TAIPING BENEFIT FROM NCER
Taiping will be a Heritage Town soon? Wouldn't know. Have to wait until 2010. Wettest town for sure. Best place coz cheap food, nearer to town and facilities always available. Can be better without mat rempits, snatch thief or rude drivers.Reference from themalaysianinsider.com:
Taiping — heritage town in the making
Entrance to Taiping Zoo. There are plans to upgrade the zoo.KUALA LUMPUR, July 12 — The best place to live in Malaysia. The wettest town in Peninsular Malaysia. Soon, Taiping will also be known as a "Heritage Town.''
Under the Northern Corridor Economic Region (NCER) plan which was approved last week, the government will spend nearly RM200 million to upgrade buildings in the town, model the Taiping market after London's famous Covent Garden and revive the Taiping-Port Weld railway service as a back-in-time tourism draw.
Other plans for Taiping include:• Building a museum dedicated to the tin industry.
• Upgrading the Taiping Zoo and Night Safari.
Work on turning Taiping into a Heritage Town will begin in the third quarter of this year and is expected to be completed by 2010. The NCER project — one of the economic growth corridors — was launched by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi last year.
Its main objectives were improving agriculture output, boosting tourism and manufacturing in the northern states of Perlis, Kedah, Penang and northern Perak.
The final plan for the corridor was tabled recently before Abdullah and the menteris besar of Perak, Kedah, Perlis, the chief minister of Penang and other members of the Northern Corridor Implementation Agency (NCIA).
In addition to turning Taiping into a Heritage Town, the tourism master plan includes unleashing the potential of the Royal Belum Forest into a world-class eco-tourism site, marketing the Bujang Valley in Kedah and boosting medical tourism in Penang and Langkawi.
Among the list of to do things is improve access to the Belum forest by building a helipad, improving the runway in Gerik, and building a jetty for visitors to take part in activities on the lake. The Northern Corridor Implementation Agency (NCIA) also aims to make sure that rare species of flora and fauna like the Rafflesia does not become extinct.
In all, the government is expected to spend RM430 million till 2010 to boost the tourism sector of the NCER.
Entrance to Taiping Zoo. There are plans to upgrade the zoo.KUALA LUMPUR, July 12 — The best place to live in Malaysia. The wettest town in Peninsular Malaysia. Soon, Taiping will also be known as a "Heritage Town.''
Under the Northern Corridor Economic Region (NCER) plan which was approved last week, the government will spend nearly RM200 million to upgrade buildings in the town, model the Taiping market after London's famous Covent Garden and revive the Taiping-Port Weld railway service as a back-in-time tourism draw.
Other plans for Taiping include:• Building a museum dedicated to the tin industry.
• Upgrading the Taiping Zoo and Night Safari.
Work on turning Taiping into a Heritage Town will begin in the third quarter of this year and is expected to be completed by 2010. The NCER project — one of the economic growth corridors — was launched by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi last year.
Its main objectives were improving agriculture output, boosting tourism and manufacturing in the northern states of Perlis, Kedah, Penang and northern Perak.
The final plan for the corridor was tabled recently before Abdullah and the menteris besar of Perak, Kedah, Perlis, the chief minister of Penang and other members of the Northern Corridor Implementation Agency (NCIA).
In addition to turning Taiping into a Heritage Town, the tourism master plan includes unleashing the potential of the Royal Belum Forest into a world-class eco-tourism site, marketing the Bujang Valley in Kedah and boosting medical tourism in Penang and Langkawi.
Among the list of to do things is improve access to the Belum forest by building a helipad, improving the runway in Gerik, and building a jetty for visitors to take part in activities on the lake. The Northern Corridor Implementation Agency (NCIA) also aims to make sure that rare species of flora and fauna like the Rafflesia does not become extinct.
In all, the government is expected to spend RM430 million till 2010 to boost the tourism sector of the NCER.
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