Country Garden's Forest City project in Malaysia gets boost from films

International TV, including Netflix reality series 'The Mole,' drawn by scenery

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Film production companies are showing interest in the Forest City development's various attractions as a shooting location. (Photo courtesy of Forest City)

AMY CHEW, Contributing writer

KUALA LUMPUR -- The biggest overseas project of debt-laden Chinese property developer Country Garden Holdings has caught the eye of film and TV production companies.

At $100 billion, the Forest City mixed-use development in Malaysia's southern state of Johor aims to house 700,000 people by 2035, with office space, malls, clinics, schools and leisure facilities built across four reclaimed islands covering a total of 30 square kilometers.

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