Best viewed at night when it's illuminated, this low laying black boxy structure incorporates waterfall 'curtains' that part when you stand in front of them. The clock part is counting down to 2020, a date Malaysia set itself back in the 1980s for becoming a modernised, affluent nation.

The clock is part of the River of Life city beautification project.


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