Why was the Petronas Twin Towers built?

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SpookyFox

It is a Malaysia Boleh propaganda.

azayi1

petronas has around 30,000 employee throughout the world.. half of it works in the twin tower.. rather than make a normal buliding & rent other building.. better built a gigantic ones & put all the stuff in it.... afterall its a part of marketing strategy to compete other oil company.. to show petronas are capable & it works very well.. petronas has operations in nearly 33 countries in the world.. it support 60% of electricity to japan & south korea..
.. that's why petronas is rated among 500 fortune companies in the world.. that's why petronas are among oil company accepted in african countries.. thats the main reason... dont u know that Petronas is becoming a fierce & main competitor to other oil companies.. such as Shell, ExxonMobil, BP, TotalFinaelf.. etc2..

look in other perspective.. the tower provide jobs to ppl, give a place for family spending time & the fact it becomes tourist destination.. no doubt bout it..

--bo$$--

i dont agree with that.. due to the construction of the petronas tower does not involved any of the taxpayers money.. it only involved petronas money.. & by doing this construction it also brings jobs to the local & foreign contruction company.. taxation on those company were imposed those involved in the project even while our country are in downside economy at the time..

look at the bright sight..
ppl say in the olddays penang bridge is a waste of money.. what did they say about it now?

Faith DL

well i guess every country they will be happy if there is a 'landmark' which they can be proud of...indeed dat tower r very unique & i'm sure it has become one of the malaysia landmark / icon which u can be proud of

Bean

To show off

hehehe

The Snail

to prove tat petronas is profitable n attract tourist 2 malaysia

garrisonbight

Because one of the world's largest oil companies had a few extra Billion rupees to spend.

Petronas is about the 3rd or 4th largest oil company in the world.

miss5miles

To tell the world Malaysia Boleh, but all those engineers and architects... i wonder where they came from???

Bo.$$

show off, only certain groups of people benefited from the project
for tourism? i don't think tourists coming to Malaysia just because of these two huge gigantic pagodas, better go to Thailand, more beautiful pagodas there

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azayi, that's why I said it benifited some people and petronas is one of them. but we ordinary people ending up paying high income tax, [ironically] high petrol oil, high price for low quality cars, high highway tolls, you name name it....

MERI KRISMAS

the gov want to show that they are selfish and not "able" to help all the poor people in the rural area in malaysia.....

curious101

hmm

Naruto

Agree with Bean. It's all about ego.

nyork

To give oppurtunity to isetan and parkson to spread up their wings.

LadyofLeisure

Boss, wrong not pagodas..two corn die standing la..ha ha
just kidding...
Actually, after these was built, many foreigners knew Malaysia got the tallest twin tower in the world..worth the money? you decide

AskForMore

Because Maaysia Boleh in everyway.

In case you forgot, Mahathir is a person that look tall in every way.

innocentwitch83

Is a way people from oversea recognise Malaysia.....

Ang Mo: Hello there.
Malaysian: Hey
Ang Mo: I'm from USA
Malaysian: Oh... the one with the lady holding a torch.... right???
Ang Mo: Yeah... you are right... Where are you from??
Malaysian: I'm from Malaysia
Ang Mo: Oh... the one with two maizes standing in the middle of the street......
Malaysian: *^$%@*@(@)

jarulda

Okay, maybe it was for nation pride..having at least something marvellous thing to be consider as world heritage.

Whatever it is built for, the tower has a major used though.

If u look at the tower picture, at the very peak of the tower, there are a few telecommunications receiver... and it is used for the mobile company (I think it is for maxis) and for ASTRO to beem the signal to more wider coverage.

And, the tower does give Malaysia an introduction to world travelogue as tourists like to visit any special places. Since its existance, world know where is Malaysia located.

GarisHalus

Official Top Secret ... can't tell ya ...

Roz Zachary

hurm... i tink it was to show off.. well, malaysia dun have an iconographic landmark just to match that of others.. it even surpass the Chocago Sears Tower, isnt it? Accidentally as they say it, but hu knows? Haha.. but its a gud stuff, u knw? alwyas shop der... very nice...

BMW M5

To put Malaysia on the world map.

Springonion

It was built for the most handsome and sexiest man to have his photo-shoot there.

farina m

to have something to waste on with public money

Lazarus

Biasalah, nothing else better to do, they wanted to do the Petronas quadruple tower but was rejected.

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