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World renowned Town planner to look at urban planning: Sayed Khaiyum

March 10, 2019 1:42 pm

Minister for Economy Aiyaz Sayed–Khaiyum [Source: Fijian Government]

The government has engaged Dr Liu Thai Ker – a world-renowned town planner of Singapore to look at urban planning.

Minister for Economy Aiyaz Sayed–Khaiyum says creating smarter and cleaner cities is important together with the use of technology in towns and cities.

He adds this is part of an engagement with the Singapore Corporation Enterprise and three of their officers are working with the University of the South Pacific.

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“His team going to draw out some plans for us so that we can have a plan programme towards the development of our urban centers for the next fifty years.”

Meanwhile, a number of government applications will also be implemented following similar engagement with SCE.