Do We Really Need Another Billion-Ringgit Airport for the North?

By Lim Chee Han

September 2016 UTTER ECONOMICS
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Kulim High-Tech Park is thriving, but given that it is situated merely 45km from Penang International Airport, is it necessary to build another international airport close by to serve it?Kulim town.Kulim is the third largest township in Kedah, with a population of 85,309 (town, 2015) or 308,700 (district, 2014), and an international airport (KXP) in Sidam Kiri1 to serve Kulim is on the table. In December 2014 former Kedah Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir proposed an “aerocity” plan2 at...

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Lim Chee Han

received his PhD in Infection Biology from Hannover Medical School, Germany. He is currently a senior analyst in the economics section at Penang Institute.

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