Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login It was an audacious real estate project undertaken a decade ago by a Chinese developer: a $US100 billion ($150 billion) city in Malaysia built on sand and shrubby mangroves and sold as a luxury “dream paradise” for China’s middle class. Many of Forest City’s residents today are transient – the caretakers of the grounds who sweep the empty roads and pick up the garbage, trim the hedges and water the plants.
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