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| 发展圣淘沙条件最佳 云顶得标无政治因素 |
南洋商报
（新加坡９日讯）新加坡政府在评估圣淘沙综合度假胜地（IR）所有竞标者的发展方案时，并没将政治与外交关系因素考虑在内，完全根据发展方案征询书中所列出的条件为考量。
新加坡副总理贾古玛教授周五在记者会上回应媒体针对圣淘沙IR发展权最终由云顶国际集团所赢得，是否受政治原因所影响时说，评估委员会只根据较早前所列出的评分标准和比重进行评估，因此，云顶得标是因为它提出最具吸引力的发展献议。
贾古玛说：“我们并没有把和个别竞标集团所属国家的双边关系考虑在内。云顶之所以得标是因为它的整体献议是最具吸引力的。这是竞标决策委员会，也是评估委员会的决定。
“如今云顶成功得标，我们展望与它们合作，发展一个世界级的综合度假村。我相信这将进一步加强两国之间的经济合作关系。”
纳吉：马新须停止争吵
副首相拿督斯里纳吉上月底在马新商业论坛上说，马新须停止争吵，并加强双边合作关系。他当时以竞标圣淘沙IR的云顶国际集团为例，说明马新两国互相投资，将有利于促进双边经济合作关系，而大马也欢迎新加坡政府通过淡马锡控股集团，参与柔佛南经济特区的发展计划。
这番表态普遍被外界解读为纳吉以外交关系，发挥政治影响力，来为云顶集团拉票。不过，新加坡国务资政吴作栋较早已回应说，新加坡不会为了同马来西亚加强双边关系，而特地把圣淘沙综合度假胜地发展权颁给云顶集团。 |
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| Genting-Star Cruises consortium wins Sentosa integrated resort project |
Yahoo
SINGAPORE: The Genting International-Star Cruises consortium has aced the Sentosa integrated resort project.
The result, just announced by Deputy Prime Minister Professor S Jayakumar at a news conference, came as no surprise as analysts had picked Genting as a frontrunner right from the start.
Its S$5.2 billion Resorts World At Sentosa will leverage on international brand names like Universal Studios, which will design 16 new rides specially for the resort.
Besides the Universal Studios theme park, there will also be three other water-themed attractions, including a surf pool.
Visitors will be able to observe some 700,000 fish species in one of the world's largest oceanariums.
Genting's proposal also includes six hotels with over 1,800 rooms for both leisure and business travellers.
Earlier, market watchers had picked Genting as a favourite to win due to its Asian experience.
The resort is expected to attract 10 million visitors and generate S$15 billion in tourism receipts by 2015.
The Sentosa integrated resort is expected to be ready in 2010.
The judging panel, made up of seven ministers, explained their decision.
"Genting submitted the most compelling proposal overall that best meets our economic and tourism objectives. In particular, the proposal reflects our vision for the Sentosa IR as a large-scale, family resort with its host of world-class family leisure attractions and other strong offerings. The attractions will position Sentosa and draw a significant number of new and repeat visitors," said Prof Jayakumar.
The Deputy Prime Minister added that the Singapore government evaluated the high-quality proposals carefully, before deciding that Genting fulfilled the key criteria such as the family leisure component of 22 attractions for the upcoming Universal Studios Singapore.
This will make it comparable to the theme park in Orlando, Florida.
However, the decision also boiled down to hard-nosed calculations.
"The total project investment is S$5.2 billion, which includes the land cost of S$605 million. We made a projection and the economic contribution of Genting's contribution will be largely similar to the Marina Bay Sands proposal, which is about $2.7 billion in value-add contribution to our GDP or approximately 0.8 percent contribution to the GDP and generate about 30,000 jobs throughout the economy in the year 2015," said Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang.
The panel said they believe the two integrated resorts at Marina and Sentosa will complement each other very well, and allow Singapore to stimulate the growth of its meetings and conventions segment as well as the leisure segment to bring Singapore closer to its Tourism 2015 targets.
During the question and answer session, the panel was also asked if there had been any political influence after Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak made a plug for greater co-operation between Singapore and Malaysian companies.
Prof Jayakumar refuted this - saying the decision was made based on the merit of the proposal and not on the issue of bilateral ties.
"Genting was selected because overall, it presented the best compelling proposal in light of the RFP requirements and this was the decision of the TAA and the tender evaluation committee and so bilateral relations was not a factor. Let me say that now that Genting is successful, we look forward to working with them to develop a world class IR and I'm sure this will bolster the strong economic ties between two countries," he said. |
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