NUSAJAYA: Factory employee Pang Fut Khong cannot wait to spend Chinese New Year in his new home, where he and his wife also hope to welcome their first child.
Pang, 41, has been married 10 years and he and his wife are really looking forward to having the baby.
“Hopefully, our luck will be better this time around,” he said, when met at the site of the Iskandar Malaysia public housing project here yesterday.
Pang was one of 10 people who received the keys to their new homes from Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
Single mother B. Indrani, 51, is also looking forward to moving to her new home.
“I will move in with my 92-year- old mother and 28-year-old son,” she said, adding that four other children already owned houses.
In his speech, Najib said the people's welfare and social economic well-being were among issues the Government would look into in the development of Iskandar Malaysia.
“Besides economic growth, we hope to create more jobs.
“There are now 20,000 jobs and the number is expected to increase to 50,000 by 2015,” he said, adding there was a need for quality housing for the rakyat.
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