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Forest City

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Vegetation is starting to take over the empty apartment blocks in Forest City, Malaysia.(Hadi Azmi)

Chinese developer Country Garden’s US$100 billion Forest City megaproject in Malaysia has fallen on hard times. Designed to house 700,000 people, its few thousand residents are largely maintenance and security workers, along with stray dogs, crocodiles and duty free day drinkers.

Guest: Hadi Azmi, Malaysia correspondent for the South China Morning Post

Producer - Chris Bullock

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