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The aim is to counter growing competition in this industry from rising centres such as Dubai and Kuala Lumpur.
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The students in Harrisburg, including those from Malaysia, China, Peru and Chile, said they were attracted by ads on their university bulletin boards and websites, such as one by a company called Out of the Box Personal Development in Kuala Lumpur, touting "a unique opportunity to live life in the USA up close and personal!"
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Paul Barter of the Sustainable Transport Action Network, in Kuala Lumpur, points out that in Asia only a handful of large cities, such as Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong and (at least until a couple of years ago) Seoul, have succeeded in containing congestion.
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