{"id":219476,"date":"2026-01-06T10:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/219476\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T10:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:40:15","slug":"johor-singapore-special-economic-zone-gathers-investor-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/219476\/","title":{"rendered":"Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone gathers investor momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" style=\"display:block\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20251231 Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone 5\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"FeatureArticleCaption_featureArticleCaption__eXLkj\" data-trackable=\"caption\" style=\"display:block\">The under-construction Bukit Chagar Rapid Transit System\u00a0Link Station in Johor Bahru, the main city in the\u00a0Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone. The transport system connecting Singapore and the Malaysian city is due to open in 2027.\u00a0(All photos by Ken Kobayashi)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7 FeatureArticleTag_featureArticleTag__Icbk9\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/asean-money\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ASEAN Money<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"FeatureArticleSubhead_featureArticleSubhead__9P3Jq\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mod=\"false\">$4.3bn invested in project but &#8216;Malaysia&#8217;s Shenzhen&#8217; dream still far from reality<\/p>\n<p>KENTARO TAKEDA<\/p>\n<p>January 6, 2026 06:00 JST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The under-construction Bukit Chagar Rapid Transit System\u00a0Link Station in Johor Bahru, the main city in the\u00a0Johor-Singapore Special Economic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,10668,219,132337,5933,132336,22387,111,139,69,1962,49817],"class_list":["post-219476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economic","tag-economy","tag-gathers","tag-investor","tag-johor-singapore","tag-momentum","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-special","tag-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}