing need to be developed in harmonious setting with the proposed project years beforehand. Failing this the mega project is doomed. Realising this the investors chicken out. It is better to fail now than many billions later.

It is good that the Sultan is putting his foot down in the corridors of power for the powers that be has insulted HH with a deafening silence to the scenic bridge

(Comment on posting of Another Brick in the Wall, Sept 11)