Malaysia talking to Disney about new theme park

Posted May 30, 2006, 9:32A | Contributed by Jeff

Malaysia hopes to persuade Walt Disney to build a theme park in southern Johor state as it competes for tourists with neighbouring Singapore, which unveiled a large casino project last week. Effendi Norwawi, the economic planning minister, said the government had been discussing the project with the US leisure and entertainment group and Oriental Land, the Japanese operator of Tokyo Disneyland.