LETTER | Scrap the Langkawi reclamation project
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LETTER | On May 31, 2018, the late Sarawak developer, Ting Peh Khiing, who is famous for the Bakun Dam project announced that he would be launching a RM30 billion development project to be built on reclaimed land off the west side of the Langkawi island on Jun 1, 2018.
Called the Langkawi New City project, it would be located on 81 hectares of reclaimed land. The proposed project was envisioned to be a high-end Dubai-style development with 30,000 high-end condominium units, commercial centres, berthing facilities for ocean liners and yachts, among others.
According to a media report quoting the late Ting: “This project is bound to be the biggest ever development of its kind in the northern part of Peninsular Malaysia.” In the same report, Ting was reported to have also said that the environmental impact assessment had already been conducted.