Forest City: Inside Malaysia's Chinese-built 'ghost city'

  Forest City: Inside Malaysia's Chinese-built 'ghost city' Forest City was meant to house one million people - but only a handful of its units are occupied By Nick Marsh Asia business correspondent in Malaysia "I managed to escape this place," Nazmi Hanafiah laughs, slightly nervously. A year ago, the 30-year-old IT engineer moved to Forest City, a sprawling Chinese-built housing complex in Johor, on the tip of southern Malaysia. He rented a one-bedroom flat in a tower block overlooking the sea. After six months, he'd had enough. He didn't want to continue living in what he calls "a ghost town". "I didn't care about my deposit, I didn't care about the money. I just had to get out," he said. We had arranged to meet in the same tower block he used to live in. "I'm getting goosebumps just being back", he said. "It's lonely around here - it's just you and your thoughts." China's largest property ...