I can agree with you but I am not sure how well this will run into actual play in reality. Just take a look at JB port decadesa go, so call rival SG port and even had taken some of PSA customers. It was reported in the press and fin times.... It did woke PSA up and they change their way of doing things, but years later, see what happen to JB port? Customers that left PSA were later seen coming back to use PSA because of connectivity reasons. What happen to the JB port now where all hte big news was once upon a time. I agree, Johor is a potential rival to SG business. but didn't you realise initially that SG gov was not in the picture of development till recent few years when MY Gov started pressing SG for operation? There were even press report on what happen after the project was announced and most investment then were mainly focussed in certain area, a narrow field and the biggest investor of those time was from Arab country. Let's just hope this project progress and compliment each other.

You sound more bias than anything, its the same with malaysians, all locals sing the anthem since primary school days till they secondary school, Pre-U, Polytechnics have their own National education program. Every one of us learn it from young. If you tell me we are in hte 70-80s, I definitely agree with you. But we are in the 21 century.,,,, this kind of statement ... very backdated my friends when every one has move on but you are somewhat in the old minds


Not sure what gave you that impresion that SG was already rich in the 1st place. Yes, they benefited from the port being developed when Raffles arrived, but it does not mean they are rich. Whose is rich? The ANG MO who developed the place but the island was sufferring from joblessness despite heavily relying on port trading. When LKY took over the country, didn't you realise why LKY wanted Singapore to be as part of Malaysia because he didn't think SG can survive with nothing to produce. Given its small size, whatever it could produce were limited. Tell me how rich can SG be? Then after the merger kana kicked out. So I am skeptical about what you said.
The country with GDP much lower than Malaysia. Perhaps you should have read some of the other poist here regarding GDP and you will kknow whether SG was rich or not?

You need people who are the daredevil, believe and doer of their talk, make whatever succeed in order to survive