The Perak government is unable to retain the land for the proposed site to build an international airport in Seri Iskandar as the said land had been sold to a private company and the sales and purchase agreement already signed.

Menteri Besar Saarani Mohamad said the state government was unable to do anything about the land as the sale was made legally by the landowner, Perak State Development Corporation (PKNP) to the private company.

"As I’ve said before, we had planned to...