A 45-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly slashed another man with a meat cleaver near City Square in Johor Bahru (JB ...

The incident happened before a row of shops in the passageway connecting city centre and checkpoint. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Johor Bahru once had a reputation as a seedy town that shivered in the shadow of Singapore, its most famous neighbor just across the Johor Strait.  It seemed that way when I first visited the place ...

JB City Square, Ikea, KSL City Mall, Legoland Theme Park and Hello Kitty World close by. Unlike many other hotels in Johor Bahru, the Renaissance is some distance to the east of the city center.

The Johor-Singapore special economic zone is also poised to spark renewed interest in properties in the Malaysian state, analysts say.